Posted on 01/10/2011 9:55:46 AM PST by pissant
It's not at all clear yet that Jared Lee Loughner tied to kill Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for political reasons in Arizona on Saturday.
But after the massacre that left six others dead and 13 wounded including Giffords, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison said he thinks his GOP House colleague Michele Bachmann should tone down her "armed and dangerous" language.
"The political rhetoric has grown increasingly toxic, and making allusions (to) guns and reloading, and armed and dangerous, certainly contributes to a toxic political environment, and does have consequences," he told MPR.
Bachmann, meanwhile, has called Giffords a legislator with integrity, and a friend, and said that her "tears are flowing, and I am stunned and angered" after news that she was shot at point blank range.
Here's the overblown rhetoric that Ellison is talking about:
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people - we the people - are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country.
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Lynne Torgerson exposes Keith Ellison’s ties to radical Islam
http://www.therightscoop.com/lynne-torgerson-exposes-keith-ellisons-ties-to-radical-islam
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, infamous for his pro-Hamas rallies (here) and his pilgrimage to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood (here), is attacking defenders of freedom and democracy.
$13,350 from the group that wants to destroy the West from within
Keith Ellison (D) - ‘God Willing...Border Will Become an Irrelevancy’
Ellison is going after a US Senate seat and may face a very competent and courageous opponent, Michelle Bachmann. The scumbag Ellison is trying to capitalize on this tragedy to collect political points. He needs to be called out.
Yes, Keith. How dare a woman without a head scarf appear in public like that.
That is rich—overt Muslim terror apologist Ellison asking others to change their rhetoric.
Shut up, Ellison. Your act is old, tired, and we aren’t in the mood.
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