Read from Big Government:
CNN, Huffington Post Urge Violence Against Republicans
by Kristinn Taylor
"Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of President Barack Obama.
CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this past week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Obama to use violent gangland tactics against his political opponents.
CNN published a column by Roland Martin on February 11 with the headline, Time for Obama to go ‘gangsta’ on GOP.
Martin concluded the article with a plea for Obama to emulate the violent tactics of the Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss Al Capone.
'Obama’s critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let ‘em know that if they aren’t with you, they are against you, and will pay the price.'
The Huffington Post followed-up with their own call for gangland violence against Republicans with the publication on February 14 of a column by David Bourgeois with the title, Obama Better Start Breaking Kneecaps.
Bourgeois concludes his article with this call for gangland violence.
'You’ve given it your best shot, you’ve tried numerous times to talk with the Republicans, to negotiate, to meet them halfway on every single matter before the American people. But they hate you for many reasons. It’s time you break kneecaps (bold in original). It’s time to destroy the Republican Party. They don’t deserve a seat at the table when all they want to do is score political points by being the Party of No.'
In case the message wasn’t clear, Huffington Post illustrated the call to violence with a wooden baseball bat with Obama’s first name on it in large letters.
Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington recently excoriated Fox News chief Roger Ailes for allegedly provocative rhetoric by Fox host Glenn Beck.
HUFFINGTON: 'Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree…
…It’s not about the word police. It’s about something deeper. It’s about the fact that there is a tradition as the historian Richard Hofstetter said, in American politics, of the paranoid style. And the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there.'
Ailes defended Beck, saying he was accurately talking about the governments of Hitler and Stalin.
Violent rhetoric such as that espoused by CNN and the Huffington Post is usually found in the bowels of Internet discussion forums, not as sanctioned op-ed headlines on news sites with White House press passes.
CNN and Huffington Post would be well-advised to retract the calls to violence and issue apologies to Republicans before Obama supporters are incited by their violent rhetoric and start going gangsta and break kneecaps of Republicans.
If they won’t do that of their own volition, then White House press secretary Robert Gibbs should shame them into doing so. Surely the Obama administration does not countenance violence against their domestic political opponents."
Au contraire! "Go gangsta against your foes" is standard operating procedure for Barack Obama.
7 comments:
Oh, how silly. You really are a literalist, aren't you? From Genesis to HuffPo!
Try looking up "metaphor" in the dictionary, if there is one in your household.
If Conservatives or Christians used these types of "metaphor", it would be interpreted and reported by the leftwing liberals as hate speech.
Look at radical liberal Biology professor Amy Bishop that killed 3 people and was also a suspect in a 1993 pipe bombing attempt, how did she make it virtually unchecked into the University of Alabama or even thru our school system?
Who is doing the background checks on teachers and professors?
Children’s lives should be first and foremost on the minds of school administrators and officials when employing radical leftist.
Yeah, cuz only us radical leftists pose any threat to kids, right? What utter nonsense.
I believe the state Bureau of Investigation does the background check in our state. They're looking for criminal convictions, mainly. Being a "suspect" means you're SUSPECTED of criminal wrongdoing, AnonyMouse, not CONVICTED.
Keep writing, though, AnonyMouse. Every new comment makes you look more moronic than the last.
Diogenass: then they need to do a more extensive background check, don't you believe that the parents of the children should have some reassurance that their children are in a safe environment and the teachers and staff have been fully vetted?
After all she killed her brother in a so-called accident?
Don’t you think combining killing her brother and suspect in a pipe-bombing attempt should raise some red flags to school officials?
The more you defend these types of people, the more you look guilty of something?
Lawyer? Teacher? Idiot?
Idiot sounds better suited to your expertise.
Where did you get the ridiculous idea I was "defending" her in any way? You asked who's doing background checks, and I tried to answer your question. Now, I don't knw exactly what those agencies DO by way of a background check, but I doubt that anything about the brother's death would show up on ANY official background check, because no charges were even filed in that case. I haven't heard about any pipe-bomb incident, so I can't comment on that.
Are you willing to pay the tax dollars for thoroughly exhaustive background checks? There has to be a point of diminishing returns, or else you'd wind up spending more tax dollars on needless background checks instead of spending on, say, textbooks?
Your insults, by the way, mean nothing... less than nothing, if that were possible. I know who I am and what you say about me from a point of no knowledge means squat. I guess you must feel threatened by a guy who's gotten an undergradiate degree and a law degree, and who's been an attorney and a teacher for more than a dzen years, each. Don't worry, your secret is safe: nobody will notice all your spelling and grammar errors, so there's little likelihood of anybody realizing you haven't quite earned your GED.
Diogenes: before you criticize my grammar & spelling, I suggest you run your rants thru spell check!
Why would I be intimidated or threatened by a person that can't even spell "undergradiate"?
The proper spelling is "undergraduate" kid and that's not the only word you misspelled!
What a moron!
Law Degree? Undergraduate degree?
Riiiiiiight!
When are you going to take your GED kid?
I wouldn’t have a problem paying for a thorough and extensive background check on any individuals that have influence on our children.
Yeah, you would have a problem paying for it. If you don't, then I would ask you to please start lobbying tomorrow morning with your local representative. Tell him/her you want to pay more taxes so that every detail of every teacher's background can be thoroughly checked. I wouldn't have any problem with that... but I'm sure you wouldn't really do that, either. Like many rightwingnuts, you talk the talk but never walk the walk.
BTW, there is a difference between a typo and not knowing the difference between a plural and a possessive. And you don't even have enough wit to come up with anything better than the GED comment I threw out at you? Thank you: imitation is the highest form of flattery. And thanks for calling me "kid." That hasn't happened in a long long time!
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