Establishment media are panicking as they are on the verge of losing their beloved Democratic congressional majorities. Now, they are demanding that Republicans stop criticizing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The arbiters of truth in our media have decided that the attack on Paul Pelosi in his home was somehow directly the result of Republican rhetoric rather than an attack by a man who “has been mentally ill for a long time” and “went off his rocker” because of drug use. The New York Times used three “journalists” to tie the attack to Republicans campaigning against Nancy Pelosi in 2006 and 2009. (At least the guy has a really long political memory, even if he is insane.)
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE ATTACK ON PAUL PELOSI, AND WHAT QUESTIONS REMAIN
Margaret Brennan of CBS News demanded that Republicans pull campaign ads mentioning Pelosi because mentioning the speaker of the House in campaign ads for House candidates should be out of bounds. Politico’s Sam Stein implied the same before trying to walk it back. The implication is present in several other media write-ups, including from the Washington Post, which also used three writers to tie the attack, among other things, to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joking last year about hitting Pelosi with a gavel (the mentally ill man who attacked her husband had a hammer).
CBS News anchor loses her mind because the GOP is running political ads 9 days before a mid-term. https://t.co/VegwI3alXQ
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 30, 2022
Just gonna erase this because it’s being misunderstood . Of course pelosi is fair game for political ads. Wasn’t my point. Was trying to underscore the point of the wapo piece; that she’s the most common target of those ads. That’s all. But I was inartful! pic.twitter.com/p6gIXfOznh
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 30, 2022
It is transparent that the media screaming over this incident has nothing to do with toning down political rhetoric. It has to do with demonizing their political opposition.
The Washington Post wrote another piece (with two bylines) attacking Republicans for mentioning that both sides have a political violence problem, even though it is true and they are correct.
Don’t forget that in 2017, a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer tried to assassinate 12 Republican congressmen during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game. At that time, Sanders was claiming that GOP healthcare policy would kill people.
Earlier this year, after liberal protests targeted the homes of Supreme Court justices over abortion, a man plotting to kill three justices was arrested outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home. There was no liberal handwringing over Democratic rhetoric then — certainly no demands that Democrats pull campaign ads or stop talking about the Supreme Court or the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
That’s not even including other incidents of violence, including the Black Lives Matter riots. In the end, political rhetoric doesn’t cause violence — violent or crazy people do. Nothing short of outright incitement — “kill so-and-so,” or a disguised version of that — should be taken as incitement.
But the way you know the media don’t actually care about rhetoric is that it only becomes an issue when Republicans can somehow be blamed for something. That is what establishment media decided to do here before we even knew anything about the culprit. This is nothing more than a transparent attempt to get Republicans to stop campaigning or, more likely, to demonize Republicans further for daring to campaign after the attack.
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They know that there is nothing they can do to stop Republicans from taking back the House, so they intend to shame them for the next two years as the party of violence. You wouldn’t expect anything else from the messaging arm of the Democratic Party.
