It didn’t take long for the leftwing blogsphere, the liberal media and just about every democrat who’s been on the air, to blame the tragedy about the shootings in Tucson on the rightwing blogsphere, rightwing radio and basically anyone who has stood against the Obama administration.

There of course blaming it on Sarah Palin, because of her “target map” used over a year ago during the 2010 campaign cycle. They’re blaming it on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other media figures considered on the right. They’re blaming it on everyone except the obviously psychotic actions of a nut.

Of course they completely ignore the even more far reaching vitriol used during Bush’s term in office, even the calls for his assasination, and even including a media portrayal of the same. Back in 2009, Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters covered the hypocrisy.

“As Fox News’s Bill Sammon pointed out Wednesday, when former President Bush was greeted by hostile protesters on a fund raising trip to Portland, Oregon, in August 2002, the news media didn’t bother sharing with the public some of the truly incendiary signs in the crowd or the vulgar behavior of the attendees.

In fact, some of the television reports at the time painted the protesters as innocent victims of an overly aggressive police force.

Before we get there, here’s Sammon’s take (h/t NB reader ShruggedAtlas and Michelle Malkin):

When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting “Bush is a terrorist!”, the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.
One protester even brandished a sign that seemed to advocate Bush’s assassination. The man held a large photo of Bush that had been doctored to show a gun barrel pressed against his temple.

“BUSH: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE,” read the placard, which had an X over the word “ALIVE.”

Another poster showed Bush’s face with the words: “F— YOU, MOTHERF—ER!”

A third sign urged motorists to “HONK IF YOU HATE BUSH.” A fourth declared: “CHRISTIAN FASCISM,” with a swastika in place of the letter S in each word.
Although reporters from numerous national news organizations were traveling with Bush and witnessed the protest, none reported that protesters were shrieking at Republican donors epithets like “Slut!” “Whore!” and “Fascists!” [...]

All the while, angry demonstrators brandished signs with incendiary rhetoric, such as “9/11 – YOU LET IT HAPPEN, SHRUB,” and “BUSH: BASTARD CHILD OF THE SUPREME COURT.” One sign read: “IMPEACH THE COURT-APPOINTED JUNTA AND THE FASCIST, EGOMANIACAL, BLOOD-SWILLING BEAST!”

So now we’ll continue hear about calls for “toning it down”, and even “shutting up”. This tragic event will be lionized by the liberal media and used to quell any negative discourse, criticism of Obama or any Democrat policy in America. but the fact of the matter is that is not going to happen, indeed it cannot.

In America we have the right to oppose policy that we do not agree with and to speak our mind about what we feel is harmful to American. This right extends to both the left and the right and in between. It’s a right guaranteed by the Constitution.

I am not going to stop speaking out against the Obama administration, Obamacare, soaring deficits and anything else I feel is worthy of such speech.

We will not be silent, we will not shut up, we will not tone it down. By the way, last week Rep. Giffords joined in the reading of the US Constitution from the floor of the House. She too believes in the First Amendment.