Sanders Finally Said What No Politician Dared: Right’s Rhetoric Fostered Planned Parenthood Shooting

[eridani]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/28/sanders-finally-said-what-no-politician-dared-rights-rhetoric-fostered-planned-parenthood-shooting/

As police continue their investigation into what prompted a man to walk into a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood and start shooting people, the nation is left in that unsettling gray zone between being able to call this tragedy what it is and pretending — some more desperately than others — that it could be anything else.

While most politicians hedge their bets and refuse to call this act of terrorism an act of terrorism, Bernie Sanders just pointed out the elephant in the room. His refusal to pretend the elephant is not there means the rest of us can’t do so either. So let’s face it: Right-wing hate speech bears some responsibility for what happened in Colorado Springs. To think that Republicans could continously slander Planned Parenthood with lies comparing them to “baby killers” and murderers and not provoke a violent response from some of their least stable supporters is lunacy. Words have consequences.

On Twitter, Sanders made that concept abundantly clear. While standing up for Planned Parenthood, he blasted Republicans for their ugly rhetoric.

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended!

The Right's evil rhetoric never ends. Try Fox "News", it will make your blood boil.

[CanonRay]

2. Speaking truth to power for over 30 years

[liberalnarb]

3. You can always count on the Bern to tell it like it is!

[Zorra]

4. And this same right wing extremist rhetoric is the same rhetoric that has been

moving the Democratic party to the right ever since the conservative DLC co-opted the Dem party during the Reagan years.