What Did Influence Jared Loughner?

Palin: Attacks over shooting are 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of Manufacturing a "blood Libel" by suggesting her Rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings. Four days after an incident which left six people dead and critically injured the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Palin released a video statement condemning the attack. She denied that a now infamous campaign map showing Giffords's electoral district in the cross hairs of a gun had influenced the shooter Jared Lee Loughner. In ...

Michelle Malkin: The worst sheriff in America
There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend's horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was not one of them. If the White House has any sense, President Obama will stay far away from the demagogic Dupnik and his media entourage when he visits Arizona on Wednesday to memorialize the Victims. Indeed, if the White House is truly committed to unifying the country, it will explicitly disavow Dupnik's vulture-like exploitat...

At Arizona memorial, Obama urges a discussion that 'heals'
TUCSON, Ariz. — President Barack Obama played the part of "healer in chief" Wednesday night, honoring the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting while seeking to calm an increasingly angry political debate, urging all Americans to stop pointing fingers and "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.'' "I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand b...

Arizona suspect was stopped for running a red light before attack
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Jared Loughner had repeated contact with Law Enforcement officers over the years, and hours before Saturday's shootings was pulled over by a Police Officer for running a red light as he frenetically prepared to kill a congresswoman, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators are "100 percent" certain that Loughner did not have an accomplice, and while they continue to investigate his "online associations," they see no obvious connection between Loughner and political Extremists,...

Obama leads memorial for Tucson shooting (AFP)
Tucson, Arizona (AFP) – President Barack Obama led a national outpouring of grief while calling for unity at an emotional memorial after a shooting that unleashed fierce debate about inflammatory political Rhetoric. In a Speech repeatedly interrupted by applause for those who tackled the gunman -- and the announcement that a US lawmaker who was shot in the head had opened her eyes -- Obama said the attack must not lead to new divisions. "At a time when our discourse has become so sh...

Americans contemplate toning down their rhetoric
Angry and grief-stricken over the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, Alicia Berhow typed out a Facebook posting she'd later regret. As she recalls, it went something like, "Sarah Palin, you disgust me." This Story Americans contemplate toning down their Rhetoric Audio: Jared Loughner's 2007 court appearance Investigators Probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances Loughner family expresses sorrow for 'heinous' attack; doctors say Giffords making progress A Tucson Y...

Gregory Kane: Sheriff Dupnik shoots before aiming
It wasn't long after the Tucson, Ariz., shootings before Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik went into full blowhard mode about who was responsible for the massacre. A hint: it's not suspect Jared Lee Loughner. According to a story on the Web site www.CNN.com, Dupnik "used a nationally televised Press Conference to condemn the tone of political discourse in his state." Oh, this gets better. Here's a direct quote from Dupnik, taken from the www.CNN.com story: "We need to do some soul-searching. ...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooter Jared Loughner was once 'sweet, caring' says ex-girlfriend
Jared Lee Loughner will go down in history as the crazed gunman who opened fire in Tucson on Jan. 8, wounding Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six. But his ex-girlfriend says the man in the headlines bears no resemblance to the shy, kind teenager she once knew. "I've always known him as the sweet, caring Jared," Kelsey Hawkes, 21 told USA Today this week. Hawkes is now a junior at the University of Arizona where Obama gave an emotional address in memory of the Shooting Victims on We...

Investigators probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances
TUCSON - Federal and local investigators are trying to determine how Jared Lee Loughner came up with the money to buy the weapon and ammunition he allegedly used to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people at a Tucson constituent event Saturday, Law Enforcement sources said Wednesday. This Story Americans contemplate toning down their Rhetoric Audio: Jared Loughner's 2007 court appearance Investigators Probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances Loughner family expresses sorrow f...

Democrat Sheriff Dupnik Guilty of Dereliction of Duty
Back on Monday I posted that Pima County Sheriff Dupnik was blaming the right for the slaughter at Safeway but details had emerged of multiple contacts between Jared Loughner and Dupnik's office over multiple death threats. Duplicious and deceiving, he libeled decent and fine Americans in order to deflect his guilt. Perhaps he believes eveyone will call for cessation of blame and his gross negligence will be overlooked. How disingenuous and dangerous for President Obama to have called Dupn...

Officers stopped suspect on day of shooting...
TUCSON, Ariz. – A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the Assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack, authorities said Wednesday as they pieced together more details of a frenzied morning. Jared Lougher ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner's driver's license and vehicle registration information but found no outstanding warr...

Another Horrible Jared Lougher What If? to Consider
It was revealed late yesterday that on Saturday, before Jared Loughner carried out his deadly attack at a Tucson Safeway, he had a dramatic run-in with his father: Loughner's father witnessed his son with a black bag Saturday morning, the day of the shooting, and inquired about what he was doing. "Jared apparently mumbled something and left hurriedly," [Pima County Sheriff's Operations Bureau Chief Rick] Kastigar said. "The dad attempted to follow, and Jared darted off in the desert (on foot)....

Newsmax Still Hiding Facts About Loughner's Book List
Newsmax Still Hiding Facts About Loughner's Book List Topic: Newsmax Newsmax has its story on Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, and it's sticking to it. Two more Newsmax articles persist in incompletely reporting the contents of Loughner's book list. Davd Patten and Kathleen Walter wrote in a Jan. 10 article that "Loughner’s bizarre rants mention Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but do not mention Palin, Fox News, the Tea Party, or other high...

