Thread: The Media's Myth of Right Wing Violence

The Media's Myth of Right Wing Violence

By Mithridate Ombud
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 21:52 ET

There is a disturbing chill in the air according to the leftist media. Threats of violence and rumor of murder are taking center stage instead of reporting legitimate public outrage about the passage of Obamacare. You need not click far online to hear another person refer to Glenn Beck as "dangerous", yet they can never claim specifically why. Despite their rhetoric, the media refuses to follow up with what makes a man, who has spent hours just this year begging people to remain peaceful, so obscenely dangerous.

Glaringly obvious in this latest round of reports is that there are no specific examples of alleged threats of violence cited. I can only find one specific threat that caused the FBI to swoop in and ask a speaker to wear a bullet-proof vest on the tip that the speaker would be gunned down by an assassin. But that speaker was Glenn Beck.

Whether this is a shortcut to 2nd Amendment action, valid concern, or just a bunch of crybaby progressive politicians over reacting to criticism, it's hard to tell. But Obama's desire to continue ramming through the most divisive legislation -- against his own creed -- isn't helping bring calm to even the most peaceful conservatives. And while the evidence of a violent right is scarce, there's no limit to liberals attempting to make conservatives look evil.

Before letting the media continue to perpetuate a stereotype that may not actually exist at all, let me give you the facts that U.S. journalists refuse to cite. Let me show you where real violence comes from, and I don't even need to mention the millions of babies killed every year by progressives or even the tens of millions of people murdered by their communist heroes.

It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused Ann Coulter's speech to be cancelled this week.
It was a liberal who bit the finger off a man who disagreed with him on healthcare.
It was Obama-loving Amy Bishop who took a gun to work and murdered co-workers.
Joseph Stack flew his plane into the IRS building after writing an anti-conservative manifesto.
It was liberals who destroyed AM radio towers outside of Seattle.
It's liberals who burn down Hummer dealerships.
It was progressive SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man who spoke his mind.
It's doubtful that a conservative fired shots into a GOP campaign headquarters.
In fact, Democrats have no monopoly on having their offices vandalized.
Don't forget it was Obama's friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
It was a liberal who threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.
It was liberals who assaulted police in Berkeley.
It was liberals who intimidated and threw rocks through the windows of researchers.
The two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with nightsticks were probably not right-wingers.
Every time the G20 gets together, it's not conservatives who destroy property and cause chaos.
I could literally go on and on, but let's try to have some perspective here. Violence is a product of the fringe, on either side, and it's sickening to try to use it for political advantage. Those who commit violence in the name of politics deserve political change no more than they deserve leniency in sentencing. Violence furthers no cause. The only call to action that violence has ever motivated Americans to is the retaliation on attackers. Somehow I think the liberals know that very well.

The media and politicians who are trying to construct a meme of conservative violence as we run up to the 2010 elections should only face the weapon they fear most; the ballot.

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Do the Democrats naively think that the Republicans will not present evidence of their threats of violence? Are they trying to tie violence to the views of people against the healthcare bill, against illegal immigration, against abortion, etc.? Anyone against their progressive, socialist plans are now enemies.

The plan is to use the word "racist" often, to exaggerate or fabricate stories of violence (though some may be true).

Psalm 139:14

Mar 25, 2010

A GOP leader reports threats, assails Democrats

05:58 PM

By Chip Somodevilla

Our colleagues at On Politics have been following the Republican blow-back from yesterday's news about threats and vandalism aimed at Democrats who voted for the health overhaul.

Leading the charge was the No. 2 GOP House official, Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, who accused the opposition of playing politics and "dangerously fanning the flames" with reports of threats and vandalism. At the same time, Cantor reported that a bullet was shot through a window at his campaign office at 1 a.m. Tuesday and that he had received threatening emails. He did not elaborate.

Richmond police say the bullet appears to have been fired skyward, because it broke the window in a downward trajectory, On Politics notes.

Here's how Cantor opened his news conference earlier today:

"Let me be clear: I do not condone violence. There are no leaders in this building, no rank and file members in this building, that condone violence, period. I've received threats since I assumed elected office, not only because of my position but also because I'm Jewish. I've never blamed anyone in this body for that, period. Any suggestion that a leader in this body would incite threats or acts against other members is akin to saying that I would endanger myself, my wife or my children.

"Just recently I have been directly threatened. A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week, and I've received threatening e-mails. But I will not release them, because I believe such actions will only encourage more to be sent."

Other Republicans reported that they, too, had received threats, and on the House floor several GOP lawmakers condemned violence and threats and the Democrats' reaction.

See how Fox News and the Washington Post have covered the issue. Memeorandum has links to various blogs.

Update at 6:33 p.m. ET: New York City Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner received a package today with white powder and an angry letter telling him to "drop dead" because of his vote on health care. Initial tests indicated the powder is harmless, NBC New York reports.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... emocrats/1