The Panama city shooter wasn’t exactly a Tea Partier:

Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.

Doesn’t matter, of course — they’ll just lie about it, and call him a “violent right winger.” Because “right wingers” are violent by definition, right? Or perhaps they’ll just pretend he didn’t exist, though if he really were a “right winger,” there would be endless blathering by the lefty punditocracy about how the violent rhetoric of the racist Tea Partiers encouraged him. After all, these are the same hacks who still say that Tim McVeigh was a Christian.

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Related: Guess which party the media never mentions the Westboro Baptist Church is affiliated with?

Yes, let’s ask people how they like the new congress before it is even seated. You’d almost think they were biased, or something.

Really, like “racism,” “hate” has become a meaningless word, at least when employed by the left (and like “racist,” “hater,” “liar,” etc. it’s part of a broad pattern of psychological projection on their part). In fact, it’s almost gotten to the point at which I consider being accused of it a badge of honor.

For some reason the WaPo failed to publish its own poll showing a new low in Obama popularity.