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Keith Olberman | Special Comment: Violence and Threats Have No Place in Democracy (Video)

The political rhetoric of the country must be changed to prevent acts of domestic terrorism. In the aftermath of the shooting of 19 people in an attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”

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The political rhetoric of the country must be changed to prevent acts of domestic terrorism.

In the aftermath of the shooting of 19 people in an attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”

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