Bozell Column: Liberal Sickos Exploit a Rampage
Imagine the Saturday morning of congressional aide Mark Kimble. Kimble told of going to a Safeway for a typical meet-and-greet event with his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Kimble said he went into the store for coffee, and as he came out, Giffords was talking to a couple about Medicare and reimbursements, and federal judge John Roll had just walked up to her and shouted “Hi” – when a gunman opened fire.
Nobody in America should greet this scene with any other initial reaction than horror. Six people were killed, including Judge Roll, several retirees, and a nine-year-old girl. Over a dozen others were seriously injured in the carnage. Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition. Sadly, shamefully, within just minutes, a nasty political spin was kicking in without any brake for decency or evidence. Conservatives were to blame.
CNN broke in with this horrible news at about 1:30 Eastern time, and within an hour, CNN put on on the local political cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons, who announced that the shooting was “inevitable” considering “The Right in Arizona, and I'm speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state.” The state also had a conservative “fetish” for guns that added to the inevitability, he claimed.
Fitzsimmons later apologized, something a whole of lot people should consider doing if they have a shred of decency. I have never witnessed such an immediate rush to tar a majority movement in my life – without a ounce of evidence.
The star of the media’s Smearing Olympics was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat who rushed to the readily available media microphones to proclaim the shooting was the natural outgrowth of hot “anti-government” talkers, that “the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from the people in the radio business and some people in the TV business” was to blame.
At first Dupnik didn’t name names, but you knew who he meant. He later said he wanted to say Rush Limbaugh first, and Glenn Beck as well. That began a deluge of “news” coverage blaming conservative radio hosts, Fox News, and politicians like Sarah Palin for their alleged encouragement of nutty lone gunmen to kill federal judges and congressmen.
Even as they acknowledged the shooter’s motive was a mystery, liberal reporters were filling their buckets with mud. Typical was CBS reporter Nancy Cordes, who scolded that “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in cross hairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
Jumping into special coverage on MSNBC, that dispassionate news “anchorman” Keith Olbermann insisted that Palin should apologize or be “dismissed from politics.” It mattered not one iota to this man who drools nightly hatred that his friends at the Daily Kos also talked of a “target list” with Rep. Giffords – and dehumanized her a “congresscritter.”
This flood of slanderous sludge is designed for nakedly political benefit: to paint a permanent black mark on conservatives as accessories to murder, and criminalize any expression of conservatism as a dangerous anti-government conspiracy.
Happily, after a few broadcasts of this vomit, CBS pollsters found 57 percent of Americans questioned on Sunday and Monday didn’t accept the notion that the country’s “harsh political tone” had anything to do with the Tucson rampage.
Conservatives could see the liberals trying to replay the Oklahoma City bombing smears from 1995. An anonymous, cowardly “veteran Democratic strategist” whispered to Politico that Team Obama needs to “to deftly pin this on the tea partiers … Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
Is this deft? Or just daft? This partisan insanity was presented as savvy by the usual suspects. Ex-Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman oozed that Obama needed to gain advantage over Republicans without seeming political: “The trick is to make it without seeming to be trying to make it. He will, after all, be speaking at a funeral.”
Another sicko at Newsweek, Jonathan Alter, was so indecent that he calculated how Giffords is more valuable to Obama alive than dead: “Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank God, which offers other possibilities. We won’t know for weeks or months whether she can function in public. If she can, she will prove a powerful referee of the boundaries of public discourse – more influential, perhaps, than the president himself.”
Thank God Giffords survived – so Obama can be re-elected? Alter is the one who needs a referee – some editor who can tell him he couldn’t find a “boundary of public discourse” if it slapped him in the face.
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So many of our so-called
Submitted by ant on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:09am.
So many of our so-called journalist have sunk to the deep end of the partisan pool that I actually wouldn't be surprised if the next unhinged violent perp comes from their ranks. Yeah, I said it.
