Violent speech: Its Okay if Youre a Republican

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I’m not going to defend Kathy Griffin. She won’t even defend herself, so I’m not going to do it for her.

Was she wrong to pose for a photo with an object designed to look like the severed head of Donald Trump? Sure she was. It was a tasteless thing to do, beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior.

You know what else is tasteless and out of bounds? How about a Republican Congressional candidate (now Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte) being charged with battery against a reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question? Or a Republican governor (Greg Abbott of Texas) joking about shooting reporters?

Or, for a more direct comparison, what about has-been rocker Ted Nugent suggesting a little over a year ago that then-President Barack Obama ought to find himself on the business end of a noose?

Where is all the outrage when conservatives misbehave? Why is all the tut-tutting and pearl-clutching reserved only for liberals who go beyond what should be the accepted limits of political discourse?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/it%e2%80%99s-okay-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-republican/ar-BBBJDHm?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[Initech]

1. What about that murderer in Portland? Not a peep from the right!

The man accused of killing an Army veteran and a recent college graduate on a Portland train shouted about patriotism, free speech, and the enemies of America in his first court appearance on Tuesday.

Jeremy Christian, a 35-year-old known locally as a white supremacist, was scheduled to be arraigned on charges that include aggravated murder. He was charged in Friday's killings of 53-year-old Ricky John Best and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, two men who stood up to Christian as he yelled at a Muslim teenager and her black friend. As deputies led him into the courtroom, Christian began to rant.

"Free speech or die," he shouted. "This is America, get out if you don't like free speech."

"You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism," he continued.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/jeremy-christian-first-court-appearance?utm_term=.liJ1k8ZXe#.frwYyopRv

[gratuitous]

5. President Trump said it was unacceptable

I'm not sure, though, just what it was that Trump found unacceptable about the Portland murders. The fact of the murders? Too many murders? Not enough murders? How gauche it was for that dumbass to slit throats when firearms are so cheap and plentiful (he might not have been allowed to own or possess firearms, though)? Something about the whole thing was unacceptable to Trump, though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. He stated that only after calls started rising and he had made 20 other tweets before that. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Has to be said: the FReak site members who said best to sit silently were condemned by others who

The RW FReak site members who said it would be best to sit silently while a man abused two young women were condemned by others who told them to get their big boy pants on and defend women. They praised the men who came to help the two women.

[Txbluedog]

2. What else do you expect from the Masters of Hypocrisy

[spanone]

3. K&R...

[RoBear]

4. You

nailed it!!!

[ladym55]

8. Of course it is

The Republican Party IS the party of "family values" after all. For eight long years the right wing made sure we ALL understood that Obama was the "other," a threat to all that was right and good.

The list of right wingers using violent imagery is extensive. There was Sarah Pallin putting targets on Democratic legislators (like Gabby Giffords, and we all know how THAT worked out), Bill O'Reilly and his campaign against Tiller the Baby Killer ... but Kathy Griffin's one, stupid, tasteless joke is the crime of the century.

I am still waiting for one right winger to apologize for ANY of the hate-filled violent imagery that has polluted our atmosphere for far too long.

[ananda]

9. Two words: Greg Gianforte

He gets away with felonious bodily assault.

But Dems are crucified for anything.

[Initech]

12. Yup, it's truly sickening.

They can get away with murder if they have the Magic R next to their name.

[malaise]

10. Yep they even remain silent after their goons murder

people defending those they attack.

Fuck 'em!

[Angry Dragon]

11. because republicans have family values and are patroits, love guns and god

they are not sure which one they love more

[TomSlick]

13. It's difficult but

Democrats need to be the adults in the room. The right-wingers have always been - and likely always will be - loud children. At some point, I hope sooner rather than later, this nightmare of an infantile president and his enablers in Congress will be over. It will occur sooner if the public see Democrats as an adult alternative.

Ted Nugent, Greg Gianforte and Greg Abbott are not role models we should adopt.

[Skittles]

14. they don't act like children, they act like THUGS

[TomSlick]

16. True. We shouln't be thugs either.

[AgadorSparticus]

15. +1,000!!!