Salon's Amanda Marcotte already blames the shooting on conservatives (vanity)

6/14/17

[Faith Presses On]

I decided to see what Salon might have say about today's shooting, and sure enough, they were quickly out with outrageous lies in order to create an alternative narrative. By 2:55 p.m. Amanda Marcotte had posted the Democratic attack points which wholly blamed the right. In my opinion, it's well worth the time reading. I just would have posted excerpts, but apparently Salon is now banned here. I'll mention a few of the things she says, but there's even more in the article. It sounds like she got this straight from DNC headquarters.

The apparent main point of writing the article is to smear conservatives as violent, hateful and evil - and wanting to stifle liberal dissent - while secondarily calling for more gun control. While out of necessity Marcotte mentions that the shooter was a staunch Sanders supporter who hated Trump, it can't be more clear who the "good" and "evil" guys are to Marcotte.

...(G)un industry profits and culture-war politics have turned guns into fetish objects and have made reasonable gun-safety policies nearly impossible to enact.

Marcotte also casts the shooter as merely a madman:

No one is spared, not even those who have done so much to make it easy for any madman with a vendetta to get the weaponry he needs...

Here's her attempt at explaining how a liberal, Democrat and Sanders supporter could commit such an act:

The left-wing views of the alleged shooter might be surprising to some, but they shouldn’t be. The gun industry and the National Rifle Association market guns with promises that owning guns will make a customer feel manly and powerful, and that fantasy has a power that can transcend political boundaries...

Then Marcotte makes even more outrageous remarks, claiming there are "right-wing street gangs forming," while mentioning nothing about Antifa:

Already there are right-wing street gangs forming, eagerly looking for an excuse to lash out against anyone they perceive as being on the left.

She also invokes the stabbing murders committed by Jeremy Christian, who was also a passionate supporter of Sanders, and repeats the media's and left's lies about the case:

Already two men have been killed, and a third was badly injured by an unhinged reactionary and white supremacist who claims he was acting in self-defense because the three men tried to interfere with his verbal assault on two women of color.

Marcotte even casts the left as the freedom protectors and the right as wolves:

There is every reason to believe that the baying alt-right wolves cannot wait to use this shooting as an excuse to escalate their efforts at using violence to quell liberal dissent.

Amazingly, after repeating the lies that ignore the iron-clad evidence in the Portland stabbing case, Marcotte claims that it's the right that rejects "rational evidence":

Fears of emasculation, racist anxieties about crime, power fantasies about silencing dissent through threats of violence, and a widespread loathing for liberals and their insistence on rational evidence — all these things sell guns.

While President Trump called for unity and in so many words said that those who come to D.C. do so for the love of their country, and Republicans are saying as Ryan did that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," the left is already trying to use this incident against the right.

[arthurus]

If there were no conservatives no one would shoot them. QED.

[Sarah Barracuda]

In these Commie libs minds, if all Conservatives were aborted it would make their lives so much easier..they wish us ALL dead and they wont stop til its done..its the main reason why they want “Gun Control” for US to be unarmed while they stay armed and kill us

[sergeantdave]

“Salon’s Amanda Marcotte already blames the shooting on conservatives”

Who cares? She’s another farting, nut-eating squirrel.

[farming pharmer]

Salon is banned here secondary to being unadulterated garbage and a waste of bandwidth.

If the source is Salon, I don't even bother. I think I've got a lot of company.

[Drango]

Salon still publishing?

Well, all 5 of their readers agree.

[Thank You Rush]

Good grief - that person had to stand on her head to write such drivel and be able to turn it around in such a manner. It’s not even projection on her part. It’s totally upside down to reality...

[Carl Vehse]

"Republicans are saying as Ryan did that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,"

BS on Ryan's comment, The incentive and calls for violence against Trump and Republicans has been promoted by leftist politiicans and the fifth-column media. The NY play showing the portrayal of the President of the United States being assassinated was a further signal. The play's director had been planning this since the November election.

The left is pulling out all the stops. If they can't impeach Trump they will encourage psychopaths to kill him and or any other Republicans. They are willing to disrupt the system and turn the country into a police state.

If not legal responsible, the Demonicrats are morally responsible for the attempted assassination of Steve Scalise.

[M Kehoe]

I need to add her to the shtf List.

5.56mm

[facedown]

Standard agitprop.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. Same stuff happened in 1963 and 1968. 1968 was a bad year for gun owners. LIFE, LOOK Saturday Evening Post, TIME and the others vented their spleens on gun control. Even MAD Magazine got in their licks against gun owners.

TV plots became so anti-gun you just read a synopsis in the newspaper and missed the shows.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Within hours of the shooting, the liberals were trying to say he was a Republican.

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[Seruzawa]

The feedback is typically insane and vile at the Salon.

[DuncanWaring]

Remember, the author once was the Official Blogger of the Silky Pony presidential campaign, before she got to be too unhinged even for him and was cast adrift.

[M Kehoe]

“Silky Pony “

Would that be the adulterer John Edwards?

Did he ever marry the harlot?

5.56mm

[Faith Presses On]

Even GOP politicians get behind many Dem talking points, and she helps write them.

[Faith Presses On]

Even GOP politicians get behind many Dem talking points, and she helps write them.

[Faith Presses On]

Like I just mentioned to someone else, even GOP politicians often agree with Dem talking points which people like her create.

[Faith Presses On]

They get big corporate sponsorship. Meanwhile Breitbart gets blacklisted and the left even wants the same done to Fox.