{"id":4611,"date":"2011-01-12T22:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2011-01-12T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:17:29","slug":"i-was-wrong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/12\/i-was-wrong-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I was wrong&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">When the news from Tuscon hit the airways, many people assumed that the shooter was an extremist who was responding to the level of inflammatory political rhetoric. That seems to have been incorrect. The shooter was apparently running on his own motor &#8211; a psychotic illness as yet undefined. His response to outside influences, if any, remains unknown. But the right wing pundits have responded to these early assumptions in unison &#8211; that <strong><font color=\"#200020\">the left<\/font><\/strong> is opportunizing on this tragedy in order to discredit their opponents. For example, Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s front page yesterday had the following leads:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125106.guest.html\">An Embarrassment for the Media and Sick, Desperate American Left<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125106.html\"><strong>Despicable liberals try to link shooter to conservatives<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125107.guest.html\">The Majority Will Not Be Silenced<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125107.guest.html\">Hold your head high and do not be intimidated, America<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125110.guest.html\">This is All About Shutting Us Down<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125110.guest.html\">Make no mistake. The bill is already written and waiting<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125108.guest.html\">Democrats Eager to See Obama Profit Politically from Mass Murder<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125108.guest.html\">They hoped and prayed for Obama&#8217;s own Oklahoma City<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_011011\/content\/01125109.guest.html\">The Irresponsible Sheriff Dupnik Ignores All Real Evidence in Case<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">If you&#8217;re not familiar with Rush Limbaugh, this barrage of invectives is standard fare. What&#8217;s slightly different from any other day is that all of the articles are about the same thing, rather than lodging a wide range of complaints spread across the Democrat\/Liberal\/Left spectrum. And the patriotic Republican\/Conservative\/Right heroically resisting the attacks\/incompetence\/deceit of the Democrat\/Liberal\/Left is also an everyday theme.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">If Rush Limbaugh were to read this blog, would he characterize what I say in a similar way &#8211; as a monotonous rehashing of the same points? I doubt it. Instead of talking about what I write as being predictable liberal blather, he would first define me as a Liberal [or Democrat, or Communist, or Godless Atheist, or some combination]. Then he would talk about my motives, specifically my hidden motives. He would use words like &quot;sick,&quot; &quot;desperate,&quot; &quot;despicable,&quot; &quot;irresponsible,&quot; to describe me, and my motives would be seen as misguided, devious, and destructive. I would be either a pitiful person [as in envious of the Republican success in the midterms] or an evil person [as in dead set on destroying the American Constitution and Christianity]. In short, I would be wrong and unworthy of a voice in the political dialog &#8211; 100% wrong.<\/p>\n<div>And this time Limbaugh is right. I jumped the gun [<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/wp-admin\/..\/index.php\/2011\/01\/08\/inevitable\/\">inevitable&hellip;<\/a><\/strong>]. I was wrong&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the news from Tuscon hit the airways, many people assumed that the shooter was an extremist who was responding to the level of inflammatory political rhetoric. That seems to have been incorrect. 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