I wasnÂ’t going to comment on the Randi Rhodes fiasco from yesterday. Yeah, it shows the fact-free, paranoid style of the American Left, but I found it unseemly to use her unfortunate accident to score political points. After all, IÂ’ve fallen when the dog has given an unanticipated jerk of the leash in an unexpected direction, and had one of my grad school professors go under the knife after blowing out a knee in just such an accident (though Dr. Lind was on cross country skis at the time).

But some of the comments from RhodesÂ’ fellow lefties just deserve comment.

Adolph Hitler's right wing thugs regularly 'mugged' opponents and members of unpopular groups even before he came to power....Given Randi Rhodes courageous outspokenness about the sinister intentions of the right wing, it is not unreasonable to suspect that this non-robbery assault is an attempt by Neo-conservative thugs to silence her views.

Hitler was a National SOCIALIST – by definition, a left-winger. If you doubt me, look at his economic and political program and tell me which party it more generally tracks with. One hint – it begins with a D.

Have you ever noticed that when one of ours shoots one of theirs (Reagan, Ford, Wallace), it's always an amateurish lunatic like Squeaky Fromme or John Hinkley [sic] acting alone and without a plan or a mind, and that little or no blood spills, but that when they come after one of ours (Malcolm, JFK, MLK, RFK), it is a flawlessly executed surgical strike from triangulated professional snipers who leave no witnesses or other loose ends behind, just the corpse of a formerly great liberal leader and an unwitting patsy to take the fall (Oswald, Bremer, Sirhan)?

LetÂ’s look at this, can we.
JFK was shot by a Communist. That makes him one of yours.

RFK was shot by a Palestinian terrorist because RFK supported Israel. Again, that makes the perpetrator one of yours.

Malcolm was shot by his fellow Black Muslims. Again, that would make the assassins part of the leftoid coalition.

Dr. King was murdered by a racist criminal – I believe that would make him a part of the Democrat constituency as well (after all, the KKK was a Democrat paramilitary terrorist adjunct).

I could go on, but I wonÂ’t. Fortunately, this article does.

And by the way -- I hope Rhodes is doing better, and that she s fully recovered in time for her radio show today.

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