Posted on 01/12/2011 1:05:22 PM PST by Nachum
On the late-night PBS talk show Charlie Rose on Monday night, the debate about who to blame for the Tucson shootings was a unanimously liberal media panel. NBC anchor Brian Williams and Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein tried to be careful, but recently departed Newsweek editor Jon Meacham wanted to push blame on “hot talk.” As Rose interviewed Williams (from a remote in Tucscon), Meacham jumped in to ask: “Brian, is it your sense that there was anything particular about the climate in Arizona, the political climate, that may have put fuel on the garage floor here?”
Williams claimed “I’m not equipped and haven’t seen enough evidence” to draw lines (although Andrea Mitchell played up the controversy for Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck in a Monday night story). Ezra Klein said “it is very, very hard to draw any connections,” but Meacham was eager to assess blame, that in eras of liberal “change,” like the Sixties or the Obama era there’s more violence:
JON MEACHAM: I disagree I think a bit. The word "assassination" itself has a political connotation. This was an assassination attempt with victims who were in the line of fire. Assassinations happen in times of turmoil and change and almost always -- almost always -- they are carried out by people for whom you cannot draw a causal connection.
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the political climate, that may have put fuel on the garage floor here
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That seems a strange analogy...makes me think about that lady who had a ‘slow’ crash and burn out of her garage.
IT WAS THE SHOOTER WHO USED THE WORD ASSASSINATION. THE LEFTIES ARE JUST JUMPING INTO BED WITH HIM AND BLAMING CONSERVES, WITH NO PROOF TO SUPPORT THEIR ASSERTION.
Meacham’s a nut case. Ran Newsweek into the ground, ended up being worth $1.
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