Pate and Caldara on KOA: "both sides do it" with bonus Peter Boyles flashback

by: Zappatero

Sun Jan 09, 2011 at 08:44:06 AM MST

Did you expect something like it to happen or were you surprised?

Both sides might do "it". That's the talking point. Mini-Limbaughs like Lou Pate on KOA dutifully started the process Saturday night. (Where do they find these infinite, cheap clones of Limbaugh, and do they all get a time slot on KOA?) Anyway, Lou says Democrats will blame Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and 1,000 others for this avoidable tragedy. But Lou won't take responsibility for a word of it, even his own.

The "it", as we all know in this discussion, is two very different things: two different sets of rhetoric, different tactics with differences in scope and tone and intent. Our "side" does it here:

Their side does it in this chilling list of political and media right-wingers fantasizing about blood in the streets and a locked-and-loaded citizenry. Jon Caldara was saying last night that the rhetoric doesn't matter. I tend to agree with Krugman:

Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

So we await the list of National and Local Major Media and Political Figures on the Liberal side who do the same as the Conservatives who claim they do.

"I Need A Freakin Job" astroturfing for Breitbart & Corporate America, cause that's where the $ is

by: MinistryOfTruth

Fri May 14, 2010 at 12:23:02 PM MST

Someone email rachel@msnbc.com, stat.

If you have seen or heard of the "I Need A Freaking Job" billboard in Buffalo, NY that small business man Jeff Baker and his brother put up or the "movement" website they have started, you might have taken it for a grassroots movement.

   And if job creation grows at the rate it is at through the end of the year, More Jobs Might Be Created This Year Than During George W. Bush's Entire Presidency

   So, the "I Need A Freaking Job" thing might seem genuine, even, dare I say, grassroots.

Except it isn't, and Jeff Baker's brother, Scott Baker, works for Andrew Breitbart of Brietbart.tv..

   Houston, we have Corporate astroturf FAIL.

UPDATE: Keith Olbermann chimes in!

Heard that Breitbart? You really, really suck! LMFAO!

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