"The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel"

The Left Escalates Blame Game Over Arizona Shooting
See also, Andrew Klavan, "The Hateful Left":To be sure, there is a lot of heated Rhetoric in American politics, as ever. For instance, last spring, three Democratic congressmen cruelly slandered Tea Party members by accusing them of spitting on them and calling them Racial Slurs—a charge that was reported as true by the Times even after it was thoroughly debunked by videotapes of the event. Film director Rob Reiner compared the Tea Party to the Nazis on Bill Maher’s HBO show last Oct...

The narrative of the hateful left
The Murder of six people, the shooting of twelve more, including Congresswoman Giffords, and the politization of the incident: Andrew Klavan writes about The Hateful Left Where incendiary political Rhetoric truly resides in America Indeed, the Left’s hysterical response to all who disagree with it—that they are Racist or sexist or “phobic” or somehow reminiscent of Hitler—has become so predictable that satirists, from the Libertarian Greg Gutfeld to the liberal Jon Stewart, h

A tale of two shootings
Some good news is emanating tonight from University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ neurosurgeon, Dr. G. Michael Lemole, reports that the congresswoman is showing no signs of further brain swelling, which is a positive indicator. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the six Victims of Jared Lee Loughner who perished on Saturday. Or for the twelve Victims who died at Ft. Hood on November 5, 2009, when Major Nidal Malik Hasan shouted “Allah akbar” ...

Calls for softer tone in politics gets cool reception
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:21pm EST DALLAS (Reuters) - Calls to reset the tone of politics in the aftermath of Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona got short shrift on Talk Radio and elsewhere as left and right traded blame for the massacre. From the right, Bloggers and pundits labeled suspected shooter Jared Lee Loughner a "leftist" while critics of conservative super-star Sarah Palin accused her of creating a combustible political atmosphere with her behavior and Rhetoric....

Searching for answers to Tuscon tragedy
Image via CrunchBase IBD: From New York newspaper columnists to an Illinois senator, the liberal left is blaming the Tea Party and conservative stars for the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman. How about blaming the Communist and Nazi-loving shooter? It didn't take long for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the shooting outside a Tucson Supermarket that seriously injured Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and left six others, including a 9-year-old,...

Inside the Beltway
PRAY, HE SAYS The hypersensitive public discourse on violence, Rhetoric, civility, guns, politics and the press barrels on, 72 hours after the Arizona shootings. With irony intact. Take, for instance, Fox News host Glenn Beck , vilified by partisan critics as an arbiter of hatemongering and aggressive culture, right along with Rush Limbaugh , the Tea Party and Sarah Palin . Mr. Beck - like his accused peers - seems mighty peaceful at this juncture, however. He has issued a challenge to "all Am...

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IS =SINGULAR-VERB, ARE = PLURAL-VERB ~10-~JANUARY-~2010-NOW-TIME >>>REMARK/NONEXECUTABLE: Since David Corn has outed my secret admiration of HUMAN-DESIGNATE DAVID-WYNN: MILLER, I will drop the pretense of the VOID-WAR of having never MIND-SPACE heard of him, and begin emulating my DEFINE FUNCTION: LIBERATE (RECURSIVE) TRUTH BRAIN-HERO [SEE UPDATES TO POST, TIME: PRIOR; REFERENT: NOW-TIME]. BEGIN: EXCERPT FROM HUMAN DESIGNATE THIESSEN: MARC. Left-wing Bloggers and commentators blamed the attack ...

Can Democrats not stand the heat in the political kitchen?
Image via Wikipedia John Steele Gordon: All the evidence currently available indicates that the gunman responsible for Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Ariz., was driven solely by internal demons. That fact hasn't stopped commentators, overwhelmingly on the left, from suggesting that today's "heated political Rhetoric" is at least partly to blame. Pundits have frequently cited Sarah Palin's "crosshairs map," which uses the riflery image to mark the Congressional Districts of vulnerable Democrats,...

Look out! Crosshairs, death threats now target birthers, GOP
The American Patriot Foundation has received dozens of threatening phone message, e-mails and letters during "birther" Army officer Terrence Lakin's legal proceedings the past few months, including two letters that view the words "GOP" and "Birthers" through a sniper scope. An APF official claims the threats are inspired by media attacks on people who question President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve in the White House, even as many media figures are attempting to blame the Tucson massacre...

Readers agree with me: Right wing off the hook in Arizona shootings
Since the summer of 2001, Drowning Pool’s thrashing metal anthem “Bodies” has been a ubiquitous Pop Culture presence. “Bodies” has been used on at least a half-dozen theatrical trailers for films such as “The Punisher,” “Friday the 13th: Jason X,” “Stop-Loss,” and “Daredevil.” It’s been utilized in Video Games, HBO’s “True Blood” and a number of pro wrestling events. When Red Sox closer Jonathan...

Democrats have used maps with targets too!
Posted by The Freedomlover on Jan 10 2011 Filed under Culture, News & Opinion, Politics, Tea Party. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Since the tragic shooting of Arizona Representative Gabriel Giffords there has been much talk about the heated Rhetoric,and,vitriol of recent campaigns being responsible for the shooting of Ms. Giffords and the killing and injury of several others. One person in particular-Sar...

