Angle defends herself, tea party

44: Palin accuses critics of 'blood libel'
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) released a statement Wednesday morning denouncing efforts to blame her for Saturday's Tucson shooting rampage. "Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance," Palin said in a lengthy statement posted on her Facebook page. "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame...

Sharron Angle Defends Her Political Rhetoric
Yahoo! Buzz Sharron Angle , the unsuccessful GOP Senate Candidate from Nevada, denied that her fiery campaign Rhetoric played a roll in Saturday’s attack on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords . In a statement, Ms. Angle said that blaming her, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin or the Tea Party movement “puts all who gather to redress grievances in danger.” Ms. Palin earlier released a video statement defending her Rhetoric and calling it a “blood Libel’’ to link political...

Sharron Angle defends rhetoric in wake of Arizona (The Ticket)
Former Nevada GOP Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is pushing back against critics aiming to link her campaign Rhetoric to the shootings in Arizona. "I condemn all acts of violence. The despicable act in Tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy, and should be condemned as a single act of violence, by a single unstable individual," Angle said in a statement, per CNN. "Expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the people's Constitutional liberties is both dangerous and ...

Sharron Angle: 'Irresponsible' to blame Tea Party
Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle is condemning what she calls "finger-pointing" at the small-government movement in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting. Angle, a former Republican nominee for Senate, said in a statement that it is "irresponsible" to blame her, Sarah Palin or the Tea Party movement for the Arizona shooting rampage that killed six people and left Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, fighting for her life. "Expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the p...

Sharron Angle Defends Inflammatory Rhetoric In Face Of Criticism
Nevada Republican Sharron Angle came to her own defense on Wednesday in response to criticism of her use of inflammatory language that made headlines and raised eyebrows during her unsuccessful campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during the Midterm Election season. Angle and her questionable choice of words -- such as floating "Second Amendment remedies" as a possible solution to use "when our government becomes tyrannical" -- landed back in the spotlight following the tragic...

(Sharron) Angle: Media 'inappropriately attributing blame' for Tucson shooting
Source: The Hill Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle denied her campaign Rhetoric helped motivate the Tucson gunman and accused the media of "finger-pointing towards political figures" to boost Ratings. Angle's suggestion during the midterm campaign that voters could pursue "Second Amendment remedies" to settle political differences with Congress has been widely criticized in the wake of the attack that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition. "I...

Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage
Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle says she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 14 injured. The former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday she condemns all violence. The Tea Party politician calls the killings Saturday senseless and horrifying. Police say 22-year-old Jared Loughner fired at a crowd gathered at an event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head but survived. L...

Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage (AP)
Las Vegas – Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle says she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded. The former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday she condemns all violence. The Tea Party politician calls Saturday's killings senseless and horrifying. Police say 22-year-old Jared Loughner fired at a crowd gathered at an event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head. I...

Sharron Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage
Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle says she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 14 injured. The former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday she condemns all violence. The Tea Party politician calls the killings Saturday senseless and horrifying. Police say 22-year-old Jared Loughner fired at a crowd gathered at an event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head but survived. L...

Sharron Angle: It's 'Irresponsible' To Blame Me, Palin And Tea Party Movement
Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle has spoken out against the shootings in Tucson this weekend that included Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- who remains in critical condition after being shot in the head -- saying that "expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the people's Constitutional liberties is both dangerous and ignorant." Angle has been repeatedly mentioned by the media in the wake of the shootings, for her comments during the campaign: "People are really ...

Obama's Bullseye
Last night, for his first time in office, Barack Obama sounded like the president of all Americans. Obama famously burst onto the national scene in 2004 with an address to the Democratic Convention in which he declared, “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America.” During his own run for the presidency four years later, he would echo this post-partisan theme. But the first two years of Obama’s presidency have been contentions ones. Wh

Systematic Assassinations Not Part of Our Politics
The steam seems to be going out of the move to "deftly pin this" -- the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others -- "on the tea partiers," as one unidentified senior Democratic operative put it to Politico. It has become obvious that the murderer was crazy, the follower of no political movement, motivated only by the bizarre ideas ricocheting through his head. If any blame attaches to others, it is to authorities who had notice of his madness and did not do enough to confine h...

Palin: Attacks over shooting are 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of Manufacturing a "blood Libel" by suggesting her Rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings. Four days after an incident which left six people dead and critically injured the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Palin released a video statement condemning the attack. She denied that a now infamous campaign map showing Giffords's electoral district in the cross hairs of a gun had influenced the shooter Jared Lee Loughner. In ...

Barack Obama has it both ways
By all the received wisdom of transatlantic analysis, Barack Obama’s Speech at the memorial service for the Tucson Shooting Victims had to (choose one or all of the following) transcend partisan politics, elevate him to the post of “healer-in-chief”, rescue his presidency by showing that he could deliver a unifying message at a time of great national tragedy. I am truly sorry to place such a terrible event in what appears a cynical, calculatedly political context but truly,...

