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.
They are about to let their mouths write a check their asses can’t cash.
The anti-American Huffpo shtick is getting old.
And I don't think the kneecap reference was metaphorical.
What about they take a good hard look at what we are saying no to, instead of all this fomenting of violence.
I think Sean Connery had the right of it in The Untouchables.
“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That’s the Chicago way, and that’s how you get Capone!”
Just about time to up the ante, ladies and lads.
Thats even better. A rich black man. the closest he came to a ghetto was when his driver got lost and drove thru as a mistake.
The left are such posers it isnt funny.
I am not the GOP but I will not submit.
Quite. Such comments are relegated to comical precisely because of the 2nd Amendment.
Threats and euphemisms mean little if one is unwilling to bring ‘em to reality.
Actually, they have to have a crisis, and violence is a way to fast-track the remaining of their agenda.
They don’t need to care how is started, but the sooner the better to meet their objectives (they really need Martial Law to finish us off... or at least I am sure that is the way they think).
I will not discourage them from doing that
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.
I can't wait. Really.
Bring it, I'm watching Lawerence Welk right now and bet I can take out 5 before they ever hit the front door.
btt
I think you are right. Don’t sink to their level.
Anyone who threatens violence publicly is a fool, and most likely incapable of acting on them.
For now let them hang themselves by their rash reactions of threats. It will play bad for them and good for us.
So for now just laugh and encourage their foolishness, and anyone can tell who is the metrosexual Democrat and who is the Republican in this video...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNEmxPTGo3M&feature=fvw
My pet names for the S&W 9mm and the Saiga 12 would make 'em explode........
Cool. I want one of those. The violin case I mean. I can supply my own firearm.
Interesting, coming from the advocates of thought crimes prosecution.
So far, all is happening as predicted.
4/15/10. Be there. Be belligerent. Dare them.
Please, let it happen while I am still young.
Please?
The leftist tools were worked up to a psychotic frenzy by the media and Democrats over the eight long years of the Bush administration. Some of them will indeed snap with provocations like these CNN and Huffington Post calls to violence.
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