{"id":18323,"date":"2021-11-19T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=18323"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:59:52","slug":"cronkite-news-republican-loses-committee-posts-for-violent-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/11\/19\/cronkite-news-republican-loses-committee-posts-for-violent-social-media-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Republican loses committee posts for violent social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cronkite News Video by Megan Newsham: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) Censured<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n
House censures defiant Gosar for violent video, strips committee posts<\/div>\r\n
Friday, November 19, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Ulysse Bex<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. – The House censured Rep. Paul Gosar<\/a>, R-Prescott, Wednesday and stripped him of his committee assignments as punishment for a violent cartoon he posted that appeared to show him killing a liberal Democratic member and threatening the president.

<\/P>\r\nGosar, speaking to the full House, said he does “not espouse violence toward anyone” and repeated his insistence that the video was intended as a critique of Biden administration immigration policy – an issue he said he will not stop speaking out on.

<\/P>\r\nBut Democrats said that the House had to take a stand against members “joking about murdering each other, and the president,” and that failure to do so would lead to actual violence, like the January 6 assault on the Capitol.

<\/P>\r\n“What is so hard about saying that saying that this is wrong?” asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, D-N.Y., the member who appears to be slain in Gosar’s video. She criticized GOP leaders who used Wednesday’s debate to attack Biden administration policies because they “cannot bring themselves to say that issuing a depiction of murdering a member of Congress is wrong.”

<\/P>\r\n“This is not about me or Representative Gosar, but this is about what we are willing to accept,” she said.

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A screen grab of the tweet by Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, after it was flagged by Twitter for violating its rules about “hateful conduct” but before it was taken down entirely. The video had received more than 3.3 million views by that point. Image by Cronkite News<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nBut Republicans accused the Democratic majority of employing a double standard, overlooking questionable speech by their own members while rushing to take action against Republicans – what Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called “rules for thee but not for me.”

<\/P>\r\nThe resolution passed 223-207<\/a> along mostly party lines, with just two Republicans – Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois – joining 221 Democrats voting for censure. All 207 “no” votes were from Republicans.

<\/P>\r\nThe censure resolution<\/a> [H.Res.789<\/a>] came after Gosar posted a 90-second video to his official House social media accounts on November 7 that was a doctored version of the anime cartoon “Attack on Titan,” in which humans defend themselves and their cities against man-eating giants.

<\/P>\r\nIn Gosar’s version, his face and those of other House conservatives, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., are superimposed on the sword-wielding soldiers while Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden have been pasted on the titans. The cartoon shows Gosar’s character slashing the neck of Ocasio-Cortez, killing her, and lunging at Biden with swords drawn before the video cuts off.

<\/P>\r\nIt also shows Border Patrol agents rounding up migrants, videos of whom appear to be splattered with blood. In between those videos the words drugs, poverty, gangs, murder and more flash on the screen.

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As a result of the U.S. House of Representatives vote on November 17, 2021, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) will no longer serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources, the legislative panel with jurisdiction over Indian issues. Photo: Gage Skidmore<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe video was flagged by Twitter for violating its “hateful content” rules. But it was left up – with a warning – because Twitter determined it was in the public interest to remain accessible, a fact noted by Gosar on the House floor Wednesday.

<\/P>\r\n“Last week, my staff posted a video depicting a policy battle regarding amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens. This is an enemy,” Gosar said. The cartoon “directly contributes to the understanding and discussion of the real-life battle” over border policy, he said.

<\/P>\r\nGosar said he pulled the video down on November 9 not because it was threatening but “out of compassion for those who generally felt offense.” By that time, it had been viewed more than 3.3 million times.

<\/P>\r\nIt brought a firestorm of criticism from Democrats, who called for everything from Gosar’s expulsion to demands that McCarthy revoke his committee assignments. The censure resolution was introduced last week and sent to the House Ethics Committee, but was pulled back suddenly for Wednesday’s floor vote.

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