HuffPost Lectures Trump On Rhetoric, While Delivering A Daily Dose Of Hate To Its Liberal Readers
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Hypocrisy Watch: "The Hate Flows Down" reads the screaming headline on the Huffington Post front page. The story, of course, is how President Donald Trump is responsible for what appear to be explosive devices sent to liberals and prominent Democrats. Who is the HuffPost to complain? Every day their front page is rife with violent and hateful rhetoric — all directed, of course, at Republicans.
We looked at the front page of the HuffPost over the past few days, and here's a sampling of the verbs the site's headline writers chose for stories critical of Republicans:
- Tears Into
- Bashes
- Pounce on
- Taunts
- Slams
- Fighting
- Burns
- Dragged
- Skewers
- Nails
- Scoffs
- Roasted
- Take on
- Rip
- Shoots down
- Hits
- Scorches
- Brutally shuts down
And when not consulting its dictionary of violent verbs, HuffPost routinely mocks Republicans, links them with fascists, and otherwise demonizes them.
One recent headline declared that "Elite GOP Get Cozy With Fascists."
Another declared that "GOP Rep Goes Full Racist."
Yet another claimed, based on the flimsiest possible "evidence," that "Ron DeSantis Rose By Trafficking In Racist, Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories." (One example of DeSantis' supposed racism is that he said the country's founders weren't racists.)
The Trump family is another favorite target of abuse. One recent headline: "Ivanka tweet 'goes hilariously awry "
No Shades of Gray
And on every issue, there are no shades of gray. Republicans are always cast as liars, cheats, schemers. Democrats — especially the far left ones — are always the heroes.
A story about health care claims: "GOP Lies About Pre-Existing Conditions May Have Reached Peak Absurdity"
After the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, the HuffPost ran countless articles and commentaries lecturing how Americans had to tone down the "violent rhetoric" (while pointing fingers at conservatives) because such language could incite violence. (Even though the shooting had nothing to do with such rhetoric.)
Any violence that could be linked, no matter how loosely, to the GOP came with the same accusations.
True to form, the site is now pinning blame for the bomb scares on Trump's choice of words when criticizing his political opponents or the leftist media. (To be sure, every other major media outlet is doing the same thing.)
Violence On The Left
But somehow, HuffPost never felt the need to self-reflect after a violent, deranged Bernie Sanders supporter tried to assassinate a group of Republican lawmakers, and nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise. You might think they'd think twice about running stories with headlines like: "Trump And Republicans Expect You To Die, Joe Public."
Nope.
Nor has it looked inward as assaults on Republicans increased across the country. Instead, it's largely ignored those stories altogether.
This is not to say that there isn't extremist rhetoric on the right. But none of it appears on sites considered a mainstream news outlet like the Pulitzer Prize-winning HuffPost.
If "hate flows down" as the HuffPost headline states, then doesn't HuffPost have a responsibility to tone down the unending stream of violent rhetoric and divisive, hate-inducing headlines it's sending down to its readers?
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Nothing they complain about ever counts when a leftist does it.
He just can't help himself, talk about hypocrisy:
President Trump took to Twitter in the very wee hours Friday to continue his run-in with his critics over the series of suspicious devices sent to prominent Democrats this week .
At 3:14 a.m., he tweeted , "Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, "it's just not Presidential!"
Many media members and politicians have blamed him for setting a harsh tone and not taking responsibility for contributing to the ongoing poisonous political atmosphere.
"Nobody else is being as divisive and inciteful as Donald Trump and so to suggest otherwise is completely wrong," said former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, who is considering a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. "We wouldn't even be having this conversation with any other president, Republican or Democrat, because they would be big enough to avoid this kind of hateful and inciteful rhetoric."
Mr. Trump on Thursday had yet to call former Presidents Obama or Clinton about the packages sent their way -- the one sent to Mr. Clinton's home was addressed to Hillary Clinton. But Mr. Trump had spoken to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, the state where many of the packages were delivered
The president also hasn't delivered a speech from the Oval Office to call for national unity in the wake of the devices scare.
He did return to a favorite punching bag of his.
"A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News," the president tweeted Thursday. "It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!"
At a campaign rally Wednesday night, after the first of the devices arrived at their destinations -- Mr. Trump called for "peace and harmony" — but also criticized the media for what he said was "endless hostility."
The country was warned from several sources how unstable this man is.
Obviously hasn't listened to the violent rhetoric from his own party and Dem supporters then. Trump needs to shut up; so does the left. The two feed off each other, each trying to outdo the other at every opportunity.
Leftists are "Concerned" citizens.
Sorry but those are a bunch of old white men with the one exception of the women on the ground. Not sure if she is being sexually assaulted or just knows her place as a republican woman. That is definitely a snapshot of a right leaning mob. left leaning mobs are much more diverse and inclusive.
Good try.