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RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate
Be sure to read the last post about Palin before you read Junior’s reminiscences or else you might not appreciate what a quintessential example this is of the left’s magical thinking about culpability. You want voodoo, you got it: Uncle Jack’s Speech in Dallas was to have been an explosive broadside against the Right Wing. He found Dallas’ streets packed five deep with Kennedy Democrats, but among them were the familiar ornaments of presidential hatred; high-flying conf...

Palin Depicts Herself as Tucson Victim
Palin's new statement showed no remorse for the wild accusations that she has tossed around since she stepped onto the national political stage in 2008 as John McCain's surprise choice to be his vice presidential Running Mate. Back then, she behaved like a reckless child with matches, either not comprehending the effect of her incendiary words or not caring. For instance, she blithely accused Barack Obama of "palling around with Terrorists," a false charge that riled up the Republican Base and...

Congressional Voices Speak Out About Tucson
Like this Story? Share it: Katie Couric speaks to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rep. Jim Clyburn (D - SC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D - FL), Rep. Michael McCaul (R - TX), Rep. Frank Guinta (R - NH) and Rep. Bill Huizenga (R - MI) about the Tucson shootings. Katie Couric speaks to members of Congress about their reaction the video released by Sarah Palin regarding the shooting in Tucson and the media surrounding it. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D - FL) talks about the impact of the Tucs...

The Post 1/12/2011
Haley is our state’s first female Governor, first minority governor and, at 38, is the youngest governor in America. To read our coverage of her inauguration (including thoughts on the road she traveled to get here and the challenges she’ll face now that she’s arrived), click here . In national news, U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Arizona to address the nation regarding the tragic Tucson shooting - while Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood Libel” ...

Republican tells AP: Wis. gov., others threatened
A person within the Republican party tells The Associated Press that police are investigating a threat against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. The Republican was briefed on the threat and requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to release the information. Word of the threat came when state Senate Chief Clerk Robert Marchant sent a memo to all Senate offices Wednesday. The memo said the FBI, the Capitol Police and other Law Enforcement agencies are "t...

Conservative Media Used Blood Libel First
Talking Points Memo reports: Before Sarah Palin posted her Facebook provocation this morning accusing the media of committing “blood Libel” for connecting some of her statements to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), that phrase was being batted around by the conservative media. Andrew Brietbart used the phrase in a tweet last night (though it’s likely Palin’s video, posted in the early morning hours Wednesday, was filmed before that tweet)....

Loughner Friend: 'He Did Not Watch TV' or 'Listen to Political Radio'
It's become clear since Saturday that some in the media are determined to blame outspoken Conservatives for the Tucson massacre. So there's really no reason to believe that yet another fact contradicting that attack will put it to rest. But in the spirit of journalism - that thing the left's media attack dogs profess their reverence for - it should be noted: a friend of the killer, Jared Lee Loughner, told "Good Morning America" that Loughner "did not watch TV. He disl...

Partisan Finger-Pointing Is Hypocrisy
The drumbeat continues blaming Conservatives exclusively (or at least disproportionately) for overheated, violent Rhetoric. But it is not that simple.  In fact, some of the exact same people now posturing about a need for “civility” have themselves been guilty of the exact same overheated, violent rhetoric that they now (with no evidence) think is responsible for the Tucson attacks. The fact is that we have a general problem with abusive, dehumanizing political Rhetoric.  It didn

AlaskaDispatch.com: Palin's response to the Tucson tragedy is 'all about Sarah'
The rap on Sarah Palin as Governor in Alaska was always that in Sarah's world, everything was about Sarah. When the then-governor and Republican vice-presidential Candidate fumbled her way through an interview with CBS's Katie Couric seemingly unable to answer the question of "what Newspapers and magazines (do) you regularly read," some old friends and ex-employees of Palin joked that the problem was that Palin had the political sense to avoid the honest answer. The honest answer for Palin, th...

Palin aide: Shes getting death threats at unprecedented levels
I almost wish that this wasn’t being reported as it’ll only inflame things further among fringe types, but after four days of screeching about Palin the murderer, who can blame her staff for wanting to show the world the ironic outcome? I trust and hope that she’ll be fine: She’s got the financial means to hire the best security that money can buy, and remember, as noted earlier, the truly dangerous nuts typically don’t make threats. The vast majority of these peo...

Death Threats Against Sarah Palin at an 'Unprecedented Level' Says Aide
Palin talking to security professionals abcnews An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor's team has been talking to security professionals . Palin has taken much heat for her "crosshairs" map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturday's attack. Friends say ...

Christie Says Palin Needs to Go Unscripted to Contend for 2012
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey says it’s way too early to handicap the field of his fellow Republicans who might run for president in 2012, but on Wednesday he voiced a few sharp words about the most famous one. He argued that unscripted, even adversarial exchanges with reporters and the public are essential to judging a Candidate, and that if Sarah Palin continues to avoid them, “she’ll never be president.” At a lunch with New York Times Journalists and the newspaper’s pub

Words That Dont Heal
Sarah Palin feels victimized by critics who accuse her of helping create an angry political climate that led to the Tucson shootings, and she has a point. She chose a truly unfortunate way to make it, using the phrase “blood Libel.” Here’s the context, from Palin’s eight-minute video statement on the shooting: “Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and v...

Blood libel: Sarah Palin attempts to take moral high ground
After days of silence , Sarah Palin released an 8 minute video on her Facebook page to bemoan the media’s alleged persecution of herself and other pundits after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday in Tucson.  She accused them of conducting “blood Libel” against her. Jewish fundamentalists have responded by saying she clearly seemed ignorant of what the term means by using it to describe her current predicament.  Blood libel refers to a belief centuries...

