Liberals take a page from the Westboro Baptist songbook

Westboro Baptist Liberalism
Fred Phelps, crazed leader of the Westboro Baptist Church cult, has become infamous for blaming any bad event on the evils of Homosexuality. Earthquake in Haiti? Blame the gays. Combat troop deaths in Iraq? Ditto. Phelps' Logic Works thusly: God literally hates people who engage in Homosexual conduct and unless societies take the steps to ban and punish such action, God is going to destroy them. Any Natural Disaster or mass Murder is, accordingly, the will of God being carried out on the &qu...;

Westboro Baptist Church Backs Off Protest Plans at Tucson Victims' Funerals
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have decided not to picket at the Funerals of the Victims of the fatal shootings in Tucson, Ariz., in exchange for publicity, a spokeswoman says. Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of the Kansas-based church's pastor and founder Fred Phelps, said Westboro agreed to drop its plans to Protest outside the funeral of Christina Taylor Green and the others killed last Saturday because it preferred to reach a wider audience over the air waves, the Topeka Capital-Journ...

Fox talkers demand Sheriff Dupnik produce evidence. Since when has evidence ever mattered to Fox talkers?
Bill O'Reilly stepped up last night to make his contribution to the Right's Jihad against Clarence Dupnik for speaking the truth about the environment in Arizona in which Jared Loughner's shooting rampage occurred, devoting three whole segments to running down Dupnik, including his opening "Talking Points Memo" segment in which he attacked Dupnik for mixing politics and Law Enforcement. This, from the guy who has a man-crush on Sheriff Joe Arpaio. At least the first featured a defense of Dupnik ...

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...

Westboro church calls off protest of girl's funeral
The Westboro Baptist Church has agreed not to picket a nine-year-old girl's Funeral in exchange for airtime on Radio Stations in Arizona and Toronto. The WBC is a Christian group with an extreme anti-homosexual agenda based out of Topeka, Kan., and headed by Pastor Fred Phelps. With just 70 or so members, mostly from Phelps's family, the group has drawn widespread attention for protesting the funerals of Soldiers, politicians and Murder Victims, arguing their deaths are God's punishment for Nort...

Update: Cue the Angels and Patriot Guard: Westboro Baptist Church is Going to Tucson
UPDATE: Ditto below…Tuesday the Arizona legislature took quick action and passed a (supposedly constitutional) bill to keep the Westboro Baptists at least 300 feet away from the Funerals.   What a shame they have to spend time on this. As if things aren’t sad and stressful enough in Tucson, Arizona after the massacre this weekend, the reviled reverend of Westboro Baptist Church and his foaming-at-the-mouth followers are now on the way.   The so-called “...

BREAKING: Westboro Baptist calls off protest at 9-year-olds funeral
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Westboro Baptist Church has canceled plans to picket the Funeral of 9-year-old Tucson Shooting Victim Christina Taylor Green. Before anyone starts handing out kudos to church leaders for coming to their senses or finding their conscience, it is worth noting that decision is the result of an insidious Compromise. Shirley Phelps-Roper, a spokeswoman and daughter of founder Fred Phelps, told the newspaper that the church agreed to cancel the Protest in ex...

Ariz. Law Aims to Keep Westboro Baptist from Picketing Girls Funeral
Yahoo! Buzz Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed emergency Legislation Tuesday night aimed at prevent the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing the Funeral of the 9-year-old girl killed during Saturday’s shootings in Tucson. The law, which took effect immediately, sets up a 300-foot perimeter around funerals in the state, beginning one hour before the service and extending until one hour after. Following the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that killed six and wounded 14, Fred Phelps , pastor ...

The Westboro Left, Calculated Lies, and Wellstone II
Matthew Sheffield has a very interesting post up at the Washington Examiner: Fred Phelps, the crazy leader of the Westboro Baptist Church cult, has become infamous for blaming any bad event on the evils of Homosexuality. Earthquake in Haiti? Blame the gays. Combat troop deaths in Iraq? Ditto. Phelps' Logic Works thusly: God literally hates people who engage in Homosexual conduct and unless societies take the steps to ban and punish such action, God is going to destroy them. Any natural disast...

Bill Would Ban Westboro Picketers at Christina Green's Tucson Funeral
Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed an emergency bill that would block members of a Kansas church from protesting at the Funeral of the 9-year-old girl who was killed Saturday in a shooting rampage at a Tucson shopping center. The bill went to the desk of Gov. Jan Brewer, who was expected to sign the measure, making it effective immediately, The Washington Post reported. The proposed law would prohibit Protests at or near Funeral sites. On Monday, members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church...

Arizona Passes Law Against Picketing at Funerals
It’s clearly targeted at stopping the Fred Phelps monsters from picketing the little girl’s Funeral. But thanks to a doctrine that allows reasonable “time, place, and manner” restrictions, it’s also almost certainly constitutional: Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency Legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kan., church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed in the Tucson shootings. Unanimous votes by the House and Sen...

Arizona passes law to prevent protests at victims' funerals
Picture of grief ... Roxanna Green, the mother of nine year old Shooting Victim Christina Taylor Green, attends Mass in Tucson. Photo: AP PHOENIX: Arizona politicians have approved an emergency law to head off picketing by a fundamentalist Kansas church near the Funeral service for a nine-year-old girl killed during the Mass Shooting in Tucson. Unanimous votes by the House of Representatives and Senate cleared the way for the bill to go to the Governor, Jan Brewer, for her signature. It would ta...

