Posted on 06/21/2017 7:36:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
America was stunned when Jared Lee Loughner pulled out a gun in a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket parking lot in 2011 and shot then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head at point-blank range and killed six others. No one recalls a TV pundit wondering whether the people should root for Giffords to survive -- or anyone with the gall to imply her head wound was "self-inflicted."
That was not the case with the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four others last week. Outgoing "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed, "It's time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress yesterday was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree, self-inflicted." Wrong. It was time for Pelley to evacuate the anchor chair.
On Saturday morning, MSNBC "AM Joy" host Joy Reid brought on leftist Rev. Dr. William Barber so he could preach his usual sermon about villainous Republicans who "crucify voting rights" and enact other legislative evils. The MSNBC screen promised a "Moral Moment."
Reid set up the reverend by saying, "it's a delicate thing because, you know, obviously everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers." She didn't stop there.
She continued: "But Steve Scalise has a history that we've all been forced to sort of ignore on race. He did come to leadership after some controversy over attending a white nationalist event, which he says he didn't know what it was. He also co-sponsored a bill to amend the Constitution to define marriage between a man and a woman. He voted for the House health care bill, which, as you said, would gut health care for millions of people, including three million children. And he co-sponsored a bill to repeal the ban on semiautomatic weapons. ... Are we required in a moral sense to put that aside at the moment?"
This shameless program was supported by the following advertisers over the weekend: AT&T, Duluth Trading Co., Ensure, Purina, Crest, Gas-X, Infiniti and ZipRecruiter.
The Twitter account for Reid's "AM Joy" show seconded her emotion, saying, "Rep. #Scalise was shot by a white man with a violent background, and saved by a black lesbian police officer, and yet..." A graphic listed his votes for the House health care bill, a marriage amendment to the Constitution and a repeal of the liberal gun control law.
Common decency means we all hope and pray for the recovery of a public servant, as in the Giffords shooting. It's not the time to quibble about their same-sex marriage voting score. Greg Gutfeld on Fox said it best: "Let me ask you this. A woman is raped. Do you feel compelled afterward to dredge up her stance on abortion or global warming?"
NBC and MSNBC weren't going to address Reid's immoral moment. They had the audacity to skip over that and applied their outrage instead to a Republican PAC that made a disreputable ad for the Georgia special election. It refers to the shooting and alleges that the "unhinged left" applauded the shooting, and that the violence won't stop "if Jon Ossoff wins." Everyone can denounce that -- and they did -- as the other networks put the ad flap into heavy rotation leading up to the election.
But Joy Reid's uncivil rudeness -- do we have to root for Scalise to survive? -- went unaddressed. All the networks that aired this ad, deplored it and declared it "beyond offensive" were the same networks that shamelessly publicized the false liberal claim that former Gov. Sarah Palin was somehow responsible for Gabby Giffords getting shot. Civility is never a two-way street for the left.
The other shooting victims of that day have been forgotten as have the politics of the shooter. It became a Stalinist meme to attack Sarah Palin.
Lies by omission are lies.
They are so despicable they don’t even know how despicable they are..........
....It was time for Pelley to evacuate the anchor chair...
He did. Friday night was his last in the anchor of the
CBS Evening Bruise.
Joy has no class or sense of human decency. Whether it was her parents failure or her indoctrination in the education system. You can’t shame anyone who has no shame. She may be a hypocrite in multiple areas of her life but pointing this out to someone who is amoral is an act of futility. She is an ugly piece of work far more on the inside than out.
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First I live in Georgia and I live in the 6th congressional district and I voted for Karen Handel and while the ad that ran opposing Ossoff was a bit over the top, it is probably true in its prediction that the violence against conservatives and republicans will continue - the part that was incorrect was the fact that whether he won or not the violence would continue. A question, why is violence only considered or defined as a physical form? Conservatives have been the target of democrat violence my entire adult life and that dates to the late 60’s, both physical and psychological and it has continued today, even after Ossoff lost (check out ANTIFA as an example).
Its time for the right to stand up and say NO MORE - yet our leaders remain patsy’s to their dem foes. I say no more! My late Uncle gave me some great advice when I was about 14-15, he said “If you are going to have to take part in a fight, where someone is or has challenged you and there is no foreseeable way out, don’t stand around and wait to get hit with the first punch, you take the first punch” Our republican leaders wait to get hit before they respond and then they respond with mock outrage, run home to mommy and say that bully hit me. Take the first punch for a change and stop apologizing for an ad that speaks volumes about the democratic party.
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thank’s for the info on who was sponsoring the Joyless Reid show. I have made remarks on the companies homepage comments section
Without the odious MSNBC Joy Reid would have to content herself spitting in the French fries of the white customers at some fast food joint.
Joy is a hatemonger. MSNBC pays her to spew hate.
I just don’t see how they can keep her on. Has she paid her huge back tax bill yet?
***Take the first punch for a change and stop apologizing.***
Our elected Republican representatives would do well to understand that this is part of the reason Trump was voted for. He doesn’t take the cr-p that the Uniparty throws his way. He often times takes the first punch, and he doesn’t apologize.
So did Robert Byrd.
You’re exactly right. Those with no shame can’t be shamed. The academic and media tyrants are making sure that they indoctrinate people to not have shame, except for having incorrect political views. No shame for evil actions, unless they’re based upon “incorrect political views”.
He had the “correct politics” at the right time-ie, no conscience, just political expediency. So his past gets erased.
Wake your ass up
Nothing is over the top now
Jesus
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She is the gift that keeps on giving to the fortunes of the GOP. Please do not remove her. Expand her show please.
Moderate and Conservative democrats are fleeing the sinking ship. Quiet, don’t tell the propaganda organs in DC and NY....we need her around for 2018 and beyond.
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