ABC's Jake Tapper Pokes Holes in Attempts to Blame Conservatives for Arizona Shooting
Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Monday provided some balance to the numerous journalists who are attempting to blame the spree shooting in Arizona on Sarah Palin. The ABC journalist said of Jared Loughner, "The shooter's motives remain unclear. One acquaintance from 2007 described him as liberal."
Tapper discussed the "cross hairs" graphic created by Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee in 2010 (which targeted Democrats for political defeat). Unlike other journalists, however, he pointed out that the investigation into Loughner's interest into Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords "ties back to 2007, three years before Palin's map."
As the MRC's Brent Baker reported on Sunday, many network reporters attempted to make a connection between the shooting and Palin, the Tea Partiers and conservatives in general. ABC's graphic on Monday announced, "Politics of Vitriol: Is Rhetoric Getting Too Rough?" Additionally, Tapper played a clip of talk show host Joyce Kaufman asserting, "And if ballots don't work, bullets will."
However, he balanced that out by reading from conservative Glenn Reynolds, writing in Monday's Wall Street Journal. Tapper repeated, "He says, 'Those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America's political well being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.'"
Additionally, when referring to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and his incendiary comments that this act of violence could be linked to those that would "inflame" with their political speech, Tapper made sure to identify him as an "elected Democrat."
A transcript of the January 10 segment, which aired at 7:45am EST, follows:
ROBIN ROBERTS: This weekend's shooting and tragic shooting and assassination attempt of Representative Giffords has ignited a firestorm over the power of heated political rhetoric and whether it played some role in the violence. Jake Tapper much more on this.
ABC GRAPHIC: Politics of Vitriol: Is Rhetoric Getting Too Rough?
JAKE TAPPER: The sheriff in Tucson, an elected Democrat, immediately suggested that political rhetoric played a role in the massacre.
SHERIFF CLARENCE DUPNIK (Pima County, AZ Sheriff's Department): To try to inflame the public on a daily basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week has impact on people.
TAPPER: And there is no shortage of examples of heated rhetoric.
JOYCE KAUFMAN (Florida talk show host): And if ballots don't work, bullets will.
TAPPER: But, exhibit A for many Democrats is Sarah Palin, who last spring targeted for defeat Giffords' district and 19 others with this imagery. One columnist says she has blood on her hands.
PALIN: Don't retreat, reload. And that is not a call for violence!
TAPPER: Giffords, for one, was not buying it.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS (D-AZ): We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list. But, the thing is, that the way she has it depicted has the cross-hair of a gun sight over our district. And when people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that action.
TAPPER: There's no evidence that the shooter even heard of Sarah Palin. And Palin aide Rebecca Mansour in a podcast interview says the image was not violent.
REBECCA MANSOUR (Sarah PAC): We never, ever, ever intended it to be gun sights. It was simply cross-hairs like you'd see on maps.
TAPPER: The shooter's motives remain unclear. One acquaintance from 2007 described him as liberal. Democrats say, regardless, the rhetoric has to be civil.
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): You just never know what words are going to set off someone who is mentally unstable. And we have to be careful with our choice of words all the time.
TAPPER: But in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, Robin, conservative writer Glenn Reynolds calls this call this hypocrisy. He says, "Those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America's political well being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder." And, of course, Robin, we know from the investigation that the shooter's interest in Gabrielle Giffords, Congresswoman Giffords, ties back to 2007, three years before Palin's map. Back to you, Robin.
ROBERTS: And we also know that he did act alone.
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Comments
WOW, good for Tapper!
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:15pm.
Was George Stephanopoulis there for this bit of wisdom? I absolutely LOVE that he quoted Glenn Reynolds from The Wall Street Journal. I saw Stephy on the ABC Sunday show almost giddy thinking the newly elected Republican House would have to drop ALL their plans now for some reason. Heh, Georgie.
Counterspin
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:19pm.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071943007100666.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
This was decent.
StarAZ.. indeed it is.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:47pm.
In fact, I passed it on the the editorial writers at a national newspaper - suggesting they should read it and reflect on what their paper is up to, before continuing this want to tear America apart at the seams.
(;~> gary
Thanks Star AZ
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:00pm.
Good article. Now let's see if if BHO is capable of that "genuinely presidential act of leadership" (de-politicizing the shooting) or WILL he pull a Clinton and "deftly" blame it on the right.
Deft or daft?
