French TV SLAMS Conservatives For Politicizing Paris Attacks: ‘Newt Gingrich, Shame On You’ (VIDEO)

[riversedge]

Source: addictinginfo.org


Author: Jameson Parker November 13, 2015 11:20 pm

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French media put on a master class in how to conduct responsible, measured journalism in the face of chaos and fear. At the forefront was France 24, a network that brought continuous coverage of the ongoing terror attacks to viewers both in the country and to the rest of the world. Occasionally, they would offer perspectives from across the world, showing tweets and messages of well wishes from those across the planet hurting right along with France. Unfortunately, they also stumbled across America’s aforementioned right-wing sewage dump.

Wasting no time, conservatives spent the night competing with each other to say the most offensive, idiotic things they could about the attacks – ........

Mother Jones compiled a list of some of the worst offenders. Many of the usual suspects were there:.........


Newt Gingrich
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@newtgingrich

Imagine a theater with 10 or 15 citizens with concealed carry permits. We live in an age when evil men have to be killed by good people
5:37 PM - 13 Nov 2015

2,233 2,233 Retweets


..............After seeing Gingrich’s pitiful stab at turning France’s tragedy into a way to sell more American guns, France 24’s Mark Owen was both baffled and outraged.

“So he’s using this atrocity to make his point [that] people should be able to carry guns basically. It’s funny how people will very distastefully use this kind of situation to express their own particular political [inaudible]. Newt Gingrich, shame on you.”

Watch the surreal moment below, via Buzzfeed:



Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/13/french-tv-slams-conservatives-for-politicizing-paris-attacks-newt-gingrich-shame-on-you-video/

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Article includes tweets from Coulter, Lowe (I see articles posted by these two in LBN)

[Cha]

1. Good on France24 .. thank you, rivers.

[riversedge]

5. Wonder if the French know that most Conservatives

here in the US have no shame.

[restorefreedom]

23. they are learning in a crash course after this. nt

[mcar]

27. No shame indeed

Everything is about the gunz and how we know better.

[Jim__]

2. Here's a link to the Mother Jones list of horrible tweets:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/twitter-paris-attacks

[riversedge]

4. Thanks.

[tecelote]

7. Just as horrible are many of the comments.

[deutsey]

3. I put on MSNBC last night

and had to turn it after some "terrorism expert" with ears the size of Dumbo's came on and started callously castigating the French for not taking seriously the Charlie Hebdo attack and blatantly used this tragedy to scare American viewers. It was like the post-Sept. 11 Bush years all over again.

[tecelote]

6. In Response To Paris, Ted Cruz Calls For Airstrikes With More ‘Tolerance For Civilian Casualties’

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/13/3722243/in-response-to-paris-ted-cruz-calls-for-airstrikes-with-more-tolerance-for-civilian-casualties/

[mdbl]

8. Crudz is a moron

nothing else need be said about him.

[Hortensis]

13. Cruz is brilliant, possibly amoral and sociopathic, and dangerous.

[totodeinhere]

20. Yes, evil genius sociopaths are the most dangerous.

It's easier to deal with the stupid ones, and there are plenty of them on the right, but it's the smart ones that I am worrying about.

[Hortensis]

21. The Anointed One is now taking a hard line on immigration.

He's obviously hoping to pick up both Trump's and Carson's fans social and religious conservatives. Interesting that Trump's long diatribe the other day attacked every candidate but Cruz. Result of just a particularly successful suckup job or possibly a chosen successor?

Thank heavens the GOP elites hate him.

[groundloop]

10. Gee... maybe civilian casualties is helping to drive the hatred

Cruz and the other right wing warmongers need to get a dose of reality.

[Fritz Walter]

9. Here's the link to France 24

This site is in English. They have a live-feed link on the top-left corner (and yes, that's in English as well).

http://www.france24.com/en/

[spiderpig]

26. France 24 is excellent

Makes our pathetic "news" sources look ridiculous.

[Fritz Walter]

28. Agreed

And I believe the reason they're superior is because the slime-covered, decrepit, sell-his-children-for-the-right-price Rupert Murdoch doesn't own it.
Or other corporate soul-less entities that have a stranglehold on "news" here in the USA., for that matter.
At least not yet, anyway.

[underpants]

11. Good grief Ann Coulter's tweet

They can wait if they like until next November for the actual balloting, but Donald Trump was elected president tonight.
9:17 PM - 13 Nov 2015
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[A Simple Game]

12. Newt makes a good point, let's imagine a movie theater with 10 or 15 concealed carry permits.

The first and only evil gunner opens fire;
The second (first good guy) responds quickly;
The third and fourth (also good guys) respond to the first two shooters;
Five, six, and seven (also all good guys) respond to the first four shooters;
Etc., etc., etc.; until there are several wounded and a few dead.
The police arrive and have no idea that any of the shooters are "good guys" and take out all the rest of the shooters.

[packman]

15. Amen to that - sadly we can imagine a theater

with just one person in it with an assault weapon.

[klook]

18. ... and all of this in the dark.

Yyeeeaaahhhhhh... makes perfect sense to me.

[riversedge]

14. French TV Calls Out Gingrich For Gun Tweet

Alan Colmes ‏@AlanColmes 2m2 minutes ago

French TV Calls Out Gingrich For Gun Tweet http://colm.es/1NSnhhm #p2
1 retweet 2 likes

[sulphurdunn]

16. American

conservative pundits and politicians are lower than a snake's belly. No offense intended toward snakes.

[Gregorian]

17. I've been waiting for the rest of the world to start commenting on our idiots.

Now liberals can feel some support, even if it's from outside our borders.

[LadyHawkAZ]

19. Been there, done that, does Aurora CO ring a bell?

Jackass. Arrogant jackass.

[Zorro]

22. Republicans truly have no shame

They will say anything, anywhere, anytime to gleefully display their lack of sensitivity and compassion.

They take a perverse delight in their shocking behavior.

[restorefreedom]

24. how sad is it

that the reasonable idea of having this not be a gun laden shootout range has to get support from overseas rather than within?

the gop is an embarassing stain on our flag of freedom and rational government.

i could add pathetic, knuckle dragging cretins, but i will try and play nice...

[Beacool]

25. I'm glad that the French media is not politicizing the attacks.

France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, around 5M people. It would not be wise for the media to fan the flames and incite more violence.




As for the conservatives, their responses are predictable.