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Re: One NYPD Cop Dead, Another Critical After They Were Shot in Vehicle
No, and if it came off that I was insinuating that I apologize...But there are those in here that were arguing at that time and have jumped to the completely opposite argument to suit their political agenda, if that makes any sense...I am trying to look at this rationally. I don't like Sharpton either...He is a race hustler, and a two bit shakedown artist....How he ever got a show on any TV program is beyond me....But at least for the part of linking the "Dead Cop" part of this to him, it appears the evidence shows that is not the case.
As to Giffords. You don't have to remind me. I remember it all to well. I also can happily link to my comments then. And even before we knew factually that Loughner had nothing to do with the Tea Party and had no seeming care or support for Sarah Palin, my stance was it was asinine, dishonest, hackish, and absurd to blame the tea party or Sarah Palin for the shooting or to even suggest they're culpable or responsible for the shooting happening. Sarah Palin and the various tea party groups did not openly and honestly advocate for violence, were not in any literal sense inciting people to commit a crime, and even in the hypothetical at the time that he was spurred by their comments I still felt it would have been ridiculous to blame them...and it was amazingly irresponsible for the media to keep jumping to that conclusion.
The difference here is that I'm not magically changing my opinion and my stance on that kind of issue simply because Al Sharpton is a putz, I disagree with much of this movement while I agree with much of the Tea Party movement, and because politically this issue is about "the enemy" rather than "my team".
It was ridiculous to massively give blame and wrongfully attack people, especially using outright falsehoods, for the actual SHOOTING then, and it is ridiculous to do it now. In both instances if you want to have a realistic conversation about the potential enflaming of peoples emotions and providing an atmosphere that is conducive to crazy people getting crazy ideas...that's reasonable. But that's a LARGE difference between directly blaming or claiming someones words or actions...that in no way, shape, or form openly and honestly called for illegal activity...contributed to the actual illegal act.
No, and if it came off that I was insinuating that I apologize...But there are those in here that were arguing at that time and have jumped to the completely opposite argument to suit their political agenda, if that makes any sense...I am trying to look at this rationally. I don't like Sharpton either...He is a race hustler, and a two bit shakedown artist....How he ever got a show on any TV program is beyond me....But at least for the part of linking the "Dead Cop" part of this to him, it appears the evidence shows that is not the case.