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BLUF:
\nYou want to talk about disgusting, immoral, extremist rhetoric that helps fuel violence? Look no further than the Sun\u2019s editorial itself<\/strong>. The individuals responsible for this garbage should be ashamed of themselves, and frankly, they should be looking for new employment. The fact that the editorial is still posted without correction (or better yet, a complete retraction) on the Las Vegas Sun website speaks volumes about the contempt the paper\u2019s publisher has not just for conservatives, but its readers as well.<\/p>\n

Paper blames “right wing rhetoric” for blue-on-blue political violence<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s behind the attempted assassination of Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg earlier this week? Authorities in the city haven\u2019t announced a potential motive, but the editors of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper think they\u2019ve cracked the case: far-left activist Quintez Brown shot at Greenberg because of the \u201cthe talk coming from the right about civil war and political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, seriously. Despite the fact that the political preferences of the alleged shooter were already well-known by the time the Sun published its editorial on Tuesday morning, the Sun really decided to pin the blame for the shooting on \u201cright-wing rhetoric<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

The alleged shooter, a 21-year-old political activist, was arrested near the scene and later charged with attempted murder along with four counts of wanton endangerment.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times documented this trend in a story last week based on a review of more than 75 indictments related to threats against lawmakers since 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, and particularly since the beginning of (Donald) Trump\u2019s presidency, a growing number of Americans have taken ideological grievance and political outrage to a new level, lodging concrete threats of violence against members of Congress,\u201d the newspaper wrote, adding that the threats \u201csurged during Trump\u2019s time in office and in its aftermath, as the former president\u2019s own violent language fueled a mainstreaming of menacing political speech, and lawmakers used charged words and imagery to describe the stakes of the political moment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What breathtaking dishonesty on the part of the Sun\u2019s editors here. If they knew that the suspect was a \u201cpolitical activist,\u201d then they damn sure knew the\u00a0politics of his activism<\/a>, yet they apparently chose to completely ignore the facts in order to insinuate to their readers that this was a case of some angry right-wing nut job taking a shot at a Democrat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A few paragraphs later, the editors tried to play the \u201cboth sides\u201d card, but even then they made it clear who they really blame when a socialist tries to murder a Democrat.<\/p>\n

Not all of these threats are coming from the right, but the Times found that most were. That can\u2019t come as a surprise given that so many members of the Republican Party are trying to normalize violent speech by routinely including it in their public discourse.<\/p>\n

This has to stop. Everyone \u2014 Republicans and Democrats \u2014 needs to quit talking about civil war and killing politicians, or else what happened in Louisville will go on and on.<\/p>\n

Nothing good comes from suggesting that political violence is acceptable in America, even in the most veiled terms or in the right\u2019s barely disguised language about \u201cSecond Amendment solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that the GOP has largely fueled this problem, it holds the lion\u2019s share of the responsibility for addressing it. Republicans must condemn, in the strongest terms, any member of their party who promotes or suggests political violence. That includes sitting members of the House and Senate, ex-presidents and other top leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, if a far-left activist tries to gun down a Democratic politician, what exactly does the Las Vegas Sun think the response from the Left should be? What about when left-wing groups\u00a0post bond<\/a>\u00a0in order to get the shooting suspect out of jail? Should that receive any condemnation from any Democrats, including ex-presidents and other top leaders?<\/p>\n

I wish I could say that the Sun\u2019s editorial demonstrates the dangers of opining about a situation before all the facts were known, but the writers of this editorial had access to plenty of information that they completely ignored in favor of a fantasy where Quintez Brown tried to kill Craig Greenberg because the Republicans made him do it.<\/p>\n

You want to talk about disgusting, immoral, extremist rhetoric that helps fuel violence? Look no further than the Sun\u2019s editorial itself. The individuals responsible for this garbage should be ashamed of themselves, and frankly, they should be looking for new employment. The fact that the editorial is still posted without correction (or better yet, a complete retraction) on the Las Vegas Sun website speaks volumes about the contempt the paper\u2019s publisher has not just for conservatives, but its readers as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLUF: You want to talk about disgusting, immoral, extremist rhetoric that helps fuel violence? Look no further than the Sun\u2019s editorial itself. The individuals responsible for this garbage should be ashamed of themselves, and frankly, they should be looking for new employment. The fact that the editorial is still posted without correction (or better yet, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,75,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-media","category-the-violence-inherent-in-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77585,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77584\/revisions\/77585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}