{"id":7794,"date":"2011-08-05T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2011-08-05T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:14:38","slug":"violent-rhetoric-from-nyt-wh-spark-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/08\/05\/violent-rhetoric-from-nyt-wh-spark-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Rhetoric from NYT, WH, Spark Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/zd2wttdm\">Innocent Americans were attacked<\/a> by left-wing forces as they exited a Wisconsin fair event.<\/p>\n<p>When you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/03\/opinion\/washington-chain-saw-massacre.html\">Maureen Dowd<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/opinion\/the-tea-partys-war-on-america.html\">NYT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/node\/41431\">Capitol Hill Blue<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualconservative.com\/2011\/08\/02\/t-e-a-party-terrorists\/\">talking heads on TV<\/a>, internet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/60421.html\">bloggers claiming to be &#8216;news&#8217; sources<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.com\/community\/blogs\/less_is_more\/2011\/07\/tea_party_caucus_strapped_expl.html\">Maggie Carlson<\/a>, and even Vice President Joe Biden in the White House describing ordinary Americans as &#8216;terrorists, the resulting attacks of such inflammatory rhetoric are to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Inciting violence toward mainstream, middle-class Americans while banning the use of the word &#8216;terrorist&#8217; when referring to Jihadists; could this signal a troubling trend of future government attacks against the citizenry?<\/p>\n<p>As Jonah Goldberg said; <em>[I]magine if this was Dick Cheney calling the Progressive Caucus (or whatever they\u2019re called) a \u201cbunch of terrorists\u201d on the day Giffords returned to the Congress. Would the mainstream media notice or care? Would Meet the Press debate whether this raises \u201ctroubling questions\u201d about the White House\u2019s sensitivity? Would Andrea Mitchell find some way to blame Sarah Palin for Dick Cheney\u2019s viciousness? Would Keith Olbermann explode like a mouse subjected to the Ramone\u2019s music in Rock and Roll High School? Something inside me hidden away shouts, \u201cHell yes they would!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Behold more Violent Rhetoric <a href=\"http:\/\/americansituation.com\/2011\/08\/03\/calling-tea-party-terrorists\/\">here<\/a>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocent Americans were attacked by left-wing forces as they exited a Wisconsin fair event. When you have Maureen Dowd, the NYT, Capitol Hill Blue, talking heads on TV, internet bloggers claiming to be &#8216;news&#8217; sources, Maggie Carlson, and even Vice President Joe Biden in the White House describing ordinary Americans as &#8216;terrorists, the resulting attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}