“We keep saying that, but political assassinations and assassination attempts are more common in the United States than just about anywhere... “
Wh-a-a-a-a-at? I call BS. Barf alert indeed.
Wh-a-a-a-a-at? I call BS. Barf alert indeed.
At least they have the political assassination thing right. Look how many times they've thrown Sarah Palin in the mud.
Agreed. Extraordinary claims require more than typical evidence and vetting. This particular claim was made with absolutely no evidence cited to support it.
Gene Lyons had a gig once as the ultimate Clinton buttboy during Monicagate. Not heard from much anymore.
But he inadvertently makes a point that political assassinations in America were nearly always the work of lone nutjobs. Not like in places like imperial Russia, Germany, and Japan, and in Latin America and Africa today, where assassinations (and terror) are well-planned operations carried out by organized political factions with specific goals in mind.
But here in the U.S. it’s nutjobs who assassinate Presidents, and don’t forget those who tried and failed. Lyons has to go clear back to Rep. Leo Ryan to cite a Congressperson in mortal danger, and he had chosen to travel to the evil Jonestown.
No, political factions in America mostly resort to character assassination rather than the real thing.
But it’s clear that Gene Lyons has this strange animus against guns and the people who defend gun rights. Really gets under his skin, they do.
And if things are so completely evil in this country to the exclusion of all others, why do he and Spike Lee not relocate? I’m sure they’ll reply that someone has to have the courage to go on living in the belly of the beast, and to “speak truth to power”.
(Give me a break..............)
But Spike Lee said on the TOADY Show yesterday that America was the most violent country on Earth . The same Spike Lee that said Charlton Heston should be shot.