Tea Party Express raising money in aftermath of Arizona shooting (Daily Caller)

Tea Party Express Fundraises Off Giffords Shooting: 'Tea Party Won't Be Silenced'
In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they "won't be silenced" -- and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how "revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to associate the tea party with violence like this." This latest email emphasizes how "horrified" the TPE was to hear about the shootings, which includ...

Your next act in the Tucson shooting tragedy: The shameless political fundraiser
First we had one side blaming the other for the violence. Then came the other side rejecting that and accusing the accuser of "Hey, it's not us, it's you." After that, each side pretty much abandon Jared Loughner as a talking point and just kept blaming each other for causing the violence. It's not like they needed him for their pissing match, and "oh, here's more proof that I'm good and you're evil." The next act: The political Fundraiser. As follows: The attack on Conservatives and the tea par...

Right Wingers Defend Hate Speech While Tea Party Takes Advantage of Arizona Shooting To Raise Money
While Jared Loughner’s Extremist views differ from those of the Tea Party, many have raised concerns that the anti-government and hate-filled Rhetoric coming from the Tea Party movement, along with leaders such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, contribute to an atmosphere of hate which promotes violence among disturbed individuals such as Loughner. There is a fine line between extremists on both ends of the political spectrum, and I was not at all surprised to see that Loughner’s view...

Tea Party Express: Left trying to 'smear' us
The Tea Party Express blasted liberal criticism of the movement on Monday in a fund-raising email to members, saying the left is trying to "smear" them and Sarah Palin. The email defends Palin, who has taken heat from some liberals who say her PAC went too far in using a graphic with crosshairs on specific Congressional Districts, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Some have said the Rhetoric is at least partially to blame for the Tucson shootings. The email notes that the liberal si...

Content Provider! That Would Be Me.
I find the term "content provider" hilarious. It's getting more common as a definition of what writers do on the net, sorta like viewing birthday gifts from the point of view of how to sell the largest possible amount of wrapping paper and bows. To sell those, you gotta put something in the box itself. Jennifer Armstrong provided the link to a story about the squinting bush brown butterflies. From the article: Squinting bush brown butterflies use reflective "eye spots" on their wings to attract ...

Tea Party Express Raises Cash Over Arizona Shooting 'Smears'
The Tea Party Express, one of the movement's largest national groups, blasted out an email plea Monday afternoon asking their supporters to send money to defend them from liberals who are allegedly "assigning blame" to them and Sarah Palin for the shootings in Arizona over the weekend. "It is quite clear that liberals are trying to exploit this shooting for their own political benefit, and they used deception and dishonesty to try and smear all of us and our beliefs," the email read, according...

Adolf Hitler responsible for Arizona shooting?
While Victims of the Tucson shooting still lied in the Parking Lot, propagandists on the left started to lay the ground work in an attempt to spin the horrific incident into a rightwing self-fulfilling prophesy.  With no regard for the truth, a broad spectrum of liberals jumped on the political vitriol bandwagon attempting to connect Conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh to the shooting.  However, to date the only information gleaned from the investigation indicate the discov...

Tea Party Express fundraises off Arizona tragedy, lies about Daily Kos
Uh, what? From a Tea Party express Fundraising email: The media didn't tell you that the left-wing website, DailyKos, had targeted Congresswoman Giffords, putting a BULLSEYE on her, did they? But that's just what happened. The media didn't tell you that because it never happened. It's fantasy. It's a lie. And of course, since they can't verify the existence of such a bullseye image on this site, they'll claim it was scrubbed. Except that no one got a Screenshot of this supposed bullseye image....

Tacky, Tacky! Tea Party's National PAC Uses Tucson Tragedy To Raise Money
Is it just me, or is this amazingly tacky and tone-deaf? Whether they like it or not, the Tea Party certainly has turned up the heat with inflammatory Rhetoric in Arizona, and it's incredibly tasteless to use the Tucson shootings to say "Oh, poor us!": The Tea Party Express, a California-based conservative political action committee, sent out a letter to supporters Monday requesting donations in reaction to Saturday’s shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona that claimed six lives....

The Arizona Killings And The Tea Party
The Tea Party Express says blaming the constitutionalist movement and Sarah Palin for the Arizona shooting that killed six people and wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is "outrageous." The California-based group says liberals are trying to exploit the shooting for political gain and place the blame on society for embracing the tea party movement, but the 22-year-old charged in the shooting is the only person responsible for the violence. In a statement Monday, the Tea Party Express says if ...

Family of Ariz. shooting suspect express sorrow
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The parents of a man charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords expressed sorrow Tuesday for the “heinous events,” their first public remarks since their 22-year-old son was accused of killing six people. “There are no words that can possibly express how we feel,” the family of Jared Loughner said in a statement handed to reporters outside their home. “We don’t understand why this happened. It may not make any differe...

Video: Tea Party Express chief strategist responds to attempts to link tea party movement to Arizona shooting
It just simply doesn't matter that the shooter was a "left-wing pothead." Or that his favorite book was the Communist Manifesto. Or that his favorite YouTube video was of the burning of the American Flag. A tea partier he was not, but that sure hasn't stopped the left. The Tea Party express Strategist responds: ...

