Sheriff in Giffords case lashes out about politics

AZ sheriff knew in advance about Loughner
Even as Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik launched into yet another rampage against Rush Limbaugh yesterday, new information has emerged showing that the sheriff knew in advance about Jared Lee Loughner and the danger he posed.  According to a special report, Pima County Sheriff's Office records indicate that deputies had been called numerous times to the Loughner residence to address complaints by neighbors and others who were clearly frightened by Jared Loughner's growing anti-social, psych...

Enough AlreadyIt Is Time for Sheriff Dupnik to Go
Since he first opened his mouth on Saturday night to address the nation about the terrible shootings at a Tucson Safeway, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been inaccurate, deceptive, and completely biased in his handling of the case. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik must resign. Never have we witnessed a prominent public figure so inaccurately and viciously politicize a national tragedy like Sheriff Dupnik did this week. And in all of his statements he has either been wrong or misdirected. This bitter part...

Arizona Sheriff, College Refusing To Release Public Records About Tucson Shooter
In response to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, among others, blaming Conservatives and Talk Radio for creating an “atmosphere” that inspired Jarred Loughner to his Saturday Shooting Spree many have questioned whether or not Law Enforcement and other government officials in the Tucson area might not have had enough information on Loughner to have identified him as a threat before he hurt anyone. It’s a valid question worth asking (certainly more valid than blaming Rush Limb...

Wednesday's intriguing people
Mary Reed's 17-year-old daughter, Emma, was a congressional page last summer for Gabrielle Giffords but never got a picture with her. So Reed and her daughter went to the constituent event at a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday, hoping for a photo opportunity. Suddenly, gunfire broke out, and Reed was struck in the left arm. She pinned Emma to a wall to protect her and then took two more bullets in her right arm and back. "He was literally going to have to go through me, and that...

Media to Sheriff Dupnik: Can We Have Your Records on Giffords Shooter? Dupnik to Media: No, No You Cant..
whthfk on Will The MSM Play The Blame Game With Obama? It’s almost like he’s hiding something. (Arizona Republic)- Sheriff’s Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Arizona Public Records Law requires that records be “open to inspection by any person at all times” unless officials ...

DUPNIK IS DONE- Loughner Did Not Watch TV, Was Not Into News, He Didnt Listen to Talk Radio
This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a High School friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre. Osler says his friend wasn’t shooting at people, “he was shooting at the world.” Regarding the high-pitched Talk Radio and Cable News political Rhetoric, Osler says his friend didn’t even watch the news. He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He...

The New Age Assassin
ABC has interviewed Zach Osler, a friend of the Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner. If you're trying to decipher Loughner's worldview, Osler's comments offer two important clues. First: Osler flatly rejects the theory that the killer was driven by the political Rhetoric found on Cable News and AM radio. Loughner, he says, did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn't listen to political radio. He didn't take sides. He wasn't on the left. He wasn't on the right. Second: Loughner turns out to...

Climate-blaming Sheriff with departmental climate to hide?
Climate-blaming Sheriff with departmental climate to hide? Speaking of television, according to a post linked by Michelle Malkin, it turns out that Jared Loughner did not watch TV. Nor did he listen to the Talk Radio said to have created a "climate" which was responsible for his actions. Friend says Loughner "did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn't listen to political radio. He didn't take sides. He wasn't on the left. He wasn't on the right." Over to you, Sheriff Dupnik... Dupnik, o...

Video: Shooter a nonpartisan nutcase, says friend
ABC’s Good Morning America tracked down a close high-school friend Jared Lee Loughner had to find out more about the motives behind the attack that left six dead and fourteen wounded in Tucson this weekend, including a Federal Judge and a 9-year-old girl who loved politics. Zach Osler explains that Loughner didn’t have a particular love or hate for politics, at least not in a partisan sense. Contrary to assumptions made by the media and the Pima County Sheriff, Osler says the shoot...

Never give up on your constitutional rights
With the Arizona shooting that killed six and wounded fourteen more, I find it egregious that the Democrats across this Nation along with the Democrats In Drag (Republicans acting like democrats) wish to silence their opposing forces.  As the new 112th Congress has so stipulated that the Powers of Congress must issue the Constitutional requirements to bring forth Bills to be voted on, passed or discussed (HR 450), why are the Democrats wanting to bring forth their edicts of silencing their ...

Loughner Was Stopped, Warned About Running Red Light Saturday Morning
What is this? Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. "A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the Assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack," the Associated Press writes. "Jared Loughner ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner's driver's license an...

Sheriff Dupnik: Why No, I Won't Be Releasing My Records About Loughner And My Ineptitude In Dealing With Him. Why Do You Ask?
The Arizona Republic requested the documents. They state that such records are released as a matter of routine in criminal cases. Dupnik's office says, Nah. Why you want to bother yourself? I told you who's to blame, didn't I? On Monday, The Republic requested copies of any reports from the Pima County Sheriff's Department involving contacts with Loughner or calls to his house. Pima County Deputy Rene Carlson said her office would not release the reports without a specific date, though this is...

