The is a big noise today on sites like Salon.com about the question that was asked to Representative Broun of Georgia two days ago at a town hall meeting. Some nut job in the sudience asked who was going to shoot Obama. Broun says that he did not dignify the quesiton with a response, but the lefty blogosphere claims that Broun said that the was frustration with the president but that there was an election next year to deal with that. Broun says that the statement was his response to the next question which also complained about Obama. What no one disputes is that Broun immediately had his staff report the quesiton to the Secret Service. Nevertheless, I have seen multiple stories today about how outrageous this was. These include stories by the AP, Reuters and Hearst.
Of course, two days ago, a Democrat Congressman from Massachusetts was not responding to a question when he told his union audience that they needed to "get bloody in the streets." that was an original idea from our friendly Democrat. No one covered that story other than Fox News that I could find.
It is truly amazing and actually funny to see the difference in treatment here. Without a doubt, any rational person would find it worse for a congressman to incite a crowd to political violence than for a congressman to report a threatening statement from a crowd member to the secret service without a full public condemnation of the statement. I guess no one could accuse the media of being rational or even close to rational.
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