What’s this? “Heated rhetoric” accompanied by “violent imagery” on MSNBC.
Tsk…tsk…
Via HotAirPundit:
This is a screen grab from the opening 2 minutes of Chris Matthews Hardball Thursday night (January 20, 2011 -Ed.). Next to him is a picture of the U.S. Capitol building with a bullseye target on it along with gun crosshairs.
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And what does ‘Fire on the Right’ mean? What message does this send to someone who is flipping through the channels?
Matthews on Sarah Palin’s symbolism.
MATTHEWS: Okay, this is idiotic. This is, everybody knows what a gun sight looks like. Everybody knows that Sarah Palin is very familiar with the imagery of a gun sight. She’s out there doing it on television with a big telescopic lens with a gun, gun sight. She, the language was bull’s eye. The language was clearly lock and reload and everything. And now to come out and say that it’s something to do with surveying details is nonsense. She is not answering. I will say this again. If she doesn’t get off of this and stop trying to have somebody else skate her off of it like Glenn Beck or this person Mansour, she is going to be erased as a potential candidate. You cannot run like this. We can disagree.
Chris, was your graphic written in the “language of lock and load”? Could it inspire murder? If a psycho goes on a shooting spree on the Capitol would you take the blame?
Idiot.
H/T Van Helsing
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Try watching the segment before mindlessly reposting information you picked up elsewhere and didn’t bother researching. Even the question you asks makes you look a little dim.
None of which changes the fact, that he used the very symbolism for which he and the entire left ranted and railed against after the Tucson shootings. Point being, Matthews used a bullseye and crosshairs after the left took great pains to pin the Tucson shootings on the right pointing to Palin’s symbols as the prime reason.
So using progressive logic against Matthews, one could say he was targeting Congress for assassination and/or could be blamed if someone else had committed such a horrific act.
Progressives, knee jerk reactionaries void of all logic and reason.
Who are now upping the stakes…I smell desperation. And it smells damn good. Oh …yeah…
Look at the date! It’s well after the shootings in Tucson.
The hypocrisy of the Left is astounding and surreal.
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