“The liberal media have been preaching for years that conservatives are the ones who invoke violent imagery and rhetoric. Yet in the space of two days, the radical, pro-Obama left calls us ‘son-of-a-bitches’ and says they want to ‘take us out.’ And they follow that with a hideously violent game where they do just that – depicting ways of shooting prominent conservatives, presidential candidates and journalists,” said Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. “The news media would be in an uproar if violence had been incited against liberals. Their silence disgusts me.”
Just read this news on my phone. Not at all surprised.
It completely legitimizes the claims that a lot of the people on the left are huge hypocrates.
After all that happened to Gabby Gifford and the claims that the left made, we have a leftist individual glamourizing the killing of conservative folks on a video game.
Normally I would say it is just a video game and I dont think video games cause people to become violent. People either have a propensity to commit violent unprovoked acts or they do not.
But given the current economic situation and everything else going I really think that this was in poor taste and further encourages violence towards people because they have dissimilar political views.
In an already volatile time in our country all that video does is add fuel to the fire.
Martial metaphors have been part and parcel of political rhetoric forever. To suggest that either political party is going to set aside inflammatory and/or incendiary language as they strive to gin up their respective bases is simply naive.
Both sides are equally hypocritical and both sides never fail to engage in some self-serving demagoguery on the issue whenever they spot an opportunity.
What else are they going to do? Start telling the American people the truth? :rolleyes:
For President Obama to give the speech he did in Phoenix after the Gifford’s shooting and then stroll onto the same stage after Hoffa’s introductory remarks without calling him out is pretty lame.
I have to admit, I’m surprised to see Huckabee giving the guy his first amendment due. He’s absolutely right, the guy has every right to make the game under the first amendment, but the hypocrisy of the left is rather apparent here (and with the Jimmy Hoffa rant).
The business of linking Hoffa’s outrageous comments and a couple whackjobs who whip up a free video “game” espousing their whackjobism to demonstrate a clear conspiracy of violence on behalf of all liberals is exactly the kind of terrible journalism I’ve come to expect from the Faux News Entertainment Network.
Hoffa’s comments were utterly deplorable, and he well and truly deserves to be taken to task for his entirely inappropriate vitriol.
President Obama is also entirely worthy of criticism for failing to rebuke Hoffa’s comments.
This stupid-ass video “game”, which I doubt took more than a week to make, is all kinds of full retard and giving it any attention or weight is playing right into the morons who created it’s hands (who, by the way, are receiving tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or even millions more page hits, and thus revenue from this trumped up conspiracy).
Isn’t it amazing how much less stupid everything gets when things are taken for what they are, instead of connecting them into something they aren’t?
So you don’t see the pattern of liberal hypocrisy when it comes to just about everything? Including the recent BS about violent or even symbolic rhetoric?
I do.
“Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race just a moment ago. My friend Andy Shaw used the term ‘in the crosshairs’ in talking about the candidates. We’re trying, we’re trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he’s covered politics for a long time, but we’re trying to get away from that kind of language. We won’t always be perfect. So hold us accountable when we don’t meet your standards.” -John King, CNN Anchor
I remember the left engaging in group think and trying to tell everyone how to speak after the Gifford incident.
Everyone’s a hypocrit to some degree, I don’t understand why you think attempting to prove that means anything.
If you’ll pay attention to my post, I attacked the notion of a coordinated CONSPIRACY (which is obvious total bullshit). If all you can come up with is “so and so is a hypocrit”, big whoop, I guarantee that you and I could be called as such as well, and I guarantee that you’ll find hypocrisy everywhere you choose to look for it.
The issue isn’t hypocrisy, the issue is focusing on shit that matters, like the frontman for the teamster’s union cranking up the inflamatory bullshit to 11, and not focusing on shit that doesn’t matter or can’t be changed, like a literally worthless video game and the ability to recognize perpetually flawed humanity and perpetually flawed.
The difference is the MSM will jump all over a republican or Tea Party type if they said they same thing. It would be wall to wall coverage for days if not more. Just like the silence from the MSM when the “purple shirts” from SEIU beat up Tea Party protesters. If Tea Party types beat up a union type, you know the drill. It would be wall to wall coverage for ever.
Because the left is telling people how to speak, then they violate their own standards and selectively attack people for using the English language. Pretty simple really.
Yep. It is the double standard that makes it important.
Imagine the demagoguery that would ensue if a Republican or Tea Party member created a First Person Shooter called “Union Busters” which involved a character going postal in a SEIU building or MSNBC Studio. It is all we would hear about for a week. Every Republican would be forced to publicly repudiate the game and kowtow to the media until they moved on to the next fake scandal.
So when one side has been playing Gotcha for over 30 years with the MSM the other side isn’t supposed to use the same tactic against them? Wrong.
The basis for all of this comes from the so-called left’s world view, they really and truly think they can achieve utopia. Of course their version…….
If you knew you had the answers to all of society’s ills, what lie would you not tell? What crime would you not commit to achieve your goal?
Awww, I’m sorry. Was the big bad news media mean to you? You gonna cry about it? :rolleyes:
What the hell are we, 5? As I stated before, everyone’s a hypocrit (at least in the eyes of others) so playing the same stupid game of “Gotcha” is just as special olympics worthy when you do it as when they do it; “but they started it” is neither an excuse, nor a justification.
There is actually something that matters here, synthesizing reasons to declare a Liberal Hypocrisy Conspiracy(!) isn’t it.
The difference is the Democrats are the FIRST ones to go out crying about the incendiary language. Do you remember Pelosi’s tears when she was still SOTH and talking about the Tea Party? Within mere hours of Gabriel Giffords was shot they were out there blaming the right wing and suggesting it was another McVeigh right wing attack.
Ive never seen Republicans run with the same fervor as democrats do when it comes to this type of stuff.
Then I can’t really argue with that, except to say that even though it’d be borderline political suicide (or maybe not so borderline), it’d still be right.
Reread the thread. You are actually the one crying about it. Lefties use a tactic then try to demagogue their opponents for starting to use the same tactic against them.
You might be. Most adults seem to understand why a biased media is bad for the republic.
You can state that as many times as you want and it will still be a bullshit rationalization. The point is not whether or not politicians from all parties get caught not practicing what they preach from time to time, it’s the double standard applied when they do.
