TBT Publisher Joe McClash and Editor Mitch Maley discuss the organized attack by the local Republican Party on TBT following Maley's column on the weaponization of Charlie Kirk's shooting.
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Dianna
Good conversation! Pretty sad people don't actually read the article before confronting someone or posting a negative comment. This is the dumbing down effect that social media is having on society.
Saturday, September 20, 2025 Report this
writerlynn9717
I am so glad you had this podcast, and I agree with much of what you had to say. We all need to take into account the political violence happening each day in America. It might be true that this is just one individual's response to Kirk's message and not some kind of liberal extremism movement, but with the immense and confusing messages in the media coverage it is hard to tell. The left has been appalled by gun and political violence since Sandy Hook or before, but why hasn't the right until now? The president and MAGA are very confusing to listen to within their own universe of what they believe. One of the most confusing aspects of the right extremism to me is what they believe about God's message to us and their interpretation of the Bible. I know you said a little about that. Who God is and what God is about has dramatically changed recently with the evangelists for Trump. It probably was there but not until Trump was president did the confusion over God's beliefs show its ugly head. Many of the Christians right-winged extremists, including Kirk, and Evangelists are advertising everywhere that people should be against gays and trans, against helping people of color through inclusion, for changing the educational curriculum to leave out important items of black history, forget about the separation of church and state, and for being angry and hateful towards immigrants. Additionally, they are advertising to hate liberals as some kind a blight on society, so to speak. So presently and since the Evangelists movement, a big portion of society portrays vengefulness as "okay" in God's eyes and in Christians' beliefs. The ideas of the all-forgiving God, the humanistic God who loved everyone no matter color or creed, the God who taught us to give to the poor and help all less fortunate, the beliefs many learned as a child in their churches, and even in Catholic school like myself, has dramatically changed to the hurtful God who is revengeful. Can anyone explain really what God really believes with all of the confusion about God's message nowadays?
Monday, September 22, 2025 Report this