Fox ‘News’ Contributor Blames Obama For PP Colorado Shooting (VIDEO)

The shooting at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was an all too predictable one. With all the violent rhetoric for women’s health clinics from the right-wing — “baby killers” and “murderers” — it was only a matter of time before some self-serving “good guy” went off the deep end and actually committed murder, like we saw on Friday, and we’ve seen countless times before.

So too is the right-wing’s need to blame Obama for every little thing that goes wrong, and their desire to shuck responsibility for their own rhetoric. Combine those three things and you get Fox News contributor Bo Dietl’s absolutely bizarre accusation that Obama is responsible for the shootings.

The Blame Game

The shootings hadn’t even stopped and the right-wing was already blaming everyone but themselves for their violent rhetoric, often invoking the doctored Planned Parenthood videos released earlier in the year.

But while representatives like Adam Kinzinger were blaming Planned Parenthood, professional smear-man, former NYPD cop, and contributor with Fox News frequent flyer miles Bo Dietl was busy blaming Obama for the then-unfolding crisis in Colorado.

So how exactly does Bo Dietl figure it was Obama’s fault?

Because we have to prepare for war, we’re at war, and we’ve got to be prepared, and we need to give the police more high-powered weapons — and it’s apparently Obama’s fault because Dietl reasons:

Again, this is our president acting like a fool. I mean to see something like this, we noticed when the attacks occurred in Paris, when the cops were in their car getting attacked, we have to prepare ourselves. This is a war. We’re against… terrorists are against this country.

It’s going to open up here in America, and we’ve got to be prepared. And we’ve also got to start training all our officers in the use of high powered equipment. We’re dealing with bad people. Our little 9 millimeters are not going to do anything against somebody with an AK-47. [unintelligible—moreso] This is an attack on us; it’s going to be for the next generation. We have to deal with it. We have to prepare ourselves for the worst, and pray that the worst don’t happen.

If you have your gun-nut buzzword bingo sheet, feel free to step forward and claim your bingo prize.

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  • Esther Fernandez

    Bo, stop stuffing your face at Rao’s and look at the BIG picture … if you want to prepare for war, YOU put your boots on the ground … why don’t you try to get our non-functioning gun laws fixed so we don’t put AK-47s in the hands of anyone other than police and the armed services :(

  • luthersomd

    Where does Fox find so many idiots? They must breed them because in a sane world they don’t exist

    • kwkiki7562

      Dis guy is a hawk for a fast food chain on commercials! lol. REAL Mensa guy!

  • Adam

    Judas only turned Jesus over to Pilate’s men, these people are turning him out on the street to turn tricks to fund their oligarchy, and this is coming from a Pagan

  • afgail

    The Republican Party is the largest hate group in the country.

  • Jinmichigan

    So who expects Fox to have anyone on who has a clue and isn’t a lying sack of chit? Only republicans.

  • Allen Henry

    Fox always blame the democrats especially President Obama for everything, but when it comes to helping the middle class or others they remain quiet as a mouse. go figure!

  • James Platt

    I am confused, here is a man selling sandwiches on TV, but if he is such an expert, why does he have to sell sandwiches…you’d think someone would give him razor too…he always looks like an unmade bed at motel 6….

  • mercdem2

    As much as I’ve drawn the same parallels between terrorists and these american white shooters, I think we’re giving them too much credit. I think the truth of what they are is far more banal, they are merely white american males uneasy in a new millennium inclusive of the rights of all.

    The constant incidences of mass shootings is the flawed cornerstone of their character clashing with this new reality. The “white privilege” they’ve enjoyed for so long is being challenged on all fronts… and they hate it. They hate the gays, the thug blacks and their music, the intermarriage of their white women. They hate the muslims who wear hijabs, they hate what this nation is becoming, something other than what they’ve created.

    Let’s be truthful, guns, violence and murder by white hands are as American as apple pie. They are the foundations of this nation. It wasn’t the Constitution, or god, it was men with guns that made the West, that drove the Indians and the Mexicans. It was men with guns that spread into the Philippines, Iraq, Libya. This current crop of white males are merely following their “American legacy” to its bitter, natural end.

    To me, this is far more frightening as it means there is a near endless supply of ordinary, hold a job, eat at McDonalds, go to the mall individuals who can snap, and shoot up the place. This is what historical American racism has created and it is not sustainable. More will “lose it” in ever larger numbers. This nation, black and white, needs more than prayer, it needs therapy and constant diligence to overcome generations of racism. Either it is addressed wholeheartedly for the affliction it is (like polio or AIDS) or the malady will continue to fester and erupt in ever more terrible incidences.

  • Chloe Marshal

    Another moron in MURICA, we seriously need more funds for education in this country when coolaid drinkers like this are getting created daily.

  • Mike Lawler

    Hey, Bo, would tactical nuclear weapons be okay with you?

  • Gene Fair

    Isn’t it amazing how conservatives and their crazy social agenda is at the core of these shootings and yet they blame Obama, what will these morons do when they don’t have him to blame anymore - i’m sure they won’t accept responsibility for the messes they make !!

  • Rosa Scott

    Bo is a “meathead”.

  • Frankie Trice

    Fox News is a right-wing propaganda outlet, nothing more. It is used to shape the opinion of the gullible. If we are going to exact blame, we may as go to the source. Moses would be to blame for writing all those laws that are not helpful to mankind, and Christianity since it cannot accept what we were freed from by the coming of Jesus. They want a new Law in our country and theocracy, which will be the cruelest concoction of rule by religion that will outdo Islam for violence in how many they will kill to assure their power. If you disagree with them one iota, especially if you are not a mainstream Christian and threaten them for your clinging to the truth, you will also be persecuted and ultimately killed by this illegitimate brand of religion being foisted on the gullible right now.

  • Jim Lewman

    This is true . This is a war against white Prysbaterian America