If there’s a drug that can make smart people say stupid things, none does it better than partisanship.
NBC News “Justice Correspondent” Pete Williams thinks that last spring’s shooting at a GOP congressional baseball practice in which Rep. Steve Scalise was seriously wounded just happened to be random, and that the motive was unclear. It’s incredible to see the lengths that some liberals will go to deny the motive of this shooting, which is completely obvious to anyone who followed the story. But before diving into Mr. Williams’s past comments, let’s recap the circumstances of that shooting.
- The shooter was identified as James Hodgkinson, who was a campaign volunteer for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign
- Hodgkinson checked to make sure the Congressional baseball practice only included Republicans before opening fire
- Hodgkinson had a list of Republican targets in his pocket
- Hodgkinson had anger management issues, and routinely railed against President Trump and Congressional Republicans on social media
Clearly, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to take a wild guess as to what Hodgkinson’s motive was. For Williams, however, the circumstances are somehow confusing. Relating that shooting to the horrific shooting in Las Vegas last night, Williams said on MSNBC that, “It would not be unheard of if at the end of all this it remains a puzzle. For example, just the recent shooting at the congressional baseball game here outside Washington, D.C. that wounded Steve Scalise and you know, was a devastating attack on that institution; the authorities can never say for sure what drove the gunman in that case.”
“His life was falling apart, he was experiencing financial problems, he was depressed. He came here, he said, hoping to talk to federal authorities in Washington about taxes, but why he targeted Republicans, what specifically he had in mind here, they have never answered that question,” Williams said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-6MsmDdJJs
That’s an odd way to acknowledge the reason that Hodgkinson opened fire, while completely ignoring the reason why Hodgkinson opened fire, isn’t it? Read his statement again: “Why he targeted Republicans, what specifically he had in mind here, they have never answered that question.”
Well there’s your answer, Williams: because they were Republicans!
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The shooter was taking Senator Ted Cruz’s advise.
Words have consequences.
The shooter was following the advice of Senator Ted Cruz,
“The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty,”
The shooter was serving as “the ultimate check against government tyranny”.
This liberal reporter doesn’t know what Stve Scalise’s shooter motive was??
NEWSFLASH: They guy was a hate filled leftist with an alt liberal agenda. The difference between the shooter and the reporter at NBC is that the shooter had was honest in his intentions and not ball less like this NBC goon…
ALL MSM talking heads should be forced to wear dunce hats while appearing on TV; they are so clueless as to be dunces. They are supposed to be the smart people in the room, able to ferret out the facts about the news, not make news by being so damned dumb when it comes to political ideology. NBC and the other alphabet networks have made it a priority to slant the news AGAINST conservatives in this country; it it any wonder then that this dumocrat shooter was targeting ONLY Republican members of Congress??
although the shooter had hate signs and letters in his vehicle and apartment….
IT’S HATE THAT THE MSM PUSHED FOR MONTHS!!!!!!
To turn a country into a socialist/communist state, you must first disarm its citizens. Dumocrats have been trying to turn this country into the communist states of America. Just my opinion, but I think they pay people to shoot mass shooting so they can keep trying to push their gun control, AKA disarm America for the total takeover.
We may never know when the aliens came and took over all the reporters brains either.
I would say that they will lose credibility with that statement, but since they are already in the abyss with credibility, there is no point
Well this idgit may never know but as for the rest of us who listen to the REAL news and know the facts we know why he did it.
Trying that old shuffle and shifty song and dance thinking we forgot SORRY didn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL_OAgZwkdE&t=69s