Jun 24, 2017

The GOP's War On Healthcare: An Overview Of How The GOP Is Killing People By Making Healthcare Harder To Get

This is a collection of information showing how bad this "healthcare" bill by the Republicans is really going to be. 

GOP HEALTH CARE BILL OR TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH? 6/22/2017 GOP senators finally reveal their Affordable Care Act replacement, and Democrats struggle to convey their outrage over the massively unpopular bill.

Technically, I think this constitutes a war on the people (as per article 3 section 3) but I understand that some Republicans believe the arguments the Kochs are feeding them and I have to work through them at some point when I have more time. That said, what the Republicans are doing is not making the communities in America healthier and more productive but instead more susceptible to accidents and death.

First, the standard lie Republicans are telling;

Politifact: Raul Labrador's claim that no one dies from lack of health care access: Pants on Fire
A literature review
We found at least seven academic papers that detected a link between securing health insurance and a decline in mortality. In general, these papers present a stronger consensus that having insurance saves lives.
• In 2002, a panel of more than a dozen medical specialists convened by the federally chartered Institute of Medicine estimated that 18,000 Americans had died in 2000 because they were uninsured. In January 2008, Stan Dorn, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, published a paper that sought to update the IOM study with newer data. Replicating the study’s methodology, Dorn concluded that the figure should be increased to 22,000.
• A 2009 American Journal of Public Health study concluded that a lack of health insurance "is associated with as many as 44,789 deaths in the United States, more than those caused by kidney disease."
• Three studies looked at state-level expansions of Medicaid and in each case found "significant" improvements in mortality after such expansions of coverage. These include a 2012 New England Journal of Medicine study of New York, Maine, and Arizona by Harvard researchers, and a 2014 study of Massachusetts by researchers from Harvard and the Urban Institute.
• A 2014 study published by the health policy publication Health Affairs looked at states that, at the time, had declined to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. It estimated that the 25 states studied would have collectively avoided between 7,000 and 17,000 deaths.
• A 2014 study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found improved survival rates for young adults with cancer after securing insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
• A 2017 study in the journal Medical Care looked at a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to be covered under a parent’s policy. The study found a decline in mortality among this population from diseases amenable to preventive treatment. (Mortality from trauma, such as car accidents, saw no decrease, as would be expected.)

Hannity gets caught in health care lie Good Reporting catches Fox's Sean Hannity in a lie after airing segment on the dangers of healthcare. Dr. Corey Hebert and Michael Eric Dyson discuss the facts. Duration: 5:17



Second, a look at information to provide an overview of how bad the GOP's healthcare bill is;

Bernie Sanders on Health Care Bill: Thousands will Die Sen. Bernie Sanders told MSNBC that he intends to go on the road to stop the healthcare bill from going through. Duration: 3:16



CBS Evening News details the devastating effects of Medicaid cuts included in Senate health bill



STRASSMAN: In the last four years, four rural hospitals within an hours drive of here have shut down. Jackson Madison County Hospital, the major healthcare facility between Memphis and Nashville serves 17 counties.


What pundits call a "moderate" Senate health care bill will kill people


Calling the Senate bill “more moderate” than the House’s AHCA is a low bar and framing the Senate bill that way is deceptive. First of all, the House bill is nowhere close to moderate. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the AHCA would increase “the number of uninsured people relative to the number projected” under the ACA by 23 million by 2026. Additionally, under the AHCA, those with pre-existing conditions would be in jeopardy of losing coverage. At the very least, those with pre-existing conditions would face skyrocketing premiums. And those who want policies to cover essential health benefits, like maternity care and mental health and substance abuse services, are “likely to be priced out of the market,” according to NBC News. It would be hard to imagine a bill less moderate than the AHCA.
The Senate bill is largely a replica of the AHCA that also includes its own extreme measures. As NBC News reported, the Senate draft “makes deeper cuts” to Medicaid “in the long run” compared to the House bill. And according to the Center for American Progress, the Senate bill’s essential health benefit waivers would “erode or eliminate financial protections for about 27 million workers and their dependents,” including those who are in employer health care plans.
As Andy Slavitt, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, noted, “The Senate bill needs to be compared to current law, not the House bill.” People will die if this bill becomes law. That’s the context reporters should be using when discussing this new proposal.


