Elf Sternberg

So, I'm completely underwhelmed. I did not see a single example of an economically viable left-wing sound machine reliably deploying violent rhetoric. I saw a few unhinged people doing unhinged things, but I'm not surprised by that. I don't expect everyone to be sane.

Malkin's example of pathetic idiots doing stupid shit is not in the same ballpark as as a man with a listening audience of 14.2 million people saying (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,163548,00.html):

I tell people don't kill all the liberals, leave enough around so we can have two on every campus; living fossils, so we will never forget what these people stood for.

I'll worry when Malkin can find someone who rented the National Mall for a day fantasizing about poisoning a member of Congress. I'll respect Malkin when she can find a lefty member of Congress saying things like, "I want my opponent to be afraid to leave his home," "I want every one of us to take a blood oath," or "I want people armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing."

Look, the right simply can't have it both ways: They cannot claim consistently that the left is made up of a bunch of peace-loving nudnicks who are too wimpy and emasculated to fight, want to take away our guns, and leave America completely defenseless, that only the right has the strength and will and character and training to embrace America's martial destiny, and then claim that both sides have an equal investment in and receptivity to violent rhetoric. Logic has never been their strong suit, but this level of cognitive dissonance has to be painful, no?