Media Matters - How Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts are downplaying the attack on Congress

[TomCADem]

The fact that right wing media folks are comparing the insurrectionists favorably with the founders underscores why there is such a pervasive threat to our Democracy. All Russia has to do retweet America's own home grown racists, which the Republican party is more than happy to embrace as their base.

https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/all-sudden-protesting-congress-being-called-end-world-how-rush-limbaugh-and

One day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rush Limbaugh implicitly endorsed political violence and at the same time blamed the attack partly on so-called “antifa” “instigators.” Some of Limbaugh’s fellow conservative talk radio hosts have similarly attempted to downplay the mob’s actions, dismissing calls to condemn the violence and suggesting that the attack was actually a “false flag” operation.

On Wednesday, a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The attack left multiple people dead and was inspired by baseless claims of a stolen election that both Trump and his allies on talk radio helped to spread.

Most of these radio personalities — with the notable exception of Limbaugh — offered at least a perfunctory condemnation of political violence in response to Wednesday’s events. But hosts have tried to avoid reckoning with the rioters’ actions in other ways, falsely blaming “antifa” for the violence or complaining about how the mob was treated in media coverage compared to Black Lives Matter protesters.

Limbaugh, appearing on air for the first time this year on Thursday, disagreed with those “who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable.” Limbaugh then invoked the Revolutionary War, arguing, “I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way.”

[Ilsa]

1. I bet trump calls Limpball's show to get his "call to arms" out to his goons.

Now that twitter and email are not an option, he'll be using fox and radio.

[RockRaven]

2. This is all the more reason to impeach - to have a trial with a shit-ton of attention which lays all

the evidence out so clearly and persistently that even FUX watchers cannot avoid it despite their best efforts.

[hibbing]

3. He would have been a loyalist n/t

[world wide wally]

4. Absolutey!