look at those numbers with Tom in our final hour, the happy hour. Here on the guy Benson
show. But we begin
the program with a FOX News
alert. A
chilling story out of the
Washington DC area developing
today. An armed man from
California has been arrested
and detained near the home.
The private residence in
Maryland. Of us Supreme Court
Justice. Brett Kavanaugh here’s
the story from FOX News dot
com. An armed man was arrested
near the Maryland home of
Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh on Wednesday morning
law enforcement sources
confirmed to FOX News.
Apparently this was. Late late
at night early hours of the
morning.
I believe I read was in the 1
o’clock hour so the dead of
night.
The suspect is 26 years old.
A male from Simi Valley,
California, I’m not going to
mention his name.
He was caught carrying a gun.
A knife.
And he had made violent threats
against the Justice. In
addition to the gun. And the
knife, the tactical knife and
the pepper spray that’s not
chilling enough. He had zip
ties. And yet equipment to
break into a house.
And in case there was any
dispute about. What his
intentions were. Let me read to
you from the criminal
complaint. This
man stated that he began
thinking about how to give his
life. A purpose. And he decided
that he would kill. The Supreme
Court Justice
after finding the justices
Montgomery County address.
On the Internet.
We have talked on this show multiple times. About violent rhetoric. Over the top
rhetoric. Blame games,
political violence et cetera.
My position remains the same.
The acts and crimes.
Terrible evil and or crazy
people.
Should not be projected onto an
entire political.
Or one side of the aisle.
I think that’s unfair.
When ever things happen that
even might have an inkling of
blame.
For one side or the other I
know some people really ratchet
up those types of arguments
dangerous political rhetoric.
And it’s used to try to silence
people.
I don’t think that that’s a
just or reasonable thing to do.
I will point out. It only
seems like the media.
Sure the arbiters of
good behavior in this country
they only seem to really
embrace that unfair standard
when it is weaponized against
one side.
Right so when a horrible
racist. Shoots up a supermarket
in Buffalo, New York.
The blame began instantly.
They blame Republicans, they
blame conservatives. They
conflate those groups with
racists and white nationalists.
They blame this network.
Number that not long ago.
But when you have acts
of violence and crimes in the
other direction.
You just don’t really get the
same degree of hyperbole and
media handwringing you just
don’t. My best friend Mary
Katharine ham wrote a very
good piece talking about the
media coverage of the Scalise
baseball shooting a few years
ago. And how was treated and
sort of like a quick news
cycle. An attempted
mass assassination of
Republicans for being
Republicans by a left winger.
Within a few days, the cameras
in the news trucks were gone.
From that neighborhood could
she live right near that
baseball field she wrote about
that and she juxtapose that
with the way the media covers
other things. And I think it
speaks for itself. So
I wonder based on this
development here today which is
very disturbing are we going to
have a giant national
conversation about civility and
rhetoric.
And as everyone to sit together
on a bipartisan basis to show
that there in solidarity
and pro peaceful protest and
you know whatever all together
here. We have these types of
demands and these types of
symbolic gestures. When right
wingers are under attack.
For someone on their side quote
UNQUOTE or even not on their
side. The gabby Giffords
shooting was blamed on
Republicans or conservatives
and political rhetoric and
Sarah Palin even though there
was absolutely no evidence
ever. That link any of that to
the shooter who was a
schizophrenics and not
political.
But we had a huge
discussion a big national
conversation a wrenching one
about the climate of hate
created by Republican and
conservative rhetoric and
right-wing media figures I
guess like me.
We’ll get that are going to be
treated to that type of thing
right now.
Well media figures will
journalist be chasing Democrats
down confronting them with
their own quotes saying are you
responsible for this.
Assassination attempt on a
Supreme Court Justice are going
to get that kind of 5 alarm
fire. I somehow doubt it.
Condemnations a few statements may be some thoughts and prayers.
That double standard does drive me crazy. I will say that if you want
to draw. A line between 2
points and make a connection
with rhetoric.
Which they just did with no
facts on their side in the
Giffords example they do it at
the drop of a hat when they
feel like they can politicized
something like this.
And criticize or hurt
conservatives were the right.
If you want to do that here you
actually can pretty easily.
For example here is.
Senate majority leader Chuck
Schumer on the steps of the
Supreme Court back in 2020.
This what you’re about to hear
again was so out of line that
it drew a rare rebuke from the
chief justice. This was
Schumer.
>> I want to tell you gorsuch I
want to tell you Kavanaugh you
have released the whirlwind and
you will pay a price.
