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    The Liberal Media's Double Standard - Bernie Goldberg

    In 2011, after a lunatic in Tucson, Arizona shot Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, wounded almost 20 more, and killed six, including a 9-year old girl, it took the liberal media elite a nanosecond to pin the crime on — who else? — conservative Republicans and their supposed “toxic rhetoric.”

    While police were still scouring the crime scene, Paul Krugman, the New York Times hard left columnist wrote: “Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right.

    An editorial in the Times also pinned the Tucson violence on Republicans: “It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge.”

    Matt Bai wrote in the New York Times that conservatives who use words like “tyranny” to describe politicians “shouldn’t be blind to the idea that Americans legitimately faced with either enemy would almost certainly take up arms.”

    In Politico, Michael Kinsley, a quasi intellectual of the progressive left, wrote that, “The suggestion, finally, is that the right is largely responsible for a political atmosphere in which extreme thoughts are more likely to take root and flower.”

    They blamed Glen Beck and Bill O’Reilly and Fox News in general and Sarah Palin in particular. Never mind that the gunman was mentally ill – and not just a little bit. Never mind that there was not a shred of evidence that he ever heard the name Sarah Palin or any of the others. That, to elite media liberals, was irrelevant. The only point they cared about was linking conservatives to a crime committed by a mentally unstable young man.

    Now it’s 2017 and we have the shooting on the baseball field. And we have lots of people on both sides saying it’s time to tone down the rhetoric.

    Sounds good. But before we attempt that, a few questions are worth asking:

    Where were the liberal elites when Madonna said she wanted to burn down the White House?

    Where were the liberal elites when so-called progressives took to the streets with their signs that said Donald Trump was Adolf Hitler?

    Where were the liberal elites when Democrats said Donald Trump was not a legitimate president and that he was a threat to the United States of America?

    Where were they when Maxine Waters, the progressive Democratic congresswoman from California, said Mr. Trump’s cabinet was composed of “scumbags”?

    Where were they when, progressives said Republican policies would, as Mollie Hemingway writes in the Federalist “destroy the planet, enslave women, or kill sick people”?

    Where were they, Ms. Hemmingway asks, when mainstream media outlets routinely imply that the President of the United States is a “Russian stooge committing treason, or simply suggest that he needs to be removed from his duly elected office by whatever means.”

    Yes, the liberals along with conservatives were there when Kathy Griffin figured that given the non-stop barrage aimed at President Trump she could safely and without consequence take a picture of herself holding a bloody decapitated head of you know who in her hand.

    But where were the liberal elites when progressives decided it was just the right time to stage “Julius Caesar” in New York’s Central Park with the lead character resembling none other than Donald Trump — who is stabbed to death on stage.

    Oh, the liberals loved that one. Besides, they said, the assassination of Caesar (or Trump) shows “the disastrous effects of violence” as one liberal supporter of the play put it.

    I’m sure they’d say the same thing if conservatives staged “Julius Caesar” starring a Barack Obama lookalike. I’m sure they’d brush off the assassination scene, once again, as (with apologies to the Bard) much ado about nothing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Where were the liberal elites when so-called progressives took to the streets with their signs that said Donald Trump was Adolf Hitler?
    I overheard people at work participate in mockery of Trump several times, they were treating him like he was some kind of a child, talking in line with stuff they found in the news and other sites. So I tried to figure out what it was about because their behavior seemed childish. It turns out that people over here are genuinely scared of him and it's partly about generating enough renderings of Trump as childish when he goes too far that he and his administration will find it hard to take it further and become the "adult" version of the same. It's fear of right wing politics going crazy and becoming fascist or Hitleresque. There are lots of right wing extremists lurking in political parties throughout Europe, some of them have a lot of political power, and it's easy for Europeans to make the mistake of rendering Trump in their collective image.

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