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The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings
From Nile Gardiner, at Telegraph UK, "A Shameful Week for America's Liberal Elites": This has been a hugely shameful week for sections of the American Left, who have exploited a horrific tragedy that claimed six lives, in order to advance political attacks upon some leading conservative politicians and media commentators, as well as an entire political movement in the form of the Tea Party. The vitriolic and hate-filled attacks have marked a low point for liberal media elites in America in the 2...

The Politics of Hateand Hate Speech
by Walter Brasch Just about anything that could be said about the Murders in Tucson have been said. We know that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was holding a “Congress on the Corner” meeting outside a Safeway Grocery Store. We know that a 22-year-old named Jared Lee Loughner is in FBI custody, and has been charged with one count of attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the United States and two counts of intent to kill employees of...

Mission accomplished, Markos Moulitsas.
The Left gets its violent responder to Hate Speech, after all: the only problem is, from their point of view he’s aimed the wrong way. I started following the saga of J. Eric Fuller a couple of days ago: the short version is that he was one of the Victims of the Tucson attack of last week that killed six people and nearly killed Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Despite the fact that the consensus is, from the President on down, that harsh political Rhetoric had nothing to do with the ...

Geraldo Rivera: Town Hall Death Threat 'Ironically Came From a Hard-core Liberal'
On the evening of the tragic shootings in Tucson, Fox News's Geraldo Rivera, like so many other liberal media members, went out of his way to connect the event to the Tea Party. Seven days later, the host of "Geraldo at Large" told his viewers, "There was a very public Death Threat today in Tucson that prompted police action. Ironically, it came from a hard-core liberal" (video follows with transcript and commentary): GERALDO RIVERA: This is a Fox News alert. Despite Mr. ...

Geraldo Rivera: Town Hall Death Threat 'Ironically Came from a Hard-core Liberal'
On the evening of the tragic shootings in Tucson, Fox News's Geraldo Rivera, like so many other liberal media members, went out of his way to connect the event to the Tea Party. Seven days later, the host of "Geraldo at Large" told his viewers, "There was a very public Death Threat today in Tucson that prompted police action. Ironically, it came from a hard-core liberal" (video follows with transcript and commentary): GERALDO RIVERA: This is a Fox News alert. Despite Mr. ...

Rethinking Obama's political performance in Tucson
Pundits and politicians alike praised President Obama's Speech at the Tucson memorial service last Wednesday. "A wonderful speech," wrote the New York Times' David Brooks. "A magnificent performance," wrote National Review's Rich Lowry. "A terrific speech," wrote Sen. John McCain. And those were just the voices on the right. Obama's tribute to the Victims of the shooting and the heroism of bystanders was appreciated by everyone. But many Conservatives particularly admired the Speech because the ...

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings
From Nile Gardiner, at Telegraph UK, "A Shameful Week for America's Liberal Elites": This has been a hugely shameful week for sections of the American Left, who have exploited a horrific tragedy that claimed six lives, in order to advance political attacks upon some leading conservative politicians and media commentators, as well as an entire political movement in the form of the Tea Party. The vitriolic and hate-filled attacks have marked a low point for liberal media elites in America in the ...

US: Killer posed for photos holding gun and wearing only a G-string
THE suspect in the Arizona shooting - Jared Lee Loughner - posed for photographs holding a gun and dressed only in a red G-string, it has emerged. Six people were killed and 13 injured, including Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, 40, who was seriously wounded in Tucson last Saturday. Yesterday, Pima County Sheriff's Office released details of what Loughner, 22, did in the 11 hours before the shootings. The itinerary begins with Loughner visiting a pharmacy to drop off the 35mm film...

Revealed: gunman's weird countdown to Tucson rampage
Bizarre details of the hours that a disturbed young American spent in his hometown before he shot the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, wounding her severely and killing six others, have been revealed. Jared Loughner's descent into violence took place on a furious all-night excursion through the dark streets of Tucson, meandering from one store to another as he prepared to take revenge on a world from which he had become increasingly alienated. He checked into a down-and-out motel. He picked u...

Sunday News
Good Morning Conflucians!! First up, and clearly the most important news, the Packers won last night. And didn’t just win, but won 48 - 21 against the Falcons: Behind a nearly flawless performance by Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers pounded the Atlanta Falcons, 48-21, at the Georgia Dome to earn a place in the N.F.C. Championship Game. Rodgers completed 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards and 3 touchdowns, and also ran for a score. He led Green Bay on one long scoring dri...

J. Eric Fuller, Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested at Town Hall Meeting For Threatening GOP Rep Terri Proud & Tea Party Spokesman
One week after the Tucson, AZ tragedy and there is an arrest at a town hall meeting for death threats … So much for that call for peace, calm and tranquility in the aftermath of the shooting last week at the hands of Jared Loughner. Tucson Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller threatened Trent Humphries, the Pima County Tea Party Leader, stood up to speak during the event. He was being very respectful. Trent told the audience that before we start placing blame on individuals we need to get al...

Arizona shooting victim arrested for death threat against tea party leader
ABC affiliate KGUN-TV reports that one of the Victims of last Saturday's shooting in Tucson was arrested Saturday morning for making a threat against a local tea Party Leader at a town hall meeting scheduled to be televised Sunday morning. According to a report by Forrest Carr, the meeting was taking place at Tucson's St. Odilia's Catholic Church and was attended by local dignitaries, witnesses to the shooting and the First Responders.  Tucson mayor Bob Walkup, Congressman Raul Grijalva and...

