The Arizona Republic Chastises Sheriff Dupnik For His Partisan, Vitriolic, Comments

Is Tucson Sheriff Dupnik covering something up?
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 Records Law requires that records be "open ...

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...

ARIZONA REPUBLIC TO SHERIFF DUPNIK: Shut Up And Remember Your Duty. Enough attacks, sheriff. Enou
Arizona REPUBLIC TO SHERIFF DUPNIK: Shut Up And Remember Your Duty. “Enough attacks, sheriff. Enough vitriol. It is well past time for the sheriff of Pima County to get a grip on his emotions and remember his duty. . . . Dupnik needs to recall that he is elected to be a lawman. With each additional comment, the Democratic sheriff of Pima County is revealing his agenda as partisan, and, as such, every bit as recklessly antagonistic as the talk-show hosts and politicians he chooses to decr...

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 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...

Infants Playing with Flamethrowers
Harold Meyerson nails it: Dangerous outcomes from a culture of paranoia: Last October, Glenn Beck was musing on his Radio Show about the prospect of the government seizing his Children if he didn't give them Flu Vaccines. "You want to take my kids because of that?" he said. "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson." Last April, Erick Erickson, the managing editor of the right-wing RedState blog and a CNN commentator, was questioning the legality of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey on a radi...

Michelle Malkin: Arizona sheriff may be worst in U.S.
There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend's horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was not one of them. If the White House has any sense, President Obama will stay far away from the demagogic Dupnik and his media entourage when he visits Arizona on Wednesday to memorialize the Victims. Indeed, if the White House is truly committed to unifying the country, it will explicitly disavow Dupnik's vulture-like exploita...

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...

Sheriff Dupnik Seems To Be Hiding Something
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Jan 12 2011 Filed under News & Opinion, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry What if it turns out that there were multiple warning signs about sweet, misunderstood Jared Loughner that were ignored by Law Enforcement? From the New York Times: The news of police involvement with the Loughners suggests that County Sheriff’s deputies were at least familiar with the fam...

Sarah Palin tosses gasoline on flames
Whatever else you say about Sarah Palin, she’s got the worst sense of timing in politics today. Just when the nation is yearning for healing, the same morning members of Congress prepare to gather in prayer, just hours before the president goes to Tucson to deliver a message on the need for us all to pull together — Palin decides to pour more Gasoline on the flames of hatred and division she has already ignited. It would have been so easy, and appropriate, for Palin to say what so many othe...

All the News thats Fit to Edit Like a Ransom Note
In between whacking Paul Krugman around like a pinata, John Hinderaker of Power Line writes: Here is a rule of thumb: any time a liberal quotes a fragment of a sentence, or, as in this case, a three-word phrase, a red flag should go up. When liberals quote sentence fragments, they are usually misleading when they aren’t out-and-out fabricated. Stacy McCain once dubbed this the Ransom Note-style of quote editing; or as one of Tim Blair’s readers asked in 2009 about Far Left Media Matter...

Loughner Parents: Sorry About Those Murders (ignore that skull in the back yard??)
These parents have a LOT of explaining to do.    “Sorry” isn’t going to be enough. The family of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner handed out a written statement to reporters standing in front of their home late Tuesday afternoon. This is a very difficult time for us. We ask the media to respect our Privacy. There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don’t understand why this ...

Poisonous Political Atmosphere Is Unhealthy
This is really, really hard to write. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is my friend. I spent time with her, and her husband, Mark Kelly, less than two weeks ago. We talked about the debased state of discourse in the country, the awful and degrading nature of campaigns, including the really despicable one run against her last year, the threats she received after she voted for the Health Care Reform Bill--and the wonderful satisfaction of public service and the need to encourage more of our best and bri...

Closing Arguments: Debating Social Security on the Radio
I appeared last week on the Bill Meyer Show, a Talk Radio program in Medford, OR. It was a very useful debate, since Bill (and one or two callers) used all the standard talking points for cutting Social Security: it's bankrupt, it's only IOUs, there are too many Baby Boomers, the worker-to-retiree ratio is disastrous, it's a Ponzi Scheme, etc. etc. That was opportunity to rebut all of these points, so it went really well. It got a little heated, too, which makes for better listening. (But it w...

Friend claims that Jared Loughner didnt watch television or listen to talk radio
  Shortly after Jared Loughner shot and killed six people while wounding dozens of others in Arizona the media went on a witch-hunt to see where they could lay the blame for Loughner’s actions. Personally, I would have blamed Jared Loughner and I suppose the media would have also if they weren’t being driven by their agenda.   It didn’t take long for the media to find their target and set their sights on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, conservative t...

Rush Limbaugh Blasts Critics Linking Talk Radio to Shootings...
Yahoo! Buzz Rush Limbaugh defended himself against suggestions that the heated Rhetoric sometimes found on political programs influenced the shootings in Arizona. Since the violent incident last weekend, a debate has erupted in the media about whether political Talk Shows influenced Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of killing six people in Arizona and critically wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Talking about Loughner on his radio program, Limbaugh said, “We know he listened to heavy me...

Was the Arizona Shooting Sheriff Dupnik's Fault?
By RightKlik It's pretty clear at this point that Jared Loughner was the Lone Wolf shooter solely responsible for the carnage in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday. But without a shred of evidence, liberals in this country want to blame the "usual suspects," including Sarah Palin, the tea partiers and conservative Talk Radio. Let's cast the net wider. On Saturday, we began asking pointed questions about Tuscon Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: A congresswoman got shot point-blank in the head in Pima County, A...

WFP Targets Right-Wing Talking Heads
In the wake of the Arizona shooting, the Working Families Party is asking supporters to send an e-mail to “Right Wing talking heads and the advertisers who pay for their shows” to condemn what the labor-backed party’s leaders deemed “violent Rhetoric” and ask them to stop “playing with fire.” “No, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Rupert Murdoch didn’t put the gun in the deranged shooter’s hands.” “But they and their politician...

Sarah Palin proves -- again -- that she is a terrible politician
Sarah Palin didn't retreat. She reloaded. And she proved, again, that she is a ruinously incompetent politician. Over the weekend, liberal pundits overeagerly speculated that she may have inspired the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). After learning more about alleged shooter Jared Loughner, many of those same commentators restrained their criticism of the former Alaska Governor, and polls showed that Americans are skeptical of any connection. People recognized Palin had been unfair...

Palin Responds to Giffords Shooting, Criticism
We've been talking about the relationship between bellicose Rhetoric in the recent election cycle, frequently typified by statements and campaign materials from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson Arizona this past weekend. This morning, former Gov. Palin released this response, which you can view for yourself: Four days after a gunman attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin respond...

Contrasting Obama and Palin on civility in politics
Mark Murray writes: By now, many have already digested and analyzed Sarah Palin's video response to Saturday's shooting in Arizona. What's particularly striking about Palin's response is how it contrasts with President Obama's view on civility in politics. There are those who claim political Rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back ...

Cain Launches Exploratory Committee
Pizza mogul and conservative Talk Radio host Herman Cain (R) formed an Exploratory Committee to run for president in 2012. Cain made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate from Georgia in 2004. ...

Conservative pundit launches presidential exploratory committee
Conservative Talk Radio host Herman Cain on Wednesday announced the creation of a presidential Exploratory Committee. The former Godfather's Pizza CEO created a website with a message to potential supporters and links to donate money. "Fellow patriots, now more than ever, we must come together to take a stand for the future of America," he writes. "I make this promise to you as I deliberate the ways in which I can do my part to restore and protect the American Dream: I would be the voice of ...

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...