“Death of a President,” the documentary-style speculative fiction about the assassination of the 43rd President of the United States, is seamless, intelligent and maybe even necessary to an understanding of George W. Bush’s role in the world today[.] — Jim Emerson on RogerEbert.com

Anyone who’s studied the left for any period of time knew that before the blood had even dried on the sidewalks of Arizona Saturday, that the mainstream media would force us into a terrible choice. After the assassin’s monstrous attack, the decent thing to do would’ve been to come together as a nation to mourn the dead and pray for the survivors. Politics, and most especially political opportunism, should be the last thing on anyone’s mind. But the left, unfortunately, isn’t just anyone. They are who they are and that they would feast on the fresh corpses of the innocent in order to win a couple of political news cycles was obvious. And so those of us who would’ve preferred to go nowhere near the arena of politics when it came to this appalling attack on our country and our democracy, were forced to make sure 1995 didn’t repeat itself, the year President Clinton used the Oklahoma City bombing for partisan gain against his own political enemies.

Joining in on this feast with the likes of Andrew Sullivan, Salon’s Joan Walsh, George Soros’ Eric Boehlert, the very Sheriff charged with protecting Rep. Giffords, Paul Krugman, Markos Moulitsas, and their allies in the media were, naturally, the dregs of the entertainment industry’s humanity barrel, who could barely contain their excitement over an opportunity to to attack the right, Sarah Palin, and call for — as they always do when given the opportunity — restrictions on speech.

The following is just a taste:

Roger Ebert: The “shooters” are indeed “associated with a larger movement.” Do words have meaning?

John Legend: I hope politicians will stop using gun imagery to incite their followers. Interesting post: http://gaw.kr/ffa3Zj

Elizabeth Banks: Unfollow. RT @SarahPalinUSA Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!” Pls see my Facebook page.

Jane Fonda: @SarahPalinUSA holds responsibility. As does the violence-provoking rhetoric of the Tea Party

Michael McKean: @SarahPalinUSA Keep scrubbing those hands, Sarah…

Piers Morgan: This now deleted image from Sarah Palin website will be reason this terrible shooting has huge political ramifications http://huff.to/9Scyxh

Michael Moore: When Palin put crosshairs on a map w/ Rep. Giffords & 19 other Dem congressmen/women, she urged followers to “reload” & “aim” for Democrats.

Jeff Wells: [A]re you going to tell me that Sarah Palin‘s … use of rifle-sight imagery to target Giffords wasn’t an inflammatory factor?

What’s especially funny about Jeff Wells is that just a couple of posts down from that quote is this quote regarding a new film being celebrated by the left called “Hobo With a Shotgun“:

I just want to add to what Steven Gaydos wrote about how Hobo might be (and certainly should be) a great social-vengeance metaphor about an angry disenfranchised guy blasting expensively-cut hair all over them walls.

I look forward to pinning the next white collar office massacre on Wells and the film and an industry that for ten long years has almost uniformly been the most hostile, vitriolic, anti-government force on the planet; spending hundreds of millions of dollars to paint an American president as a war criminal who stole an election, our CIA as a force of evil , and our troops as dehumanized monsters.

Throughout the world and with the awesome power of sound and fury in every medium available, the left-wing message of a corrupted, imperialistic, murderous, corrupt, illegitimate American government and military has relentlessly been broadcasted all to the cheers and appreciative backslaps of the water-carrying media. And yet today, we have political opportunists from this very same industry, some of them as guilty as Michael Moore, going on about crosshairs on some political map and the peaceful gathering a few million everyday Americans opposed to ObamaCare.

Comparing a political map even I wasn’t aware of until this weekend and NO SOCIALISM signs held by small children to this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this…? Really? If we’re going to go down the absurd road of pinning responsibility for real-life violence on political speech and images, let the games begin here…

Never forget that this is the same industry that created the 2006 “mockumentary,” “Death of a President,” a film released throughout the world, into 143 domestic theatres, celebrated with an award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, and which depicted — onscreen, with the use of CGI — the assassination of President George W. Bush … all to the cheers of Rober Ebert’s website.

Finally, I would like to close by reminding the entertainment industry that it’s probably not in their best interest to blame images and words on real-life acts of violence. Admitting that you’ve believed this the whole time you were knowingly creating a deadly product will make Big Tobacco look like Mother Teresa by comparison.