Two Fox News hosts on Monday mixed it up over whether the United States faces a real threat from sovereign citizen extremists here at home.
A panel on “The Five” was discussing a recent Department of Homeland Security report detailing the threat from right-wing sovereign citizens, who are considered domestic terrorists. The report noted that the primary targets of those extremists were law enforcement officers, according to CNN.
After co-host Greg Gutfeld quipped that DHS feared “armed Lutherans laying siege in a Hot Topic in a mall,” Fox’s Juan Williams reminded him of the Oklahoma City and Atlanta Olympics bombings.
Co-host Eric Bolling then challenged Williams to come up with any example of right-wing or “Christian crusade” terror attacks on American soil in the last seven years. When Williams said he wouldn’t “get into it,” Bolling chastised him for giving a “typical left wing response.”
“I remember a doctor getting shot in his church,” Williams said, referencing the fatal shooting of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.
“An abortion clinic shooting, you’re calling that a terrorist attack?” Bolling asked.
“What would you call it?” Williams countered.
“A lunatic who murdered someone,” Bolling said.
“Oh you sound like Obama. I didn’t know you were working for Obama these days,” Williams shot back. “All of the sudden it’s a ‘domestic effort,’ I see. Maybe next you’re going to call it a man-made disaster.”
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Silly libtards. Conservative man’s rage is an entirely natural phenomenon, like lightning and wet dreams.
It doesn’t surprise me that these people don’t know about right-wing violence because they never talk about it on Fox News, at least nowhere near the extent it happens other places. An elderly white supremacist shot a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in DC, then a gun nut shot and killed 3 cops in Pennsylvania - ok that was a few years ago right? Last year the 2 cops got murdered in Vegas (this would’ve been while Fox News was overtly sanctioning militia violence against the federal government, not saying the two were linked - but still). Last fall, two more cops were killed in Pennsylvania, but Fox News was busy trying to tell us we were directly responsible for the two NYPD officers being murdered because we protested police violence. These are just off the top of my head without googling.
But a Muslim cut off a coworker’s head in Oklahoma so none of this is matters I guess.
Yup, once Murdock starting hiring black people it was over…
Scott Roeder not only killed George Tiller, but he also warned us that other such attacks were coming. Doing so was intended to scare abortion providers. If that isn’t the very definition of terrorism, I don’t know what possibly could be.
Given that his intention was to terrorize and that he warned us that other attacks were coming, why didn’t the Bush administration waterboard him to find out what else he knows?
Couldn’t ISIS be called “lunatics who murdered someone”?