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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 ....
San francisco. this kind of rhetoric. it is very frightening. and it created a climate in which we violence took place. so, i wish that we could all curve our enthusiasmin some of the statements that are made. and understanding that some of the people the ears that they are falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement. a few months after nancy pelosi made that statement where she publicly made clear her worry about the rise of dangerous rhetoric, the republican national committee decided to make pelosi, as an individual, their biggest target. on the night the house passed the affordable care act in 2010, the rnc s website started redirecting visitors to a new fund raising page, ....