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After Scalise shooting, Pelosi blames Fox News for violent threats against her
Topic Started: Jun 15 2017, 03:53 PM (213 Views)
Copper
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Watch the video, she is over the age limit.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/15/after-scalise-shooting-pelosi-blames-fox-news-for-violent-threats-against-her.html

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[After Scalise shooting, Pelosi blames Fox News for violent threats against her

A day after calling for political unity in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting, top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi returned to the partisan scuffle Thursday by suggesting Fox News is responsible for inflaming tensions – and ripping Republicans for “outrageous” comments blaming rhetoric on the left.

Speaking with reporters, Pelosi invoked Fox News as she recalled a man who was jailed years ago for threats against her. “His mother said, `He just watches too much Fox TV.’ That’s what she said,” Pelosi said. She added that the “crude and disgusting” things she hears come “from the outside.”

The House minority leader concluded, “It may be inflamed, I don’t know. This mom said it was Fox News.”

Pelosi was apparently referring to the 2010 case of San Francisco man Gregory Lee Giusti, who was accused of making threatening phone calls to the then-House speaker. Officials said he recited her home address and warned her not to back ObamaCare if she wanted to see her house again.

The suspect who attacked a Republican baseball practice in northern Virginia on Wednesday – injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and four others – was a Bernie Sanders supporters who held anti-Trump beliefs.

The attack has prompted calls for media and lawmakers of all political stripes to dial down their rhetoric. Some conservatives also have pointed to an increasingly caustic environment on the left.

"The intensity on the left is very real," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News on Wednesday.

Pelosi suggested Thursday that such claims are hypocritical. “I think that the comments made by my Republican colleagues are outrageous,” she said, again citing threatening calls she received.

The California lawmaker called Wednesday’s shooting “despicable” and “horrible” but challenged what she described as “sanctimonious” Republicans.

A day earlier, Pelosi and House Speaker Paul Ryan were united on the House floor, in their first official comments on the attack.

“We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish,” Ryan said. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.”

“We are not one caucus or the other in this house today,” Pelosi had said on Wednesday.



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She's right, it must now be one (and only one) of the following:

Fox News :shrug: Russians

I think there should be an investigation.
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Copper
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OK, then we blame all the democrat networks (which is just about all the others) for the shooting.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Is there any other way to read that than "This guy got shot, and here's a good reason why?"

Though I'm not sure of the timestamp on that tweet.
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Nancy pelosi is an idiot. She's always been an idiot, but as senility sets in she is getting worse.

She loves attention, and what better way to get it than to find a camera that's working the latest train wreck and jump in front of it...

This idiot attention whore jumped in front of another camera today to let everyone see how heartbroken she was, and having to think on her feet to come up with something to say, she gushed about the "tragic dea..........er.. shooting " of Scalise.

Democrats all across this nation should hang their heads in shame that this fool of a woman ever got elected.
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It is the opinion of Guisti's mother that he watches too much Fox News. Pelosi is reaching for anything. Here is one of the quotes I find interesting:

"Pelosi suggested Thursday that such claims are hypocritical. “I think that the comments made by my Republican colleagues are outrageous,” she said, again citing threatening calls she received."

What exactly is the connection with her Republican colleagues and threatening phone calls? Is she trying to tie her colleagues to threatening phone calls? It does not make sense, she is grasping at straws. I believe it is possible Pelosi does not run in 2018, citing age and spending time with family as the reason.
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The victim's fault

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/19/scalise-attack-was-to-some-degree-self-inflicted-claims-cbss-scott-pelley.html

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Scalise attack was 'to some degree self-inflicted' claims CBS's Scott Pelley

Thursday evening, CBS's Scott Pelley, who officially ended his tenure as the network's Evening News anchor the following evening, told viewers that "It's time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress Wednesday was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree, self-inflicted."

It's clear from Pelley's subsequent commentary that his answers to all three elements are "Yes." It's equally clear from the examples he supplied as support that he sees (or wants viewers to see) the problem as predominantly about the conduct of those on the right.

Transcript below:

It's time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress, yesterday, was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree, self-inflicted.

Too many leaders, and political commentators, who set an example for us to follow, have led us into an abyss of violent rhetoric which, it should be no surprise, has led to violence.

Yesterday was not the first time.

In December last year, a man with an assault rifle stormed into a Washington-area pizzeria to free child sex slaves whom Hillary Clinton was holding there -- or at least that's what political blog sites had said. He fired into a locked door to discover no children in chains.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has called the president the "most dangerous in history." The shooter yesterday was a Sanders volunteer.

You might think that no sane person would act on political hate speech, and you'd be right. Trouble is, there are a lot of Americans who struggle with mental illness.


The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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George K
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"She got raped because she was wearing a skirt that's too short."

Is that really the argument that Pelley (D-CBS) is making?
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Copper
Jun 19 2017, 09:43 AM
CBS's Scott Pelley, who officially ended his tenure as the network's Evening News anchor the following evening...
Really? Never even heard the name before.

Remember Cronkite and Brinkley? Not to mention Lippman and Morrow. Or Mencken and Stone. Household names, then and perhaps even now.

How different the media landscape today.
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Yes, it used to be that everyone knew and had some level of trust for all the network anchors.

Now that you mention it I couldn't name any of them.

I can still remember watching Walter Cronkite's final show. I made a point of not missing it.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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