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Yup, Mark Kelly Saw the News Reports That Gabby Giffords Died
Even though a Washington Post/ABC News poll shows a majority of Americans approving of how the News Media handled the shooting in Tucson, it's hard to imagine a much worse performance. For example, in the frenzy to get there first, CNN ran a photo of Jared Loughner they had pulled off of his Facebook page — except it wasn't Loughner. Sorry, innocent kid who everyone thought was a mass murderer for a little while! Then, on the night of the shooting, various outlets claimed Giffords had wok...

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American Thinker : Walking Into Fire We should study our heroes more carefully . by John Hayward 01/19/2011 The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has begun talking about security camera video of the Tucson shootings. As described in the New York Times, the video shows Jared Loughner marching up to Representative Gabrielle Giffords and shooting her in the face, then turning his weapon on the crowd. Here is how investigator Richard Kastigar describes the final moments of Judge John Roll’s lif...

Videos show details of Tucson shooting
TUCSON - Authorities have analyzed nearly two dozen Surveillance videos in the massive investigation of accused Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner, some of which clearly show a gunman shooting Federal Judge John Roll in the back as he and an injured congressional aide try to scramble under a table, officials who have viewed the footage said Tuesday. This Story Reno-era policy kept Jared Loughner off FBI gun list Videos show Tucson shooting in detail, sources say Videos show details of Tucson sh...

Giffords's husband: I thought she had died
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ husband revealed in an interview that for 20 minutes he believed she had died and that she had told him many times before she feared being shot at a public event. “The kids … Claudia and Claire start crying. My mother, you know … I think she almost screamed,” Mark Kelly said in an interview that aired Tuesday night on ABC, citing early incorrect media reports. “And I just, you know, walked into the Bathroom, and you know, broke dow...

Security Video Reveals Tucson Shooting Horror
Law enforcement at the scene of the multiple-fatal shooting in Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 8, 2011. (Arizona Daily Star, Kelly Presnell) Authorities have analyzed nearly two dozen Surveillance videos in the massive investigation of accused Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner, some of which clearly show a gunman shooting Federal Judge John Roll in the back as he and an injured congressional aide try to scramble under a table, officials who have viewed the footage said Tuesday. It also shows the gunman wal...

Tucson Shooting Caught on Video
Washington Post reports: Authorities have analyzed nearly two dozen Surveillance videos in the massive investigation of accused Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner, some of which clearly show a gunman shooting Federal Judge John Roll in the back as he and an injured congressional aide try to scramble under a table, officials who have viewed the footage said Tuesday. It also shows the gunman walking toward Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and firing his first bullet into her face from two to thre...

Videos show Loughner shooting Giffords
TUCSON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Surveillance videos of the Tucson Supermarket shooting where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot clearly show who the gunman was, officials said. The videos from nearly two dozen cameras posted around the Safeway Parking Lot are "very, very clear," one federal law-enforcement official told the Los Angeles Times. "It's so clear, you can even tell the sequence of who got shot when and where," the official said. "And it's not the grainy kind of typical fast-food...

The Hate Speech Inquisition
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 By Michelle Malkin There isn't a shred of evidence that deranged Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner ever listened to Talk Radio or cared about illegal Immigration. Indeed, after 300 exhaustive interviews, the feds "remain stumped" about his motives, according to Tuesday's Washington Post. But that hasn't stopped a coalition of power-grabbing politicians, progressive Activists and open-borders Lobbyists from plying their quack cure for the American body politi...

Giffords's Husband Heard His Wife Had Died in Tucson
While racing to his wife’s side, Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, heard from erroneous television news reports that his wife had been killed when she was shot outside of a Safeway Supermarket in Tucson on Jan. 8, he said in a televised interview on Tuesday evening. In an interview on ABC’s “20/20,” Mr. Kelly said he initially learned that his wife had been shot during a very brief telephone conversation with one of her Staffers. Then, as he sat on a friend...

Giffords to return to shooting site
TUCSON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., will recover and probably return to the Supermarket where she was shot in the head in a Mass Shooting, her husband said. "I can almost guarantee you what her first event will be," Space Shuttle Astronaut Mark Kelly told the Tucson Sentinel. "I'd be shocked if the first thing she does is not 'Congress on Your Corner' at that Safeway." Giffords was among 19 people shot Jan. 8 outside the Tucson Supermarket by a gunman identified as Ja...

Video shows a 'deliberate' gunman shooting Giffords at close range
Surveillance video of the Tucson shootings show the gunman shooting Gabrielle Giffords and other Victims at close range and also depicts Federal Judge John Roll, who was killed in the mêlée, trying to shield a bystander, The New York Times reports. Six people were killed and 13 injured in the assault, including Rep. Giffords, who remains hospitalized with a shot to the head. The horrifying shooting is captured in a brief video clip from a store security camera, according to Richard Kastigar, ...

Giffords' husband says he thought wife was killed
Mark Kelly holds the hand of his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, as she lies in bed in the intensive-care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson on Jan. 9, the day after the shootings. (Courtesy of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' office ) TUCSON — The husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after viewing a mistaken TV news report that said his wife had been fatally shot. Mark Kelly told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired Tuesday th...

