Wednesday, August 03, 2011

And they will know them by their double standard

The Vice President and Congressional Dems call Republicans 'terrorists' on national TV for having the temerity of disagreeing with them on the advisability of passing a piece of legislation.  And the main stream medias's response to this 'hate filled rhetoric' that 'drives violence'?  Crickets.

Now I know why reader/viewership is falling at 6% a year.  Faster please.  Jonah Goldberg has more.

The Today Show even had Debbie Wasserman Schultz on this morning for five minutes talking about Giffords. No one thought to ask her what she thought of Biden's comments? It's not like she's the Democratic party's national spokesperson or anything. Oh, wait. She is!

Instead, after the full ten minutes on Giffords, we get an update about the debt-limit situation (which is supposedly an Armageddon-level issue) and Kelly O'Donnell basically carries water for Biden on the issue by completely muddying whether he said anything of the sort at all. (His office says, no, no the vice president didn't call them terrorists, he just politely agreed with all the Democratic congressmen in the room that they "acted like terrorists." Ah, this is a distinction a team of a million Jesuits working around the clock would have a hard time slicing.)

And yet you know the next time there's the slightest, remotely exploitable tragedy or hint of violence, the same reporters, editors, producers, and politicians are going to insist that blood was spilled because of the right wing's rhetoric.

Well, go to Hell. All of you.

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