After the Senate bill is released, cable news fails to offer diverse voices on health care


Once again, cable news largely failed to present diverse voices when reporting on the ongoing health care debate, missing an opportunity, yet again, to inform audiences of the personal cost millions of Americans will incur if Republicans pass their bills into law.
Over six weeks after the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on May 4, Senate Republicans finally publicly introduced their health care proposal on June 22. The Senate committee that drafted the bill was roundly criticized for its “almost-unprecedented opacity” and lack of diversity. Leading up to that introduction, cable news coverage of the bill didn’t fare much better. And when cable news did cover the bill prior to its release, the guests were almost always white men.
The day the Senate Republicans released the bill, cable news figures had an opportunity to redeem themselves. Sadly, they did not rise to the challenge:








Fox News host: Health insurance should only cover when "something catastrophic happens"Kat Timpf: "We should be paying for everyday health expenses out of pocket"

KAT TIMPF (CO-HOST): We've kind of lost sight of what insurance should even mean. It should be insurance, in case something catastrophic happens, you can't pay for that. Now you can use it for like, weight loss training or something like that. So the prices keep rising and rising higher and higher. [...] We should be paying for everyday health expenses out of pocket and the cost would be much lower. Plus the doctors would be held accountable to the patients, rather to the insurance company. Instead the idea is to use tax dollars to pay insurance companies more money and that's the conservative answer? I'm sorry but no.


Ignoring Republican sabotage, Fox & Friends uses health care insurer withdrawal to claim Obamacare failure

Fox & Friends' Jillian Mele misleadingly claimed that the decision of the nation's second largest insurer, Anthem, to pull out of Indiana and Wisconsin was "more evidence Obamacare is a prescription for failure." Mele claimed Anthem was ending its agreement because "it just can't manage the cost of sick patients signing up for Obamacare." In fact, the major reasons Anthem cited for its pullout were the "volatile" individual health insurance market and "uncertainty" about the Trump administration's stance on the Affordable Care Act. Uncertainty has also been cited as a reason for withdrawal by Aetna and Humana, two other major insurers, and there are indications that Republican obstruction to Medicaid expansion have also made insurers more inclined to exit. The misleainding claim continues Fox News' manufactured narrative that insurer withdrawals are proof of an impending "death spiral" in the law. From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:


Fox contributor praises Senate health care bill for reducing coverage "more gently"Mollie Hemingway: "If your option is that or nothing, that's actually not the worst option that you have"

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: It's an imperfect bill that comes out of an imperfect process. But when you think about what the option really is, you have a bill that gets rid of the individual mandate, gets rid of the employer mandate, that phases out Medicaid expansion, cuts taxes and a lot depends on what happens in the future but it builds a case for getting rid of Obamacare structurally over the long term. If your option is that or nothing, that's actually not the worst option that you have. At the same time, it's a bill that does a little bit more in reaching out to the moderates than the house bill did in that it does phase these things out a little more gently, provides some money upfront. So the best way to understand Mitch McConnell I think is that he picks the most conservative, politically plausible position, and that's what this bill might be.

This is not the only option there is. One could leave the Affordable Care Act alone and premiums will go up but people who can afford it will be able to get healthcare. This bill makes things worse. Apparently, after spending two trillion dollars on wars which were not funded with anything but debt (wars still covered up in the media) you would think the GOP would feel some shame about cutting taxes for the rich while throwing the rest of the American community under the bus (as per traditional GOP policies). But they don't. They throw the people under the bus and don't even use the money to pay off the debt they created and argue so much about.