Arianna Huffington Without Make-Up
Submitted by im41 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:05am.
Arianna Huffington Without Make-Up Here is a laugh if you are tired of hearing about the shooting
Holy Plastic Jesus!!!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:39am.
I thought it was one of the dancers from the "Thriller" video.
I wish someone would actually
Submitted by nicksmith112 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:33am.
I wish someone would actually ask sheriff Dumass if he has ever listened to or watched Rush,Beck, or Hannity. I guarantee you he will say he hasn't....thus proving he is a demo-dolt.I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
Could backfire on them
Submitted by Miket53 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:33am.
The blame game by the left could backfire. Americans realize that sick individuals will act out regardless of what anyone preaches whether a politician, talk show host, etc. Rational people control their actions. Americans are growing tone deaf to the whining and complaining by liberals. People want to see politicians work to improve their lives, reduce taxes, and get government out of their lives. Playing the blame game and always claiming to be a victim does not win support by voters.
Miket53 http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/
I sincerely hope it does
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:34am.
I sincerely hope it does backfire. Wait a minute...is that violent imagery?
Excellent
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:36am.
Excellent and well written article. In my 72 years have never seen/heard what the media and the democrat party has sunk to. Thank you NewsBusters, Beck, Palin, Rush, Ingrham, OReilly and most of all The tea Party!!!!
Notice how mute Hollywood has
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:52am.
Notice how mute Hollywood has been throughout this tragedy? You know, the purveyors of fantastic movie bliss like "Natural Born Killers" ???
Hmmm...
Except for...
Submitted by Gothampc on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:32am.
Jane Fonda, you remember the one that had her picture taken on an enemy army tank, who started blaming Sarah Palin just hours after the shooting.
Jane Fonda...
Submitted by CarlosS on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 11:41am.
Oh, do you mean Hanoi Jane?
BTW Jane Fonda, we will never forget what you did.
Don't forget her half-baked
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:52pm.
Don't forget her half-baked "apology" many years after the fact.
Hell Yes..........
Submitted by joshcomm on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:18pm.
Hanoi Jane, the traitor from the left.....which they ALL still are.
I know this sounds picky but...
Submitted by DoktorFranken on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:19am.
.... I believe it was an anti-aircraft gun that shot down our pilots that she was sitting on.
Dok
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:36am.
You are correct.As far as she was pictured with a AA unit.SAMs I believe downed most of our pilots.I could be wrong though.
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/god_bless_jane.htm
debate is over
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:01am.
In spite of all the sludge the Left has thrown there is one thing that has counteracted almost all of it.... the picture of that guy. it is one of the creepiest picture you can imagine. The casual news consumer upon seeing that picture knows this is just a crazy, nothing more. When the casual news consumer has made up their mind on a subject they tune out the rest of the political debate and go back to watching regular programing.
What upsets me, even though I
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:05am.
What upsets me, even though I am a lawyer and know how the system has to work, is that the 'beast' in that picture is going to plead insanity, will not get the death penalty, and you and I will pay over a million dollars throughout his lifetime giving him room and board, meals, medical, dental, optometry, etc. Even though we are 100% certain he did the crime he is charged.
Our system fails us sometimes. Prepare yourself.
I fully expect it...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:53am.
Although insanity defenses are apparently notoriously difficult to prove, and juries do not like them, like you, I think Loughner may end up being able to dodge the death penalty, and that the taxpayer will end up supporting this loon for the rest of his life. That said, and although I do think that he is very probably schizophrenic, I don't think he is completely, truly insane...There was too much planning and too much rational thought put into his attack, and that, I hope, will cause him to remain eligible for the death penalty...He certainly deserves it. We'll see.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
I would hate to be his public
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:59am.
I would hate to be his public defender. That might be when I would have to leave the law and pick up book writing or something. Could not force me to defend evil like this guy.
Actually, Loughner doesn't have a public defender...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:32am.
in the usual sense...He's got some high-powered defense lawyer named Judy Clark...She has defended Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Eric Robert Rudolph (the Olympic Park bomber), Zacharias Moussaoui, and Susan Smith (the sicko who drowned her two sons in her car). The fact that Loughner committed the crime really isn't disputed...What she will likely be trying to do is to keep him from getting the death penalty...Apparently, that is what she is known for...getting obviously guilty people life in prison rather than the death penalty. We'll see.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Thanks for the info. Judy
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:39am.
Thanks for the info. Judy Clarke. Wow, I should have guessed.
I believe change of venue
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:57pm.
I believe change of venue will be in order and granted especially after all the nonsense spewing for from Sheriff Duped-nik's mouth.
Have the trial at Gitmo. Plenty of Muslims who haven't heard diddley about the crime are available there for jury duty. All they care about is that the guy is an infidel. Let's see the lawyer convince them of a life sentence. /s
Nah, don't see that happening
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:56pm.
Nah, don't see that happening Beukeboom. Let's not forget that women were shot and killed during this ramage. The Gitmo prisoners would most likely bring down a verdict of not guilty because of that. Wait, maybe the defense lawyer just might want to move the venue to there!
I know it's not going to
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:30pm.
I know it's not going to Gitmo. I was being sarcastic. Killing two birds with one stone so to speak.
WHOOPS! That was violent imagery!
Change of venue to where?
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:22pm.
The moon? That's about where someone would have to go to find someone who hasn't heard about this...If there is a change of venue, I really don't know where, realistically, they would move it to...Since this will be a federal case, I wonder if they are able to move it out of the state of Arizona...I have no idea how that works. Even if there were to move it out of the state, finding an impartial jury for this crime(s) will be almost impossible...Maybe they could find an impartial jury in Bora Bora, because short of that, everyone else has heard about this case. We'll see.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
You're a brave man, mostlymoderate...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:03am.
Why in the world would you admit to being a lawyer at this website where so many believe all lawyers are crooks, shysters, con artists, and criminal-coddling money grubbers--no exceptions--who should be wiped off the face of the earth? There's no way you could have missed the anti-lawyer bilge that's spewed here.
Jer
HAHA! I know. I can admit
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:22am.
HAHA! I know. I can admit to it because all I do is estate planning :) No civil trials and no criminal trials. I simply make sure beneficiaries get what is coming to them. I'm no John Edwards. lol Rarely do I see a tort and if I do, I am on the "right" side of the law.
Irrelevant and immaterial, mostlymoderate...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:46am.
I was on the "right" side too. That made absolutely no difference. The "crime" at this website is practicing law, period.
Jer
You must admit, if you are
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:53am.
You must admit, if you are not a lawyer and have not been clued in as to WHY our law is the way it is, it would seem annoying. For example, the evidentiary rules like "character evidence". A guy is on trial for murder but am I going to be able to bring in evidence that the guy has been getting into fights at least 20 times in the last 5 years? Probably not, especially if the defendant doesn't testify on his behalf. Ah, but then there are those tricky "impeachment" techniques where I can ask a witness something like, "have you heard the defendant likes to get in fights?" It comes in because I am attacking credibility of THIS witness and not the defendent.
And then the jury is treated like imbeciles where we expect them to only use the evidence for impeachment and not a window into whether the defendant is guilty. Stupid sounding stuff.
Stupid sounding rules if you don't know why they are in place. I think that's why people hate lawyers :) Lack of understanding why we have the rules but also the fact that we didn't write them. lol
Plus in an adversarial
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:00am.
Plus in an adversarial system, it's a virtual certainty that one party won't particularly care for the lawyer representing the opposing party, and occasionally won't be all that thrilled with his own attorney.
Jer
Exactly! That is why I would
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:06am.
Exactly! That is why I would never want to be a divorce attorney. Can you imagine the emotions that turn into anger against the attorney's?? I had a professor warn me never to practice divorce law because of one of his students getting a bullet in his 'bottom' from an angry spouse.
