America’s arbiter of decency has weighed-in on the Tea Partyers. The former President, of blue dress fame, Bill Clinton, recently told the New York Times that he sees parallels between today’s anti-government attitude, and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Bombing. In the article Bubba goes through the usual litany of offenses the left so causally paints their entire opposition with. He warns that Republicans are inciting violence with their rhetoric that “animates people who do things you would never do.” I didn’t catch him saying that when Nancy Pelosi called opponents of Obamacare Nazis. To put this in perspective, Clinton also tried to blame Rush Limbaugh for the 1995 bombing.

Next, the latest edition of Newsweek has an article entitled “Hate; Antigovernment extremists are on the rise – and on the march.” In the article Evan Thomas, who has actually compared Obama to God, and Eva Conant pull out all the stops to demonize regular Americans. Their case can be boiled down to this: if you oppose Obama you are an “addled war veteran,” and most likely a militiaman conspiracy kook waiting to be the next Timothy McVeigh. And guess who’s to blame for firing up these “addled veterans?”

It is hard to know how much such grim fantasies are stirred by the steady stream of conspiracy theories pushed by talk-radio hosts. Rush Limbaugh talks about the Democrats planning to “kill you” with health-care reform and suggests (agreeing with black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan, of all people) that it “seems perfectly within the realm of reality” that the H1N1 vaccine was “developed to kill people.” Like many talk-show hosts, he uses martial language to rouse the faithful: “The enemy camp is the White House right now,” he says. Former Alaska governor turned media star Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page a list of House Democrats who voted for health-care reform with crosshairs aimed at their home districts, while tweeting to her followers, “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!” She strongly denied any intent to incite violence. Other conservative talkers insist their foes are preparing violent attacks on them. Glenn Beck of Fox News is the master purveyor of this particular brand of sly paranoia. He suggests that he will be the victim of violence. “I’d better start wearing a [bulletproof] vest” to guard against White House attacks, he says, and warns that the Democrats will sic goons on him to break his kneecaps.

That’s right – conservative talk radio is to blame for all of societies ills. Nothing like taking a bunch of quotes out of context and pasting them together to prove your point. Whenever regular Americans oppose socialism, the liberal media tries to paint the opposition as a bunch hateful Nazis. Isn’t time they makeup a new narrative? Also, isn’t it interesting that when 19 Arab Muslims men fly airplanes into buildings and kill 3,000 Americans on 9/11 we’re told not to stereotype or profile, yet the same people who say that are so ready to paint every patriotic American that believes in the Constitution as some sort of Timothy McVeigh wannabe nut? The left are the real haters – they hate the Constitution, they hate religious people and they despise the notion of American exceptionalism. As for who the Tea Partyers are, Norah O’Donnell found out yesterday: