Why do Palin etc use fire arm metaphors ? (accuse, weapon, party)

[NJ07035]

The far left Daily Kos also used 'targets' on their site, and specifically for Giffords as a Dem who was not following the party line.

http://hillbuzz.org/2011/01/08/my-congresswoman-voted-against-nancy-pelosi-and-is-now-dead-to-me-eerie-daily-kos-hit-piece-on-gabrielle-giffords-just-two-days-before-assassination-attempt-on-her/ (broken link)

Did THEY want her shot?

[NJ07035]

Just after 9/11, and during the Gulf and Iraqi war, the media called out football announcers for using terms like "bombs" "field generals" "it's a war out there" "battling" "sacrifice" etc. - terms that have been in use for, oh, 40 years or more.

'cause, you know, the average fan is wholly incapable of discerning between a Steelers/Ravens game and people being shot at and dying overseas.

It's called over-reaction.

Same thing applies here

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sept1...minology_x.htm

[manderly6]

Quick quiz. Who said the following:

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by nzrugby

What is the point of people like Palin, Limbaugh, etc etc using fire arm metaphors ?

They want to win the votes of firearm fetishists. I think they're growing in numbers.

[JazzyTallGuy]

Originally Posted by nzrugby

What is the point of people like Palin, Limbaugh, etc etc using fire arm metaphors ?
One glance at that video of Palin attempting to fire a rifle made it obvious that Palin is a amateur where fire arms are concerned.

Limbaugh, well a pimple on his backside stopped him from serving, what was his motto, onward Aussie soldiers ?
Again, what he would know about firearms could be put on the sharp end of a pin.

Traditionally when Conservative groups in this country haven't been able to achieve their goals through the political process they have resorted to violence. This not not anything new.

[nightflight]

Originally Posted by oz in SC

Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’

Quoted.

[nightflight]

Originally Posted by JazzyTallGuy

Traditionally when Conservative groups in this country haven't been able to achieve their goals through the political process they have resorted to violence. This not not anything new.

Like Obama's friend Bill Ayers? Or labor union thuggery? Or the attempt to bomb the 2008 Republican convention? Or the Earth Liberation Front? Or The Weathermen? Clay Duke? The Black Liberation Army? WTO protestors?

[calipoppy]

Originally Posted by nightflight

Like Obama's friend Bill Ayers? Or labor union thuggery? Or the attempt to bomb the 2008 Republican convention? Or the Earth Liberation Front? Or The Weathermen? Clay Duke? The Black Liberation Army? WTO protestors?

No....more like Timothy McVeigh. And the Ruby Ridge gang....and the Tea Party...and the bombing of a church in Birmingham Alabama....Greenwood and the Tusla Race Riots. And the Ku Klux Klan...NeoNazis...and Sarah Palin.

[shorebaby]

Originally Posted by calipoppy

No....more like Timothy McVeigh. And the Ruby Ridge gang....and the Tea Party...and the bombing of a church in Birmingham Alabama....Greenwood and the Tusla Race Riots. And the Ku Klux Klan...NeoNazis...and Sarah Palin.

And the left wonders why Conservatives can't find common ground with them.

[chielgirl]

Originally Posted by kevinm

John Kerry used "bullsye" targets in his 2004 presidential campaign to "target" states won by President Bush in 2000.

Do you not see the difference between a bullseye and the sight from a gun?