Posted on 05/18/2022 3:54:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of the horrible Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, liberal journalists lunged at the opportunity to blame the mass murder on conservative and Republican messengers.
On CNN, S.E. Cupp was especially egregious in accusing the right-wingers of "amplifying" a "white replacement theory," claiming the Democrats expected the influx of immigrants (largely illegal) would eventually lead to red states turning blue. Whites are not being replaced. Democrats just hope they're outnumbered.
Cupp lit into "far-right wing media" (this mostly means Fox) and how "it stirs up racial animus, ethnic animus, religious animus. That is the intended effect of turning neighbor against neighbor and getting people angry and afraid."
Los Angeles Times TV critic Lorraine Ali launched into Tucker Carlson, who "has been ratcheting up the political tension for ages, especially since Biden assumed office, in ways that dovetail dangerously with the Buffalo shooter ... In fact, whipping up fear of The Other, then pretending nothing happened, is Carlson's sweet spot."
These attacks seem completely blind to the notion that their own liberal media outlets stir up racial animus, ethnic animus and religious animus. They turn neighbor against neighbor. They thrive on getting people angry and afraid. They have ratcheted up the political tension for ages.
Ask Larry Elder about the Los Angeles Times. He mocked them in February for an editorial headlined "The Vitriol in Politics Is Driving Good People Out of Public Service." He noted this was the same newspaper that publishes leftist columnist Erika D. Smith, who attacked Elder's gubernatorial campaign with the headline "Larry Elder Is the Black Face of White Supremacy. You've Been Warned." A state senator quoted in that column said Elder would be part of "going back to Jim Crow."
I think calling someone "Jim Crow" or the "Black face of white supremacy" is ... "whipping up fear of The Other."
Ali herself has raged against the "mainstream media" for not being divisive enough against Fox News and other conservative media. They "showed up to this poison-tipped knife fight with plastic sporks."
As for CNN, no one should claim with a straight face that their business model isn't keeping people angry and afraid. Christiane Amanpour recently interviewed ex-evangelical Frank Schaeffer, who compared the GOP to 1930s European fascists and current Islamic dictatorships: "What these people want is a Christian white nationalist version of what you have in Iran today and Saudi Arabia." Amanpour then hailed him as "hugely instructive."
It's still funny to recall a 2019 podcast where Ezra Klein attempted to nudge CNN's Brian Stelter into admitting that all cable news channels stoke anger in their viewers, and Stelter went into denial. That was just a Fox thing: "The idea we're going to make our viewers p---ed -- that is a Roger Ailes business model that was established 20 years ago. Nobody at CNN or MSNBC was thinking about that the way he was."
As for Cupp, it was about one year ago that she went on "Real Time with Bill Maher" and said the Republican Party "makes pornography of patriotism and practically fellates the Founding Fathers ... This is what it looks like when you'd rather rape democracy than come up with your own ideas."
There's nothing wrong with being combative. Being divisive is essential to politics: vote for Us, not Them. But there is something transparently ridiculous in crusading against "divisive vitriol" in politics while you spray it with a fire hose.
Shorten title, Liberals don’t think.
The problem for Leftists is they themselves have said it - over and over and over and over again. It’s not a conspiracy theory - its their own words.
Tucker played clips of a bunch of them saying it - but there are many more.
There’s a reason they are turning away Cubans but leaving the border with Mexico wide open. Everybody sees it.
There are many who are deliberately blind. They do not want to see.
I think about 3/4 to 2/3 see it.
“Crazy people don’t know they are” is how my dad always said it.
Liberals will let you think anything, they know its staying in power at all cost is the PRIZE
The pop up chorus of anti Fox, great replacement, white supremacist scare tactics is designed to separate Republicans from suburban women. Not complicated.
We deplorables are the new "Jews". Or any number of vilified sub-groups from history.
This hot mess is lookin familiar... again. d;^)
The murderer wrote that he hated Fox News, the media and had no use for conservatism. He got all all that sick racist garbage off the 4chan sewer. He also bung out on reddit, but the dark stuff all came from 4chan.
Oh, they know they’re divisive...that’s their GOAL.
They are not divisive because they mean to eliminate everyone who is not in total agreement with or subservient to them. It is their opponents who are divisive because they insist on
surviving and disagreeing with Received Wisdom.
A liberal has tunnel vision.. Blind except what THEY deem so.
They go after the EXTREME RIGHT, now called terrorists.. When in fact, it’s God they are attacking.
Saul was on the way to kill Jesus followers, he disagreed with. He made himself judge of what was right and wrong... On the way he was stopped by a light from heaven.. By Jesus.. Who asked why are you persecuting Me.
These left wing zealots are on a rampage to get us to let them do whatever they want.. Without guilt or hindrance.
Their hate and anger is against God in heaven. They don’t make the rules... They are fighting for a right to abort.. To live like the devil.. To control
And it ain’t gonna happen.
God can wipe them out at any time.
God made the universe.. He set the rules.
Goodness bothers those with a seared conscience.
They are not Liberals, they are leftists.
Biden didn’t assumed office it was paid for.
Both sides think that the other side is the divisive one.
When the country has run on law and order.. On the constitution.. By electing members to congress.. By electing a President.. Living by the freedoms written by the founding fathers.. And becoming the greatest nation.. The one country where people wanted to come.. And freedom of worship was in our communities..
And then society became enamored with a lifestyle once considered wrong.. When the rubbish from other countries was entriduced...
There were the ‘follow our constitution’ people.
And there were the rebellious who wanted to toss all that made us great and tear this nation assunder.
The dividers were.are..?
There used to be states.. Areas.. Where asmatic people could go for relief of pollen.
Over the years, people brought starting of their favorite tree.. Bush.. To plant and have a piece of home.
What was the result?
Those pollen free areas were no longer pollen free.
As has happened when foreigners came and were not documented and were not made citizens of this country.. When they were allowed to set up a piece of where they came fromm and wanted to change our United States... Given privileges they did not earn.
Thank you, I wish this was repeated more often. There is nothing liberal about the democrat party. Liberal means free which does NOT describe a party which seeks to control every aspect of someone's life.
They are starting to lose (loose) their idiot base.
Gasoline prices and Milk for 3.75 might just do that.
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