A Climate of Slander

Majority Of Americans Believe Left Attempted To Exploit AZ Tragedy To Make Right Look Bad
Quick post on Gallup who finally asked the appropriate question about what portion of Americans feel the Far Left and commentators that attempted to convince the public to think the right's Rhetoric was somehow responsible was "the tragedy to make Conservatives look bad." In other words, the public saw right through the left's pathetic attempts to spin and connect the right with the act of Jared Lee Loughner when he shot and killed 6 people and injured 13 others. The poll was conducted Jan. 11...

Mission accomplished, Markos Moulitsas.
The Left gets its violent responder to Hate Speech, after all: the only problem is, from their point of view he’s aimed the wrong way. I started following the saga of J. Eric Fuller a couple of days ago: the short version is that he was one of the Victims of the Tucson attack of last week that killed six people and nearly killed Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Despite the fact that the consensus is, from the President on down, that harsh political Rhetoric had nothing to do with the ...

Rethinking Obama's political performance in Tucson
Pundits and politicians alike praised President Obama's Speech at the Tucson memorial service last Wednesday. "A wonderful speech," wrote the New York Times' David Brooks. "A magnificent performance," wrote National Review's Rich Lowry. "A terrific speech," wrote Sen. John McCain. And those were just the voices on the right. Obama's tribute to the Victims of the shooting and the heroism of bystanders was appreciated by everyone. But many Conservatives particularly admired the Speech because the ...

Arizona shooting victim arrested for death threat against tea party leader
ABC affiliate KGUN-TV reports that one of the Victims of last Saturday's shooting in Tucson was arrested Saturday morning for making a threat against a local tea Party Leader at a town hall meeting scheduled to be televised Sunday morning. According to a report by Forrest Carr, the meeting was taking place at Tucson's St. Odilia's Catholic Church and was attended by local dignitaries, witnesses to the shooting and the First Responders.  Tucson mayor Bob Walkup, Congressman Raul Grijalva and...

Ariz. Shooting Victim Issues Death Threat to Tea Party Chief
One would think that once you were the Collateral Damage of an Assassination attempt, you'd be much less apt to be issuing Death Threats of your own to people. Sadly, Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller was not so sensitive as one might think his experience would make him. At a townhall meeting Saturday, an incensed Fuller issued a death threat to local Tea Party Leader Trent Humphries. Fuller is a liberal that has been heard in interviews claiming that Sarah Palin and Conservatives are at fault for ...

J. Eric Fuller, Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested at Town Hall Meeting For Threatening GOP Rep Terri Proud & Tea Party Spokesman
One week after the Tucson, AZ tragedy and there is an arrest at a town hall meeting for death threats … So much for that call for peace, calm and tranquility in the aftermath of the shooting last week at the hands of Jared Loughner. Tucson Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller threatened Trent Humphries, the Pima County Tea Party Leader, stood up to speak during the event. He was being very respectful. Trent told the audience that before we start placing blame on individuals we need to get al...

Unhinged Lefty Wounded In Tucson Shooting Arrested For Yelling Death Threat At Tucson Tea Party Leader
J. Eric Fuller, an unhinged Leftist who was shot at the Tucson town hall last week, did more than rant lies to the Socialist Democracy Now! TV show about Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and others being responsible for last Saturday's tragedy. Today, he was arrested for making a Death Threat to Tucson Tea Party Leader Trent Humphries (who has received many death threats this past week), as well as disorderly conduct (KGUN). ABC News Anchor Christiane Amanpour hosted a remarkable gathering of Victims, ...

HOW BAD WAS THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF TUCSON? So bad that Charles Blow is writing about The Tucson Wit
HOW BAD WAS THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF Tucson? So bad that Charles Blow is writing about “The Tucson Witch Hunt.” Within hours of the shooting, there was a full-fledged witch hunt to link the shooter to the right. “I saw Goody Proctor with The Devil! Oh, I mean Jared Lee Loughner! Yes him. With The Devil!” The only problem is that there was no evidence then, and even now, that overheated Rhetoric from the right had anything to do with the shooting. (In fact, a couple of people who s...

Gabrielle Giffords should stop supporting the deaths of innocent people
It has been one week since the tragic massacre in Tuscon Arizona, where  six innocent people were killed  countless others injured. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords miraculously survived and is reportedly improving. Dramatic photographs were released of her astronaught husband holding her hand at her Hospital bedside. They have been posted on Gifford's campaign website . So much political Rhetoric has been ballied about in the wake of the shootings, the end result being death t...

Ariz. Shooting Victim Makes Threats at Meeting
Like this Story? Share it: Chris Wragge speaks with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller about the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and his thoughts on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. Eric Fuller, wounded during attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on "The Early Show" Jan. 11, 2011. (CBS) (CBS) TUCSON, Ariz. - A town hall meeting, taped for ABC's "This Week", got interrupted when an Ariz. Shooting Victim stood up and made threats towards a Tea Party spokesman, reports KGUN. Towards the e...

Tucson gun show attracts big crowd
TUCSON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- An area gun show Saturday attracted thousands of people one week after a Tucson Shooting Spree left six dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords among 13 wounded. The "Crossroads of the West" gun show at the Pima County Fairgrounds was held about 10 miles from the Tucson shopping center Parking Lot where a young man suspected of being mentally unbalanced, Jared Loughner, is accused of going on a rampage with a semiautomatic Glock 19, causing widespread anguish and stirring ...

