Leftists return to old trick of inciting leftists to kill Republican Congressmen.

If you read the headline, you think WTF????

If you read the article you see this opening line:

"Republicans have a penchant for fetishizing violence. They’re a party of draft dodgers and sycophants who like to think of themselves as hypermasculine warriors."

And you see that the Congressman in question made a fatuous, inane, hyperbolic, and non-serious statement about "dueling" the Republican senator from Maine over Obamacare repeal.

Looking at the headline, there doesn't seem to be any reason to conclude that a woman senator couldn't nail his hide with pistols at 30 paces, so, really, the headline should have read "Congressman fantasizes about suicide."

However, you can just see the intent of this Fake News site to stir up "antifa" activists to grab a gun and plan on the assassination of Republican congressmen to protect women.

Crazy talk on my part?

Only if you've forgotten that last month, Bernie Sanders campaign worker actually did that.

Naturally, I took this story off of a leftist's FB page which was breathless about how Republicans fantasize about killing women.

I'm so old I can remember when Democrats were up in arms about Fake News and demanded that the uncivil tone of politics be ended.

Gosh....six months is like forever.

It's actually worse than this. In 2001, when Bush asked Clinton-appointed US Attorney's to resign, the media spun that as an unprecedented assault on justice. The narrative literally flips every eight years, depending on which party is in office.

 //SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE: When the Obama admin asked Bush-era U.S. attorneys to resign in 2009, Politico reported on it as a procedural “replacement” process. When Trump’s team did the same thing in 2017, the same outlet reported they were “ousting” those attorneys.//

And in 1993, it's the same story.

The Left creates "fake news" as a charge to explain its defeat...

...then the charge gets turned around on it because, let's be honest, the left is the home of fake news because of its control over news...

...and the next thing you know, the left is butthurt about being called "fake news."

//CNN host Chris Cuomo said on Thursday that he believes hurling the "fake news" insult at journalists is similar to when people use racial slurs against minorities.

"I see being called 'fake news' as the equivalent of the N-word for journalists, the equivalent of calling an Italian any of the ugly words that people have for that ethnicity," Cuomo said on SiriusXM.

"That's what 'fake news' is to a journalist," the CNN host continued. "It's an ugly insult, and you better be right if you're going to charge a journalist with lying on purpose."//