Progressive hysteria reaches a new height

The speculation surrounding the death of Bill Sparkman, a 51 yr. old man from Kentucky, is indicative of the progressives' hysterical campaign to frame their opposition as crazy rightwingers who are deranged as a result of conservative talk radio commentary. I won't leave any links -- you can do a Google search and find all the lunacy and conspiracy madness your heart desires. As I mentioned in an earlier post, with a hat tip to R.S. McCain or Smitty at The Other McCain, Andrew Sullivan suggests it might be the result of "southern populist" terrorism. The left crazies are drawing their conclusions and making their speculations based on the report that "Fed" was scrawled on Sparkman's chest and that he was a census worker.

I can't think of any flimsier reasons to extrapolate from these two reported facts that the death was caused by a rightwing madperson driven to murder by some of those in the media who oppose progressive policies. Any person who values reason will be sickened by the response from some of the Beck/Limbaugh haters and the progressive bloggers who jumped on the loony wagon. It might be time to worry more about the Beck/Limbaugh haters than Limbaugh or Beck.

Andrew Sullivan has obviously lost all contact with objectivity and reason, sinking into a world of conspiracy and hate-filled attacks on anyone he deems as intellectually inferior and politically challenged. Sullivan has never impressed me as a deep thinker, and I have never understood what motivates his popularity. Some smart people have defended him for his more virtuous efforts to defend those who have suffered from discrimination, oppression and hate, but it appears his fight for justice and fairplay is conditional, reserved for those who are like-minded and politically-correct in his limited view. It's time for his defenders to develope a little intellectual honesty.

Until we know the facts, if they are, in fact, discovered, Bill Sparkman's death is a mystery -- to use his death as an opportunity to smear those who disagree politically is pathetic, cynical, disrepectful, biased and, above all else, an example of how hate can cause insanity. Ironically, the insanity shown by Sullivan and those like him who are using this case as a weapon against southerners, ordinary people protesting the government and talk show hosts is far worse than what they claim to be fighting -- this kind of mindset, whether from the left or right, can think only in terms of groups and has no sense of individuality and true diversity -- THAT is dangerous.

Update on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 06:30PM by M. Farmer

In order to head off criticism that I am thinking in terms of groups, also, I must remind the reader that it is the left and right speaking in partisan union, even when it's crazy like this response to Sparkman, which puts them into groups -- A free thinker would not follow the herd.