Video: Maybe Loughner watched Chris Matthews

Palin: Journalists incite hatred after AZ shooting
(01-12) 07:19 PST Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing Journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Last spring, Palin targeted Giffords' district as one of 20 that should be taken back. Palin has been criticized for marking each district with the cross hairs of a gun sight. In the video, the 2008 GOP vice pres...

Palin: Journalists Incite Hatred After Arizona Shooting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing Journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. [Photo Gallery: Gabrielle Giffords Shooting in Arizona.] Last spring, Palin targeted Giffords' district as one of 20 that should be taken back. Palin has been criticized for marking each district with the cross hairs of a gun sigh...

Sarah Palin Speaks from Some Undisclosed Facebook Location
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Sarah Palin chose to forget today that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brought up Palin’s “targeting” of her when lamenting the vitriolic political Rhetoric in this country before Jared Lee Loughner tried to assassinate her in Arizona. In a weirdly disembodied and out of touch statement from the abyss of her self-imposed political exile, Palin picks today, the day Pres. Obama will address the nation...

Sarah 'blood libel' Palin makes day to honor the victims all about her
Should we have expected anything else? Four days after the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead and fourteen wounded, and on the day that Congress and the President will honor the Victims of this tragedy, Sarah Palin just happens to choose today to assure America that she is among the victims. In a carefully orchestrated video, complete with a large American Flag that apparently flutters next to her fireplace, Palin quickly gets her sympathy for the Victims and ...

Blood Libel or No, The Political Climate Is Still Poisonous
Sarah Palin, once again, demonstrated her ability to rile both the left and right by uttering a few words from the last frontier. Now the ideological tribes will retreat to their clubhouses--Fox News, MSNBC, the political blogs--to stir themselves to outrage debating whether "blood Libel," a term historically reserved for a particularly vicious type of antisemitism, is an appropriate metaphor for the knee-jerk responses of a few liberal pundits after the Arizona shootings. Liberals attack the vi...

Palin responds to the left-wing's 'reprehensible' 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin responds to the left-wing's despicable effort to blame her and the right for the evil act of a deranged shooter in Arizona. Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood Libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible. There are those who claim political Rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they c...

Palin Statement On Arizona Shooting
(Editor’s Note: This is a statement from a public figure. It does not necessarily reflect the editorial position of FITSNews.com. To submit your news release, email blast, media advisory or issues statement for publication, click here ). Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent Victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sy...

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Angry American Male
No sooner had Gabrielle Gifford been rushed to the Hospital with a massive gunshot wound to the head when the blame game got into full swing. Egged on by the comments of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik the theory quickly emerged that right-wing conservative Tea Party Rhetoric had all but pulled the trigger. Conservatives shot back that the accusation was a "blood Libel," bereft of evidence and designed to score political points. Moreover, they argued, the left had spewed far more venom dur...

The Chutzpah of Palin
Hey, everybody--I'm back from Maternity Leave. Anything happen while I was gone? Sigh. I've been spending more time reading Pigeon books than political pages lately, so I may be a little rusty. But it took me a few minutes of watching Sarah Palin's video message this morning to realize that it wasn't an OnionTV production starring an uncannily good Palin impersonator. While lashing out at the idea that her "lock and load" Rhetoric could contribute to any act of violence, Palin decried "irrespons...

No More Mister Nice Blog
THE RIGHT-WING'S NEW BARD OF THE BACKLASH: Glenn Reynolds? I've always thought of Instapundit as tendentious but incredibly superficial -- looking back a decade, it seems to have been a Twitter feed before there was Twitter, and, in the '10s, Glenn Reynolds seemed like yesterday's man. Now, though, he's suddenly hot. The New York Times reports on Sarah Palin's new fireside chat about the Tucson shootings and tells us: Sarah Palin, who had been silent for days, on Wednesday issued a forceful den...

Will the Giffords Arizona Shootings Change Anything?
Isn’t it time to be blunt? When the news hit that Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been critically wounded and 6 people were dead, it was news that many Americans had expected. The wounded were Collateral Damage. It isn’t only supposedly wishy washy moderates and independent voters who have long been alarmed that America’s poisonous political polemics had replaced professional wrestling as a mass culture sport with (some of the controversies as authentic as the outcomes of pro wrestlin

Sarah Palin's missed opportunity
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. I'll stand with Jon Chait and, oddly enough, Sarah Palin on this one: Palin is right to feel aggrieved. As Chait says, many have blamed her for a killing rampage that she had nothing to do with. A lot of Palin's Rhetoric is over the top, and her gun metaphors ("RELOAD!") and her target sights looked unsettling in light of subsequent events. But the subsequent events were not her fault. Moreover, I just don't care if Palin tho...

'Blood libel': Reaction to Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin's video message Wednesday morning, meant to combat accusations that she shared in the blame for the tragic shootings in Tucson last weekend, only sparked new outrage over her assertion that her critics were Manufacturing a "blood Libel" against her. (The phrase "blood Libel" refers to age-old anti-Semitic falsehoods claiming Jews use the blood of Christian Children for ritualistic purposes). J Street is saddened by Governor Palin's use of the term "blood libel." The country's attent...

