The Arizona Tragedy and the American Reaction

J. Eric Fuller, Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested at Town Hall Meeting For Threatening GOP Rep Terri Proud & Tea Party Spokesman
One week after the Tucson, AZ tragedy and there is an arrest at a town hall meeting for death threats … So much for that call for peace, calm and tranquility in the aftermath of the shooting last week at the hands of Jared Loughner. Tucson Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller threatened Trent Humphries, the Pima County Tea Party Leader, stood up to speak during the event. He was being very respectful. Trent told the audience that before we start placing blame on individuals we need to get al...

Rethinking Obama's political performance in Tucson
Pundits and politicians alike praised President Obama's Speech at the Tucson memorial service last Wednesday. "A wonderful speech," wrote the New York Times' David Brooks. "A magnificent performance," wrote National Review's Rich Lowry. "A terrific speech," wrote Sen. John McCain. And those were just the voices on the right. Obama's tribute to the Victims of the shooting and the heroism of bystanders was appreciated by everyone. But many Conservatives particularly admired the Speech because the ...

Mission accomplished, Markos Moulitsas.
The Left gets its violent responder to Hate Speech, after all: the only problem is, from their point of view he’s aimed the wrong way. I started following the saga of J. Eric Fuller a couple of days ago: the short version is that he was one of the Victims of the Tucson attack of last week that killed six people and nearly killed Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Despite the fact that the consensus is, from the President on down, that harsh political Rhetoric had nothing to do with the ...

A busy week as freshman Rep. Cicilline settles in
U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, shown on Jan. 5, is ready to participate in his committee assignments. WASHINGTON — It was a quiet week in the House of Representatives, overshadowed by grief over the Arizona shooting rampage that left a well-liked congresswoman gravely injured. But it was a busy time nonetheless for freshman Rep. David N. Cicilline, who has made progress on securing committee assignments and hiring staff, spoken of the Tucson rampage in his maiden Speech on the House floor, ...

Tuscon rampage gets weirder
From the Daily Caller on Friday: “A survivor of Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson blamed Fox’s Glenn Beck, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and former Senatorial Candidate Sharron Angle for the actions of alleged schizophrenic Jared Loughner.” The quote: “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled.” From the New York Times tonight: “TUCSON — A Victim of the shoo

The Politics of Hateand Hate Speech
by Walter Brasch Just about anything that could be said about the Murders in Tucson have been said. We know that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was holding a “Congress on the Corner” meeting outside a Safeway Grocery Store. We know that a 22-year-old named Jared Lee Loughner is in FBI custody, and has been charged with one count of attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the United States and two counts of intent to kill employees of...

John Hayward at Human Events on Friday: 'You Might Be Seeing a Lot of Eric Fuller Over the Weekend'
According to the website of ABC-TV affiliate KGUN, J. Eric Fuller was arrested and charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct. Demonstrating impressive prescience, John Hayward at Human Events predicted on Friday that Fuller would attempt to capitalize on his being among the injured in last Saturday's Tucson murders. After the jump, you'll get a sampling of Fuller's full feelings from Hayward: You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He’s one ...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally… Why Did They Ask For It On JumboTron? On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the memorial pep rally on Wednesday for the Victims of the Tucson shootings. I will say that I read the Speech several times and thought that there wouldn’t be a lot of applause if any. I think many of us thought that. But I think there was a ...

Unhinged Lefty Wounded In Tucson Shooting Arrested For Yelling Death Threat At Tucson Tea Party Leader
J. Eric Fuller, an unhinged Leftist who was shot at the Tucson town hall last week, did more than rant lies to the Socialist Democracy Now! TV show about Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and others being responsible for last Saturday's tragedy. Today, he was arrested for making a Death Threat to Tucson Tea Party Leader Trent Humphries (who has received many death threats this past week), as well as disorderly conduct (KGUN). ABC News Anchor Christiane Amanpour hosted a remarkable gathering of Victims, ...

Majority Of Americans Believe Left Attempted To Exploit AZ Tragedy To Make Right Look Bad
Quick post on Gallup who finally asked the appropriate question about what portion of Americans feel the Far Left and commentators that attempted to convince the public to think the right's Rhetoric was somehow responsible was "the tragedy to make Conservatives look bad." In other words, the public saw right through the left's pathetic attempts to spin and connect the right with the act of Jared Lee Loughner when he shot and killed 6 people and injured 13 others. The poll was conducted Jan. 11...

Giffords off breathing tube
Doctors Saturday removed a breathing tube from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and performed surgery to allow her to breathe on her own, though she remains in critical condition, Hospital officials in Tucson, Ariz., said in a statement. The surgery, known as a tracheotomy, opened up a hole in her throat through which she could breathe, the statement from University Medical Center said. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 The breathing tube had been kept in to help ward off infection, and...

Ariz. Shooting Victim Makes Threats at Meeting
Like this Story? Share it: Chris Wragge speaks with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller about the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and his thoughts on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. Eric Fuller, wounded during attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on "The Early Show" Jan. 11, 2011. (CBS) (CBS) TUCSON, Ariz. - A town hall meeting, taped for ABC's "This Week", got interrupted when an Ariz. Shooting Victim stood up and made threats towards a Tea Party spokesman, reports KGUN. Towards the e...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage
By Tim Gaynor Tucson, Arizona | Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:45pm EST Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city...

