Liberal Seek Ban on Metaphors In Wake of Arizona Shooting

Open Letter to Sarah Palin
Governor Palin - Your widening sphere of political influence, along with the Tea Party, is changing the course of political history. A powerful shift in political thinking occurred immediately after the devastating tragedy in Tucson. Revealed to all Americans was the underbelly of the political left. Witnessed was the brazen attempt and rabid reaction by the left’s political attack dogs to use the loss of life and Attempted Murder of a congresswoman as political fodder. Victims barel...

Sarah Palin To Sit Down With Sean Hannity For First Interview Since Arizona Shooting
Sarah Palin has been roped into ongoing discussion surrounding last weekend’s Arizona shooting during which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head pretty much since the first shot was fired. The former Governor’s name first became embroiled in coverage of the event when some in the media pointed out that an ad appearing on Palin’s Facebook page for SarahPAC featured crosshairs over Giffords’ district, among others. Could this sort of “violent”...

Liberals now seekban on metaphors
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 cas...

Fool For The Ages
From Richard Baehr of American Thinker Paul Krugman is  back to discussing Income Inequality on his blog, following a very negative reaction to his disgraceful column on the Tucson shootings, in which he led a left wing chorus arguing that Gabrielle Giffords was brought down by a gunman undoubtedly influenced by Arizona’s climate of hate, engendered by Talk Radio, Sarah Palin, Fox News, and other assorted villains on the right. Krugman writes for the New York Times, and the paper’...

Free speech: the best defence against violent rhetoric | Aryeh Neier
Courtroom artist's depiction of Jared Lee Loughner, accused of attempting to kill US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and shooting 19 others at a Shopping Mall in Tucson, Arizona. Photograph: Joan Andrew/EPA After the shooting rampage that severely injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six others and wounded about a dozen more persons who attended a neighbourhood meeting, the local sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, spoke for many when he blamed the episode on the vitrio...

Leftist Lies and the Arizona Shooting
Posted by Ann Coulter on Jan 13th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. 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 s...

Limbaugh believes being called out for his violent rhetoric is part of a conspiracy to silence 'all of talk radio, Fox News'
Well, they say that paranoia is an indicator of oncoming senility, but that would mean Rush Limbaugh has been getting senile for the past twenty years. In any event, he was in prime form yesterday: This is not an isolated event. Every time something like this happens, some disaster, it doesn't take 30 minutes for the media to start speculating that it's Talk Radio, and now Fox News and the blogs on the right and everything else. I got a lot of people who sent me e-mails yesterday: "Rush, I thoug...

NYT on Obamas speech: Thank goodness he spoke out against this weeks rhetorical ugliness especially Palins
Before this week, I would have chalked this up to simple dishonesty. They know perfectly well who he meant last night when he talked about “pointing fingers or assigning blame” in a way that “wounds,” I’d have said, but they’re such miserable shills for their liberal readership that they feel obliged to cocoon them from the truth. But after four days of voodoo and magical thinking? I don’t know. If the left can hallucinate a right-wing motive for Jared...

Chris Matthews: America Assassination Capital of the World!
Chris Matthews is just sure that if he yells loud enough, his fantasies will come true. While ridiculing others for lack of historical, geographical or scientific knowledge, Chris reveals himself to be nearly illiterate on all 3 counts. He has: Wondered why “frogmen” like “in Captain Nemo” didn’t plug the BP Oil Spill at twice the depth that would crush a Nuclear Submarine, Insisted that Redcoats were tried in an American civil court for the Boston Massacre when M...

The Hypocrisy of the CBC's Mark Kelley
A comment in this earlier thread is well worth repeating here: The other night I was watching Connect with Mark Kelley on CBC. They pulled out the old Sarah Palin target map and talked about the heightened Rhetoric...days after the shooting. I thought it was too much so I e-mailed the show with my concerns... To his credit he replied back to me directly... ---- Thanks for the email. Blaming us for politicising the shooting is rich. Have you followed anything that has happened in Arizona in th...

The Lefts Attack On Palins Response to the Tucson Tragedy is All About Appeasement, Not Gun Imagery
In the wake of this weekend’s shooting in Arizona, the opportunists of the Left barely waited for the bodies to cool or for confirmation of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ fate before pouncing on what simply had to be the atrocity’s root cause: Sarah Palin. Even though indications of culprit Jared Loughner’s true mindset started appearing on the very day of the shooting, agenda-driven vultures proceeded to lecture Palin on everything from what she needed to say to the proper level of remo

Palin, 'blood libel' and the old epistemic closure discussion
You may recall a spirited blogospheric discussion a while back of the idea that Conservatives were stuck in a feedback loop (as Jonathan Chait called it), with the key post by Julian Sanchez, who referred to it as "Epistemic Closure." The idea is that if one only reads, watches, and listens to the conservative partisan press, then one will wind up with a highly truncated version of what's actually happening out there in the world. I agreed then with Chait, Sanchez, and others on their side of...

