Shameless: Politico.com insinuates the right wanted Giffords dead over green stance

Sanitizing Extremism: Palin and Beck on Violence and War
Politico: Sarah Palin reached out to Glenn Beck over the weekend, and Beck read some of their email exchange on his Radio Show this morning. “Sarah, as you know, peace is always the answer. I know you are felling the same heat, if not much more on this,” Beck wrote. Beck expressed concern about Palin’s safety, and urged her to hire the same Los Angeles-based security firm that he uses. The Rhetoric of both Beck and Palin has been cited by both liberals and some of the mainstre...

Gabrielle Giffords a tireless advocate for solar energy
I don’t tend to think you can draw any broader conclusions from the acts of one demented, violent individual — as I’ve said before. Giffords is, however, beloved of the Solar Energy community, who sent out a note about her Sunday, and that deserves a post.  Perhaps the best thing is to reprint what the inside-the-beltway center-right mavens at Politico wrote about her today.  Let’s start with their Morning Energy update: Gabrielle Giffords - “Gabby is not only

Right was unhappy with Giffords-Petraeus exchange
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords drew the wrath of Conservatives last June after questioning a top U.S. official over how green the country’s Military operations are in Afghanistan, with clips of the exchange prompting some of the heated Rhetoric that local police officials say is to blame for the lone gunman who shot her and 18 others in Tucson Saturday. Glenn Beck, conservative columnists and one of Giffords’ Republican primary opponents piled on after the Arizona Democrat asked Gen. Davi...

Politico: Hey, Maybe Giffords Was Shot Because the Right Didnt Like a Question She Asked Gen. Petraeus?
Glenn Beck, conservative columnists and one of Giffords’ Republican primary opponents piled on after the Arizona Democrat asked Gen. David Petraeus to explain whether he had any plans to use Solar Panels and hydropower to increase Fuel Efficiency in an otherwise dangerous battle zone. Clips of the Giffords-Petraeus exchange during a House Armed Services Committee hearing quickly went viral during the summer, as critics questioned Giffords for bringing up the issue in the first place. At th...

Hijacking A Massacre
Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain: How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah PalinThe substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner: Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former Chief of Staff and a ­figure compared to Labour’s Alastair Campbell, once said: ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.’ And those on his side of the political divide have clearly seen t...

Rush Limbaugh Attacks 'The Left' Over Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Response
Rush Limbaugh criticizes the response of the Democratic Party and the media to the Tucson tragedy in his Radio Show today, saying that the event has been used to advance the Left’s political interests. “The left, including the media, cannot accept the reality of a madman slaughtering innocent people. It cannot be ‘individual responsibility’ -- they reject that concept anyway,” Limbaugh said. He goes on to say that “the Left” believes that Utopia can happen and th

Politics: Gabrielle Giffords Is a Green Patriot
But Giffords also took some heat from right-wing opponents over her support of carbon cap-and-trade Legislation, which passed the House in June 2009 before dying in the Senate, although Climate Change legislation has never quite reached the partisan pitch that the battle over Health Care did—in part because energy and Climate Change isn't a high priority on most voters' minds. Those issues did matter to Giffords, however, who not only voted in favor of cap-and-trade—not a popular pos...

Keep rampage blame where it belongs
We add our thoughts and prayers to the many for critically wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the six people killed, including a senior Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl fascinated by politics, a congressional aide and three other innocents, as well as the 13 people wounded, in the attack Saturday in Tucson. The accused, Jared Loughner, is a deeply disturbed young man whose violent proclivities had frightened several acquaintances but who had not yet done anything overt enough to bring h...

Times' Mark Halperin: Conservatives should turn the other cheek when scapegoated for murder
The "normally sensible" Mark Halperin from Time completely jumps the shark in this segment from today's Morning Joe, in which Halperin praised the media and politicians for their reaction to the shooting ... while blaming the "anger of the right-wing commentariat," condemning Fox News and conservative pundits for treating the tragedy like "war and fodder for content" ... ignoring the fact that the Controversy started when CNN, other media outlets. and left-wing Bloggers began tying the shooting ...

Democrats that are politicizing Arizona tragedy have ulterior motives
The tragic shootings in Arizona on Saturday that left a nine-year-old girl dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords severely wounded should have been a time to put politics aside and honor the Victims. Instead, many people on the left are capitalizing on this opportunity to blame Conservatives and the lack of Gun Control as contributing the tragedy. Let’s take Democratic Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for example. Instead of giving a fact-based Press Conference Sa...

Bill O'Reilly's 'Bloody Shirt' Factor: How to turn perpetrators into victims
Bill O'Reilly was in rare form last night as he was simply outraged from all the criticism that was heaped on the RWNM after the Giffords shootings. And the extreme Right Wing Rhetoric that Paul Krugman talked about in his piece was directed at poor l'il BillO. So Paul, be afraid -- you'll never be forgiven for writing this: And there’s a huge contrast in the media. Listen to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann, and you’ll hear a lot of caustic remarks and mockery aimed at Republicans....

The right-wing narrative about Clinton, the Oklahoma bombing, and Obama
President Obama is heading to Arizona to commemorate the Victims of Saturday's events in Tucson, and Conservatives are already expressing concern about a replay of Bill Clinton's 1995 Speech denouncing "purveyors of hatred and division" on the airwaves in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. In a preemptive strike, Conservatives are already misrepresenting the history of that event, arguing that Clinton politicized the bombing for his own gain. At National Review, John J. Miller writes...

