Defending the Indefensible: Hypocrisy of the Right

In the aftermath of Tucson, the rightwing propaganda/disinformation machine is spewing stuff at full speed. Yes, the rightwingers are pushing back frantically against the public revulsion against their tactics by blaming the left. This is what they always do when they’re caught red-handed -- blame the “other side” and pile on the vitriolic rhetoric with still greater vehemence.

For decades, we’ve heard these hypocrites wail about the terrible things that pornography, violence, etc. etc. in movies and TV shows do to our society. Oh, they weaken and coarsen our society and corrupt our youth, the rightwingers have complained forever. But now that their violent imagery and demonizing rhetoric have caught up with them, the rightwingers claim there’s no connection between what they say and the series of mass shootings in schools, shopping malls, fast food restaurants and other places where people gather.  They can’t have it both ways. Either words have consequences or they don’t. And the right has been over the line so far and for so long that most people have forgotten that a line exists.