Hardball: Tea Party Under Fire Over Arizona Tragedy (Huffington Post)
Read Chris Matthews's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Below is the video and transcript of my interview with Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation. "If people on the right and Sarah Palin and so forth are responsible for all of this and this vitriolic Rhetoric is so pitched, how come this isn't happening every day? Why is it the vast exception to the rule? There's no logic in any of the assertions they're making. None." Chris Matthews: That was Rush Limbau...

The Arizona Shooting: The Last Assassination of the 60s
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com As the media and left-wingers spin the attempted Assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as an act of Tea Party violence, perhaps even they have a nagging little voice telling them they are overlooking the factors that really led to this tragedy, which claimed the lives of six people — including three septuagenarians and a nine-year-old girl. While the Left has predictably tried to use this attack to smear its political opponents, Conservatives hav...

Obama, Boehner Face Leadership Test In Wake Of Arizona Tragedy
WASHINGTON — On opposite sides of the political spectrum, President Barack Obama and new House Speaker John Boehner suddenly face the same challenge: rise above the anger, suspicion and hostility of their liberal and conservative bases to help a rattled nation deal with the deadly outburst of violence in Arizona. But what comes after the easy moment of silence? For now, both men are stepping past the question of what role, if any, the vitriol of the past election campaign played in Satur...

Global Warming Part II: It Really Doesn't Matter What The Facts Are; The Important Thing Is That Our Theory Is Vindicated No Ma
Allah makes a good point that deserves underscoring. Former Senator Bob Kerrey just made the claim that he doesn't know what Loughner's politics are (they're sort of pro-Matrix), and further, that we shouldn't read much into his politics whatever they are. That said, he's pretty sure it's the right's fault. No one can say what drove Loughner violently mad; but we're pretty confident it's anger caused by the Tea Party at ObamaCare. Here''s Allah on that: There’s not a shred of evidence I know of...

Op-Ed: The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel
Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews's TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday's tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped that Jared Lee Loughner's Killing Spree might fill the bill. With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and report...

The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel
Glenn Reynolds in the Wall Street Journal: American Journalists know how to be exquisitely sensitive when they want to be. As the Washington Examiner’s Byron York pointed out on Sunday, after Major Nidal Hasan shot up Fort Hood while shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” the press was full of cautions about not drawing premature conclusions about a connection to Islamist Terrorism. “Where,” asked Mr. York, “was that caution after the shootings in Arizona?” Set as...

The Left Never Wastes a Tragedy
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left never stands so tall as when it stands upon dead bodies. Whether it is Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh, Democratic mayors suing gun manufacturers after school shootings in Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats turning Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial into a campaign rally, or Cindy Sheehan vastly overstaying her 15 minutes of fame, the Left never lets a tragedy pass without blaming it on its political enemies and pushing ...

Threats, Violence and the Language We Should Remove From Civil Political Discourse
Jane Hamsher of HuffPo and FireDogLake posted this Mar 2010 timeline to show the connection between certain types of inflammatory Tea Party-inspired Rhetoric and actual violence. People are arguing about whether Palin influenced the Arizona shooter or not, but my point is that her actions are indefensible completely aside from that. Friday, March 19: Mike Vanderboegh of Pinson, Alabama, the former leader of the Alabama Constitutional Militia, puts out a call for modern “Sons of LibertyR...

Tragedy in Arizona
Gabrielle Giffords was doing what members of Congress do every week: She was home in Tucson to meet with her constituents. Today, Giffords lies in critical condition in a Tucson Hospital after one of those constituents opened fire with a semiautomatic Handgun. Six people died in the attack; 14 were injured. The madness at the Tucson shopping center Saturday morning raises old and troubling questions about gun violence in America and threatens a treasured American tradition: the right of the pe...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Okay, One Last Point
Also "well-liked in conservative circles." Earlier I gave credence to the unproven speculation that Jared Lee Loughner got his obsession over grammar and mind control from David Wynn Miller. I said "maybe, maybe not." Well, I'll keep an open mind, but it should be noted that if Loughner was a disciple of Miller's he had a funny way of showing it: Loughner's writing is nothing at all like Miller's. Nothing at all. Loughler writes in childish syllogisms, the wisdom of the town idiot (with normal ...

End Game
The Tucson Murders: "Disturbed 22-year-old loner Jared Lee Loughner was held without bail Monday after being charged with murder and (Read more...) ...

Where Is The Decency In Blood Libel?
American Journalists know how to be exquisitely sensitive when they want to be. As the Washington Examiner’s Byron York pointed out on Sunday, after Major Nidal Hasan shot up Fort Hood while shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” the press was full of cautions about not drawing premature conclusions about a connection to Islamist Terrorism. “Where,” asked Mr. York, “was that caution after the shootings in Arizona?” Set aside as inconvenient, apparently. There was no ...

Had Arizona shooter made death threats by phone?
Image via Wikipedia The Cholla Jump: ... Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner h...