Jesse Watters on Scalise Shooting: Is Fake News and Slanderous Rhetoric Responsible for This?

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WATTERS: "I do want to be clear. This guy bears full responsibility for the shooting. Yet, he traffics in an atmosphere that is producing viable content and allows people to blur the line between right and wrong. The question is, are the producers of this fake news and the hoaxes, and the slanderous rhetoric, are they at all responsible for something like this. That question remains to be answered. I think Dana is right. This is political terrorism. This is democracy being shot today. When you attack a congressman, you are attacking the Constitution. So, the neighbor suggested that the democratic rhetoric might have contributed to this. The brother suggested that this guy was very disturbed by trump selection. Just looking at his social media account, and letters to the editor, sadly, this is par for the course for a hard-core anti-Trump Democrat. There are millions of people's Facebook pages and social media accounts that look exactly like the sky here, and that is scary. You are part of the resistance, he's an occupy Wall Street guy. He calls Donald Trump a trader and an a , and eight potent polluter. Political hysteria, potentially, has consequences. People on Twitter were accelerating this, which is also very alarming. I think the resistance needs to start resisting committing acts of violence, and you just have to wonder has this permeated the culture is so much where people need to take a step back and reflect, and say what kind of responsibility do I bear of contributing to this stuff?"