Peter Brimelow

The Main Stream Media feeding frenzy around the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, so extreme that it even attracted the ridicule of Slate’s liberal press critic Jack Shafer—who had also earlier been commendably sensible about calls to suppress (conservative) rhetoric—seems now to be dying down.

This means VDARE.com was finally able to post Steve Sailer’s latest on the Sailer Strategy this Sunday. (I wasn’t going to throw it away). But it also means that, incredibly, this whole news cycle has gone by without any substantive attention to the obviously parallel case of Congressman Larry McDonald.

Who now remembers McDonald? Not Washington Post smart alec Ezra Klein, who blogged on Jan 9: “The last congressman killed while doing his job was Rep. Leo Ryan, who was slain in Jonestown in 1978”.

A reader commented timorously: “Not that I was his biggest fan, but perhaps we should include Larry McDonald”. Klein, however, did not feel obliged to correct his mistake, and Google reveals no other recent discussion of the Georgia Democrat who died when a Soviet interceptor shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983.

From: VDARE.com

When I was young, I had a knowing, sophisticated view of sociopsychological factors that shape public debate-for example, what Joe Sobran used to call "The Hive", explaining why liberals everywhere suddenly start saying the same thing.

But as I get older, I lean increasingly to the view that it's all a matter of goldarned conspiracies, cabals and corruption. (This is partly because I've experienced the anti-VDARE.COM blacklist in action-ever wonder why even our Democratic writers are never asked to appear on dinosaur television?)

Thus I now absolutely believe that a memo went out from Treason Central after Obamacare was muscled through saying that it was now time to get the Tea Partiers. (Why not when Obamacare hung in the balance? I answer that question below).