The Arizona Shooting Is Not A Product Of Right-Wing Rage

The Tea Party and the Tucson Tragedy
How anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic Populism made the Giffords shooting more likely. By Jacob Weisberg Posted Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 There's something offensive, as well as pointless, about the politically charged inquiry into what might have been swirling inside the head of Jared Loughner. We hear that the accused shooter read The Communist Manifesto and liked flag-burning videos—good news for the right. Wait—he was a devotee of Ayn Rand and favored the gold standard, so he was a righ...

The left stoops to new low with Arizona shooting
Despite the fact that the alleged shooter in Saturday’s massacre in Tucson appears to have no particular Party Affiliation, and police have found the Communist Manifesto and some sort of crude alter complete with skull and candles in Jared Loughner’s backyard…the leftwing media continues to blame this horrific event on the likes of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. The liberal blame game began shortly after Loughner was taken into Custody, with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik&...

Hate Speech the Rights Magic Bullet (Guest Voice)
Hate Speech the Right’s Magic Bullet by Michael Winship The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov had a rule: if you show a gun in the first act, by the time the curtain falls, it has to go off. For weeks and months, that gun, the weapon of angry Rhetoric and intemperate rabblerousing, has been cocked and loaded in plain view on the American stage; Saturday morning outside a Shopping Mall in Tucson, Arizona, it went off again and again and again. The target, Gabrielle Giffords, a member of the Un...

Poll: Rhetoric, Arizona shooting unrelated
Almost 60 percent of the public believes that heated political Rhetoric has nothing to do with an Arizona Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and killed a Federal Judge. Fifty-seven percent of respondents in a new CBS News poll said Rhetoric is unrelated to the shooting, while 32 percent said they believe the two are connected. Many pundits and lawmakers have keyed in on political vitriol as a potential contributing factor to the shootings allegedly carried out by...

Jared Loughner appears to be clinically scitzophrenic, not a right-wing extremist. Leading conservatives argue this means that
A virtual who's who of Conservatives - from George Will and Marc Thiessen to virtually every well-known conservative media figure and blogger has now reacted with outrage to the idea that violent Rhetoric by Conservatives had anything to do with the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Many, in fact, reverse the accusation and claim that they are the Victims of a new "McCarthyism" or a "blood Libel" when critics suggest that violent Rhetoric by Conservatives in any way contributed to ...

Only 33% believe 'political tone' had anything to do with Arizona shooting
Most Americans, 57 percent, believe the tragic shooting in Arizona isn't connected to politics. That's the result of a new CBS News poll which found only 32 percent of respondents aid the harsh political tone had something to do with the shooting. Republicans -- 69 percent said Rhetoric was not to blame; 19 percent said it played a part. Democrats -- 49 percent saw no connection; 42 percent said there was. Independents -- 56 percent said Rhetoric had nothing to do with the attack; 33 percent fel...

Eric Fuller, Arizona Victim, Describes Shooting (VIDEO)
NEW YORK — One of the survivors of Saturday's Shooting Spree in Arizona says "it was like a bad crime drama." Eric Fuller said Tuesday on the CBS "The Early Show" that he felt the bullet that hit his knee but didn't know he had also been hit in the back. He says he didn't know how to react and felt the Victims "were in for more." Jared Loughner (LAWF'-nuhr) is being held on federal charges. He's accused of killing six people and wounding or injuring 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabriel...

The Note: 2012 Politics Gets Tangled In Arizona Shooting Aftermath
By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER The place that Sarah Palin has occupied in the debate about civility in politics in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona that left six people dead has inevitably dragged other potential 2012 contenders into the discussion. One of the first to join the fray is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose long-planned book tour kicks off this week. Pawlenty weighed in on the swirling Controversy about the appropriateness of Palin’s use of rifle cro...

Dont you get it, you stupid, reactionary, racist, white, trashy, snowbilly, flagwaving, Constitution-fetish, Liberty-loving Reds
We don’t care that Loughner’s shooting rampage wasn’t inspired by anything other then his Mental Illness … YOU are still to blame. Whether Jared Loughner is a far-left nihilist or a right-wing Racist or — as he most likely is — some weird politically incoherent amalgamation of Extremist beliefs tinged with paranoia, he wasn’t driven to Murder by angry campaign slogans. Steve Kornacki’s right — Loughner was not a Gadsden Flag-wielding Tea Pa...

Palin to Beck: 'I hate violence'
Not much has been heard from Sarah Palin after the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Saturday.  She did post a note offering condolences, but many on the left have viciously attacked her and blamed her directly for the shooting. I hate violence. I hate war. Our Children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence. I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation. I denounce anyone...

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Arizona Shooting: Treating Mental Illness Before it Kills
In the Mass Shooting in Arizona Saturday there were heroes who prevented even more bloodshed. We need heroes to intervene before lives are lost. The three people who wrestled Jared Loughner to the ground and disarmed him outside a Supermarket in Tucson are being hailed as heroes, and rightly so. They prevented further loss of life at the hands of the 22-year-old, who had, in little more than an instant, killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

Vanishing Pointless
If there's one thing that the Tucson shooting has provoked, it's a lot of people going back and flushing a whole bunch of stuff down the memory holes. History must be unwritten, embarrassing items purged and denied, awkward truths must be ignored. Of course, this is the Internet, and nothing is ever truly forgotten -- and one's foes will often make copies and Screenshots before they expose your embarrassing postings before they expose them, so they can properly denounce you for your "admission...

