UPDATE at end of post: this so-called conservative might have been targeting the offices of the Weekly Standard!
Not surprisingly, the Left and their media minions are accusing conservative talkers such as Rush Limbaugh for inciting Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum Memorial in Washington, D.C.
As NewsBusters' Geoffrey Dickens reported Wednesday, Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh was quick to point such an accusatory finger.
Yet, as FrontPage Magazine's Ben Johnson noted Thursday, the assailant was hardly conservative:
A review of his lengthy associations reveals Von Brunn hardly fits the stereotype of a Religious Right, GOP precinct captain. He denounced the Christian faith as a dastardly Jewish conspiracy, a “HOAX” invented by the Apostle Paul to “DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE” from within by undermining its pagan virility. (All screaming capitalization and grammatical errors in this piece appear in the original.) Like others on the racist fringe, the shooter proclaimed clearly: “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.” [...]
Yesterday’s attack was Von Brunner’s second attempted strike. Police arrested him on December 7, 1981, after they found him prowling the Washington, D.C., offices of the Federal Reserve Bank posing as a journalist. Inside a bag slumped over his shoulder, they discovered a handgun, a shotgun, and a knife, which he claimed he would use to place then-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker under citizens’ arrest.[3] After being convicted, he tried to obtain help by contacting then-Admiral Jim Webb, now a Democratic U.S. Senator from Virginia, but Von Brunn claimed the postmaster “purloined” the letter. The New York Daily News reports after his release in 1989, Von Brunner “worked at a bookstore run by a Holocaust-denying group called the Institute of Historical Review,” then lived in Hayden Lake, Idaho – then the headquarters of the Aryan Nations.[4]At some point, he settled in the Maryland area and decided to jump into the publishing game himself.Von Brunn’s motivation leaps off every page of his self-published “book,” Kill the Best Gentiles, a title supposedly derived from secret Jewish instructions to slaughter the goyim. (You can download the first six chapters here.) Remarkably, his words have received little scrutiny, likely because of what they establish: the “right-wing terrorist” of the Holocaust Museum is an anti-religious socialist.
FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address
A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.
Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.
Will this interesting tidbit get much media coverage?
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Walsh is a Hate Monger
June 11, 2009 - 11:44 ET by allanfThis Walsh is an irresponsible hate monger. Her sleazy remark that assigned blame to Rush Limbaugh for the depraved act of a crazy leftist, while Obama's Pastor spews anti-Semitic hatred must not go unchallenged. Anti-Semitism is a leftist phenomenon today.
allan, Anti-Semitism has
June 11, 2009 - 14:25 ET by ConservativeRexallan, Anti-Semitism has always been a bastion of the left. Hitler, a classic socialist, speaks for itself. Stalin, Lenin and so on. These people made sport of pogroms. When the left in this country uses the term neo-con, they are using their own code for American Jews. So to find that this shooter is a classic socialist comes as no surprise to me.
Absolutely spot on!
June 11, 2009 - 14:28 ET by pahuberThanks for this post.
Bamster Too
June 11, 2009 - 15:04 ET by slickwillie2001The Bamster last week drew a moral equivalence between what happened to the Jews in Hitler's Europe and the relationship Israel has with the 'palestinians'. This helps to further stoke hatred of Jews in our country and the world. You can't bring up Jeremiah Wright without mentioning his 'son' the Bamster.
A survey a few months ago asked Americans 'who is responsible for the late 2008/early 2009 financial meltdown'. I don't recall the exact number, but between 20% and 30% of Americans said 'the Jews'.
I more accurate equivalent would be
June 11, 2009 - 20:31 ET by spmcintyreHitler and Rev Wright
I read something similar in
June 11, 2009 - 11:43 ET by LiberalliesI read something similar in a link that HotAir put up late last night. I wanted to see if it started making its round in the blogs, and it has. I wonder if the media will start picking this up. I very much doubt it.
Fabrications
June 11, 2009 - 11:49 ET by sevenYou can not make up stories too fast.
What fabrications!?
June 11, 2009 - 11:57 ET by sam12663What fabrications?
President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
HMMMMM
June 11, 2009 - 11:51 ET by rick007Anti-Semitisim isn't that Socialisim?? Hitler like??
Rick007, Tell a Liberal
June 11, 2009 - 12:03 ET by LiberalliesRick007,
Tell a Liberal that the Nazi party's official name was, The Nazi Socialist Party. They go nuts! :-)
Not if he or she is an
June 11, 2009 - 13:19 ET by Another Dead KennedyNot if he or she is an educated liberal.
When I look up Educated Liberal in the dictionary...
June 11, 2009 - 13:46 ET by NavyBuckeyeit says:
1. an Oxymoron
2. an urban legend
3. a mythical creature like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus; Used by people to mislead children into false hopes and dreams.
