Planet Wingnuttia News for Tuesday.

No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers -- but it is time to stand up to them
You have to wonder if right-wingers will ever get it: Difference isn't a threat.
They were mewling like wounded hyenas this weekend after some of us pointed out that there was a direct connection between the irresponsible fearmongering in which they've been indulging since Barack Obama was elected and Saturday's tragedy in Pittsburgh.

Michelle Malkin, for example, whined to her cultlike audience that liberals were being mean to them: "You killed these police officers. It’s all your fault." As Oliver notes, the Instawanker has been thrashing about angrily too.
My favorite, though, was Neil Sheppard at Newsbusters:

Let's be clear what these attacks on folks like Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity are all about -- the left-wing in our nation want to silence ALL opposing voices in the media, and they will do it using all tools at their disposal INCLUDING blaming journalists and political commentators for the criminal behavior of others.

Gingrich: ‘Dick Cheney is clearly right’ that Obama is making the U.S. less safe.
Last month, Vice President Cheney claimed that President Obama is “making some choices that…raise the risk to the American people of another attack,” referring to Obama’s decisions to close Guantanamo and end torture. In a

Politico chat, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Cheney is “clearly right” that Obama is making the U.S. less safe:

Moderator: Mr. Gingrich: Do you agree with Dick Cheney’s assessment that we are less safe under the Obama administration?

NewtGingrich: Dick Cheney is clearly right in saying that between the Court decisions about terrorists and the administrtaion actions the United States is running greater risks of getting attacked than we were under President Bush.
Gen. David Petraeus, however, has said he disagrees with Cheney’s now notorious statement.

Senate Should Ignore Nutty Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories And Appoint Harold Koh
Our guest blogger is Henry Fernandez, a Senior Fellow at the Center For American Progress Action Fund.

As ThinkProgress recently noted, a small number of conspiracy-theory, far-right conservatives have raised concerns about Obama’s appointment of Harold Koh to be Legal Adviser to the Department of State. Their nutty views have been trumped up by Fox News and the NY Post, with extremist Glenn Beck leading the charge. This despite there being no basis in reality for the charges against Koh.

Monday on his Fox News show, Beck ranted some more against Koh. Beck conceded, “There is a big debate on the internet, in the New York Times and everybody else, saying that I’m a crazy nut-job because of Harold Koh.”

Beck: Civil unrest for a number of reasons is coming. Lone nut jobs and people who are just angry and frustrated and have had enough. You've got to seek those people out. You've got to start asking people in your own neighborhood, "How are you?" And actually care about the answer.

... Is this what these bloggers think what conservatives are when they say, "Oh yeah, he's a Nazi isn't he. He's a conservative?" Is that really who they think we are?

Noel Sheppard: The incident actually happened probably some where around eleven O'clock, eleven thirty eastern time, and by oh, I guess two o'clock eastern time, a gentleman had clipped a FOX News report -- FOX had reported that a friend of the assailant apparently was worried bout his gun rights because of Obama, so a liberal blog took a piece of this video and posted it at a very, very popular liberal website called CrooksanLiars, and now the game was on and every liberal blogger was linking to his post. What was kind of interesting is in the piece the blogger mentioned, Where do you think this killer got the4 idea from?, and in that sentence is a link to an article about you interviewing Wayne LaPierre, the NRA head.