FINALLY! Bipartisanship! I keep hearing that "both sides"

[Horse with no Name]

need to tone down their rhetoric.
Does ANYONE have any clips of Liberal/Progressives putting bullseyes on Republicans?
How about calling for harm to anyone?

I don't even advocate killing murderers and child molesters.

Sorry, the disconnect here is nauseating.

[bullimiami]

1. Youll find one side saying its both sides. And its not the guilty one.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. not the innocent one, perhaps?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. the MSM fell down on the job on Tea Baggers.

They failed to complain when Sharron talked about 2nd amendment solutions. They kept quiet when Crosshair Sarah painted targets on liberals and democrats. Now, they are trying to make it seem like everybody does it. ergo, it was not their fault for falling asleep on the job.

[Glorfindel]

4. Thank you for expressing exactly what I feel

n/t

[ChazII]

5. Harry Mitchell put crosshairs on JD Hayworth

http://www.azcongresswatch.com/?p=2387

I live in (and voted for) Mitchell's district. I winced when that ad ran several years ago.

[Horse with no Name]

10. I can't find the ad, but I will take your word for it

However, Mitchell was hand-picked by Rahm. DLC? Repub-lite?
Regardless, he owes an apology if this is true.

The guy is a scumbag if he indeed did do that.

[charlie]

15. He quit doing town halls because of the threats he was getting

It got to be too dangerous for him.

I didn't know about his own gunsight ads. It appears he's had experience on both sides of the fence. Ironic.

[ChazII]

32. From youtube - crosshairs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqB4tyvxWKA

Not the best reproduction of a commercial but the only one I could find as proof of my remark. As I said, the ad is an old one. It is hard to see the crosshairs.

[mrcheerful]

6. Ok can anyone tell me the last time at a left anti government rally

a liberal showed up with an assault rifle or a side arm strapped to his leg? Enough said.

[pintobean]

7. Does the DLC count?

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253055&kaid=127&subid=171

[upi402]

8. DLC are Republicans supplanting real Democrats

We hate them. They have taken away any hope of opposition to corporatism by infecting the former Democratic party.

[Erose999]

17. I don't "hate" anyone. But I am quite dis-satisfied with the DLC and other neoliberal groups.

[musette_sf]

29. +1

[Horse with no Name]

9. Tacky and tasteless. I expect nothing less from the DLC.

They are republican lite.
However...these are states, not individual people.
Slight but important difference.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. archery targets? OK when Robin Hood of The Green Arrow assassinate

or attempt to assassinate a member of Congress we can talk

[pintobean]

19. The OP asks for bullseyes

It specifically asks for Liberal/Progressives putting bullseyes on Republicans. Since most people wouldn't classify the DLC as liberal or progressive, I posed a question.
I posted this because I think it's noteworthy. You're more than welcome to disagree.

[sellitman]

11. Equivocating the Right with The Left is a way for the RWNJ's to escape culpability.

Spot on right!

[Bigmack]

12. How about we start .....

putting up - everywhere - about a jillion posters of Limpballs and Hannutty and the others with crosshairs right between their eyes.

That would prove the Left can be bipartisan, too.

Notice that I didn't suggest putting the crosshairs on Orangeman or some of the other Repub douchebags. That's the difference between us and them.

[Horse with no Name]

13. This would make us like them

I'm not interested in imagery of death. I'm interested in imagery of shackles and jail bars.

[surrealAmerican]

16. Nobody on the left would do that ...

... probably because we understand that if either of these people were assassinated, they would become martyrs for their "cause". They would do quite as much harm dead as they do alive.

I would, however, like to see them off the air, shunned by the media ...

... and in jail.

[Erose999]

18. Lets not put "crosshairs" on anybody. That would feed the "false equivalency" machine.

[ChazII]

20. +1000 n.t

[lonestarnot]

21. I know a side that talks out of their ass, does that count?

[treestar]

22. when it comes to rhetoric alone

The left does speak of violence, suggesting revolution and such. Maybe not the leaders though. I wouldn't say Kucinich or Grayson go around saying such things. The right has it closer to their mainstream.

[socialist_n_TN]

24. Is it OK for the left to speak of self defense?

After all, WE'RE the ones who have been gunned down time and time again. When was the last time a RWer was the victim of an assassination or assassination attempt? Reagan? When he was shot by the guy who was said to have Bush Crime Family ties? That's the last one I can think of.

And there IS a difference between making historical analogies (pitchforks and torches and even guillotines) and putting crosshair sights on SPECIFIC people.

[treestar]

25. I don't see how you're responding to my post

I admitted the right has it closer to their mainstream, way closer than the left. The actual politicians, like Grayson, do not advocate any violence the way Palin and her ilk suggest it. But amongst DU posters I have seen the wish that the whole system would collapse so that the socialist revolution would occur or rumblings to the effect that the Democrats will never do it, so there should be one.

[socialist_n_TN]

31. When the capitalist system is, slowly or quickly,.........

killing ALL of us, it IS self defense to try to change that system. And it will change or we will all die. I suppose you could call it a call for violence if you want. But note, I didn't put crosshairs on the Koch brothers.

[Rex]

27. Can you back that up with sources or quotes?

Won't hold my breath...

[treestar]

30. I've been on DU for a while

I've seen it over time and won't back down from that being my observation.

It will pop up again, too.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. This morning the right are in full drive trying to paint the left with the same kind of rhetoric.

We need to be ready to fight back.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x150763

[TwilightGardener]

26. That "both sides" bullshit is just nauseating. If you implicate everybody, then

you implicate nobody. Nobody is responsible, nothing changes. When someone can show me a national Democratic campaign strategy that relies on gun rhetoric and suggestions of bloodshed, I might believe it.

[yurbud]

28. Democratic pols barely fight metaphorically and apologize to the right for winning