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For eight years the news media literally encouraged assassination attempts against George W. Bush. I don't remember Dana Milbank and the Washington Post attacking them the way they are attacking Glenn Beck even as he explicitly does not encourage violence.


CBS Television, August 4, 2000

MSNBC celebrates attack on President Bush, December 15, 2008.

1 posted on 08/01/2010 11:25:18 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

So true, and I wonder if they’d like to take responsibility for the violence lashed at tea partiers and those who attended town hall meetings, or maybe even the voting booths.


2 posted on 08/01/2010 11:29:01 AM PDT by HollyB
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I guess Dana, WaPo and the rest of the MSM have already forgotten the Rodney King riots.

They showed that video how many times?


3 posted on 08/01/2010 11:31:01 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Notice how Dana completely glosses over what the Tides Foundation really does and uses Beck as a strawman. Typical lazy liberal media reporting. But then again, this is the clown who wore a hunting vest covering the Cheney shooting.
5 posted on 08/01/2010 11:34:38 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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True, and the media also celebrated a movie about his assassination, “Death of a President”, given wide praise and the International Critics’ Prize. Crosshairs mysteriously appeared on him. Foreign and left-wing comics implied it. Left-wing blogs joked about it. It was OK then because it was the hated Bush, destroyer of worlds. Just imagine if our current President were the focus of such a movie...oh, the howls of racism and incitement that would ensue.


6 posted on 08/01/2010 11:35:28 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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Link to Oakland crime map. So who is inciting violence, exactly?

The default is for the last week. Use the slider at the bottom left to see the crimes for the entire month of July.

http://oakland.crimespotting.org/#dtstart=2010-07-24T23:59:59-07:00&dtend=2010-07-31T23:59:59-07:00&lon=-122.270&zoom=14&types=AA,Mu,Ro,SA,DP,Na,Al,Pr,Th,VT,Va,Bu,Ar&lat=37.806&hours=0-23


7 posted on 08/01/2010 11:35:50 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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The media's 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue like Milbank are just copying the 1960s Left who fulminated against the modern conservative movement's criticism of JFK. "Right wingers made Oswald kill President Kennedy -- outlaw them!" the liberals clamored.

They're just following Alinsky's Rules For Spoiled Brats that's all.

8 posted on 08/01/2010 11:40:39 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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NEWSWEEK RETRACTS GUANTANAMO STORY
Item on Koran Sparked Deadly Protests

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Newsweek issued a formal retraction yesterday of the flawed story that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and other countries, after the magazine came under increasingly sharp criticism from White House, State Department and Pentagon officials.

The magazine's statement retracted its charge that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that an American interrogator at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said he thought the magazine had already “retracted what we think we may have gotten wrong” in an editor's note published Sunday and in media interviews. “We've called it an error,” he said. “We've called it a mistake.”

The May 1 item triggered violent protests last week in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries, in which at least 16 people were killed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/16/AR2005051601262.html

10 posted on 08/01/2010 11:42:31 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Milbank is a steaming pantload.
I'm sure he's another Democrat "journolister".


11 posted on 08/01/2010 11:44:21 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Two words: William Ayers


12 posted on 08/01/2010 11:45:53 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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I'm against erratic driving. I wish this guy hadn't driven erratically.
13 posted on 08/01/2010 11:48:09 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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Pro hoc propter hoc

In the predawn glimmering this morning here in Germany my neighbor's rooster stepped out, ruffled his feathers, puffed his chest, and let go with a cock-a-doodle-doo (although I'm told they do it differently here in Germany, at least the Germans have a different onomatopoeic for it). Shortly thereafter, the sun rose. Satisfied, our rooster retired to the henhouse no doubt with the intention of rendering the hens equally satisfied.

It seems that Dana Milbank has much in common with our rooster but I don't know how he makes it with the chicks.


14 posted on 08/01/2010 11:48:40 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Glenn Beck is simply doing what the MSM has failed to do and that is to exposed corruption instead of helping to keep it hiddenl like the mainstream media is doing. If the actions of the Tides group/foundation angers crazies, how is that the fault of the one who exposed them?

This is a typical, twisted, progressive accusation.

17 posted on 08/01/2010 11:54:21 AM PDT by Errant
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was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."

The DemocRat elite railroads through a series of massive expansions of government takeover through no hearings, midnight votes, no reading of bills, lying about the bills, and so on.

They are driven by the agenda of the Center for America Progress, the Tides Foundation, the Apollo Alliance, and a number of other groups influenced by Soros and other leftwingers.

A majority of Americans, according to pollsters, are not happy with this transformation of government power. One fringe person goes over the edge.

The problem, according to the Washington Post, is NOT that Congress is usurping massive new power to the federal government!

It's that Glenn Beck is actually telling people about it!

These "journalists" really are wannabe totalitarians.

When the Left completes the revolution, perhaps the homosexuals in the Washington Post newsroom can start their own Ernst Roehm Brigade to support the new dictatorship in honor of the 1930s Nazi leader!

18 posted on 08/01/2010 11:58:16 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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I went to the Tides website - and just deloused my 'puter - what a bunch of stinking Commies.

The only thing missing is this...

19 posted on 08/01/2010 12:05:43 PM PDT by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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Lunacy! This person implies if Tides Foundation is allowed to do what they do under cover of darkness, no one reporting on them, the shooter would have no knowledge of them. Therefore because Beck is the only one on they can find who mentioned them, he incited this shooter.

These people become more insane by the day.


21 posted on 08/01/2010 1:00:58 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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Police said Williams was wearing body armor and was armed with a high-powered hunting rifle, a pistol and a shotgun at the time of the stop. He had a three-ring binder, recovered from the truck he was driving by a bomb squad robot, with the word "California" scrawled across its cover. Authorities have declined to say what was in the binder.

I-580 gunman's notebook contained ramblings

The guy is a kook and a felon. How do we know he wasn't on his way to rob another bank and just made up the story about starting a revolution?

26 posted on 08/01/2010 2:06:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."

Every American is, but we haven't take to the streets seeking vigilante justice. Yet.

29 posted on 08/01/2010 2:24:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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Milbank is a nancy-ass Ruling-Class wannabe. 3 guns makes a truck “packed”? I can show Mr. Milbank more than that on an everyday commute. And ALL .308 rifle shells are “armor piercing”. What a putz. Probably had never shot a gun. He better watch out—those glasses of his look like a pair of targets.


34 posted on 08/01/2010 7:20:42 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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