The Politics of Blood Libel

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&...

Media Knew Killer Probably Wasnt Politically Motivated
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left has gone out of its way to blame Saturday’s tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on anyone to the Right of the Mensheviks. Among the first to pile on the blood Libel was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who pinned the shooting on an alleged conservative “climate of hate.” Most of us countered that the murderer, Jared Lee Loughner, clearly seemed mentally ill, addicted to mind-altering drugs, or perhaps the Victim of ...

Some Brief Thoughts on the Tuscon Shooting: Left Shows Intent by Capitalizing on Arizona Attack
by the Left Coast Rebel Two days ago, Right Klik alerted me to the Arizona shooting that left a congresswoman in critical condition, six dead -- including a Federal Judge -- and thirteen injured. As we talked on the phone, I asked him if our Leader would take advantage of the shooting and try to pin the incident on the right, à la Bill Clinton in the 1990s and the Oklahoma City bombing. Well, give it time for the Obamanation, but his media-henchmen sure did a knockout job over the weekend. Be...

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...

Whos Guilty of Inciting Violence, Mr. President?
Victor Davis Hanson, The Washington Times Very few Americans are fans of both The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, as 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, the purported Tucson killer, apparently was. Fewer still post on the Internet fears about “brainwashing,” “mind control,” and “conscience dreaming”; have long records of public disruption and aberrant behavior; were expelled from community college; or were rejected summarily for Military service. No matter. ...

Who has been "inflaming tensions"
Another rampantly biased piece in the Tribune this morning by Kathleen Hennessey and others. No mention of the Pima County Sheriff's inflammatory and unprofessional outburst. No mention of the contemptible bias of the NY Times and CNN, not to mention MSNBC--and even FoxNews. The LA Times/Tribune "reporters" conveniently cut off the quote from Roger Ailes: Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes — while rejecting any suggestion that his Cable News net...

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...

A Tragedy Will Breed More Loss Of Liberty
You can take that to the bank. Who said, "You never want a good crisis to go to waste"? Already power hungry statists in Congress are pushing Legislation to capitalize on the tragic incident in Arizona, and further restrict law abiding citizens everywhere. That is the next biggest tragedy. The shooting in Tucson of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents, was NOT in fact "caused by the Tea Party", or "caused by Sarah Palin" or any other entity that Paul Krugman and his ilk would ...

Barry's Angry Words
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, overseeing the investigation the Tucson shootings that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a coma and Federal Judge John Roll and five others dead, wasted little time in blaming heated political Rhetoric for the crime. Shortly after the first reports of the shootings, Dupnick said, "The anger, the hatred, the Bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous, and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital," adding "We have become...

The Morning Plum
* Obama steps up: The President is set to travel to Arizona tomorrow to attend the Funeral service of the Shooting Victims, and he is expected to give a Speech about tolerance, a theme he may reprise in the State of the Union address. But Obama's advisers are uncertain about the exact message he should send: It is not clear whether ideology motivated the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, and Obama's advisers may conclude it unwise for the president to lecture the nation on mutual respect -- whi...

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...

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...

"The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel"
Posted by John at 8:17 PM In the Wall Street Journal, Glenn Reynolds stands up to liberal bullies who are trying to silence Conservatives, wholly irrationally, on the basis of Jared Loughner's Killing Spree: 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 shootin...

The Politics of Blood Libel
Glenn Reynolds weighs in. From the WSJ: To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “Rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a) asserting a connection between the “Rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which ...

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 AZ Shooting and Democratic Politics of Blood Libel
Democrats are using the bloody slaughter at the Tucson Supermarket by an anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, left-wing, pro-Marx, antiflag, “quite liberal” lunatic to target Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Glenn Reynolds went after the political scavengers in The Wall Street Journal today, via The Corner. Glenn hits it out of the park. To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “Rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re ...

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...

Placing Responsibility Where It Lies
Sheriff Dupnik insists that it's his official duty and his job as Sheriff to spout off his political opinions and his views on what's wrong with today's society. There's just one problem - he's providing a defense for the killer. And I'm not just referring to the defense that the killer's lawyer will no doubt use in court. While Dupnik is using his post as a soapbox for his Democrat political views, the defense attorney is now apt to cite the Sheriff's opinions as a defense for the killer duri...

The TOTAL Hypocrisy Of The Left As They Have NO Shame For Their LIES and Attacks On Anyone On The Right!!!
Remember how Paul Krugman got all hot and bothered about Sarah Palin's map? Each of the cross-hairs represents a Democrat from a conservative district who voted in favor of health reform. Immediately after highlighting the map, Krugman wrote: "All of this goes far beyond politics as usual…you’ll search in vain for anything comparably menacing, anything that even hinted at an appeal to violence, from members of Congress, let alone senior party officials….to find anything like what we̵

Tactics backfire, Palin caught in her own cross-hairs
Sarah Palin ... has become both ubiquitous and isolated. Photo: AFP UNDER criticism that her political Rhetoric had helped create a climate for political violence, Sarah Palin addressed the issue in Trademark Fashion: with an email to the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. ''Our Children will not have peace if politicos just capitalise on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence,'' she wrote to Beck in the email he read on radio. By managing her image almost exclusi...

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...

Wonderful: Media Hack Now Lists Ann Coulter as Suspect in AZ Massacre
Despite a shred of evidence and a poll now showing most Americans disagree with this insanity, it appears evident the insane left will continue to pursue this lunacy, regurgitating decades-old sarcastic quotes from Ann Coulter. She's also helpfully portrayed with ringleaders Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.Enough! We've let the haters and bullies lead the political and moral conversation for far too long. The national dialogue has descended into a fusillade of hate from politicians, political operati...

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, ...

White Power, White Terrorism, White Mainstream
As you’ve probably heard by now, Jared Lee Loughner is accused of a horrific attempted Assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ.) and the Murder of six other people, including a Federal Judge and a 9-year-old little girl.  Loughner also injured 14 other people.  Remarkably, Giffords survived - in no small measure due to the heroic actions of a gay, Latino intern who rushed to administer first aid - and doctors are cautiously optimistic that she will recover. ...

Outlaw that speech because it MIGHT be a threat...
It was only a matter of time before the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy was turned into a rationale for the government to take more of our freedoms. This is how our government always responds to tragedy--it's almost formulaic: Step 1 - wait for tragedy to occur, or actually create the tragedy. Step 3 - pass laws, or institute policies, that take away people's freedoms. This same process, has led to the creation of most traffic laws, to the Patriot Act, to "enhanced pat-downs," and countless other usu...