CNN’s Chris Cuomo refuses to let Joe Walsh off the hook for ‘musket’ talk: ‘Words matter’
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28 OCT 2016 AT 08:27 ET
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The former Illinois congressman-turned-talk radio host said he urged conservatives take up arms, figuratively or literally, in self-defense if Hillary Clinton wins the election.
“If she wins fair and square, then the anger that a lot of Americans have toward our political system — and she’s part of that — we’ve got to double down and triple down and do whatever we can to defend our freedom,” he said. “That phrase, ‘grab your musket,’ is a phrase I’ve used probably a hundred times in the last two or three years.”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo refused to let him off the hook, and accused Walsh of repeatedly inflaming political controversies with provocative statements. “Words matter, context matters,” Cuomo said. “You say, ‘This is now war, watch out Obama, watch out Black Lives Matter punks, real America’s coming after you.’ You only take this one way — you take it provocatively. Trump is the master of this, and you have to now argue whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. You tell me why it’s good.”
Walsh, not surprisingly, believed that Trump’s provocations were good for politics. “The American people are waking up,” Walsh said. “These are serious times. You nailed it. This is an ugly, nasty election. But you know what? It should be, because things in America right now are ugly and nasty, and we’re pissed off, Chris, at Republicans and Democrats.”
Despite his protests to the contrary just moments earlier, Walsh seemed to call for some type of revolution — violent or otherwise — if Trump lost to the Democratic candidate.
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