CNN: In Wake Of Shooting, It's Important To Stress "A Saving Faith In Jesus"

[The Night Owl]

Wow! What a dumb thing to say...

CNN's Erickson: In Wake Of Attempted Murder Of Jewish Politician, It's Important To Stress "A Saving Faith In Jesus Christ"

January 11, 2011 3:50 pm ET by Jamison Foser

CNN's Erick Erickson is upset with what people aren't saying about the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:

Through it all though, well meaning people on both sides of the ideological and partisan divide are not talking about the one thing that should be talked about — a saving faith in Jesus Christ.

...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101110031

Perhaps Mr. Erickson is hoping for a job offer from Fox News.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Another crusade for religious tolerance? nt

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Has CNN declared itself to be a religious channel now?

[Skidmore]

5. I believe Blitzer used to be an employee of Pat Robertson at one point.

For that reason alone, I refuse to watch anything he is involved in.

[thecrow]

32. Yes, it's now Catechism News Network

Doncha know?

[onenote]

43. I think this is from a blog, not from anything he said on CNN

It doesn't make it any less offensive or stupid.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. Quite ironic as Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish.

[AspenRose]

20. +1

:nuke:

Perhaps if the nutjobs would actually LISTEN to the words of Christ and heed them, this wouldn't have happened.

Who Would Jesus Assassinate?

[thecrow]

33. [phone] Yay

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. +1

[Whisp]

27. no kidding. makes me think more about all this being on purpose

for some lowscum reasons they have.

this and that blood libel, come on. something is going on in their walnut shells they call brains. purposefull distraction for even more disgust with them so they have even more excuses to do and say more harmful and insensitive things.

[LemmingWarrior]

28. 1000+

holy cr*p

[Fumesucker]

4. It's not dumb..

It's amazingly insulting, the apparent target of the shooting was Jewish.

Ewik son of Ewik is a world class asshole and smart enough to know just how insulting his little statement was.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Mr Erikson does realize of course

that Mrs. Giffords is Jewish....

No, that is not accidental either... that is another dog whistle.

[Lance_Boyle]

8. Maybe he just meant that she needs to be 'perfected.'

Like Coulter. :sarcasm:

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. It is not a maybe, it is what he means.

Being a child of a holocaust survivor... I got a particularly sensitive ear to things like that.

[The Night Owl]

44. I think you're on to something.

Mr. Erickson's comments arrogantly imply that Gabrielle Giffords is on the wrong side of, as Erickson describes it, "the great chasm between the saved and damned." He is basically arguing that Giffords, as a non-Christian, is part of the problem which led to the shooting. It's dog whistle politics akin to claiming that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust.

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. Exactly... and add to that the blood libel

ahem figure of speech that the RW decided to let loose into normal America... this is an incredible escalation...

[Raksha]

48. More dog whistles??? But WHY???

What do they expect to get out of these oblique smears at the Jews anyway? Damned if I can see how this is working out to what they apparently believe is their tactical advantage. It seems to me like it's backfiring big time.

[The Night Owl]

13. You are exactly right. {EOM}

[tularetom]

7. Aw bullshit - Jesus didn't give a damn about that 9 year old girl

So I don't think he has a lot of credibility on this issue.

[annabanana]

41. Wait.. That little girl was Jewish?

Hey CNN. . Your slip is showing.

[Raksha]

50. No, the little girl born on 9/11 wasn't Jewish.

She was Catholic and recently had her first communion.

But just going by the name, Gabrielle Gifford's aide who was also killed was Jewish. His name was Gabriel Zimmerman. He was 30 years old and recently engaged to be married.

[EnlightenedOne]

56. The picture in your post contradicts your statement

[End Of The Road]

9. I'm dumbfounded.

He should be fired.

[Democrats_win]

10. Why not Harold Kushner's "When Bad things Happen to Good People."

This book stresses the importance of not blaming God for things that are caused by the evil world we live in. For instance in this case the world in which the Right Wing has removed the stigma of using guns against people.

[stuntcat]

11. we should all throw up our hands

look to the sky, to the one who takes away our responsibility and self-determination.

Indeed CNN.. thank you for pointing out this obscure idea :eyes:

[fishwax]

14. ugh.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. So, Jews are free to shoot everybody?

As are... gasp... MUSLIMS?

(Not mentioning atheists because everybody knows atheists are evil as Stalin and Hitler who was an atheist TOO so stop saying that!)

[LemmingWarrior]

25. Don't understand what you're referring to?

Jewish people shooting everyone? :crazy:

[progressoid]

16. Jesus SAVES!

With thanks to Jeusu of the Week:
http://jesusoftheweek.com/

[WiffenPoof]

18. Oh My...

...that is just wrong...LOLOL

[progressoid]

53. And he SCORES!

[hootinholler]

40. I thought it would be

At First National Bank.

:rofl:

-Hoot

[progressoid]

54. Hey, that's my bank!

I've never seen him there, but I usually use the drive through.

I'll keep and eye out for him.

