Lawrence ODonnell Reconsiders Ugly Tea Party Protest Following San Diego Election

San Diego Rep Bob Filner: Arizona-type Shootings Inevitable
Slur hurled during Protest againt Rep. Bob Filner Pro-gay Democratic Rep. Bob Filner appeared on the MSNBC show “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” Wednesday night discussing his encounter with self-described Tea Party supporters of Nick Popaditch, who Filner defeated in the 2010 Elections. Though some representatives from state Tea Parties have distanced themselves from the angry, violent Rhetoric being blamed for the Arizona shootings Saturday that left six dead among the...

Anonymous to protest Saturday in San Diego
The shadow hactivist group Anonymous has announced it will be protesting American efforts to stop Wikileaks in downtown San Diego tomorrow, Jan 15th starting at 6pm. Anonymous, which is not affiliated with Wikileaks, grabbed headlines when they attacked MasterCard’s and Visa’s websites with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which resulted in outages for both companies. The group has since attacked other targets as well. The Anonymous Protest is going to be at 326 Broadway...

John Dingell (D-MI) blames Palin, GOP for rhetoric leading to AZ shooting. Flashback: Dingell links tea party to KKK, called rad
Curiously, Dingell said:"I saw the district of Gabrielle Giffords has a crosshairs put on it. As a lifetime rifleman and shooter, I know what crosshairs signify when you put them on somebody and I know what happened.Is he talking about Palin or Daily Kos? The liberal Daily Kos put a bullseye on Giffords in 2008 (via HillBuzz): More from Henry Payne at The Michigan View: Dingell just accused Palin as an accessory to Murder? Yawn.Dingell had previewed his comments Monday when he toured the Detroit...

Succs Fou
Hessel’s diatribe is a meandering collection of a half-dozen slack-minded high-school-newspaper-level op-eds. It draws its popularity in part from Hessel’s extraordinary biography. Born into a literary family in Berlin, he moved to France with his parents as a boy. His Jewish father was a friend of Walter Benjamin and Marcel Duchamp. Hessel himself joined the resistance, was captured, and survived Deportation to two concentration camps (Buchenwald and Dora). After the war he became ...

Tea Partier Shouts Jew And Spits At Congressman Bob Filner
Supports of Tea Party Candidate Nick Popaditch didn’t take their defeat in November’s election very well. This didn’t get attention until Lawrence O’Donnell brought it up, highlighting it as a precursor to the Arizona tragedy: “Bob Filner saw this tragedy coming. During his 2010 re-election bid, Bob Filner of California faced the vitriolic political Rhetoric many have blamed for Jared Loughner’s actions on Saturday. Here was the scene as he tried to exit golde...

Hall Of Shame: Liberals Who Used Tragedy To Smear The Right
CHRYSTIA FREELAND, Reuters: I’m from Alberta. I’m from Alberta. Calgary has a Muslim mayor. My Dad does have guns, but we have universal healthcare. And Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has banking regulations. That’s the difference. It didn’t have a Financial Crisis. And the government didn’t have to bail out the banks. So the middle-class is okay. Bill Maher: Because we don’t have government healthcare, that’s one r...

A Climate of Slander
Jan 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 • By THE SCRAPBOOK Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Liberal pundits suffered a psychotic break last week, metaphorically speaking, of course. When a gunman opened fire on Representative -Gabrielle Giffords and a crowd that had gathered to hear her speak in Tucson, they were certain that Conservatives must, somehow, be to blame. So the liberal intelligentsia rushed to erect a gallows in the public square (metaphorically speaking, a...

Guns In U.S. Politics: 10 Recent Examples
In the wake of the Saturday shooting of in Tucson, Ariz., Rep. Peter King (D-N.Y) announced he will introduce Legislation to make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official -- but if recent political events are any indication, there's been little interest in separating guns and U.S. politics. Just last year, Giffords's Republican opponent Jesse Kelly encouraged voters to join him in rallying to oust Giffords from office by shooting a fully-loaded Assault Rifle: "Get o...

Washington Week
This past week, the House conducted Memorial Services for those murdered and injured in the Arizona shootings last weekend. The House of Representatives also passed resolutions and conducted general speeches concerning this horrific act of violence. On Thursday, many members of Congress traveled to Tucson, Ariz., for the national memorial service where the president and dignitaries addressed the nation. The memorial service was moving, inspiring and especially uplifting when the president announ...

Dylan Ratigan on State/Local Public Pension Reforms
Dylan Ratigan had an informative segment today on Public Pension underfunding, with San Diego as a case study in government responses. Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news about The Economy ...

What Americans Need to Do Now, After the Shooting and Tragedy In Arizona
This week President Obama helped the nation mourn in Tucson. Today let's celebrate American Democracy and the freedoms we enjoy and not let a nut with a gun in any way interfere with a full-throated, passionate dialogue that is as American as apple pie. For in order for Democracy to thrive it's imperative that we resist the impulse to tell opinionated people who are exercising Political Speech that its their fault for inciting deranged people from acting out their darkest fantasies. On the contr...

Progressive European media tell truth about Arizona shooting
They made every effort to hide the truth – similar to the Catholic Church covering up thousandfold Child Abuse. For years the ruling classes within the Racist rat hole of Arizona ignored the rightful rebellion of the angry young Comrade Jared Lee Loughner being severely suppressed by structures of fascism and patriarchy throughout the years. Also being denied sexual liberation Comrade Loughner began obiding his own laws and acquired spiritual ammunition for his struggle against...

