California Conservative

In recent days, the Obama administration, the DNC and Speaker Pelosi have tried painting rowdy townhall participants as myth-tellers, angry mobs and Nazis. Their most recent tactic has been to start wondering aloud about President Obama’s safety. This spin shouldn’t be taken seriously.

While officials told ABC News that the President’s daily threat matrix has yet to reflect a sharp increase in threats, White House officials privately admit deep concern and have told the Secret Service to keep security tight, even if Obama objects.

“I think the president has, in effect, triggered fears amongst fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country, that the battle is lost,” Potok told ABC News. “The nation that their Christian white forefathers created has somehow been taken from them.”

Regrettably, it’s a fact that every president has received death threats. I won’t dispute that. Still, this administration’s attempt to blame Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for these death threats isn’t persuasive.

I’d also ask why ABC News didn’t blame Chris Matthews, Cindy Sheehan and Air America for the times when protesters hung President Bush in effigy. Their anti-Bush diatribes were more vitriolic and more widespread than what we’re seeing now. The difference is that the idiots that are talking about directing violence at President Obama would be immediately rejected by Republicans. That type of behavior simply isn’t acceptable. PERIOD. Matthews, David Shuster, Sheehan, Keith Olbermann and others comprise the heart of the Democratic Party’s lunatic fringe base. (more…)