How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing a tragedy.

Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: The Real Case Is That She Had No Security
In March 2010, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) warned that the Rhetoric from the tea parties and Sarah Palin was potentially dangerous. “I can say that in the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this…when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there’s consequences to that action,” she said on MSNBC. Tuscon Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries called Giffords’ previous concerns about violent...

Obama visits shot lawmaker in hospital (AFP)
TUCSON, Arizona (AFP) – US President Barack Obama was Wednesday visiting injured congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Hospital shortly after arriving in Arizona to address a poignant memorial service. "The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recover," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The president would also meet with the families of the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage...

Liberals Seek Ban on Metaphors in Wake of Arizona Shooting
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that's what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all Conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in Murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. You must login to comment. The Fo...

Obama to attend Arizona memorial
President Barack Obama has arrived in Arizona to pay tribute to six people killed in a shooting and to honour US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in the attack. The president is due to speak at a memorial service for Victims of the shooting in Tucson later on Wednesday. Suspected gunman Jared Loughner has been charged with several offences and could face the death penalty if guilty. Ms Giffords was shot in the head and remains in a critical condition. Thousands have gathered thr...

Most Doubt Political Rhetoric a Major Factor in Ariz. Shootings
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new USA Today/Gallup Poll finds Americans dubious that the heated language used in politics today was a major factor that influenced the alleged gunman in last week's shootings in Tucson, Ariz. Twenty percent say such Rhetoric was a major factor in the shootings, while 22% cite it as a minor factor; 42% say it was not a factor at all. Democrats are more likely than Independents or Republicans to believe political debate played a role. The poll was conducted Jan. 11, three ...

How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing tragedy (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
By John Dickerson Slate.com For the second time in his tenure, President Obama will eulogize the Victims of a shooting. In November 2009—it now seems another era—he gave a small masterpiece of a Speech in honor of the 13 people killed when Army Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas. When Obama speaks Wednesday night in Tucson, he will of course memorialize those killed and wounded when Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire. He is at his best telling stories. But O...

Conservative speech the real target of liberal attacks
Despite the fact that a majority of Americans do not believe "Rhetoric" had a ny role in the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, liberals in the media continue the mindless party line that conservative "hate" Speech is responsible for all the ills in the world. What exactly, constitutes conservative "hate" Speech still remains something of a mystery because most on the left simply use the phrase "Hate Speech" without giving any real clear examples. Liberals, on the other hand, h...

Live video of President Obama's speech at the Arizona victims memorial
Today President Obama will deliver a Speech at a memorial service called "Together We Strive: Tucson and America" in Arizona.  The President message will reflect on the shootings at a public event held by Congresswoman Giffords (D-AZ) last Saturday, in which six people were killed and fourteen more injured.  Today a number of congressional members gave their thoughts on the tragedy.  Both Speaker Boehner (R-OH) and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) grew emotional in remarking on ...

Misinformed? MSNBC viewers blame political rhetoric for Tucson shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller NJ Governor Chris Christie surges in statewide poll Assange claims to have dirt on NewsCorp in 'Insurance' file Misinformed? MSNBC viewers blame 'political Rhetoric' for Tucson shooting Friend: Loughner steered clear of politics, news Anti-Defamation League overall supportive, yet disappointed in Palin's use of 'blood Libel' term Despite overwhelming evidence that accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was not motivated by either Left Wing or Right Wing p...

Palin: Blaming me for Tucson shootings is 'blood libel'
on a day set aside for healing and prayer in the wake of last weekend's Mass Shooting in Tucson, all vestiges of a political armistice were shattered when Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor, issued a video message accusing her critics of committing "blood Libel" against her. In a nearly eight-minute video posted on Facebook that veered between defiant and defensive, the Tea Party figurehead broke her days-long silence to answer allegations that her own Rhetoric and the passions stirred by...

Obama arrives in Tucson for memorial
US President Barack Obama was Wednesday visiting injured congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Hospital shortly after arriving in Arizona to address a poignant memorial service. "The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recover," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The president would also meet with the families of the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona, before leading the memori...

Loughner Friend: 'He Did Not Watch TV' or 'Listen to Political Radio'
It's become clear since Saturday that some in the media are determined to blame outspoken Conservatives for the Tucson massacre. So there's really no reason to believe that yet another fact contradicting that attack will put it to rest. But in the spirit of journalism - that thing the left's media attack dogs profess their reverence for - it should be noted: a friend of the killer, Jared Lee Loughner, told "Good Morning America" that Loughner "did not watch TV. He disl...

Liberal Seek Ban on Metaphors In Wake of Arizona Shooting
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that's what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all Conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in Murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. Of course, to make their case...

