Bush is an Assassin?

Most days, the left’s irrational hatred of President Bush just makes me laugh. Other days, l get just a little frightened of the thoughts that get premiere play on the left. Today’s one of the latter days.

One of the Kos Kiddies posted a link to the story of a longtime New York Times reporter and editor, David Rosenbaum, who was robbed and beaten to death near his home in Washington, DC.

What, if any commentary might you expect from such a story? Here’s a quick quiz. Which of the following do you think would be the only subject discussed in the comments of that post?

a) The overall crime rate in Washington, DC.
b) The ability, or lack thereof, of the DC Police Department to prevent a murder in a well-to-do area.
c) The tragedy of the crime and sympathy for Rosenbaum’s family and friends.
d) That Rosenbaum and several others were killed on orders from the Bush Administration or someone inside the Republican party.

If you guessed d), you did a lot better than I would have.

What gets me here – what actually causes that rolling feeling in the pit of my stomach – is that this was the only thing the commenters discussed. Any expression of sympathy for his family were simply asides in defense of the commenters who wrote things like:

and going out for a walk to get some fresh air?
Is this something he always does, I wonder? Or going out to meet a source with the lure of some documentation?

I live a few miles from that neighborhood, it is indeed safe, totally upper middle class. What are the chances that some thief would happen upon a man that randomly decides to take a brisk walk?

Something aint right.

…Now… we don’t have to assume that George W. Bush called out a hit on this guy to assume that some Republican whacko did.

And quite frankly, looking at the current political situation and the articles Rosenbaum was doing… I find it more likely that some Rethug called out the hit… than that some random robber killed him.

And personally, I don’t think its unlikely at all that Dick Cheney or George Bush called out the hit directly. They’re just as capable of doing it as any other of the countless Iran-Contra Republican psychos now in office.

… then the opening shot was the overwhelming defeat of Goldwater in 1964. All of the Conservatives involved (and by conservative I mean white men who felt the need to keep women and non-whites from joining them at the feast) acknowledge that defeat as the event which started their movement (and by movement I mean the receipt of funding from that rich bruise Richard Mellon Scaife and other other lonely white men on the fringe right). How that movement become, over the course of forty years, the potent organized criminal enterprise that now holds America in it’s salivating maw is one for the books.

And this one that seems to sum up the whole crazy thing:

wow. i frankly don’t know what to make of the tin-foil hat-tery going on in here.

you guys raise some interesting connections – will it lead somewhere or not i don’t know but this is the America Bushco has brought us into.

one where we are suspicious of everything. & why not?

just a year ago i would’ve thought you guys were nuts but after Homeland Security alerts are elevated everytime Bush needed some help in the elections, after WMDs, after no bid-contracts to Halliburton, after Abramoff, after we find out Americans are being spyed on by our own government, AFTER ALL THIS SHIT, HOW CAN YOU NOT BE SUSPICIOUS??

i really don’t know where this will go, but PLEASE DON’T STOP.

don’t slander. don’t jump to conclusions & sabotage your case or make shit up. but turn every rock over guys. you’re all patriots.

Yep. Patriots. That’s exactly what they are.

This, by the way, appears on the most widely-read blogs on the left, run by a man who is a Democratic political consultant and campaign advisor.

I’m keeping my eyes open for wider mention of this story, and the insane theories we’ve seen in that post. I’d bet money that you’ll see, without much critical comment, coverage in a major newspaper or cable channel. There will be little comparison to the absolutely batshit crazy accusations some on the fringes of the right made about the death of Vince Foster.

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