Are you kidding me?

Disclaimer: I'm in a pretty bad mood. It's been a long week. Sorry?

Remember Friday? When we dissected the Quasi War presentation and related it to Tagg Romney in the ABSOLUTELY MOST POLITICALLY NEUTRAL WAY POSSIBLE? Yeah.

In class, we discussed Tagg Romney's quote regarding a loaded radio question of how he felt to have his father get called a liar by President Obama. The question itself is untrue, as this is not what President Obama said and was obviously made to provoke. In response, Tagg Romney said he'd like to have gotten up from his seat during the debate, gone down to the stage and 'taken a swing' at our President. Sure, he said other things like "But you know you can't do that because ... there's a lot of Secret Service between you and him," and it's great that we talked about that, too, but he also said other things afterwards. The discussion finally lead to the question of whether or not to arrest Tagg Romney for his statement. Really? That is nonsensical because the context had no intention of violence, Tagg Romney was using a figure of speech, and he also said some pretty important stuff afterwards that was somehow overlooked. How could we have overlooked it? The entire quote was blown up on the projector for all to see, and yet we didn't even consider the entire quote? Really? 
Here's the entire quote:
"But you know you can't do that because ... there's a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because this is the nature of the process," Romney told Bill LuMaye of WPTF-AM. "They're going to do everything they can do to try to make my dad into someone he's not. We signed up for it. We've gotta kinda sit there and take our punches and then send them right back the other way."
I'm not saying that Tagg Romney is an angel, but the ability to continue looking right after reading a part of the evidence would be nice. You can't just take part of a quote if the other part is extremely important. Tagg Romney clearly says that yeah, there's Secret Service, but he would never seriously consider violence against the President because he knew his father would be attacked due to the nature of campaigning. In class, the discussion implied that the only reason why Tagg Romney didn't attack President Obama was because of the Secret Service around him. But Tagg Romney stated that he had no intention of doing anything, Secret Security or not. Tagg Romney, like any rational grown up should, knows what his father signed up for and that as Mitt Romney's son, he needs to be prepared. If anything, the fact that he used such a ridiculous figure of speech shows how tolerant he is of the situation. He wouldn't joke around if he was truly hurt by a question that wasn't even true to begin with.
I'm upset because our class didn't seem to realize that. We had the whole quote for us to examine, and yet no one wanted to go against the conversation and say, "Hey guys you know there's more to the quote that could make a lot of our points null," which I find rather disappointing. As Level 18 students, we should be able to read all the evidence and not just stick to what suits our arguments. We should also be willing to argue a point the contradicts the rest of the class.