Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Exploits Shooting of Friends To Incite Hatred

Was the Arizona Shooting Sheriff Dupnik's Fault?
By RightKlik It's pretty clear at this point that Jared Loughner was the Lone Wolf shooter solely responsible for the carnage in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday. But without a shred of evidence, liberals in this country want to blame the "usual suspects," including Sarah Palin, the tea partiers and conservative Talk Radio. Let's cast the net wider. On Saturday, we began asking pointed questions about Tuscon Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: A congresswoman got shot point-blank in the head in Pima County, A...

Pima County Sheriff Dupnik Jeopardizes Justice and Must Resign Now
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has blathered in radio, television, and newspaper interviews non-stop since Saturday’s massacre in his county.  He cannot possibly be doing his job to properly and thoroughly investigate the tragic loss of life on his watch in Pima County, Arizona. Monday , Dupnik even went so far as to blame Talk Show host Rush Limbaugh PERSONALLY for the Murders in Tucson.  See report here on Real Clear Politics.  On Sunday, Dupnik admitted in his interv...

Arizona massacre, America's soul-searching
OUR OPINION: cf,gtm Was gunman's rampage prompted by heated political Rhetoric? Those searching for easy answers after a 22-year-old shot 20 people, killing six, during U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday won't find any. Yes, guns are easily accessible in this country. Yes, in the past two years we have seen Political Speech ratcheted up with gun-toting participants at some Tea Party events, and some Democrats in Congress faced angry voters at to...

Pima County GOP Chair Calls On Obama To 'Stop The Blame'
TUCSON, AZ -- With President Obama reportedly set to visit this divided and mourning Arizona city Wednesday, the chair of the county Republican party is calling on the president to help put an end to what he calls "assigning blame" in the wake of Saturday's shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) that left six dead and the congresswoman gravely wounded. Brian Miller called on Obama to "lead the effort to stop the blame" after the shooting, responsibility for which he...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Megyn Kelly to Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: Why are you politicizing this tragedy?
Why is Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik politicizing the Assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords? It’s almost as if he’s channeling Doug Henning, minus the skin tight body suits and 70s curls, creating a loud and noisy distraction over to the side so no one pays attention to what’s happening on the other side of the stage, where the really interesting story is happening. You know, like the reality that Sheriff Dupnik knew for at least the past year that Jared ...

DUPNIK DOUBLES DOWN: Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is now officially the worst cop since Mar
DUPNIK DOUBLES DOWN: “Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is now officially the worst cop since Maryland’s Chief Charles Moose, last seen still waiting for the DC sniper to pull up in his white van.” ...

UC Berkeley chancellor ties AZ immigration law to Giffords shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller UC Berkeley chancellor ties AZ Immigration law to Giffords shooting FNC's Brit Hume rips left-wing 'habit' of equating disagreement with Liberalism with hate Experts say Metro escalator woes product of union inefficiency Will Gates address Chinese rare earth strong arming? Tea Party Express raising money in aftermath of Arizona shooting In an official e-mail to the University of California at Berkeley campus community, chancellor Robert Birgeneau said th...

Liberal Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blames Rush Limbaugh, but may have ignored death threats
Jan 8 (Reuters) - The suspect in Saturday's shooting rampage in which a U.S. congresswoman was critically wounded was unstable and had been known to make Death Threats in the past, the local sheriff said.According to this report, there were a lot of Death Threats and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik mostly ignored them. Jared Loughner has been making Death Threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sh...

The left's political dirt ball
On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the crowd. So, he stood on a folding chair and was piled on after the first of five shots. He wounded four people, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. In two weeks, Zangara, who pleaded guilty, had been sentenced to 80 years. When Cermak died on March 6, Zangara was retried for Murder and sentenced to the electric ...

WikiLeaks: Don't Call for Our Murder, Either
There have been many public calls to assassinate Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer and Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander have all called for calmer, saner Rhetoric out of politicians and pundits in the wake of the assasination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of six individuals. The alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, has been described as a lone, mentally disturbed gunman. WikiLeaks fou...

Was the Arizona Shooter an Anti-Semite?
Jared Loughner may not be linked to the Racist group American Renaissance, contrary to early reports, but he might have attacked Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for her proud Jewishness. We may never know, says Eric Alterman....

Hate Speech and Hateful Acts in Arizona
Justice and other local hosts "struck a defensive, even embattled tone" in response to remarks by Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, who said at a news conference that Arizona had become "the mecca for prejudice and Bigotry" and that local TV and radio hosts should do some "soul-searching," the Times reported. "They said Saturday's shooting had nothing to do with either their broadcasts or the state's tense political environment." Some callers disagreed and "made it clear" they think the radio hosts ...

