Posted on 02/14/2010 4:33:18 PM PST by kristinn
Edited on 02/14/2010 6:19:16 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of Barack Obama.
CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Barack Obama to use violent gangland tactics against his political opponents.
CNN published a column by Roland Martin on February 11 with the headline, Time for Obama to go 'gangsta' on GOP.
Martin concluded the article with a plea for Obama to emulate the violent tactics of the Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss Al Capone.
Obama's critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let 'em know that if they aren't with you, they are against you, and will pay the price.
The Huffington Post followed-up with their own call for gangland violence against Republicans with the publication on February 14 of a column by David Bourgeois with the title, Obama Better Start Breaking Kneecaps.
Bourgeois concludes his article with this call for gangland violence.
You've given it your best shot, you've tried numerous times to talk with the Republicans, to negotiate, to meet them halfway on every single matter before the American people. But they hate you for many reasons. It's time you break kneecaps (bold in original). It's time to destroy the Republican Party. They don't deserve a seat at the table when all they want to do is score political points by being the Party of No.
In case the message wasn't clear, Huffington Post illustrated the call to violence with a wooden baseball bat with Obama's first name on it in large letters.
Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington recently excoriated Fox News chief Roger Ailes for allegedly provocative rhetoric by Fox host Glenn Beck.
HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it's not a question of picking a fight. And aren't you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree...
SNIP
It's not about the word police. It's about something deeper. It's about the fact that there is a tradition as the historian Richard Hofstetter said, in American politics, of the paranoid style. And the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there.
Ailes defended Beck, saying he was accurately talking about the governments of Hitler and Stalin.
Violent rhetoric such as that espoused by CNN and the Huffington Post is usually found in the bowels of Internet discussion forums, not as sanctioned op-ed headlines on news sites with White House press passes.
CNN and Huffington Post would be well-advised to retract the calls to violence and issue apologies to Republicans before Obama supporters are incited by their violent rhetoric and start going gangsta and break kneecaps of Republicans.
If they won't do that of their own volition, then White House press secretary Robert Gibbs should shame them into doing so. Surely the Obama administration does not countenance violence against their domestic political opponents.
LOL! Always good to name your weapons.
They really need something like this. The BS and propaganda isn’t working; peolpe aren’t buying what they’re selling.
They will not willingly relinquish the power they have, and and they’re too close to the kind of mass-murdering, concnetration-camp power they really want to give up now.
Trouble is, they - that is, the Left and all the forces gathered behind the ideas and memes of the Left - don’t really understand who we are and what we’re willing to do in order to regain our freedom. They have no real conception of the anger and resentment that’s been building for decades towards them and their very bad ideas.
They’ll start it, we’ll finish it.
Without mercy. Without remorse. Without regret.
The only proper use of the words 'fair' and 'fight in the same sentece goes something like this: "There was a fight at the fair."
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Ever watch Pulp Fiction? The name of my .45 is the same as the wallet for Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction. BMF!
I have nothing in common with libs/progs and would really like to live in a place without them. I tire of the threats from the parasites and hope only that a separation can occur.
You’d think they would at least use a metal bat...
Is that a brand you recommend? I have pondered just such a hunting toy.
And some people were skeered of challenging his citizenship because they were told cities would burn and natives would get restless. If the cities are destined to burn and the herd is to be culled, then so be it.
Dont let the fear tactics quell Le Resistance.
Berry wouldn’t know gangsta if came up and poked him in the ass. He and his gang are cardboard gangsters. Rolling around under the sheets with other men doesn’t count as fighting.
LOL! Stupid fracks.
Never bring a baseball bat to a 2nd Amendment fight.
Mini 14, 4 twelve gauges (OU, 2 semi-autos, a pump), numerous 45’s, one 9mm, one 380, 3 357s. Probably a couple I forgot. Oh, yeah, one SKS. Wifey and I are ready.
Boy, those liberals are so tolerant and supportive of diversity, NOT!!!!
OK so if any conservative is attacked we just say the attacker said CNN and HuffingtonPost told them to do it then we can sue their collective @$$e$ off and bankrupt them.
I see the links provided have already been disabled.Covering their tracks,perhaps?
You know, I think it’s pathetic that they basically own 2 branches of the federal government, they can’t get their socialist agenda through, and so they go hypocrite on violence, even if it’s in a “figurative” sense (so they’re cowards too).
How did 0 get elected again? How many stupid people are there in this country?
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