Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Walter KirnTags: politics friends enemies twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting partisanship
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
Walter KirnTags: hypocrisy twitter witch-hunts 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault
Walter KirnTags: language twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game jared-lee-loughner jacques-derrida michel-foucault
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Walter KirnTags: politics presumption taylor-swift twitter spiderman noam-chomsky 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game emanuel-bronner jared-lee-loughner
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Walter KirnTags: media news twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.
Alexander CockburnTags: politics united-states rhetoric funerals sarah-palin bickering republican-party-united-states 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting tea-party-movement
[T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.
Walter KirnTags: twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game
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