Politico gets it exactly backward in calling for a more civil tone
In the aftermath of the Tucson massacre, Politico's Glenn Thrush and Carol E. Lee write one of the most inane responses imaginable: Of all the unfulfilled campaign promises President Barack Obama made in 2008, the one that bothers the president most isn’t any squandered policy priority - it’s his failure to re-civilize what he views as an increasingly savage partisan climate. His failure? The president who reached out to the Republicans on the stimulus, who allowed Republican...

Toxic rhetoric: Twitter users want Sarah Palin dead, media yawns
Ever since the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, liberals have sought to blame Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for the attack. Shortly after the shooting, Jane Fonda sent out tweets blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party. Encouraged by irresponsible and shameful reporting, a number of Twitter users have expressed their desire to see Sarah Palin dead, and some tweets actually call for her Assassination. “So…will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assa...

Oregon Rep. Schrader holds Beck, Limbaugh responsible for Arizona tragedy
 Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader, Democrat, is holding Right Wing commentators Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck responsible for the tragic Shooting Spree in Arizona. Saturday, outside of a strip mall in Tucson Arizona, Jared Lee Loughner killed six people, including Federal Judge John Roll, and wounded more than a dozen, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a Democrat who supported Health Care reform, was Loughner's target. Giffords was...

ACTION ITEM: Find video clips of Democrats using references to weapons, targets, fights, ass-kicking, destroying, etc. to create
We’re working with a video editor we know to produce a video exposing the media’s politicization of tragedy for Democrat gain. Please use this thread to collect video clips you find on YouTube or other sources that we can use in this new mashup video. This will make it easy to have all the clips assembled in one place, so that we do not have to hunt for them.  Put the link to the video in this thread.  If you know of a good clip but don’t have a link, describe it in a...

Wayne Besen: The Bombast and the Body Count in Arizona
While the world focused on the tragic Arizona shootings, another horrific crime took place in New York City. The New York Post reported today that a Portuguese male model tortured and murdered his "sugar daddy" in a Manhattan hotel. For more than an hour, Renato Seabra, 20, beat Carlos Castro, 65, before he castrated the older Fashion Journalist with a wine corkscrew. Seabra said he murdered the Journalist "to get rid of Castro's Homosexual demons." The suspect then declared, "I'm not gay any...

Paul Krugmans Totalitarian Temptation
A Washington Examiner op-ed rhetorically asks, “Was President Obama encouraging Murder during his 2008 campaign when he said, ‘If they bring a knife … we bring a gun’?” Was he encouraging political violence when he said more recently of the new Republican House majority that “we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill”? Of course not. Similarly, former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski was speaking allegorically in ...

2012 Candidates Weekly Update 1/11/10
PAC: Vast majority of MICHELE PAC money went to Iowa politicians or PACs (National Journal, 1/10). Religious Right: Potential 2012 bid wins plaudits from Religious Right Activists (RWW, 1/10). Indiana: Makes 7th State of the State address with emphasis on education (South Bend Tribune, 1/11). Religious Right: Invited to speak at the Freedom Federation’s Awakening 2011 along with other potential 2012 Candidates (RWW, 1/10). Iowa: Listed to address Iowa Renewable Fuels Association in Des Moi...

For Giffords, right doctors in right place
Two of the surgeons who were waiting to pick up the pieces from the “mini-mass-casualty” event in Tucson, Ariz., have ties to the Washington area and, some might say, were the right doctors at the right place at the right time to help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Peter Rhee, head of the trauma department at the University of Arizona Medical Center, said he had all the gear and good people he needed Saturday as Giffords and 10 others were brought to the emergency department. Continue ...

Energy and global warming news for January 10, 2011: GOP plans to kill EPA carbon regs with Congressional Review Act may not fly
Congressional Review Act might not be an option to fight EPA regs (subs. req’d) Asked last weekend in a televised interview how he planned to stop U.S. EPA regulation of carbon — rules he says have the potential to inflict serious harm on the economy — House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton mentioned only one specific strategy: using the Congressional Review Act. What the Michigan Republican did not mention is that the core EPA findings and rules related to carbon miti...

Military blocked from importing Chinese solar panels
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: The Military appropriations law signed by President Obama on Friday contains a little-noticed “Buy American” provision for the Defense Department purchases of Solar Panels — a provision that is likely to dismay Chinese officials as President Hu Jintao prepares to visit the United States next week. Although there are many big issues to discuss, including concerns about North Korea, trade and economic matters are certain to be high on the agenda. ...

No foreign solar panels for U.S. military
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Military is now required to buy only American-made Solar Panels, precluding Chinese products just before Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington. The appropriations bill signed Friday contains a "Buy American" clause for Pentagon purchases of Solar Panels, The New York Times reports. Green-energy technologies are likely to be an issue in Hu's talks with President Barack Obama. China produced at least half of the world's solar panels last year, and its ...

Giffords environmental advocacy
By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don't know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords -- a Blue Dog in a re...

Manson Family Values
At Big Journalism, Christian Hartsock explains “How John Lennon Killed Sharon Tate (and Other Ideas For MSM Narratives):” John Lennon murdered Sharon Tate. Jodie Foster shot Ronald Reagan. Oliver Stone and Marilyn Manson caused Columbine. A dog ordered the Son of Sam killings. And Fox News, the Tea Party and the American right compelled Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson. The only reason these parallels don’t work is that while Charles Manson did i...