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:30pm.
We shall see...
Civil my butt
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:16pm.
Really? How come Little Debbie Horsefacerman Schutlz didn't say boo when her fellow Florida moonbat Grayson was busy running around setting off IEDs last fall?
I truly cannot even stand the sight of her.
OOHHHH, that's mean......
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:47pm.
Funny (Horsefacerman), but mean! :-)
Or....
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:02pm.
.....the SOUND!
Equation Factor
Submitted by richard on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:17pm.
Dimocrats act like the typical snot-nosed, outdoor bullys with their rhetoric, finger pointing, exaggeration of fact or fiction, out-right lying and pushing people around, while expecting those people to go quietly away. However, when those people hit back, with a dose of their own medicine, the Dimocrats run crying to their mommies [MSM] for protection from those mean old [Republicans/Conservatives]. It's the same MO everytime.
I say fight fire with fire. Is that statement to be considered incendiary as well? Pun intended.
Pointing out the obvious
Submitted by talkradio55 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 3:16am.
I have always known that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is stupid. She has the IQ of sand and she proves it every time she opens her idiot piehole.
It Doesn't Matter!
Submitted by GeneralAl on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:17pm.
The damage has already been done! The first comments are the lasting comments when the public is outraged and in grief! Remember the Olympic bombing of1996? What about the Duke LacCrosse players? What Tom Delay? This is Liberal justice in America. Thank you!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Ignorance is Bliss
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:21pm.
There are many good arguments being put forth against this "Palin and conservatives are responsible for this shooting" rhetoric. But one MAJOR point that is getting very little publicity is why all of the sudden is Palin's target list so heinous? See paragraph 8 of the link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/arizona-massacre-prompts-political-cheap-shots/ . Not only has the same graphic been used for years by both the right and the left, but in this example additional "inflammatory rhetoric" was used - "Targeting Strategy" and "Behind enemy lines" as if this were a military battlefield maneuver.
And I'm not saying "they did it so why can't Palin". I'm saying it (the graphic and term) are legitimate political tools. Congressional seats ARE targeted, and what other symbol would be used on a map for such a targeted seat? If the graphic was a set of cross-hairs on the person targeted, then it would be a problem.
Finally, if one example of this is to be condemned, ALL examples should be equally condemned.
agreed
Submitted by abeautifulperson on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:33pm.
however you have to admit, more comes from the right.
but the bigger question is: is it healthy for a society to seem so comfortable with so many violent and war-related metaphors?
as someone who does not live in the USA but is heavily influenced by american culture (who isn't. outside the US), i can attest that american's fixation with war, violence, guns and therefore aggression is not healthy and quite foreign in many places outside america.
make this event a time for everyone to reflect on these violent tendencies. the assassin was goaded by the worst rhetoric. and there is so much out there, so many references, (coupled with the ease in which someone can access such a deadly weapon - which furthers my point about america's violent tendencies) - it is a time to pause and reflect.
No, we don't "have to admit more comes from the right"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:39pm.
But we're glad you like our sneakers and music.
Interesting...
Submitted by NC Cop on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:46pm.
so tell us ABP, what country do you live in??
~Proud Canadian troll
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:05pm.
.
That's a country now?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:13pm.
When did that happen?
~They like to think so
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:11pm.
And it seems cruel to disillusion them. They have so little.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Plywood, shingles & Christmas trees ain't exactly chopped liver
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:40pm.
OK, maybe...
Apologies to Shmendrake ;)
Apology not accepted. I
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:55pm.
Apology not accepted. I refuse to be on the same list as Celine Dion.
Hey, that was supposed to be an olive branch
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:21pm.
Or at least a sprig.
Not much eh?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:57pm.
Shania Twain, Rush and Triumph get some play on my IPOD.
Their bacon sucks, we call it crappy ham......................
But again, I cut them some slack............................
wrath
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 5:07pm.
I don't appreciate being added to your snarky list there (yeah, the last one listed above...)
Now, granted, I'm his uncle -- his dad's much, much, much older brother -- and not Canadian, but I'm still of the Bieber blood line.
- Spinning Shy
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
~Oh, you poor thing
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:13pm.
I'm so sorry. If I'd known, I'd have rubbed it in. Alas, for a missed opportunity.......
That's because America isn't populated by Euro-style wussies...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:50pm.
