Breitbart blogger cites made-up Facebook profile of Loughner as Obama supporter

Exciting New Horizons In Obama Derangement Syndrome
Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit deserves some kind of award for his new depths in Obama Derangement Syndrome. Hoft headlines his latest post "Whoops! This Changes Things- Loughner's Hero Was Barack Obama," then proceeds to breathlessly exclaim that "Killer Jared Loughner idolized Barack Obama." He sources this scoop to "The Examiner" "via Free Republic" and links to a blog post by Anthony Martin at Examiner.com. In the portion of his post excerpted by Hoft, Martin writes: From Facebook for a Jar...

Jim Hoft Falls for Obviously Fake Facebook Page to Link Loughner to Obama
Today, the world’s dumbest blogger, Jim “Dim” Hoft, in his crazed attempt to cast the shooter of Gabrielle Giffords as a “typical leftist nut,” actually found a Facebook page that proved he was right all along! He rushed to his computer and feverishly typed this title: “Whoops! This Changes Things- Loughner’s Hero Was Barack Obama!” Just one problem. The Facebook page was an obvious fake, with the shooter’s name misspelled. And when he finall...

Manson Family Values
At Big Journalism, Christian Hartsock explains “How John Lennon Killed Sharon Tate (and Other Ideas For MSM Narratives):” John Lennon murdered Sharon Tate. Jodie Foster shot Ronald Reagan. Oliver Stone and Marilyn Manson caused Columbine. A dog ordered the Son of Sam killings. And Fox News, the Tea Party and the American right compelled Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson. The only reason these parallels don’t work is that while Charles Manson did i...

Hannity Cites Description Of Loughner As Pot Smoking Liberal - No Mention Of Anti-Abortion Comment
As far as we know, Jared Loughner does not appear to have any clear political orientation - despite attempts on both the left and the right (ignored by Fox "News" which whined about "political cheap shots" from the left) to ascribe one to him. He was registered to vote as an independent. Based on what little was known of him, the right ran with the description of him as a "pot smoking liberal" - a description found on Alex Jones' website as well as numerous others despite comments, from those wh...

Missing From Loughner Debate: Soul Searching
Jared Loughner (Credit: Personal Photo) There's been quite a bit of back and forth this week about who should share the blame for the actions of alleged Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner. Some on the left have pointed to incendiary Rhetoric from Sarah Palin and others on the right, while some on the right have sought to tie Loughner to the beliefs of the left. Palin was blamed in part for using of a bullseye icon to identify political targets - including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - before the ...

David Brooks vs. Andrew Sullivan
One can read Andrew Sullivan's tireless, yet exceedingly tiresome response to David Brooks' The Politicized Mind - regarding seemingly classically disturbed spree killer, Jared Loughner. Typical of Sullivan these days, he cherry picks, ignoring evidence that Loughner had met Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner strongly disapproved of her given a perceived lack of a response to some bizarre question of his. Of course, Sullivan ignores that evidence because he wants...

Missing From Loughner Debate: Soul Searching
Jared Loughner (Credit: Personal Photo) There's been quite a bit of back and forth this week about who should share the blame for the actions of alleged Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner. Some on the left have pointed to incendiary Rhetoric from Sarah Palin and others on the right, while some on the right have sought to tie Loughner to the beliefs of the left. Palin was blamed in part for using of a bullseye icon to identify political targets - including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - before the ...

Absurd fingerpointing continues in wake of Arizona shooting
As more become clear about Jared Loughner, the facts seem to mean less and less for those seeking to turn this tragedy into a political witch hunt. It appears that Loughner, had an obsession with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) dating back to 2007 - before Sarah Palin or the Tea Party movement came on the national scene, and the warning signs that Loughner was an unstable person had been ignored; even by police. And while the debate on Loughner’s political leanings is still raging, Chris Ci...

Gabrielle Giffords, Christina Green & The Place The American Dream Went To Die
Like flies to feces, the Extremists who have so debased the American political system in recent years are feasting mightily on the latest watershed event out Arizona — the place where the American Dream went to die. The irony, of course, is that this debasement continues apace because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free Speech, no matter how vile, while Congress and Obama Administration, cowed by the NRA, all but assure the kind of violence that leaves a congresswoman with ...

Mental Health Care, Not Political Blame
In the wake of the Arizona shootings, it has been disturbing to see many politicians, Journalists, and even a sheriff exploit a national tragedy for political purposes. And, in so doing, many have set themselves up as Mental Health experts, explaining to the public that political debate and Rhetoric caused a likely psychotic suspect, Jared Loughner, to kill and injure innocent people. This is especially alarming when we consider that those who are public servants might, instead, focus their ef...

Rep. Giffords can breathe on her own
Published: Jan. 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM Flowers for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her staff are left on the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol Jan.y 11, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Ariz. shooting followed history of tension TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is being kept on a ventilator at a Tucson Hospital even though she is able to breathe on her own, doctors said. Dr. G. Michael Lemole Jr., the neurosurgeon who operated on Giffords, D-Ariz., after she was shot Saturday, said the b...

9-year-old Ariz. victim related to TV star
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Actress Sophia Bush says Christina Green, the 9-year-old shot and killed in Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona, was her second cousin. Christina was one of six people killed in the shootings at a political event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Also killed was Federal Judge John Roll. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Fourteen people -- including Giffords, who was shot in the head and critically injured -- were hurt in the shoo...