GOP Rep. Burgess, Chris Hayes spar on health care bill Hayes: If you're worried about the deficit, 'why are there $600 billion in tax cuts for people who are making lots of money' in the bill? Duration: 7:06



Donald Trump’s bait and switch on health care The Senate health care bill is a repudiation of every promise the president made to the American public about his approach to the health care system. Duration: 6:01



Sen. Brian Schatz: Senate GOP bill 'extremely cruel' 'This is Paul Ryan in college sitting around a keg imagining a bill - this is that bill.' Duration: 4:35



In reversal, Trump now supports Medicaid cuts Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't yet have the votes for the health care bill that cuts Medicaid and four GOP senators haven't committed to voting yes. Neera Tanden and Adam Jentleson join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 6:58






GOP threat to Medicaid threatens liberty of millions of Americans Rachel Maddow tells the history of ADAPT and the activism of disabled Americans and points out the leadership role these activists have taken in challenging the Republican plan to take Medicaid away from millions. Duration: 21:09



Mother and son: Medicaid isn't about politics, it's about lives Mike Phillips is severely physically disabled, but thanks to Medicaid, he's able to be cared for at home by his family. In a remarkable interview with Ari Melber, Mike and his mother Karen Clay explain how Medicaid cuts would literally end life as they know it. Duration: 15:50


GOP's War On Healthcare


Trump Modified My Idea For Building An Electrified Border Wall Into His Solar Paneled Border Wall Idea

I really don't know how to present this so I'll just present it as it is. Border wall is a big deal in the South and even Hillary has shown support for it in the past. My idea was to electrify the wall using renewable energy and selling the extra energy created to make money... maybe even selling it to Mexico. Trump took that idea and changed it to a "solar paneled border wall". If this works I clearly should be elected President (Vote for - or write in - @DeadPoolLiberty for President in 2020... or Oklahoma Senate in 2022).

Anyways, here is the proof that Trump got his solar paneled wall idea from my electrified border wall idea...

WHATEVER TRUMP IS SELLING, HIS SUPPORTERS ARE BUYING 6/22/2017 President Trump is met with applause after saying the U.S.-Mexico border wall will be made of solar panels and bragging that his cabinet is filled with Wall Street bankers.


First, here is Trump's new idea:











Second, my past post that Trump derived his solar paneled border wall idea from: 

John Oliver Talks About The Costs Of Trump's Border Wall Idea & I Offer Solutions To Make It Cheaper, Electrify The Fence & Make Mexico Pay For It... Eventually.



Trump clearly got his solar paneled border wall idea from my post.

Note: My electrified border fence idea actually goes back to 2013 when I put it on my joke - Twitter - platform for the Oklahoma Senate/Congress.

Related article:

Business Insider: Trump floated a solar-paneled border wall with Mexico — here's what it would look like

President Donald Trump wants to deliver on one of the central promises of his campaign — building a wall on the Mexican border.
He pitched Republican leaders on June 6 on a proposal to cover the wall with solar panels and use the electricity generated to cover the costs of construction and maintenance.
Trump mentioned the hypothetical solar wall during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday night, saying "this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money," as his supporters applauded.

Donald Trump


Jun 23, 2017

Debunking A Kimberly Guilfoyle Statement About Democrats

Kimberly Guilfoyle makes a statement about Democrats that clearly describes the GOP...

Fox’s Guilfoyle: Democrats oppose everything except “the abuse of women, and children, and gays”





The following comment essentially describes Fox News & the GOP (the hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife... or if media stopped being silent while GOP mouthpieces spread lies and slander it could stop as well);

GUILFOYLE: They're against everything except sharia law, and the abuse of women, and children, and gays. I mean, that's so far.

This is easy to debunk. Observe...

Lets start with the GOP opposing help for Military rape victims;

Military rape victims urge accountability...


Articles:

1. "From denying abortion to military rape victims, to aiming for total bans in the states, the GOP's assault continues"

2. Article: "Raped in the military, then raped by Congress"

3. "Legitimate rape" stops pregnancy because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," says McKaskill's GOP opponent

4. From Mother Jones: "Under Ryan's pro-life bill, a rapist could go to court and prevent his victim from getting an abortion."



Of course this is a GOP pattern, i.e. supporting abuse of women...


Flashback - How the GOP's anti science positions affects their policies towards women;

Arizona lawmakers declare that pregnancy begins two weeks before conception

Doctors debunk Rep. Todd Akin's comments on rape and pregnancy

Paul Ryan's Record Looks Alot Like Todd Akins

Paul Ryan Defends His Abortion Record In The General Elections

Rick Santorum on abortion: A child conceived through rape should be accepted as a 'gift from God'

Mitt Romney On Abortions (For and Against!)