...(well, not too many, anyway) who have lost a large chunk of their freedoms and liberties and are about to be living under sharia law in many areas because they were stoopid enough to allow their governents to disarm them.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave......I think the proper description is.........
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:43pm.
"Euro-TRASH wussies
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
BEG,
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:07pm.
LOL - I would have posted what I was really thinking, but I didn't want the ban hammer to come crashing down.
But it does sort of rhyme with what you said. :-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
More what comes from the right?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:52pm.
"i can attest that american's fixation with war, violence, guns and therefore aggression is not healthy and quite foreign in many places outside america."
A statement that precludes the writer from any rational discussion.
"America's violent
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:03pm.
"America's violent tendencies"? Ha, have you taken a look at the muslim world lately? From what I've read the citizens of places like Sweden are afraid to go out at night thanks to the influx of muslim immigrants, maybe they could borrow a little "violent tendencies" from us. And I should remind you at the forefront of this Dem vs. Repub idealogical separation was the Red State, Blue State idea formed in the minds of our leftist media. Do you know what the color red denotes on military maps? Enemy locations.
Just a friendly warning
Submitted by Hunter12 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:32pm.
Don't mock the religion of peace or they'll kill you.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
I actually can't believe you
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:09pm.
I actually can't believe you wrote aggression and violence are quite foreign outside of America. You must have been laughing when you typed that.
America's fixation with war,
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:15pm.
America's fixation with war, violence, and guns?
Apparently you haven't gotten out much. As I recall, we don't have teens walking the streets with AK-47's and RPG's. We don't stone women for adultery or hold public hangings of homosexuals. We don't engage in constant battles of ethnic cleansing or target religions for elimination. You can walk down our streets without fear of tripping over a land mine or being car bombed at the local store.
You need to head to the nearest Universal Health Care provider in your country and demand a Windowdectomy so you can at least see the outside world while your head is shoved in your rear-end.
Heavily influenced?
Submitted by sam12663 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:16pm.
Are you 12 years old or something?
Outside influence only works when a person is weak willed or impressionable, like a child. Adults who can think on their own are not 'heavily influenced' unless they want to be.
Please spare me the 'America is a violent society' crap. I don't know where you live, but to me, their is much more violence in the Middle East; Africa; Indonesia; China, need I go on?
You seem quite happy to accept America's music, clothes, and music; all borne out of freedom. You also seem quite accepting of the liberal American 'blame game' philosophy.
More WHAT comes from the
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:37pm.
More WHAT comes from the Right?
Examples, please.
More comes from the right?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:45pm.
More comes from the right? Please give evidence of that claim.
And please, when you have a moment, peruse the following:
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/
Cite?
Submitted by Model850 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:24pm.
"the assassin was goaded by the worst rhetoric."
Um, do you have any actual proof of that allegation or are you just offering an opinion?
And if the shooter were goaded by the worst rhetoric it had to have been rhetoric from the LEFT since it has been documented that he was a liberal.
Hey beautiful dumba**
Submitted by ckc1227 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:40pm.
Take your uninformed rhetoric and shove it straight up your rear end with a red hot poker. Being outside the U.S. means your opinion carries less weight than dirt. How's that for reflection?
anuglytroll,
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:45pm.
There is nothing to admit. Have you checked your history? As far back as Cain slaying Abel, most if not all crimes of violence were NOT committed by the "right".
And...how in the hell do you reckon that America has a fixation with war, violence, and guns???
I live less than 100 miles from the Mexican border. Have you been there lately? Have you been to the Congo? Chechnya? Euskadi? (yes, you'll have to look that one up), El Salvador? Yemen?
I could go on and on, but you still wouldn't know WTF you are talking about?
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
No, but he once went to Toronto on a 5th grade class trip
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:51pm.
Got a bad sunburn on the roof of his mouth from all that staring up at the big buildings.
You Bring a Knife
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:00pm.
And I'll Bring a gun.
WHO SAID THAT AGAIN?
Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! I know, I know. Pick me. Pick me.
Submitted by Hunter12 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:37pm.
It was the masterr of peace and love, the spiritual leader of leftist tolerance, the one we've been waiting for: President Obama. Hope that wasn't one of those rhetorical question.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Unforgiven
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:35pm.
I have to believe most Americans know better than this. What they are doing now is showing their absoulte ignorance and hyprocrisy by using this tragic event for political ends. I find it unforgiveable that these morally bankrupt talking heads could use these senseless crimes in attempt for political gain. No sympathy for the lives cut short just thinking how can we use this. All I can say is these liberals have droped a few more notches when I thought they could go no lower.
