Posted on 02/14/2010 4:33:18 PM PST by kristinn
Edited on 02/14/2010 6:19:16 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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.
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I have an SKS so they’ll think I’m a commie.
Bring it MFers
And, if it came to that, I wouldn't hesitate to barack a few bats over some heads myself, just as a warm-up.
These people are criminally stupid and should be shut up by their own people if they have any sense of self-preservation at all.
Barack, my @ss.
with a bus load of soccer players, you mean!
I remember the interview with Roger Ailes and Arianna Huffington. Arianna complained to Roger about Glenn Beck and Roger said back to her something like, “Glen speaks better English and he doesn’t call people racists pigs”, referring to what she called Roger in a prior post on her website.
I’m having a hard time believing they mean LITERALLY to break kneecaps. I think its just a euphemism for real dirty politics and possible blackmail. But that’s bad enough.
click..click....
click..ka wang....(that would be the .308 chambering a round)....
Bring it...beotch!!!!!
LVM is now ready!
and very willing.
adveho adepto nonnullus
Go ahead - bring a bat to a gunfight...
Liberals like these remind me of the movie Escape From New York where they came from under the streets. The trash heap of society is where these liberals are from.
The left is so cute when they try and act tough. It is really funny when you hear white, college educated lefties use the word “Gangtsa”. next they will be wearing blood and crips colors, saggy pants and flashing gang hand signs.
What a joke. the only scary part of the left is the New Black Panthers, and when the it hits the fan, the NBP will most likely start beating old people and Jews.
“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.”
This bat, or any big stick wielded by a black man - as explained to me by some black friends of mine in High School is affectionately called a “Honkie-Bonkey”.
So will the GOP submit the the “Honkie-Bonkey” of Hope and Change?
Only a liberal would bring a baseball bat to a gunfight.
Wow, how delusional is that?
I hope we have those articles archived and they need to be forwarded broadly. The call to violence is startling but I suspect that a previous poster here is correct, the libs don't actually see themselves becoming violent. They expect to use surrogate soldiers...the unions, the police, rent-a-mobs.
“I’m in ratings, and we’re winning.”
Love it!
Well, all's fair in love, war and euphemistic Chicago imagery:
Hey, Kristinn, get this to Matt Drudge so he can siren post it.
That was Roland Martin and he is black. A nasty, snotty, elitist liberal, but black nonetheless. LOL. I guess he thinks it gives him street cred.
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