"You see Obama is going to tax those not paying taxes...those making over 97,000 dollars ayear. Once you make that much you don't pay taxes...he's going to make them pay. And I will finally get a break." -My mom who is on welfare and food st
It doesn't say that. It
June 11, 2009 - 14:08 ET by Another Dead KennedyIt doesn't say that. It says...
Hey! You got me!!! Jerk!
It's got a picture of you?
June 12, 2009 - 04:30 ET by old croMr. Watch Kennedy Die
KDW, Educated
June 11, 2009 - 14:40 ET by LiberalliesKDW,
Educated Liberal=Oxymoron. :-) Everyone knows that.
The second an individual acquires education they stop being a Liberal.
Actually NAZI = National
June 11, 2009 - 18:14 ET by MichaelPaladinActually NAZI = National Socialist Workers Party.
And I hope he(double hocky sticks) has a special little place for that guy.
Really Actuallt
June 12, 2009 - 09:25 ET by CobraManReally Actually NAZI = National Socialist German Workers Party
Talk about being all things to all people! They were Nationalists (Right Wing), Socialists (Left Wing), and a Workers Party (AKA Unionists)
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
Hypocrisy....
June 11, 2009 - 11:56 ET by sam12663..at it's finest. All of this blame game crap is coming from the very party responsible for 8 continuous years of spewing the most hateful, divisive commentary; in the name of 'patriotic dissent'; towards GWB, or any conservative that dare disagree with them. As much as I hate to say it, it will get far uglier as long as we sit back and allow it to continue. We must stand up and fight back.
President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
There is also news out today
June 11, 2009 - 11:59 ET by AcrosThere is also news out today stating he hated neo-cons, Bush, and McCain. He looks more to the left than right to me.......
Maybe he got his marching
June 11, 2009 - 12:02 ET by Scuba DudeMaybe he got his marching orders from Ed Schultz or Olbermann.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
"Them Jews won't let me
June 11, 2009 - 12:04 ET by mattm"Them Jews won't let me talk to my son." - Liberal Pastor of Liberal President B. Hussein Soetero.
Seems to me that if you're looking for anti-Semites, look to the Left.
Rabbi says Obama's to blame
June 11, 2009 - 12:45 ET by motherbeltThis Rabbi says Obama is creating a climate of hate against Jews.
Just another opinion, but you won't hear it from the MSM.....
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
You must have a pair...........
June 12, 2009 - 04:40 ET by old croof glasses with a heads up display always connected to the internet. Where you find the time and all the articles you post and read defies description ;)
"Seems to me that if you're
June 11, 2009 - 13:48 ET by Carl Kolchak"Seems to me that if you're looking for anti-Semites, look to the Left. "
Communists like to blame everything on Zionist plots. Checkout what the KGB was planning with Operation Pandora from the book "The World Was Going Our Way" by Christopher Andrew.
http://books.google....
I wonder if he ever sat
June 11, 2009 - 12:07 ET by Delsain Rev. Wright's political meetings, held every Sunday in Chicago?
I ask because he is right up SOBama's alley!
Obama has been on more "date nights" than church services
June 11, 2009 - 14:48 ET by SickofLibsSince O-Zero has attended services exactly once (Easter) in close to five months, I think we can safely put to rest that myth that he is a devoutly religious man who sat in the pew listening to Wright for "20 years."
He's played more golf, too, and it's only early June.
Liberal projection
June 11, 2009 - 12:09 ET by KC MulvilleA white guy is angry and uses a gun ... gotta be a conservative, right? This is the level of fact-free analysis that we've come to expect, especially from the media.
The essence of prejudice is that you condemn without thinking. That perfectly fits the definition here. Joan Walsh, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Olbermann, etc., all have told the American public that conservatives have created a climate of hate, using these shooting incidents as their alleged evidence. But they leap to conclusions without looking at the evidence they offer, and now it appears that this guy is an anti-conservative. It doesn't prove what they think ... but it does prove that they're prejudiced.
They're trying so hard to tag conservatives without proof. They're repeating it as often as they can, hoping to use the Big Lie effect. It's all "feel" and "climate" and vague associations that exist in their own mind. The scary part is that this reveals what their prejudice has been, for many years.
Every time a whack job....................
June 11, 2009 - 12:13 ET by BEGRUNTgoes off........the left scrambles to affix blame on conservatives.....hoping that they can get enough public support to enact a gun ban......through lies and deceit. But get a Muslim convert scumbag ex con that assassinates an American soldier......<crickets>
"And let's have no displays of indignation......if we've told lies, you've told half lies, and a man, who lies like me, merely hides the truth, but a man who tells half lies, has forgotten where he put it"
Dryden.........Lawrence of Arabia
You have it right Grunt
June 11, 2009 - 12:37 ET by IamTinmanAn 88 year old whack job goes tilt and the media falls all over itself trying to blame conservatives for what in the cold light of day seems to be a lone act by a self proclaimed socialist, antichristian, antisemite. Republicans in general and conservatives in particular have been Israels best friends for the last decade. Absurd.
