{"id":28172,"date":"2017-06-19T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28172"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:22:26","slug":"republicans-use-scalise-shooting-for-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/republicans-use-scalise-shooting-for-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Use Scalise Shooting for Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amid all the hoopla about bipartisan comity in the aftermath of the shooting by a deranged regressive that pretended to support Bernie Sanders, I predicted two things.&#160; First I thought it would last for days at most.&#160; Second, I knew it would be Republicans that would abandon it.&#160; I&#8217;m sad, but not surprised, to tell you that I was right on both counts.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0619HandelPalin\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0619HandelPalin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0619HandelPalin.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"419\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The race for Georgia\u2019s 6th district is at a fever pitch now. After a long special election campaign, tomorrow is finally election day. Will voters flip the 6th district and send Democrat Jon Ossoff to Congress? Polls are <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/6\/18\/15825944\/special-election-ossoff-handel\" target=\"_blank\">tight<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Arial\"><\/font><font face=\"Arial\"> and every single vote will count. As the race comes down to the wire, Republicans are hitting a new, nearly unthinkable low. They are using the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise and three others at a Virginia baseball field to try and sway voters. And they aren\u2019t shy about it, here is Brad Carver, GOP chairman in Georgia\u2019s 11th congressional district, talking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2017\/06\/19\/daily-202-congressional-shooting-clouds-final-days-of-georgia-special-election\/5946e314e9b69b2fb981dd76\/?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.cff5909299b0\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post:<\/a><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span><strong><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,\u201d Carver said Saturday after a get-out-the-vote rally for Handel in Chamblee. <\/font><\/strong><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cBecause moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism.\u201d<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">They even went so far as to use footage of Congressman Scalise being taken off the baseball field in a stretcher, featured in an ad called \u201cStop The Violent Left.\u201d See the utterly repulsive ad below.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/19\/1673063\/-GOP-official-on-Rep-Scalise-shooting-I-think-the-shooting-is-going-to-win-this-election-for-us\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Triple Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sh7ZiddrkmI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This shooting is the only one committed by a so-called leftist in many months, while almost every week a Republican commits a hate crime, and every day, Republican politicians and pundits encourage others to commit violent acts, such as the time when Bloody Bullseye Barbie, pictured above endorsing Karen Handel, targeted Gaby Giffords by placing a Bullseye on her campaign headquarters.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the hoopla about bipartisan comity in the aftermath of the shooting by a deranged regressive that pretended to support Bernie Sanders, I predicted two things.&#160; First I thought it would last for days at most.&#160; Second, I knew it would be Republicans that would abandon it.&#160; I&#8217;m sad, but not surprised, to tell <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/republicans-use-scalise-shooting-for-propaganda\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}