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Originally Posted by whell
Speaking of "cannot tell the difference": Kilmeade's was presented as obvious gag. Griffin's was basically a deranged effort to be provocative. It was not an attempt at comedy. It was from a photo shoot with a photographer who has a reputation for provocative photos. She apologized for it, but later recanted her apology. Different.
And again, if you think Griffin's photo is comedic, you're worse off than I thought.
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It wasn't obvious to the Washington Examiner, a reflexively pro-Trump publication. Indeed, looking at the video does not reveal any attempt at humor on the #1 show on the #1 cable news network.
The key difference here is that exactly nobody thought Griffin murdered (or advocated the murder of) Trump whereas Kilmeade's photoshopped picture was "another look at the judge" who also happened to "vote for Obama," the intent of which was to increase threats of wingnut violence against the judge, just as Trump's failure to redact the FBI agents' names on the warrant was. Implicit threats of violence are a feature of Trumpism, not a bug.
In a similar vein, here's your boy Kilmeade saying that increased funding for the IRS is intended to build "Joe Biden's new army" that will "hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers that don't pay enough." This also is not intended as a joke. It's intended to rile up the rubes and portray to them government law/tax enforcement as murderous thugs.
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