Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was savagely beaten with a hammer early Friday morning after an intruder looking for his wife broke into their San Francisco home. He was taken to a hospital, where he’s undergoing surgery.
Fox News responded the same way it does to pretty much anything that reflects poorly on Republicans or the United States, which is to blame President Biden.
“I think where we’re at … the president promised to bring down the tenor of political discourse in this country,” Kennedy said on The Five. “That hasn’t happened. There are people who see words as violence, and then there are people for whom it’s very easy for them to cross the line and commit acts of violence like this because they’re moved by their politics.”
According to Fox News' Kennedy, the violent attack on Pelosi's husband is Biden's fault:
"The president promised to bring down the tenor of political discourse. That hasn’t happened. People are more divided." pic.twitter.com/u9HCHzM674 — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 28, 2022
The network earlier in the day brought on Caitlyn Jenner, who argued that the attack shouldn’t be turned into a partisan issue before blaming Pelosi for not having better security at her house, “soft-on-crime liberals,” and, yes, President Biden. “Truly, he has done nothing to tone down the rhetoric and unite this nation,” she said. “Violence in our nation is everywhere and it’s at record levels. He has become the divider-in-chief.”
“Another major take-away is Biden. He's done nothing to tone down the rhetoric and unite this nation.” pic.twitter.com/jo8aZwvIWf — Acyn (@Acyn) October 28, 2022
The network’s morning programming also took aim at the president. “If we have a situation where this is politically motivated, you have to step back and say, ‘Why is our country so divided? President Biden, you got up to the podium and said you were going to bring us together and that was one of the things you promised people. It’s one of the reasons they voted for you and they backed away from Trump, because they did think that he was divisive. So why is this happening and why are we polarized?”
Fox: It's either "a crime situation" that "shines a light on what's happening in San Fran and all these other cities" or "politically-motivated" in which case "Why is our country so divided? Prez Biden, you got up to the podium and said you were gonna bring us together." pic.twitter.com/RcERicZycw — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 28, 2022
It’s unclear what motivated the alleged attacker, David DePape, to break into Pelosi’s house, call out for her, and then assault her husband with a hammer. Rolling Stone did, however, uncover a digital trail showing DePape raging against groomers and “pedos,” and posting about racism, misogyny, voter fraud conspiracies, QAnon tropes, and other talking points and conspiracy theories popular among right-wing conservatives.
Vomitbelch on October 29th, 2022 at 01:01 UTC »
Honestly? Fuck conservatives, fuck the GOP, fuck the republicans. Idk why this set me off so hard after everything that's been said on this blatantly fascist propaganda network, but seriously what the fuck? This network should be completely dismantled, like, I cannot fucking believe all this bullshit they just get to say without consequence. Do it under Public Health and Safety laws or some shit.
This assault, and this bullshit they're putting out about this assault is going to just cause more violence and possible death.
Ohhh man, I'm so fucking pissed. Fox is a bunch of shit and deserves to go down hard, as does anyone who agrees with all of this bullshit. Fucking absolute wastes of fucking oxygen, god damn. I hate em, I hate em all from top to bottom. And I'll end this rant when these fucks go back to whatever slime put they crawled out of and FUCK OFF.
hskfmn on October 28th, 2022 at 22:22 UTC »
They're literally asking, "why are we so polarized?"
Irony is dead...and Republicans killed it.
OutsideSpring on October 28th, 2022 at 22:20 UTC »
This was the inevitable response.
And of course, as is the norm when right wingers do shit like this, a lot of people have been saying "We don't know the full story story yet. It might not have been politically motivated."
Ridiculous.