The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Rolling Stone Magazine: "The general consensus is that for the second time in three years, a gang of financial terrorists has successfully extorted the congress and the White House, threatening to blow up the planet if they didn't get what they wanted."

This is almost getting too easy. Almost. If I point out that this is akin to shooting large, slow fish in a small barrel, I will be accused of using violent imagery. But it;s nothing compare to the vile rhetoric coming from the same people that demanded a 'new tone' from conservatives in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting that they blamed on political speech. From Rolling Stone via memeorandum: Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive

...The general consensus is that for the second time in three years, a gang of financial terrorists has successfully extorted the congress and the White House, threatening to blow up the planet if they didn't get what they wanted.

...Barack Obama has surrendered control of the budget to the Tea Party, whose operatives in congress used the same suicide-bomber tactic, threatening a catastrophic default unless the Democrats committed to a regime of steep spending cuts without any tax increases on the wealthy.

...The Republicans in this debt debate fought like wolves or alley thugs, biting and scratching and using blades and rocks and shards of glass and every weapon they could reach.

Good grief! Keep in mind that Obama gets to spend another $2.4 trillion that we don't even have to buy himself re-election, and that the supposed cuts are not cuts at all but rather decreases in how fast the government expands. Instead of expanding at 8% per year, it will only expand at 7.5%. There are no cuts and the debt will grow every single God-blessed day until the insanity is stopped. More from American Thinker and Pajamas Media

Related: Tucson Newspaper Political Cartoonist Fantasized About Obama Sending SEALs to Assassinate Tea Party Republicans

Today Tucson congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) cast her first vote since she was critically injured in a January shooting.

You'll recall that in the weeks that followed, the media bemoaned the incivility -- supposedly predominantly conservative in nature -- of the political debate which had allegedly created a climate of hate.

But there appears to to be no firestorm over how, just last week, Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons fantasized about President Obama sending a SEAL team to assassinate Tea Party-friendly House Republicans.

See the political cartoon below the page break or find it linked here:

The new civility...

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

FROM JONAH GOLDBERG, a magnificent rant on press/pundit hypocrisy over “violent rhetoric,” the Tea Party, and Gabby Giffords.

Some of us were willing to stand up to the blood libels at the time.

From the Golberg link:

So flashforward to this week. Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as we know it on this planet,” says Nancy Pelosi. They are betraying the Founders, too. Chris Matthews all but signs up for the “Make an Ass of Yourself” contest at the State Fair. Joe Nocera writes today that “the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests.” Lord knows what Krugman and Olbermann have said.

Then last night, on the very day Gabby Giffords heroically returns to cast her first vote since that tragic attack seven months ago, the vice president of the United States calls the Republican party a bunch of terrorists.

No one cares.

The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): VP Joe Biden: Tea partiers like ‘terrorists’

On the plus side, Biden has seen fit to use the word 'terrorist' again after banning the term from being used in regards to those that fly airplanes into our buildings killing Americans by the thousands. To liberals, Islamic terrorists are misunderstood, but tea party patriots simply wanting the federal government to stick within its constitutional confines are the mortal enemy to be demonized to no end. Via memeorandum: Biden: Tea partiers like ‘terrorists’. Witness that 'new tone' liberals were pushing on conservatives in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting in January:

Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit, according to several sources in the room.

Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.

“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”

Money that doesn't exist by the way. The federal government borrows $0.40 of every dollar it spends. And cutting back such insane theft of future wealth via deficit spending is terrorism? According to Biden, yup:

Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists.”

The 'new civility' my left foot. More from Power Line, The Sundries Shack, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Conservatives4Palin, Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, NRO, The Right Scoop, The Blaze, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, The Lonely Conservative and Verum Serum

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

ED DRISCOLL: ‘Wait, Does That Mean Obama Won the Terrorist Vote?’
Plus, Let Us Look Back at the Calm, Rational Rhetoric of the Debt Ceiling Circus.
UPDATE: The Veep Goes Vile.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Is Gabby Giffords a “terrorist?”

UPDATE #2: Palin vs. Biden's 'Terrorist' Tea Party Comments

UPDATE #3:Good grief: Joe Biden on Shooting Victim Gabrielle Giffords: “She's Now a Member of Cracked Head Club Like Me”

UPDATE #4: Joe Biden - corruptocrat: Mark Levin - Joe Biden is Charging Rent To The Secret Service For Staying At His Cottage

 

UPDATE #5: Via Instapundit:

JIM TREACHER TO JOE BIDEN: So we’re terrorists for “holding the country hostage”? Okay, then: For what you’re doing to future generations, you are pedophiles. Own it.

UPDATE: John Hawkins tweets: Dan Quayle’s on the phone, calling from 1992. He wants to know how Joe Biden could possibly more of an idiot.

The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Liberal Pundit Margaret Carlson: GOP ‘Strapped Explosives to the Capitol’

The result of that new civility/new tone liberals insisted conservatives stick by after the Giffords shooting in January:

Good for Krathammer to backslap her for the violent rhetoric. HT: BreitbartTV

Video: Bill O'Reilly Shreds Media for Calling Norway Terrorist ‘Christian’

And the same media the downplayed the Fort Hood shooter's Muslim roots deserve to get shredded for linking the Norway shooting with Christianity - a religion where "though shall not murder" is one of the 10 commandments. Just a quick recap, Nidal Hassan, who yelled Allah Akbar as he murdered 13 servicemen at Fort Hood - ironically in a no gun zone - was taped murdering 13 people, plus a 14th victim - an unborn child. Flashback Video: Obama Warns Against ‘Jumping to Conclusions’ One Day After Ft. Hood Shootings

Fast forward to just a few days ago and the media has "Christian" and "conservative" all over the place in any story regarding the Norway shooter. Via memeorandum: O'Reilly Shreds Media for Calling Norway Terrorist ‘Christian’

Transcript:

"Impact" segment tonight: mass murder in Norway. A vicious killer, Anders Breivik, has murdered at least 76 people in the Scandinavian nation of Norway. Breivik is a brutal fanatic who apparently objects to the presence of Muslims in Europe.

