Fox needs to be stopped!

[finnbow]

In honor of Giffords, the effort to drain the rhetorical swamps should be as nonpartisan as she was in her interview. It is wrong, at any point on the spectrum, she said, to "incite people and inflame emotions."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2011010904030

[whell]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

With the wreckless rhetoric and the irresponsible speech being what it has the last few years, it hasn't been a matter of "if" but a matter of "when" and you all know it.

You need to change your avatar picture. Since this is a political forum, it might incite someone who sees it to commit a violent act against a political figure.

[whell]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

I quite agree with you that Fox's operation of its broadcasting corporation and its fund-raising are culpable activities.

Culpable –adjective
deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.

Regards,

D-Ray

That was cute.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It was a tognue in cheek comment I somewhat regret, because he was talking real armed insurrection, not random assasinations by a fruitcake:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

[Edit: yes indeed, Jefferson]

Pete

I know that was a Jefferson quote. I was responding to your reference to some unnamed and unknown to me broadcaster's comments.

Regards,

D-Ray

[piece-itpete]

Edit: Wow this thread's quick.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

D, it's been a while and my memory isn't as sharp as my delusion thinks it was. Was it perhaps the same guy who cooked his story, resigned in disgrace?

Pete

[finnbow]

Congresswoman Giffords (D-AZ): It is wrong, at any point on the spectrum, to "incite people and inflame emotions."

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN): "And really now in Washington, I’m a foreign correspondent in enemy lines. And I try to keep everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington...I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country."

Hmmmm.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

I would say that one of my biggest complaints with those on the left is their myopic view that the level of discontent in this country is solely the fault of the Republicans.

Just a few thoughts.

Chas

It's not that I think the Republicans a solely responsible for the discontent.
Because I don't.

But, I have believed the tone and content of their political rhetoric would ultimately lead to tragedy. "Sooner or later", I have been thinking, "some idiot is going to start shooting."

What do we have, Chas?

Dave

[piece-itpete]

If one doesn't want to enflame people and incite emotions one should not say a word.

Heck even that wouldn't work, someone would get mad at the silence. Better live ina cave or at least stay out of politics.

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

You need to change your avatar picture. Since this is a political forum, it might incite someone who sees it to commit a violent act against a political figure.

Ah, ha, ha, ha!!!! Caught me! You know you're the reason I put that there.
You called me a caveman or something............

Dave