After eight years of silence from the far-left assassination-loving conspiracy nuts they have again come out in force. What does the Democrats do to patrol their own? Nothing. They excuse it, they justify it and even encourage it.
Ace brought up this tweet from Newsweek:
Steve Scalise, shot at a congressional baseball game in Alexandria, was an early endorser of President Donald Trump https://t.co/K9akKI8Mdw pic.twitter.com/CuhYVnxnb1
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 14, 2017
Is there any other way to read that than “This guy got shot, and here’s a good reason why?”
Sean Davis documents some excuse-making, and the New York Times’ straight-up lies — not “errors,” deliberate, calculated lies — to cover up the wrong-doing of its fellow travelers. (Definitely read!)
Everyone and their brother knows the MSM would be covering this shooting WAAAAAY differently if the roles were reversed. If a conservative Republican activist, who spent years on social media focused on his hatred of the Democrat party, shot at Democrat politicians they would be screaming to the hills about the far-right “terrorists”.
Instead they are excusing it.
The media have not chosen to make this shooting a referendum on leftist political violence, on the use of extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theorizing by major mainstream media, on the dangers of the resistance movement. There has been no rush to introspection.
…We’ve seen months of street protests, many of them violent. Antifa protests have involved torched cars and buildings, and physical confrontations. We’ve seen parades shut down rather than let Republicans march in them. There have been acts of serious violence against Trump supporters. Media messages about Republican policies are continued variations on the theme that Republican policies will literally destroy the planet, enslave women, or kill sick people. Media messages on Donald Trump include conspiracy theories that he is a Russian stooge committing treason, or simply suggest that he needs to be removed from his duly elected office by whatever means.
Mika Brezinsky On Leftist Shooter: I’m Not Blaming Trump, But…
Is that not a excuse for attempted murder?
The Democratic National Committee announced that Resistance Summer would begin in June. James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders volunteer, delivered by opening fire on Republicans playing baseball.
Hodgkinson had spent the weeks before the shooting staring at the site of his future attack and working on his laptop. What was he doing on his laptop? Ranting about Trump and Republicans.
The left-wing terrorist who opened fire on Republicans practicing for a charity baseball game, an event to which they had brought their children, didn’t come up with his own ideas. His Facebook pages were dumpsters rotting with reposted left-wing hate. There was Bill Moyers’ Resistance plan along with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Maddow, Robert Reich and Noam Chomsky.
They helped shape Hodgkinson’s conviction that Republicans had to be destroyed. Or as the title of a Facebook group that he belonged to put it, “Terminate the Republican Party.”
James Hodgkinson did his best in a Virginia park. And he wasn’t a lone lunatic. Not by a long shot.
After the attack, the office of Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) received an email reading “One down, 216 to go”. Congressman Tom Garrett (R-Va.) needed security after receiving threats reading, “This is how we’re going to kill your wife”. Other threats described graphic atrocities against his daughters and even his dog.
Congresswoman Martha McSally (R-AZ.) went to the FBI after phone messages warning, “Martha our sights are set on you, right between your **** eyes” and “Can’t wait to **** pull the trigger.”
And it didn’t stop at words.
David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) had his car nearly run off the road and was then threatened. Indivisible Team protests at Dana Rohrabacher’s office (R-CA.) ended with a 71-year-old female staffer being injured by the actions of the leftist protesters.
This campaign of harassment was eventually bound to escalate to assassination. James Hodgkinson just happened to be the first to pull the trigger. But it could have been any of a growing number of leftist activists who had become convinced that Trump was a fascist dictator and that violence was the answer.
The “Resistance” began by invoking an unprecedented crisis that required setting aside democracy and the niceties of political discourse. It escalated quickly to street violence and then to murder.
Liz Sheld reminds of the converstation between Project Veritas Action journalists and DNC activists last October:
A new video investigation released Monday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action shows how Democratic-aligned organizations used a tactic called ‘bird-dogging’ to incite violence and chaos at Trump rallies for media consumption. A key Clinton operative is captured on camera saying, “It doesn’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this motherfucker.”
In the video, Democratic activists Robert Creamer and Scott Foval reveal their strategy to create a sense of “anarchy” in and around Donald Trump events over the course of the campaign. Foval tells an undercover operative: “One of the things we do is we stage very authentic grassroots protests right in their faces at their own events. Like, we infiltrate.”
