Top Liberal News Sites CNN and Huffington Post Urge Violence Against Republicans

Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of Barack Obama.

CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Barack 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...

SNIP

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.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

No offense taken. I was just pointing out that there are still innocent young ladies and men out there. We are in WV. Yes the world is fallen and that is one of the reasons we have protected our children from being polluted by it before they were ready to stand against the wiles of the devil on their own.

[Gaffer]

They’d be surprised with their bats against a .38 SPL +P or equivalent.

[Ezekiel]

They have no real conception of the anger and resentment that’s been building for decades towards them and their very bad ideas.

Scott Brown was a big clue. "Ted Kennedy's seat" was a throne installed by Satan himself. As soon as Ted departed, the people cast the seat into the sea. Oldsmobile karma.

[ExSoldier]

15 years ago when I was teaching in a middle school out in the 'burbs, instead of deep in the inner city where I am now and have been for 12 years, we had a report by a school bus driver of two students engaging in coitus out by the portable classrooms. They were hidden from direct view of the school by the portables but not at 90 degrees from the road where the school bus stopped. We teachers dashed out and sure enough, two SIXTH graders going hot and heavy (all the way) and without protection to boot! We wound up having the driver arrested, btw. Why? He'd watched awhile before reporting the activity. That was 15 years ago. Today in my inner city high school, it is not unusual to catch kids (especially hormone driven 9th graders) having sex around the grounds. Three of my own students have given birth so far this school year. That's about par for the course each year I've been there. So far.

[An Old Man]

Is it possible that these folks cannot fathom what is going to hit them square in the lower back side?

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

I am glad my kids are safe at home with me everyday! That is unbelievable. These kids shouldn’t even know that much about sex much less have experienced that much. The bus driver should have been arrested. I hope he is still in jail!