Last Friday he bombed buildings in Oslo and then took an automatic weapon to an island a few miles away gunning down 68 people. Norwegian authorities couldn't get to the island because they didn't have a helicopter, if you can believe it.

Now, on Sunday, the "New York Times" headlined "As Horrors Emerged, Norway Charges Christian extremist". A number of other news organizations like the "LA Times" and Reuters also played up the Christian angle. But Breivik is not a Christian. That's impossible. No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder. The man might have called himself a Christian on the net, but he is certainly not of that faith.

Also Breivik is not attached to any church, and in fact has criticized the Protestant belief system in general. The Christian angle came from a Norwegian policeman not from any fact finding. Once again, we can find no evidence, none, that this killer practiced Christianity in any way.

So why is the angle being played up? Two reasons: First, the liberal media wants to make an equivalency between the actions of Breivik and the Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh and al Qaeda. The left wants you to believe that fundamentalists Christians are a threat just like crazy jihadists are.

In fact, in the "New York Times" today an analysis piece says that some believe we have overreacted to the Muslim threat in the world. Of course, that's absurd. Jihadists have killed tens of thousands of people all over the world. The Taliban, Iran and elements in Pakistan use governmental power to support terrorism by Muslims. But the left-wing press wants to compare nuts like Breivik and McVeigh to state-sponsored terrorism and worldwide jihad.

Again, dishonest and insane.

The second reason the liberal media is pushing the Christian angle is they don't like Christians very much because we are too judgmental. Many Christians oppose abortion. Gay marriage and legalized narcotics, secular left causes. The media understands the opposition is often based on religion. So they want to diminish Christianity and highlighting so-called Christian-based terror is a way to do that.

Darned right! And well said. I don't agree with O'Reilly on most topics, but he's spot on on this one.

Predictable: "Christian," "Conservative" Added to Norway terrorists facebook page

In the direct aftermath of the Ford Hood massacre, the media and the left were falling over themselves to NOT mention that a Muslim yelling "Allahu Akbar!" killed more than a dozen servicemen. With the Norway shooting, the exact opposite is happening. From Atlas Shrugs via Instapundit, here is what Norway terrorist Ander Behring Breivik's facebook page looks like:

Those two philosophy entries that I circled above are new, and weren't there jut a couple of days ago. The facebook page as it appeared before the mysterious change:

No philosophy entries. Asks Pamela Geller:

While the leftist and Islamic supremacist ghouls rush to portray Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik as a Christian and even as an anti-jihadist, the unanswered questions multiply. Why did a jihad group take credit for the atrocities, and then retract? And who altered the murderer's Facebook page?

...Who is so anxious to portray Breivik as a Christian and conservative?

Um - the left? Speaking of: Inevitable: Left Pushes Norway Shooter/Palin Link

One of the first, and one of the most disgusting events that occured after the January shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was that many in the press and the internet blamed Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for the shooting. Not even 24 hours has passed since the tragic events in Norway, and people on the net are already pushing the link between suspect Anders Breivik and Sarah Palin.

We look at FireDogLake, which after quoting a paragraph from conspiracy site WhatReallyHappened, has this little nugget for us:

At Democratic Underground, we have the full force of blaming the Tea Party and the right in general. There we get a two-for-one as they attack both Palin and Free Republic.

After two tragic killings in which over 90 people are massacred, is it appropriate to make a joke about the attractiveness of the attacker? And tie him to non-violent politicians?

For the left, yes - yes it is. Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Congressional Briefing on Muslim Brotherhood (7.25.11)

 

UPDATE #2: Libtalker Stephanie Miller: Geller, O'Reilly, Beck All Deserve Blame For Norway Massacre. The 'new civility' (cont'd):

Good Grief: DHS Video Characterizes White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists

Well, doesn't this just figure: DHS Video Characterizes White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists

A new promotional video released by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, as Big Sis continues its relentless drive to cement the myth that mad bombers are hiding around every corner, when in reality Americans are just as likely to be killed by lightning strikes or peanut allergies.

The video is part of Homeland Security’s $10 million dollar “See Something, Say Something” program that encourages Americans to report “suspicious activity,” which in every case throughout history has been a trait of oppressive, dictatorial regimes.

In the course of the 10 minute clip, a myriad of different behaviors are characterized as terrorism, including opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.

The video:

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UPDATE: Via moonbattery:

Meanwhile, as Gateway Pundit notes:

In the last 24 months (2009 and 2010) 126 people were indicted on terrorist-related charges in the United States. All of them were Muslim.

No doubt liberals will take this as evidence of discrimination against Muslims.

Video: Wife of Terrorist Collapses in Interview

FYI: Being a terrorist is bad for your health. And your marriage:

Two men allegedly inspired by the Fort Hood attacks are now in police custody after authorities discovered their involvement in a Seattle terror plot.