A July 22 NewsBusters post by Tim Graham complained that in the cherry-picked Journolist email released, there appears a “call for violence,” namely that “Spencer Ackerman (now with Wired magazine) is again talking about putting conservatives through a plate-glass window (as in the Caller’s first piece), in this case terrorism expert Michael Ledeen.”The previous day, Graham highlighted another cherry-picked Journolist post from “an NPR producer who admits flaming hatred for Rush Limbaugh” and wrote that if Rush Limbaugh were dying, she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.”
Graham, meanwhile, has been silent about a call for violence made by one of his own co-workers. Dan Gainor, the Media Research Center’s vice president for business and culture, Twittered the other day, “I’ll give $100 to first Rep. who punches smary [sic] idiot Alan Grayson in the nose.”
Apparently, threatening people with violence is perfectly OK when conservatives do it.