Media role in incitment to murder?

[azul]

WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to "Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban". Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give Ailes the order and there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column "Assassinate Assange" captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and "WANTED DEAD or ALIVE" with the alive crossed out.

John Hawkins of Townhall.com has stated "If Julian Assange is shot in the head tomorrow or if his car is blown up when he turns the key, what message do you think that would send about releasing sensitive American data?"

Christian Whiton in a Fox News opinion piece called for violence against WikiLeaks publishers and editors, saying the US should "designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them."

WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement --- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger."


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[thaddeus_flowe]

1. true

If A + B = C
then B + C =A 

If: Threat + Violence = Responsibility
Then: Responsibility + Violence = Threat


So why then when I attempt to explain the responsibility of
those who threaten violence, do I only get blank stares or
acrimonious political blathering about "liberal
hate"?

[27inCali]

2. too soon.

[thaddeus_flowe]

3. i did not know truth had lost its punctuality,

but you're probably right.

that rush joke was highhlarious

[Supersedeas]

4. add money--same groups that Astroturfed opposition to Health Care Reform and created

the townhall hysteria in the media WERE THE MEDIA.

They (the MEDIA) then proceeded to create RW shockjocks and handed them our national airways to disseminate their hate. But, you know, that's the liberal fault too.

Just follow the money and the Media defensiveness is completely understandable.