Rachel Maddow Video: Here is the GOP answering questions on abortion etc. during the general elections


Maybe its because the GOP likes to keep women in check?...

WASHINGTON — When the House votes Thursday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, ending a drawn-out fight over whether some groups should be afforded protections under the bill, the measure will likely pass with a minority of Republicans supporting it. In a House led by a Republican conference at odds with itself, which includes a sizable ideologically motivated bloc inclined to oppose almost any major legislation, this dynamic might be the new normal. On Wednesday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said House Republicans "always saw this on the horizon" and had accepted that the Senate bill would ultimately come to a vote — even though the majority of House Republicans oppose protections for LGBT, Native American, and immigrant women included in the Senate version. 


Here's How a GOP Congressman Opposed the Violence Against Women Act—Then Pretended He Was for It

By now, most Americans know that Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on February 28, giving the government the resources to better investigate, prosecute, and stopviolent crimes against women. Lawmakers have proudly announced that they helped pass the law—in some cases even when they voted against it.

Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) was one of the 160 Republicans who voted against the reauthorization of VAWA. Prior to that, he had voted for a GOP version of the bill put forth in the House, which gutted key protections for Native Americans, members of the LGBT community, and undocumented immigrants. The bill was rejected by the House. Nevertheless, Fortenberry issued a statement on February 28 suggesting that he supported both versions of the bill, according to screenshots from his official website obtained by Mother Jones. Later that day, after his office started receiving criticism of his statement, Fortenberry changed the statement to more accurately reflect his actual vote. Here is what was changed and added, marked up in red: 

Republican congresswoman upset Violence Against Women Act included ‘other different groups’Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said Monday that she voted against the Violence Against Women Act because it protected “other different groups.”


Last Report: After proposing a non-starter version of the Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans are backing down and signaling that they will clear the way for a vote on the bipartisan Senate version of the bill, which includes expanded protections for LGBT women, Native Americans, and undocumented immigrants.




Abuse of children is ALSO encouraged by GOP policies in GOP states...


Study: Child Abuse & Neglect Deaths In Texas






In fact, it looks like she could even be taking my facts (about abuse against women and children in GOP policies) and throwing them back at the left as the right doesn't require facts just blabbering.

Clearly Kimberly is using the tactic from Teen Witch;


Richie Miller: I'm rubber your glue whatever you call me sticks back on you.
Louise Miller: No! I'm rubber YOUR glue whatever YOU call me sticks back on YOU!
Richie Miller: You think you're hot stuff because you went to a dance. Dream on! No one wants do date you because you are a dog! A dog! A dog!
[after he says this, Richie turns into a dog]

Thus taking all truths abut them and framing the left with it. 

In other words, normal everyday GOP politics.

Related post: The Rights War On The Left (Blaming The Left For Everything Is A Standard Tactic Of GOP & Fox News)

The Rights War On The Left (Blaming The Left For Everything Is A Standard Tactic Of GOP & Fox News)

Background:
2. If Fake News Is Domestic Terrorism (& It Is, I.E. "Propaganda") Then Fox News Are Domestic Terrorists
3. Unofficial Fox News Policy: Be POLITE While You Lie To Help With Economic Treason, Murder & Terrorism... It Gives You Credibility
4. Congress IS Intentionally Passing Bad Laws To Cause Chaos & Death for Profit
5. Trump's "Mitch McConnell" Strategy & Trump's Parade Of Shills
6. Debunking A Kimberly Guilfoyle Statement About Democrats

"Conservative" media uses a few facts to make huge generalizations to demonize liberals. This is weird not only because this sort of war on the people is treason (if you stick to the spirit of Article 3 Section 3) but also because the Founding Fathers were liberals who had progressive ideas about how Government should be run For the People rather than For The Monarchy (something which Fox News just plain ignores, as they make clear from their behavior).

The Rights war on the Left (or anyone but themselves) has been going on for a long time. This post outlines this GOP and Fox News policy. It starts with some comedy and then some research showing how this war on the left is being done by Fox News.

