Posted on 10/21/2019 2:40:02 PM PDT by bitt
Like most Americans, I woke up Monday confused as to why the news media considered a meme video superimposing my father over a character from the action movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service” the most important news story in the country.
It was all the more surprising to me because the “macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing, and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents” was supposedly played at a conference I attended.
For the record, I didn’t even know this video, in which the bad guys are replaced with logos of left-leaning news outlets, existed. I certainly wasn’t aware that it was played — apparently on a small television to a few people in a basically empty side room — at the American Priorities Conference.
Nevertheless, let me emphasize yet again: I oppose all political violence — no matter who it’s from or who it targets. As someone who receives death threats directed at me and my family on a daily basis, I firmly believe that no media figure, politician, or member of the public should be threatened with violence. That kind of behavior is poisoning our politics and tearing our country apart.
The meme video was graphic, violent, and inappropriate. It was also clearly an attempt at satire that went far over the line.
The video should not have been played, and it was monumentally stupid for the organizers to allow it. That’s all beyond question, but it doesn’t explain why the media decided to make this into a leading story — especially when they could have devoted some of that attention to video footage of actual violence against a Trump supporter at my father’s recent rally in Minneapolis.
The video is not new — it’s been on YouTube for a year
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Good!
When real outrage doesn't appear the news media creates faux outrage.
Or a single twit's tweet and clams it is "overwhelming public opinion."
Slimestream media is mostly a clown show that has gone on for so long everyone knows the script.
Progs fake their "outrage," RINOS cower and apologize, conservatives tell voters on the fence the truth.
Landslide 2020.
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That doesn't work any longer. People are savvy to that particular trick.
The ensuing, clearly visible comments lambasting the tweet, expose the tweet for the idiocy that it is.
Sounds like Mr. Trump Jr. has his head screwed on straight to me.
An old axiom,”Its better to be pi$$ed off than pi$$ed on”.
There was a recent play where a Trump character was repeatedly stabbed. I’m not sure how it was treated by so-called journalists...but I have my suspicions.
Meanwhile, they ate showing IN TIMES SQUARE an image of Trump being tortures.
Filthy hypocrites.
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