From the June 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
On Fox & Friends, NRATV host accuses the left of “inciting violence,” unlike conservatives who never engage in “proactive violence”
Written by Media Matters Staff
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DAN BONGINO (NRATV HOST): Pete, guys like you and me who do this for a living, we're content producers, this is what we do. We produce content. Our job is to follow liberals, conservatives. This is what we do. The average soccer mom out there has got a job and kids and busy. They don't -- they can't spend the time you and I have to to follow what liberals are doing. This has been them the whole time. We know this. Are they going to run on this? Here's the answer. No, they are not. The majority of Democrats are going to run away from it. But make no mistake, Pete, this is exactly who they are, and Republicans running against them are going to absolutely pin this to them. All of these campaign ads. [Secretary of Homeland Security] Kirstjen Nielsen, people screaming in front of her house, [Rep.] Maxine Waters [D-CA] screaming, almost nearly inciting violence at a rally. All of this stuff is going to become part of campaign ads. This is who they are. Some of them will run away from it. But good Republican candidates should not let them. This is the Democrat Party.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Maxine Waters at that rally that you're referring to in LA over the weekend, she likes the fact that these people who support President Trump or work for President Trump, that they're booed, or they're forced to leave restaurants in front of their family members and that they're being harassed. In fact, she's calling on people who don't agree with this administration to keep it up. What's your reaction?
BONGINO: You know, Ainsley, I didn't mean to steal your segue there with Maxine Waters. I watched this video and as a former secret service agent who proudly, by the way, protected [former Presidents] Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton when I started, proudly, I mean, politics has nothing to do with it. There are ways, Ainsley, to petition public officials. There's nothing more American by the way. There's also ways to protest them -- there's nothing more American than that. But while they're with their families in restaurants? You think this is appropriate? And here's what worries me about this. What worries me is not all Democrats but a large swath of the Democrat Party is infested with these radical liberals that have no emergency brake on their behavior. Conservatives, largely speaking, are attached to big “R” rights from God. We don't ever engage ever in proactive violence, ever, because it's just not part of our moral code. There's this wing of the Democrat Party with these radical liberals who have this ends-justify-the-means mentality and what worries me, what frightens me legitimately is there is no emergency brake. When do they stop? People were clapping at that rally for Maxine Waters. People should have been horrified.
EARHARDT: Imagine if were President Obama and Michelle Obama and their two daughters. How humiliating. Who would ever support that?
BONGINO: God forbid. If you said that on this network, you would be banned forever. I mean, rightfully so. That is horrible stuff. Please petition, assemble, protest but with their families and inciting violence? You really think this is appropriate? If you do, we're in a far different place, and we got to that place far faster than I ever thought.
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