Tunisians drive leader from power in mass uprising
Demonstrators throws stones at police during clashes in Tunis, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. Tunisia's president declared a State of Emergency and announced that he would fire his government as violent Protests escalated Friday, with gunfire echoing in the North African country's usually calm capital and police lobbing Tear Gas at Protesters. After 23 years of iron-fisted rule, the president of Tunisia was driven from power Friday by violent Protests over soaring Unemployment and Corruption. Virtually...

Leader of Moderate Tunisia Flees Country Prime Minister Takes Over
The President of Tunisia fled the country today amid escalating jobless Protests. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi took over control of the moderate Muslim nation. The BBC reported: The wave of protests was triggered by the death of an unemployed graduate, who set himself on fire when police tried to prevent him from selling vegetables without a permit. Tunisia’s long-standing president has left the country amid violent protests and the prime minister has taken over control of the govern...

Ron Reagan Jr.: Oh Yeah, My Father Had Alzheimers While President
Gee, thanks, Ron. You father would be proud of you. Of course this gives credence to all the loons on the left who cracked funny about President Reagan being senile while in office. Nancy must be thrilled. Oh and how's this odious little twit telling us this? In a book "honoring" his father. Stay classy.2011 is a big year for Ronald Reagan fans, being the centennial of his February 6 birth in Tampico, Ill. But youngest son Ron Reagan is spoiling the good cheer with a new book that suggests the G...

Michael Steele out, Reince Priebus in as new head of the RNC
  Today the Republicans voted for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and at long last Michael Steele is no longer the chairman, being replaced by Reince Priebus.   A sharply divided Republican Committee finally confirmed Preibus as Committee Chairman on the seventh ballot, while Michael Steele dropped his re-election bid after the fourth ballot. In my opinion, this was a long time in the making as I questioned whether Michael Steele should resign back in March o...

The Times Loses It
Among the worldly, however, there is a temptation to make nonsense. Thus it was that on Sunday, January 9, the New York Times provided a further grief, much less important than the death and mutilation of innocents but shameful nonetheless. The Times ran, as its second lead, above the fold on the front page, a story about the Tucson shootings headlined “Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics.” The article, by Carl Hulse and Kate Zernike, contains almost nothing newsworthy. N...

DUPNIKS DUPLICITOUS DIATRIBE
In the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s tragic shooting at the Tucson shopping center, the one person that citizens would expect to focus on a quick response to the violence, conduct a thorough investigation, and focus on finding the culprit is none other than Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.  Certainly, this occurred within his jurisdiction, therefore his office is the primary Law Enforcement agency to deal with this crisis.   Jared Loughner’s actions, the takin...

In The Midst of all the 'madness': I think Dr. Martin Luther King..!!
Since the massacre in Tuscon, Arizona , as Americans we have come to acknowlege fully that our political Rhetoric has gone overboard and there are indeed consequences. At this stage of the discussion there is very little one can add other than to point out that our hearts are with the Victims and speedy recovery is hoped for Congresswoman Giffords (D- Az) whose life still remains in a balance. Without going out on a limb of satire at a truly 'dark moment' of our Democracy, one must concur, this...

Accuracy, Civility, and the Violent Fantasies of the Progressive Left
The problem here isn't really about "civility" or being nice, it's about accuracy and not treating your audience like you respect them . -- Matthew Yglesias Accuracy? On January 8th Yglesias was among the very first Progressives to allege Sarah Palin's responsibility for the shooting in Tucson. And by now the one thing we know with crystal clarity is that Jared Loughner acted alone, without a shred of incitement from the alleged "heated Rhetoric" of the political right. But read the whole thi...

World responds to Tunisia uprising
Source: Al Jazeera English After notable silence by many, world leaders condemn violence against Protesters and call for free and fair Elections. Last Modified: Jan 15 2011 00:37 GMT World leaders have responded to the unrest in Tunisia, that has led to the end of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year rule and provided a chance for Tunisians to shape their own future. Barack Obama, the US president, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, both issued statements late on Friday after Ben ...

The First Twitter Revolution? - By Ethan Zuckerman
Friday evening, Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali boarded a jet for Malta, leaving his Prime Minister to face streets filled with Protesters demanding a change of government in the North African country. The Protests began weeks earlier in the central city of Sidi Bouzid, sparked by the Suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed university graduate whose informal vegetable stall was shuttered by the police. His despair exemplified the frustration that many Tunisians felt with their co...

1 dead after police, protesters clash in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gunbattle broke about between police and Protesters before dawn Friday, and a 30-year-old Haitian was killed, authorities said. National Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said the clash began when 20 to 30 people set fire to tires and fired weapons on an avenue on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince around 2 a.m. He said it wasn’t clear if the Victim was hit by police bullets. Fourteen Protesters were arrested, Lerebours said. The remnants of burned tires w...

1 dead after police, protesters clash in Haiti
A gunbattle broke about between police and Protesters before dawn Friday, and a 30-year-old Haitian was killed, authorities said. National Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said the clash began when 20 to 30 people set fire to tires and fired weapons on an avenue on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince around 2 a.m. He said it wasn't clear if the Victim was hit by police bullets. Fourteen Protesters were arrested, Lerebours said. The remnants of burned tires were seen in at least three different neig...

Britons tell of Tunisian rioting
Exit Ben Ali - but can Tunisia change? Are other Arab countries next? British tourists have described scenes of violence in Tunisia amid a State of Emergency prompted by spreading unrest. Tour operators have organised emergency flights back to the UK as Protests against the regime have spread. Passengers arriving at Gatwick said it was frightening to see the Rioting and the armed guards protecting the planes. The Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to the country, and t...