In They Are Who We Thought They Were News..
I had put this in the replies in yesterday’s Afternoon Open Thread, but I thought about it, and decided to FP it. In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they “won’t be silenced” — and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how “revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to as...

Daily scoreboard
1. From the Baltimore Sun: If the cold keeps up, the Chesapeake Bay may freeze over. First time in 7 years. Which was 2004. Which was one of those Hottest Years Ever. Under tough luck, you stole the Browns rule… GOOD. 2. From the Associated Press: “The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that the Supreme Court freed it from any authority to regulate drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a quick overseas source of lethal sodiu...

Tea Party Express Leader: Left Is 'Revolting And Disgusting' For Blaming The Tea Party
Another Tea Party Leader is accusing the left of unfairly blaming the Tea Party for the Mass Shootings in Arizona, describing how "revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to associate the tea party with violence like this." Sal Russo, the leader of the Tea Party Express, said on Fox News today that shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner "was obviously a leftist. He admired Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto. Those are not volumes that are popular with the Tea Party so he was obviously...

Mixing fundraising and tragedy
Senator Bernie Sanders mixed a Fundraising appeal with his analysis of the Arizona shootings in an email to supporters today, a mixture most public figures have been avoiding: Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank th...

Butterflies Taking Turns in Attracting Mates
Jennifer Armstrong provided the link to a story about the squinting bush brown butterflies. From the article: Squinting bush brown butterflies use reflective "eye spots" on their wings to attract potential mates. Males born in the wet season beat their wings to flash their spots but in the dry season females grow brighter spots instead and take the lead. This behaviour could benefit females, allowing them to control mating when fewer food resources are available. Published in the journal Scie...

Majority Of Americans Not Buying Into Far Left Spin About Arizona Shootings
Immediately after the tragic massacre where a 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner (Mug Shot to the left) shot anywhere from 13 to 19 people (conflicting reports) people, killed six and left others, including the Congresswomen from AZ Gabrielle Giffords, in critical and serious condition, Far Left Democrats started pointing fingers and casting blame on Rhetoric and imagery from the political right to assign blame for Loughner's actions. A CBS News' poll shows the majority of Americans have not bough...

Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftists' for Giffords Shooting
Showing no sign of tamping down on divisive political Rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of 20 people that left six dead in Tuscon Saturday, the Tea Party Nation group e-mailed its members Sunday warning them they would be called upon to fight leftists in the days ahead and defend their movement. TPN founder Judson Phillips, in an article linked off the e-mail "The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and the left's attack on the Tea Party movement," described the shooter as "a leftist lunatic" and...

After shooting, Tea Party slams left for criticism; vows 'we won't be silenced'
The Tea Party Express sent an email message to supporters Monday, accusing the left of "assigning blame" for Saturday's shooting in Arizona to members of the Tea Party movement and to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.  The message, which doubled as a Fundraising email, labeled the comments from some Liberal Bloggers and commentators "disgusting and revolting."  The group also lashed out at the Mainstream Media, accusing the press of enabling the criticism of Palin and Tea Party Activists.  "I

Tea Party Express defends Palin
The Tea Party Express leaps to Sarah Palin's defense: The Tea Party Express blasted liberal criticism of the movement on Monday in a fund-raising email to members, saying the left is trying to "smear" them and Sarah Palin. The email defends Palin, who has taken heat from some liberals who say her PAC went too far in using a graphic with crosshairs on specific Congressional Districts, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Some have said the Rhetoric is at least partially to blame for the...

Daily Caller Expoits A Tragedy By Calling Out The Left For Exploiting A Tragedy
Tucker Carlson ’s The Daily Caller is featuring a piece called “Exploiting a Tragedy,” but the Twitter headline “Exploiting a tragedy: Lefties love a crisis” more closely illustrates the unintentionally ironic, self-contradictory nature of the op-ed, co-authored by Carlson and Neil Patel . Aside from eating its own tail, though, the piece makes several other glaring missteps, including a poorly thought-out comment about Gun Control, and a yellow assertion about Gab...

In Arizona, Obama to honor memories, speak of hope
WASHINGTON—Under high expectations to provide healing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will try to convert the horror of the Arizona shootings into a moment of national unity centering his memorial Speech in Tucson on the lives of the Victims and the heroism of those who rushed to stop the madness. The president was crafting his Speech on Tuesday, and his aides were reluctant to discuss it even broadly in its unfinished form, other than to say it will emphasize the memories of those l...

Family of accused Arizona shooter expresses sorrow
TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:13pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of a 22-year-old man accused in an Arizona Shooting Spree that killed six people and injured 14 others expressed sorrow on Tuesday for the rampage and asked for the media to respect their Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could make you feel better," according to the statement attributed to accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner's family. "We don't unders...

In Arizona, Obama to honor memories, speak of hope
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under high expectations to provide healing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will try to convert the horror of the Arizona shootings into a moment of national unity centering his memorial Speech in Tucson on the lives of the Victims and the heroism of those who rushed to stop the madness. The president was crafting his Speech on Tuesday, and his aides were reluctant to discuss it even broadly in its unfinished form, other than to say it will emphasize the memories of t...