Jewish Republicans muted on Palin's 'blood libel' comment
Jewish Republicans had a muted reaction Wednesday to Sarah Palin's accusation that the media manufactured a "blood Libel" while covering the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)  The term "blood Libel" refers to historical, false accusations that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish Children for religious purposes. Persecutors of the Jews employed a "blood Libel" mentality to justify acts of violence against them. Former Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, a member of the Re...

Judicial Watch: Goverment was cause of Tucson Tragedy?
The following is commentary by Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, and Freedom Watch, and himself a U.S. Senate Candidate in 2004.  His commentary comes on on the heels of Rhetoric by the left who blame everyone from guns, Republicans, to Sarah Palin. The left conveniently forgets the seminal act that led to the creation of this nation; the Declaration of Independence. In 1776, the Founding Fathers declared our independence and proclaimed that force may be appropriate -- as ...

The Tuscon Tragedy
The massacre at Tuscon was a national tragedy, therefore a national outpouring of condolences is appropriate, but the opportunistic blame game being played by the Democrats is not. The liberal vocabulary is now thick with phrases like,  "demonizing people” and "arguments of division," which is in fact normal American politics. The Rhetoric and imagery of American electioneering tends to be robust, Sarah Palin used a crosshair graphic on her Facebook profile, to identify the political ...

Sarahs Palin speaks out: 'I have listened with sadness' (Transcript & video)
 Sarah Palin speaks in the aftermath of the tragedy in Arizona. Her statement, her video speaks eloquently for itself. The video is on the sidebar, the transcript follows in its entirety: Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent Victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.  I agree with the sentiments shared ye...

Video of Dem Congressman Brad Sherman: If Violent Rhetoric Didnt Cause This Shooting, It Will Cause Next One
Let's just refresh Sherman's memory: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama in July 2008 “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.” Obama to Latinos, October 2010 "I think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. In this case the hostage is the...

The foolishness of the 'blood libel' charge
Greg already touched on many of the more egregious aspects of Sarah Palin's video response to critics, but I wanted to focus more directly on her use of the term "blood Libel." First off, it would be a serious stretch to assign any blame to Palin for Jared Loughner's actions. But while this is a situation in which Palin has been genuinely wronged by critics, she has already squandered any Moral High Ground she might have fairly laid claim to. Part of Palin's appeal to her base comes from her w...

Video: Chris Matthews Schools Tea Party Leader
Here’s a highly entertaining segment from today’s Chris Matthews show, in which he confronts Tea Party Nation kook Judson Phillips, who insists he sees absolutely nothing wrong with bringing guns to political events. Video ...

Video: How MSNBCs Chris Matthews Handled Tucson Shooting vs. Ft. Hood Shooting
Nidal Hassan, who yelled Allah Akbar as he murdered 13 servicemen at Fort Hood - ironically in a no gun zone - was taped murdering 13 people, plus a 14th Victim - an unborn child. A deranged "left-wing pothead" ;lunatic shoots a Congresswoman and a few others over the weekend. Chris Matthews handled both... quite a bit differently: After the Ft. Hood shooting, Chris Matthews went out of his way to find reasons other than Radical Islam for the shooting. And he had a representative of CAIR on his...

Video: Chris Matthews Sarah Palin is Going to be Erased
Video: Chris Matthews ‘Sarah Palin is Going to be Erased’ More violent Rhetoric from tingles Chris Matthews and encouraging violence from MSNBC. Tingles had his libtard pals Cynthia Tucker and Richard Wolffe on “Hardball” tonight and said: “If she doesn’t get off of this and stop trying to have somebody else skate her off of it like Glenn Beck or this person Mansour, she is going to be erased” Pause “as a potential Candidate” Quit PREACHING...

A Tale of Two Matthews: How Chris Matthews handled the Ft. Hood and Tuscon Shootings
Tags: Chris Matthews, How did Chris Matthews respond to both the Ft. Hood and Tucson shootings? Chris Matthews is one of the most horrible people on the air. Just look at his hypocrisy in this video above. Look at how loathe he is to talk about Muslims committing acts of Terrorism and how apologetic he is for the Islamist who shouted “Admiral Akbar!” at the top of his lungs before committing mass Murder…compared to how eager he was to blame the Tea Party for something one men...

All The President's Teleprompters...
The WaPo and the NY Times st the stage for President Obama's address tonight from Arizona.  From the WaPo: Obama is likely to deliver a Speech about tolerance, a theme that could also be featured in his State of the Union address on Jan. 25. However, with liberals and Conservatives assuming their assigned battle stations over whether Gun Laws and partisan Rhetoric are to blame, the White House is Undecided about the exact message the president will send. It is not clear whether ideol...

Sarah Palin's Moronic 'Blood Libel' Claim in Jared Loughner/Gabby Giffords Horror
​America's mainstream press is so polite, so scared. At least the overseas papers know when to call "bullshit" during coverage of the Jared Loughner saga. Sarah Palin's claim of being a Victim of "blood Libel" is so ludicrous as to defy belief. Or as Damian Thompson, blogs editor of the Telegraph (U.K.), says in a headline, "Seriously, this woman is nuts." Hey, Palin! "Blood Libel" -- a phrased usually used these days only by Muslim fanatics -- is the centuries-old myth of Jews' sacrificing...