The .22 rifle that he used is, while dangerous in the wrong hands, hardly an assault weapon, but the press and the antigun lobby seized the moment to scream for more restrictive gun legislation, forgetting that as a felon, he had already broken existing laws by possessing the .22. I seriously doubt whether more gun laws would have changed his mind.
Criticizing Obama is a GATEWAY THUG...
June 11, 2009 - 12:33 ET by Jack BauerCriticizing Obama is a GATEWAY THUG...
Just say NO kids. Say NO to calling Obama a socialist, or a marxist.
This is how it starts. You meet up with a few friends to worship Obama, then somebody says:
Sounds harmless doesn't it. Cool, rebellious even. But what you don't realize is that these conservative opinions are what experts call a Gateway Thug.
Pretty soon you'll want a bigger high -- you may tune into Mark Levin and hear an intellectual dismantling of the left's assualt on the US Constitution.
It's then just a short step to scuttling in back alleys with extremist dealers main-lining murderous intent as a Jew hating, crazed gunman who wants to kill all blacks, Joy Behar and Jeanne Garofalo.
And it all starts with what you think of as "soft" criticism of our President (PBUH)..
DON'T DO IT LITTLE DUDES. JUST SAY NO TO CRITICIZING OBAMA.
I don't know what this might mean........
June 12, 2009 - 04:59 ET by old croin the grand scheme of things, but when I googled "GATEWAY THUG" at this time of the morning this NB article came back as the number one hit on it's listings. I also "Bing"ed it for clarity, because I am not yet familiar with the term (having something to do with Gateway Pundit's thug list?) I will stay tuned and read more after the Pen's beat Detroit tonite for the cup; hope, hope.
old cro -- oh my. I just
June 12, 2009 - 09:51 ET by Jack Bauerold cro -- oh my. I just made the term up last night!
I was thinking Gateway Drug and it popped into my head.
Of course...
June 11, 2009 - 12:29 ET by guess77whoLabeling Nazis and fascists as "right-wing" is the old trick of the Left since July 22, 1941 when Hitler attacked his ally competitor, the Soviet Union..
Unfortunately not many people know what Nazi means. It is an abbreviation of Nazional Socialism. Hitler was the head of NSDAP (Nazional Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeit Partei) = National Socialist German Labor Party. He was (even self proclaimed) socialist just as Stalin was (Stalin Hitler pact of 1939).
The Left tries to paint these idiot white supremacists, Aryan Nations, skinheads and other wackos as "right-wing" for decades just to divert the attention away from themselves. The truth is there is nothing right about these cretins. They are just as left as DemoRats and their back groups such as Democratic Socialists of America, Progressive Socialists of America, World Workers Party, etc...)
Conservatives as champions of individualism could never subscribe to any form of socialism or racism for that matter. These ideologies are totally opposite of right wing thinking and reasoning.
It is the same as the libs..........
June 12, 2009 - 05:03 ET by old crorecoloring the political maps, making their party out blue instead of the red it always was that fit their description so much better, a "Bunch of Red Thugs".
These types don't trust and
June 11, 2009 - 12:38 ET by RR GOPThese types don't trust and are against any established authority. Also, they can't be classified...they are mostly solitary anarchists like Ted Kaczynski. They are the ones who the Feds miss because even if they do associate with some group, they are on the fringes of even those.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
This topic is all over the
June 11, 2009 - 12:41 ET by BKeyserThis topic is all over the best blogs- NB (obviously), Redstate, HotAir, and others...
What's Michael Steele said in defense of the conservative smear?
Yup, Steele is MIA as
June 11, 2009 - 14:53 ET by SickofLibsYup, Steele is MIA as usual.
But watch for a semi-strongly worded statement within a few weeks.
I read somewhere that after Kennedy was assassinated...
June 11, 2009 - 13:24 ET by R D Helm...the MSM of the day tried hard to paint Oswald as a right-winger.
It turns out that, like most of this nation's presidential assassins-or would be assassins (remember those women who tried to kill Gerald Ford?), he was a left-wing kook.
-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
When is Rush going to stop taking it on the chin or cheek?
June 11, 2009 - 13:53 ET by Lord ErondAnd smack these MSM bastards with a multimillion dollar lawsuit for defamation? Take the high road all you want but if you can't covert your enemies, you destroy them.
"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates
"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po
Nice one Noel -- thanks so
June 11, 2009 - 19:55 ET by lotrNice one Noel -- thanks so much for bring this to light. Thus far, nothing in the mass media, including FNC.
That said, this does not surprise me at all.
"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann
he probably had the
June 11, 2009 - 22:44 ET by criticalthinkinghe probably had the standard's address so that he could order a subscription
Seeing he was a pagan
June 12, 2009 - 00:55 ET by Jack BauerSeeing he was a pagan socialist he would be a devotee of the Huffington Post. Like you.
So it is rather unlikely he would subscribe to a neo-con (code for Jews) publication except to get the names of writers he could later kill.