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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

‘Can We Get Someone To Shoot Sarah Palin?’: Twitter Users Call for Palin’s Death

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - The tweets are stunning, disturbing, and downright shocking.

After the left shamelessly began its campaign to connect Saturday’s shooting to Sarah Palin, Twitter users quickly picked up on the sentiment and responded with violent, hateful speech. Some were succinct: “I hope Sarah Palin dies.” Others were prophetic: “So…will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assassinated? You know she’s next.” And some were downright vulgar: “Palin is a murdering bi*** who deserves a crosshair on HER house so Al-Qaeda can come shoot HER family. See how that feels, republican trash.”

But they are all wrong:

[CONTENT WARNING: Some of the language is extremely graphic and disturbing.]


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