More media fail High school friend Zach Osler says Loughner never watched the news and didnt listen to political radio
More media fail - High School friend Zach Osler says Loughner never watched the news and didn’t listen to political radio Dupnik, The Progressive liberal lame stream media, and the rest of the filthy progressive libtards around the ‘net are getting owned and exposed by the people who actually knew Jared Loughner. ABC interviewed a high school friend of Loughner named Zach Osler who says He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t

The Day Hope was Shot, in America and Europe: News, Switzerland
Does the reaction of U.S. lawmakers to the shooting in Tucson bode ill for some kind of healing process? Columnist Patrick Etschmayer of Switzerland’s News worries that the political gamesmanship that has already begun offers little hope that the Rhetoric in the United States - or in Europe for that matter - are likely to be tamped down anytime soon. For News, Patrick Etschmayer writes in part: For many who knew her, Christina Greene was a little vessel of hope. The girl, a li...

Do you think Steve Benen might be a tad biased?
Seriously: HALF-TERM Governor BREAKS HER SILENCE…. As tempted as I am to simply ignore former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) latest statement, I suppose there’s no point in pretending it’s not of some interest to the political world this morning. Palin has been unusually quiet since Saturday’s massacre in Tucson, and as interest in the Toxicity of political Rhetoric has grown more intense, her role in cheapening and dragging down our discourse has generated a fa...

Sheriff Dupnik faces reelection bid August 28, 2012
In response to a query by the L.A. County Libertarian Examiner,  Pima County Arizona election officials have confirmed that Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik will next be up for election in 2012. Mary Martinson, of Pima County Elections prompty replied to our question and said "The Sheriff in Pima County is up every 4 years. The Sheriff’s term is 4 years. The next time he (Dupnik) will be up for election is August 28, 2012." Republican Arizona State Senator Jack W. Harp...

How Obama Can Talk About Tolerance without Trivializing a Tragedy
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are joined by government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the other Victims of an Assassination attempt against her. (Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) This post originally appeared on Slate. For the second time in his tenure, President Obama will eulogize the Victims of a shooting. In November 2009--it now seems...

President Palin Addresses Her Nation
Today's big political sensation seems to be a video released by Sarah Palin providing her presumably definitive commentary on the shootings in Tucson, the Controversy over her PAC's targeting of Gabby Giffords with what looked like a bullseye on her district, and the broader argument about the possible connection of violent anti-government Rhetoric with acts of violence against government officials. Most of the commentary on the video has focused on her use of the term "blood Libel" to charac...

ABC News: Palin Has Made Tucson Story About Her, Is Sullying The Tragedy With Politics
Unbelievable. Less than an hour after the shootings in Tucson the left was taking to Social Media to blame Sarah Palin for the tragedy. Today Palin put out a video response to the criticism, and now ABC News is blaming her for injecting herself into the story and sullying it with “politics.” Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. And she may well face further criticism for the timing and scope of her remarks. She is already taking heat for her use of th...

WaPo Paints N.C. Conservatives As Opposed to 'School Integration' for Ending Busing
Today's Washington Post all but painted Tea Party Conservatives in the Tar Heel State as Racists opposed to racial integration and diversity in Raleigh-area schools. In truth the Wake County, North Carolina, School Board is simply moving to reverse decades of busing that shuttled some Students to schools farther away from their homes in an effort to artificially engineer the socioeconomic and Racial Diversity of the county's individual schools. "In N.C., a new battle on school integ...

Obama To Arizona, Congress In Mourning
In the wake of alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner killing six and wounding a dozen, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Republicans and Democrats came together in a Bipartisan outpouring of support and mourning. President Barack Obama (pictured) is expected to speak during a memorial service for the victims at the University of Arizona. In the House of Representatives, a resolution is being drafted for all of the victims, including a nine-year-old girl. "Look at Tucson right now and you will b

National Healer or Partisan Haranguer?
Which president will show up in Tucson tonight? Will Obama rise above the partisan fray and bring words of healing to the memorial service tonight, or will he be unable to resist the temptation to join the idiot chorus and point fingers at everyone but the suspect while blaming this mess on heated political Rhetoric (even though the evidence now suggests the suspect was not influenced by political Rhetoric at all)? And how many ways will the media portray this as "Obama's finest moment" even if...

More On Loughner And Right Wing Hysteria
Several friends have written in about my item arguing that Jared Loughner is not related to right-wing Extremism. The objection, in a nutshell, is, don't you agree that right-wing rage is a serious problem? I think it is a serious problem. I also think, despite the attempts of numerous Republicans to draw equivalences, that it's a far more serious problem than anything that occurred under George W. Bush. critics have focused on violent language and birtherism on the right. But there's a deeper ...

Jared Loughner Didn't Watch TV, Listen to Political Radio, Says Friend
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. A High School friend of Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner says that when the two were in touch a couple of years ago, Loughner "did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right." In a discussion apparently started by Mr Loughner last July about currencies, a common theme in his online trail, a member using the name...