Thread: NY Times Columnist Jokes About Assassination Attempt Ending Trump’s Campaign

"Good news guys I've figured out how the Trump campaign ends"

Paul Joseph Watson - February 25, 2016 1065 Comments

Ross Douthat ✔ ‎@DouthatNYT Good news guys I've figured out how the Trump campaign ends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZJF81jt4w …
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New York Times columnist Ross Douthat caused outrage after he joked about how an assassination attempt could end Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

“Good news guys I’ve figured out how the Trump campaign ends,” Douthat tweeted last night.

The tweet links to a video clip from the 1983 movie The Dead Zone, which features a character played by Christopher Walken attempting to gun down a political figure played by Martin Sheen.In the plot, Walken’s character tries to kill the US Senatorial candidate (played by Sheen) because he has visions of him becoming president in the future and starting a nuclear war. Sheen’s character holds up his baby as a human shield during the assassination attempt, destroying his credibility.

While joking about an assassination attempt on any public figure is crass, it’s particularly relevant with Trump because he faces a very real threat of being targeted.As we previously highlighted, according to his former advisor Roger Stone, Trump now wears a bullet proof vest at all public appearance due to the sheer volume of death threats he receives on a regular basis.

Trump first began wearing the vest in October last year after after reports that the world’s most wanted drug lord El Chapo had put a $100 million bounty on his head. He also received Secret Service protection at around this time.Following his controversial comments on Muslim immigration back in December, Twitter exploded with death threats aimed at Trump.Reaction to Douthat’s Twitter quip from Trump supporters was forceful.

Douthat bills himself as a conservative, but in his latest column for the New York Times he concludes that “President Hillary” would be a better choice for America than “our own nuclear-armed Berlusconi”.

http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-col...umps-campaign/

Outrageous.

Douthat, at best, is a very misguided individual.

Sickos out there!

But, he thinks that he is SO clever....Typical snot nosed liberal. JMO

William Gheen ‏@ALIPAC 60m60 minutes ago You should be fired @DouthatNYT You violated the Civil Rights of #Trump & his supporters with your assassination joke! #tCOT #CCOT #alipac


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by JOHN NOLTE
25 Feb 2016
3,284 comments

Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times who editorializes for the Republican Establishment, fired off a (since-deleted) tweet Wednesday that declared, “Good news guys I’ve figured out how the Trump campaign ends[.]” Douthat added a link to a two-minute YouTube video that shows the brutal assassination attempt of a fictional presidential candidate.

The clip (below) is from the film “The Dead Zone,” where the assassination attempt is portrayed as a heroic and selfless act to stop a George Wallace-esque demagogue well on his way to the Oval Office.



Courtesy of Gateway Pundit, here’s a screen grab of Douthat’s tweet:

(please click on source link to view tweet)

Even though, like all segregationists, segregationist George Wallace was a Democrat, right-leaning New York Times’ columnists now seem eager to join left-wing outlets like Politico and The Daily Beast and MSNBC and Slate in the George Wallace-ing of Donald Trump.

And now that Trump is the prohibitive frontrunner, why not joke about taking that idea straight through to the end, straight through to an assassination attempt that “saves America” just as “The Demagogue” starts winning presidential primaries.

Douthat has apologized for his “joke.” We should accept the apology and move on. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone makes bad jokes. And everyone should be appalled by our Orwellian culture that wipes away entire people and careers over such things.

But that doesn’t change this fact….

How lucky is Douthat that he chose an “accepted” target for such a thing? If it had been a Hillary Clinton or a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or, heaven forbid (no sarcasm there), President Obama, a New York Times security guard would currently be watching a columnist fill a cardboard box.

That’s not going to happen here, though, because according to our Media Betters, “othering” a Republican into something assassinate-able, means only having to say you’re sorry.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...ation-attempt/

If it had been a Hillary Clinton or a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or, heaven forbid (no sarcasm there), President Obama, a New York Times security guard would currently be watching a columnist fill a cardboard box.

That’s not going to happen here, though, because according to our Media Betters, “othering” a Republican into something assassinate-able, means only having to say you’re sorry.

Oh so true.