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How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism?
Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2014 | BY PAUL WALDMAN

Posted on 06/09/2014 4:21:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Yesterday, a man and a woman shot two police officers in a Las Vegas restaurant after saying, “this is a revolution.” Then they draped their bodies in a Gadsden flag. According to reports now coming in, the couple (who later killed themselves) appear to have been white supremacists and told neighbors they had gone to join the protests in support of anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy. It was one more incident of right-wing terrorism that, while not exactly an epidemic, has become enough of a trend to raise some troubling questions.

What I’m about to say will raise some hackles, but we need to talk about it. It’s long past time for prominent conservatives and Republicans to do some introspection and ask whether they’re contributing to outbreaks of right-wing violence. --snip--

And I promise you, these murders in Nevada will not be the last. It may be going too far to say that conservative politicians and media figures whose rhetoric has fed the deranged fantasies of terrorists and killers have blood on their hands. But they shouldn’t have a clear conscience, either.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; freespeech; journalism; journalists; liberals; media; mediabias; waldmangay
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The author is a Media Matters senior fellow.
1 posted on 06/09/2014 4:21:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These question never, ever get asked about left wingers who commit acts of violence. Never.

2 posted on 06/09/2014 4:23:01 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

typical of the Soros Media


3 posted on 06/09/2014 4:23:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Simply two words is all he’s worth...
F$c@ off.


4 posted on 06/09/2014 4:24:31 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bull$h!t. This is just a justification for criminalizing the speech of normal people. (They call normal people “right wingers”)


5 posted on 06/09/2014 4:24:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Genoa

Yep


6 posted on 06/09/2014 4:24:53 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet the MSM are excited about the possibility that they have a confirmed death from someone in the NRA, Tea Party, or just a registered Republican.


7 posted on 06/09/2014 4:25:08 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

White supremacism has nothing in common with conservatism. Not a damn thing.


8 posted on 06/09/2014 4:25:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The projection by these people is amazing.


9 posted on 06/09/2014 4:25:46 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What does Bundy have to do with right wing?

There weren’t any swastikas carried at his ranch.


10 posted on 06/09/2014 4:25:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Outbreak?”

These yahoos were NOT right-leaning at all. They were Nazi-wannabees (German Socialist party).

I don’t think you can point to a single “right wing” violence episode in the last... well, forever (mcveigh was a ultra-lefty).


11 posted on 06/09/2014 4:26:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And why is it OK now to use the word "terrorism"?

12 posted on 06/09/2014 4:26:29 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has anyone ever done a study about who commits more violent crimes, Republicans or Democrats?


13 posted on 06/09/2014 4:26:42 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They were socialist meth users.


14 posted on 06/09/2014 4:27:02 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the government is lawless the citizens have no incentive to respect the law. In fact, following the law while the government flouts it may put the citizens at risk. So, as long as we have a lawless, outright criminal government, we can expect more of this, unfortunately, just as Mullah Baraq planned....


15 posted on 06/09/2014 4:27:16 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Can Juan Williams possibly be that stupid?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nazis are socialists.

KKK are Democrats on steroids. The KKK was born as the militant arm of the Democrat party.

Simply facts. Inconvenient facts for this moron “journalist”.


16 posted on 06/09/2014 4:27:53 PM PDT by DB
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

A simple prison census would probably answer that one rather quickly.


17 posted on 06/09/2014 4:28:11 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Can Juan Williams possibly be that stupid?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was General Sheridan a right winger?

I think he was quoted “The only good queer is dead queer”

Of course that would be not PC today and he probably would have caught hell for saying it. The thought police would have been all over him


18 posted on 06/09/2014 4:28:32 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Genoa
These question never, ever get asked about left wingers who commit acts of violence. Never.

They usually just blame it on right wingers any way. Just like when international terrorists attack America/Americans....they blame America.

19 posted on 06/09/2014 4:28:33 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

If they did it would never get published - and we know why.


20 posted on 06/09/2014 4:28:36 PM PDT by DB
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