Suburban Guerrilla

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No, there isn’t similar hate speech on our side.

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Is for every single person who hears anyone, anywhere, use right-wing hate rhetoric to say, “Stop that. That’s the kind of talk that gets innocent people killed.”

Speak up. Speak out.

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At Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market yesterday:

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions:

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Special comment.

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Gabby Giffords commented on Palin’s “gun sight” map of her district, saying:

“…for example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list, but the thing is that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district, and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.”

But cable news doesn’t want to talk about that. The shooter is just a deranged guy who randomly went after a Democratic congresswoman who’d been targeted by the right wing — at least, that’s the only story you’re going to hear from the bobbleheads.

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Bill Clinton:

If they insist on being irresponsible with our common liberties, then we must be all the more responsible with our liberties. When they talk of hatred, we must stand against them. When they talk of violence, we must stand against them. When they say things that are irresponsible, that may have egregious consequences, we must call them on it.

The exercise of their freedom of speech makes our silence all the more unforgivable. So exercise yours, my fellow Americans. Our country, our future, our way of life is at stake. I never want to look into the faces of another set of family members like I saw yesterday, and you can help to stop it.

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Randy Newman:

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Remember long ago, when Saturday Night Live was cutting edge satire and fearlessly took on the powers that be?

Gone. A skit with extended digs at the contracts of union sanitation workers — from TV stars, no less — has made it clear. Stick a fork in it, it’s dead.

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Christina Taylor Green, dead in a political drive-by shooting at the age of nine. Dear God, what has all this hate done to our country?

In a final heartbreaking irony, Christina (sadly, the granddaughter of former Phillies manager Dallas Green) was featured in a book called “Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11.”

And she was the only girl on her local baseball team. She played second base.

TUCSON, Ariz. – A 9-year-old girl was among the five who died in a shooting rampage in Tucson Saturday afternoon.

KTAR talked exclusively with her uncle Greg Segalini.

He described her as a “typical” girl who was bright, on student council and who loved ballet.

Segalini said the girl’s family went to the event to meet Congresswoman Gabreille Giffords.

“They just went up there because they were having the political rally.

“And the neighbor, who also was shot, thought it would be nice if she brought Christina up to the Safeway, just to you know, just to see it and the next thing you know this happened.”

Greg Segalini said his niece’s death still hasn’t sunk in yet.

“We, of course, didn’t anticipate. I mean, how do you prepare for something like this?”

He said he believes the little girl was shot in the chest.

“We went down to the hospital and she was dead.”

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