Jake Tapper is an OK guy
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:41pm.
ABC will regret getting Christiane Amanpour instead of him to host the Sunday show.
Tapper always makes an
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:17pm.
Tapper always makes an attempt to be fair, which is all you can ask for.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
I have a feeling Tapper will
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:46pm.
I have a feeling Tapper will eventually be offered that position at some point IF he's not drawn away by another company (FNC perhaps?).
Red Phone for Mr. Rahm Emanuel
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:02pm.
you are needed back at the Office of Crisis Manufacturing and Exploitation.... asap
roflmao
These so-called
Submitted by rdfowler on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:03pm.
These so-called “journalists” are dancing on the grave of a nine year old child to further their political agendas. Disgusting.
MSM
Submitted by ripper58 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:05pm.
should really be ashamed of themselves! they really have hit a new low...have they no morals?do they really want to make the murder of a 9 y/o girl and a Fed. Judge (among others)a political issue to slander the right? WTF has this country come to?
They indeed have no morals
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:48pm.
They indeed have no morals and no shame. I believe most of them are proud of their irrational associations concerning the shooting. They may have hit a new low, but expect them to go even lower in the future especially when the 2012 POTUS election nears.
Agreed
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:05pm.
I would actually watch it IF he were the host.
I sawthe first couple with Armonsour and it was terrible leftist garbage.
Don't even turn it on to "see who is on it" anymore.
Remember Ft Hood, DONT YOU DARE jump to conclusions, here, NO PROOF, the media concluded RIGHT AWAY this was Palin's fault.
And the first baby steps of
Submitted by Reaver on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:09pm.
And the first baby steps of the media walking this back begin, to be followed by sweeping it under the rug and pretending like it never happened. “We were slinging mud just as fast as we could but none of it stuck.” Don’t worry, they’ll do it all again the next time they see an opportunity.
KRAZY KEITH
Submitted by nicksmith112 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:12pm.
KRAZY KEITH ALERT!!
twitter ......Keith vs HowardKurtz
http://twitter.com/keitholbermann
http://twitter.com/HowardKurtz
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
The MSM still suck...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:14pm.
...don't think that there's anything changing at ABC, etc.
MEMO to Jake Tapper
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:22pm.
MEMO to Jake Tapper
FROM: ABC Brass
Come see us. We need to clarify a few things with you re: not getting with the program of blaming Palin, Tea Party, Beck, Limbaugh, GOP
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
What is Jake doing....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:30pm.
...auditioning for a position with Fox News???
Oh, Mz Schultz....................
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:34pm.
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): "You just never know what words are going to set off someone who is mentally unstable. And we have to be careful with our choice of words all the time."
Puh-leze, Mz Shultz, take the lead and shut yer pie-hole!
almostacowboy...
Submitted by ckc1227 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:46pm.
I was about to type the exact same thing, lol. She is truly an idiot.
Tapper better be careful
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:38pm.
The lefties might take away his DNC magic decoder ring and change the secret handshake.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Liberals are telling us a
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:57pm.
Liberals are telling us a forgotten website of which there is no evidence the shooter ever saw, caused the shooter to go crazy with violence. No! Even worse, some 'crosshairs' on that website (similar to the bullseyes on a couple of Leftist websites).
Do the Liberals really WANT to go there?
Have the Liberals even BOTHERED to look at the TV, media, music, websites, and movies of today? Many of which have been given awards by Liberals for their 'bravery' or 'passion' or 'honesty' or some such crap?
Liberals, if you want to start banning images, this could get ugly for you real fast.
Harmless Bloody Violence
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:25pm.
Limbaugh discussed this earlier today, and showed how it provides another example of (shock!) lefty hypocrisy. When conservatives express concern about the bloody violence in movies and video games, fearing that it will influence people to commit violent acts, the lefties poo-poo it and defend it as harmless. "No, no, noooooo," they say. "People can understand that it's just fantasy." But they CAN'T understand that a target symbol on a map is just a metaphor? And a SYMBOL can incite violence, but slaughter shown graphically in movies can't?
illiterate nonsense
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:38pm.
I equate that illiterate nonsense the same way some people get up in arms about the word "niggardly" because it sounds like the "N word" even though the two are not related even remotely.
