Should We Blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting (The Daily Beast)

Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves
After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had endorsed Tea Party challengers to Giffords and others with little gun-sight images and the cry, "Don't Retreat -- Reload!" Giffords had noticed ("When people do that, they've got to realize there are c...

Looking at who's to blame for the shooting of Rep. Giffords
I was asked to be a call-in guest to the KDWN 720AM radio Sex and Money show to discuss the shooting from the perspective of a Journalist. The question posed to me, more or less, was if I think the press is responsible for the actions of nut-jobs like Jared Loughner, by sensationalizing the divisiveness of politics in our country. The question mainly was whether or not conservative press is responsible by using angry Rhetoric to describe the actions of our politicians. The media certainly plays ...

More gun control legislation in the wake of Gabrielle Giffords shooting
It was predicted here on Saturday that there would be calls for more Gun Control, and now Politico.com reports that Congresswoman Carolyn Mccarthy (D-NY), using the Jared Lee Loughner shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others as a springboard, is ready to introduce new gun control Legislation. Since her husband was killed and her son injured in a 1993 shooting incident in Long Island, McCarthy has been a very strong gun control advocate. One must sympathize with her ...

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Jared Lee Loughner facing five charges
Jared Lee Loughner, the man suspected of shooting US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is facing five charges and will appear in court in Phoenix on Monday....

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....

Tea Party, Palin, Angle and Loughner's Second Amendment Remedy
 Jared Lee Loughner killed six people and wounded more than a dozen outside a Tucson, Ariz. strip-mall on Saturday. In so doing one might conclude Loughner was exercizing a Second Amendment Remedy. Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, and other Tea Party enthusiasts took a calculated risk with their over the top Rhetoric and they lost. And America lost. And Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords lost. And a little nine year old girl lost. With last year's debate over Health Care reform came a violent, over...

Sheriff Dupnik names Angle and Palin as two responsible for 'vitriol' (Video)
Yesterday Pima County Sheriff Charles Dupnik took the bold step of naming Sharon Angle and Sarah Palin as two individuals responsible for the kind of toxic 'political vitriol' which he believes must end in light of the recent shooting in Tucson, Arizona.  Dupnik's comments came in an interview with Geraldo Rivera of Fox News.  Earlier in the day Dupnik had been interview by Megyn Kelly of Fox News, who accused the Sheriff of inserting politics where it did not belong.  In the Rive...

Republican Female U.S. Representatives Lead Commentary on Giffords Shooting
Nearly 40 percent of female GOP U.S. House members issued Press Releases on House websites after the shooting in Arizona, compared to 25 percent of female Democrats, male Republicans, and male Democrats As of early Sunday evening - approximately 30 hours after the violent shooting Saturday in Tucson, Arizona - more than one quarter of the U.S. House of Representatives had issued Press Releases expressing shock and sadness over the tragic event on their official U.S. House websites, according ...

Open thread for night owls: More than rhetorical violence
In mourning for those who lost their lives in the Tucson massacre Saturday: To the survivors, including Congresswoman Giffords, go our wishes that their recoveries be swift and complete. President Obama has asked for a memorial moment of silence Monday at 11 a.m. Eastern time. • • • • • At Talk to Action, the Veteran watcher of white supremacist and anti-semitic groups Chip Berlet writes, The Becking of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. An excerpt: From a moral viewpoint R...

Tucson shootings: How Gabrielle Giffords's event for constituents turned to tragedy
Tucson - The invitation from Gabrielle Giffords arrived via Twitter on a bright Saturday morning in the southern Arizona desert: "My 1st Congress on Your Corner starts now. Please stop by to let me know what is on your mind or tweet me later." This Story Signs of hope in Giffords's medical condition Tucson shootings: How Gabrielle Giffords's event for constituents turned to tragedy Gabrielle Giffords battles for her life; shooting casts grim light on U.S. political discord Gabrielle...