VA Tech and Tucson -- The Ties That Bind
What a week of political buzz surrounding Jared Lee Loughner’s (22) allegedly killing six people and injuring 13 others with a Handgun last Saturday (January 8, 2011) at a political event outside a Safeway store in Tucson, AZ.  Among the injured, with a shot to the head, was the event sponsor and apparent primary target, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). In 2007, Loughner attended a Giffords event that his friends said left him upset. He apparently didn’t like her response to h...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage
By Tim Gaynor Tucson, Arizona | Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:45pm EST Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city...

Meanwhile ...
Meanwhile ... Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell was on "Fox & Friends" trying to deflect accusations that vitrolic conservative Rhetoric played a part on the Arizona shootings, as he's been wont to do lately. Bozell then said, "Politics had nothing to do with this. This is a man who never even listened to Talk Radio or watched the news." But if "politics had nothing to do with this," why is Bozell's organization t...

This Jared Kid (Part One)...
It's been a week since Jared Lee Loughner went completely off his nut and shot twenty people, killing six. When I first heard about that, I initially thought it was some good-for-nothing lay-about who spent more time reading articles from the Whirled Nut Daily website in his mother's basement than he did looking for a job to pay for room and board. Then I heard about that cross-hairs map Sarah Palin tried to erase from everyone's memory, and even though there was, and is, no evidence that Loughn...

Democratic-Media Complex Fails Standards of Journalism in Tucson Reporting
At The New Republic, "How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting" (via Instapundit): When disaster strikes, Journalists have to write something about it—and write it fast. That means they have to take mental shortcuts, calling up established narratives and laying them out like old wrapping paper for new and more ambiguous facts ... But sometimes the shortcuts produce a journalistic stampede at the worst possible time. That’s what happened last weekend, when 22-year-old Jared Lee Lo...

The New Normal
The New Normal by digby From Esquire Magazine comes a sad, but true analysis of the events of the past week --- and the past decade and a half: [T]he most remarkable thing about what happened in Oklahoma City is how little it matters today. The president of the United States gave a fine Speech Wednesday night in Tucson at the memorial for the people Jared Loughner shot. The only mention of Oklahoma City in connection with the president’s Speech was to compare it with the Speech that another...

John Hayward at Human Events on Friday: 'You Might Be Seeing a Lot of Eric Fuller Over the Weekend'
According to the website of ABC-TV affiliate KGUN, J. Eric Fuller was arrested and charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct. Demonstrating impressive prescience, John Hayward at Human Events predicted on Friday that Fuller would attempt to capitalize on his being among the injured in last Saturday's Tucson murders. After the jump, you'll get a sampling of Fuller's full feelings from Hayward: You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He’s one ...

Tucson shooting spree victim arrested
TUCSON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- One of those wounded in the Tucson Shooting Spree that left six people dead was arrested Saturday after making a verbal threat, authorities and witnesses said. Jason Ogan, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's office, said J. Eric Fuller, 63, was "involuntarily committed for Mental Health evaluation," The New York Times reported. Fuller, a Military Veteran who was shot in the Left Knee and the back at U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Jan. 8 constituency gathering, atten...

US shooting victim arrested after threat
A man who was shot in the knee during last week's Tuscon shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday after threatening a local conservative leader during an emotional town hall event, ABC News reported. During taping for a Sunday special on the US shooting, witnesses told ABC affiliate KGUN9 News that James Eric Fuller grew agitated when Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries suggested that any conversation about Gun Control should be put off until after the funerals for all the Victims. Fuller ...

The Politics of Hateand Hate Speech
by Walter Brasch Just about anything that could be said about the Murders in Tucson have been said. We know that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was holding a “Congress on the Corner” meeting outside a Safeway Grocery Store. We know that a 22-year-old named Jared Lee Loughner is in FBI custody, and has been charged with one count of attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the United States and two counts of intent to kill employees of...

Tucson Shooting Victim Charged for Death Threat to Tea Party Leader
**Written by Doug Powers Welcome to Bizzaro World — even the local news story can’t help but make note of the irony. From KGUN9 in Tucson: ABC News Anchor Christiane Amanpour hosted a remarkable gathering of Victims, heroes, witnesses and First Responders. It was the first time most of them had been together since Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a Safeway Parking Lot, killing 6, and wounding or injuring 14 others — a rampage that happened one week earlier almost to the hour...

Twitter Followup On Sarah Palin 'Death Wishers'
The other day it was highlighted, via video no less, that a number of Twitter users were issuing death wishes against Sarah Palin because the Far Left liberals and liberal media immediately tried to connect Palin and Conservatives to the acts of Jared Lee Loughner, who shot and killed 6 people, injured 13 others and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition after a gunshot wound to the head. Recent news on Loughner has shown no connection to Palin or conservatives, nor to the...

Death Threat to Tea Party Member at Tuscon Town Hall
The Tuscon ABC affiliate with the remarkably politically incorrect call sign of KGUN-9 reports: The meeting room at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church on the city’s northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the Mass Shooting Jan. 8, some of the witnesses to the shootings and the First Responders to the scene for a taping of an ABC-TV special, a town hall event, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Host of the program, This Week, is Christianne Amanpour. The show will air at 7 a.m. S...

The Backfire
When the latest leftist witch hunt backfires, even one of the New York Times columnists notices : The American people know it, too. According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released Wednesday, 42 percent of those asked said that political Rhetoric was not a factor at all in the shooting, 22 percent said that it was a minor factor and 20 percent said that it was a major factor. Furthermore, most agreed that focusing on conservative Rhetoric as a link in the shooting was “not a legitimate point bu...