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Scalise: Ocasio-Cortez 'shouldn't condone' supporters who bring up 2017 shooting
The Hill ^ | 01/08/19 | Emily Birnbaum

Posted on 01/08/2019 6:49:40 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Monday night said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) "shouldn't condone" her supporters who brought up the 2017 shooting that seriously injured the minority whip in order to berate him online.

"She oughta own up and just say, 'Look this isn’t something that I condone,'" Scalise said on Fox News's "Hannity."

"She doesn’t … own this herself directly, but she shouldn’t condone it either."

Scalise and Ocasio-Cortez briefly sparred on Twitter over the weekend over the freshman New York lawmaker's call for a 70 percent tax rate on Americans making more than $10 million. Scalise ended the conversation with screenshots of messages from some of Ocasio-Cortez's followers, who called to "snipe his ass" and "kick his cane."

"Hi @AOC," Scalise wrote on Sunday. "Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical followers. #StayClassy"

Scalise was shot and severely injured during a practice for the charity Congressional Baseball Game in 2017. He required a cane to get around as he recovered.

"We shouldn’t tolerate either side, our friends or our enemies in a political debate, to encourage or incite violence against another person," Scalise told Hannity on Monday.

"I’m not offended by words like so many others feign to be, but when it talks about violence, it gets to a line that I think we have a responsibility to call out," Hannity said.

"The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to say 'fire' in a movie theater," Scalise said. "When you incite violence against someone else, that’s not the way we act in this country. If you wanna debate the merits, then go ahead."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; beingmorallyright; morallyright; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; scalise; stevescalise
Liberals mocking the victim.

Cortez still hasn't issued an apology or asked her base of radicals to be more respectful.

1 posted on 01/08/2019 6:49:40 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Why doesn’t she say: “That’s not who we are!” (She doesn’t because... that is who they are!)


2 posted on 01/08/2019 6:51:25 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not only “shouldn’t condone,” which she is in fact doing by saying nothing, she should condemn them.


3 posted on 01/08/2019 6:55:17 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: yesthatjallen

It amazes me these Democrat House freshmen (sorry bout the men in that word) are strolling into DC with all the answers that have eluded Congress before. Reminds me of the millennials that think they are the greatest generation. What have you accomplished? Oh, we’ve have gone to college.


4 posted on 01/08/2019 6:55:18 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: yesthatjallen

Imagine the totally different reaction in the Media if a lone gunman attacked the Democratic Party’s baseball team at practice. Then try to imagine someone, anyone criticizing one of the survivors for anything they may say.


5 posted on 01/08/2019 7:11:39 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Exactly.


6 posted on 01/08/2019 7:13:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Cortez still hasn’t issued an apology or asked her base of radicals to be more respectful. “

That’s only because she’s stupid AND nuts.

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7 posted on 01/08/2019 7:17:24 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: antidemoncrat
It amazes me Republican congressmen when they are in the majority refuse to pass laws to allow themselves and the rest us us to carry and protect ourselves even after they have been shot.

Then it flabbergasts me the same idiot Republican congressmen engage in a conversation with a retard from the Bronx.

With Republicans the stupid runs deep.

8 posted on 01/08/2019 7:18:48 AM PST by Badboo (Why it is important)
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To: Badboo

The cesspool contains both R and D turds.


9 posted on 01/08/2019 7:22:43 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: yesthatjallen

Where is the word “disavow”? If AOC were a Republican, every propaganda media person would be asking her if she disavows the actions of her supporters.


10 posted on 01/08/2019 7:25:42 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: Fido969
"Not only “shouldn’t condone,” which she is in fact doing by saying nothing, she should condemn them."

I'm sure she'll be the first one out there demanding an apology when some Republican has a follower that makes inappropriate comments.
11 posted on 01/08/2019 7:27:11 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Badboo
"Then it flabbergasts me the same idiot Republican congressmen engage in a conversation with a retard from the Bronx."

I disagree. She has to be engaged and shown for the idiot she is. If not, she will gain more and more credibility as the stupid follow her and the media hold her in high regard. The Republican leaders have to do the job the media won't do.
12 posted on 01/08/2019 7:30:13 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: TLI
“Cortez still hasn’t issued an apology or asked her base of radicals to be more respectful. “

So this is what "being morally right" looks like ...

13 posted on 01/08/2019 7:33:57 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“...The Republican leaders ...”

Still waiting to SEE a “Republican leader” step up, actually... other than Trump.

Were I Scalise, I’d have said to AOC “One of YOUR lunatics shot at my colleagues and me... this is what YOUR party advocates.” Pin it squarely on them, where it belongs.

But he took the high road that the other side doesn’t deserve.


14 posted on 01/08/2019 8:18:35 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

You’re right about one thing, too many Republicans are concerned with looking honorable and taking the high road. He should have been more forceful on the pushback IMO.


15 posted on 01/08/2019 8:26:47 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

They would still huff and puff about needing to take the high road and not stoop to their level at the same time they were being herded into cattle cars to go to the Gulag.


16 posted on 01/08/2019 8:37:40 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

His response should have been the B*tch-slap Heard Round The World...


17 posted on 01/08/2019 8:48:50 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The real anger should be at the worthless GOP as a whole. They did build a wall but that wall was to stop MAGA and they did nothing of substance to win House races. The GOPers/#NeverTrumptards are the real “resistance”.


18 posted on 01/08/2019 9:10:52 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yesthatjallen

She doesn’t get face-time in the media by making nice nice.


19 posted on 01/08/2019 12:14:23 PM PST by Renkluaf
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