Marianne Williamson: Arizona Shooting: Words Have Meaning
According to "A Course in Miracles," all minds are joined. While it appears to the physical eye that I am here and you are over there, on the level of mind there is no place where you stop and I start. We are all affected by everyone else's thoughts, just as a butterfly flapping its wings near the South Pole affects the wind currents at the North Pole. When any wave moves, the entire ocean shifts. So it's basically irrelevant whether Jared Loughner specifically related to the Hate Speech aroun...

Frances Fox Piven On The Tea Party: Its All About Sex
Listen to Frances Fox-Piven talk about the rich, white Tea Party people. After the usual BS about how Tea Partiers don’t like having a black man in the White House, she explains that she’s absolutely sure the Tea Party is all about sex. She admits she doesn’t have any data to back up her allegations. Something about “backward looking people,” you know, because only rich, white, backward looking people have sex. By the way, Piven is an honorary chairperson of the D...

No More Mister Nice Blog
LIMBAUGH: DEMONSTRABLY WRONG, AS IS SO OFTEN THE CASE Fox Nation and Glenn Beck's Blaze are highlighting Rush Limbaugh's claim that the White House had to be the driving force behind the distribution of T-shirts at the Tucson memorial service because the phrase "Together We Thrive" once appeared on the Obama campaign Web site. There are clips of Limbaugh making this claim at both of the above links; here's a transcript from Limbaugh's Web site. In fact, this phrase appeared in one (1) blog post...

Giffords shooting prompts reporting legislation in S.C.
COLUMBIA -- Colleges and universities should be required to turn over records on disruptive and threatening Students who Drop Out as a way to avoid tragedies like the recent shooting in Arizona that left six people dead, a South Carolina lawmaker said Friday. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot last Saturday at an event she hosted for constituents in Tucson. A 9-year-old girl was among those killed. Giffords was shot in the head and gravely wounded. Jared Loughner, 22, a former ...

Giffords shooting prompts reporting legislation
COLUMBIA -- Colleges and universities should be required to turn over records on disruptive and threatening Students who Drop Out as a way to avoid tragedies like the recent shooting in Arizona that left six people dead, a South Carolina lawmaker said Friday. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot last Saturday at an event she hosted for constituents in Tucson. A 9-year-old girl was among those killed. Giffords was shot in the head and gravely wounded. Jared Loughner, 22, a former ...

Safeway Reopens as Tucson Recovers
Like this Story? Share it: People comfort one another as the Tucson, Ariz. Safeway where the tragic Jan. 8 shooting took place reopens on Jan. 15, 2011. (CBS) (CBS) At the scene of the shootings outside a Tucson Supermarket employees and shoppers paused for a painful moment of silence, exactly a week after the gunfire and bloodshed, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. "I'm sorry they lost their lives but I'm thinking of all the heroes that were here that day and in our store," said...

Tucson Shootings: Sympathy for the Mothers
When Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes Wednesday for the first time since being shot, her husband was there, along with the congresswoman's Democratic colleagues, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who spoke to CNN about the moment. Also in the room were Gloria and Spencer Giffords, her parents. Picture the scene: Mark Kelly by the bedside urging his wife to open her eyes and touch his Wedding Ring. Her friends close by, encouraging. And her...

Tucson moves on: Safeway reopens, gun show draws thousands
Reporting from Tucson — A week after a Mass Shooting left six dead and 13 injured, Tucson struggled to return to normal on Saturday as thousands packed a gun show and the Safeway Supermarket where the attack took place reopened. At both places, mourners observed a moment of silence to pay tribute to the 19 people shot a week ago. At both sites, people said they were saddened by the senseless violence but were ready to move on. At 10:11 a.m. Mountain time, many at the shopping plaza fell...

Tucson gun show attracts big crowd
TUCSON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- An area gun show Saturday attracted thousands of people one week after a Tucson Shooting Spree left six dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords among 13 wounded. The "Crossroads of the West" gun show at the Pima County Fairgrounds was held about 10 miles from the Tucson shopping center Parking Lot where a young man suspected of being mentally unbalanced, Jared Loughner, is accused of going on a rampage with a semiautomatic Glock 19, causing widespread anguish and stirring ...

HOW BAD WAS THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF TUCSON? So bad that Charles Blow is writing about The Tucson Wit
HOW BAD WAS THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF Tucson? So bad that Charles Blow is writing about “The Tucson Witch Hunt.” Within hours of the shooting, there was a full-fledged witch hunt to link the shooter to the right. “I saw Goody Proctor with The Devil! Oh, I mean Jared Lee Loughner! Yes him. With The Devil!” The only problem is that there was no evidence then, and even now, that overheated Rhetoric from the right had anything to do with the shooting. (In fact, a couple of people who s...

This Jared Kid (Part One)...
It's been a week since Jared Lee Loughner went completely off his nut and shot twenty people, killing six. When I first heard about that, I initially thought it was some good-for-nothing lay-about who spent more time reading articles from the Whirled Nut Daily website in his mother's basement than he did looking for a job to pay for room and board. Then I heard about that cross-hairs map Sarah Palin tried to erase from everyone's memory, and even though there was, and is, no evidence that Loughn...

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings
From Nile Gardiner, at Telegraph UK, "A Shameful Week for America's Liberal Elites": This has been a hugely shameful week for sections of the American Left, who have exploited a horrific tragedy that claimed six lives, in order to advance political attacks upon some leading conservative politicians and media commentators, as well as an entire political movement in the form of the Tea Party. The vitriolic and hate-filled attacks have marked a low point for liberal media elites in America in the ...