I took his advice :)
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:26am.
"Why in the world would you admit to being a lawyer at this website where so many believe all lawyers are crooks, shysters, con artists, and criminal-coddling money grubbers--no exceptions--who should be wiped off the face of the earth?"
That isnt true Jer.I am sure there is a exception somewhere.Give me a decade or two to find one.
Hey, even most lawyers don't
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:33am.
Hey, even most lawyers don't want to be in a room with other lawyers. Most of us would rather be anywhere else but with each other. Should have seen how nasty people were in law school. Quite vicious, I must say.
mostlymoderate
Submitted by well99 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:48am.
Your kidding.You would think at school their would be more comradery.Same goal and such.
Lawyers are a strange bunch
Submitted by stunned on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:37am.
i have two good friends who are lawyers and except for the law partner of one and each other neither are friends with any other lawyers and they have stated often through the years that they most of the lawyers they know are jerks. I never see that with other professions medical, accountants, engineers or IT. It always puzzled me.
tired of liberal lies
99% of all Lawyers....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:33am.
...give the rest a bad name...
100% of all liberals---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:24pm.
give the rest a bad name. MDLawyer jokes start here.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:42pm.
Lawyer jokes start here.
Charles Krauthammer hit the nail on the head...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:32am.
On tonight's O'Reilly, he and Bill were discussing the motives behind why the left has commenced with the slanderous onslaught that it has been engaged in since Saturday. A number of things were mentioned...Anger, that their liberal "message" is going nowhere and is clearly being rejected by the people, which the November elections made clear...Pure political machinations, intended to damage the Repubs/conservatives, and lastly and I think possibly most important, maliciousness...maliciousness. I think with most of these unhinged libnut haters, that's what this all boils down to. It seems that we have yet another disgusting re-incarnation and variation of Bush Derangement Syndrome and Palin Derangement Syndrome... Republican/Conservative Derangement Syndrome. It seems that we have proof that the leftist politicians, pundits, bloggers and media that started and have continued to run with the disgusting tactics and lies since the shooting, are all suffering from it.
These people are plainly at war with anyone and everyone on the right. This maliciousness that Charles mentioned colors everything that these types think, say, do and write. It is clear that these people are unable to see anything concerning the right clearly...Everything is viewed through a warped, malicious lens, and their goal is to try to destroy the right. It's that simple. Partisan politics is one thing, but the unhinged left has moved so far beyond that it's just stunning. The slash and burn, scorched earth policy that seems to have become standard operating procedure of the left knows no boundaries and no limits...Their reaction to the shooting in Arizona is proof of that, and seems to be a preview of what we on the right can expect heading into this next election cycle. The question will become, just how low will the left go? Unfortunately, before the 2012 election is over, I'm afraid we will all find out.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Monseur Kerry
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:56am.
Kerry expressed the ruling class Leftists attitude towards their lesser fellow citizens very plainly when he said in his race with GWB "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot". Nobody puts the snot in snotty.like elitists who are being rejected by the little people.
Right you are...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:20am.
Lefty elitists do have the "snotty" thing down to a science, don't they? They probably have a mandatory class in it for incoming freshman at every Ivy League university in the country... "Arrogant, Condescending, Leftist Elitism 101".
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
It isn't just Lefty Elitists
Submitted by richb313 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:20am.
Why do you think there is resistance to Sarah Palin from some quarters in the Republican Party? Ronald Reagon suffered the same fate and was looked down on by the Washington Harvard/Yale clubhouse. Snobbery is snobbery and if you didn't go to the right schools and were not members of the right club well, you are not worthy of respect or serious consideration.
President Reagon bypassed the clubhouse boys, not seeking thier approval, and took his clear message and vision to the American People through writings and personal apperances. Today I see Sarah Palin following the same template and so far suceeding quite well.
