Both Sides Do It - Revisited

I am sure that this outburst has nothing to do with the fact that the GOP and Fox News have spent the last two years painting Obama as the Great Black Satan coming to burn America to the ground and establish the Fourth Reich:

An audience member at a town hall hosted by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) on Tuesday asked the Tea Party congressman who was going to shoot President Barack Obama.

The unidentified town hall attendee's question got a big laugh from the audience, reports Blake Aued of the Athens Banner-Herald.

But Broun didn't exactly condemn the remark, according to the newspaper report.

"The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year," Broun said in response to the question. "Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that's going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare."

I guess it's time to stop using the term 'job-killing' again and hold hands during the State of the Union.


In an update since TPM's original post, it's now been reported that Rep. Broun joined in on the laughter from the audience when the question was first posed:

Mark Farmer of Winterville, Georgia went to the meeting on Tuesday to ask a question about Social Security reform, and said in an e-mail to TPM he was "shocked by the first question and disgusted by the audience response."

"I was gravely disappointed in the response of a U.S. Congressman who also laughed and then made no effort to correct the questioner on what constitutes proper behavior or to in any way distance himself from such hate filled language," Farmer wrote.

But Kos wrote a book comparing right-wing extremists to the Taliban and says fuck a lot, so it all balances out.