The exploitive rhetoric of tragedy
After all, unlike Sarah Palin's absurdly infamous Facebook map with crosshairs on Congressional Districts that some pundits have blamed for the violence, we have some evidence — suspect Jared Lee Loughner's own words — that these books were a direct influence on him. And to listen to partisan ghouls such as Keith Olbermann exploiting this horrific crime, any Rhetoric or writing or images that contributed to it must be stopped and those who don't accept blame and then repent (specific...

MSNBC Hosts: Left Wing Rhetoric Is Different Than Right-Wing Rhetoric
Meanwhile, Ed Schultz claims that he’s been thinking a lot about his own words, but rejects “the claim that the left is just as bad as the right.” See, it’s ok when a leftist like Schultz calls Republicans bastards and boldly proclaims on television that he’d commit election Fraud to help the Democrats win. That’s just passion. But if someone on the right were to say something like that, they’d be an accessory to Murder or something. All of this, and we ...

SPLC blames Ayn Rand, David Icke and Others for Arizona Shooting
Who is to blame for Jared Loughner’s bizarre shooting yesterday? According to Mark Potok, anyone with even the vaguest links to his bizarre and disjointed online ramblings. As a shocked world looks to the background of accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner for clues as to why he would shoot a Congresswoman, a Federal Judge and others, Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, predictably stepped forward on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program to paint a broad brush against th...

Arizona gunman must have been a right-winger says Paulding liberals
(Paulding County, Georgia) - If the national tragedy shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle  Gifford by lone gunman Jared Loughner isn’t enough of a concern, you can always count on liberals in Paulding to impute anything and everything on those who are Republican, Conservative, and Tea Party Patriots in Paulding…and then state that those on the right cause violence or at least, encourage it. Then another liberal hack on the same Paulding blog has the gall to state th...

CBS Poll: By 57% to 32% Margin Americans Say Political Rhetoric Had Nothing to do With Giffords Shooting
MSM Propaganda FAIL. (The Hill)- Almost 60 percent of the public believes that heated political Rhetoric has nothing to do with an Arizona Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and killed a Federal Judge. Many pundits and lawmakers have keyed in on political vitriol as a potential contributing factor to the shootings allegedly carried out by Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old Tucson man who faces five federal Felony Charges. Loughner’s writings and videos suggest a...

Playing politics with tragedy
Gabrielle Giffords wasn’t even out of the operating room when the rush to judgment began. An unstable 22-year-old College Dropout had pulled the trigger in a devastating attack that left six people dead and more than a dozen wounded outside a Tucson shopping plaza. But the real culprit wasn’t Jared Loughner. It was Sarah Palin – along with the Tea Party, Fox TV and the whole gang of hate-spewing, right-wing fanatics bent on inciting the populace to violent insurrection. The pro...

Top 10 Examples Of Liberal Hate
Even before details were clear about the Arizona shooting, Left-wingers tried to assess blame for the tragedy to Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the Second Amendment. When it became clear that the gunman was a deranged lunatic whose political philosophy was more in tune with the loony Left than the Tea Party, liberals continued to cry out against a so-called climate of hate perpetuated by Right-wingers. Perhaps those making that charge have forgotten the hatefulness an...

Ariz. survivor: 'It was like a bad crime drama'
Eric Fuller said Tuesday on the CBS "The Early Show" that he felt the bullet that hit his knee but didn't know he had also been hit in the back. Jared Loughner (LAWF'-nuhr) is being held on federal charges. He's accused of killing six people and wounding or injuring 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Fuller says he was lucky and feels fine physically but is outraged that Giffords was attacked. Ariz. survivor: 'It was like a bad crime drama' Why hasn't Obama warned...

Compare and contrast Tingle leg Chris Matthews on Tucson shooting vs Muslim terrorist Malik Nidal Hassan shooting
Compare and contrast - Tingle leg Chris Matthews on Tucson shooting vs Muslim Terrorist Malik Nidal Hassan shooting Hypocrisy, thy name is the progressive liberal biased media. Tingle leg Chris Matthews towed the Left Wing line today on his “Hardball” show blaming Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, and gun owners for the Tucson shooting over the weekend. Compare this with tingle leg’s first reaction to the Muslim Terrorist who shot up Ft. Hood Army Base Nidal Malik Hassan. Vid...

Bill Maher: Jared Loughners Chalkboard Likely Looks Like Glenn Becks Chalkboard
Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. Huh? Cooper opened by asking about the soul searching and finger pointing that cam...

"Both sides do it!"--Oh, really?
The most popular trope to excuse the right of all rresponsibility for decades of demonizing, violent and eliminationist Rhetoric: "Both sides do it!" Not so much: This has been out there for a very long time for everyone to see. A tremendous tolerance for violent rightwing rhetoric has been built up--particularly by so-called political "moderates", "Centrists" and the "objective Journalists" of the so-called "Mainstream Media". This is what they've all grown accustomed to--and devoted themse...

Who Else?! NBC New's Matthews Links Bachmann to Shooting
Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, used the attempt on Gabrielle Giffords' life, to not only portray America as some sort of gun crazed country, but also to blame the likes of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann for political violence as he blurted: "Sarah Palin using gun play language. What is she talking about crosshairs and reloading...and Bachmann out there with her kind of talk. I mean it seems like the way people talk now has, has gotten more ballistic...Why are guns talked about so much, ...

Pawlenty jabs Palin over 2010 crosshairs map
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said Tuesday he wouldn't have used crosshair images to refer to Candidates for Congress, as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) PAC had done. Pawlenty, a likely Republican Candidate for president in 2012, took a shot at Palin over the Controversial map her campaign arm had released during the 2010 campaign, which depicted crosshairs over different lawmakers' districts that had been targeted in the election. "It wouldn't have been my style to put the cros...