We have come to expect a double standard from the media

Christopher Buskirk:

Why are fake bombs sent to Democrats more shocking than real ricin packages to Republicans?

Democrats have a history of rhetoric that glorifies and encourages political violence

Remember that time American media was consumed with news that the deadly poison ricin – contact with the skin can be deadly – was sent to President Trump, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson? Remember all of the introspective opinion pieces wondering if attacks on the president had gone too far? Or if claiming that Republican policies kill people, might not be an incitement to violence?

Me either. But who can remember all the way back to October 2?
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Yet, on the day the first packages were delivered CNN ran an on-air headline saying that there was a ‘manhunt for serial bomber going after Trump’s targets.’ Get it? Democrats have a history of rhetoric that glorifies and encourages political violence, of winking at it when it comes from groups like Antifa, and then of claiming the unknown sender of the suspicious packages was doing Trump’s bidding.

Perhaps the people whose sense of their own moral superiority allows them to think that harassment, intimidation, and physical assault are justified by the higher calling of their own side should take some responsibility. But I supposed they would claim that was blaming the victim.
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For CNN it is all personal all the time when it comes to Trump.  Others on the left seized on the fake bombs as a reason to attack critics of the left as though the critics were somehow responsible for the acts of a guy who has been described as more than a little off.  Conservatives did not blame Bernie Sanders for the acts of one of his supporters who tried to assassinate Republican Congressmen.  Yet, the first thoughts of many on the left was to blame Trump.  I think one of the things that really upsets them about Trump is that he fights back against their attacks and they are just not used to that.