Those "cross hair" symbols are survey symbols and if she had used dots or circles or whatever, she might have been accused of "painting target symbols" anyway. She can't win with these liberals. Hell, a liberal would look at a map and say "gee, looks like target areas."
A liberal's perception of things are WAY different than a normal person's perception of things. Yeah, libs, you guys are NOT normal. You keep proving time and time again how mentally deranged you guys get over certain things and time and time again when an incident occurs, it's one of YOU guys instead of a conservative.
-Jon
It's stunning that the
Submitted by Cooltom on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:22pm.
It's stunning that the languange from the left reactting to the Arizona tragedy make the incoherent ramblings of a nutball almost seem more rational by comparision. Someone should collect the more Palin-deranged quotes, type them up using white text on a black background, and sumbit them to YouTube. Something like this:
Sarah Palin posted a graphic with Con. Giffords district in a crosshair.
Con. Giffords was shot by a gun.
Therefore Palin is responsible for the Tuscon shooting.
All accusations that link Palin in anyway to the shooting make as much sense as saying that J.D. Salinger caused the shooting of John Lennon, The Beatles are responsible for the Sharon Tate murders, and that the real villian in The Manchurian Candidate was the evil manufacturers of playing cards.
Boy, just when it appears
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:19pm.
Boy, just when it appears Tapper has gone back over to the ' Dark Side ' ( no that's not a racist Obama reference ) , he surprses me by attempting another futile ' live ' pitch for a job on the " FOX NETWORK ".
He ( Jake ) better watch his back around Snufalufagus though, cause that little mean girl will scratch his eyes out, pinch and hit him over the back of the head with his purse, when he's not looking over this one.
Barack_Must_Go.....
IMMEDIATELY after this
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:47pm.
IMMEDIATELY after this accident happened the media, in unison, used it to denounce Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. It almost seemed like they planned out a generic assault on those parties and kept it on the back burner until they could expolit some tragedy. Now since the leftwing media no longer has 100% control over the flow of information, the entire assault seems to be coming apart.
Now comes the final part. Now that the disparaged party has plenty of proof to clear their name the media and other Leftists will start crying for the end of the partisan bickering that THEY created. Sorry Mr. and Ms. Latte Sipper. You can't just accuse millions of people of being mindless blood-thirsty murderous savages and then demand the conversation go away because you have been proven to be liars.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
I'm certain you didn't mean "accident"...
Submitted by ontheright on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:59pm.
...just wanted to make sure, however.
The tragedy itself was no more an accident than the MSM feeding frenzy that ensued.
Just my 2 cents.
First off this guy is a nut end of story.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:06pm.
However, a school chum of this sicko, named Parker, knew him in high school and in college.
Guess what, he was a left wing liberal.
So what should we conclude?
Cricket time.
Jake
Submitted by FC DOBBS on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:26pm.
Just keep up the " no softball queries " and let chips fall where ever.
Who knows , perhaps Fox News will ask you to take one of the
Rino's place. ( Shep Smith, maybe ? ? ? ) those no soft ball queries , at
the press conferences, make them bearable.
" Nobody puts one over on Fred C Dobbs. "
Irrefutable facts:
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 8:20pm.
Irrefutable facts:
The jerk was a 911 Conspiracy theorist
He was an Atheist
He was a dope smoker and abused Alcohol
His favorite books were Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto
He was Nihilistic
According to those who knew him, "he lacked compassion, he lacked understanding and he lacked an ability to connect." He also had "No social intelligence" and was an "emotional cripple"
He made bizarre claims - the Mars rover and the space shuttle missions were faked.
He was thrown out of Community College
He was rejected by the Army
His high school classmates described him as "left wing, quite liberal, and anti-flag".
His youtube page includes a flag burning video
Sound like a Tea Partier?
There is no way to rationalize schizophrenia.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 8:28pm.
Schizophrenia is a complete departure from reality, hence the commonly used psychiatric term "dissociative" disorders as a group to describe the contortions that the patient experiences in terms of functional deficits. Some of the defining characteristics of the dissociative diseases group are hallucinations involving one or more senses, inability to communicate with others ranging from lack of empathy to catatonia, and the uncontrolled emotional spectrum. Paranoia is common among schizophrenics, but not always to the same degree.
What we sometimes term an overlay, meaning the presence of another debilitating mental illness, is common and may involve anything from a treatable mood disorder to an untreatable personality disorder or combination.