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Giffords, Ghouls and Gimmicks
On Saturday, Jared Loughner attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). He killed a federal judge, a nine-year-old girl and four others, and injured many more. Their fates were still unknown when political ghouls leapt from their muck to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and other assorted elements of the right. Doug Mataconis and Gabriel Malor identify some of the more prominent ghouls and respond to them, so I need not do so at length. Notably, the most prominent ghouls reek with ...

Difference of opinion is what makes the world go round
Posted by Guest Blogger Locutisprime. According to the Pima County sheriff, differences of opinion are what makes the world go round. Except of course when your opinion differs from his or other Liberal Democrats or the political talking points and politicians that he and they support. I have to agree. There are consequences to 'this type of behavior.' Of course, the type of behavior that this sheriff is alluding to, is any behavior (specifically Speech) that is contrary to the best wish...

True Face of Progressivism Exposed in a Tragedys Aftermath.
There is no proof yet that Christianne Amanpour is a child molester. Let that sink in for a second. Outrageous, right? Especially when simply said out of the blue like that. Yet that is how the media is treating the insanity of the left-wing progressive charge that Conservatives, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are somehow responsible for the actions of a man who had been obsessed with his target since 2007, more than two years before the Tea Party was in existence. Amanpour, on her low-rated â€..

Arizona Massacre Prompts Political 'Cheap Shots'
When Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords collapsed outside the Safeway in Tucson Saturday morning, felled by a hail of bullets that killed six and wounded another 13 innocent people that had come to see her, some were quick to claim that the carnage was the product not merely of the tortured mind and trigger-happy fingers of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Rather, many on the American Left said the horror could be traced to the malign influence of American Conservatives; members...

Arizona Massacre Prompts Political 'Cheap Shots'
When Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords collapsed outside the Safeway in Tucson Saturday morning, felled by a hail of bullets that killed six and wounded another 13 innocent people that had come to see her, some were quick to claim that the carnage was the product not merely of the tortured mind and trigger-happy fingers of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Rather, many on the American Left said the horror could be traced to the malign influence of American Conservatives; members...

Of Pinning And Pining
Of Pinning And Pining OK, so we can all agree it's pukingly hilarious that a bunch of lefties immediately blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of a politician and several innocent bystanders... by a deranged lefty. And it's no surprise that the same media who urged us to wait for all the facts when someone shouted "Allahu Akbar" before shooting the place up has immediately jumped to blame the Tea Party and Palin... again, for the actions of a deranged lefty. And for Paul Krugman to denounce ext...

Medias wild accusation against Palin missed wacky cult connection to ODonnell
The Lying Liberal Media desperate to implicate the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Talk Show Conservatives missed one wild and unhinged theory they thrive on.  Jared Lee Loughner's (notice the middle name, press loves three named assassins) has an occultist alter in his back yard. The Daily News exclusive writes, “A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent b...

Continuing Coverage of the Arizona Shooting
Amy Davidson on Giffords’s recovery and the heroes and Victims of the shooting, and the first “horrifying” details from Saturday. Jill Lepore on the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, and the Constitution. George Packer on the massacre’s context within the past two years’ worth of “relentlessly hostile Rhetoric” from the right, which he says has become so standard in partisan and Mainstream Media that “the gradual effect is to desensitize even p...

Limbaugh says Dems playing politics with Giffords shooting
Washington (CNN) - Conservative Talk Radio host Rush Limbaugh offered a vigorous defense of himself and Sarah Palin Monday in response to claims from some media commentators and those on the left that some of their charged statements and colorful language may have inspired the Arizona shootings. "[The media] is unnecessarily stirring up the country in ways that don't merit," Limbaugh said on his radio program Monday. "It's fatuous and silly to even verify and justify these accusations by defend...

'McCarthyism' it isn't
'McCarthyism' IT ISN'T.... I expect conservative to circle the wagons during a tense time, but Bill Kristol is throwing around some odd Rhetoric. A conservative pundit on Monday ripped liberals who have suggested that Sarah Palin is to blame for the shooting tragedy in Arizona. During an appearance on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Bill Kristol of the conservative-leaning Weekly Standard magazine called the criticism of the former Alaska Governor "a disgrace." He said there is no proof that J...

Raul Labrador responds to Giffords shooting on 'Meet The Press'
Raul Labrador, the newly-elected GOP Congressman from Idaho's 1st Congressional District, appeared on CBS's Meet the Press program Sunday to discuss the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "She was doing what all of us should be doing, which was talking to our constituents, and trying to get educated on the issues," Labrador said. Within minutes of the tragedy, liberal media pundits were blaming Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck for the shootings.  "We have to be c...

BRYAN PRESTON: Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughners backyard skull shrine, linked fro
BRYAN PRESTON: “Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughner’s backyard skull shrine, linked from Drudge. I’m not seeing a Gadsden flag.” ...

Liberals Blame Sarah Palin for Tucson Shooting Tragedy
The tragic shooting outside a Tucson strip mall, which left six dead and at least a dozen more wounded, is all because of Sarah Palin, liberals are saying today. So far, police have said they cannot find any motive for the attack, which tookplace during a "Congress on Your Corner" event arranged by Conservative Blue Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, who represents Arizona's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, has allegedly told authorities he planned the...

