Arkansas writer on Tom Cotton's calls for vigilante violence: "unreasonable, abnormal, and dangerous"


by Arkansas Times

Arkansas Times— "I do not think the impulse to kill protesters—much less the act of following through on such a thought—is typical," Elrod writes. "The murder of innocent people over inconvenience is neither trivial nor, one would hope, particularly relatable."

The Washington Times—Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, says some Jan. 6 defendants 'probably deserve' pardons. ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl asked Sen. Tom Cotton what he thought about former President Donald Trump calling those involved in the attack “hostages” and saying he would pardon them.

NewsBusters—Sen. Tom Cotton SCHOOLS ABC’s Jon Karl on Campus Protesters, ‘Little Gazas’. During a wide-ranging interview on ABC’s This Week, Sen, Tom Cotton (R-AR) took a blowtorch to the antisemitic protesters on college campuses, brutally mocked them as establishing “little Gazas”, and schooled host Jon Karl when he tried to twist mockery of the encampments into mockery of Gaza itself. Watch the exchange, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, May 5th, 2024: TOM COTTON: They're spray painting buildings with vile, antisemitic hate. (Biden) said, well, we shouldn't have...

NewsBusters—Sen. Tom Cotton SCHOOLS ABC’s Jon Karl on Campus Protesters, ‘Little Gazas’. During a wide-ranging interview on ABC’s This Week, Sen, Tom Cotton (R-AR) took a blowtorch to the antisemitic protesters on college campuses, brutally mocked them as establishing “little Gazas”, and schooled host Jon Karl when he tried to twist mockery of the encampments into mockery of Gaza itself. Watch the exchange, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, May 5th, 2024: TOM COTTON: They're spray painting buildings with vile, antisemitic hate. (Biden) said, well, we shouldn't have...