I find it humerous to claim that this uttered phrase is polluting the discourse when the guy has for 3+ years been labelled a secret kenyan indonesian muslim birthcert-hiding manchurian white-people-hating racist deathpanelcreating marxist socialist communist reparationist FEMA-detention-camp-building, hate-the-military palling-around-with-terrorists gun-confiscating "enemy of humanity" (AZ rep), "intentionally destroying america" (rush), who “represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union" (Newt). The mind boggles. Of course, a lot of that was present from day one, and earlier. Where McCain is boo'd by a political rally audience for correcting a paranoid old lady who "doesnt trust obama because he's an arab". Where "Kill him" is yelled at political rallies. It stands to reason that the crazy has deteriorated further into gun-based political rhetoric as standard fair, where each 'news' charlatan apparently has to up the nutty factor to retain an audience that apparently is not put off by this stuff. Where could the rhetoric go from there?

On the less serious side, this is a keeper. The man named as the most admired man in America by the Tea Party. Love the 3 gold banner ads.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/glenn-beck-violence/

Not sure what this is. Humor, entertainment, conviction. Wonder if his audience agrees.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-poison-of-limbaugh.html

Lots of violent nutters. Some who feared obama's coming gun confiscations, or Glenn Beck's targeted Tides Foundation, or those FEMA camps out west.

http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/03/eliminationism-in-america-appendix.html

Run of the mill gun politics speak.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gun_rhetoric_2010.php?ref=fpc
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/warning-bells.html
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/drawing-line.html
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/rhetorical-excess.html
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/nothing-to-see-here-folks.html

One of the shooters at the Tuesday evening event was Robert Lowry, a Republican candidate hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. Lowry's target had the letters "DWS" next to the silhouette head.


>How repugnant do you find the statement - "if they bring a knife to the fight, we will bring a gun"?
>
>
>>>
>>>Take a look at these signs:
>>>http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
>>>
>>>and look at these links:
>>>http://beforeitsnews.com/story/350/125/The_Face_of_Hate.html
>>>
>>>Funny how that stuff wasn't plastered all over the news...
>>>
>>>Ignorance is everywhere - every presidential term:
>>>http://www.cafemom.com/group/99198/forums/read/10955150/Even_ignorance_is_protected_under_the_1st_amendment
>>
>>Very repugnant. Like that page author noted, that should have warranted police/secret service action. But again, you're comparing bumperstickers and SIGNS to the mutterings of Vice Presidential candidates, titutlar heads of the GOP and Teaps, radio and tv personalities with massive daily audiences, party officials, current politicians, and failed political office hopefuls. Prior to the AZ incident, has there been an effort by GOPT political leaders to tamp down this gun-based, call-to-arms rhetoric?