Good Luck Talking Down Shrill, "Blood Libel' Victims Armed to the Teeth
Words don't matter, only "blood Libel"? As Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC remarked, how is it okay for Palin to claim words don't matter and individual actors are solely responsible for their crimes while going apoplectic when others opine violent Rhetoric fuels a context for violence. Or that her outrage might push the "disturbed" to obey her "don't retreat, reload"? Crosshairs, anyone? Certainly any such talk won't make us safer, nor will good intentions or happy hopes from politicians, nor minute...

Poll Says Majority of Americans Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling
Before the Arizona shooting, most of the talk amongst politicians and commentators revolved around the impending Debt crisis, whether Congress would vote to raise the Debt ceiling, and if they didn’t whether it would be “insanity.” Now the issue is slowly creeping back into the national conversation given that the U.S. hits the current Debt ceiling in March and a new Reuters/IPSOS poll reveals a surprising statistic: 71% of Americans are against raising the ceiling. Conservativ...

Jared Loughner's Ex-girlfriend Kelsey Hawkes Speaks out
by the Left Coast Rebel As I stare at Memeorandum, my eyelids slowly creep from the bottom to the top, covering my eyes like a Great White before a thrashing around mealtime. It's not that the story is not a Big Deal (it is, of course), or that there still isn't a lot to be said on it. It's just that everyone has already said everything about it and of course, the far-left nutjobs simply can't understand that: Loughner was a Marx/Hitler fan, a nihilist, an atheist, loved heavy metal (wait, so ...

Totalitarians Try To Smear Ron Paul
Writes the left-wing San Francisco Weekly, after OD’ing on Jared Loughner YouTubes: Principal among [Loughner's rantings] are his concern about “currency that’s not backed by gold and silver…. As Potok notes, [this] is a boilerplate notion of the radical right, closely linked to Conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve being run by shadowy international Bankers…. Both ideas are cherished by the Patriot movement…. As has been well-documented, ‘Patr...

OK, so it's not going to be Sarah Palin in '12 ...
One of the consequences of Sarah Palin's decision to break her silence on the Tucson tragedy just hours before President Obama was to address a nationally televised memorial service on Wednesday is that the next day's news coverage is filled with observations like this, from Politico's Jonathan Martin: At sunrise in the east on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest -- or capacity -- in moving beyond her brand of grievance-based politics. And at sundown in the west...

'Blood Libel' Comment Sparks Controversy
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Sarah Palin is being criticized for using a term that has anti-Semitic overtones to blast her critics. The former Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee released a video statement on her Facebook page about the weekend shooting in Arizona, that killed six and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others injured. In the video Palin expressed her sympathy for the families of the Victims of the massacre. She then attacked those in the media who blamed her poli...

'Blood Libel' Comment Sparks Controversy
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Sarah Palin is being criticized for using a term that has anti-Semitic overtones to blast her critics. The former Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee released a video statement on her Facebook page about the weekend shooting in Arizona, that killed six and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others injured. In the video Palin expressed her sympathy for the families of the Victims of the massacre. She then attacked those in the media who blamed her poli...

Bloomberg: Don't blame Palin
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has got Sarah Palin’s back - saying she had nothing to do with last weekend’s shooting in Tucson. “I don’t think I’d blame Sarah Palin or any other individual,” the Billionaire mayor said Thursday. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “I don’t think any of that (political Rhetoric) had anything to do with this, but I don’t know the facts, and who knows what will eventually come out with thi...

Mayor Bloomberg: Cant Blame Sarah Palin, Rhetoric For Arizona Mans Shooting Spree
Mayor Bloomberg struck the post-partisan tone of which he's so fond when asked today about the role (or lack thereof) (Read more...) ...

Why Progressives Lost It
It's interesting, as Charles Krauthammer noted earlier, but by late Sunday (at least) it was beyond any doubt that Jared Loughner acted alone --- Loughner committed crimes of unimaginable evil on his own, without any impetus from Sarah Palin, Conservatives, the Tea Party, Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh. But the charges of guilt by both allegation and implication continue, so it remains important to once again recall why The Progressive left has been insistent on spreading hate and lies following th...

Palin to do Hannity Monday
Sarah Palin may be on the Fox News Payroll, but that doesn’t mean her colleagues at Fox News can book her whenever they want. Bill O’Reilly said earlier this week that he was trying to get her on the air, and then she scooped her whole network by releasing her own video via her Facebook page. But as that video continues to receive a fair amount of criticism from the right – Charles Krauthammer on Fox News last night said it was unnecessary – she has been urged to submit...

Crime of homosexual conduct still on the books in Texas
There wasn’t a great deal of fanfare last week when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley released a three-year-long committee staff review of the financial activities of several media-based ministries and churches, but that is likely because the paper offers no concrete steps forward. In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping th...

Hypocritical demands for civility and baseless smears follow Tucson tragedy
Although the Tucson shooter was mentally erratic, did not listen to Talk Radio or Fox News, and loved the Communist Manifesto, liberal lawmakers and Newspapers like the New York Times immediately insinuated that his actions resulted from an “atmosphere of hate” or “climate of hate” created by Conservatives. Now, after baselessly accusing conservatives of complicity in Murder, they are suddenly calling for “civility.” But what they mean by “IncivilityR...