an open letter to WFTL-850 FM radio host Joyce Kaufman, "If ballots don't work, bullets will"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Dear Joyce,

How does it feel when you hear about the horrific shootings in Tucson yesterday? How does it feel to see that someone actually employed your idea of using bullets over ballots?


Christina Taylor Green

​I wonder if deep down you're mortified, because you should be. You should finally be getting a terrifying glimpse of how your your callous and ignorant words might actually affect South Florida and our nation.

I wonder how you feel when you hear about the death of nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed in the shooting at the Safeway along with U.S. District Judge John Roll and four others. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and survived, along with 11 others injured. Christina danced ballet and played little league. She had just been elected to her elementary school's student council and was invited by a neighbor to Giffords' political event yestereday to meet a real government leader. Instead she met a madman with a gun who decided that bullets were the answer.

Christina was born on September 11, 2001, Joyce, a day that shocked and horrified this nation and a day that you have been using to help spread your message of war and hate ever since.

Joyce, I want you to look at Christina's face. Is that what you had in mind when you told people that bullets were a viable solution in politics? Will you explain to Christina's parents what you meant? How do you defend your irresponsible rhetoric now?

continued here:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/01/christina_taylor_green_shooting.php

[xchrom]

1. they don't feel shame, shocked, sad, remorseful, none of that.

there's a collective gone over the edge quality to the lot of them -- and they aren't going to change anytime soon.

[salin]

5. in fact already see "victim" posturing from some...

ala how unfair it is that their rhetoric is being criticized.

[FourScore]

2. Yes, Joyce, I'd like to hear your explanation as well. n/t

[malaise]

3. Dear Joyce

You're an accessory to murder - you Palin, Beck, Rush and many more.

[Takket]

4. they don't care

the only thing that evokes an emotional response from a right winger is having to surrender ANY of their money for the benefit of others