When someone accuses you of being an accomplice to murder (e.g. Paul Krugman, NYT), you had better respond vigorously. If the Left doesn’t want to be called out for trying to benefit from the shooting, then they shouldn’t try to benefit from the shooting.

Here’s a subtle example from Amity Shales of Bloomberg that really ticked me off.

So now both left and right are blaming each other following the shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six and wounded at least 13 others.

From the left, the charges are that Republican Sarah Palin?s placement of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords on a political hit list was taken literally by the gunman who critically wounded the Democratic legislator.Keith Olbermann, the television talk-show host, couldn?t resist exploiting the rampage by demanding that Republicans repudiate Palin?s violent talk or itself be condemned.

From the right comes anger at the idea that Republicans and Tea-Party types are the only ones who use strong rhetoric.

Do you see the bias?

Without any basis in reality, The Opportunistic Left asserts that Sarah Palin and others on the Right “have blood on their hands”. And by God, those awful Republicans respond by calling The Left on it. How dare they?

I’ll join you in being respectful to Democrats when they stop being a bunch of D-baggers.

I’m not buying the everybody does it meme.