Should we blame the Left for the threats to Eric Cantor and his family?
By Norman Leahy | Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | Politics, VirginiaThe RTD’s Bart Hinkle is at his bloggy best in this post contrasting the Left’s reflexive blaming of violent tea party rhetoric for the shooting of Rep. Gabriele Giffords and their deafening silence regarding the violent threats to Eric Cantor and his family. Take it away, Mr. Hinkle:
…I haven’t seen anyone suggest that the guilty parties were motivated by the vituperative rhetoric directed at Cantor by the left.
What vituperative rhetoric? Oh, just the accusations that he is a traitor who is “trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks,” a “callous” pol who engages in “political hostage-taking with lives and livelihoods in the balance,” a rich guy who hates ordinary people, not to mention an unethical crook who “uses insider info to make money” … and let’s not even get into the vile anti-semitic rants out there …
Go read it all. And pay particular attention to the screen shot of a Google search Bart did using the terms “Eric Cantor je.” The terms Google suggested to complete the search are eye-opening.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Examiner contributor.
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One Response to "Should we blame the Left for the threats to Eric Cantor and his family?"
No offense to you because you bring up pretty good points. But…
Define the “Left”. It appears journalists engage in personal conflicts, like a soap opera, rather than reporting the issues.
Fact is, Barrack Obama’s policies HAVE destroyed this country but no one wishes to engage on these. Really, no one whose been in politics for an extented period of time can, because his accomplices are the Republicans and Democrats in Congress…and the Judical branch. They have either been trained well or immersed in it to a point at which they don’t understand.
…and who’s running cover? Even though you have a political class that’s out-of-control and a media crew that’s only assisting. The politicians throws a bone and the media monitors how the citizens react. That’s it.
Heck, why not blame the left? Because then we will not gauge (and engage) the true issues.
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