(06-15-2017, 09:17 AM)Kotite Wrote: It's as if the past 8 years didn't happen huh...

When the former AG is calling for more protests, blood in the streets, and even death because we've done that before and should do it again, that's not heated rhetoric, right?  It's not like she was trying to stoke people's ears or anything, right?

Or when talking about repealing ObamaCare, the icon of the shooter said thousands would die.



Or the Governor of California talking about people dying, seas rising, and insects taking over because we pulled out of the Paris Accord.

The NY Times runs an opinion piece that flat out lies about the Gabby Giffords shooting, trying to say there are links to her shooting and Sarah Palin, and that this connection also connects the blame for the shootings yesterday to Palin.  The NY Times had to issue a correction after the fact saying that there has never been any connection between Palin and the Giffords shooting, but by the time they got around to doing so, that article had been out there for several hours.  You don't think that kind of irresponsible journalism isn't intended to paint a target of sorts by trying to blame yet another republican for yet another liberal loon mass shooting?

When you've got lunatics like the shooter lapping this kind of rhetoric up as they gaze lovingly at Rachel Maddow or Wolf Blitzer.  Then they run out like perfectly trained parrots spewing this rhetoric word-for-word on social media to a bunch of people who agree with them.  It creates this alternate reality where, if they're unstable, it can tip them to the point where they shoot up a congressional baseball practice, or riot and destroy property, or physically assault people simply for disagreeing with them.

Almost all of the rhetoric since 11/9/16 has come from one side of the aisle, and has been amped up by the mainstream media outlets like the NY Times & WaPo, and liberal news networks like CNN and MSNBC.  They own this incident because they basically pushed this narrative until someone finally snapped.

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