Remember this when the New York Times criticizes conservatives
According to Peter Baker at the New York Times, if you criticize a person’s politics, you really want them murdered. No joke:
President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting his every initiative have expressed deep worry for his security.
“The American people want to know: Is the president safe?” Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican committee chairman who has made it his mission to investigate all sorts of Obama administration missteps, solemnly intoned as he opened a hearing into the lapses on Tuesday.
Yet it would not be all that surprising if Mr. Obama were a little wary of all the professed sympathy.
Baker himself made a living criticizing President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Does this mean he would have no concerns about assassination attempts against them? Was his book criticizing the Bush administration really attempted murder?
There’s a joke about the left that if you want to know what they’re thinking, watch what they claim about conservatives. Baker’s article really does seem to come from an assumption about political criticism that he—and the New York Times—must personally hold, or it wouldn’t make any sense.
The New York Times daily criticizes conservative politicians. Does this mean they want conservatives dead? Does this mean they want to weaken law enforcement protection of conservative presidents? Their snide remarks about how conservative critics can’t really be concerned about the safety of a leftist President say, yes.
In response to Your devil has no clothes: The others of the extreme left and right have different qualities. The others of the left—Sarah Palin, the Koch brothers, Brendan Eich, for example—voice opinions, but are otherwise fairly unobtrusive politically. They are people who would not have been an issue if they weren’t personally made an issue by the vanguard of the left.
- New York Times Surprised That Republicans Don’t Want to See Obama Murdered: Matt Welch at Reason Magazine
- “If the sarcasm of ‘touched’ and the jaw-dropping deployment of the word ‘even’ don’t make it clear enough, Baker later writes, ‘Yet it would not be all that surprising if Mr. Obama were a little wary of all the professed sympathy.’ And he finishes the article with the sardonic phrase, ‘all with Mr. Obama’s interests at heart.’ What a rancid view of the world.” (Memeorandum thread)
- NY Times: Republicans Playing Politics with Secret Service Mistakes: John Sexton at Breitbart
- “The current complaints about the Secret Service are also entirely legitimate. That's what really bothers Democrats about this. Four weeks prior to an important election, Republicans have found another, completely legitimate, issue they can hammer Democrats with. Is that partly political? Of course it is, this is Washington D.C. But GOP criticism of the Secret Service foul ups is the best kind of politics, the kind where self-interest and public interest align perfectly. No one wants this President, or any President, getting hurt.”
- Showing Concern for the President, Even While Criticizing Him: Peter Baker at The New York Times
- “President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting his every initiative have expressed deep worry for his security.” (Memeorandum thread)
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