RNC chair laments 'unfair' connections between GOP rhetoric and Paul Pelosi assault

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel pushed back Sunday at "unfair" Democratic warnings that heated GOP political rhetoric contributed to the brutal assault of Paul Pelosi.

"You can't say people saying ‘fire Pelosi’ or ‘take back the House’ is saying ‘go do violence.’ It’s just unfair," McDaniel said on "Fox News Sunday" when asked about Democrats who drew a direct line between her party's villainizing of Nancy Pelosi and the Friday home invasion that left the speaker's husband hospitalized.

The debate over political rhetoric's role in the Paul Pelosi attack, the perpetrator of which steeped himself in online disinformation about fraud in the 2020 election and other conspiracy theories, dominated the airwaves Sunday. On both sides of the aisle, major players broadly condemned the violence — even as they openly disagreed on the root causes, with some Republicans arguing that Democratic policies played a role.

McDaniel blamed the attack on rising crime, for which she blamed Pelosi's party: “If this weren’t Paul Pelosi, this criminal would probably be out on the street tomorrow ... This is what Democrat policies are bringing."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rnc-chair-laments-unfair-connections-between-gop-rhetoric-and-paul-pelosi-assault/ar-AA13xUdr

House GOP campaign chief spars with CBS host over ‘#FirePelosi’ tweet with gun

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the chair of the House GOP campaign arm, sparred with CBS’s Margaret Brennan over a tweet Emmer sent attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) days before her husband was allegedly assaulted.

During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” Brennan asked Emmer about his tweet on Wednesday that included a video of Emmer shooting a firearm in what appears to be an indoor range.

“Enjoyed exercising my Second Amendment rights with @KellyCooperAZ & General @JackBergman_MI1,” the tweet read. “13 days to make history. Let’s #FirePelosi.”

On CBS, Brennan chastised the Minnesota Republican for the tweet after Paul Pelosi, the Speaker’s husband, was allegedly assaulted at their San Francisco home early Friday morning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-gop-campaign-chief-spars-with-cbs-host-over-firepelosi-tweet-with-gun/ar-AA13xMMo

These people just ooze stupidity.

[bullimiami]

1. asshole. there is a direct line there.

[emulatorloo]

2. Aw, suck it up snowflake. Trump and Lindsey threatened violence in the street just a few months

ago.

Then you have these GOPer pols wielding guns in advertising talking about “firing” and “targeting Democrats.”

What did you think was going to happen, Ronna “Disingenous Liar” Romney?


All it takes is for some people to get hyped up over daily incendiary rhetoric of MAGA for some to take action.

[gratuitous]

3. They know exactly what they're saying

"It's unfair to characterize our electioneering as calls to violence!" You know, Ronna, I agree. But who is doing that? Who has specifically cited your slogans to "Fire Pelosi" or "Take Back the House" as calls to violence? When did they say that? The answers are "nobody" and "never," as Ronna Romney well knows. The people at Fox News Sunday know this, too. It's dishonest and disingenuous bullshit and they all know it. They say it so that the next guy who goes off his nut will have a grievance against something that never happened.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. 100%

It’s always the same. Only, this year, it’s incredibly terrible.

These people suck.

[elias7]

4. I agree with her that, "You can't say people saying 'fire Pelosi' is saying 'go do violence'.

Except that that is not what people are saying that is inciting violence. But of course Fox News will never call her on that.

[crickets]

12. 👆 This. nt

[Pantagruel]

6. Consider

"Marjorie Taylor Greene previously said Nancy Pelosi was 'guilty of treason' and told her followers it was a 'crime punishable by death.'"

[area51]

7. Ronna Romney should stfu. n/t

[Conjuay]

8. the goon

ate all that BS up, and decided that it was up to him to be ‘the hero’. You’ve been laying the ground word for decades, don’t all of a sudden start the, It wasn’t US!!” horseshit.

[sanatanadharma]

9. The entire advertising industry is built on the principle "words have power"

Sorry GOP, there is no escape from truth, reality, or responsibility. Incitement is action. Actions have consequences.

Everyone can believe anything they want, relatively consequence free (gravity always wins).
Speak those thoughts with words and karmic-consequences will follow (see above).

[Wednesdays]

10. "...before her husband was allegedly assaulted." Allegedly!?

Then I guess he allegedly went to the hospital to allegedly go into surgery for allegedly several hours. Allegedly.

[IcyPeas]

11. where's DNC chair Jaime Harrison? was he on any of the sunday shows today?

[Solly Mack]

13. Of course she conveniently leaves out all the hate speech, calls to violence, actual violence

and instead tries to make it all about them being the true victims because - Golly! - all they said was "Fire Pelosi" and there's nothing bad about that.

Poor dears.

Never to blame for their own actions.