First, Fox News and the GOP basically demonize everyone but themselves;

It must be tough for Republicans to love America so much but hate almost three-quarters of the people living in it. (08:54)



Secondly, demonizing Liberals (besides Muslims and Latinos) is one of their favorite strategies and has been going on for quite a while...

BACK IN BLACK - GLENN BECK'S NAZI TOURETTE'S 5/12/2010 Glenn Beck plays "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," except there's just one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler.


24-HOUR NAZI PARTY PEOPLE 1/24/2011 Jon challenges his staff to find someone on Megyn Kelly's show making a Nazi comparison before he finishes a home perm kit.


BILL O'REILLY DEFENDS HIS NAZI ANALOGIES 1/27/2011 Bill O'Reilly explains that he had a good reason for comparing Arianna Huffington to Nazis.


Research from MediaMatters.org showing how the right wing is demonizing Liberals and Democrats (read full article on the site by clicking link)

Dana Loesch on Gianforte assault: "The media ... is culpable" Loesch: My callers say, "Maybe the media deserves it"



LOESCH: Tucker, I have been seeing this, I know you've seen this too, for over 10 years now. I get tired of it. And you know what? Middle America, America in general is tired of it as well. I had so many people who called in to my radio program today, Tucker, who said you know what? Maybe the media deserves it. Because we're tired of being lied about, we're tired of being manipulated, and we're tired of them excusing awful things done to us in the name of partisan ideology. This is the point we are at because people hate media this badly.


Conservatives need to cut the bullshit and stop exploiting a tragedy to blame the left Right-wing media show no self-awareness of their role in influencing violent incidents


James T. Hodgkinson, a man with a record of domestic violence, a legally purchased assault rifle, and a validconcealed carry permit, on June 14 opened fire on Republican congressmen and staffers practicing for the congressional baseball game.
The FBI is still investigating the incident, but one thing is already clear about this latest example of unhinged gun violence. The overwhelming evidence of conservative media's influence on a significant number of deadly incidents makes their attempt to deflect attention from their role in creating a toxic political culture both cynical and exploitative.
The gimmick, however, is deplorable not just for its cynical exploitation of fear, pain and human tragedy; it’s also a hollow attempt to distract from the conservative right’s own responsibility in creating a political culture that inspires violence by fanning the flames of hatred. It’s a red herring aimed at avoiding the obvious, and very concrete, policy-centered conversation that needs to happen around gun violence.
Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, two of the loudest conservative voices, immediately blamed the shooting on “the left” and “left-wing news media.”
Additionally, the NRA, an organization that customarily deflects conversations about gun violence by blamingfatal shooting incidents on video games, political correctness, and strict gun laws, skirted its own precedent to also blame the left at large for the shooting.
Right-wing figures’ opportunistic attempt to draw direct correlation from out-of-context phrases from progressive politicians to the actions of a violent man with easy access to assault weapons also points to a critical lack of self-awareness when it comes to their own role in influencing violent incidents.
Take Byron Williams and his failed plot to shoot people at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU. Williams explicitly pointed to Glenn Beck’s now-defunct TV show and Alex Jones’ websites as the information sources that prompted his violent actions on the Tides Foundation, a relatively unknown organization that Beck repeatedly vilified on his program. Or the assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, which followedcontinuous vitriol from former right-wing star Bill O’Reilly, who told his “audience of millions over and over again” that Tiller was “an executioner.” Or the murder of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO, at the hands of Robert Dear, a man whose “paranoid delusions, misogynist beliefs, and violent fantasies” matched “perfectly” the usual narratives that come out of “Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones and Bill O’Reilly and countless far-right web sites.”
Or the racially motivated massacre that ended nine black lives in Charleston, SC, perpetrated by a habitual commenter at the Trump-supporting, neo-Nazi outlet The Daily Stormer. After a man opened fire at a Washington, D.C., family pizzeria, it was hard to forget Alex Jones asking his audience to investigate the conspiracy theory that alleged the restaurant was hiding a child sex-trafficking ring. In the same way, Jones also exhorted Trump to use force against his opponents and threatened violence against supporters of “parasitical maggot” Bernie Sanders.

