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This all depends on whether you are comparing the people in the video to politicians and political commentators or to Tea Party protesters.
Do you think the people in the video should be compared to Sarah Palin? Or do you think it's best to compare them to Tea Party protesters?
Are you asking whether these comments are violent, or are you asking whether these comments count as rhetoric?
As an aside, my full-time job requires me to make sense out of writers who are either avant-garde/unconventional poets or whose day jobs include such positions as accountant, financial advisor, and portfolio manager. I have seen the full spectrum of clarity with regard to expressing ideas or making statements—everything from cogent to downright nonsense. You have confused me, which is why I'm asking you my own questions more than I'm answering yours.
If you think you have been clear by any stretch of the imagination, then you are mistaken. You are playing a game, and, as far as I can tell, you are doing so as some means to seek self-satisfaction without having to work for it by means of a fair discussion.
Now you should either answer my questions and otherwise provide me with some idea of what your full argument is, or you should just tell me outright that you're just fucking around.
Or maybe I'm just an idiot. Maybe we should ask a third party.
Anyone?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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