Since media stories move fast and die out even faster, let’s review the missteps right-wing news and candidates made this week in their coverage of the Charleston shootings?before they say even worse things and we forget all about them.
5. Accidents
?Any time there is an accident like this, the president is clear. He doesn’t like for Americans to have guns and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message.? -Rick Perry
4. Psychiatric Medications
“Most often whats been found is a kid, mind-fried on some kind of psych drug. Vast majority of cases it’s been that.” – Rush Limbaugh
3. The Late Reverend Pinckney
?Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead.?Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.? -?Charles Cotton, NRA Board Member
2. Abortion
?You kill babies in the womb, kill people in their beds, shoot people in the streets. So now you go into the church when people are praying.? -Alveda King
1. Christian Oppression
“This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we ??you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.? – Rick Santorum