;)

[hootinholler]

59. Well here's his vehicle

[WiffenPoof]

55. I Recall A Similar...

scenario a few years back. I was standing at a urinal and there on the wall in front of me was the following:

"He shoots...there's the rebound...he shoots again...Jesus saves, jesus saves! A beautiful stick save by Jesus."

-PLA

[LemmingWarrior]

17. I stopped watching CNN long ago

because they pretty much enabled Bush & Co. to lie about WMD. Seems they are jumping in with both feet now, despicable.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. Check Out the other Statements he has made from Crooks and Liars

Let's have a look at some of his opinions and agendas he's leading:



About Ted Kennedy: "Today Ted Kennedy plots our deaths..." (h/t The Political Carnival)

About Judge Souter: " is a "goat f*&king child molester"

He thinks Rush Limbaugh is Jesus.

He openly called for armed revolt and beating politicians to a bloody pulp.

He said the media "gang-raped" conservative politicians.

Suggested that the Nobel Committee had an affirmative action quota

Said that "leftists are Nazis" and the Nazis were liberal socialists.

Said that the Alaska Democrats gave out Sarah Palin's SS# (a fact he pulled wholly from his posterior)

Told his readers to send Olympia Snowe rock salt for her work on HCR. (Rock salt melts snow--get it?)

Suggested that Obama was friends with a child molester

Claimed the left has more dominance in the blogosphere because the right are too busy raising the children they didn't abort.


All of these statements have links at Crooks and Liars.


http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/cnn-hires-redstates-erick-erickson-official

[Tsiyu]

45. Wow such "loving" peaceful talk!

i'm sure jesus would approve


This should be its own OP

Thanks for sharing...now i have to go throw up

[Arugula Latte]

21. This makes me SICK!

The nerve of this asshole!

[liberal N proud]

22. The clueless media keeps churning the propaganda

[Initech]

24. Fox News? He belongs on the 700 Club.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Is this CNN or L'Osservatore Romano?

Do we REALLY need journalists spouting religious slogans?

[ladjf]

29. Unadulterated, disingenuous and fabricated horse-shit. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Yeah, I'm just waiting for the right to try to blame this on no prayer in schools or some shit.

Fucking Barf.

[damntexdem]

31. Should the doctors waken Giffords from the medically-induced coma to tell her that?

And I'm sure that other Jewish people on "both sides of the ideological and partisan divide" will be surprised to hear it.

What a jerk!

[sakabatou]

34. Someone give me a clue-bat

[ProudDad]

35. I guess he's unaware that Giffords is a Jew... (n/t)

[mmonk]

36. That plus Palin's blood libel comment shows how totally lost people

are intellectually concerning the Giffords assassination attempt.

[RainDog]

37. This person does not need to be on national tv. Giffords was Jewish and we hear proselytizing?

while Palin tries to appropriate the mantle of victimhood with dog whistles to extremists?

I never thought CNN could sink this low. but they have.

[jillan]

38. Dumb thing to say since Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish.

[TwilightGardener]

39. Well, in this context, it looks like Jesus saved the Jewish non-believer.

And quite possibly let some actual Christians die. So...not gettin' it...maybe someone can explain it to me.

[Tsiyu]

42. Yeah cuz Jesus

Sure does make everybody peaceful


I'm simply amazed at all the peace talk coming out of Republican and Teabagger Christians...


If only we would listen to them and Love one Another....

:sarcasm:


(And no offense to the Christians on this board)

[earth mom]

47. Another reason to stop watching the mainstream media whores.

:puke:

[Bragi]

49. Maybe Erick just wanted to out-stupid Sarah? .nt

[The Night Owl]

58. Quite the challenge. {EOM}

[MindPilot]

51. What, how faith doesn't save you from anything, especially bullets? n/t

[JuniperLea]

52. Right. Because that Jewish lady that was shot in the head...

Would benefit. Got it.

FACEPALM!!

[Angry Dragon]

57. A little more from the link

In all the discussions we're having, let's not forget that bad things have happened throughout history, but we are seeing more and more a pattern of violence from those who reject Christ and we are seeing the most extreme rhetoric from those who reject the only real truth while embracing every other historic fad and nonsense as variations of truth. Erickson quote

Erickson is right. Why, just this morning, I came across a quote from a loud-mouthed atheist who denounced former Supreme Court Justice David Souter as a "goat fucking child molester."

No, wait: That was Erick Erickson. And so was this: "At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?" And it was Erick Erickson who said he'd pull a shotgun on any government employee who tried to make him fill out the American Community Survey, too.

If Erickson's well-advertised fondness for Christ doesn't stop him from talking about beating people to a pulp, or pulling guns on them, or from referring to public servants as child molesters, or from presuming to know who God is angry with at any given moment, he should at least take a look at what the Bible has to say about hypocrisy before going on about the "extreme rhetoric" of non-believers.


http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101110031

[Still Waters]

60. I am so thrilled that I have boycotted CNN ever since the 2000 election.