CLASSY: The Onion Photoshops Republican HOLDING UP A BLOODY SEVERED HEAD

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It’s a well established fact that The Onion leans left but here’s something to keep in your back pocket the next time liberals accuse conservatives of being uncivil.

The satirical news outlet recently ran the picture featured above of Republican senate majority leader Mitch McConnell holding up the bloody, severed head of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

Ed Driscoll reported at Instapundit:

THE ONION RUNS PHOTOSHOP OF A BLOOD-SPLATTERED MITCH McCONNELL HOLDING ALOFT MERRICK GARLAND’S SEVERED HEAD, while standing on the steps of the Senate.

So just to confirm, Sarah Palin’s printer-registration marks clip art is the end of the world, but The Onion running an image of the Senate Majority Leader holding up the severed head of the president’s Supreme Court nominee? ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Yet another reminder that as Andrew McCarthy noted earlier this month, “Trump Is the Effect, Not the Cause — A sick society breeds gutter politics.” And as Jonah Goldberg wrote in August of 2011, after the left’s self-imposed new civility timeout had ended and they were back to referring to the Tea Party as suicide vest-wearing members the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP, “to hell with you people.”

Here’s the link to the Onion, which I was tempted to withhold, given that Paul Krugman and three quarters of the left would have melted down if such an image came from the right. It’s also screencapped here, in case it’s deleted.

Related: From last month, Ace on “What The Onion Looks Like Under the Ownership of a Hillary Backer.”

Here’s the screen cap:

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This must be part of that “new tone” in politics the left loves to lecture everyone about.

Amazing.

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