Left-Wing Writer Describes Scalise Shooting as ‘Self-Defense’

Lifezette ^ | 14 Jun 2017 | Jim Stinson

[nickcarraway]

Liberal writer tweets hoping wounded lawmaker dies, says 'respect for human life' doesn't apply to GOP by at 1:34 PM A left-wing writer is making no apologies after suggesting on Twitter that the Wednesday morning shooting of a Republican congressman and staffers may have been tantamount to an act of “self-defense.”

Malcolm Harris, who has a book contract with Little, Brown of New York, made tasteless tweets Wednesday morning following the shooting of at least four people in Alexandria, Virginia, including Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.).

Harris suggested the shooting of conservative Republicans could be justified.

"If the shooter has a serious health condition then is taking potshots at the GOP house leadership considered self defense?" Harris tweeted.

Harris' biography suggested at one point he writes for the liberal news site Vox. He doesn't.

But he does have a book contract with Little, Brown of New York. The book is titled, "Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennial." Little, Brown did not immediately return a message from LifeZette.

His author biography on Amazon lists him as a "freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry." His book is scheduled to hit shelves in November.

His work has also appeared in the Village Voice and The New York Times Magazine. Harris has contributed to The Washington Post and the New Republic as well. He lives in Philadelphia.

But even Harris has some sense of shame. His most incendiary tweet was deleted.

About Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, Harris tweeted, "Hearing 'David Duke without the baggage' Steve Scalise is stable, but a lot of Americans dies from hospital errors so keep crossing your fing [sic]."

Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, told LifeZette that Twitter often brings out the worst in people.

"I think people need to be more responsible for the things they say," said Gainor. "Twitter encourages people to walk right up to the edge of the cliff."

Harris did not immediately return an emailed message from LifeZette.

In a Friday op-ed for The Post, Harris lauded the alleged leaking committed by NSA contractor Reality Winner, 25, of Georgia.

Winner was arrested for leaking secrets of her employer, the National Security Agency.

"We hardly invented leaking, but millennials are especially well-suited to the tactic," Harris wrote. "It's a squirt gun we can use on our leaders when they've stepped out of line. I don't imagine that employers — public or private — are going to start inspiring loyalty or stop abusing power anytime soon, so expect the leaks to keep flowing. At least until millennials find a bigger weapon."

[M Kehoe]

Thanks Malcolm for outings yourself.

Another one added to the shtf List.

5.56mm

[John Milner]

Someone needs to reply to the effect. “If I shoot you because hearing your opinions drives me crazy, do I get off by pleading insanity?”

[sten]

If anyone gets in range of Malcolm Harris... just shiv the bastard.

[LucyT]

Article and # 13 .

Why would Comey "friend someone near the park recently?"

Is this true?

Aren't people who "friend" people in parks ... ?

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[hoosiermama]

President is at the hospital visiting Steve Scalice

[bgill]

I didn’t read it as Comey friended someone but that the shooter did. Could have been the ex-mayor since the Y was nearby.

[LucyT]

Thanks for that.

I stand corrected.

[Art in Idaho]

Thanks for the list of links. I’ve felt for a long time that liberalism is a form of a thought disorder.

[Viking2002]

I want a copy of that SHTF List, if you're keeping one. It got too overwhelming for me to keep my own. Too many maggots, and too little time.

[trebb]

I wonder if he realizes his argument also means that, since we on the Right, have proof that those on the Left think it’s OK to kill us because they don’t like our politics, then it would be self-defense for us to go out and start picking them off too.