Right-wing media jump to defend Montana candidate after he assaults a reporter 



After Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for Congress in Montana, was charged with assaulting a journalist, some right-wing media figures and outlets immediately came to his defense, attacking the reporter as a “hack” and asking, “What kind of a wuss files charges over broken glasses?”Right-wing media jump to Gianforte’s defense
Daily Caller’s Derek Hunter: “What kind of a wuss files charges over broken glasses? Someone who wants to influence an outcome, that’s who.”


What kind of a wuss files charges over broken glasses? Someone who wants to influence an outcome, that's who. 


[Twitter, 5/24/17]
Infowars: Jacobs is a “long-standing Democratic operative” and a “hack reporter” whose account “sounds rather exaggerated.” Infowars cross-posted a piece from Information Liberation titled “Liberal Guardian Journalist Interferes In Montana Election, Gets Body Slammed.” The piece claimed that Jacobs is a “long-standing Democratic operative” and a “hack reporter” whose account “sounds rather exaggerated.” The piece also asserted, “The clip would perhaps be interesting if they didn’t manipulatively edit out their actual interaction with a blatant jump cut in the middle.” From the May 25 post:
Far-left liberal journalist Ben Jacobs was reportedly “body slammed” on Wednesday by GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte on the eve of Montana’s special election to decide who will succeed Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke.
Jacobs is a long-standing Democratic operative, as Chuck Johnson exposed last year.
[...]
The clip would perhaps be interesting if they didn’t manipulatively edit out their actual interaction with a blatant jump cut in the middle.
Regardless, the same hack reporter attacked Gianforte from the right by asking him why he only reluctantly supported Donald Trump. Gianforte was noticeably angry.
[...]
Fox News journalists witnessed the body slamming[.]
[...]
Sounds rather exaggerated. [Infowars, 5/25/17]
GotNews: Jacobs is “a former minion for the Iowa Democratic Party” with “a history of opposing his political opponents’ freedom of speech.” GotNews alleged that Jacobs is “a former minion for the Iowa Democratic Party now operating as a Guardian reporter” who has “a history of opposing his political opponents’ freedom of speech.” From the May 24 post:
A former minion for the Iowa Democratic Party now operating as a Guardian reporter, Ben Jacobs, assaulted Montana Republican House candidate Greg Gianforte on Wednesday. Jacobs has a history of opposing his political opponents’ freedom of speech, as GotNews reported in October. [Got News, 5/24/17]
Media Research Center's Brent Bozell: "Jacobs is an obnoxious, dishonest first class jerk. I'm not surprised he got smacked."


Jacobs is an obnoxious, dishonest first class jerk. I'm not surprised he got smacked.


[Twitter, 5/25/17]
NewsBusters’ Tim Graham: “Let’s ask why on Earth a House candidate in Montana should have to answer questions from a reporter for a BRITISH newspaper????”


Let's ask why on Earth a House candidate in Montana should have to answer questions from a reporter for a BRITISH newspaper????


[Twitter, 5/24/17]
Laura Ingraham: “Politicians always need to keep their cool. But what would most Montana men do if ‘body slammed’ for no reason by another man?”


Politicians always need to keep their cool. But what would most Montana men do if "body slammed" for no reason by another man?


Did anyone get his lunch money stolen today and then run to tell the recess monitor?


[Twitter, 5/24/175/24/17]
Professional troll Mike Cernovich: “Has Ben Jacobs ever disavowed political violence by the left? If not, why does media suddenly care?”


Has Ben Jacobs ever disavowed political violence by the left? If not, why does media suddenly care?


[Twitter, 5/24/17]

Read more here.


