Republicans play politics with the murder of two New York City policemen

Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson)
Monday, December 22, 2014, 10:49 am
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Apparently the notion that one can think it's bad when police officers shoot and kill unarmed civilians and also think it's bad when police officers are shot and killed is a little too difficult for the likes of Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, and other members of the right-wing outrage machine. In the wake of two New York City police officers being killed by a man who was by most accounts deeply troubled and who had first shot his ex-girlfriend, media conservatives are blaming ... people who think police should face prosecution when they kill unarmed civilians.
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"We've had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police," Giuliani said during an appearance on Fox News on Sunday. "The protests are being embraced, the protests are being encouraged. The protests, even the ones that don't lead to violence, a lot of them lead to violence, all of them lead to a conclusion. The police are bad, the police are racist. That is completely wrong."
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This is just such classic Giuliani, so completely dishonest, that it's hard to even know what to say. Except maybe this: Why is a guy who stopped being mayor well over 10 years ago and completely bombed as a presidential candidate still on the damn television all the time?
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Joe Scarborough explains it for America: "The cop killer's anger was fueled by an avalanche of hate speech."
- @daveweigel

Okay, Joe, so what fueled his anger toward his ex-girlfriend? You know, the first person he shot? Also, of course, it's once again not the time to have a conversation about America's high rates of gun violence and poor treatment of mental illness, because why bother.
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It's a flagrant display of the right's compulsive need to believe that everyone else has as much trouble as they do with the idea that murder is always wrong. Then you've got the right's inability to distinguish between saying that America's system of policing and prosecution is morally broken, as not just the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner but the refusal to prosecute their killers show, and saying that all police officers are individually bad people. There's a lot of projection going on here, is what I'm saying. Unfortunately, it's projection by people who don't have a big problem with too many kinds of killing and who are cynically peddling a political worldview in which it's just a lot easier to erase complexity and demonize people who disagree with you.
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