Take aways from the mad Republican bomber story

It turns out that the guy who sent the bombs to Democrats wasn't a Democrat; well at least not entirely a Democrat.

He believed that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks so he certainly wasn't a mainstream Republican but he was a Trump fan.

The #FakeNews media and the Democrats are blaming Trump and Republicans for the bombings even though everyone on the right condemned them.

Let's contrast how this story of violence is being covered with how the on going and pervasive violence used by the left is being portrayed by Democrats and the media and see what lessons we can learn about what the #FakeNews media is saying about political violence.

When Steve Scalise was nearly murdered by a Bernie fan no one, Republican or Democrat, blamed Bernie yet now the Democrats are all claiming Trump is responsible for the latest bombing.  Yet neither Bernie nor Trump made any direct calls for violence.

Similarly when Antifa uses violence to shut down speech they don't like Democrats either say that yes violence is ok in those circumstances or issue some less than compelling disagreement.  Yet no one in the #FakeNews media blames the Democrats for Antifa violence.

Lesson 1: When Democrats use violence it's not their fault it's the fault of the evil Republicans who deserve to be attacked.

The number of violent events by Republicans is very small; you could count them on the fingers of one hand.  On the other hand you'd need a lot of extra digits to count the number of acts of violence or threats of violence done by Democrats; Brietbart has a list of 613 examples of violence by Democrats for example.

But the #FakeNews media generally ignores or downplays stories about Democrat violence.  The attempted murder of Steve Scalise and other Republicans was out of the news cycle within days even as it wasn't clear if Steve would survive.  Similarly when Republican congressional candidate Rudy Peters was nearly murdered most Americans never heard about it.

Lesson 2: When anyone who is can be considered even marginally right wing is violent it's a man bites dog story which must be covered extensively, when a Democrat uses violence it's so common that it's not newsworthy.

When violence does happen Republicans immediately condemn it but Democrats take a more nuanced approach.  Democrats seem to be comfortable with the idea of using intimidation and threats as part of the political process though, to be fair, Democrat politicians do say that murder isn't ok.

For example key Democrats like Maxine Waters have called for mobs to harass Republicans in public places.

Eric Swallwell, Rudy Peter's Democrat opponent, did condemn the attempt to murder Rudy though he did go on to tweet that he had no sympathy for Susan Collins getting death threats.

Yet the #FakeNews media says that it's the Republicans who condemn violence who are the problem while declaring that the Democrats aren't in any way responsible due to their explicit support for mobs and their, somewhat, tacit support for Antifa violence.

Lesson 3: Democrats supporting mobs and not condemning violence doesn't lead to violence but saying bad, i.e. conservative things, makes Republicans responsible for violence.