Boehner asks Obama to Jan. 25 State of the Union (AP)
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union Speech on Jan. 25 to a joint session of Congress. In a letter to Obama obtained by The Associated Press, Boehner mentions the Arizona shooting that left six dead and 14 injured. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded. Boehner writes that in the wake of tragedy, "we must never waiver from our obligation." The address will be Obama's second State of the Union spee...

The Present Madness
On the radio this morning, Bill Bennett and I had a discussion about the Arizona massacre, and the political use of it made by the Left in this country. A few observations. In a way, they have won. “They”? I mean, the Krugmans, the Sullivans, the Olbermanns: “They.” They’ve won because we are on their turf, where they have dragged us, or enticed us. The shooting in Arizona has nothing to do with politics. Nothing to do with Republicans, nothing to do with conservati...

America in Angers Clutches: Polityka, Poland
The world is looking on, wondering what will happen in America next, after the massacre and Assassination attempt of an Arizona Congresswoman last weekend. In this article from Poland’s Polityka, columnist Tomasz Zalewski asks if this is the beginning of a wave of political violence like the one that claimed the lives of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. America has never lacked deranged, frustrated types like Jared Laughner, who take their revenge for a lac...

Wayne Besen: The Bombast and the Body Count in Arizona
While the world focused on the tragic Arizona shootings, another horrific crime took place in New York City. The New York Post reported today that a Portuguese male model tortured and murdered his "sugar daddy" in a Manhattan hotel. For more than an hour, Renato Seabra, 20, beat Carlos Castro, 65, before he castrated the older Fashion Journalist with a wine corkscrew. Seabra said he murdered the Journalist "to get rid of Castro's Homosexual demons." The suspect then declared, "I'm not gay any...

Tea Party members protest Straus
Tea party Protesters from every end of the state traveled to the Capitol this morning to voice their disappointment in Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, and throw their support behind Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, for speaker of the House. Straus is likely to be re-elected as speaker today. Phil Johnson, a 76-year-old from Pinehurst in Southeast Texas stood outside the east gates of the Capitol with his dog, Roxie — both of whom wore “Oust Straus” shirts. Johnson said he stands fo...

Woops! This Changes Things Leftist Loughners Hero Was Barack Obama
BUMMER… So much for blaming the tea partyers. The left wanted so desperately to blame the Tucson shootings by an anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, left-wing, pro-Marx, antiflag, “quite liberal” lunatic who dreamed of killing cops on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Now, they’ll have to eat crow. Killer Jared Loughner idolized Barack Obama. Loughner will face 5 charges of Murder. By now Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the horrific massacre in Tuscon, Arizona ye...

Who Will Be America's Next Ambassador to Venezuela?
Recently, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez praised Barack Obama for making both him and Fidel Castro look conservative by comparison. Chávez enthusiastically called Barack "Comrade Obama!" Hugo's affectionate approval was based on Obama "nationalizing ... General Motors." In fact, Hugo even gave a shout-out to Castro about Barack, saying, "Fidel, careful, or we are going to end up to his right." Hugo gushed when Obama suggested an Air Force One stopove...

Glenn Beck Removes Gun Pose Image From Website Rotation
On Monday night’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann highlighted a Screenshot from Glenn Beck ’s website that featured an unfortunate juxtaposition: a photo depicting Beck saying “We must stand together against all violence,” and on the left sidebar, a picture of Beck holding a semiautomatic pistol. The image, first captured by Media Matters‘ Angelo “StopBeck” Carusone , has since been taken down out of “respect” for the events of this weekend, ...

Progressive Education
This article was originally published by Salon on December 1, 1997. Of all the misnomers of our political vocabulary, “progressive” is the most abusive and the most abused. “Progressive” is the accepted term for the political left today, just as it was 50 years ago, when it was used as a self-description by Communists and fellow-travelers who sought its protective cover even as they supported the most oppressive regimes in human history. In the later years of the Cold ...

Massacre, Made in America
Truthseeker, have you ever seen a website run by a Democrat that is ripe with incendiary "don't retreat -- reload!" Rhetoric while displaying a national map peppered with gun-sight crosshairs and shooting targets hovering over the districts governed by their opponents? Giffords was a literal target of Sarah Palin and the Teabaggers and she knew it, as Giffords herself remarked on MSNBC before the last election, "We're on Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is, the way she has it depic...

Beck claims 'I don't use [violent rhetoric] on or off the air': Oh really?
Beck claims 'I don't use [violent Rhetoric] on or off the air': Oh really? It sure seemed that everyone -- and I mean EVERYONE -- at Fox News was focused yesterday on beating down the horrifying idea that somehow Fox News' incendiary rhetoric might have played a significant role in fomenting Saturday's horrifying tragedy in Arizona. Of course, Glenn Beck -- being one of the chief purveyors of said incendiary rhetoric -- was out there leading the attack, devoting his entire hour to...

A Challenge To Glenn Beck: Will He Cool His Paranoid Anti-Government Rhetoric?
On Sunday, federal officials charged Jared Lee Loughner on two counts of Murder and three counts of Attempted Murder in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, AZ that critically wounded Rep. Gabriel Giffords (D-AZ) and killed a Federal Judge and a Giffords Staffer, among others. In the wake of the tragedy, many are wondering what motivated Loughner — whether he was a mentally-ill lone wolf vigilante or inspired by something else. Information coming out about Loughner portrays the ...

The Media and Democrats Should Look At Their Very Own Obama For HIS HATE Speech and His Threats He Has Made On U.S. Citizens!!!!
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia on June 13th 2008. ** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!” ** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” ** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Punch Back Twice As Hard” ** Obama on the Private Sect