“So the term bird dogging: You put people in the line, at the front which means that they have to get there at six in the morning because they have to get in front at the rally, so that when Trump comes down the rope line, they’re the ones asking him the question in front of the reporter, because they’re pre-placed there,” explains Foval. “To funnel that kind of operation, you have to start back with people two weeks ahead of time and train them how to ask questions. You have to train them to bird dog.”
…In another undercover interview, Creamer tells Project Veritas that his organization, Democracy Partners, has daily check-ins with the Clinton campaign in order to coordinate efforts. “I just had a call with the campaign and the DNC, every day at one o’clock,” says Creamer subordinate Zulema Rodriguez in the video.
…“I’m saying we have mentally ill people, that we pay to do shit, make no mistake,” says Foval in the video. “Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel, and a shower. And I put them in a program. Like I’ve done that. But the reality is, a lot of people especially our union guys. A lot of our union guys…they’ll do whatever you want. They’re rock and roll. When I need to get something done in Arkansas, the first guy I call is the head of the AFL-CIO down there, because he will say, ‘What do you need?’ And I will say, I need a guy who will do this, this and this. And they find that guy. And that guy will be like, Hell yeah, let’s do it.”
“It doesn’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this motherfucker,” Foval also said.
Eight months later we are seeing the results.
It’s only going to get worse people. If and when they attempt to take our President’s life will that force the left into some introspection or will they take to the streets celebrating?
Unfortunately I think we all know the answer now.
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One needs to look no further than FA to see the validity of the author’s article. Remember the Gifford’s shooting and how quick the lefties came here outraged, blaming conservatives and Sarah Palin when the shooter was apolitical? No rapid response from the left this time. Their silence in this case is deafening. Remember how after Roof killed those people in the church how us conservatives came here and denounced it immediately? Not the case here. Their silence speaks volumes. We should all remember this the next time they come here acting like they are for “civility”.
The prevailing attitude about this is ” both sides have to stop this”
in other words there is a moral equivalency , and everybody is guilty. Bull, hands down per capita the left commits the violence .
The left, the crybabies that pretend to see violence everywhere among conservatives and denounce it are the fascists; they use violence and intimidation in lieu of a positive message for the future. Liberalism has been exposed as an abject failure and the only way to impose their socialistic ideal is through violence.
@Jim Thorpe, #2:
How many women’s health clinics has the left bombed or set on fire? How many doctors who provide abortion services has the left assassinated? Was a leftist responsible for the Portland train attack? Is James Harris Jackson a leftist? Is Dylann Roof a leftist? How about Jerad Dwain Miller and Amanda Miller? Frazier Glenn Miller Jr, the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooter? James Wenneker von Brunn? That’s not the complete list, by any means.
According to an April 2017 GOA report, COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM–Actions Needed to Define Strategy and Assess Progress of Federal Efforts, 73 percent of all terrorist attacks in the United States since September 12, 2001 resulting in deaths have been perpetrated by far-right extremists. Most of the remaining 27 percent have resulted from attacks by Islamic extremists. Fatal attacks by the left don’t even constitute a full 1 percent.
@Greg:
That’s hard to say, since the left WILL commit those acts themselves to try and make it LOOK like conservatives committed the act. Most of the violence committed by “Trump supporters” have been proven to be leftists trying to instigate violence and blame the right. Sadly, this is the left wing scum we face.
Your little document, since it was developed during the Obama administration, must be viewed with suspicion… as well as your assessment. For instance, the number of non-Islamic incidents do not compare to the number of victims the Islamic terrorists have harvested. Further, I see that grouped in with the “white supremacists” and “neo-Nazis” was the “anti-government violent extremist” that flew an airplane into an IRS building… was a Democrat. Not very “right wing”.
Also included are prison killings. Yeah, that’s giving an accurate picture.
Where is Chris Dorner? Where are the Black Lives Matter inspired cop killings? Oh… I guess it depends on what is considered a “radical group” and who gets to make the definition.
Swing and a miss, Greg. More liberal propaganda masquerading as data. How much did this crap cost the taxpayer?
There were 62 separate, unrelated fatal attacks motivated by right wing extremism, vs. 23 separate, unrelated fatal attacks motivated by Islamic extremism.
Are you suggesting that total body count should determine what constitutes the greatest and most pervasive danger to the nation?
