you can’t back up your initial position and are now awkwardly trying to walk it back.
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I’m not walking back anything. I stand by my original declaration that the hyperbole goes beyond what is appropriate from Rep. and Dem. voices. And…I was only attempting to point out that any examples of violence that YOU might believe are tied to a RW microphone, does not make it a fact. If we “hear” that some murderer is a devoted listener of FOX news, Limbaugh & Beck or Schultz and O’Donnell – what does that PROVE? Nothing. It’s not a factual conclusion that they were driven over the edge by any media outlet. It’s only opinion.

And for FWIW Frank, be very careful before you believe some of the things you hear from any news outlet. Remember when it was initially reported that the Tuscon shooter was a Tea Party guy…and then we found out later that that was wrong. And then there was the time some were telling us that it was Palin and some silly map that was responsible for the Giffords shooting, and then we were told later that Loughner was apolitical, didn’t watch TV or listen to talk radio. (Here’s a link for that in case you want it:)

www.mediabistro.com/tvnew...

I’m sure I can find more examples like this too. We all need to be very discerning Frank, ‘cuz we run into some pretty sloppy reporting again and again.
And by the way, I’m no big Palin fan and don’t know alot about the Tea Party, I just try my best to get to the truth and weed out the BS.

Thanks for the chat Frank.

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Let me leave you with a couple of things to think about.

If there were any equivalence between left and right wing rhetoric leading to gun violence, right wing media would NEVER shut up about a left wing shooter committing mass violence. Look at the examples you gave of left wing incitement. Ed Schultz having a meltdown? That’s the best you can do? If someone killed someone because of it, you might have something there, since the right wing outrage factory would never let anyone forget about it.

When a right winger loses it, right wing media does its damndest to downplay it. But when right wingers lose it, they really don’t play around, to the extent even the mainstream media can’t ignore it. It was in the mainstream I first heard about what the Pittsburgh shooter filled his head with. Right wing media pretty much ignored the story. And others, when it’s discovered the killer was a follower of Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, etc.

When George Tiller was murdered, we heard all about his obsessions all over the media. On Fox, what was taked about was how O’Reilly’s inflammatory tirades about “Tiller the baby killer” had nothing to do with it. Had he been shot by a left winger, Fox would have been calling for Congress to impeach Obama.

See how it works? If there were equivalence between left and right, you would have no problem giving us chapter and verse, names, details, etc.

Gee, could it be that right wing media *isn’t* informing you? That they’re *not* giving you the full story? Or any of the story when it involves a right winger behaving badly?

Could it be that there really isn’t equivalence between left and right,…

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Wrong wrong wrong. Only Repiglickin’s are such extreme nutbags.

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Anti-Tutsi articles and graphic cartoons began appearing in the Kangura newspaper from around 1990.
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