The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings

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 ...

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Attacks on Conservatives Following the AZ Shootings
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 21st century, even to the extent that President Obama himself, probably the most liber...

Baseless smears and hypocritical demands for 'civility' follow Tucson shootings
Although the Tucson shooter was mentally unbalanced, did not listen to Talk Radio or Fox News, and liked the Communist Manifesto, several liberal lawmakers, and liberal media like the New York Times, immediately insinuated that his actions resulted from an “atmosphere of hate” or “climate of hate” created by Conservatives. Now, after baselessly accusing conservatives of complicity in Murder, they are suddenly calling for “civility.” But thi...

NYT columnist blasts Left for witch hunt after Tucson shooting
It’s not Ross Douthat or David Brooks, either, but Charles Blow — the same writer who once called black Tea Party Activists a “political Minstrel Show.”  Blow admits that the temptation to lay the blame for the shootings in Tucson on the Right was strong, but that in doing so, and in insisting on sticking with the attacks after all the evidence showed that the shooter was an apolitical lunatic, the Left have adopted an “any means necessary” approach that wi...

Arizona shooting victim arrested after alleged death threat to Tea Party leader
Fuller was subsequently escorted away by deputies.  He is set to be charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct.  It is unclear if ABC News has footage of the incident, or if they will be airing the footage if they have it. For his part, Fuller has made Tea Partiers upset by directly blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Sharron Angle for the shootings.  Fuller is age 61, a Military Veteran, and an avid supporter of Congresswoman Giffords. Examiner.com is looking for...

Setting limits on contentious debate
From a discussion on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday this morning with Scott Simon and Ed Deggans: NPR:  Has heated Rhetoric become a format? Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the St. Petersburg Times: Oh-h-h, yes!  It's a format that earns millions of dollars for several people particularly in Cable News and on Talk Radio.  Contentious political debate is what fuels Ratings and what earns big profits.  NPR:  In the wake of the shootings in Tucson, we...

ABC World News omits threat was made against Tea Party leader
Newsbusters reports Saturday evening that ABC World News Saturday failed to mention the target of an alleged threat at a taped townhall meeting was a Tea Party Leader. Another note tonight on today's town hall meeting, one of the Victims of the shooting who was in the audience became agitated and was detained by security. It happened toward the end of the conversation. James Fuller who was shot twice last week, took offense at what another audience member was saying and mumbled what seemed to be...

The Backfire
When the latest leftist witch hunt backfires, even one of the New York Times columnists notices : The American people know it, too. According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released Wednesday, 42 percent of those asked said that political Rhetoric was not a factor at all in the shooting, 22 percent said that it was a minor factor and 20 percent said that it was a major factor. Furthermore, most agreed that focusing on conservative Rhetoric as a link in the shooting was “not a legitimate point bu...

The Tucson Shootings, Blood Libels, and Those Who Perpetrate Them
[ By Barry Rubin , crossposted from The Rubin Report.] The main street of Dolhinov, then in Poland, in 1931 on Polish national day. The 1886 Pogrom took place in the area pictured and against Jewish shops on the left behind the onlookers. Without taking any partisan position, but purely on the issue's historical merits, nothing could have been more appropriate than Sarah Palin's use of the term "blood Libel" to describe what happened to her after the Tucson killings. I know because my direct a...

The New Normal
The New Normal by digby From Esquire Magazine comes a sad, but true analysis of the events of the past week --- and the past decade and a half: [T]he most remarkable thing about what happened in Oklahoma City is how little it matters today. The president of the United States gave a fine Speech Wednesday night in Tucson at the memorial for the people Jared Loughner shot. The only mention of Oklahoma City in connection with the president’s Speech was to compare it with the Speech that another...

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...

A Note To Glenn Beck: I Reserve My Rights
At at one point not too long ago I called Glenn Beck possibly "the great conservative hope”.  But I will freely admit that the man drives me bonkers when he goes off into his own little world of self-reflection.  Not only am I certain that he knows the location of each and every piece of lint in the crevasses of his bellybutton, but I am also convinced he has given each of them names and converses with them regularly. Beck’s hard edges have softened at times over the past s...

Glenn Beck Opens Up About Violence: I Have 15 Operating Threats On Me At Any Given Time
Glenn Beck has been particularly vocal calling for political figures to renounce violence from all political ideologies while defending the right of said figures to use heated Rhetoric. The process has made him a bit of a target, something Bill O’Reilly touched on earlier this week, but last night on the O’Reilly Factor he gave us a better idea of just how much of a target he has become, sustaining 15 threats to his person at any given time. Beck visited O’Reilly for his weekl...

