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I LOVE IT THAT WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO PLAY THE ?TOXIC RHETORIC ON BOTH SIDES? CARD they?re reduced to qu?

By Glenn Reynolds

I LOVE IT THAT WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO PLAY THE “TOXIC RHETORIC ON BOTH SIDES” CARD they’re reduced to quoting things like my paraphrase of Bill Clinton’s “erase North Korea from the map” bit — and always without noting that I was talking about how to respond to a full-fledged North Korean invasion of the South. When you have to stretch that far, it’s an admission that you’ve got nothing.

Also, this bit — “even the most inaccurate and excessive rhetoric on the left these days doesn’t invoke violence” — is simply a lie, or a confession of ignorance so utterly profound as to be, if anything, worse.

Special Bonus: Breaking: TUCSON TEA PARTY LEADER THREATENED At ABC Taping? Unhinged Leftist Arrested. “Trent Humphries has been receiving death threats all week since the national media and their leftist cohorts began blaming the tea party for the shooting.”

UPDATE: ?Civil? Discourse: A One-Way Street?

Related: Palin is ?unrepentant? about her involvement with the murders that you?d have to be insane, lying, or both to claim she had anything to do with.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A compendium of lefty hate.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 15, 2011 (boomark / email).