Lib talk show host wants Joe the Plumber dead.

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fskimospy

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Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: bozack
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Do you guys follow a script or something?

First right winger posts something he found off a blog or wherever. Frequently it is poorly sourced or a self defeating argument, but not always.

Then another right winger comes in and screams triumphantly "CUE THE LEFTIST APOLOGISTS!"

Then someone comes in and says something about not questioning Obama because he's the messiah or something.

It's like clockwork. Really stupid clockwork.

One can make the same generalizations of the liberal circle jerk threads that pop up here in near ludicrous speed...touche

Now any minute we will see Techs, Dave, and probabily Moonbeam

Yep. The only thing that will be missing, however, is eskimospy's outrage.

Oh I forgot, in order to make fun of one kind of idiot, I need to make fun of all idiots lest I run afoul of jbourne77, the sheriff of shit talking. Nobody's quite sure why this is, but some people seem to attempt to paint it as hypocrisy due to some atrocious reasoning that silence is a tacit endorsement.
 

Siddhartha

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Originally posted by: hellokeith
There will be no outrage. Libs (especially P&N libs) think is this was a moderate, centrist statement of attitude that is very reasonable and probably kinda funny. Letting newborn babies die on a cold table is reasonable behavior to a lib, what did you expect from a death threat on Joe "single-handedly exposed Obama's far extremist right marxist views" the plumber?

No, wanting to kill somebody because you do not agree with their politics is wrong. So is making generalizations about a large group of people based on the behavior of one asshole.

 

Ferocious

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Extremists are often hateful. No shit Sherlock.


Must be a lot of political virgins on this board.
 

Craig234

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Originally posted by: Ozoned
While idiocy is nonpartisan, the Democrats have cornered the market on this particular brand of over-the-top, lunatic-fringe idiocy in recent years.
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Cut & paste from the other thread, with one word changed.:p

About as much as McDonalds has cornered the market on health food.

You people on the right are so often just delusional.

That results in the 'discussions' not being discussions, but rather you speaking based on the deslutional facts like the one you posted.
 

Craig234

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Originally posted by: Infohawk
More importantly, it really sounded like annoyance rather than anything serious. It was more like, "I can't believe the national news provider keeps giving this guy airtime."

The douche in the second video was more frightening.

+1.

I can't stand the host (he replaced the unfortunately scandalized Bernie Ward. (I know a patern is seeming to appear based on who gets in the news.)

But he meant to cause violence about as much as ROFL means someone is literally rolling on the floor. It's an asinine, hyperbolic, wrong choice of words, but not a call for violence.

I'd like to see them replace him (another gay host would be fine), for other reasons.
 

HomerJS

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Originally posted by: Corbett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2buti_CKaM

Thought I would post this since there was so much fake outrage over the whole "Kill Him" incident at the Palin rally. I guess there are loons on both sides!

http://www.nowpublic.com/cultu...io-host-wants-joe-dead

Joe the Plumber, aka Joe Wurzelbacher, has had his fair share of unwelcome media attention since he asked Obama his historic "will you raise my taxes?" question, but death threats have got to be the most unwelcome of all.

KGO radio host Charles Bouley, a staunch Obama supporter and gay activist made a public plea for Joe the Plumber's death (see video), what some are calling a death threat, on his San Fransisco radio show. Karel, who also writes for the Huffington Post, has stated that he wants Joe the Plumber dead after his question put Obama on the spot and revealed the presidential candidates "socialist" side.

Obama supporter and San Francisco's KGO radio host Charles Karel Bouley said that he wanted Joe the Plumber, real name Joe Wurzelbacher, dead.

Karel is a gay activist and writer for the Huffington post shouted that he wanted Joe the plumber dead because Joe asked Obama a difficult question in which he revealed his socialist views.

Joe the Plumber was just the average guy tossing around a football with his son on his front lawn when Obama came into his neighborhood attracting many people and many of them he felt were asking easy questions. So he decided to throw a tough question at Obama where he asked him "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more isn't it?" further along in the answer by Obama he stated that he felt "spreading the wealth around" was the correct way to handle the U.S. economy. What this meant was that he would give a tax break, and 40% of America who doesn't pay income tax, check from the wealthiest of American's. Obama's campaign states, whoever makes over $250,000 a year will be taxed more. Since then, Obama has been called a socialist, marxist, and communist for his extreme views and taxing the American dream and the hard working earners in America.

Since then he's been called racist terms like "skin head" and has had his entire life probed by the media. All the guy did was ask a fair question...does it matter that he isn't a licensed plumber (but still does a plumber's job) or owes a grand in back taxes? It should not be a crime to ask a person running for president a question.

The day after Joe the Plumber asked the question, Obama and Biden made fun of Joe and put him in public eye at rallies and in the final debate against McCain.
Just as much "fake outrage" when G. Gordon Liddy went on the radio and instructed listeners on how to kill ATF agents. BTW - did you know John McCain "pals" around with G.

 

TheSlamma

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I don't want him dead... but what I would like is for him to get a job, pay his back taxes and to give a real reason as to why he supports Israel.
 

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Originally posted by: bozack


Here the conservatives are in the minority...so no matter how hard they try, or how frequent some of them post, they will always be drowned out by the loonbag lefties that dominate this forum.....I bitch and moan about the those on the left because I have to sift through that crap most often, and the double standards here are pretty damn plain as daylight.
No you don't.



 

Mani

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Originally posted by: bozack
Originally posted by: Mani
As bad as this is, it's pretty much on par with what is heard in the cesspool of right wing talk radio on a daily basis.

I don't listen to it often, but I have yet to hear, or hear of, anyone calling for someone on the left to be killed....impeached, sued, thwarted sure...but killed, not to my knowledge, there is a line between and one has to quantify what they mean by "pretty much" as personally I wouldn't put any of those things I mentioned in line with the mention of wished death.

Directly calling for someone to die, no. Whipping people up into a frenzy to the point that they are creating a lynch mob? Yes - and I consider the latter to be much more dangerous.