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Today it's okay to bomb Libya, but a few years ago it wasn't cool to be at war.
Earlier this week I wrote an open letter to Kathryn Scaglione after stumbling unto her deranged tweets on Twitter. Scaglione’s sprawling response to my open letter actually made my point. Nothing she wrote countered anything in my letter. Instead she called me names and and made odd claims. However, there was one particular thing she wrote that has been cracking me up all week:
So son, I advise ONE thing to do, I dare you to show anything I have ever said, in any of my blogs, to be a lie. I dare you. And I mean something that is stated as a fact, not my opinion. My opinions are based on FACTS, I don’t pass them off as facts, like you’ve done here. If there is one thing I take pride in, is that I am extremely factual. Opinionated, but based on facts. Find ONE thing that is not a FACT. Just one.
Now I’m going to break my one rule here. It’s impossible to have a reasonable debate with someone as unreasonable as Scaglione. However, this is a special case. Plus, it only took a couple of minutes to find a nonsensical opinion on her blog.
Back in January, Scaglione was fixated on the whole Sarah Palin target non-controversy. I pick this topic just because The Daily Plunge wrote about it extensively. Here is Scaglione’s non-factual opinion:
I think the point people are missing is that WE know Sarah Palin did not pull the trigger. We meaning, liberals. We know she didn’t actually kill these innocent people in Tucson. WHY we are so angry with her, and lashing out at her, is because Republicans/Conservatives have been spewing all this hate rhetoric since McCain rolled her out in 2008.
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And don’t you DARE say this is on both sides. It most certainly is NOT. No, THAT statement should not be tolerated by any Democrat/Liberal. That type of hate speech does NOT come from the left. It is not the same.IT IS NOT THE SAME.
The hate rhetoric Scaglione is referencing is the target map that was circulated within minutes of the shooting. I first saw the target map posted on Facebook by my progressive leaning friends within an hour of the shooting. Of course, Palin wasn’t the first politician to use a target map. The list of target maps coming from the left is seemingly endless: Harry Mitchell, the Democratic Leadership Committee, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just to name a few. It’s been a standard practice for decades and it was only deemed extreme when progressives saw Palin use it.
What about hate rhetoric? Joseph Welch has a nice round-up of various statements by Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein, and Markos Moulitsas. Plus, let’s not forget the President of the United States…
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” – Barack Obama
Liberals who pretend hate rhetoric doesn’t exist on the left are crazy. It’s like the Bush administration didn’t happen. We had eight years of insane rhetoric, protests, and kill Bush video games. Obviously, Scaglione’s opinion isn’t fact; however, she believes it’s true. It all goes back to President Reagan’s fantastic quote about liberals.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Kathryn Scaglione isn’t a liar. She’s just willfully ignorant.
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