Bill Maher: Founding Fathers Would Have Hated The Teabaggers
I’ve often pointed out that the Tea Party defends a version of the Constitution which exists only in their heads, and certainly not the one supported by the Founding Fathers. During the American Revolution the revolutionaries were the liberals while today’s Conservatives would be the Tories. After the Revolution the Tea Party would not have supported the Constitution. Their position is far closer to that of the Anti-Federalists who supported the Articles of Confederation. Thatdocum...

Fox News Watch: Jonathan Alter, Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas 'Villains' for Terrible Tucson Reporting
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' Fox News Watch panelists on Saturday named some villains concerning last week's tragedy in Tucson. Jon Scott, HOST: The media is always looking for heroes and sometimes villains in a case like this. Who made the list? LYNN SWEET, Chicago SUN-TIMES: Well, number one the only one on my list of villains is the shooter, and his motivations are still being looked into. SCOTT: And...

Loughner Video Released By Community College
This appeared last night and the reaction from folks on Twitter and email was that it's a tough watch. The guy is genuinely disturbed. We knew that but to hear and see it so clearly is pretty shocking. I would love to sit with Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Paul Krugman and the like to watch this. Then when it's over, I'd like them to explain to me how they think this broken and damaged man was in any way influenced by the 'tone' of our political discourse. Yes, his ramblings involve phrases...

Caldwell's Unfairness
It's important to push back against untruths as much as against Incivility. And so when Christopher Caldwell writes the following in the Financial Times, I have to to ask him for actual evidence: Many prominent people disheartened by the resurgence of the Republican party - notably the blogger Andrew Sullivan, the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and the Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik - linked the shootings to Republican ideology or Rhetoric, as expressed by former vice pres...

Greg Gutfeld Calls Jane Fonda, Paul Krugman and 'The Creeps at Daily Kos' Skunks
JON SCOTT: Before all of the Victims in last week’s shootings in Tucson could be taken from the scene, some in the Mainstream Media had already made charges of guilt. “Red Eye’s” Greg Gutfeld sums it up for us. GREG GUTFELD: So a lot’s been said regarding the ghastly events that took place last Saturday, but I'm going to focus on the media whose opinions seem in stark contrast from the facts, and it’s the facts that matter, not the thoughts of hacks with a...

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 ...

Death Threat to Tea Party Member at Tuscon Town Hall
The Tuscon ABC affiliate with the remarkably politically incorrect call sign of KGUN-9 reports: The meeting room at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church on the city’s northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the Mass Shooting Jan. 8, some of the witnesses to the shootings and the First Responders to the scene for a taping of an ABC-TV special, a town hall event, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Host of the program, This Week, is Christianne Amanpour. The show will air at 7 a.m. S...

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 ...

Mark Levin Asks if Obama is Going to Denounce Left-Wing Vile Attacks on Sarah Palin Audio 1/13/11
Here is audio of conservative radio Talk Show host, Mark Levin, calling for President Obama to call out his supporters on the Left who have made vile threats against Gov. Sarah Palin in the wake of the Tucson Mass Shooting. Levin was specifically referencing a YouTube posting that compiled a montage of threats posted on Twitter against Palin from Left-wing opponents. President Obama has called for a toning down of the political Rhetoric - his own far-Left base would be a good place to st...

Palin to speak at gun convention
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Safari Club International (SCI) gun convention on Jan. 29. According to the organization's Web site, the event is sold out. News of the Speech comes a little less than a week after the Mass Shooting in Tucson that left federal judge John Roll, 9-year old Christina Green and four others dead, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 12 others wounded. A graphic featuring the image of crosshairs over Gifford...

McCain Praises Obamas Memorial Service Speech
Yahoo! Buzz In the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, Sen. John McCain is generously praising President Barack Obama ’s memorial service address, defending Mr. Obama’s character and vowing to do his part to bring more civility to political discourse. The Arizona Republican also appears to defend the woman he brought to the national stage, Sarah Palin , his 2008 Running Mate, saying it must have been painful to have been blamed for helping cause the tragedy. Ms. Palin’s video re...

This Sunday on 'State of the Union'
Out of last week’s Mass Shooting in Tucson have emerged endless questions. This Sunday, on a special edition of State of the Union, we’ll spend the hour searching for answers as we look at the state of Mental Health. First, an overview of schizophrenia and other potentially debilitating Mental Disorders with two specialized experts: Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, the Executive Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and Dr. Lisa Dixon, the associate director of the Mental Illness...