(January 12, 2022 at 11:30 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I'm saying that Watters' and Fox News' callous disregard of optics alone is dangerous. I know it's a metaphor, but if the event he's saying those words at attracts the sort of people who seriously wonder when their leaders are going to sanction armed violence, there's probably a good chance that they either won't notice or won't give a shit. And if there's a good chance that his intended audience is going to take it literally, I can see why someone would think that that's fucking dangerous.
I don't like how it was phrased either, talking about a kill shot, but like we both agree, it was clearly a metaphor, so that's that. When people start calling for news people to be fired because they made a shitty metaphor, you're going down a really slippery slope there and this is clearly opposition to freedom of the press. No one should threaten violence, but this happens to pretty much every single public figure, and my issue with Fauci bringing this up in congress, was that he was doing it so he could play the victim and try to change the topic from his emails, where he discusses doing a hit job on the paper of highly credentialed scientists which was also endorsed by a Nobel Prize winner.