Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was interviewed by Keith Olbermann on Saturday night about previous threats of violence against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and the "eliminationist rhetoric" routinely employed by right-wing politicians and in the right-wing media noise machine. The news interview from March 25, 2010 is disturbingly prophetic. There is a "climate of incitement" in America today says Josh Marshal, analogous to a contageous epidemic. "Words have consequences."
Oddly enough, I had trouble with the video below at the start point of the interview. So I have included the news video from the March 25, 2010 interview in case you experience the same difficulty.
Here is the post at talkingpointsmemo.com referenced by Josh Marshall in the interview. Tucson Tea Party Leader: We Won't Change Our Rhetoric After Giffords Shooting | TPMDC.
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UPDATE: Recommended post by David Neiwert, author of the book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. Neiwer posts Eliminationist rhetoric and the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords: There were plenty of precursors | Crooks and Liars.
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