On Sunday’s edition of CBS’s Face the Nation, anchor Margaret Brennan tried to accuse Republican Congressman Tom Emmer of stoking political violence and being responsible for the alleged attack on Paul Pelosi’s husband by an unhinged nudist in San Francisco. Brennan’s reasoning for these flimsy allegations was that Emmer dared to post a video on Twitter of him exercising his Second Amendment rights and urged voters to protect their rights by firing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House in November. Since Brennan is apparently unhinged herself, Brennan interpreted that tweet as a threat to Pelosi’s life.
“On your Twitter feed you posted this video we're going to show just a few days ago where you're firing a gun and it says, enjoyed exercising my second amendment rights, hashtag fire Pelosi. Why is there a gun in a political ad at all?" Brennan shrieked.
Things immediately got heated:
REP. TOM EMMER: It wasn't an ad. I was --
[crosstalk]
BRENNAN: Hashtag fire Pelosi with a weapon.
EMMER: Well, now --
BRENNAN: Wouldn't a pink slip be more fitting if it's about firing her?
EMMER: It's interesting, Margaret.
BRENNAN: Why a gun?
Emmer then turned the tables on Brennan by asking her why she never posed these questions to Democrats like Bernie Sanders after one of his supporters shot and almost killed then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
“It's interesting Margaret that we're talking about this this morning when a couple years back when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Steve Scalise,” Emmer asked.
Her only immediate response was to call the attacks “horrendous” and “horrific.”
Emmer kept up the pressure on Brennan by noting “I never heard you or anyone else in the media trying to blame Democrats for what happened.”
“We did extensive coverage of what happened to Steve Scalise,” Brennan shot back. Yet coverage and tying a mass shooter to a prominent Democrat politician who reportedly inspired him with toxic political rhetoric are two very different things.
“Nobody tried to equate Democrats' rhetoric,” Emmer pointed out.
Brennan tried desperately to turn the focus back to Emmer’s tweet but he wasn’t having it. “I never saw anyone after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter,” Emmer pointed out one last time before Brennan switched gears completely.
The media don’t want to discuss the fact that Democrat rhetoric has inspired countless acts of political violence.
They want you to forget about the Black Lives Matter mobs in the summer of 2020 who burned buildings and assaulted or killed countless police officers, the shooting at the Congressional Republican baseball practice in 2017, and most recently the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. To name a few.
The leftist media propagandists dressed up as journalists want you to forget about these incidents and to only focus on events they can plausibly blame on Republicans.
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CBS’s Face the Nation
10/30/2022
10:46:29 a.m. EasternMARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about this when it comes to political violence. On your Twitter feed you posted this video we're going to show just a few days ago where you're firing a gun and it says, enjoyed exercising my second amendment rights, hashtag fire Pelosi. Why is there a gun in a political ad at all?
REP. TOM EMMER: It wasn't an ad. I was --
[crosstalk]
BRENNAN: Hashtag fire Pelosi with a weapon.
EMMER: Well, now --
BRENNAN: Wouldn't a pink slip be more fitting if it's about firing her?
EMMER: It's interesting, Margaret.
BRENNAN: Why a gun?
EMMER: It's interesting Margaret that we're talking about this this morning when a couple years back when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Steve Scalise--
BRENNAN: Which was horrendous, which was horrific, which is why we should be not putting weapons—
EMMER: I never heard you or anyone else in the media trying to blame Democrats for what happened. We need to stay focused on—
[crosstalk]
BRENNAN: We did extensive coverage of what happened to Steve Scalise.
EMMER: Excuse me?
BRENNAN: There was extensive news coverage—
EMMER: Nobody tried to equate Democrats' rhetoric—
BRENNAN: I'm not talking about rhetoric. I'm talking about what you posted. You're shooting a gun. Our viewers just saw it. Hashtag fire Pelosi.
EMMER: Exercising our Second Amendment rights--
BRENNAN: That's not a debate about the Second Amendment! That's not a debate about the Second Amendment. Hashtag fire Pelosi. Do you understand not that that is suggestive to people who are in a bad state and in this current environment how risky it is?
EMMER: I disagree.
BRENNAN: As you’re talking about the importance of lowering the rhetoric why leave that up?
EMMER: Again, I never saw anyone after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter—
BRENNAN: I'm talking about right now.
[crosstalk]
BRENNAN: What's happening now.
EMMER: Equate the Democratic rhetoric with those actions. Please don't do that.
