Newbusters reports that CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin blames "Republican rhetoric" for inflaming abortion extremists like the so-called "Planned Parenthood shooter." 

Appearing on every impressionable housewife's favorite show The View Monday, Hostin, who claims to be pro-life herself, responded to co-host Paula Faris' comment that Republican presidential candidates "took too long" to tweet about the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last week. Hostin went right for the predictable leftist tactic of blaming conservative "rhetoric" for inciting violence every time a non-conservative commits a mass shooting (Gabby Giffords, anyone?).

Faris declared the most recent shooter, an insane man who identifies as a woman and who lived in an electricity-free shack, an "extremist," although there is no evidence yet that he even holds extreme political views, left or right, or that the shooting had anything to do with abortion, or that he was targeting Planned Parenthood. 

"I don’t think, Paula," began Hostin,

we can ignore the rhetoric that has been out there from the Republican Party, from the right. And the bottom line there is, yes, that is sort of tossing fuel onto something that's already very, very flammable.

I wonder if she would blame the inflammatory rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement for the assassinations of police officers? Just a thought.

And I think it's irresponsible not to step out in front of it if you're a candidate that has, you know, talked about these videos that have now been soundly debunked and not walk it back in a time like this.

She's referring, of course, to the undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood's execrable attitude toward, and procedures involving, human fetuses. The videos have not been debunked at all, but the left's narrative is that they were misleadingly edited - even though the full-length videos are available for anyone to watch online.

You have to lead from the front.

Really? Isn't that a rather anti-Obama position to take?

And I was very surprised that they took 36 hours to talk about this. If you are a leader, then you meet it head on. And I don't think it's fair to just sort of say, “well, I'm pro-life, but, you know, this guy is just sort of on the fringe.” The bottom line is there was a lot of rhetoric out there and people need to be more accountable for what comes out of their mouth [sic].

In other words, voicing one's opposition to the butchering of babies is hateful "rhetoric" that inflames insane people who have no access to television, radio, or the internet. In fact, anytime a conservative voices an opinion, it's violent hate speech. So shut up, Republicans.