Media Protecting Anti-cop Protesters After 2 Cops Are Killed Yet They Attacked The Tea Party

[mudwhistle]

 

[mudwhistle]

People like NY Carbiner will take a huge jump to conclusion if Sarah Palin puts a target on various districts and assume this means she wants someone to kill people. But when Al Sharpton ... Barack Obama ... and Louis Farrakhan start telling everyone that cops are out killing blacks because of racism and that we need to start killing them to get their attention ... NY C can't put 2 and 2 together.

 

[healthmyths]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

 

[mudwhistle]

JFRD targeted in drive-by shooting
Protesters Near Ferguson Injure Cops with Bricks Explosives After Officer Kills Armed 18-Yr-Old - Breitbart

 

[Paperman299]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

 

[healthmyths]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

 

[healthmyths]

Like this? Senator Diane Feinstein....

 

[mudwhistle]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

I guess one has to remember the context in the protests.

When it came to pro-gun protests people sometimes carried guns to them.

I suppose if you want to call "If they kill one of us ... kill two of them and they'll have to come to the table and talk" just mean speeches ... then what bizarro universe do you live in?

 

[Stephanie]

People like NY Carbiner will take a huge jump to conclusion if Sarah Palin puts a target on various districts and assume this means she wants someone to kill people. But when Al Sharpton ... Barack Obama ... and Louis Farrakhan start telling everyone that cops are out killing blacks because of racism and that we need to start killing them to get their attention ... NY C can't put 2 and 2 together.

oh they can they just refuse to
It's that double standard they all live by. and no honor

 

[Paperman299]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

 

[HenryBHough]

Remember, Reverend Disco Louie is the preacher who proclaimed the Messiahship of one Barack Hussein Obama. How can the left find any fault with anything else he might say?

 

[Paperman299]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

I guess one has to remember the context in the protests.

When it came to pro-gun protests people sometimes carried guns to them.

I suppose if you want to call "If they kill one of us ... kill two of them and they'll have to come to the table and talk" just mean speeches ... then what bizarro universe do you live in?

So this one unbalanced individual speaks for a whole movement, while in Nevada a whole movement speaks for itself while holding the weapons they're threatening cops with. But you give them a pass because there was GRAZIN' FEES at stake!

 

[Paperman299]

If Cliven Bundy and his Waco-obsessed followers had been black, they'd be dead.

 

[mudwhistle]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

What does what happened at the Bundy ranch have to do with Tea Party protests????

These are two totally different situations and two totally different groups.

 

[mudwhistle]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

I guess one has to remember the context in the protests.

When it came to pro-gun protests people sometimes carried guns to them.

I suppose if you want to call "If they kill one of us ... kill two of them and they'll have to come to the table and talk" just mean speeches ... then what bizarro universe do you live in?

So this one unbalanced individual speaks for a whole movement, while in Nevada a whole movement speaks for itself while holding the weapons they're threatening cops with. But you give them a pass because there was GRAZIN' FEES at stake!

Homeland Security was butchering his cattle. They probably would have butchered the Bundy family as well if gun-owners hadn't stepped in and stopped them.

Only time we need to fear the government is when Democrats are in control of it.

Now which Tea Party member shot any cops????

Huh??

 

[OKTexas]

The tea party have killed 3 police officers this year.

Two were killed execution style in Nevada in June by Tea Party activists. Bryan Dodson, another anti-government tea partier, killed a state trooper in Pennsylvania.

So that's 3 police officers killed by tea partiers this year alone. But do the right say that charge of murder for the slain police officers should be brought against Cliven Bundy or Sarah Palin? Nope.

Hypocrites all abound

Of course you have links, right?

 

[healthmyths]

The media is attempting to mislead us into thinking that this fake protest movement didn't lead to the deaths of 2 police officers. It's predictable and utterly pathetic to watch:

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party
By Rich Noyes | December 22, 2014 | 2:10 PM EST


Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “You know, we talk about the disconnectioning coverage or the biases between left and the right in the coverage. You know, I remember quite vividly the Tucson shooter being blamed entirely on Michele Bachmann and on Sarah Palin and on the right wingers.
Host HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, and that was wrong. And I said so at the time.
GOLDBERG: “I agree it was wrong and we shouldn’t be doing the same thing in this circumstance. At the same time, when you have Al Sharpton’s little rent-a-mobs going out there saying, ‘What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.’ That is a substantively different thing than anything you can ascribe to Sarah Palin’s Facebook map, and the way that stuff was covered was much, much different, and much less hostile, than the stuff we’ve seen on the right.”