Trump’s media allies use attack on GOP baseball practice to delegitimize the press

Paul Joseph Watson, an editor at Alex Jones’ Infowars site, was among the first to blame media coverage for the gunman’s attack, writing on Twitter just minutes after news broke that the culprit was “Trump derangement syndrome, radicalised by mainstream media hysterics.” He later added of journalists and the left, “The blood is on their hands.”
This cynical effort to curtail critical journalism spread from the “alt-right” fringe, through the right-wing press, to Trump’s chief propagandist at Fox News. Several of the theory’s proponents specifically pointed to the media’s coverage of the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
“The fake news media finally got what it wanted,” Mike Cernovich said on Periscope. “They’re getting their mass murderers. They’re getting the mass shooters. This is what they’ve attempted to incite for the past 18 months.” Cernovich, an “alt-right” provocateur and noted misogynist, spent the 2016 election cycle promoting “Pizzagate” smears, and now he has close ties to Trump’s White House and family.
“I have foreseen this coming,” Rush Limbaugh told his millions-strong radio audience soon after the shooting. “You can’t continue to enrage people the way the left and predominantly the mainstream media has been doing.”
Michael Savage, a right-wing radio host with a close relationship with Trump who regularly hosts the administration’s top officials, not only blamed the media for the shooting but also suggested that in response, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other critical journalists should be removed from the airwaves by the federal government due to their “constant drumbeat of their hatred against Trump and Republicans.” Maddow’s program is notable for its intense focus on the Trump-Russia story.
At Fox, Sean Hannity declared that “the biggest issue we need to address as a country is what is a record level of vicious left-wing hate that is being spewed day after day, hour after hour, by a left-wing news media that wants to destroy the president.”
Notably, the critique these pro-Trump media figures are pushing is largely bereft of concrete examples of journalists using extreme or inciting rhetoric about the president. After making his broad indictment against the press, for example, Hannity highlighted the actions of artists and celebrities, not reporters. In other instances, the claims are simply fabricated, as with Alex Jones’ declaration that a host of newspapers have called for Trump’s death.
Instead, the president’s allies are claiming that negative coverage in general -- and negative coverage about the Russia investigation in particular -- led to violence. This is a patently cynical ploy aimed at bolstering a political strategy that the pro-Trump media have pushed for months.
Read more here.

Fox host blames Snoop Dogg, Kathy Griffin, Loretta Lynch for shooting at Congressional baseball practice Eric Bolling: "Crazy people act on the crazy things they hear from politicians and celebrities"




ERIC BOLLING: Spill blood, die? Really, ma'am? Snoop Dogg's gun, Kathy Griffin's head, Shakespeare's bloody rampage -- it goes on and on. How many innocent people have to die before we realize that words do matter? Crazy people act on the crazy things they hear from politicians and celebrities. Think before you utter those blind, hateful words next time, liberals, because there are crazy people out there taking your metaphors literally. 

Lou Dobbs: "The secular left” and “national left-wing media” are a “threat to domestic order ”Dobbs: "There is no, if you will, mitigation on the part of the national left-wing media"




LOU DOBBS (HOST): As we have seen the secular left rise and hostility within it rise, it has become a threat to domestic order, and to this administration.
It's irrational, and there is no, if you will, mitigation on the part of the national left-wing media. Indeed, they have become collaborators, accomplices in those acts of subversion and the effort to undercut this lawful administration. This is something we've never experienced.


Lou Dobbs: "The left in this country is trying to kill America"Dobbs: We are in the middle of a “battle for the values of this country”


LOU DOBBS (HOST): You know, congressman, I agree with everything you say. I do think it's important that we take note that the left in this country is trying to kill America.
DOBBS: Which is a contest, a struggle, a battle for the values of this country, and for the government, the government of this great nation that is under assault.


Right-wing media blame everyone from Shakespeare to Snoop Dogg for shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise


  1. Snoop DoggWorldNetDaily cited Snoop Dogg as an example of a left-wing figure whose opposition to Trump “adds up to a culture teetering on the brink of disaster.” Fox's Eric Bolling also referred to Snoop Dogg when he claimed, “Crazy people act on the crazy things they hear from politicians and celebrities.”
  2. President Obama: Right-wing radio host Michael Savage alleged that former President Barack Obama had “been screaming for” people to “kill” or “shoot” others.
  3. Madonna: Fox’s Steve Doocy and Sean Hannity and far-right outlets WorldNetDaily and Breitbartblamed Madonna for the shooting.
  4. New York theater production of Julius CaesarFake news purveyor Freedom Daily cited a New York theater production of Julius Caesar as a cause of the attack, saying the show's Caesar -- who is assassinated -- represented Trump.
  5. Former Attorney General Loretta LynchBolling, far-right conspiracy theory outlet Infowars, and fake news purveyor TruthFeed blamed former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for the shooting, citing her remarks about how those who have fought for social justice bled and even died for their causes.
  6. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)Infowars and TruthFeed took Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)’s comments about “fight[ing] in the streets” out of context to blame him for inciting violence.
  7. Kathy GriffinBollingHannityBreitbart, and TruthFeed cited comedian Kathy Griffin's commentary on Trump as one of the causes of the attack.
  8. DemocratsTruthFeedFreedom Daily, and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that “Democrat leadership” is “100% complicit in this tragedy.”
  9. The deep state: Infowars’ Alex Jones blamed the “deep state” for the shooting.
  10. Southern Poverty Law CenterBreitbart wrote that the shooter “liked” Southern Poverty Law Center's Facebook page, and that the SPLC hasn’t retracted “repeated attacks on Rep. Scalise.”
  11. CNN and MSNBCSavage also said the heads of CNN and MSNBC were “propagating hatred on a daily basis,” which led to the shooting.
  12. The investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia: Chatter Media’s John Cardillo tweeted that “those pushing false Russia narratives have blood on their hands.”
  13. Mainstream media: “Alt-right” trolls Jack Posobiec and Nick Short, Fox’s Lou Dobbs, Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson, as well as hacker Kim Dotcom blamed mainstream media for the shooting.

Trump ally Michael Savage cites white nationalist website, warns college students will be shotSavage: “Just think of the Kent State massacre. That’s how this is going to end.”


In the wake of the shooting at a GOP congressional baseball team practice, right-wing radio host and Trump ally Michael Savage cited the white nationalist website American Renaissance and invoked the Kent State shootings of 1970 as a warning for anti-Trump protesters.
On June 14, James Hodgkinson gunman opened fire on a congressional baseball practice and shot five, including Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA). The attacker was shot by U.S. Capitol Police and later died from his injuries. 
Savage responded to the shooting by citing the white nationalist website “American Renaissance” referring to “an interactive map” they published that identifies “two hundred acts of violence and hatred against Donald Trump supporters that have taken place since he declared his candidacy.”



The NRA's "inappropriate" response to the congressional baseball shooting

Just hours after the shooting, during the 10 a.m. edition NRATV’s program Stinchfield, which provides live news updates at the top of the hour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, host Grant Stinchfield said, “There is an atmosphere of violence being pushed across America by the left” that “motivates unstable people.” During the 1 p.m. update, Stinchfield said the “violent rhetoric being pushed by the left-wing elitists amounts to political terrorism” and claimed that this “motivates unstable people to do … unspeakable things.”
The next day, Stinchfield jumped at the chance, during the 9 a.m. edition of the program, to partially blame “those on the left” and the “violent atmosphere” they have created “against conservatives” for the shooting. While he conceded that “the shooter has accountability in this,” Stinchfield claimed, “There is culpability on those on the left that push this violent atmosphere against conservatives”:
GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Look, I want everyone to know that certainly the shooter has accountability in this. He gets the ultimate responsibility for his actions. But when you are unstable, when you are deranged, it only takes a little bit to provoke you to do something. There is culpability for those on the left that push this violent atmosphere against conservatives, against people that don’t believe in what they do. And that’s what’s got to stop.


Related Fox News videos demonizing the left in various ways to keep the repetition to program these erroneous beliefs into their viewers;

Watters' Words: A horrific week for the world of fake news Mar. 18, 2017 - 4:58 - What a bunch of clowns

Judge Jeanine: Do not buy into the narrative of the left Mar. 18, 2017 - 6:53 - The left is trying to change the law and journalistic standards to fit their agenda

Watters' Words: The mainstream media exposed... again! Apr. 22, 2017 - 5:17 - Trump has received by far the most hostile press treatment of any new president

Trump's social media director on battling 'fake news' Apr. 22, 2017 - 4:50 - Dan Scavino on 'Watters' World': We're driving the liberals insane


All of this is clearly part of the same ongoing ancient narrative demonizing the left and everyone else except themselves for everything, including stuff they do. 

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