Arizona Shooting Funeral Protest Strains the First Amendment
The tragic shootings in Tucson raise, yet again, a critical question in a country which cherishes the First Amendment: how much must we tolerate intolerance in the defense of free Speech? It’s not even about conservative rabble-rouser Glenn Beck, who commonly uses heated Rhetoric (and some outright misstatements) to rally his supporters—and who is now piously attacking the left for purportedly using the shootings to taint the Tea Party movement. The sad truth is that while the shoo...

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Funeral of 9-Year-Old Arizona Shooting Victim
Here they go again. Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church plan to Protest outside the Funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, one of six people killed Saturday in the Tucson, Ariz., shootings. But some in area are planning a counter-action to protect the grieving family from the unwelcome picketers and their slurs. Christin Gilmer of Tucson told CNN her hometown is a "loving, peaceful community" and the prospect of a Protest by the small Kansas church was a "nightmare." In respon...

Arizona legislature passes law keeping Westboro Church from protesting funeral
The Arizona legislature has just passed a bill aimed at keeping the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting the Funeral of Shooting Victim Christina Green tomorrow.  Both Democrats and Republicans were in favor of the measure.  The Westboro Church earlier announced their intention to Protest at the Funeral of Green.  In the past, the group has protested at the funerals of United States Soldiers killed in combat in an attempt to bring attention to their anti-homosexual message....

Westboro Baptist Says It Will Not Protest Funerals of Any of the Victims of the Arizona Shooting
kold.com Kansas CITY, Mo. - A Kansas church that pickets the Funerals of Soldiers and blames their deaths on the country's tolerance of Homosexuality now says it won't Protest the Funerals of any Victims of Arizona's Mass Shooting . Shirley Phelps-Roper, of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, says her church has agreed to avoid Thursday's funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green in exchange for live Radio Interviews in Canada and Arizona . The church also promised to not Protest the funeral ...

What Can We Expect Following Tucson?
It is difficult not to comment on the tragedy in Arizona. In the aftermath we have the same predictable round of finger pointing: left vs. right. Forget about sane discourse or compassion, this event will continue to be part of an ongoing political battle. First, the killer will be understood to be a lone psychotic who acted based on paranoid delusions about government conspiracies. As much as the left would like to connect him to the noxious political Rhetoric emanating from the right, there is...

Require youths to listen to Rush
I know how to save the nation from this violence caused by people who do not watch Fox News, do not know who Sarah Palin is and who do not attend Tea Party rallies. Make them listen to Rush Limbaugh. I got my idea from Rush Limbaugh’s commentary today: RUSH: This morning on Good Morning America a portion of an interview Ashleigh Banfield did with Zach Osler, who is a High School friend of the shooter Jared Loughner.  Ashleigh Banfield: “What was his motive in Saturday’s atta...

Westboro Baptist Church Will NOT Protest At 9 Year Old Arizona Victims Funeral
There has been a change in plans, it seems, for members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The politicized group, which has continually garnered media attention for protesting at Soldiers’ Funerals carrying signs reading, for example, “God hates fags” or “Thank God for dead soldiers,” has announced that it will not, as previously thought, demonstrate at the funeral for nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green , one of the six people killed in this weekend’s shooting ...

Art of War, Media Messages, and Conservative Terrorists
The debate rages on, and thanks to media spin and constant false equivalencies, at least one poll has 57% of its respondents rejecting any possibility of inflammatory Speech having any influence over Jared Lee Loughner's actions on Saturday morning. Welcome to the confluence of media echoes and denial. It was predictable, this la-la-la response. Kneejerk, even. No one wants to believe that words can influence, because that would require individuals to own their own words. God forbid. This is tru...

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Condemns Death Wishes Against Conservatives from Liberals in the Media
The so-called ‘news’ media have zero currency in this debate because we have documented the Left using hateful, vicious language far worse than any conservative. Their attacks on Conservatives are untrue and utterly hypocritical. If they really cared about the effects of political Rhetoric, they would have gone after any number of those left-wingers who have directly incited violence – starting with the man with the world’s biggest audience: President Obama . After all, h...

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...

Can "paranoid" political culture trigger violence in the unhinged?
I'm going to second Steve Benen's claim that this column by Harold Meyerson is an important addition to the debate over the shooting: The primary problem with the political discourse of the right in today's America isn't that it incites violence per se. It's that it implants and reinforces paranoid fears about the government and Conservatism's domestic adversaries. Much of the culture and thinking of the American right -- the mainstream as well as the fringe -- has descended into paranoid sup...

The Tragedy in Tucson made worse by Vegas Fox 5
 I am a fan of Fox News, but very well aware of how most of the local media is extremely biased towards the left, even Vegas Fox 5. I just thought that maybe they could be a little more objectionable when it came to reporting news and that is why I chose them last night. Good for me. I was able to see that this channel, in a desperate attempt to seem as “cool” as other channels, had no problem exploiting the tragedy in Tucson and further more Gabriel Gifford’s and who else...

Westboro Church Plans Protests at Tucson Funerals
ABC News reports: When Christin Gilmer learned that members of the Westboro Baptist Church planned to Protest the Funeral of Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest Victim in the Tucson, Ariz., massacre, she took action, enlisting a “divine guard” to buffer the picket signs. “How dare you come with your hateful message when we’re in mourning,” Gilmer said. “Nobody comes into our beautiful town and tries to spew hate at the celebration and memorial of someone...