Americans have an almost instant dislike of snobbery of any kind and when detected will reject anyone who displays it. These snobs are real good at hiding who they are but they are not perfect. They always slip up and we always get a peek behind the curtain because it is who they really are.
Good point...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:48pm.
Elitism and snobbery definitely exist in both parties, no doubt about it. That said, I believe the liberal elitists are a special breed. They alone seem to have a disdain for any and all outside of their political, ideological, and socio-economic status...Elites on the left have a longstanding and apparently deeply held belief that they are superior to pretty much everyone else in this country...particularly those of us who live in "fly over country"...Average Americans, they seem to believe, are too ignorant, backward and stupid to know what is good for them...Only the "elites" know best, and are therefore better, smarter, etc. If this wideranging brand of elitsim exists on the right, and as a lifelong Republican I don't think it does, I've missed it. Republican elitism, though still wrong and unproductive, tends to be directed at other Republicans, stupid as that may be. The bottom line however it that elitism is wrong, no matter what end of the political spectrum it emanates from, although I do contend that the elite left are, hands down, the champs in this area.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
What cracks me up is that the
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:07am.
What cracks me up is that the liberals in the United Kingdom even see what elitist scumbags the left-wing has been through this ordeal: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1345952/Arizona-shooting-Americas-elite-hijacked-massacre-revenge-Sarah-Palin.html
It is a completely different
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:22am.
It is a completely different culture concerning slander and libel. The UK has a much lower legal threshold for tolerating what the American Left are spewing.
political exploitation
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:56am.
The fire in the Reichstag was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were beginning a plot against the German government. Communist leaders were subsequently arrested. Adolph Hitler who had been sworn in as Chancelor of Germany four weeks before, on 30 January, urged President Paul von Hindenburg to pass an emergency decree to counter the "ruthless confrontation of the ".Communist Party of Germany". With civil liberties suspended, the government instituted mass arrests of Communists, including all of the Communist parliamentary delegates. With them gone and their seats empty, the Nazis became the majority; subsequent elections confirmed this position and thus allowed Hitler to consolidate his power.
Hitler used it to force his
Submitted by danbo on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:28am.
Hitler used it to force his way. Gleichschaltung, The systematic elimination of all organizations or individuals who could influence people. They were suppressed, intimidated and murdered.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't believe suppression and intimidation wasn't being attempted. I hope they haven't resorted to murder. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't fear it.
The left and their friends in the media are losing the war. They're desperate. Freedom of speech can only apply to them.
Evil wins if the rest of us sit silent.
Speak up.
Best to all of you.
"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)
Mud-slinging is easier than arguing
Submitted by lgeubank on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:16am.
Leftists have been playing that game since the Kennedy assassination. Their tactic is, "Whatever bad thing happens, try to pin it on the right." They prefer to smear and discredit, rather than to argue politics.
When Kennedy was killed, Chief Justice Earl Warren (a flaming lib) wrote, "A great and good President has suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Not Communist bigots, mind you.
In his eulogy, Warren hoped that the "the martyrdom of our beloved president might even soften the hearts of those who would themselves recoil from assassination, but who do not shrink from spreading the venom which kindles thoughts of it in others." In other words, "Oh Lord, protect us from Republican politicians, talk-show hosts, and commentators" -- not Lee Harvey Oswald.
Dems never change their stripes. They can't argue their insane policies, so they sling mud, hoping "some of it will always stick."
Oh really? I think it far
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:27am.
Oh really? I think it far more likely he was referring to rank and file Southern Democrats, at least with regard to the not insignificant number who were racial bigots and despised Kennedy. I was there and remember it well. By the way, Warren was a moderate Republican.
Jer
Dallas was blamed
Submitted by stunned on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:46am.
Jer, Oswald was a Communist period. It was not Southern Dems who killed Kennedy. It was not the political discourse or the racial divide or racism that killed Kennedy it was a Communist who wanted to hit our country by killing our President. But check out any history book in school today and you'll read how it was the "dangerous" climate in Dallas at the time that was responsible for the Kennedy assassination.
tired of liberal lies
stunned
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:32pm.
