Screw you, Fredo. I'm not posturing as anything.
I tried to look up other articles that might have a picture, and that Freeper thread came up in the search. So I started reading it, hoping I'd read people sticking up for Franken. It was just interesting as hell that it went the other way. Don't you think so?
The point is that Al Franken, a nationally known Democrat politician, was celebrated by the ruling elites for bodily attacking a heckler that had not physically threatened or attacked anyone. While those same ruling-elites condemn Trump for advocating physical responses to the threats and physical attacks of hecklers - while never bodily attacking anyone himself.
You're right - it says that the media and "ruling elites" have an unfair and biased double standard. Unfortunately, the two threads on FR suggest the exact same about us.
If you don't want to see the irony, fine. But it's obvious. I wish it wasn't there, and I wish that 2004 thread had read differently. But...that just ain't the case.
2) Next, you would have to back up your charges by making the case that the actions of Trump today and Frankel in 2004 are comparable. Since Frankel bodily attacked a heckler that had not physically threatened or attacked anyone and Trump only advocated physical responses to the threats & physical attacks of hecklers - while never bodily attacking anyone himself - you will only fail on that count.
3) Even if the above facts were not the facts (supposing you did not fail on point 1 & 2) you would still fail to discredit the fundamental point of the thread: That Trump is a victim of a ruling-elite double-standard that gave Frankel a complete pass on his actions in 2004 and widely and loudly condemned Trump for his actions today. And that is true whatever a FReeper believes the correct standard for handling hecklers and violent/threatening protesters at campaign rallies should be - and whatever your opinion of Trump is.