And how does any attack on the police by a black person automatically become an act of leftist violence? Is that the best you can do in the way of a list of leftist terrorist attacks? Why do you assert Christopher Dorner was a leftist? The man engaged in a vendetta campaign against the LAPD, his former employer.
The demac-RATS excuse any violence except if it allows for american citizens allowing us to use fire arms to protect ourselves from their biggist supporters the Rapsts,robbers,child mo;esters and convicts Obama the Fink had released
@Greg: That’s all your handler’s got? I can see why you lost the election.
Dems have to get a handle on their violence. It’s fascist.
@Greg:
Well… yeah. What is, in fact, the actual concern? Lives, or trying desperately to manipulate data to prove a liberal point? I also say your 62 are mostly bogus, not necessarily some kind of far right radical.
Simple: it doesn’t. However, when it is committed by persons that have been involved with or influenced by Black Lives Matter hateful, violent and dangerous rhetoric, it most definitely applies. However, your little compilation totally ignores it. Dallas?!? HELLO?!? Cmon, Greg… try to maintain what credibility you have left.
What about the “knockout game” incidents? Those happened so frequently and was ALWAYS perpetrated by blacks as to become a radical leftist movement. What about the numerous white veterans that were set upon by blacks and killed?
Furthermore, since this was compiled by liberals and liberals lie, I doubt the accuracy of the descriptions of most of those incidents. Again, what is absent is very significant as to the credibility of the compilation.
Dorner left a manifesto in which he claimed he was killing for his leftist views; he was a pissed off liberal on a killing rampage. Now, that’s a little radical, don’t you think?
Your beloved liberal left, in its sore-loser desperation, has become violent and fascistic. Admit it and either embrace it or condemn it. Making excuses for it or pointing phony fingers in other directions is the same as embracing it. The left is violent and, eventually, violence WILL BE MET with violence, and then we will have a civil war. Of course, as they always do, the left will look for ways to benefit from the turmoil and death, so they do not try to avoid it.
Condemn or embrace, Greg.
@Greg:
Greg please. Do you seriously believe that most violence is committed by the Right, not the Left? That is not rhetorical, it
is a serious question. How you answer that will tell me if this is a serious discussion. Violence perpetuated by anybody on the Right
is not cheered by conservatives, the inverse is not true.
How about when the Obama Admin via Janet Napalitono put out the nonsense that returning veterans are a huge danger for violence? Interesting assertion since they commit far less violent crimes than their non-vet peers.
I can respect your differing opinions, but not when you are making some equivalency that you know does not exist.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #9:
Nope. Dorner’s “manifesto”—which is essentially an elaborate suicide note—is a rant about his perceived racially-motivated persecution and victimization by the LAPD, his former employer. His actions weren’t motivated by any political philosophy. It’s obvious from reading his manifesto that he was a seriously mentally unbalanced individual, striking back against his imagined persecutors.
@Jim Thorpe, #10:
The statistics compiled by the GOA demonstrate that more fatal attacks in America during the years of the study were motivated by far-right extremist views than by far-left extremist views. I think the actual numbers provide us with a far more accurate picture of reality than random perceptions formed on the basis of anecdotal reports.
That said, I’m not sure characterizing violence as right or left is particularly helpful, other than for profiling purposes in an effort to detect and prevent attacks. What a terrorist or attacker cites as justification hardly matters. They’re all dangerous, and they all come down to the same sort of threat to innocent lives, to society, and to social order. I don’t see much meaningful difference between the Portland train attacker and the guy that opened fire on a republican baseball practice.
We shouldn’t be taking different sides in such cases, because there are only two sides there that matter: that of homicidal lunatics, and that of everyone else, who wants them stopped. Getting people to take sides against one another is a control tactic. It’s one of the ways the public is manipulated.
@Greg:
I appreciate that, but do you have a link for the GAO Study.
Seriously, everything under Obama became politicized, ergo
deep state Obama holdovers. The left has politicized every recent act of violence and torture reason to blame Republicans.
There is always a way to cook the numbers like Black Lives Matter is not a leftist group, or that violence is not really violent if perpetuated by a favorite group.
@Jim Thorpe, #13:
The only link I have is up in Post #4.
I don’t know why everything must be viewed politically. I objected to the overturning of this law because I thought what Obama had done made very good sense. From my point of view, the reaction against it was more political than logical. But then maybe my own biases are invisible to me.
Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
Over a year ago we noticed that the Left couldn’t win at a point-by-point debate.
The Left noticed, too.
So, the Left began bypassing debate by screaming, “Racism!, Sexism!, Ageism!, Homophobia!, Islamophobia!, etc.
After a while the left noticed that didn’t work, either.
They tried to feign offense, to slip definitions of words into new territories, to cry and moan.
They noticed that didn’t work.
So, they tried creating FAKE HATE CRIMES.
Those don’t work.
So, they “demonstrate,” which now means millions of dollars in damages, attacks on people and even police horses.
Sometimes this works, see Evergreen college.
But sometimes not.
So now they are becoming violent mobs…..and getting the stuffing beat out of them.
Maybe someday they will wake up and realize they’ve been useful idiots for media and political globalists who will throw them under the bus if they did “win.”
Maybe.
Saaid by Geral Patton. POLITICIANS ARE THE LOWEST’S FORM OF LIFE ON EARTH,LIBERAL DEMACRATS ARE THE LOWEST’S FORM OF POLITICIAN
@Greg: Greg, only the mainstream left promotes violence against anyone suspected of NOT being a liberal. This would be the very same left that wanted us to believe that THEY believed a map with little targets indicating elections that could be taken away from Democrats incited the Gabby Giffords shooting. The same people that thought those little icons on a map were so violent now, on nationwide TV, on radio and in public promote extermination, eradication, termination, destruction, assassination, murder, beheading, stabbing, beating, raping the opposition.
Is there anything similar coming from any conservative with a platform from which to deliver a message to a mass audience? Anything more inciting than little cross-hairs on a map?
You want to try and deny this is a contribution to the violent nature of today’s discourse or how some left wing nut decides to slaughter Republicans? Really?
@Greg:
Greg, I have never seen things this political. IAll of this moral equivalency about both side does not fly. Even the MSM can’t carry that much water. Trump won fair and square and trying to overturn this election is scurrilous.
Trump got nominated, and then elected, by shamelessly promoting scandalous allegations concerning anyone and everyone who got in his way. He slandered republican and democratic opponents alike, with equal disregard for the truthfulness of the accusations.
The difference now is that people are considering troubling questions about him, with the intention of determining for certain whether they’re true or false. He would like to prevent this, but he can’t.
My great regret is that no one bothered before he was nominated.
@Greg:
Well, Greg, no he didn’t. What he did was, whenever attacked by an opponent (and not before) he struck back with a heavy hand. If he slandered anyone, it was reaction to slander.
Some are considering troubling questions MADE UP about him. Sensible people realize a damnable liberal lie when they hear and see one. Remember how sure-fire Trump’s collusion to get the Russians to help him win the election was? Where is that crap now, Greg? How about Trump’s sexual harassment of women? Poof, gone. No substance, no foundation.
Your entire argument is based solely and completely on lies, BS your sore loser, crybaby leaders invented to take your mind off their utter failure and incompetence. The violence they instigate serves the same purpose.
We will eventually know if that is true or not. To know is different than to believe—at least to rational people. Many on the right seem to have lost sight of that critical difference, or to have never really understood it in the first place.
@Greg: Really. Almost a full year of the intelligence community and the liberal media looking, hoping, wishing to find the silver bullet and coming up with absolutely nothing is pretty definitive.
@Greg: With all the leaks we’ve seen if there were any there there we would have seen it. Now they are looking for a process crime of some sort. Which has nothing to do with election tampering.
You are just another left wing lemming.
You’ve got nothing.
@Greg:
That is your interpretation. I think that a more accurate assessment is that Trump is a counter puncher. Those that dished it on him are not able to take it. The Dems ar upset because unlike McCain Trump fights back.
A regret I’m sure Hillary shares with you…
But, in reality, it appears there was a great deal of ‘bothering’ about him – primarily by the DNC.
Mind you, most of these are from before the election – IE, most everyone was still convinced Hillary was a shoe-in and so weren’t trying to make excuses for her loss.
For better or for worse, the current occupant of the White House seems to have been personally selected by the Democrats to be Hillary’s opponent.
As the saying goes, Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it!
A little bit of prescience?
Never mention the no-hitter before the game is actually over!
And, one from after the election
Wonder how that’s working out for them?