Oswald was more than a "Communist period", but that's a tangential issue. The contention I addressed and with which I disagreed was that Warren was explicity or implicitly referring to "Republican politicians, etc." in his eulogy.
Jer
Oh...none of the history books I have read blamed JFK's murder on the dangerous climate in Dallas. But maybe there have been revisions.
The liberal/socialists
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:14am.
The liberal/socialists politicians/pundits of this country from president Obama ( coward who always hides behind others ) on down are no different, ( mentally ill, only attempted murderers in their case ) than the animal ( Jared Lee Loughner ) who planned, then carried out the mayhem in Arizona this past Saturday.
Make no mistake, the outrageous outbursts of anger and vitriol put forth by the left, encouraged by an uncharacteristically, conspicuously silent president ( Harvard, Arizona immigration, ground zero mosque ) is not an anomaly, nor an isolated incident.
They really do wish harm or death to free speech, free enterprise, the Constitution and conservatism in this country.
They alone, ( now led by Obama's own incindiary statements ) through the eight Bush years, plus 2 of hatred and calls for harm and death ( as recently as this week ) to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and now Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh among others ( sadly for nothing more than political gain ) have led to an untenable situation in this country bordering on civil war.
Like the cowards liberals/ socialists have always been, they take advantage ( attempt to capitalize on ) of the pain, suffering and greiving of America to push their perverted agenda, along with their demented scorched earth, death to those who dare oppose us ideology.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Sorry to say
Submitted by donabernathy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:15am.
But in a group of Liberal Talking Heads... the AZ shooter appears to be the sane one.
roflmao
Morning Joe 1-12-11 6:00am hour
Submitted by cobokat on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:17am.
Here we go again! They're all on their high horses again! Joe points out that Andrew Sullivan agreed with Mark Halperin that the "rught tried to defend themselves too fast!" What is with these people??!! Have they ever watched their own network-MSNBC??!!
Trying to intimidate anyone
Submitted by danbo on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:50am.
Trying to intimidate anyone who disagrees into silence. They can only win if only their voices are heard.
It doesn't seem to be working.
"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)
If
Submitted by JustAl on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:05am.
If there has to be an external "trigger" for this behaviour, why would anyone think it relates to any conservative ideas, none of which are expressed on the shooter's web pages? With his fascination with mind control and lucid dreaming, I would think the Hollywood movie, "Inception" would be a much more likely candidate. It's release date is much closer to the time this nut purchased a gun (for the first time?) than is the Sarah Pallin graphic seized upon by the highly biased media.
So why is this not being discussed with the same fervor (or even at all)?
Hateful hater's and the hater's who hate them.
Submitted by Crash on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:26am.
Democrats are sheep in wolf's clothing. Brent could save this article for future tragedies, switch out a word or two and recycle it. That's how predictable the scoundrels in the MSM and on the left are.
From the second that Sarah Palin spanked Obama, during her nationally televised first introduction to the American people, she was attacked with vitriol so fierce even Chomsky had to look up the word in his wine stained dictionary to understand what it meant!
It is my hope that the American people prove their grit and stand up against those who are trying to shut up a movement that has done nothing more than expressed their values and opinions openly, freely, and peacefully. An old friend of mine (who happens to be one of the biggest liberals I've ever known) had a bumper sticker on her car that read, Question Authority. I can think of no better time to do so than now.
I'm more inclined...
Submitted by HelenS on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:14am.
I'm more inclined to think of the MSM and/or libs in general as sharks in baracuda clothing. Or wolverines in hyena clothing.
Whoever or whatever they are, they all share the basic characteristics of stupidity (inability to perceive or comprehend facts), a phobia against reality and truth, and a pathalogical and sanctimonious hatred of anything logical or good.