Husband's message from Giffords' bedside: 'she's a fighter'
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke publicly for the first time Sunday, leaving his wife's Hospital bedside to take the stage at a memorial service for Gabriel Zimmerman, an aide who was killed in the shooting rampage that left Giffords grievously wounded. Kelly told the several hundred mourners gathered in the courtyard at the Tucson Museum of Art that he had just come from the Hospital and that his wife was "improving a little bit each day. She's a fight...

Giffords feared being shot at event
The husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he wife feared being shot at a public event with constituents.  In his first interview since Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 18 others were shot at a public event  in Tucson on Jan. 8, Astronaut Mark Kelly said that his wife and he had discussed the possibility of violence against her at least 10 times before.  "You know, she says, 'Someday, I'm really worried that somebody is going to come up to my at one of these events with a gun,'" he told ABC News's D

NYT: No widespread blame of the right for Arizona shooting
Conservatives are outraged -- outraged! -- that the traditional media has spent the last week blaming them and their violent Rhetoric for the shooting in Arizona. Just one problem: it's not true. According to the New York Times: Last week, the reaction came from conservative politicians who bridled at suggestions in the media that Jared L. Loughner may have been influenced by right-wing Rhetoric and Talk Radio when he killed six people and gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a ...

Fairness Doctrine and the Politics of a National Tragedy
The President, while speaking to the American Association of Community Colleges in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said “…we hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.” He wasn’t speaking in response to the recent shootings in Tucson, Ari...

Here We Go Again With the Fairness Doctrine "Threat"
When I heard in the wake of the Tucson shootings that Jim Clyburn had said something about bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine" (the long-lapsed FCC Regulation requiring that broadcasters offer "equal time" to Controversial political content), I literally groaned aloud. "Oh God," I thought, "that's all it will take to keep that Conspiracy Theory alive for another year or two." Sure enough, Rush Limbaugh and company were off to the races, as reported by Politico's Keach Hagey: When some liber...

Open Thread: Hugh Hewitt Takes on Politico Editor Over Liberal Bias
On Monday, conservative Talk Radio host Hugh Hewitt hosted Politico.com editor John Harris to discuss Politico's coverage of the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Hewitt charged that Politico's reporting - both on the Tucson massacre and in general - has been driven hard to the left in recent years. Here's full audio of the exchange, via Breitbart.tv: Who got the better of this exchange? Did Hewitt make the case adequately? Was Harris convincing in his defense of the pape...

Open Thread: Hugh Hewitt Takes on Politico Editor Over Liberal Bias
On Monday, conservative Talk Radio host Hugh Hewitt hosted Politico.com editor John Harris to discuss Politico's coverage of the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Hewitt charged that Politico's reporting - both on the Tucson massacre and in general - has been driven hard to the left in recent years. Here's full audio of the exchange, via Breitbart.tv: Who got the better of this exchange? Did Hewitt make the case adequately? Was Harris convincing in his defense of the pape...

NY Times Reporters Defend Paper's Coverage of Tucson Shootings, Dubiously Denies It Blamed the Right Wing
New York Times media reporters Jeremy Peters and Brian Stelter sounded a little defensive in Monday’s Business section story on the political blame game that immediately followed the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others in Tucson. The confusing headline: “After Tucson, Blanket Accusations Leave Much to Interpretation.” For every action in politics today, there’s an overwhelming and opposite reaction. Last week, the reaction came from conservat...

The Hate Speech Inquisition
Tucson massacre + Red Queen politics = Hate Speech Inquisition. I noticed a new game the blamestream media is playing this week. It’s the same game they played with Sarah Palin last week: Blame the Victim. After a slew of Democrat leaders issued open threats against Talk Radio, Conservative Radio hosts rose up to defend themselves. And now, the BSM is deriding those who work in talk radio for inserting themselves into the Tucson massacre story and for having a “persecution complex....

After Tucson, Blanket Accusations Leave Much to Interpretation
By JEREMY W. PETERS and Brian Stelter NYT FOR every action in politics today, there’s an overwhelming and opposite reaction. Last week, the reaction came from conservative politicians who bridled at suggestions in the media that Jared L. Loughner may have been influenced by right-wing Rhetoric and Talk Radio when he killed six people and gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a rampage on Jan. 8 in Tucson. In her video address on Wednesday, Sarah Palin said that Journalists and...

Tucson and the Politics of Lament
The left is attempting to make Tucson into another Katrina. With Katrina, which played nonstop for months in the Mainstream Media, the suggestion of every "news" story was that the crisis was all George Bush's fault. The "slow response," the "inadequate response," the failure of the levees, the storm itself (caused by Global Warming, which was caused by George Bush) -- all of it was the president's fault. The Katrina story was, of course, sheer nonsense, but after ...

Mark Levin's $100,000 Challenge to Chris Matthews
Mark Levin's $100,000 Challenge to Chris Matthews The American Spectator Conservative Radio Talk Show host Mark Levin has put out a stunning challenge to those left-wing media personalities accusing conservative Talk Radio stars and Sarah Palin of encouraging Murder. First, he offered $100,000 to Chris Matthews to find any example where Sarah Palin or Levin himself had "promoted the murder of anybody." The direct challenge to Matthews took place shortly after Levin had played clips of Matthew...

Fairness Doctrine as straw man
In my story on the main site, I checked in with the offices of the two Democratic congressional representatives who gave interviews last week suggesting they’d be in favor of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, and there’s not much action behind the words. Neither Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) nor Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) are working on any Legislation to bring it back, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has been quite clear that he opposes the policy as well. But you wouldn&r...;