GOP Senator Who Won’t Reveal His Name (Why?): Rhetoric Needs To Be Toned Down After Giffords Shooting
What’s interesting: The senator is “unnamed”. Why? Why would this Senator have to keep his name from appearing with his comments calling for reflection about what sort of rhetoric is “too far”?
Sad.
No official motive has been given for the shooting in Tucson, Arizona that left six people dead and 14 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, wounded, but many are looking to the heated political rhetoric prevalent on talk radio and cable television as at least a contributing factor.
“We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry,” Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said on Saturday after the shooting.
Now, he’s being joined by at least one Republican senator.
“There is a need for some reflection here — what is too far now?” the unnamed senator told Politico. “What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There’s been a desensitizing. These town halls and cable TV and talk radio, everybody’s trying to outdo each other.”
UPDATE:
Thanks to other LGF readers, here’s the original article at Politico.
And the actual two paragraphs explaining why the Senator chose not to be named:
A senior Republican senator, speaking anonymously in order to freely discuss the tragedy, told POLITICO that the Giffords shooting should be taken as a “cautionary tale” by Republicans.
“There is a need for some reflection here - what is too far now?” said the senator. “What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There’s been a desensitizing. These town halls and cable TV and talk radio, everybody’s trying to outdo each other.”
Beyond sad - pitiful that a current Republican Senator has to speak anonymously in order to freely express his thoughts.
