Since when does context matter to the right-wing in this country?
There is a narrative to be told, dammit!
Of course, this thread is all about that, and I am just as guilty as anyone on the left for pushing the particular narrative concerning the overall tone of right-wing rhetoric.
That said, there is a line between the rather deliberate act of only using half a quote to make your case, a rather obvious attempt to use half-truths to mislead, and generally suspecting that *somehow* the tone of rhetoric in this country might make such things more likely.
In this case, it seems fairly obvious that this guy is a drugged/whacked out nutbag of no particular political stripe and with genuine mental problems.
I still am personally convinced that the general level of anti-goverment vitriol on the right will make some slightly deranged rightie somewhere out of the tens of millions snap at some point and do something quite obviously politically motivated and murderous.
In any given population there is always the crazy segment, and encouraging them to be more crazy/angry is not the best way to go.