Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [101]
Appearing on MSNBC two days after Jared Loughner’s shooting spree, Grayson claimed there had been attacks or “threats of attacks” against Democrats “for two years now.” Apparently, it was all gentlemanly disagreement until Obama became president.
Note how many lies Grayson packs in to prove his point:
1. “[Democratic Rep.] Tom Perriello is burned in effigy.”
Big deal—but also, by the way, a lie. One guy thought it would be a fun part of the bonfire, other Tea Partiers objected, so it never happened.13
2. “Frank Kratovil was hung in effigy.”
Again: big deal—but it was done by one guy, who was promptly denounced for doing it by the official Tea Party group.14
3. “Debbie Wasserman Schultz had her initials used for target practice by one of her Republican opponents.”
Yes, and the opponent who shot at the letters “DWS” went on to lose the primary. The organizer of the event where it happened immediately sent a handwritten apology to the congresswoman and resigned from his position with the local Republicans.15
4. “[Black congressman] Emanuel Cleaver was spat on.”
To be fair, that was not a distortion or half-truth. It was a complete lie.
5. “When you show a picture of someone, use her name, or represent her district and use it with the rifle sight the way Sarah Palin did, that is inexcusable. That is inviting people to commit violence on another human being.”
Here we have a despicable, sneaky lie. Sarah Palin did not put crosshairs over Giffords’s face. She did not put crosshairs on Giffords’s name. She put crosshairs on a map of Giffords’s district—just like the Democratic Leadership Committee and a million others have done with their political opponents. But notice how Grayson sleazily throws in three alternative claims—crosshairs were put on Giffords’s face, name, or district—just to release the two false allegations into the atmosphere. This is on the order of saying, “Alan Grayson has engaged in child rape, murder, or bad taste.”
6. “[Michele Bachmann’s comment, she wants her constituents armed and dangerous] that’s over the line.”
The rest of the sentence was “I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax.” Her full quote was: “But you can get all the latest information on this event, this … a must-go-to event with this Chris Horner. People will learn … it will be fascinating. We met with Chris Horner last week, twenty members of Congress. It takes a lot to wow members of Congress after a while. This wowed them. And I am going to have materials for people when they leave. I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.”
She was telling people to arm themselves with information, nothing more.
7. “So is [Sarah Palin’s statement] ‘don’t retreat but reload.’ ”
That, also, is a metaphor, you complete moron. But anticipating princess-and-the-pea liberals like Grayson, Milbank, Matthews, and Krugman, nearly a year earlier, Palin had told a political rally, “When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote. We’re talking about being involved in a contested primary like this and picking the right candidate, too.”16
8. “Dan Gainor (ph), a Republican operative, telling people that he paid them $100 to punch me in the nose—that’s all over the line.”17
That, frankly, is shocking. I would have paid them at least $1,000.
Well done, Alan! That’s more lies per second than anyone in the history of television!
And finally, to top off a week of conservatives getting blamed for a left-wing pothead’s shooting spree, a liberal made a death threat to a conservative … at a televised town-hall meeting to discuss the shootings. Liberal J. Eric Fuller, who had been shot in the leg by Loughner the week before, was apparently enraged at a suggestion by Arizona Tea Party leader Trent Humphries that people not politicize the shooting. Fuller screamed at Humphries “You’re dead!