Lindsey Graham: "you have to hate the pigeons" as he mock shoots Bernie Sanders on MSNBC

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Tell me if anyone else had made this "Veiled Death Threat" hate speech comment about Hillary or President Obama the Secret Service wouldn't have been all over him? Candidate Sanders is a U.S. Senator. Should fellow Senator Graham get a pass on this? Or, is this just "Good Ole Boys" having a Good Time and so we should just ignore it?

When a Senator "Mock Kills" another Senator in a demonstration on MSNBC is this the kind of Hate Speech that motivates others to act out? What about the example it sets for Young People to see him say: “I’m gonna get you motivated to want to kill the clay pigeon…”

Given what has just happened in South Carolina is Senator Lindsey Graham rethinking what he said?

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Watch the MSNBC Snip Here:

http://player.theplatform.com/p/7wvmTC/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_qc_skeet_150614

Or, Transcript:

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) went on MSNBC to teach Kacie Hunt how to skeet shoot. Yeehaw!

Early in the segment, Graham talks about how he’s not a morning person with Hunt. The the cameras go back to the shooting range where Graham urges the skeet operator to do a “Bernie Sanders”:

GRAHAM: “I’m gonna get you motivated to want to kill the clay pigeon…”

GRAHAM: “Alright, do a Bernie Sanders.”

SKEET OPERATOR: “Alright.”

GRAHAM: “Pull!”

(Gunshot)

GRAHAM: “Sorry about that, Bernie!”

(Laughter)

How hilarious! Sen. Graham is running for President of the United States and is fake shooting his competition, because he’s the classiest guy in the race. Obviously.

Before Hunt stepped up to shoot some clay pigeons, Graham tells her she has to ‘hate the pigeons’. She shoots, she misses. The clip basically sucks and is just Graham sucking up to gun owners showing them how much he just loves the Second Amendment.

Graham says:

It’s about leading the pigeon. It’s about staying out in front enough, but not too much. That’s what politics is like.