October 29, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Who is Really
Responsible for the Violence We See in Our Society?
Friends,
Over the
past week, since the badly-constructed pipe bombs that were sent to various
Democratic Party leaders and to certain national Leftist personalities—none of
which went off, and since the hate-filled rampage by a crazed anti-semite at a
Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, the mainstream media, and including many of the
supposed “conservative” commentators at Fox, have been all a-twitter with
demands that President Trump “lower the volume.” From Ed Henry to the vaunted “Fox
All Stars” that visit our television sets nightly, from Jonah Goldberg and A.
B. Stoddard and so many more, there has been a demand that somehow the
president implicitly must “do his part”
to refrain from “inciting the violence.”
Of
course, what the Fox pundits are attempting is to establish an equivalence between
what Donald Trump has said on the campaign trail, his colorful language and his
use of playful imagery, and the far more dour and angry radical advocacy and
language of those on the Left. In this way, they think, if both Right and Left
are properly chastised, then the “bad language and incitements” from our side (the “Deplorables”) can be
offset: thus, both Right and Left, in this narrative, need to “refrain from
inflammatory language,” and specifically, President Trump needs to stop using
his tried-and-true and very popular images: no more “lock her up.”
Thus,
those Fox pundits earnestly implore him to cease his verbal response against “fake
news” and against the blatant and outright misrepresentation and lies foisted
off nightly not just by mainstream media, but by much of the entertainment
industry (e.g., just take a look at late night television), academia (hundreds
of shrill calls for violence by Leftist faculty against conservatives, e.g.,
Berkeley and dozens of other colleges), and the vast campaign to foment
violence against conservatives on the Internet.
Somehow Donald Trump, simply by responding to his unhinged enemies,
bears some, perhaps equal responsibility for what has happened in the past week
or so.
And for mainstream
media, President Trump bears the major share of responsibility. It is almost as
if he were the one who carelessly wrapped the faulty pipe bombs and placed them
in the mail; it is almost as if he was the man standing behind the vicious and
deranged shooter who invaded the Pittsburgh synagogue. (The shooter is actually
a violent anti-Trumper, but you won’t hear that from most of the media.)
So goes
the Leftist template: it is the president, through his language who is responsible;
not those hundreds of “non-mobs.”
“Non-mobs”?
Well, you see, CNN, MSNBC, and the mainstream have banned the use of the word “mobs”—the
folks engaged in what we would call “mobs” (e.g., the take-over of streets in
Portland, Oregon, by Antifa, who then assaulted elderly drivers, or the violent
toppling of the Durham, NC, Confederate monument) were, to quote Joe
Scarborough on MSNBC, “exercising their constitutional right to assemble and
demonstrate.”
Got that?
But it is
far more serious. For the language and, most importantly, the intent of the forces engaged in this debate
are far different. There is, in fact, no
equivalence between what the Left has been spewing forth—and doing—since Donald
Trump was elected in November 2016, and the president’s response to it. And the
Fox—and other conservative—pundits are dead wrong, both morally and
politically, to accept such an equivalence.
Almost
from the beginning of the Trump presidency the forces of the Deep State, that
is, the Washington-on-the-Potomac and New York axis establishment, have
responded with a fury unequaled in American history—save, perhaps, for the
critical months of late 1860 into early 1861, and we know how that ended. And
it has not just been by their language but by their actions, hundreds of
unhinged and unleashed “mob” actions, many of which have bordered on real
violence, and not a few that were violent.
The list
now amounts to hundreds of violent assaults by the minions of Leftist ideology.
Just consider these recent instances
and statistics (most not reported by mainstream media):
--“Rap Sheet: ***70*** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters,” July 5, 2018: https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/07/05/rap-sheet-acts-of-media-approved-violence-and-harassment-against-trump-supporters/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180705
-- “Violence Against Right Escalates as Media Amp up Hate-Rhetoric Against Trump,” September 12, 2018: https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/12/violence-against-right-escalates-as-media-amp-up-hate-rhetoric-against-trump/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180912
-- “Resistance Makes Rape Threat to Susan Collins Staffer over Kavanaugh Vote,” September 12, 2018: https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/12/resistance-makes-rape-threat-to-susan-collins-staffer-over-kavanaugh-vote/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180912
-- “Leftist Vandals Smash Windows, Deface Doors of Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan, Threaten More Violence and Revolution,” October 12, 2018: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/12/photos-metropolitan-republican-club-in-manhattan-targeted-by-vandals/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20181012
Yet all
through 2017 and most of 2018 the mainstream media has either ignored these
provocations, or, at best, given them minor coverage, short shrift, downplayed
them, passing them off on page 37 in a small, insignificant column in The Washington Post or The New York Times, or simply not
reporting on them at all. But now it literally spends a week with blaring “news
alerts,” screaming headlines 24/7, and accusations comparing Donald Trump to
Adolf Hitler [see in particular, The
Washington Post, “Don’t Compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It Belittles
Hitler,” September 13, 2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/13/dont-compare-donald-trump-to-adolf-hitler-it-belittles-hitler/?fbclid=IwAR3qT394zKItigb988OtNESFVxYMWey-lXU-N1hyjvE-gmD5U1yTMoMndKk&noredirect=on&utm_term=.82e3dfb88479]. And
informing us in ominous and frightening tones that our president is directly
responsible for the “climate of hate” and for an “environment that foments
violence” and for “threatening our democracy.”