US charges sole gunman in lawmaker shooting
US prosecutors charged a lone young gunman over the attempted Assassination of a congresswoman as doctors voiced guarded hope she would recover from the attack that killed six others. President Barack Obama called on Americans to observe a moment of silence on Monday for Victims of the attack in Arizona as some officials asked if the nation's often divisive politics had spiraled out of control. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was in an induced coma as doctors treated bullet wounds to her ...

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 ...

Atrocity in Arizona
Posted by Arnold Ahlert 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. A town hall-style meeting held outside a Supermarket in Tuscon, Arizona was the scene of a deadly rampage on Saturday. 19 people were shot.  Five were killed at the scene and one died in the Hospital. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who hosted the event, was shot in ...

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...

alicublog
NEW VOICE COLUMN UP, about the Giffords shooting. The fallout has in some ways been what I'd expected: as with Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell, Conservatives have been quick to label Jared Loughner a liberal even though his actual politics as expressed in his ravings could best be described as aphasic. The thing that took me aback was the vehemence of some of the more prominent rightbloggers on the subject. Ole Perfesser Instapundit, for example, did several posts with more manic intensity...

Daily Kos Points Finger At Palin While Scrubbing Own Gabrielle Giffords Is Dead To Me Post Published Days Before Shooting
World Net Daily: Shortly after news broke of the Attempted Murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., the left-leaning blog Daily Kos was swift to scrub its post from a Tucson writer explaining how the congresswoman was now “dead to me.” One of the blog’s diary writers, identifying himself as BoyBlue, had written a post only two days before the shooting titled “My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!” Continue ...

Gabby Giffords -" A victim of the politics of hate
However, Sarah's Staffer Rebecca Mansour, has been tweeting in defense of her boss since the tragedy took place, stating that the crosshairs were never intended to be gun sights. According to Kevin Gosztola, multimedia editor of OpEd News, there is clear a indication that the "far-right" in this country, or whatever you want to call them, have escalated their Rhetoric to the point where individuals are feeling like there is nothing else they can do but arm themselves and defend their country ...

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, ...

The Weekend That Was
A troubled 22-year-old College Student, Jared Lee Loughner, has been charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, during a shootout that left 20 people (Read more...) ...

Roger Ailes
Howard Kurtz's Moronic Equivalence Greasy-wigged Republican Howard Kurtz has finally found a Victim in yesterday's massacre in Arizona. It's Sarah Palin. I hate to say this [sic], but the blame game is already under way. It began within hours of Saturday's horrifying shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and nearly 20 others, even before the gunman was identified. Political Target Map as seen on Sarah Palin's website. Inset: Sarah Palin and Gabrielle Giffords (AP Photo) One of t...

Arizona shooting suspect charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Giffords
Federal authorities also charged Jared Lee Loughner, the Arizona shooting suspect, with two counts of Murder. President Obama calls for a moment of silence Monday at 11 a.m. EST....

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...

Citizens
I was about to use the headline "Heroes," but I changed my mind. Politics Daily: Speaking at a Sunday Press Conference in Tucson, Dupnik said that the suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, was attempting to change magazines after his initial volley of shots when "a woman went up and grabbed the magazine and tore it away from him while he was trying to put another magazine in." Loughner then succeeded in loading another magazine but that "fortunately the spring and the magazine failed" and two other civil...

The Arizona Assassin: Seriously Disturbed History
In early June, Lynda Sorenson, 52, had gone back to community college in Tucson in hopes of getting back on the Job Market. One of her classes was a basic algebra class--and one of her classmates was Jared Loughner, now identified by authorities as the man who killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in a shooting rampage Saturday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attemp...

Jared Loughner's Alienation from Old Friends
Like this Story? Share it: As Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in a Tucson Hospital after being shot in the head, investigators find evidence at the main suspect Jared Lee Loughner's house. Ben Tracy reports on the attempted Assassination. Bob Schieffer spoke with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Nancy Cordes, Jan Crawford, and Bob Orr on Jared Loughner's past, the gunman who killed six people in Tucson, Ariz. and injuring congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. This March 2010 pho...