MSNBC’s Schmidt: NewsBusters Has ‘Blood On Their Hands’ for Radicalizing Bomber and Shooter

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 29, 2018
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Not only was the liberal media assailing President Trump with accusations he was responsible for the attempted bombings of Democrats and the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, but they were also now apparently spreading out to smear others in the conservative movement. Particularly, those in the conservative media.

According to the rage-fueled tirade of MSNBC faux Republican strategist Steve Schmidt during Monday’s edition of All In, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, the President, “Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh, and Breitbart, and NewsBusters, and Judicial Watch, and all the rest of them, have blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have triggered and radicalized these crazy people.

Schmidt began this part of his long-winded rant by suggested those he would later name were a part of the “crazies” William F. Buckley had kicked out of the conservative movement:

What we are seeing is the co-option of the conservative project, the Republican Party in a cult of personality which is fundamentally unconservative led by Donald Trump, that is authoritarian in nature, that is antithetical to the orthodoxies of the Republican Party and the conservative movement as they have existed over the last 40 years. But it is something more. It is the incitement.

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