After attack, a leadership test for Obama, Boehner
(01-10) 19:30 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- On opposite sides of the political spectrum, President Barack Obama and new House Speaker John Boehner suddenly face the same challenge: rise above the anger, suspicion and hostility of their liberal and conservative bases to help a rattled nation deal with the deadly outburst of violence in Arizona. But what comes after the easy moment of silence? For now, both men are stepping past the question of what role, if any, the vitriol of the past election ca...

"Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County"
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima Coun...

It Begins Sheriff Dupnik Blames Rush Limbaugh For Shootings (Video)
The dishonorable Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik went there. Today Dupnik blamed Rush Limbaugh for the shootings in Tucson. Via Real Clear Politics: Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik once again blames conservative Rhetoric as the reasons for the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabby Giffords (AZ). “The kind of Rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment, he’s irresponsible; uses partial information, sometimes wrong information. Attacks people, angers them...

Arizona US Rep. Trent Franks Calls Out Sheriff Dupnik For Politicizing Shootings (Video)
Arizona Republican US House Representative Trent Franks not only called out Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik after his irresponsible comments blaming others as the reason why the gunman Jared Loughner went tried to assassinate Gabby Giffords (AZ-D).   Trent Franks also went on to say that we cannot be deterred change our lives or continue in with liberty and freedom. Click HERE to watchVideo “We cannot let a mindless, heartless murderer change our way of life. we cannot

Pima County GOP Chair Opposes Anti-Westboro Law
TUCSON, AZ -- The leader of the county Republican party here says he's inclined to oppose the State Legislature's efforts to prevent the Westboro Baptist Church from capitalizing on Saturday's shootings at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) by staging Protests outside the Funeral of the shootings youngest Victim, nine year-old Christine Green. But that doesn't mean he's prepared to let the Protests go unhindered. Brian Miller, chair of the Pima County GOP, says the nascent ...

Pima County Dem Chair: Time Will Prove Loughner To Be A Right-Winger
Source: Talking Points Memo TUCSON, AZ -- Conservatives gloating about the biography of the suspected shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) will eat their words in the end, according to the chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. "Here's what I think you're going to find," Jeff Rogers told me in an interview today. "I think you're going to find that he was (a conservative)." "I think we'll find a treasure trove of stuff from his computer," he told me. "How much of that we're going to get...

Obama's Evolving Crisis Response
(Fox News Channel) - The White House response to the shooting rampage in Arizona reveals how the administration's reaction to crises has evolved since the similar attack at Ft. Hood more than a year ago, Fox News Channel reported Monday. President Obama swiftly made a statement to the press Saturday after the Arizona shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) critically injured, killed six and injured another 13. By Sunday, the president had called for a national moment of silence, sig...

Sheriff Dupnik Attacks Rush Limbaugh, Calls Him "Irresponsible" (Video)
Dupnik, the Democrat talks to ABC World News DUPNIK: "The kind of Rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh in my judgement, he's irresponsible, uses partial information, attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials, that kind of behavior is not without consequences and I think he's irresponsible" SAWYER: "Is it right to link him with this horrible incident?...That it is somehow linked?" DUPNIK: "Of course"He sure knows a lot about what Rush Lim...

James Taranto: Sheriff Dupnik Is Distracting Public From Looking At His Contacts With Killer Loughner (Video)
James Taranto, the editor of the OpinionJournal.com and author of its popular Best of the Web Today column at The Wall Street Journal. Tonight Taranto questioned Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s culpability in the Arizona Supermarket slaughter. “I’d like to make one additional point on Sheriff Dupnik. I think we’re missing the point when we’re talking about his political agenda. This man and this suspect has had previous contact with the sheriff’s office....

Moonbat Sheriff Dupnik Attacks Rush Limbaugh for Using Irresponsible Vitriol
(ABC News) — The Arizona sheriff investigating the Tucson shooting that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded had harsh words today for those engaging in political Rhetoric, calling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh “irresponsible” for continuing the vitriol. “The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information,” Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupni...

After carnage, Obama fails to move us
When President Obama performed his ``Comeback Kid'' act late last year, pushing through Congress a number of important bills, observers marveled at the sudden transformation. The president had morphed from the hapless, listless Victim of the midterm shellacking and surprised everyone by becoming a new deft, cunning politician. But watching the Obama who came before the cameras on the day of the Tucson massacre, it seems the nation has suffered a great loss with the president's transformation. Wh...

Arizona gunman in court as Obama leads mourning
The man accused of trying to assassinate a congresswoman in an Arizona Shooting Spree that left six dead appeared in court but said nothing to shed light on his motive. President Barack Obama led the American nation in a somber minute of silence to honor the 20 people gunned down in Tucson -- where he will attend a memorial service on Wednesday, the White House announced. Flags were at half-staff at the Capitol in Washington, where hundreds of aides and lawmakers crammed the storied steps of Con...