Posted on 06/19/2017 12:45:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, compare and contrast this. The media’s glee at reporting every detail about this London attack to their reluctance to talk about the terrorist who shot up Steve Scalise and the two Capitol Hill police and others. Have you seen any headlines in the Drive-By Media about how the perp, Hodgkinson, was carrying a list of six conservative Republicans in his pocket when he launched his terror attack?
All of the people on his list are members of the congressional House Freedom Caucus. These are the Tea Party members. And the six other names that he wanted to target are on that list. They are all conservative Tea Party members in the House of Representatives. The AP, Associated Press, did do a tiny story on it but their article omits any mention that the list was of Republicans, let alone conservatives.
Now, on Friday I had something in the Stack here that I didn’t get to, and it was a point that I was gonna make. Since this happened, you know, you have a bunch of different people opining. And there are many people who have sprung up in an attempt to be bipartisan and say, “Bernie Sanders is not responsible for this. Don’t go there. We can’t say that Bernie Sanders is responsible. Bernie Sanders didn’t pull the trigger.” I understand that. But, folks, my point with this is not that Bernie Sanders is responsible in the sense that he pulled the trigger.
But if you read what this guy has posted on Facebook, if you read his letters to the editor, Hodgkinson, if you listen to sound bites, this guy’s rhetoric, the things that he says are amazingly parallel to what Bernie Sanders has said during his campaign and since. My point is that this guy, Hodgkinson and probably countless others, they are not creating this rhetoric themselves. They’re copycats. They’re copying what they’re hearing and seeing in the media and from their elected candidates.
So the argument is out, “We can’t say that the words of others inspire action. We don’t want to go there.” Of course not, ’cause that would then make Hollywood really in a precarious circumstance. But my point is that we pull up short of the guy pulling the trigger. It can’t be denied that Democrat rhetoric is in fact creating mentally unstable people out there on their side. These are true believers, and they’re subject to it, they soak it up. They seek it out wherever they can find it. When they end up speaking publicly, they regurgitate whatever they’ve heard from their favorite comedians or their favorite politicians or their favorite media pundits.
It’s amazing how close it is. It’s almost like plagiarism. So it’s undeniable that there is impact. When the effort to enrage people and make them upset — by the way, I said last week, the New York Times raked me over the coals in the Sunday magazine for this. But you can find tweets from Democrats, elected Democrats, who reference exactly the kind of thing that Hodgkinson did. You can find elected Democrats who have tweeted out, “Republicans should be lined up and shot.” No less than Tim Kaine has said something like that.
I don’t care what they want to try to pin on, for example, Sarah Palin, that never happened. If that happens on the right, if somebody on the right had ever said somebody needs to be stood up and shot, can you imagine what the left would do with this? Can you imagine this? If somebody from some conservative organization were caught running around town with a list of names after having shot a Democrat member of Congress, had a list of names of other Democrats, can you imagine?
That news wouldn’t be buried underneath some terror attack in London. It would be all that we are hearing about. I have to laugh when I listen to these leftists try to blame Newt Gingrich for this. Mark Shields on The NewsHour on Friday afternoon, that session he does with David Brooks, blaming this on Newt Gingrich, blaming this atmosphere on Newt Gingrich, as though the incivility only began when the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
So the bottom line, it is clear that we have a divide, a major divide in America that does not seem surmountable. It does not seem reparable. It does not seem like it is possible or even likely to find any common ground, when many Americans think that their number one enemy is the other political party, which is a fact on the left. Scary times.
And this impeachment talk and all of this investigation of Trump, it’s all part of that mix. I understand the administration’s afraid to use the word. They don’t go to out and start talking impeachment, even blowing it away and nuking it, defending it, because then you get the word out there. But I don’t think they need to be afraid of it. There’s nothing that Trump has done or even dreamed of doing that’s impeachable. All of this is manufactured. And it needs to be beaten back. But the Republicans so far seem to be standing by idly.
Good article.
He is, after all, "America's truth detector".
Some of the gay guys I used to work with in graphics had more b@lls than the republicans in congress.
I’ve never seen truer faggots.
Maybe 25 percent of the gay dudes voted R. OBVIOUSLY not conservatives because of their lifestyle, but even they’re screaming for congress to show some guts.
How embarrassing.
It is going to get much worse.
Two Americas...decent people on one side and lowlife scumbag vile Democrats on the other.
Two Americas...decent people on one side and lowlife scumbag vile Democrats on the other.
Trump needs to follow through on immigration and trade. The working class will be solidly Republican.
I believe the chasm is spiritual. Not all Republicans/conservatives are believers in God (the true God of the Bible), but surveys show a majority are. The Left, on the other hand, is mostly Godless. When you have no absolutes, anything goes. Need proof? Look at the movies from Hollywood, the music from the Left, listen to their foul language, watch their violent actions, etc. Again, this is not to say some conservatives don’t act this way, but you’ll find most of this Godless behavior on the Left.
It really did, though, Rush. Up until that time, in 1994, the Dems had been in control of the House and, most of the time, the Senate as well, so there was no 'need' for violence or such. They were 'civil' only as long as they held the power stick in their hands. Once they got it taken away they threw fits, tantrums and outright lost their collectivist minds...............
I am reminded of a scene in the movie, “Dr Zhivago”. The leader of a band of Bolsheviks is telling the troops that in addition to bravery in battle. That everyone will be judged politically. Democrat Party of 2017 is like the. Bolsheviks of 1917. Honesty is less important as how you are judged politically. Most of the Senators and Congressmen who are claiming to be Republicans are just useful idiots for the Democrats, and collaborators in trying to usurp the will of the people last November.
Yes he is indeed.
There is now an opportunity to split the country without reverting to violence and warfare. I just cannot imagine who could lead such a movement. the Uniparty politicians who are in there now would certainly get no benefit.
I know a few Gays that feel the same way.
I just had a interesting talk with the Beer sales man stocking shelves at Market Basket, a kid a few years younger than my son.
If kids like him are talking conservative points I thing we have some hope. My son says that this type of conversation is very present among his pals skilled trades types, there is hope.
Not true, Rush. Impeachment is a political act. The Congress itself decides what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors." No Court can gainsay the Congress if it impeaches and removes. Congress needs an excuse for political reasons only. Were there a Democrat majority the process would have begun formally in February. The Republicans want just as much to do it but are a bit squeamish as they are nominally of the same party as the President they want to kill impeach. They need some shadow of a highcrimesormisdemeanors they can wave for the voters. That is why this "Obstruction of Justice" is dangerous. It can be construed, for the purpose of impeachment, as irritation at the process expressed to Melania on a NSA captured cell phone conversation..
Blue collar workers are what pulled us over the finish line this time around.
They’re sick of getting screwed over and over.
The Dem Left abandoned Reason, Leadership, Civility 40 years ago when they began calling ANYONE who disagreed with them some form of evil, ie rascist, bigot, homophobe etc. They made the coming war inevitable. They abandoned persuasion for a bullying tactic that has actually worked very well...until now when it will fail utterly.
THAT would suck. :)
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