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Friday, February 25, 2011

And when one of these nutballs finally does it, conservatives will say that their incendiary rhetoric had nothing to do with it
Posted by Jill | 5:42 AM
Another dispatch from Teabag America, in this case Athen, Georgia:

At Rep. Paul Broun’s town hall meeting on Tuesday, the Athens congressman asked who had driven the farthest to be there and let the winner ask the first question.

We couldn’t hear the question in the back of the packed Oglethorpe County Commission chamber, but whatever it was, it got a big laugh. According to an outraged commenter on the article, the question was, when is someone going to shoot Obama?

I’ve asked Team Broun whether that was indeed the question and haven’t gotten an answer. The commenter accurately described the questioner and the circumstances, and no one has disputed his account.

Update: Broun’s press secretary, Jessica Morris, confirmed that the question was indeed, who is going to shoot Obama? “Obviously, the question was inappropriate, so Congressman Broun moved on,” she said.

Here was Broun’s response:

The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president. We’re going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we’ll elect somebody that’s going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

He then segued into Republicans’ budget proposal.


Got that? It's at a point now where a Republican Congressman doesn't even express outrage at a question about shooting the President of the United States. Three or four signs at a Wisconsin demonstration of fifty thousand equate Scott Walker with the worst despots in history, and the media goes into a frenzy of "Both Sides Do It." But on the right, it's perfectly OK to treat a question like this as simply "inappropriate."

Asking a Congressman when he stopped beating his wife (when he hasn't) is inappropriate. Asking a Congressman who is going to shoot the president is outrageous -- and should be treated as such. Even John McCain, who whored himself in the worst way to these people in 2008, finally drew the line at "I don't trust him...he's an Arab." Today Republicans don't even flinch when someone talks about shooting elected officials of the other party.

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Blogger jurassicpork said...
Maybe the wouldbe Lee Harvey Oswald was from the NRA and Broun didn't want to piss them off.
2/25/11, 9:10 AM  
Blogger jurassicpork said...
Another thing I'm taking away from this is, "We're having an election next year, so don't bother."

OK, what if this question had been asked two years ago? What would've been Broun's response d'ya think?
2/25/11, 9:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wis. union member pushes away Tabitha Hale's cell phone--OUTRAGE!!! Wingnut wants to know when Obama will be shot--meh.

I guess who needs democracy when we have "Second Amendment remedies?"

Quick, let me become a citizen of Egypt! At least people are SANE there....
2/25/11, 1:17 PM  
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