Thank God for Michelle Malkin
Thoroughly condemns today’s killing of this abortion doctor. (For the record, I’m pro choice myself, but fully respect the views of those who believe abortion is murder.)
Tiller’s family is grieving. Those who have jumped to score political points before Tiller is even buried are no better than the Phelps family thugs of the “Westboro Baptist Church” who respect no bounds of civility.
Beautiful.
I’ve been busy all night, but always make time, no matter what I’m doing, to listen to a favorite radio host on Sunday evening. It was pure agony.
I have no problem with the fact that said radio host is very pro life and doesn’t mince words. I’m past the point of arguing abortion. (And selfishly, beyond caring that much about the issue like I once did. I just find other issues more important.)
Normally, I wouldn’t even care that she (radio host, not Michelle) would condemn this Dr. Tiller, whom I’d never heard of, for his bad deeds of doing abortions (and apparently late term ones). But tonight wasn’t the night to rail against his actions. Save it. Find someone who isn’t dead to bitch about….a few months from now.
It was horrible to listen to, because words rang in my head. All of this talk over the last few years about so-called moderate Muslims who say “we condemn terrorism….but….” you basically all deserved it, so what do you expect? But we love peace, Islam means peace and we don’t support terrorism, even though you deserved it.
That is exactly how this sounded tonight, and it just felt like all of that “where are the moderate Muslims who will outright condemn terrorism and not end with a string of buts?” went flying out the window.
Too much about what a bad person this Tiller was, and how dare he for even going into a church. (He was murdered in his church?) I wonder if Dana will listen to the show tomorrow and think “Could I have possibly worded this in a more appropriate way?” And maybe I’m wrong. But I don’t think so - the rest of the conservative pundits I’ve read/heard tonight (not many, because it’s Sunday) have done as Michelle has: just plain condemned it, the end.
Oh, the how dare you go to church Dr. Tiller was because he’s a horrible baby-murdering man. Or was. And then Dana went on about all of this is in the Bible and so on….and I kept thinking of the lessons of Jesus. Cast the first stone and glass houses and all of that.
This just did not go over well with me on so many levels and I needed to get it off my chest. Even when I disagree with Dana (and I do at times, although sometimes I don’t), it’s fine. Difference of opinion and nothing wrong with that. But this was just way over the line and left me with grit in my mouth.
Finally, there was a call from a woman who claimed to be a 14-year-old girl even though she sounded 34. She said her mother was an Obama lover and loved abortion, and she, the girl, was pro life and when she saw this on TV, that the doctor was killed, she began to laugh. Her mother walked by and said “What’s so funny?” And the “girl” replied this abortion doctor had been gunned down. haha. The mother scolded her, and the daughter gave Mom a lecture on abortion is murder.
Besides not sounding 14, I’m very skeptical that a young teenager would take an opposite view on abortion from a parent’s position. That’s just not the usual thing (unless it’s a rebellion issue). Kids at that age don’t have the experience or wisdom yet to realize their parents don’t know everything, especially about current issues. At 14, most kids parrot their parents’ views. It would be very unusual, IMO, for a “girl” to take such an opposite view of her mother. (The whole thing just reeked of bullshit.)
Dana ran with it, although did say she wondered if laughing wasn’t a bit too much, but otherwise, good call, thanks for calling! I guess that’s going to hit YouTube tomorrow if it hasn’t already. :::sigh:::
I hope I’m wrong, but nothing about that call seemed legit. Nothing.
So it was the first show that I really wish I had missed.
BTW, my life has been crazy busy and just crazy crazy. Not posting because no time and people are either dying on me or being sick or having a crisis. I want my life back.
Soon.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:25 am
I’m sorry that you were shocked by the lack of remorse of people who are on your side. It happens though, that thing where people who hold views on the right/left side of the continuum do something that you personally disagree with and you still get lumped in with them. It might be worth thinking about how often that happens though. If the views you have are mostly represented by people who you don’t want representing them, then maybe you don’t have those views but different ones. I will say that this “scoring cheap political points” rhetoric is something that seems to come up more these days. The arguement that we should leave well enough alone is certainly a compelling one, (nobody likes to be in the limelight for bad reasons), but at some point we have a responsibility as a society to ask how we got here and where we are going to go next. So yes, it does matter why the killer did what he did and who he listened to. I’m not saying that we should start censoring people, because frankly that’s unacceptable, we just need to remember that our words have an effect on others.
June 1st, 2009 at 11:56 am
Hi Pez, I’m not sure which side you think I’m on. I definitely have different views from both right and left, not fitting neatly into either box. (I used to be a full-fledged Democrat, but left the party. Actually, I feel like the party left me and my views were no longer welcome.)
I agree that censorship isn’t the right avenue. Dana definitely has a right to say what she thinks, and that’s one of the things I love about her. She doesn’t mince words. I just felt so strongly when hearing them that it was just the kind of thing the left would use to say “seeeee, these right wingers are so hateful!”
Once I got away from the Democratic party and the screeching about how horrible conservatives are and got to know some, I discovered that generally, they’re pretty decent people. And unlike my own party, they’ve tolerated the views I hold that don’t mesh with their own (such as my views on abortion…not one person from the right has yet to call me a name or try and argue me out of my position).
Thanks for your comment.