You all know why can’t you
if you.
>> Go forward with these awful
decisions.
>> I wonder if the 26 year-old
man in California heard that
speech. Inside he might be part
of the whirlwind. And the price
paid. You won’t know what hit
you.
Today on the Senate floor, his
counterpart. Republican leader
Mitch McConnell.
Quote back up or at least
referenced it in cut 47.
>> This is exactly the kind of
doubt that
many worried the on hand
reckless apocalyptic rhetoric
from prominent figures toward
the court going back many
months and especially in recent
weeks could make more likely.
>> That when these protests broke out at the justices homes. But it
was Roberts. It was Kavanaugh
it was Barrett. It was a
>> I don’t think they went to
Clarence Thomas’s House unless
I’m.
>> Because all Clara to be on the front porch in a rocking chair with a shotgun. But they
showed up at Holmes of these
justices. Because a left wing
group.
An agitation left wing activist
group was doxing the justices
and putting their addresses on
the Internet.
Ruth sent us is the name of
that group. I haven’t seen many
Democrats condemn them at all
then or now and they’re out
tweeting today trying to
sort of conspiratorially
suggest that maybe there’s less
than meets the eye to this.
They’re saying what were these
alleged weapons. He had a gun
they would have said so well,
then the police said Yep you
had a gun.
They said he was near the
justices House who’s to say he
was even really in the vicinity
with any that intention well then he told the cops what my goal was to go and kill the
Justice.
That’s what I wanted to do to
make my mark on the world and
give my life purpose, so
they’re little in barea sing
self humiliations.
Trying to downplay things that
were then rebutted in real time
as the facts came out.
Demonstrates that these people
are remorseless.
They painted a target on these
houses.
And I will remind you also what we’re doing some flashbacks here. Let’s circle back in
fact together to circle back
Jen psaki this is
last month. She was asked about
the doxing of Supreme Court
justices and the.
Loud profane agitation is
outside their homes. And psaki
speaking on behalf of President
Biden president Mick healer.
Could not even bring herself to
condemn the doxing a federal
judge is even though these
types of protests appear to the
illegal. This is what she said
under questioning from our
colleague Peter Doocy just
weeks ago cut 34. Do you think
the ad.
>> Activists that are not
protests outside some of the
justices houses.
A peaceful protest.
No peaceful protest is not
extreme. These activists posted
a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices back I think this president
wants the president’s view is
that there’s a lot of passion a
lot of fear.
>> A lot sadness
from many many people across
this country about what they
saw and that leaked document
and we obviously want people’s
privacy to be respected we want
people to protest peacefully if
they want to to protest.
>> A lot of passion just a lot
of passion guys.
Including passion
apparently stirred. In the dark
heart of a 26 year-old who
showed up at one of those
addresses with weapons in the
middle of the night and zip
ties and pepper spray. In
addition to the lethal weapons
and tools to break into
the House. One was caught he
told the cops he I was here to
assassinate the Justice.
I found his address on the
Internet. The White House this
White House. The president
who campaign on healing and
unity and cooperation and
working together and not
treating fellow Americans as
enemies. Even though he’s done
that repeatedly on racial
fronts and other ways.
His team his
White House could not even
muster wrote condemnation of
doxing Supreme Court justices.
And now here we are.
After this all blew up Schumer downplayed it as well by the way he wouldn’t
condemn it. Dick Durbin his
lieutenant did condemn it.
So they weren’t really on the
same page on this. They were
getting some heat deservedly.
There was a vote in the Senate
to provide more protection.
2 justices and their families
because of this doxing and
because of these outbursts.
And these people showing up at
private homes family residences
it passed unanimously in the
Senate.
You know unanimous consent it
was everyone on board good.
It must have happened right it
must be the law now right
wrong. It is not law because
Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic
controlled House.
She has not seen fit to hold a
vote on this.
I wonder now that a would be
assassin has been caught with a
gun. Announcing his intention
to kill one of those justices
might Pelosi be able to squeeze
that on to the schedule or they
just going
an ongoing parade of show votes
on things that will never
become law to satisfy their
left wing base will that still
be the priority. I don’t know.
I’m not going to blame directly Chuck Schumer Nancy Pelosi or any of these
people.
But it was
certainly enabled. And
indulged. Which is a disgrace.
The last White House secretary
would not
even condemn doxing Supreme
Court Justice. I wonder if the
new press secretary might find
some way to
do so new they can write it
verbatim on a card and she
could read it from the podium