Despite having a sordid history of using vitriolic rhetoric, George Soros-funded advocacy group MoveOn has seized upon the tragic shooting of Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and other attendees of a public event in Tucson Saturday as a means to go after “overt and implied appeals to violence in our political debate."
The left-wing group has launched a congressional petition campaign to get members of Congress and the news media to drop any references to “violence” from political discussion.
“In the wake of the mass shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tucson, we must end the violent rhetoric that has exploded in American politics over the past two years,” MoveOn’s website states. “That’s why we’re calling on every member of Congress, as well as the major TV news networks, to put an end to overt and implied appeals to violence in our political debate. A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to Congress and the major TV news networks.”
MoveOn seems to have forgotten the hate campaigns and vitriolic language it and its members have used. Though its website states that “violent rhetoric” has taken over American politics in the “past two years,” MoveOn has been engaging in such rhetoric for much longer.
Just last year, one of MoveOn’s members choked a Tea Partier at a political event in Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s district during midterm election campaigning. Republicorps and MoveOn member Fred Highton told The Daily Caller in October that he regretted initiating a physical altercation with a conservative Tea Partier at that political event at the University of Arizona.
“If I’m going to take part in these political events, I need to learn some self-control,” Highton said in October.
MoveOn did not return TheDC’s requests for comment or clarification, nor would the group decry Highton’s violent actions.
Also, MoveOn sponsored an advertisement in 2003 that compared then President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. Over reddened footage of Hitler and Nazi troops marching, the MoveOn advertisement reads, “A nation warped by lies, lies fuel fear, fear fuels aggression, invasion, occupation. What were war crimes in 1945, is foreign policy in 2003.”
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Jul '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
Could burning The American Flag be considered "vitriolic language[?]"
Oct '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
No freedom of speech for those we disagree with!
Jul '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
Nice comment from Mosquito on Ann Altman's website:
Anyone else find it creepy that new standard what we may and may not say is: How will it affect the behavior of an obviously crazy person who may or may not hear it?
May '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
In other news, pumas are demanding that all mammals slow down a bit, and Vice President Biden is calling on public figures to think before they speak.
May '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
“That’s why we’re calling on every member of Congress, as well as the major TV news networks, to put an end to overt and implied appeals to violence in our political debate..."
Overt appeals to violence? Who has been doing that, anywhere? (Overseas does not count) This is so overwrought as to be laughable.
How groups like this keep from being ridiculed out of existence is beyond me.
Dec '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
The Daily Caller:
The left-wing group has launched a congressional petition campaign to get members of Congress and the news media to drop any references to “violence” from political discussion.
“In the wake of the mass shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tucson, we must end the violent rhetoric that has exploded in American politics over the past two years,”
So I guess the word "exploded", its derivations, and similar words are okay. Nothing violent about explosions, I guess.
May '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
Global Violenting is caused by Sarah Palin molecules! Or maybe it's global violencing? No matter--they are both are caused by molecules of Sarah Palin!!!!
Edited on Jan 10, 2011 at 8:53pmJun '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
This is a small point, and is mostly an observation, but has anyone else noticed that the word gentleman is no longer used correctly. In the video embedded at The Daily Caller, the man who was choked refers to his assailant as a "gentleman." In my view when you are being assaulted the description of your assailant as a gentleman is so inapt as to render the word meaningless. Imagine referring to a bank robber as the gentleman who demanded all the money. Does that make sense? I suppose there are worse language sins, most involving four-letter words, so I should consider myself lucky the poor victim didn't resort to these more apt descriptors.
May '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
It sounds as though there will be a list of forbidden words. Who will be the arbiter of what constitutes violent language?
May '10
Re: MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Vitriolic Language — Despite Sordid History of Using Vitriolic Language
This is an attack (overt violence I know but I will use it as long as I can) on the first amendment under the guise of being reasonable and non-violent. Given the Tucson horror there is a clear risk that MoveOn is on to a smart sales strategy for a totalitarian landgrab. What is the best strategy for resistance?