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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders CALLS Planned Parenthood Shooting A Consequence Of Republican Rhetoric [View all]Segami
(14,923 posts)7. "..Motives behind Planned Parenthood terror?..
"...If we have to asklet's start with the GOP/Fox/Limbaugh
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Odious messages are spewed daily via hate media like the televised Fox News, written media like Breibart, and radio shows like The Rush Limbaugh show. These outlets are now being accused of being partly responsible for Fridays act of terrorism. Olivia Kittel with Media Matters cites some of the malign public attacks against Planned Parenthood:
We have GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, lying to one of the largest television audiences this year. She claims there is a video of a Planned Parenthood clinic doing unthinkable, even though it did not take place at Planned Parenthood health center:
Public radio programs like The Rush Limbaugh Show are just as bad or worse. Limbaugh, known for being racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBT gun-hugger, uses phrases like, Planned Parenthood butchery, perpetuating the already festering hatred towards pro-choice organizations. Media Matters recorded a show where Rush Limbaugh actually said:
None of the above have suffered repercussions for their lies, other than Limbaugh who has lost thousands of advertisers due to a national protest and boycott. But whats that compared to promoting menacing disinformation that might/can lead to the deaths of innocent people?
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/28/1454831/-A-motive-for-the-Colorado-Springs-shooting-Do-we-have-to-ask
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Odious messages are spewed daily via hate media like the televised Fox News, written media like Breibart, and radio shows like The Rush Limbaugh show. These outlets are now being accused of being partly responsible for Fridays act of terrorism. Olivia Kittel with Media Matters cites some of the malign public attacks against Planned Parenthood:
Fox News contributor Erick Erickson said Republicans who won't vote to defund the health provider "should be destroyed, " and conservative blog RedState called Planned Parenthood "our Auschwitz." Fox host Bill O'Reilly described Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue donation as "Nazi stuff," while many conservative media figures drew comparisons to the notorious Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele, who conducted painful and often fatal human experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
We have GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, lying to one of the largest television audiences this year. She claims there is a video of a Planned Parenthood clinic doing unthinkable, even though it did not take place at Planned Parenthood health center:
Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain. -Carly Fiorina
Public radio programs like The Rush Limbaugh Show are just as bad or worse. Limbaugh, known for being racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBT gun-hugger, uses phrases like, Planned Parenthood butchery, perpetuating the already festering hatred towards pro-choice organizations. Media Matters recorded a show where Rush Limbaugh actually said:
You know how to stop abortion? Require each one occur with a gun. -Rush Limbaugh
None of the above have suffered repercussions for their lies, other than Limbaugh who has lost thousands of advertisers due to a national protest and boycott. But whats that compared to promoting menacing disinformation that might/can lead to the deaths of innocent people?
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/28/1454831/-A-motive-for-the-Colorado-Springs-shooting-Do-we-have-to-ask
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Bernie Sanders CALLS Planned Parenthood Shooting A Consequence Of Republican Rhetoric [View all]
Segami
Nov 2015
OP
When Republican rhetoric is combined with easy access to weapons, it makes the perfect recipe
AgingAmerican
Nov 2015
#5
Many big Wall Street donors don't like planned parenthood. You can't make them uncomfortable.
whereisjustice
Nov 2015
#11
We see this in thread after thread that casts Sanders in a positive light
AgingAmerican
Nov 2015
#49
I would say the consequences were intended. Conservatives want violence. They know
whereisjustice
Nov 2015
#10
Then maybe he should not be a part of that by standing with Republicans for votes, telling them to
seabeyond
Nov 2015
#16
Claiming the Dems are coming for grampa's squirrel rifle over the mantelpiece is a wedge issue.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2015
#28
Like Hillary did when she said we need to find "common ground" with them on abortion?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#44
What doesn't make sense to me is that if you really want social justice, go with the Progressive
rhett o rick
Nov 2015
#50
The RW's practice of egging on the American public to hate is like a competent adult egging
valerief
Nov 2015
#30
Once again Bernie speaks truth and shows HE has guts. Has anyone else said this?
Ferd Berfel
Nov 2015
#55