{"id":75329,"date":"2017-06-15T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75329"},"modified":"2017-06-15T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:21:55","slug":"mainstream-media-incitement-of-violence-against-republicans-leads-to-shooting-of-u-s-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75329","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Incitement of Violence Against Republicans Leads to Shooting of U.S. Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by George Washington<\/p>\n<p>The madman who opened fire and shot a sitting U.S. congressman (and majority whip) and others today is a liberal who wanted to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/705653\/rep-mark-walker-says-gunman-targeted-congressional-baseball-practice-kill-many-republican-members-possible\" data-mce-=\"\">kill as many Republicans as possible<\/a>&#8220;, who was a member of a group called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/article156065789.html\" data-mce-=\"\">Terminate the Republican Party<\/a>&#8220;, and who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/james-t-hodgkinson\/congressional-baseball-shooter-729035\" data-mce-=\"\">recently written<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s Time to Destroy Trump &amp; Co.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And at least some liberals <a title=\"expressed pleasure\" href=\"http:\/\/news.grabien.com\/story-left-wing-twitter-celebrates-shooting-rep-scalise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed pleasure<\/a> that the congressman was shot.<\/p>\n<p>How did the left become the crazies advocating violence against other Americans?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often said that corruption <a title=\"starts at the top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/08\/corruption-at-the-top-leads-to-lawlessness-by-the-people.html\">starts at the top<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 And the corporate media has been overtly or covertly calling for violence against the Trump administration for months.<\/p>\n<p>Trump may be a <a title=\"terrible\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2017\/02\/trump-ran-anti-war-platform-already-sold-warmongers.html\">terrible<\/a> <a title=\"president\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/12\/trumps-bait-switch.html\">president<\/a>, but the media is <a title=\"completely\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/06\/media-inciting-violence-donald-trump\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completely<\/a> out of hand <a title=\"inciting violence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/commentary\/medias-trump-derangement-syndrome-incites-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inciting violence<\/a> against a <a title=\"sitting president\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/03\/politics\/kfile-conway-media-inciting-violence\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sitting president<\/a> (the <a title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/11\/arts\/delta-airline-trump-public-theater-julius-caesar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> and <a title=\"Time Warner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrko.com\/articles\/kuhners-corner-why-liberals-fantasize-about-killing-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Warner<\/a> supporting a play showing the assassination of Trump doesn\u2019t help the optics.)<\/p>\n<p>Assassination fantasies <a title=\"have\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/03\/14\/snoop-dogg-not-only-liberal-lunatic-obsessed-with-assassinating-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have<\/a> <a title=\"become\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2017\/04\/08\/liberal-prof-says-trump-must-hang-republicans-be-summarily-executed-to-save-american-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become<\/a> <a title=\"so\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/446110\/trump-assassination-threats-investigate-prosecute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">so<\/a> <a title=\"common\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4596300\/PIERS-MORGAN-Hate-filled-liberals-bad-Trump-death-jokes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">common<\/a> that their are now <a title=\"cartoons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/06\/toon061417.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cartoons<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n<p>I passionately and continually fight to protect free speech \u2026<\/p>\n<p>But <a title=\"inciting violence is not free speech.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incitement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inciting violence is <em>not <\/em>free speech.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-14\/mainstream-media-incitement-violence-against-republicans-leads-shooting-us-congressm\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-14\/mainstream-media-incitement-violence-against-republicans-leads-shooting-us-congressm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}