VIDEO: Pat Buchanan tells Scarborough he'd advise Palin to tone down the violent rhetoric

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below:

January 11, 2011 04:00 AM
Scarborough Asks if it's Time for Palin and Others to Apologize for Violent Rhetoric

By Heather



As Think Progress noted, Joe Scarborough probably didn't make a whole lot of right wingers happy with this segment on Morning Joe, but they left out a whole lot of caveats and false equivalencies that went along with this admission.

SCARBOROUGH: So Pat, is this not a time for people, like Sarah Palin, who have used violent imagery – she just has. I know some of my conservative friends and family members won’t like that reality. Or, Michele Bachmann, who said she wants Minnesotans armed and dangerous. Isn’t this an opportune time for them to apologize -– not saying that it led to anything — but just saying that they’ve been irresponsible in their rhetoric and they’re going to be more careful moving forward? <…>

I am just saying though, I mean, God, you’ve worked for two presidents. Would you not be in there if you were working for Sarah Palin right now, saying, go out and say it had nothing to do with this shooting, but you understand that it was irresponsible, and you’re going to be more careful moving forward. Wouldn’t you give her that advice if you were her aide?

PAT: Well, I certainly would. I would give everybody the advice to tone down the rhetoric and get away from military and the armed metaphors and things that a lot of us have used in campaigns, especially at a time like this. You know, I sure would Joe.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/scarborough-asks-if-its-time-palin-and-oth

[grasswire]

1. let's not forget what Buchanan's own brother did

Buchanan's own mentally troubled brother took a knife to the home of someone involved in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and cut up the tires of the car in the garage.

Give Pat Buchanan credit for speaking as the family member of a troubled person with history of acting on hate speech from talk radio.

[EFerrari]

2. From Mark Kinsley via Greg Mitchell

The false rush to cry 'balance'
By: Michael Kinsley
January 11, 2011 04:41 AM EST

snip

"People who work in the news media get used to the nastiness. The other day, exercising my First Amendment right to procrastinate by searching the Web for my name — a widely practiced secret vice of writers — I came across an anonymous posting on a website that I’d never heard of, asking, “Is Kinsley Dead Yet?” I thought of writing back, “Not yet. Sorry,” but lost my nerve. What if this guy, or someone else, decides to rectify that situation? I was a bit more unnerved a few years ago when Bill O’Reilly, who didn’t like an editorial in the Los Angeles Times, where I then worked, declared: “They’ll never get it,” referring to his gripe, whatever it was, “until they grab Michael Kinsley out of his little house and they cut his head off. And maybe when the blade sinks in, he’ll go, ‘Perhaps O’Reilly was right.’” O’Reilly has millions of followers — just ask him. Who could know whether one might decide to give him a present?"

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=71A34884-BF1F-7D6B-1F905C7B7324E41C