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ABC Blames Orlando Terror on Election Rhetoric and Guns in America
NewsBusters ^ | June 12, 2016 | Nicholas Fondacaro

Posted on 06/12/2016 4:36:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Sunday, even after the FBI hinted the presence of a link to radical Islam, the panel on ABC’s This Week blamed the terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on heated election rhetoric and guns in America. “I think we all ought to pause with what happened in Orlando today,” stated ABC’s Matt Dowd when asked if third party candidates could gain supporters, “And if we understand that all of the hateful thoughts become hateful words become hateful actions.”

Dowd continued, “And now, maybe in the course of this, after what happened, the temperatures will go down and we, sort of, get back to a place where we can understand the common good.”

Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway then argued that America is in need of strong leadership. “But strong leadership, Kelly, is not about fear mongering and exploiting racial anxieties, and bigotry,” snapped The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Heuvel had her own narrative to spin the deaths of the innocent for:

I think the, you know, grief and anger today, but we can't lose sight of senseless gun violence and the gun epidemic in this country....

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think the, you know, grief and anger today, but we can't lose sight of senseless gun violence and the gun epidemic in this country....

How about if we all try not to lose sight of reality instead:


21 posted on 06/12/2016 4:49:17 PM PDT by RC one
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To: I want the USA back; Fightin Whitey

They are after your gunz..,


22 posted on 06/12/2016 4:49:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaaass.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Were they the first? I had a gambling pool going on who would say it first. My money was on MSNBC. I guess I lost


23 posted on 06/12/2016 4:49:57 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: GreenHornet

Uh, no.
I don’t think Bathhouse Barry is pulling a Fred Phelps.
Though I understand where you’re coming from, 100%.


24 posted on 06/12/2016 4:49:59 PM PDT by Original Lurker (Public Schools - The Walmart of Education - You Get What "I" Pay For..!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They can spin it all they want, the fact is Donald Trump just got more votes from homosexual Democrats.


25 posted on 06/12/2016 4:51:15 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They can’t be serious. This was an Islamic terror attack on a gay night club. That’s exactly what it was and nothing else. No Republican luminaries involved, no NRA members, no knuckle-dragging rightwing extremists (and damn proud of it, thanks). Just an angry, murderous Muslim and a large number of disarmed victims who he shot for being gay. Twisting this into election-year politics does neither the victims nor the country a service and only abets the murderer.


26 posted on 06/12/2016 4:51:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I blame it on the Junior Varsity of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Go ahead Bronco, tell me I’m wrong.


27 posted on 06/12/2016 4:52:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Paladin2

I see what you did there and am totally behind it.


28 posted on 06/12/2016 4:52:35 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaaass.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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29 posted on 06/12/2016 4:53:19 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>get back to a place where we can understand the common good

There can never be common good with islam in the picture.


30 posted on 06/12/2016 4:56:20 PM PDT by soycd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; NautiNurse; StarFan; Black Agnes; rodguy911; miss marmelstein
I was at a big family picnic today and -- sure enough -- several Kool-Aid drinking Hillary-loving family members blamed this "mass shooting" on easy access to weapons "only the military should have access to", and said this event was the same as the Newtown shootings. Of course Islam had nothing to do with it.

One atheist uber-lib family member compared ISIS ideology to Christianity... "ISIS got their crazy ideology from The Book of Revelations, you know".

I'm not making this up... ;-D

31 posted on 06/12/2016 4:57:13 PM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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To: Eddie01
"This is the moment America awakes or it doesn’t.

If 9-11-2001 didn't wake America up nothing will.

32 posted on 06/12/2016 4:57:16 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All Americans are targets. It’s time for the ultimate preemptive strike. E Pluribus Uranium. The middle east chooses to receive. ;-)


33 posted on 06/12/2016 4:58:00 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell the opportunistic gun grabbers that we need TERRORIST CONTROL!

Their attempts at gun control only ensure defenseless victims, and more opportunities for terror.


34 posted on 06/12/2016 5:00:32 PM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: Flag_This

I agree completely.


35 posted on 06/12/2016 5:00:38 PM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So they basically blame it on the 1st and 2nd Amendment.


36 posted on 06/12/2016 5:01:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Paladin2

True fact.

At times like this I’m glad for early prepping.


37 posted on 06/12/2016 5:02:13 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Mustangman

“Radical Islam is intolerant of women, gays, . .. “

Remove radical.


38 posted on 06/12/2016 5:03:08 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“But strong leadership, Kelly, is not about fear mongering and exploiting racial anxieties, and bigotry,” snapped The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Let me guess--is she complicit in the effort to create the narrative that Donald Trump will start WWIII when elected, even though she cannot point to a single factor about Donald Trump which would lead one to a reasoned conclusion that he is set on starting WWIII? And now she's complaining about fear-mongering and bigotry?

If you want to know what a liberal is plotting, listen very carefully to what he or she accuses conservatives of planning or doing. Because that's when liberals tell you exactly what they are up to.

39 posted on 06/12/2016 5:05:51 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They can try to blame everything under the sun except radical Islam for this and it won’t succeed. People see through it more and more.

It is why Trump will win. The left has gone too far - even for some of their historical constituencies.


40 posted on 06/12/2016 5:06:11 PM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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