National Review’s editors recently published an excellent piece decrying Democrats’ encouragement of leftist mob violence:
Recommend reading the @NRO Editorial on how leading Democrats and members of the media are now encouraging mobs to intimidate people into getting their preferred political outcomes: https://t.co/plkPaWKolz
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 12, 2018
Washington Post congressional reporter Paul Kane doesn’t think National Review is in any position to condemn political violence because, well, see for yourself:
This Nat'l Review editorial would have a lot more potency if NR owned up to fact that 2010 right-wing anger/mobs played a role in dehumanizing Congress, helping lead to Giffords shooting in 2011. https://t.co/7Nd37igSEg
— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) October 12, 2018
What?
This is how a flack tweets https://t.co/oiHtpfhiBI
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) October 12, 2018
This f*cking guy.
Wow. Haven't seen this one in years. Who wants to take it? https://t.co/IEoKQThVv1
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 12, 2018
What evidence do you have that shooting was politically motivated?
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) October 12, 2018
Show your work, Washington Post reporter. https://t.co/ubtVCSCN21
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 12, 2018
Yeah, he can’t.
Is the left trying to re-pimp the Tucson massacre??? Really? https://t.co/hRr1zR5MhL
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) October 12, 2018
Loughner had no discernible political affiliation or motive. He was obsessed with "lucid dreaming" and angry at Giffords for refusing to answer this question to his satisfaction at a previous rally: "What is government if words have no meaning?"
— John Sexton (@verumserum) October 12, 2018
Recommended
Shouldn’t a reporter know this fact, rather than internalizing liberal mythology?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 12, 2018
You'd think. Especially eight years later.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 12, 2018
Absolutely no evidence Jared Loughner was influenced by anything political.https://t.co/mdV6ldcjiz
Nice work, Paul. Great reporting. Much honesty. No agenda or anything. https://t.co/9yLgqyrC5U
— Beto O'Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) October 12, 2018
Giffords was shot by a guy who said the government was controlling our minds using grammar. https://t.co/ebDfOum9H7
— Skeletaster ??? (@neontaster) October 12, 2018
All the evidence I've seen points to it not being politically motivated and, unless you have evidence to back up this claim, you should really delete and correct this tweet.
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) October 12, 2018
absolutely false, and completely debunked. Delete this
— Javier E. David (@TeflonGeek) October 12, 2018
We’re sure he’ll get around to it. Or not.
Except that you’re repeating a leftist myth that is no more based in reality than Sandy Hook being a hoax.
This is the definition of Whataboutism.? https://t.co/LgsiYSEFNs
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) October 12, 2018
This not only is a lie, but the New York Times Editorial board was just sued for claiming this. https://t.co/oIhrJ1AJyF
— Lee Doren (@LDoren) October 12, 2018
Has Paul Kane forgotten already?
Paul – best correct this. Here’s the NYTimes doing so. pic.twitter.com/ZxUa2SY5e3
— ?????? ???? (@justin_hart) October 12, 2018
Paul Kane does not deserve to be taken seriously. Not as a journalist. And not as a person.
That’s assessment is far too generous.
Unbelievable. If you're not going to condemn the current dangerous trend, at least stay silent.
Instead the Washington Post Congressional Correspondent attempts a whataboutist defense for it by pointing to a long-debunked myth about the motivation for the Giffords shooting. https://t.co/KfOet2FrAc
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 12, 2018
This is the WaPo Congressional reporter, supposedly an expert at giving you straight news from one of the biggest newspapers in the country, who is unaware that he has internalized a long-debunked conspiracy theory https://t.co/xIKmQlKHrI
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) October 12, 2018
Members of the media would have a lot more potency if they'd quit regurgitating crap narratives debunked *in their own newspapers* https://t.co/1tIryHBzET https://t.co/99IIWdsPtW
— virginiahume (@virginiahume) October 12, 2018
Throw another log on the dumpster fire.
If you want to know why the mainstream media is so widely loathed and distrusted, look no further than this nonsense from the Washington Post. https://t.co/sabF0nSQF7
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 12, 2018
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Update:
Paul Kane’s really sorry, you guys.
Sorry. This tweet incorrectly suggested that the tea party was to blame for Giffords shooting. Police never determined a motive for her shooting. https://t.co/rrzwz4Hrp4
— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) October 12, 2018
So sincere.
You ought to delete both tweets, especially the original false tweet that's now been shared nearly a thousand times, and correct them with a new one so that you're not spreading even more falsehood.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) October 12, 2018
"Sorry."
How about deleting the Tweet so it disappears from timelines of the many who shared it, then put up a lone Tweet explaining what you did?
Uneffingbelievable. https://t.co/bM4VEiqkaT
— Beto O'Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) October 12, 2018