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Do people on the left think she should lose her title and positionfor that stupid post that we know was not literal call for the POTUS to be assasinated?
 
But Perham you know as well as I do that [when] someone on the other side says that about Bush it's not made a big deal like it is for someone on the right.

Not really, i.e., I don't know that. Will this story have legs? Or is the extent of it just a burst of internet babble the day after? I'm fairly certain the same can be said of threats against Bush. So at this stage, we can't say that the news about Ms. Pierce's asinine statement will gather any more attention than those of the left-wingers criticizing GWB. It's not ok to publicly state that it's ok to assassinate the US President. It's just not. And, one would think, especially from a political student-leader.

For every 1 Conservative to make a stupid comment, you have 20 Liberal's making stupid comments.

Is this an example of the 1 conservative stupid statement? There is nothing to support this "fact" except your biases and prejudices.

If you deny that then maybe your much further left than I originally thought .....

Nice, so for me to deny a ridiculous claim (the 20:1 ratio) means that I am even more of left-winger? This is a logical/argumentative fallacy, but I can't remember which one. Ad-hominen, perhaps? I mean, if you're going to play that card at least use it on something that's close to being reasonable.

See Bill Maher's comments about sending Elisabeth Hasslebeck to another country to be raped. It was not made a big deal when he said it 9 months ago. It made news when Elisabeth confronted him on the View the other day and he said it was a joke as Barbara Walters kepted trying to change the subject in his defense. There is a double standards in this country and you know it.

I don't really know what your point is here, it's certainly not that there are "double standards". Hasselbeck is not the President.

Here is Mr. Maher's comment on that:

"We do a comedy show for an audience that's perhaps different than your audience," he replied, matter-of-factly. "You are a public figure. It was not aimed at you personally, but when you are a public figure, you are out there and you're fodder for comedians to make comments on."

Hasselbeck's own co-host defended Maher:

Hasselbeck's own cohost Joy Behar, who also happens to be a comedian, went so far as to side with Maher. "We walk the ledge," she said, referring to comics. "It's not easy. It's like you make a joke, sometimes people's feelings get hurt. Then they attack us back, and we have to take it."

I'm not defending Maher as an entertainer or as a person, but he is correct.
 
Do people on the left think she should lose her title and positionfor that stupid post that we know was not literal call for the POTUS to be assasinated?

Are you aware that people on the right are asking for her to resign?
 
Rex, in your "eff me" response above, you are still wallowing in the same logical errors; the "it's a joke so it has to be ok" line of thinking. That is blatently logically wrong. If I joke about a fire in a crowded movie theatre by yelling "fire!", does my saying it's a joke make it ok? The answer to that is no, in case you're wondering.
 
Well...to be honest, do even y'all folks on the left want Biden to be POTUS?

Given how I see things unravelling should that be the case, I'll go out on a limb and say yes.
 
I say dumber things than that before I get out of bed most mornings. And on the mornings where I wake up and I'm not in bed, I say things infinitely dumber.

She's a kid and shot her mouth off. None of us ever do that on these boards, thank zeus.
 
Perham, you are proving no matter how wrong you are you will defend your side. Claiming someone should be assasinated or raped is not a laughing matter. Being a comedian doesn't give someone a pass. Just stand up and own it instead of making excuses. In this topic I bashed the lady that said the assasination joke. That's the difference between the left and right. The right won't defend the undefendable. The left makes excuses like your doin right now.
 
I35 what you choose to attack or defend is more a personal than a political decision. I'm leftward in this group and I see this is FAUX news from the left. And even just trying to be funny, I think Bill Maher should be a lot more responsible than he is. He's too mean and unfair to take seriously. Jon Stewart is funnier, nicer and more honorable, even though he is insists he's a comic, not a newscaster.
 
I'm sorry, but 22 is old enough to know not to joke about Presidential assassinations - and especially in public - which is what Twitter is. I hope the Secret Service pays her a little visit. Wonder if she approved of the nutjob that shot at the White House today?

Hook'em!!!
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BN you've nailed it here. I-35. I guess my point, poorly made, was that I see the furor over what this young woman said as completely out of proportion with what she tweeted. That's as someone left of center on this board. On Bill Maher, I think the guy in an unabashed prick and wouldn't defend as a human being or a political commentator.
 
See this is why twitter is bad. People put their ignorance on full display for the world to see, instead of just people who know you.

Silly lil college girl is stupid and so are the overreactions. At least, she didn't take a shot.
 
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