Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck

Glenn Reynolds denies Tea Party's history of intimidation (Giffords shooting, Loughner)
Glenn Reynolds takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to offer "The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel" (link) in which he tries to run away from the toxic political environment that the tea parties movement - of which he is a leader - has created: With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and reporters seemed to agree that the massacre had to be the fault of the Tea Party movement in general, and of Sarah Palin in particular. Why? Because they had created, ...

Krugman ties shooting to Beck, Limbaugh
Keith Olbermann was far from alone among prominent liberal voices Saturday tying the shooting in Arizona to conservative media figures. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on his blog hours after the shooting that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have contributed to a “climate of hate.” You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of Partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the Rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re go...

Violent rhetoric leads to senseless shooting of Gabrielle Giffords
MoveOn.org and Credo Action are circulating online petitions calling for an end to the violent Rhetoric that led to the senseless shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others at a political event in a Tucson, Arizona shopping center on Saturday. Across the world, columnists are writing about the ugly and confrontational political climate in the U.S.  In Los Angeles County, over half of all Registered Voters are Democrats, and local residents are upset about the violent rhetor...

Inside the Beltway
THE FAULTY PRESS News coverage of the Arizona shooting showcased a wide spray of partisan attacks in the 48 hours that followed the tragedy, with Collateral Damage and much talk of political Rhetoric and biased media coverage. A charged environment, intense public interest and minimal facts led to extrapolation, error, blame and instant agenda. "This is a horrendous act of violence. But does it surprise you, in the context of the bitterness of Arizona politics at the moment?" asked ABC News co...

Agonizing aftermath
WASHINGTON — Anguished debate began yesterday about the caustic tone of American political Rhetoric after the Arizona shooting spree Saturday that killed six and left Representative Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition. The question argued by politicians and pundits: Did vitriol and violent metaphors in Political Speech tip an unstable person to pick up a gun? With the answer still unknown, calls to lower the temperature of American discourse came from all parts of the political spect...

Tone Versus Substance
Jared Lee Loughner’s Killing Spree has rekindled a long-running debate about political discourse in the United States. Voices like Andrew Sullivan insist that violent, inflammatory Rhetoric poisons our country, and runs the risk of empowering the deranged. Jack Shafer takes an almost opposite position. “Our spirited political discourse, complete with name-calling, vilification—and, yes, violent imagery—is a good thing,” he writes. “Better that angry people unload th...

Krugman: Hate Comes Mainly from the Right
You really have to admire Paul Krugman for having the courage to engage in his latest bit of hackery. He didn’t want to do it, you see. He was duty-bound: Column meta: I hated, hated, hated writing tomorrow’s column. . . . But nobody would read a piece about health-care Accounting or Eurozone adjustment problems if I put it out tomorrow, and there are some things I fear won’t be said if I don’t do it (just as there were during the runup to the Iraq War); so Arizona it is....

Sometimes A Tragedy Is Just A Tragedy
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Even before anything at all was known about Jared Lee Loughner, who went on a deadly Shooting Spree outside a Safeway in Tuscon, Arizona, on Saturday, a narrative was beginning to take shape. Partisans on the left immediately blamed the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, “Talk Radio,” and Republicans more generally. That’s regrettable but probably inevitable. Agitators like Markos Moulitsas, whose Twitter feed on Saturday is ...

Arizona shooting: 'Does she have any enemies?' 'Yeah. The whole Tea Party'
Source: The Guardian Shock turns to anger as mourners blame vitriolic rightwing Rhetoric for creating climate of violence in US politics Chris McGreal in Tucson | Sunday January 09 2011 20.56 GMT Paul Wellman laid his handwritten sign among the collection of candles, flowers and messages keeping vigil outside congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords's office. Then he stepped back and surveyed the scene. To the right, another sign said: "Hate Speech = Murder". But Wellman went further with his angry dec...

No More Mister Nice Blog
PICK YOUR FALLACY: EITHER PALIN IS TO BLAME OR EVERYONE IS TO BLAME Look, it's not as if I'll shed a tear if Sarah Palin continues to take heat for including Gabrielle Giffords on her crosshair map -- she's gotten away with so much poisonous Rhetoric for so long, Rhetoric that's actually harming the country, that a wave of genuinely bad press coverage that she can't dodge or explain away would be karmically appropriate. And yet I continue to suspect that she had nothing to do with the Tucson s...

Giffords sent e-mail to Trey Grayson on eve of shooting
On the eve of an Assassination attempt that left her critically wounded, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sent an e-mail to Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson asking for his help in toning down political Rhetoric. Giffords sent a congratulatory e-mail on Friday after Grayson was named director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Grayson released the email to Insight Cables' cn|2 Politics editor Ryan Alessi. “After you get settled, I would love to talk about what we can...