This Jared Kid (Part One)...
It's been a week since Jared Lee Loughner went completely off his nut and shot twenty people, killing six. When I first heard about that, I initially thought it was some good-for-nothing lay-about who spent more time reading articles from the Whirled Nut Daily website in his mother's basement than he did looking for a job to pay for room and board. Then I heard about that cross-hairs map Sarah Palin tried to erase from everyone's memory, and even though there was, and is, no evidence that Loughn...

Tuscon rampage gets weirder
From the Daily Caller on Friday: “A survivor of Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson blamed Fox’s Glenn Beck, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and former Senatorial Candidate Sharron Angle for the actions of alleged schizophrenic Jared Loughner.” The quote: “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled.” From the New York Times tonight: “TUCSON — A Victim of the shoo

Season of the Witchhunt
The last week has been the greatest learning experience in modern America for those who ever questioned the wretched excess of Leftism in practice. Not since Pol Pot sought out its Victims has a political philosophy so demonstrated its willingness to single out its foes, attack its opponents credibility and criticize the opposition as standing in the way of social progress. And not since the Reichstag fire has a political philosophy been so willing to use a terrible event as an excuse for the wo...

ABC World News omits threat was made against Tea Party leader
Newsbusters reports Saturday evening that ABC World News Saturday failed to mention the target of an alleged threat at a taped townhall meeting was a Tea Party Leader. Another note tonight on today's town hall meeting, one of the Victims of the shooting who was in the audience became agitated and was detained by security. It happened toward the end of the conversation. James Fuller who was shot twice last week, took offense at what another audience member was saying and mumbled what seemed to be...

California student arrest may have averted disaster
Stumble This! Los Angeles (Reuters) - Police at a Los Angeles university campus may have prevented a tragedy when they detained a deranged Student later found to have a shotgun and bomb-making ingredients in his dorm room, the school's Police Chief said on Saturday. California State University, Northridge, Police Chief Anne Glavin spoke to Reuters a day after a judge increased bail to $1 million for the Student arrested in the case, David Everson, 22. Bail had previously been set at $150,000. "...

Doctors open breathing hole in Giffords' throat
By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:00am EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Doctors performed a tracheotomy on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, inserting a breathing tube through a hole in her neck and removing her from a ventilator, Hospital officials said. It was the first time Giffords was removed from the ventilator since last Saturday, when she arrived at University Medical Center after a gunman shot her through the head. Giffords, 40, remains the only patient in...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage
Stumble This! Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city. "Either way, it drives sales." The show was he...

US shooting victim arrested after threat
A man who was shot in the knee during last week's Tuscon shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday after threatening a local conservative leader during an emotional town hall event, ABC News reported. During taping for a Sunday special on the US shooting, witnesses told ABC affiliate KGUN9 News that James Eric Fuller grew agitated when Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries suggested that any conversation about Gun Control should be put off until after the funerals for all the Victims. Fuller ...

Giffords shooting prompts reporting legislation
COLUMBIA -- Colleges and universities should be required to turn over records on disruptive and threatening Students who Drop Out as a way to avoid tragedies like the recent shooting in Arizona that left six people dead, a South Carolina lawmaker said Friday. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot last Saturday at an event she hosted for constituents in Tucson. A 9-year-old girl was among those killed. Giffords was shot in the head and gravely wounded. Jared Loughner, 22, a former ...

Giffords shooting prompts reporting legislation in S.C.
COLUMBIA -- Colleges and universities should be required to turn over records on disruptive and threatening Students who Drop Out as a way to avoid tragedies like the recent shooting in Arizona that left six people dead, a South Carolina lawmaker said Friday. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot last Saturday at an event she hosted for constituents in Tucson. A 9-year-old girl was among those killed. Giffords was shot in the head and gravely wounded. Jared Loughner, 22, a former ...

Meanwhile ...
Meanwhile ... Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell was on "Fox & Friends" trying to deflect accusations that vitrolic conservative Rhetoric played a part on the Arizona shootings, as he's been wont to do lately. Bozell then said, "Politics had nothing to do with this. This is a man who never even listened to Talk Radio or watched the news." But if "politics had nothing to do with this," why is Bozell's organization t...

Democratic-Media Complex Fails Standards of Journalism in Tucson Reporting
At The New Republic, "How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting" (via Instapundit): When disaster strikes, Journalists have to write something about it—and write it fast. That means they have to take mental shortcuts, calling up established narratives and laying them out like old wrapping paper for new and more ambiguous facts ... But sometimes the shortcuts produce a journalistic stampede at the worst possible time. That’s what happened last weekend, when 22-year-old Jared Lee Lo...

Marianne Williamson: Arizona Shooting: Words Have Meaning
According to "A Course in Miracles," all minds are joined. While it appears to the physical eye that I am here and you are over there, on the level of mind there is no place where you stop and I start. We are all affected by everyone else's thoughts, just as a butterfly flapping its wings near the South Pole affects the wind currents at the North Pole. When any wave moves, the entire ocean shifts. So it's basically irrelevant whether Jared Loughner specifically related to the Hate Speech aroun...