Apparently the right wing self-identifies as the "dark side" of American life

[RainDog]

maybe that Darth Cheney metaphor wasn't just a joke...

Clinton made a speech after the Oklahoma City bombing that included these words:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjcoklahomabombingspeech.htm

To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil. They are forces that threaten our common peace, our freedom, our way of life. Let us teach our children that the God of comfort is also the God of righteousness: Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind.¹ Justice will prevail.

Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear. When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it. In the face of death, let us honor life. As St. Paul admonished us, Let us "not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."²

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/clinton_obama_and_arizona.html

"In a preemptive strike, conservatives are already misrepresenting the history of that event, arguing that Clinton politicized the bombing for his own gain. At National Review, John J. Miller writes, "Clinton saw an opportunity to link his conservative political opponents to bomber Timothy McVeigh. He seized it." This is how conservatives remember it, but it's not what happened. Rather, Clinton issued a broad appeal for civility, unity, and personal responsibility across the political spectrum, showing strong leadership in the process -- precisely what conservatives fear Obama will do now.

The part that still angers conservatives about Clinton's response to the bombing is actually a small portion of the overall speech...

...Rush Limbaugh continues to insist, to this day, that Clinton blamed him for the bombings."

If you do a google search of conservative blogs at this time, they're still up in arms claiming that Clinton's remarks - specifically about those who stir hatred and disturb the common peace from our own house inheriting the wind, with Clinton's remarks to overcome hatred and evil with good - were aimed at them.

...When Clinton never expressly pointed to them - unless they identify with terrorists like Timothy McVeigh and the militia movement.

What's that called, when someone insists their actions are not to blame yet insist someone else is blaming them? it is called guilt?

[EFerrari]

1. It looks like projection and identification.

If Rwanda Rush projects the whole thing on Clinton, then Rush can feel like a victim of his own projected self image. Guilt is what healthy people feel when they do wrong. This is something else, something that lets Rush off the hook.

I don't believe that POS really believes what he says but what he says can't help but reflect his imagination.

[RainDog]

2. funny, tho, how the right wing constantly engages in inflammatory rhetoric

denies it has any connection to the tenor of society, then says they're being blamed when someone quotes the bible in a time of national crisis --- if that person is a liberal.

Rush-wanda wants to have his hate and never have to eat his words.

[EFerrari]

3. Yep. If you're always the victim, you're never responsible for anything.

If hate speech was disallowed, the whole right wing media industry would tank immediately.

[Number_Six]

4. There was NEVER any question!

McVeigh's "blueprints" came directly from Wm Pierce's sickening "The Turner Diaries." You don't get any further far-right far-wacked than crap like that.

And Bill said what had to be said. Period. Let the righties whine all they want about this go around, the blood is on THEIR hands....AGAIN.

[DCKit]

5. That entire quote is aimed directly at the (R)s, and they knew it.

He never had to say "RW", "Republican", "NeoCon" or "Conservative" for them to identify just whom he was speaking of - exactly as Sheriff Dupnik never used those words when calling for civility.

They were guilty then, and they're guilty now.

[RainDog]

6. but it's an interesting admission on their part that they think they're part of the problem

and not the solution, eh?