Sen. Dick Durbin: Past Rhetoric Of Sarah Palin And Tea Party “Beyond The Bounds”

Mediaite ^ | January 9, 2011 | Matt Schneider

[2ndDivisionVet]

Senator Dick Durbin appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and told Candy Crowley that Sarah Palin’s gun imagery of targeting certain congressional districts was “beyond the bounds” and “not acceptable rhetoric.” Although when pressed by Crowley, Durbin did not want to suggest there was a direct connection between the rhetoric and yesterday’s shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, nor whether there was similarly unacceptable rhetoric amongst Democrats.

Durbin explained:

“We live in a world of violent images and violent words, but those of us in public life and the journalists who cover us, should be thoughtful in response to this and try to bring down the rhetoric, which I’m afraid has become pervasive in our discussion of political issues. The phrase ‘don’t retreat, reload’ – putting crosshairs on congressional districts as targets – these sorts of things I think invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe this is an acceptable response.”

Watch the video from CNN below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)

[2ndDivisionVet]

This is the #2 person in the Senate. The same individual who called our Soldiers and Marines "Nazis" if you've somehow forgotten or didn't hear about it.

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/dick-durbin-equates-us-soldiers-to/

[CommieCutter]

This is ridiculous, irresponsible.

[Cisco Nix]

Prick Turbin

[oldbrowser]

Just for a little perspective.

"Abraham Lincoln (1865) - killed by John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat

James Garfield (1881) - killed by Charles J. Guiteau, a Democrat

William McKinley (1901) - killed by Leon Czolgosz, Democratic Anarchist

John F. Kennedy (1963) - killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, Communist

Attempts on:

Andrew Jackson by Robert B. Randolph, Democrat Liberal

Franklin D. Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara, Democrat Liberal

Harry S. Truman by Pedro Albizu Campos, Nationalist Socialist

Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, Socialist

Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr., Registered Democrat"

We can now add Giffords shooting to this list.

[RedMDer]

V.

[quantim]

Two can play at this game.

[Cheetahcat]

Turncoat Turbin Durbin is still around?

[Islander7]

Little Dick Durbin is a pinhead.

[RedMDer]

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[quantim]

Times are different now.






Bring it on Kenyan.

[jeltz25]

Did Durbin have anything to say when Obama called on his hispanic followers to punish their enemies? when he told his supporters to “bring a gun”, when he quoted well known advocate of violence Malcolm X(”By Any Means Necessary”) to whip up black crowds in advance of the SC primary?, when his fellow dem from IL Rahm Emanuel said any of the tough-guy things he did? Or any of hundreds of other examples I could cite?

Of course, no one in the media will ever bring up anything Obama or any other dem ever said.

[Godwin1]

Durbin compared American GIs to Nazis and Communists. He maintained this blood libel for several days, retreating into a non-apology apology only after Democrat powerhouse Dick Daley said the remarks were “disgraceful.” (Daley had a son serving in the Army at the time.)
Durbin also torpedoed decent, fair minded Southern judicial candidates with fabricated out of whole cloth charges of racism. One , Mississippi Judge Pickering, had the support of most of Mississippi's prominent black leaders. A slanderer and a character assassin: some guy to be lecturing the rest of us about civility and measured rhetoric.

[aquila48]

Here’s an oldie but goodie about all the recent threats of violence by the left... Let’s not forget that they actually made a movie about killing GW Bush!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2479643/posts

[Hoodat]

There was a post earlier about a group called ‘21st Century Democrats’ that Durbin founded and something that they had done regarding a threat of violence about conservatives.

[quantim]

He never left.

[Cisco Nix]

That’s right, I remember that.

[CommieCutter]

Nice post.

[Finalapproach29er]

Palin needs to put these scumbags in their place.
That’s what a leader would do.

Dick Durbin is a (&*^(&^%

[bray]

Sticks and Stones may broke your bones but names can never hurt me. Bet Rush will have some nice Rhetoric from Dirtbag Durbin.

Go Ducks

[Shethink13]

Hey Durby, bet you didn't think this was out of bounds...

Just political rhetoric, eh?