Right-Wing Reactions to Tiller Murder

"Paul Dirks Says:
Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Amy Sullivan post valiantly trying to see both sides of the debate in 7...6...5...4...3...2..."
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2:37 until 7:17--she must have been on a long conference call with Jesus.

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Seems to me that any group whose primary concern is the elimination of abortions ought to also promote contraception.
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Otherwise, wouldn't a label such as "Anti-Sex League" be more accurate?
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When Amy and her fellow stenographers were repeating McCain talking pts. about Obama's terrorist buddy Bill Ayers, where were the "left wing" responses? Why is it fine to link to 4 nutters on the right, but we will never see Chomksy, Zinn, Goodman, Hightower...?

It is most troubling to me that the legacy media, Amy Sullivan and all, go out of their way to seek out and dutifully print statements from American terrorist organizations and their leaders. Randall Henry is a rightwing American terrorist whose organization has been involved in bombing medical clinics and assassinating abortion providers for 20 years or more. Why do you give him a respectful platform to make a statement? Operation Rescue should be treated as the terrorist organization that it is. Do you assemble reactions and give a respectful platform to other terrorist organizations when they perform an assassination, Amy?

The United States has defined terrorism under the Federal criminal code. 18 U.S.C. §2331[25] defines terrorism as: …activities that involve violent… or life-threatening acts… that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and… appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping…."

Amy - this is self-serving in the extreme. We've all seen a great many right wing reactions that are not nearly so temperate as this,and I assume you have too - if you've been giving even a cursory look at the blogs. So spare us the implication that this is representative of the right wing. I am glad to see that there is not universal loonydom on the right, but you have been extremely selective.

And, finally, one anti-abortion group that actually says the only thing that can and must be said in the immediate aftermath of such an ugly act.
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Amy Sullivan, if that's how you really feel, why did you print the other three pieces of self-righteous terroristic bullsh!t? Why are you legitimizing this stuff? If you're after "balance," where's the "other side"?
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Please. Find. Another. Job.

2:37 until 7:17--she must have been on a long conference call with Jesus.
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There's a difference between covering your ass and getting it all nice and padded. A good job takes a lot more time.

Christian News Wire - Vanity Press for Right Wing Nut Jobs? You Decide!
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http://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=content&SectionID=1

In other news, the KKK lynched a young male African-American in Mississippi today. Time Senior Editor Amy Sullivan reports from the scene about what segregationists and other sheet-clad hatemongers think about the murder.
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F@ck me, could MSM armageddon come any slower?
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And Stuart, if you're about, where is that adulatory comment you made about AS recently? I couldn't find it, but it sure bears repeating here. Actually, I think we could print it on namecards, turn it into a stencil ready for graffiti on all flat surfaces etc.

Can we call these creeps terrorists and terrorist sympathizers yet?

jcapan, this one's for you:
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And Amy - how about Randall Terry saying "I'm more concerned about Obama's reaction than Tiller's murder." You left that part out.

Here is a great blog post written by someone who actually went to Tiller when they found out they had conjoined twins that would not survive in our world:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22002
Really sad.

I think you all are being a little hard on Amy, here. It seems to me like she's implicitly criticizing the self-serving nature of the first three reactions she cited here. (And rightfully so, I might add.)

surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions.
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Interesting choice of words.
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I was unaware that gunfire qualified as effective rhetoric.

I think you all are being a little hard on Amy, here. It seems to me like she's implicitly criticizing the self-serving nature of the first three reactions she cited here. (And rightfully so, I might add.)
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Yeah, same here. Her comment before the fourth quote is damning (and rightfully so) of the previous three.

"KMBC-TV in Kansas City reported that the suspect had a post-it note with the phone number of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in his car"
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/may/31/tiller-shot-death-wichita-church/

It seems to me like she's implicitly criticizing the self-serving nature of the first three reactions she cited here.
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My objection is giving the terrorist Randall Terry a platform in the mainstream media to comment on every event relevant to the controversy over reproductive rights and other issues. Randall Terry was front and center during every single day making statements during the Terry Schiavo controversy as if he were a respected leader and had never participated in clinic bombing and the assassination of medical providers. Every time something like this comes up, they let Randall Terry step up to the microphone. This serves only to legitimize the terrorist and his organization into the mainstream.
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It's like asking Theodore Kaczynski what he thinks about it. Randall Terry is a deranged, murdering rightwing psychopath and terrorist, and people like Amy Sullivan treat him with respect enough to record his thoughts about events and print them. What do we have next, a statement from Fred Phelps?
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I got Amy's mild, gentle disapproval. I found it inadequate.

I'm sorry, but showing that Randall Terry is (a) badmouthing a doctor gunned down at his church, (b) crassly trying to play the victim here, and (c) crudely playing politics with this tragedy doesn't exactly help his cause.
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In fact, what Amy Sullivan has done here is to show, in his own words, how Randall Terry is, in your words, "a deranged, murdering rightwing psychopath and terrorist." For people who aren't as well versed in his insanity as you are, all they know are points a-c above, and that's because she posted it here.

Put another way, here's how that same Randall Terry quote was headlined at Huffington Post:
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"Anti-Abortion Leader: I'm More Concerned About Obama's Reaction Than Tiller's Murder"

My objection is giving the terrorist Randall Terry a platform in the mainstream media to comment on every event relevant to the controversy over reproductive rights and other issues.
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But if you are to rightly ridicule the man and his platform, as I believe Amy is doing here, don't you have to note what you are ridiculing? Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow and a whole host of commentators at places like Media Matters or Daily Kos that I'm sure a lot of you respect more than Ms. Sullivan give air time and extensively quote people they ridicule so you the viewer/reader know to what they refer in their critique.
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I think the reaction to this posting has been very knee-jerk -- people who dislike Ms. Sullivan leaping at the opportunity to pile on instead of taking a moment to really read what she posted. That's my $0.02 anyway.

If Amy was registering her dissatisfaction with Randall Terry, instead of simply referring to him as "Randall Terry, Operation Rescue", she would have said, "Randall Terry, American Taliban"

Condemning this act of violence is not enough. The late 20th Century fundamentalism in politics and religion has fostered the anger of people unable to assimilate new ideas and new cultural paradigms. We will see more of this violence as the extreme right tries to hold on to their fading movement. ............

http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/05/28/the-rise-and-fall-of-20th-century-fundamentalism/

"Pro-Life Groups Fear Backlash After Tiller Murder"
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May I suggest a slight correction?
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"Republicans Fear Backlash After Tiller Murder"
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Now THAT might be a little closer to the truth...

Operation Rescue is a violent hate group, like the KKK, Christian Identity, neo-Nazi, the KKK.
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Does Time give David Duke a platform to comment on black church-bombings? Did they ask him to comment on the murder of James Byrd and Brandon McClelland?
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I submit that seeking their comments, sanitizing and publishing them, serves to legitimize their terrorist organizations and them as opinion leaders. And they thrive on the attention and the ability to get their message out into the mainstream.