understand there is been social disruption and trauma and it s time to together get a handle on. it keith alison. thank you very much for your time. that s all on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight start tonight. this tuesday night. good evening, chris. thank you as always. thank you for joining us this hour. 13 years ago this week, a right wing, anti abortion group called operation rescue emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to bring the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d.c., to earn that effigy. i m not showing you this becaus
13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
shorthand for coastal elites. and things like that. so i think there is truth to that. dan is a really smart. guy i don t want to disagree with him. i think he s made some smart points. you said there was a conversation after the giffords shooting where you guys circle back up the rnc and said, maybe we should tone it down. what happened in that conversation? what happened in it was a sat. and we were all, like everybody else, shocked that this happened. and the call, as i remember, it was one of a really somber tone. and making sure the statement that we put out, whether was from republican national committee or john boehner s office he being the new speaker of the house that, point that we set the route right tone and said the right things. and this is also the really important part, that we make it clear to, house leadership more than it is the rnc, that we make it clear to our members, members of the house republican congress, or the one 60, eight
it is class. the whole idea of a wealthy san francisco liberal woman. the whole package is there. it s become a more deadly game. do you think it s truth in that, beyond efficacy, and speaker of the house, to be liberal to be sure, but the fact that she s a woman, from a coastal city, do you think that matters in all of this? i think some of it does. in the previous hour there was a clip of lindsey graham talking about san francisco. it s been a time-honored tradition for republicans to use san francisco and new york city where you are, washington, of course, where i am, as shorthand for coastal elites and things like that so i think there is truth to that, dan is a really smart guy, even when i disagree with him, he s probably said really smart points. you said there was a conversation after the giffords shooting where you guys circled back up at the rnc and said maybe we should tone it down. what happened in that conversation? yeah, you know, it was a saturday morning.