Adolf Hitler responsible for Arizona shooting?
While Victims of the Tucson shooting still lied in the Parking Lot, propagandists on the left started to lay the ground work in an attempt to spin the horrific incident into a rightwing self-fulfilling prophesy.  With no regard for the truth, a broad spectrum of liberals jumped on the political vitriol bandwagon attempting to connect Conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh to the shooting.  However, to date the only information gleaned from the investigation indicate the discov...

How Glenn Beck And Fox News Successfully Painted AZ Shooter As Hitler, Marx Devotee
Within hours of the Shooting Spree in Arizona, conservative blogs lit up with the news that the suspect, Jared Loughner, was an aficionado of Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto. A Hitler/Marx devotee, the logic went, is someone too idiosyncratic or crazy to be part of any mainstream political movement. Some went further, and cited the information as proof that Loughner was the sort of big-government liberal they had nightmares about. As with so many of these fast-propagating conservative m...

Palin grabs spotlight with video
On a day that political leaders in Washington and Arizona devoted to honoring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other Victims of Saturday’s Mass Shooting in Tucson, Sarah Palin proved once again that her bully pulpit is second to none in commanding the attention and passions of the political world. As Democratic and Republican lawmakers filed into the well of the House to offer prayers for the severely wounded Giffords and the six people who were killed, Palin’s eight-minute Facebook vid...

Sounding Presidential
Posted by Rich Trzupek on Jan 13th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Yesterday Barack Obama did something that too many elected officials seem congenitally unable to do: he rose above partisan politics and spoke to the nation as a leader should, rather than as another politician angling for personal advantage. Speaking in Tucson at the memor...

Documents detail Ariz. suspect's college outbursts
A woman prays at the memorial located in front of the University Medical Center, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. The memorial has been set up for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who is in critical condition at the Hospital, and other Victims who were shot on Saturday, leaving six dead and more injured. For four years, Jared Loughner was an unremarkable College Student, commuting to classes near his home where he studied Yoga and algebra, business management and poetry. But l...

Jared Loughner Terrified Everyone At His Old Community College
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. Since the Arizona massacre on Saturday there have been some very pointless debates about the role of Rhetoric in American politics, and whether Sarah Palin used an inappropriate phrase in a video she posted on Vimeo. But the debate that will emerge have some actual impact is whether society ought to get even more aggressive about pro-actively protecting itself against psychos, which is exactly what everyone who came into contact with shooter J...

Was the 18th century a 'climate of hate'?
In the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy that killed six and wounded 14 others, the Left has attacked Talk Radio, Fox News, Sarah Palin and anyone else it can smear. Never mind there is not a shred of evidence that the accused gunman, the mentally disturbed Jared Lee Loughner, ever watched Glenn Beck or listened to Rush Limbaugh (Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat, irresponsibly suggested Limbaugh incited Loughner). Even if Loughner had watched and listened to conservative media, wha...

Rhetoric as comfort food: The mac-and-cheese instinct
If only we could go back to Monday. Discussions about Saturday's shootings in Tucson, which killed six and wounded 13, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were so much simpler then: inflamed, righteous and deliciously partisan in a comfort-food kind of way. The fallout from the tragedy took a neat and predictable course: the left blaming the right for its association with incendiary Rhetoric, and the right mounting a tough defense against such accusations, arguing that liberal elites f...

On shootings and politics, Palin has her own rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — With her video defending herself against critics — in which she accused them of “blood Libel” — Sarah Palin again showed she is weighing a presidential bid in unprecedented and even daring ways. The former Alaska Governor commands nationwide attention with her selective use of Facebook and Twitter, choosing provocative words when others testing the presidential waters prefer a lighter touch. Some political pros say her tactics, which protect her fr...

Tucson Tragedy Will Happen Again if We Aren't Serious About Mental Health
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords didn't know she had a stalker, though she knew that she was being threatened after her Tucson congressional office was vandalized in the wake of her vote in favor of Health Care reform. She didn't know that several people had expressed concern about the mental stability of her constituent Jared Loughner, who had, according to reports, become obsessed with her to the point of writing notes about his plans to hurt her, or worse. While some people were worried about Loughner...

Obama Calls for Unity to Prevail Over Divisive Rhetoric (Time.com)
Friends of the accused killer, Jared Lee Loughner, keep using the same words to guess at his reasons for gunning down a congresswoman, several Retirees and a nine-year-old girl in a Safeway Parking Lot. "He loves causing chaos," a former target-shooting buddy told one reporter. "Mainly to just promote chaos," echoed another High School pal. On Wednesday night, President Obama addressed Loughner's alleged crime before a crowd of 14,000 in Tucson, Arizona. The Speech was watched by millions of ...

Obama and Palin: A Tale Of Two Speakers
The contrasts, both in style and in tone, were undeniable. Perhaps more telling though are the apparent motivations behind the two public statements made by Barack Obama and Sarah Palin yesterday, in response to the Assassination attempt on the life of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Obama, speaking at the Arizona memorial service for the other Victims of Saturday's shooting, did what presidents do. Looking and sounding more presidential then he has at any other point during his tenu...