Proving Goldberg’s point, on Sunday’s Good Morning America on ABC, while there was no mention anywhere in the show of the chants in favor of “dead cops,” fill-in co-host Ryan Smith worried about the effect on protesters who have been demonstrating against police tactics.

“Is there a concern that these killings could lead to a rise in tension against the protesters, despite movement leaders condemning the attacks?” Smith asked George Stephanopoulos.

Such delicacy was nowhere to be found in January 2011, when all three broadcast networks falsely associated the attack on Giffords with the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. A flashback recalling some of the more notorious quotes from that time:



■ “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before....Her father says that ‘the whole Tea Party’ was her enemy. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous ‘crosshairs’ list. Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing....Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a 3:22pm ET January 8 , 2011 blog posted less than two hours after news broke of Giffords’ shooting.



■ “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in crosshairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
— CBS’s Nancy Cordes on the January 8, 2011 Evening News. The map was of districts targeted as part of an electoral strategy to defeat supporters of ObamaCare.



■ “On Twitter and Facebook, there is a lot of talk, in particular, about Sarah Palin. As you might recall, back in March of last year, when the health care vote was coming to the floor of the House and this was all heating up, Palin tweeted out a message on Twitter saying ‘common sense conservatives, don’t retreat - instead reload.’ And she referred folks to her Facebook page. On that Facebook page was a list of Democratic members she was putting in crosshairs, and Gabrielle Giffords was one of those in the crosshairs.”
— CNN’s Jessica Yellin during the 10pm ET hour of Newsroom, January 8, 2011.



■ “You know, Congresswoman Giffords had received threats before. That’s something that we might have overlooked here. Her office was trashed during the health care debate. When she showed up on Sarah Palin’s political action committee Web site as one of those who had been targeted for defeat, it shows her in the crosshairs there. She warned herself that this kind of thing could have serious repercussions.”
— CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, January 9, 2011.



■ “Sarah Palin has been coming under some criticism. While there is no evidence her Web site featuring a target on Giffords’ district had anything to do with this attack, some are asking if today’s political rhetoric is inspiring the lunatic fringe?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer teasing an upcoming segment on Today, January 10, 2011.

- See more at: Jonah Goldberg Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party​

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

Well if as you say "there are numerous reports of pointing loaded guns"...where are they?
That's all I asked is you show me the proof.
Just because you say so doesn't make it so... should be simple to find if there were "numerous reports"!!

 

[Paperman299]

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

What does what happened at the Bundy ranch have to do with Tea Party protests????

These are two totally different situations and two totally different groups.

Totally different? I suppose, bad cops around the country are gunning down black men, and the Bundy ranch situation was only cattle.

My point is, it's funny that the far right only seems to care about cops' lives NOW...when it's not people they support threatening to do the shooting

 

[Paperman299]

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

Well if as you say "there are numerous reports of pointing loaded guns"...where are they?
That's all I asked is you show me the proof.
Just because you say so doesn't make it so... should be simple to find if there were "numerous reports"!!

This is really embarrassing for you, that you insist on having accepted facts spoon-fed to you.

Here's one news source reporting facts every one now already knows, and here's another. You'll like that second one; good quotes from men in uniform who feared for their goddamn lives while rightwing extremists screamed obscenities and waved assault rifles in their faces.

Where were extreme conservatives and their big crocodile tears for cops then?

 

[NYcarbineer]

So you don't think the climate of hate from the rightwing propagandists, activists, and rank and file led to the Oklahoma City bombing?

No here was the cause..
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for theRuby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution was carried out unusually quickly, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend many years on death row. McVeigh was executed only four years later, by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
And again... NOT ONE person in the Tea Party ever ever chanted “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”

Carrying loaded rifles to protests < inflammatory rhetoric?

Pointing loaded rifles at cops, threatening violence < mean speeches?

What is this bizarro universe you guys live in??

Where is the link or video showing loaded rifles pointed at cops?

Don't embarrass yourself like this. There are numerous reports of Bundy's extreme rightwing pals pointing loaded guns at cops. And talking about shooting cops, loudly, to anyone who would listen. Now that cop safety has become the issue du jour for conservatives, you're going to claim it never happened?

Well if as you say "there are numerous reports of pointing loaded guns"...where are they?
That's all I asked is you show me the proof.
Just because you say so doesn't make it so... should be simple to find if there were "numerous reports"!!

sniper bundy ranch - Google Search