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No PBS, Shooting Republicans Is Not A Laughing Matter
Townhall.com ^ | March 23, 2020 | Jake Hoffman

Posted on 03/23/2020 4:17:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

“If they don’t change the statute… they should be shot.” Based on the liberal mainstream media’s usual narrative you might guess those words were said by some mean conservative; however, you would be wrong. Those violence-inciting words were proclaimed with apparent pleasure by a leftist pundit on a taxpayer-funded PBS channel—and to make it worse, the PBS host, Ted Simons, not only failed to rebuke the comment, he can be heard chuckling at it. Watch the exchange here.

Leftist activist and political commentator, Chris Herstam, was speaking about Republican lawmakers when he decided to threaten them. Many of our state legislators and our governor are people I know. I know many of their spouses and children as well. I am currently a Republican candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives. This is personal for me.

At a time when tensions are running high, society is quarantined in a near lockdown, and Republicans are focused on solving real issues to help the American people, there is absolutely zero room for such disgusting, dangerous rhetoric.

It would be natural to expect that calling for violence like this would bring about widespread condemnation from the likes of PBS, station management, advertisers, and both sides of the political aisle, yet holding those expectations would once again leave you wrong. In fact, when Herstam made his despicable statement, the show’s host, Ted Simon, first chuckled audibly and then moved on as if nothing had occurred.

The PBS station in Arizona and this particular news broadcast has been on the air for decades. This was no rookie reporter. Moreover, PBS is subsidized by nearly half a billion dollars of taxpayer money each year. Still no one blinked an eye when shooting Republican lawmakers was uttered on air.

And lest you think it was a momentary slip of the tongue or maybe a misstatement on the part of the pundit, he tweeted out the same phrase later that day. He has since deleted the vile tweet.

It is long past time for the media to be held accountable for their vivid double standard when it comes to inciting violence toward Republicans. Media pundits and Democrat activists routinely attempt to portray Republicans and conservatives as hateful, violent people just waiting to do harm to others, despite the evidence pointing squarely to the contrary.

After all, let’s not forget that it was Republican members of Congress that were targeted and literally shot by a crazed leftist in June of 2017. The left-wing activist responsible for the shooting was shot in return by Capitol Police officers who were there as part of Scalise’s detail. It was only their quick action that kept more Republican elected officials from being shot.

Step back and consider for a moment that on a publicly funded broadcast there was zero push back from the host when an invited pundit on the show said that Republicans deserve to be shot. The PBS host offered zero resistance; zero request for the pundit to clarify his disgusting remark, and, in fact, seemed to enjoy the comment with a slight on-air laugh. This episode serves as yet another stunning example of the liberal media’s double standards and hypocrisy.

Laughably, The Arizona Mirror, Herstam’s employer, has indicated that his only “punishment” will be a one-month hiatus on being allowed to publish columns on their website. Adding further insult to an already bad situation, Ted Simon, the show’s host who chuckled at the insidious remark, has received no punishment at all from PBS.

Every year PBS demands millions from us—the American taxpayers—yet when the lives of our elected officials are threatened on their programming they refuse to do anything about it. It’s time for their taxpayer-funded joyride to end. It is time for serious accountability. It’s time to defund PBS once and for all.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: defundpbsnpr; despotism; leftists; leftwing; politicalviolenc; tedsimons; violence; youpayforthis
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PBS should have been defunded years ago.
1 posted on 03/23/2020 4:17:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

SHUT IT DOWN!


2 posted on 03/23/2020 4:24:14 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Kaslin

Civil war grows ever closer.


3 posted on 03/23/2020 4:26:39 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Kaslin

The Rs were in control of BOTH Houses of Congress and could have shut this worthless leftist welfare scheme down. But Paul Ryan did nothing other than to agree to tax cuts for his wealth donors. He should never have been allowed to remain as Speaker after Trump won.


4 posted on 03/23/2020 4:27:58 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Kaslin

At the very least, they should be renamed DBS & funded only from one certain source.


5 posted on 03/23/2020 4:30:08 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Kaslin

This from the same people who are always saying “violence is never the answer.”

It’s all politics, people. When they get the upper hand, the cattle cars roll again.


6 posted on 03/23/2020 4:30:17 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: laconic
Paul Ryan

Reading his name makes me sick to my stomach.

7 posted on 03/23/2020 4:36:26 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Kaslin

GOP have already been shot and attacked.

THIS IS OPEN, CLEAR SEDITION
and a call for MURDER of GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

There is one solution, or it will continue and expand.

PBS - lose license
THOSE who encourage - lose liberty or life


8 posted on 03/23/2020 4:36:33 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Kaslin
So,a US Government press organ laughs at the prospect of citizens being shot? The saddest thing is that this doesn't surprise me.
9 posted on 03/23/2020 4:40:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Kaslin
The Arizona Mirror is funded by the Hopewell Fund.

The Hopewell Fund is relatively new, having launched in 2015. Its most recently available tax disclosure form, covering 2016, shows that it has given money to a host of progressive organizations, including left-leaning think tanks, voter outreach groups, and nine family planning centers that perform abortions.

In other words; a radical left-wing propaganda outfit, no doubt funded by one or all of America's radical left-wing billionaire gang. Suspended for a month? I doubt if Chris Herstam is losing any pay - he's doing exactly as ordered.
10 posted on 03/23/2020 4:43:58 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Kaslin

PBS is pure liberal progressive biased garbage we as conservative and republican tax payers are paying for, why? shut it down


11 posted on 03/23/2020 4:50:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: TTFlyer

Showing their true hearts.

Hateful progressives with father issues want grown-up men eliminated.


12 posted on 03/23/2020 4:54:09 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Kaslin

The bucket draws up what is deep in the well!


13 posted on 03/23/2020 4:55:07 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: Kaslin

I am so shamed of my fellow citizens.....these people re what is wrong with America and why we are divided. Call or write PBS and complain!


14 posted on 03/23/2020 4:57:11 AM PDT by blueyon (`nt to be a nothing burger)
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To: polymuser

Sorry to disappoint them.
We shoot back.


15 posted on 03/23/2020 4:59:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SgtHooper

Burn it to the ground with all liberal deep state propaganda outlets.


16 posted on 03/23/2020 5:01:35 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Kaslin
It is long past time for the media to be held accountable for their vivid double standard when it comes to inciting violence toward Republicans.

The Left keeps calling for the Nu Rulz. Leftie just might get the Nu Rulz. Leftie is going to come to hate the Nu Rulz.

Dear Leftie, careful what you wish for.

17 posted on 03/23/2020 5:01:58 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: Kaslin

PBS is good only for Lawrence Welk viewers. Otherwise, there is no “there there.” The nature programs are haughty and one-sided.


18 posted on 03/23/2020 5:06:19 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: laconic; All
The Rs were in control of BOTH Houses of Congress and could have shut this worthless leftist welfare scheme down. But Paul Ryan did nothing other than to agree to tax cuts for his wealth donors. He should never have been allowed to remain as Speaker after Trump won.

Why do you think that was?

My working hypothesis is the Media has been the power most feared by legislators for over 50 years.

The Media has pretty much spoken with one Progressive voice since about 1965. It is not a conspiracy of backrooms so much as a conspiracy of a unified ideology.

19 posted on 03/23/2020 5:07:26 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kaslin

The left wants us dead; that’s no secret.


20 posted on 03/23/2020 5:07:36 AM PDT by Spok
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