{"id":1718666,"date":"2022-10-31T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718666"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:33:45","slug":"blaming-conservatives-for-the-attack-on-pelosi-is-a-cynical-effort-to-chill-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blaming-conservatives-for-the-attack-on-pelosi-is-a-cynical-effort-to-chill-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Conservatives For The Attack On Pelosi Is A Cynical Effort To Chill Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblaming-conservatives-for-the-attack-on-pelosi-is-a-cynical-effort-to-chill-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The left\u2019s insistence that every conservative personally \u201ccondemn\u201d the actions of the mentally ill man who attacked Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband Paul has nothing to do with lowering the rhetorical temperature or averting violence, and everything to do with trying to compel Republicans to take responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the ugly, transparent cynicism of partisans like Joe Scarborough or David Frum or Bill Kristol. Take The Washington Post, which ran a triple-bylined, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/29\/paul-pelosi-attack-republicans-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> headlined, \u201cAttack on Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her.\u201d \u201cYears of vilification,\u201d contend the authors, have \u201cculminated\u201d in Pelosi\u2019s husband being attacked with a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>By \u201cdemonizing,\u201d the Post means that Republicans run lots of political ads targeting perhaps the most powerful, partisan leader in the nation. Pelosi is demonized in the same manner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/democrats-new-boogeyman-abortion-mitch-mcconnell-rcna49506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> or Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis are demonized. Remember ads depicted Paul Ryan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2012\/08\/12\/liberal-group-throws-granny-off-cliff-again\/?sh=2a222a898286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing<\/a> grandmas off cliffs? That kind of demonizing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three of the \u201creporters\u201d involved in writing the Washington Post piece know full well that the person accused of attacking Pelosi with a hammer was mentally unstable, his brain, according to the mother of his children, addled by long-term drug use. This is a former pro-nudist activist, convinced that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Ex-girlfriend-of-suspect-in-Paul-Pelosi-attack-17545968.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he was Jesus for a year<\/a>,\u201d who lived in a bus on a semi-commune and has embraced conspiracy theories from the left and right. <\/p>\n<p>Even if he wasn\u2019t unstable, of course, it doesn\u2019t mean the GOP has a responsibility to stop pointing out that Pelosi\u2019s policy ideas are bad for the country. Do reporters, columnists, ad makers, or politicians consider the safety of Republicans before saying anything critical about them? I sure hope not. Because neither political discourse nor political reporting should be inhibited by the prospective actions of third-party nuts. If Americans had to ponder the actions of political terrorists every time they took a position, they would only be empowering those nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, this weekend, John Dickerson was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/the-role-of-political-rhetoric-and-the-increase-in-violent-threats-toward-lawmakers\/\">wringing his hands<\/a> on CBS News over the alleged structural and rhetorical pro-violence position of the right. You see the trick, right? Conservatives have a duty to self-flagellate over the Jan 6 rioters, to answer for Alex Jones and white supremacists of Charlottesville, and to condemn the nudists of Berkley, <em>because<\/em> they\u2019re the ones who have allegedly coddled those extremists in the first place. It doesn\u2019t matter that vast majority of conservative have never supported or instigated any violence, whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, when a Black Lives Matter fan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/09\/us\/dallas-police-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murders<\/a> five Dallas police officers, the coverage is virtually devoid of any political concerns. Did a CBS News panel convene to agonize\u00a0over the left\u2019s support for BLM after riots decimated neighborhoods across the nation in 2020 \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/09\/16\/riots-cost-property-damage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">costliest<\/a> in American history? No, not even after the future vice president helped bail out people who participated in that violence, one of whom would later be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/minnesota-bail-fund-promoted-kamala-harris-freed-convict-now-charged-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> of murder.<\/p>\n<p>When a man who volunteers for the presidential campaign\u00a0of Bernie Sanders attempts to assassinate Republican leadership on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spare me the national conversation on political rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1718669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}