Posted on 07/16/2024 6:32:18 AM PDT by Heartlander
Over the course of only seven years, corporate media hate campaigns against prominent Republicans have incited and provoked three assassination attempts, two of which drew blood.
STEVE SCALISE
In June of 2017, a supporter of far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) opened fire on a group of Republicans, including lawmakers, as they practiced for an annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Along with four others, then-U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was severely wounded and nearly died.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News at the time:
I was there at the ballfield when Steven Scalise almost died from a very, very angry, violent man who was incited, really, by rhetoric on the left. And this hasn’t been reported enough: When he came on to the ball field with a semiautomatic weapon, firing probably close to 200 shots at us, shooting five people and almost killing Steve Scalise, he was yelling, “This is for health care!” He also had a list of conservative legislators — Republicans — in his pocket, that he was going to kill.
Here are some of the stories the corporate media ran in the weeks just before that shooting:
On Thursday, House leaders came through with the votes to give Trump a major political win more than a month after Republicans’ first attempt to pass a health care bill went down in a humiliating defeat.
“Ultimately, people will die if this bill becomes law. People will die,” de Blasio said. “They’re trying to get rid of the taxes President Obama and Congress put on the wealthy that are part of paying for our health insurance system.” [emphasis added]
Boston Globe: “Elizabeth Warren on GOP health bill: ‘People will die’”
Washington Post: “Here’s what we learned about Team Trump’s ties to Russian interests”
Reuters: “Exclusive: Trump campaign had at...
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Rush said it best when he referred to them as the “drive-by media”.
Let us not forget, they made a very popular Governor, and Populist firebrand never electable again.
Remember Sarah Palin?
I guess Scalia doesn’t qualify for their list.
Schumer’s “reap the whirlwind” remark sent his monkeys to the houses of two SCOTIS judges. IIRC, wasn’t one of the potential assassins armed on the street?
It is ALL one-sided, too.
Rand quite likely was the top target at that ball field.
The left hast to normalize assassination the same way the have normalized riots and men competing in women’s sports. IOW it’s going to be something you do if you’re a leftist.
Kill your opposition and or the monster under your bed.
Cheating, pathological lying and thinly masked death theats isn’t enough anymore.
And growing.
Only four posts to get there.
Rand Paul was attacked twice, as well. He survived, but it could have gone worse.
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