TheMastersNemesis (7,573 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018954649
Kathy Griffin May Have Gone Too Far, But GOP Evil Crap Never Challenged.
During the campaign calls for harm to Hillary or Obama went unanswered. Racial slurs, calls for violence, assault on a reporter and calls for militia protection et al go unchallenged by the media. Everything the GOP does is ok. Being openly racist, bigoted and misogynistic and even celebrating it or also calling its followers to act is ok.
Tired of both sides do it when ALL the violence comes from them. I agree the Griffin pic is grisly and certainly showed some bad judgement. But when do we start lambasting these GOP goons, racists and thugs.
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEN DID YOU ****S EVER STOP BITCHING ABOUT EVERYTHING THE RIGHT DID OR SAID OR IMPLIED!?!?!?!?
Star Member yallerdawg (10,192 posts)
1. Second Amendment remedies?
Yup! DU keeping it classy. First post is about armed violence against the GOP.
Star Member calimary (44,502 posts)
2. Totally. Some really horrid images aimed at President Obama, and then also Hillary Clinton,
come immediately to my mind.
AND that reprehensible t-shirt: "Rope. Tree. Journalist."
And nobody much cared about that, much less throw a shit-fit about it.
I do not condone that image. Let me just go on the record about that. Yes she pushed it a little bit too far. But let's get - AND KEEP - some perspective about this.
Besides, as a retired reporter/anchor, gotta say - about that "Rope. Tree. Journalist" t-shirt - it's ****ing PERSONAL. And nobody's condemned that, as far as I've seen or heard, except for Joy Reid.
I never heard about that T-Shirt. It seems it was a real thing!
A man and his T-shirt, photographed at a Trump rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were the source of public outcry this week. In the photo—taken and tweeted by Reuters—the man is turned away from the camera. The back of his shirt reads: “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.” Two women, both white, one very young, and one very old, smile delightedly beside him.
Story in November 8th, 2016... I still don't remember it.
Let’s call him Bob.
Bob is a 58-year-old Navy veteran who lives in a town of about 150 people near the Tennessee/Georgia border.
So... no name...no photo of his face... just a t-shirt the left is angry at.
The shirt in the Minneapolis photo was, according to the lettering (a larger type and different font than in Bob’s design) likely bought almost a decade ago—designed by a conservative blogger known as Misha, who writes at the website Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, and purchased here. Another design read “Celebrate Diversity,” accompanied by an image of 18 handguns.
Wait... so Bob didn't make the t-shirt? It's now some blogger?
Just today [Nov 8th, 2017] , Misha took to his blog to demand credit for the shirt and its puerile message.
“It appears everybody and his brother has been selling our design long after we dropped it,” he explained. But he added, “It’s nice to see that our words still resonate loudly out there, even after we’d forgotten about them ourself [sic].”
And he had a message for the media, as well. Rattling a list of grievances allegedly perpetuated by journalists (reporting on Ken Bone and Joe the Plumber, and publishing the addresses of gun permit holders among them), Misha concluded reporters should, “be grateful that the print on that T-shirt, then as now, is mere hyperbole. Because you deserve far, far worse at this point in history. And if you don’t back off, we predict that you may just one day get it.”
So... in reality, a total non-story again from the left... eh...
Star Member global1 (16,212 posts)
3. I Want To Know How 11y/o Barron Saw Kathy Griffen's Picture?.....
Does he troll the internet? And you mean Trump's other adult kids couldn't handle this?
I don't condone what KG did with this pic - but I think this is just a good way for Trump to deflect some of the attention to this Russian thingy, Kushner's problems, Trump's disastrous foreign trip and Trump's lack of being able to manage the job as president.
It was on the news, DUmbass
Star Member Wellstone ruled (11,149 posts)
5. Remember all those images of a Noose around Obama's neck. Eight friggin years of that crap.
No, I really don't remember those...done by a TV personality with a major TV gig... in a professional photo shoot and reported in the MSM as just 'resistance'...
Democrats_win (6,310 posts)
6. Kathy Griffin gives a peek into the future?
On the one hand this "taunt" will become the new normal. Is that what we really want?
On the other hand, this is a way that our oligarchy could end. I've been calling for the guillotine for years. Vive la guillotine! Ask not for whom the guillotine falls, it falls for thee, billionaires, religious tyrants, bankers, fraud street-sters. One reign of terror will end with the beginning of another. Only the "victims" change.
AND it closes with the call for the violent overthrow of the country and the murder of the President... DU keeping the ass in Class...
