Rick Santorum: Charleston Shooting ‘Assault on Our Religious Liberty’

[KamaAina]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rick-santorum-charleston-shooting-assault-on-our-religious-liberty/

As early as late Wednesday night, Charleston police chief Greg Mullen has called the heinous shooting death of nine people at a traditionally all-black church a “hate crime.” Soon after, eye witness reports suggested Dylann Storm Roof made racially-charged statements during the shooting.

Of course, since the event’s location is a church, this complicates the matter further. That’s why Fox & Friends speculated on Thursday morning that the shooting targeted Christians, and it’s also the same reasoning that led 2016 presidential candidate Rick Santorum to argue the same thing on New York’s AM 970....

Unlike Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy, Santorum doesn’t necessarily downplay whether or not the Charleston shooting was a hate crime. He does, however, emphasize the possible anti-religious nature of the crime, and considers it the tragedy’s defining quality.

“All you can do is pray for those and pray for our country. This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we — you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.”

Zip it, Frothy Mixture!

[el_bryanto]

1. It will be interesting to see if this argument gets any traction

I'd hope not, as it makes little sense, but that doesn't mean it won't.

Bryant

[napkinz]

4. yes it's getting traction ... I started a thread on it yesterday

Mass Murder In Charleston Not Hate Crime, But Crime Against Christians -- according to conservatives

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026858449

[el_bryanto]

7. Well gaining traction with Fox News and Conservative commentators

is not the same thing as getting traction with a wide swath of people. But we will see. I suppose my more cynical side will note that man American racists are going to be eager for an explanation to this terrorist act that doesn't involve having to examine the murderous consequences of their racism.

Bryant

[napkinz]

8. yes, that was my point, getting traction with conservatives

and here comes Jeb!

Jeb Bush: 'I Don’t Know' If Charleston Shooting Was Racially Motivated

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026866045 (posted by RandySF)

[Fred Sanders]

5. Getting no traction because it is viciously wrong....Fox and the GOP is finally going to get massacred on this.

Textbook definition of "terrorism", and hate crime...from the suspects' own mouth and pen and deeds and symbols and role models....the evidence is overwhelming to the point of WTF? if anyone thinks otherwise.

I guess the entire GOP clown car agrees with Fox that Iowa GOP primary voters will be brainwashed, as they reliably can be, to agree with Fox.

But not his time...you can feel the difference...the evidence leads down a one way street.

#TakeThe FlagDown

[ann---]

2. OMG

Does he know that the Roof family members are christians - Lutheran?

[CanonRay]

3. The clown car is rolling!

First Jeb, now Shit-for-Brains

[HassleCat]

6. Of course!

They were shot because they're Christian. I should have known.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Gotta keep the racists voting R.

[struggle4progress]

10. Let's see:

... his roommate Joey Meek told ABC News ... "He wanted to make something spark up the race war again" ... "He said he thought the black (race) in general as a race was bringing down the white race," Meek said ... Witnesses told investigators the gunman stood up and said he was there "to shoot black people" ... In an image tweeted by authorities in Berkeley County, South Carolina, Roof is seen wearing a jacket with the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and nearby Rhodesia ... ... “He said he wanted segregation between whites and black,” Meek said ... ... “He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself” ... One of his friends, Derrick "D-Gutta" Pearson, ... published a photo that appeared to show Roof sitting on the hood of a black car with a license plate that says "Confederate States of America"

[hifiguy]

11. The manlike object that is Frothymix Turtlesex

desperately needs to crawl into a fourth-dimensional hole and pull it in after himself.

Human sewage and a total waste of oxygen.