Maybe.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Or lemmings in jackass
Submitted by Crash on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:17am.
Or lemmings in jackass clothing?
Sharks? Wolves?
Submitted by Huapakechi on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:58am.
Study up on animal behavior. What liberals most resemble is a troupe of vicious, cowardly, screaming monkeys. From the casual sodomy to the murderous attacks on the slightest deviance from the accepted norms of the troupe, the parallels are nearly exact. The biggest difference between liberals and simians is that liberals (usually) wear clothing in public..
Brilliant!
Submitted by HelenS on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 11:17am.
The perfect comparison, Huapakechi. I grew up in East Aftica and you nailed it. The most vicious and ruthless life-forms were baboons, monkeys, and, notably: chimpanzees. I avoid them all. Can't say I hate them because they just are what they are.
But the libs are without excuse: they are what they want to be.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Many liberals would take your
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:00pm.
Many liberals would take your comments and claim you were using racist codewords.
Any chance they had of
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:26am.
Any chance they had of succeeding at this ridiculous attempt to blame conservative opposition to liberalism for this massacre has been diminshed by the crudeness of the attempt. If it had been confined to the "softer" partisanship of the broadcast news, it might have been an ugly idea that might have taken hold. The "quieter" bias of the network news has always been more insidiously effective. But leaving it to Matthews, Olbermann, and Schultz, et al - never known for their subtlety - to blast it out loudly, over and over, has exposed it for the raw, ugly, political exploitation of an atrocity that it is. I'm almost thankful to them.
Those committing journalistic
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:35am.
Those committing journalistic malpractice and malfeasance should be held accountable for their actions. This is, to draw an analogy, the journalistic equivalent of shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater where no fire exists causing a panic.
Easy to Tie Rhetoric in Violence
Submitted by PTW on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 11:29am.
Example # 1When California Highway Patrol officers stopped suspect on an interstate in Oakland for driving erratically, Byron Williams, wearing body armor, fired at police with a 9mm handgun, a shotgun and a .308-caliber rifle with armor-piercing bullets, Oakland police say. Shot and captured after injuring two officers, Williams, on parole for bank robbery, told investigators that he wanted "to start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU," according to a police affidavit. His mother, Janice, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son had been watching television news and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."
The only television talking about Tides was Glenn Beck
Example # 2 - In April 2009, a man allegedly armed with an AK-47, a .22-caliber rifle and a handgun was charged with killing three cops in Pittsburgh. The Anti-Defamation League reported that the accused killer had, as part of a pattern of activities involving far-right conspiracy theories, posted a link on a neo-Nazi Web site to a video of Beck talking about the possibility that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was operating concentration camps in Wyoming. The killings came after Beck told Fox viewers that he "can't debunk" the notion that FEMA was operating such camps -- but before he finally acknowledged that the conspiracy wasn't real.
Why would anyone be surprised about what happened in Arizona. This is what the oftened cited "Revolution" looks like. Political leaders saying bring your guns to Town Hall meetings. The Tree of Liberty..watered with the blood of the "Tyrants".
Some accountability and COMMON SENSE would be helpful.
Looks like we have another
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 11:57am.
Looks like we have another sleeper account activated. Gee PTW, a member for over 3 years and when you do your first post it is to blame the RIGHT?
You are truly pathetic.
Welcome to NewsBusters, troll
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:30pm.
I'm Dave, the official troll greeter here at NB.
And you are a troll.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Beck couldn't debunk the FEMA
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:33pm.
Beck couldn't debunk the FEMA concentration camps, because, as he said, you can't prove something doesn't exist. He made it clear that all the "evidence" of these camps was false. Why don't you prove gremlins don't exist?
Revolution,huh? Y'know what's
Submitted by ant on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:00pm.
Revolution,huh? Y'know what's "surprising"? I can't find the name of the leftist jackass who said only a few months ago, "..If you can't change their minds, open their skulls." Surprising,ain't it? Must have been scrubbed by the "transparent" leftist agenda-makers.