Who is really to blame for the shootings in Tucson, AZ?
The Rhetoric seems to be never ending.  The blame game has begun, and there is no end in sight regarding comments as to what happened, who should have done what and why.  But the real answers as to how to prevent another tragedy like the one in Tucson, AZ have not yet been discussed. Anyone who has spent enough time listening to TV news, or has read on-line accounts of the incident, has heard or read about all of the finger pointing commentary by everyone from the m...

Hanoi Jane Pins Tucson Shootings on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Tea Party
Jane Fonda — who traveled to North Vietnam during the war to propagandize against our Troops and to pose cheerfully with the sort of anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our pilots — still hasn't finished making her contributions to American politics. The tragic events in Tucson Saturday were yet another opportunity for her to vent her hatred of patriots. Here's what she's been spewing on Twitter: That she can't even spell Beck's first name is an indication of the general cluelessnes...

FLASHBACK: Do you remember the Halloween display Leftists put up in 2008 showing Governor Sarah Palin hanged from a rooftop?
Drudge Report yanked this story from the Memory Hole…where Leftists in California put up a “Halloween display” depicting Governor Sarah Palin hanging from a roof, execution style, her hands tied behind her back. I’ve told you repeatedly about a bar here in Boystown named Sidetrack (which actually happens to be one of the best Gay Bars in the world).  Its owners are great guys 95% of the time, but have a weird and twisted obsession against Governor Palin that also man...

"The Vitriol Vitriol"
Martin Kaplan of USC's Norman Lear Center writes at the Jewish Journal of what he fears will be lost in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings. He writes, "If this tragedy is going to be a teachable moment, the lesson won’t be found by determining whose vitriol is warranted.  It will be found instead in what the vitriol is actually about.  And that, as Sheriff Dupnik nailed it, is “tearing down the government.”" As attention turned over the weekend to ...

"Fox & Friends" Now Scapegoating Sheriff Clarence Dupnik?
After having interviewed, Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, Brian Kilmeade hosted an interview with FOX fave Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeau, who makes frequent appearances, on Fox, to complain about how the Obama administration is being negligent with regard to the border. It appears that the Right Wing isn't happy about Dupnik's commentary about the "vitriol" in Arizona and Babeau's appearance could be part of some "damage control" on the part of FOX to deny what is, clearly, a harsh reality o...

Polarization
Matt Yglesias seems a bit surprised to find that polarization doesn’t always break on partisan lines but on ideological ones, looking at the example of Martin Luther King Jr. and George Wallace, who were both Democrats. But polarization isn’t limited to Red Team/Blue Team parameters, as set out by the DC Press Corps. King was a liberal, Wallace was a conservative. Moreover, on the issues of segregation and Civil Rights, King was the leading advocate for change and Wallace a leading...

Government and Violence
[I]t’s worth remembering that the government initiates violence against its own citizens every day in this country, citizens who pose no threat or harm to anyone else. The particular policy that leads to the sort of violence… is supported by nearly all of the politicians and pundits decrying anti-government Rhetoric on the news channels this morning. (It’s also supported by Sarah Palin, many Tea Party Leaders, and other figures on the right that politicians and pundits are sham...

Breaking...Loughner conducted bizarre, Satanic rituals
Breaking news this morning provides further insight into the mind of Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the Tuscon massacre. Reports indicate that Loughner was engaged in Satanic rituals, according to the New York Daily News. A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitti...

A moment of silence
The talking heads started in right away after the shooting. Once again they had no idea what they were talking about. This article will not be seen by many because it doesn’t cover Cleveland, Oh politics. The real reason is the truth. The truth is powerful and national politics affect everyone otherwise you would not pay federal Income Tax. The examiner review team obviously doesn’t understand that. The talking heads, the same people who are always asked when it comes to politics, ar...

Media Matters Calls On Murdoch To Rein In Beck, Palin
In a letter delivered to News Corp.CEO Rupert Murdoch Monday afternoon, and obtained by TPM, Media Matters founder David Brock says the time has come for Fox News to take responsibility for its programming. Specifically, Brock is calling on Murdoch to make Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck tone down their Rhetoric on threat of termination -- or to be complicit in acts of political violence. "Beck and Palin are two of Fox's most recognizable figures," Brock writes. "Before this heartbreaking tragedy i...

What should Obama do? | Michael Tomasky
In the wake of Saturday's horrific shooting in Arizona, those words are as true today as they were fifteen years ago. Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama promised to change the tone in Washington beyond the partisan bickering that defined the Clinton and Bush years, so that Americans could "disagree without being disagreeable." But his political opponents never agreed to play by those terms. Apocalyptic depictions of Obama and ludicrous Rhetoric about his record, which turne...

What Riverdaughter said
There seem to be two major camps regarding this tragedy: Sarah Palin is a monster and the Tea Partiers must be blamed. Or, Sarah Palin is the scapegoat and her picture had nothing to do with this tragic incident. I prefer the third way. .... In the past 18 years, starting with the advent of Rush Limbaugh, we saw a ratcheting up of Right Wing Extremism. ... And it is into this environment that Sarah Palin steps as the champion of a new set of people. A group that even the Right Wing Republicans ...