Palin's Arizona defence fuels 2012 talk
Sarah Palin has fanned speculation about her presidential ambitions as she cast herself as chief defender of arch-conservatives accused of inspiring a horrific act of violence with their fiery political Rhetoric. Palin accused those linking bellicose politicking by the right-wing Tea Party movement to the attempted Assassination of a US congresswoman of spreading a "blood Libel" in a slickly produced video released on Wednesday. "Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and e...

Jared Loughner Terrified Everyone At His Old Community College
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. Since the Arizona massacre on Saturday there have been some very pointless debates about the role of Rhetoric in American politics, and whether Sarah Palin used an inappropriate phrase in a video she posted on Vimeo. But the debate that will emerge have some actual impact is whether society ought to get even more aggressive about pro-actively protecting itself against psychos, which is exactly what everyone who came into contact with shooter J...

Some Democrats seek to dial back overheated rhetoric on shootings
ANALYSIS: Some Democrats are calling for a cease-fire in a heated liberal campaign to pin blame for the Tucson, Ariz., massacre on conservative Speech and specifically on former Republican vice-presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. No evidence has surfaced that the shooting suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, was motivated by any Political Speech, left or right. News reports tell of a deeply troubled man who thinks the government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, hates The Bible and was thrown out of coll...

Reforming our Gun Culture
Submitted by findingavoice on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 6:15am. Well, your second-amendment solution reared its ugly head this week in Tucson with the shooting of Gabby Giffords, a blue dog Democrat who was re-elected in November. Those folks who try to say there is some equivalence between angry liberal talk and Sarah Palin’s “cross hairs” Rhetoric are self-serving deniers who refuse to acknowledge the part they play in the deterioration of Civil Discourse in our country. On Sunday w...

Angle Defends Herself Against Criticism
Former Nevada U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle, whose talk of "Second Amendment remedies" during last year's campaign has been cited as an example of violent political Rhetoric, defended herself in a statement, CNN reports. Said Angle: "I condemn all acts of violence. The despicable act in Tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy, and should be condemned as a single act of violence, by a single unstable individual. Expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the pe...

Angle defends herself against ties to Arizona shooting
WASHINGTON -- Sharron Angle defended herself today against charges that comments she made in her campaign for the U.S. Senate from Nevada last year helped create an atmosphere that contributed to the Mass Shooting in Arizona last Saturday. "I condemn all acts of violence," Angle said in a statement issued overnight. "The despicable act in Tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy, and should be condemned as a single act of violence, by a single unstable individual." "Expanding the context of ...

Angle: Media 'inappropriately attributing blame' for Tucson shooting
Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle denied her campaign Rhetoric helped motivate the Tucson gunman and accused the media of "finger-pointing towards political figures" to boost Ratings. Angle's suggestion during the midterm campaign that voters could pursue "Second Amendment remedies" to settle political differences with Congress has been widely criticized in the wake of the attack that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition. "I have consiste...

Sharron Angle: Accusing Me of Violent Rhetoric Could Cause Violence
The emergence of Sarah Palin from her bunker has emboldened Nevada’s Sharron Angle to throw her hate (oops! I mean “hat”) into the ring. Infamous for invoking “Second Amendment remedies” repeatedly in her campaign speeches, Angle now whines that her First Amendment rights are being “infringed upon” — because she’s being criticized. “Expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the people’s Constitutional liber...

Violent Rhetoric: What They Wont Say and Why
I know an awful lot has been said, and more will be said about the shootings in Tucson last Saturday. While details continue to be compiled, it seems clear that Jared Loughner was mentally ill, fully engaged within a surreal world, leaving him devoid of the ability to comprehend himself or others, according to a remarks gleaned from a friend published in Mother Jones. The simplest affirmative thing we can do is recognize that when Rhetoric states violence is a valid answer to something, it has g...

Sharron Angle Responds to the Arizona Tragedy, Says It's 'Irresponsible' To Assign Blame To Her, The Tea Party or Sarah Palin
"Finger-pointing towards political figures is an audience-rating game" Politico.com Former Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is blasting those blaming her for inciting the Arizona shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others, saying the accused shooter went off the deep end long before the Tea Party movement started. In her first comments - coming three days after the shooting - Angle said in harshly worded statement that her critics were “dangerous ...

Sharron Angle Rediscovers Her First Amendment Remedies
Priceless. Sharron Angle, who once told her supporters that if they didn’t get what they wanted at the Ballot Box, they should pursue their “Second Amendment remedies,” found it prudent yesterday to emphasize her deep and abiding faith in the First Amendment. Via the New York Times coverage of Sarah Palin’s, uh, courageous [cough] public/media appearance on . . . uh, her Face Book page, [cough], we find this: Ms. Palin was not the only one to respond to criticism Wednesd...