All
the while, for nearly two years, it has been those mavens of the media, those
overpaid and woefully under-talented Hollywood icons, those mentally-corrupted
academics, those fanatical mobs of #Resistance and #MeToo demonstrators, and those
sexless and brain-dead feminists, who are the responsible ones, those who have initiated
and zealously enacted a violence-prone and violence-producing condition in this
nation.
What
Donald Trump has done is reply; and he has done so with humor and ridicule. No,
he has not asked the Deplorables to—quoting Maxine Waters and other leading
Democrats—“get in the face” of his opponents, to follow them home, to bang on
their doors, to follow them into restaurants and shout them down…. He has not
asked his supporters to take over entire streets in Portland and assault
passersby. And when a Leftist attempted to assassinate Republican congressmen
at a baseball game, it was not Donald Trump who was responsible; nor was he
responsible for sending highly poisonous Ricin in the mail to prominent
Republicans, nor for the violent attacks and trashing of the GOP headquarters
in Manhattan or Orange County, North Carolina, nor for a re-enactment of
Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, in
which the role of Caesar is played by a Donald Trump look-a-like who is
brutally murdered.
Yet the
response of those new paragons and arbiters of moral rectitude at CNN and
MSNBC, at the Times and the Post, is--in their most insufferable
pose—to pronounce an anathema on the president and his supporters, as if it
came down as a voice from Mount Olympus.
At
the very same time, in the middle of the coverage last week, came this: The New York Times ran an article
fantasizing about the assassination of the president [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/10/25/new-york-times-publishes-fantasy-about-trump-getting-assassinated/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20181025]
[October 25, 2018].
Apparently, the editors at the “old grey lady” see no
inconsistency between their withering attacks on Donald Trump as a provocateur
and responsible for violence, and their own blatant incitements to
assassination.
There is, of course, a larger issue here. President Trump’s
attacks on the media and his leftist opponents are always laced with his unique
brand of humor, that New Yorker “you’se guys are idiots!” style of over-the-top
braggadocio and insults that make us smile and laugh. We get that. Even his
recent aside about “body-slamming” a reporter (while he was in Montana) was
uttered humorously, metaphorically, with a broad smile on his face…and was
understood by his supporters that way.
Of
course, there are always a few nuts out there; but those few deranged folks are
always out there, and nothing Donald Trump says in his rollicking campaign
rallies will either dissuade them from committing what they hope to commit, or
convince them to be law-abiding citizens.
The
difference is this: those folks who have supported the president, those “Deplorables,”
are mostly average hard-working, God-fearing, go-to-church-on-Sunday, “normal”
people. By nature they are “conservative” in the way they live. They do not get
out in the streets; they do not gather in mobs. Even when pleaded with to
demonstrate for some truly worthy cause (e.g, pro-life), most of our folks do
not. Such action—demonstrations, marches—are not inbred in our DNA. We were not
raised that way; we usually have too much going on in our own families, in our
work, in our lives. And the idea of spending time ranting and raving or beating
on poor auto drivers, or gathering to scream profanity and pull down historic
monuments, is foreign to us.
When
Donald Trump uses colorful language, we laugh and we smile. It’s imagery we can
identify with. We’ve been frustrated for years that the Establishment takes us
for granted, abuses us, manipulates us. But our revenge was at the ballot box
back in 2016; it is not in sending
fatal Ricin to our enemies or attempting to assassinate Democrats, or
fantasizing about killing Obama.
That is
the difference, and it is what distinguishes us from the unleashed lunatics on
the Left and who now dominate the Democratic Party. And we don’t need pundits,
including those on Fox, who show up nightly to lecture us (and the president)
that we are responsible for the violence of this past week.
No. What
has happened is not Donald Trump’s fault; he did not cause it, he is not
responsible for it. Two years of Leftist over-top-madness are.
Check this
ReplyDeleteAustralian Broadcasting Corp. "documentary" out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8klHKVfL8Q