RFK Jr. Insists JFK Was Killed by a Right-Winger
Just forgot all that stuff about Lee Harvey Oswald being a self-proclaimed Marxist who defected to the USSR, offered his services to the Castro regime, had originally planned to kill a conservative general who was an outspoken critic of Cuba etc. …Neither Beck, Hannity nor Savage nor the hate merchants at Fox News and Talk Radio can claim to have invented their genre. Toxic right-wing vitriol so dominated the public airwaves from the McCarthy era until 1963 that President Kennedy...

Man-Up Tim Pawlenty
G.I. Wood Shop Inc. Mrs. Peel Oh…My Valve! V The K’s Caption This! An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. 2012 presidential hopeful, Tim Pawlenty, is taking some well deserved heat, this morning from Conservative Bloggers because of his “weak-tea” responses to a questions posed to him about Sarah Palin’s “crosshairs” map. “It would not have been my style to put the cross hairs on there,” he said Tuesday on “...

Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot:'The Real Case Is That She Had No Security
Source: Think Progress Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: ‘The Real Case Is That She Had No Security’ In March 2010, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) warned that the Rhetoric from the tea parties and Sarah Palin was potentially dangerous. “I can say that in the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this…when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there’s consequences to that action,” she

Media, liberals are just as twisted as Loughner
This tragedy in Tucson is a mere 100 miles from Maricopa County- Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s domain.  Arpaio blasted the media for making this Criminal Justice affair a political platform.  He said, “People are using this for their own political agenda. I don’t think that’s right. I think we should let the Criminal Justice system do its job.”  Arpaio also said that assertions that Sarah Palin and the right are somehow to blame aren’t right. Palin says ...

Potential 2012 GOP Hopefuls Step Up their Profiles
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels are all considered prospective 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates. (Credit: CBS) There's a long list of possible 2012 Republican presidential Candidates, but it appears they're all waiting for someone else to take the first plunge into the race. In the meantime, the prospective presidential hopefuls are bolstering their Republican credentials with a series of critical events. While former v...

A Conspiracy Against the Mind, Against Life, Against Manand the Virtue of Sarah Palin
Wednesday Sarah Palin responded to the vicious blood Libel leveled against her and millions of right-thinking Americans by The Army of destroyers. The ferocious, relentless attacks on Sarah Palin are a testament to her greatness, proof of how deathly afraid of her they are, like Dracula to the silver cross. It’s envy. Ayn Rand said it: “Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who fee...

Mixed news for Santorum
Rick Santorum is the first choice of Pennsylvania Republicans to try to recapture his old Senate seat next year...but they're a lot less interested in him as a potential Presidential Candidate. 45% of GOP voters in the state would like him to be the one who takes on Bob Casey, with none of the other names being thrown around right now even hitting double digits. Congressman Jim Gerlach leads the 'best of the rest' with 9%, followed by former Governor Mark Schweiker and Congressman Charlie Dent ...

Mike Huckabee with big lead over Mitt Romney in Iowa
Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters on potential Republican 2012 Presidential Candidates and found former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a 12-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Huckabee leads with 30 percent, Romney gets 18 percent, Sarah Palin nets 15 percent, Newt Gingrich has 15 percent, Ron Paul has 6 percent, and Tim Pawlenty, John Thune and Mitch Daniels all get less than five percent. Romney visited the state early and frequently in 2008 and lost by nine point...

Poll Watch: Public Policy Polling Nevada 2012 GOP Caucus Poll
PPP (D) Nevada 2012 GOP Caucus Survey Mitt Romney 31% Sarah Palin 19% Newt Gingrich 18% Mike Huckabee 14% Ron Paul 7% Mitch Daniels 1% John Thune 1% Tim Pawlenty 1% Someone else/Undecided 8% Who would your second choice be as the Republican Candidate for President next year? Sarah Palin 21% Newt Gingrich 17% Mitt Romney 17% Mike Huckabee 14% Ron Paul 6% Mitch Daniels 5% Tim Pawlenty 5% John Thune 3% Someone else/Undecided 12% Favorable / Unfavorable {Net} Mitt Romney 70% / 18% {+52%} Sara...

Poll Watch: Public Policy Polling Pennsylvania 2012 GOP Primary
PPP Pennsylvania 2012 GOP Primary Mike Huckabee 26% ( 23% ) {19%} [20%] (27%) Sarah Palin 21% (16%) {19%} [ 24% ] (27%) Mitt Romney 16% (16%) { 20% } [16%] ( 31% ) Newt Gingrich 15% (15%) {19%} [23%] Tim Pawlenty 6% (2%) Ron Paul 5% Mitch Daniels 2% (2%) Someone else/Undecided 9% (22%) Among Conservatives Mike Huckabee 27% ( 25% ) {20%} [22%] (28%) Sarah Palin 23% (17%) {18%} [ 28% ] ( 31% ) Newt Gingrich 15% (15%) { 22% } [24%] Mitt Romney 14% (15%) {21%} [14%] (28%) Tim Pawlenty 9% (3%) Ron...

Thousands flock to Obama's Tucson memorial address
Tucson, Ari. | Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:24pm EST Tucson, Ari. (Reuters) - Thousands of people, some toting peace signs, packed a stadium in central Tucson on Wednesday to hear President Barack Obama address a city devastated by a shooting rampage. "This could be a way of people connecting. Sometimes tragedy can lead to community," said Los Angeles native Megan Henley, 25, as she stood in a line of people winding several city blocks hoping to enter the sports arena. A 22-year-old College Dropout, Ja...