WaPo: Pence: Don’t link political rhetoric to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting (Paywall)
Vice President Pence has rejected suggestions that the inflammatory rhetoric from President Trump and others in the Republican Party has contributed to the rise of political violence, arguing that members of both parties engage in heated debate.
Pence made the remarks in an interview with NBC News after Saturday’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, in which 11 people were killed and six wounded. The incident was the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
Pontius Pilate cannot be blamed.
He thought killing Jesus was a helluva shame.
Ponty was only doing his job.
Confronting that Goddamn unruly mob
threatening Rome's province with total disorder,
from sea to desert, from water to border.
And Ponty knew he had nothing to lose.
If the whole thing went south, they'd blame the Jews.
To our own Bumptious Pilot, Ponty bears no relation.
Let’s thank God for Donald. Commence celebration.
[updated 10/28/2018, 11:05 pm]
[updated 10/28/2018, 11:05 pm]