West Virginia lawmaker says Clinton comments were hyperbole

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia Republican lawmaker said Sunday his comments made on Twitter calling for Democrat Hillary Clinton's public execution weren't meant to be taken literally.

House of Delegates member Mike Folk said that his tweet Friday over Clinton's use of a private email system while she served as secretary of state was "hyperbole."

In the tweet, Folk said the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee "should be tried for treason, murder, and crimes against the US Constitution... then hung on the Mall in Washington, DC."

Folk said in a telephone interview he still wants Clinton to go on trial, but he doesn't want her executed.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/west-virginia-lawmaker-says-clinton-comments-were-hyperbole/ar-BBuqssT

[bucolic_frolic]

1. He meant what he said and he said what he meant

an elephant's faithful 100 percent

[Feeling the Bern]

3. Sorry. . .can't put the fart back in the elephant. He said it, he owns it, he got called

he walked it back, it's still there. Where is the Secret Service now?

[cstanleytech]

10. They probably wont look into it much because

he specifically called for her execution not her assassination.

[marybourg]

2. That's true. It was hyperbole.

How does that excuse him? Is he confusing hyperbole with satire?

[Feeling the Bern]

4. I guess to Republicans, advocating murder is satire.

[Cosmocat]

8. When THEY do it

meanwhile, a nonconservative can say something not even remotely like it and be held accountable for whatever crazy ass shit they want to think of what that person said.

[Historic NY]

5. He was suspended

"This pilot has been removed from flying pending our investigation,” United Continental Holdings Inc. tweeted Sunday. “We are appalled by his threatening comments


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-17/united-suspends-pilot-who-called-for-hanging-hillary-clinton


The twitter sphere went nuts and I will say United immediately reach out on-line.

[Skittles]

6. calls into question his decison-making abilities

yes indeed

[BumRushDaShow]

7. But here is the money quote (from your link)

This year, Folk was the lead sponsor of a bill to add the likelihood of imminent violent lawlessness to the crime of intimidation and retaliation in West Virginia.

More proof of the type of prolific projection that GOPers live by. Or in other words, "Do as I say, not what I do". (i.e., IOKIYAR)

[marble falls]

9. Walking it back much?

[Marthe48]

11. Also hyperbole: Sic Semper Tyrannis

People who say violent things need to listen to themselves and chill out.

[MohRokTah]

12. So either he was lying then or he's lying now.

I think he's lying now.

[Nitram]

13. That's okay, we don't need to take anything he ever says literally.