PTW
Submitted by ant on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:13pm.
There are always going to be loose cannons in the world, it's just a sad fact of life. The armed man who entered the Discovery Channel offices was inspired by the Global.. I mean, Climate Change scare. Does that make Al Gore responsible? I would bet you half those people carrying "Kill Bush" signs in the anti-war rallies had a very, very loose grip on facts and, yet, there was no attempt at legislation to kill free speech or assembly at that point. Years ago, two boys suffered a failed suicide pact because "Judas Priest told them to do it". You can't lock up the rights of an entire population because some tiny percentage is gonna take things the wrong way. This is the same kind of stuff we heard when a woman was savagely raped and beaten while jogging in Central Park. The first reaction from the media was 'well, she shouldn't have been there', No, wrong answer, the THUGS shouldn't have been there. We should always refuse to restrain our freedoms, our activities to make way for the criminal or the insane. Like Dennis Miller once said;
"If you're kid is going to be influenced by anything KISS has to say, something was gonna get to him eventually, low-flying helicopter..whatever.."
Typical lib troll, drop a
Submitted by ant on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 7:25pm.
Typical lib troll, drop a load of c**p and run away, never to return to defend your idiotic talking points. Think for your self once in a while , troll a**hat, instead of spending your life as some brainwashed sheep. You have the nerve to accuse other people of following pundit voices and you can't even come back and defend your assinine position, PUNK! Go cry to your leaders at KOS and ask them what to think next!
Conservatives believe in PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Submitted by Cape Conservative on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:02pm.
while liberals believe everyone (other than fellow libs) is so stupid they can't think for themselves and are therefore helpless and 'victims' requiring direction of their every thought, word and deed!
Within hours, it didn't take the state legislator Lopez but a few sentences before she was condemning the Tea Party movement for this atrocious act by a highly disturbed individual.
Since then, we have been subjected ad nauseum to the good sheriff's rantings on every liberal news media he could find. We are now learning his rants were nothing more than a gigantic smokescreen - look there, NOT here in my own sheriff's department because we have FAILED MISERABLY in this case!
Interesting that Jared's friends stated on ABC's Good Morning that he was NOT political, right or left, that he did NOT listen to talk radio - and then went on to discuss the movies he enjoyed...all of which were so far out that the powers that be in Hollyweird must be hiding in their locked offices for fear someone might actually ask them if their products might have had some influence on the mind of this individual.
I agree that the boldfaced attempts by the left to point the finger of blame at conservatives may be just one more nail in the coffin of liberalism (darn, there I go, joining in on the violent language!)
I have already written to Washington to urge that this tragedy not be used as an instrument to deny Americans the right to speak freely or own a gun. It is absolutely disgusting to read of the unmitigated gall of those who are trying to use this to further erode the freedoms guaranteed by our founding documents!
I have listed the numbers here so you can contact your senators and representatives to voice your thoughts. As for the White House number...redial is the way to go...it doesn't take very many tries to get through.
We MUST continue to speak out - our way of life depends on a strong NO-LONGER-SILENT Majority!!!!
This comment comes from a proud Tea Party mama grizzly, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams
202.224.3121 LET CONGRESS HEAR THE ROAR OF THE NO-LONGER-SILENT MAJORITY!
202.456.1111 WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE
Ship and Shinola
Submitted by Thor H. Asgardson on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:19am.
“Only hours after last Saturday’s tragic shooting in Arizona that left 6 dead, more than a dozen injured and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, a number of liberal commentators urged the White House to seize the crisis situation and turn a political profit for Democrats. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter even echoed Emanuel’s past comments and urged President Obama to turn ‘tragedy into triumph.’”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/giffords-shooting-a-rahm-emanuel-crisis-to-exploit/
"The Administration of the Hollow Political Slogan." Tragedy into triumph; excrement into shoe polish.