Posted on 06/26/2017 4:57:41 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Civility: For a brief moment after Rep. Steve Scalise was nearly killed by a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter, some prominent liberals uttered a few words about "toning down the rhetoric." If that pledge was sincere at all, it barely lasted a week.
Actor Johnny Depp took the prize last week, when at a film festival in England he asked, "Can we bring Trump here," and followed that by asking "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?" The audience roared with cheers and laughter.
Depp later "apologized," saying it was a "bad joke" that "did not come out as intended."
But Depp was hardly the only one to go back to using extreme, violent, incendiary rhetoric to talk about Republicans.
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Maybe people should start joking about killing actors, and publishing details about where they live and what security they have.
After all, its all in good humor.
Yes, good clean fun.
The reaction we saw was just the political class freaking out at someone shooting them. If it had been just a group of ordinary Trump supporters who had been shot it would have been a one day story.
I am still waiting for Shakespeare where Othello gets killed.
Will Mooch play Desdemona? Seems like that would be a mis-cast.
It was pretty much a one-day story anyway.
The MSM ran away from it as quickly as they could.
So did Depp - after a quick visit from the boys in black...
Or publish details about the people who write for the New York Times and Washington Post.... Maybe then the MSM would take these threats seriously.
Or publish details about the people who write for the New York Times and Washington Post.... Maybe then the MSM would take these threats seriously.
My sister is a close friend of a Congressman who is a good friend of Scaliese and she told her he is in much worse shape than is being reported and will probably not return to the House.
That is very sad to hear.
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