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Joseph DiGenova Under Fire After Saying Cybersecurity Expert Should Be Shot

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on December 03, 2020 · Flag

Former Fox regular Joseph diGenova claims he was “just joking” when he said that Chris Krebs, recently fired from DHS after saying the 2020 election was legitimate, “should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.” Many are not amused.

In case you missed it, diGenova called Krebs a “Class A moron” on Newsmax TV Monday before adding, "He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot." There was nothing in diGenova’s tone that sounded like he was joking.

Today, The Washington Post reported that diGenova was forced to resign from Washington’s elite Gridiron Club. That’s in addition to other repercussions. More from The Post:

In a statement Tuesday, [diGenova] explained that his comments about Krebs “were sarcastic and made in jest. I, of course, wish Mr. Krebs no harm. This was hyperbole in a political discourse.” On Wednesday, he told The Washington Post that his comments had prompted a flurry of threatening phone calls, and that his law firm was hiring private security for him, his wife and their employees.

His comments have also caused alarm on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, U.S. Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Ted W. Lieu (D-Ca.), both former prosecutors, called on the disciplinary arm of the D.C. bar to immediately open an investigation into diGenova’s statements as an incitement to violence and a violation of rules of professional conduct. “If a lawyer licensed in the District of Columbia can – while speaking in a representative capacity – publicly call for the death of his client’s perceived adversaries without consequences, the [bar] Counsel has abjectly failed in its duty,” the lawmakers wrote.

Tucker Carlson may have appreciated diGenova's “humor.” Carlson sided with diGenova over Fox News colleagues after diGenova called Fox senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano “a fool.” Carlson subsequently attacked anchor Shepard Smith’s honesty and integrity for defending Napolitano. Fox News sided with Carlson. That incident led to Smith’s abrupt resignation from the network. Carlson regularly uses the kind of incendiary rhetoric that seems designed to incite violence.

DiGenova has been absent from Fox for about a year, after he baselessly claimed that George Soros controls the State Department.

You can listen to diGenova’s “sarcasm” below, from Newsmax TV’s November 30, 2020 The Howie Carr Show, via Crooks and Liars.

(H/T reader Eric Jefferson)

(DiGenova image via screen grab)

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John McKee commented 2020-12-04 04:28:08 -0500 · Flag
Of course he was joking – the RWNJ class has a sense of humour that basically starts and ends with branding/belittling/hurting/killing their opponents and laughing like drains at anything anyone ever does that will outrage the ‘libtards’. I give you the Trump thing advising his followers to vote twice.

Of course, anyone who takes their words seriously and breaks the law is just a silly boy who totally misunderstood the ‘just joking’ demagoguery.
Anonymous commented 2020-12-03 18:16:17 -0500 · Flag
Bemused: I agree that the goings-on in Georgia are strange, but I would argue that diGenova’s statement is squarely within the attention-getting tradition pioneered by Rush Limbaugh in the 80’s, namely: push the envelope in lying, hyperbolic, contemptuous, slashing attacks on your opponent. If too many people call you on it, say that you were joking. If you’re not much called on it, and sometimes even when you are called on it, the envelope of accepted discourse has been widened—and ready to be pushed even further. The ground for diGenova’s outrageous outburst has been prepared for decades by Fox and others.
Anonymous commented 2020-12-03 18:16:17 -0500 · Flag
Bemused: I agree that the goings-on in Georgia are strange, but I would argue that diGenova’s statement is squarely within the attention-getting tradition pioneered by Rush Limbaugh in the 80’s, namely: push the envelope in lying, hyperbolic, contemptuous, slashing attacks on your opponent. If too many people call you on it, say that you were joking. If you’re not much called on it, and sometimes even when you are called on it, the envelope of accepted discourse has been widened—and ready to be pushed even further. The ground for diGenova’s outrageous outburst has been prepared for decades by Fox and others.
Bemused commented 2020-12-03 14:30:06 -0500 · Flag
There’s some mighty strange humour going on. I’m sure Sidney Powell and that other guy down in Georgia will say that they were just kidding when they said that Republicans shouldn’t bother to vote. What I’ve been able to hear has given me serious doubts about their mental capabilities.








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