Liberal media promoting big lie against Tea Party, Palin in AZ shooting
There is an old saying - tell a lie often enough and eventually it becomes the truth. The "big lie" technique, originally named by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf was instrumental in what eventually became known as the "Final Solution" - the State-sanctioned Murder of millions of Jews. The same technique is apparently at work in many of today's newsrooms, as shown by the baseless attacks against Sarah Palin and Conservatives in general. Consider:  The man under arrest for the shoot...

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Exploits Shooting of Friends To Incite Hatred
There is only thing worse than the mainstream media trying to exploit the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for their own partisan progressive agenda. That is when the Sheriff investigating the case uses the shooting to promote his own progressive agenda. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Tucson, Arizona, has become the spokesman for blaming right-wing "vitriol" for the shooting by deranged gunman Jared Lee Loughner. This isn't the first time Dupnik made partisan headlines. Last April not ...

It is time to eliminate anger and violence in politics
This Examiner has a saying: you have a vote; use it. Every two, four, or six years; elected officials face voters in the form of Elections. If their constituents or the American public feel they deserve another term, they are reelected. If not, then, someone new is elected. It is part of our Democracy. One vote, one voice. However, for some, that is not good enough. They feel their voice is ignored because they are in the minority in their district or state. Or, they choose to not vote, but choo...

Adding Insult to Tragedy
Posted by Rich Trzupek on Jan 10th, 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. The Shooting Spree that left six dead and fourteen wounded in Arizona on Saturday was a horrible tragedy involving a very unstable young man. It’s clear that twenty-two year old Jared Loughner, who was allegedly attempting to assassinate Arizona representative Gabriel...

AFP Statement on the Tragedy in Arizona
January 4, 2011 Letter of Support: Rep. Gingrey's Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2011 AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. "Prayers for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and for each Victim and their familes go out from everyone at Americans for Prosperity. As we have stated before, there is n...

The Arizona Shooting and the Blame Game
Posted by Mike Finch on Jan 10th, 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. What a relief!  President Obama can pull FBI Director Mueller back from Arizona and call off the investigation into the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords.  The smoking gun has been found. It is obvious after listening to the Sunday morning news shows that the shoot...

Paul Krugman wastes no time in blaming shooting on political opposition
We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she’s a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a Tea Party Activist. (Her father says that “the whole Tea Party” was her enemy.) And yes, she was on...

Palin Put Gunsight on Giffords' District; Now a Colleague Says: "Palin Needs to Look at Her Own Behavior"
At the moment, we don't know if gunman Jared Lee Loughner was motivated by Partisanship or ideology. But his shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents was a political attack nonetheless. John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated... The Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota is headed for the first-caucus state of Iowa. She's openly discussing a presidential bid. But would she really run? Only "if I f...

U.S. Tea Partiers run for cover
American Tea Party and Republican leaders were quick to disassociate themselves from the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona this weekend. And indeed, there is no evidence that the shooter is directly or indirectly associated with them. But Tea Partiers and Republicans are right to worry about a public backlash, in the United States and throughout the democratic world, in the wake of this tragedy. And if there is any justice they will get that backlash, since it is richly deserve...

Breaking: Sarah Palin responsible for mass bird kills, genocide in the Sudan, and AT&T;'s loss of exclusive rights to the iPhone
Because there's just as much of a tie between Palin, those events and the tragic shootings in Tucson. Of course, to listen to many Democrats and those in Legacy Media, you'd think Sarah Palin had home-schooled Jared Lee Loughner. The unmoored Rhetoric of fools like Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas is not only divisive, it's destructive....

Arizona shootings: Will Barack Obama stand up to the Lefts shameful exploitation of a national tragedy?
Some hot-headed figures on the Left have wasted no time in exploiting the barbaric shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others in Tucson yesterday, which claimed at least six lives, and using these tragic events as a political battering ram. As Toby Harnden noted earlier, “the President wisely did not seek to make political capital out of the carnage or jump to conclusions about the motivations of the gunman, named as Jared Loughner. That, of course, hasn’t stopped some on t...

Democrat Congressman who crossed his fingers while taking an Oath to the Constitution [Darleen Click]
One just cannot make up this kind of moral idiocy Representative Bob Brady of Pennsylvania told The Caucus he plans to introduce a bill that would ban symbols like that now-infamous campaign crosshair map. “You can’t threaten the president with a bullseye or a crosshair,” Mr. Brady, a Democrat, said, and his measure would make it a crime to do so to a member of Congress or federal employee, as well. Asked if he believed the map incited the gunman in Tucson, he replied, “...

DESPICABLE: NYT's Krugman Blames Republicans For Giffords Shooting
A Democratic Congresswoman has been shot in the head; another dozen were also shot. You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of Partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the Rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we're going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers. You must login to comment. The...

Despicable: NYT's Krugman Blames Republicans For Giffords Shooting
A Democratic Congresswoman has been shot in the head; another dozen were also shot. You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of Partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the Rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we're going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers. You must login to comment. The...