A Thank You Call to America’s Worst Sheriff
The worst sheriff in America, Pima County's irresponsible Clarence Dupnik, has accomplished notable achievements in the past. For example, he assisted in the non-prosecution of fellow moonbats who threw pies at Ann Coulter when she tried to speak at the University of Arizona. When SB1070 passed with the overwhelming support of Arizona citizens alarmed by the inundation of the state by Illegal Aliens, this sheriff of a border county refused to enforce it. But only after ignoring numerous warnings...

Palin lashes out at blood libel critics over Arizona shooting
TUCSON,Arizona — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Wednesday lashed out at critics for Manufacturing “blood Libel” with claims she bore some responsibility for the attempted Assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In a lengthy video posted on her Facebook page, Ms. Palin rejected charges she has stoked political anger to dangerous levels and urged Americans to reject calls from those “seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults....

Palin never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity
After holding out for a few days, Sarah Palin finally weighed in on the Tucson shootings in a video statement posted on her Facebook page this morning. In the Speech, which Business Insider calls "thoughtful," and Nate Silver says displays "more gravitas" than we're accustomed to from Palin, the former Governor denounces the idea that "political Rhetoric" was responsible for Saturday's attack. In an allusion to the "crosshairs map" that's gotten her in trouble since the shooting, Palin pushed fo...

Classmate And Best Friend: Jarred Loughner Wasnt Political, Just Deranged
ABC found a former classmate and close friend of Jarred Loughner, Zach Osler, and interviewed him this morning asking what might have motivated the now-infamous Tucson attacks. Osler’s answer was that Loughner wasn’t motivated by any politics, he wasn’t a Talk Radio listener and that he didn’t really watch the news. Osler says that Loughner was, quite simply, just mentally ill. Ossler does suggest that a movie called Zeitgeist might have had something to do with Loughner&...

Does Moderation Work?
In The Conversation, David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns every Wednesday. Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Tucson shooting Susan Walsh/Associated PressGabrielle Giffords, a moderate in the most immoderate state in the union. Gail Collins: David, we can’t not talk about the shootings in Tucson. I know you’ve been wanting a more moderate and sane political dialogue. But I am sorry to admit that one of my thoughts is that the aftermath of Tucson proves h...

No More Mister Nice Blog
WILL PARTISAN BICKERING SEND A CRAZY MAN TO THE CHAIR? Lefties have been looking for ties between Jared Loughner's state of mind and recent expressions of right-wing rage; the right, in response to this, has lashed out, aggressively attacking commentators and others -- including Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik -- who've criticized the right. And now along comes Limbaugh. The soundbite from Rush Limbaugh's Tuesday Radio Show that's The Right Word: Fox and inflammatory rhetoric | Sadhbh Walshe
Rightwing talkshow hosts were horrified by the Arizona massacre - and by the allegations that their fiery Rhetoric may have somehow influenced the shooter. O'Reilly is convinced that the attack was simply the work of an out-of-control "nut job" and was furious with others in the media for suggesting that anyone on the right was in any way responsible for fostering a hostile political environment (View clip here). "The killer Jared Loughner is a psychopath. Civilisation has always had them ...

Obama to Arizona as shot lawmaker fights for life
President Barack Obama was to lead Americans in national mourning Wednesday after an Arizona shooting tragedy unleashed a polarizing debate about the violent Rhetoric rocking US politics. Obama was headed to the southwestern state to lead a memorial service for the six people who were killed and the 14 wounded in the Assassination attempt on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is fighting for her life in a Hospital in Tucson. His trip comes after the family of the 22-year-old alleged gunman ...

Neither Tucson Sheriff Or Campus Police Will Release Psycho Killers Records
Arizona Republic: Sheriff’s Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and Pima Community College have declined to release documents that could shed light on run-ins they had with 22-year-old Jared Loughner in the months prior to the shooting. The Arizona Public Recor...

Charles Krauthammer: 'The origins of Jared Loughner's delusions are clear: mental illness. What are the origins of Paul Krugman'
Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician, Charles Krauthammer, so often a voice of sanity and reason (he is, after all, a Psychiatrist) ... says today exactly what's been needing to be said, in what Peter Wehner refers to as "a 'spectacularly good column' that concludes with a devastating knockout of the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman." Here are a few excerpts to pique your interest. The money quote is "The origins of [Jared] Loughner's delusions ...

Pelosi: Nation Grateful For Tucson's "Sense of Community" in Wake of Tragedy
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: Before traveling to Arizona with President Obama for tonight’s memorial service, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said she will tell the people of Tucson that their “sense of community” has inspired the country in the wake of last weekend’s shooting that left her colleague Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life. “When I go there I will bring the prayers and thoughts of members of Congress to Gabby’s family and to the staff w

Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' blunder | Peter Beaumont
The sense of victimhood of the Tea Party and its fellow travellers should now be well known. It was Glenn Beck, after all - the man who accused America's first African American president of being "Racist" - who last year told a rally of his followers in Washington that they had taken on the mantle of the Civil Rights movement. Now Sarah Palin, former vice Presidential Candidate, has repeated this same repellent inversion, accusing those who criticised her for her violent political rh...

Some historical perspective on political civility
In the aftermath of the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), there has been near-hysteria about the tenor of our political culture. Has the inflammatory Rhetoric gone too far? Is there too much vitriol in American politics? Is the Tea Party movement to blame? This entire pointed conversation about our current state of political affairs — spearheaded largely by the American left —reveals a serious lack of self-reflection or historical perspective. For those who feel...