Foxs Geraldo On Arizona Shooting: This Event Effects Sarah Palins Political Future

US charges sole gunman in lawmaker shooting
US prosecutors charged a lone young gunman over the attempted Assassination of a congresswoman as doctors voiced guarded hope she would recover from the attack that killed six others. President Barack Obama called on Americans to observe a moment of silence on Monday for Victims of the attack in Arizona as some officials asked if the nation's often divisive politics had spiraled out of control. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was in an induced coma as doctors treated bullet wounds to her ...

DHS uses Giffords shooting to push loose borders political agenda (Jared Lee Loughner, American Renaissance)
The Department of Homeland Security and various media sources are using the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by Jared Lee Loughner as an opportunity to try to smear opponents of illegal Immigration, focusing on the higher-level white racial separatist group American Renaissance (DHS memo at [1], report at [2]). Not only do they get that group's ideas wrong, but they mislead about what was in Loughner's videos and what appears to have been on his MySpace page. From the memo at [1]: no direct conn...

Agonizing aftermath
WASHINGTON — Anguished debate began yesterday about the caustic tone of American political Rhetoric after the Arizona shooting spree Saturday that killed six and left Representative Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition. The question argued by politicians and pundits: Did vitriol and violent metaphors in Political Speech tip an unstable person to pick up a gun? With the answer still unknown, calls to lower the temperature of American discourse came from all parts of the political spect...

Glenn Reynolds denies Tea Party's history of intimidation (Giffords shooting, Loughner)
Glenn Reynolds takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to offer "The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel" (link) in which he tries to run away from the toxic political environment that the tea parties movement - of which he is a leader - has created: With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and reporters seemed to agree that the massacre had to be the fault of the Tea Party movement in general, and of Sarah Palin in particular. Why? Because they had created, ...

The Arizona Shooting and the Blame Game
Posted by Mike Finch on Jan 10th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. What a relief!  President Obama can pull FBI Director Mueller back from Arizona and call off the investigation into the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords.  The smoking gun has been found. It is obvious after listening to the Sunday morning news shows that the shoot...

Breaking: Sarah Palin responsible for mass bird kills, genocide in the Sudan, and AT&T;'s loss of exclusive rights to the iPhone
Because there's just as much of a tie between Palin, those events and the tragic shootings in Tucson. Of course, to listen to many Democrats and those in Legacy Media, you'd think Sarah Palin had home-schooled Jared Lee Loughner. The unmoored Rhetoric of fools like Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas is not only divisive, it's destructive....

Let's not make this something it isn't
I’ll admit that my first thought on Saturday upon hearing that Gabrielle Giffords had been shot was that it was probably the work of a politically motivated right-wing Extremist. And based on my initial conversations with colleagues and friends -- to say nothing of what I observed on Twitter -- I was hardly alone. It certainly seemed logical. There have been plenty of times since the fall of 2008, when Barack Obama’s pending election as president began stirring some hysterical and oc...

Insanity Nation
First, toldja so: Newsmax declares “Shooter Linked to Left Wing Politics.” Yes, by Newsmax. Apparently it was reported the young man accused of shooting owns copies of The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, which of course (in the minds of righties, who cannot figure out why Hitler was a right-wing psychopath, not a left-wing one) proves he’s a leftie. Anyway, the more I hear about the shooter, the more it appears he was deeply disturbed, possibly psychotic. I am not qualif...

Will the Grown-Ups Please Come Forward?
Yesterday, I had the unfortunate duty of breaking the story of the shooting in Tucson on Race42012 . One of the first things I posted was “This is the kind of thing where politics should be the furthest thing from everyone’s mind.” Unfortunately, that isn’t what happened.  Almost immediately, accusations came up blaming Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and basically all of the political right in this country for what happened.  Leading voices on the left: Paul Krugman, Andrew S

Sometimes A Tragedy Is Just A Tragedy
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Even before anything at all was known about Jared Lee Loughner, who went on a deadly Shooting Spree outside a Safeway in Tuscon, Arizona, on Saturday, a narrative was beginning to take shape. Partisans on the left immediately blamed the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, “Talk Radio,” and Republicans more generally. That’s regrettable but probably inevitable. Agitators like Markos Moulitsas, whose Twitter feed on Saturday is ...

Arizona shooting: 'Does she have any enemies?' 'Yeah. The whole Tea Party'
Source: The Guardian Shock turns to anger as mourners blame vitriolic rightwing Rhetoric for creating climate of violence in US politics Chris McGreal in Tucson | Sunday January 09 2011 20.56 GMT Paul Wellman laid his handwritten sign among the collection of candles, flowers and messages keeping vigil outside congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords's office. Then he stepped back and surveyed the scene. To the right, another sign said: "Hate Speech = Murder". But Wellman went further with his angry dec...

Tone Versus Substance
Jared Lee Loughner’s Killing Spree has rekindled a long-running debate about political discourse in the United States. Voices like Andrew Sullivan insist that violent, inflammatory Rhetoric poisons our country, and runs the risk of empowering the deranged. Jack Shafer takes an almost opposite position. “Our spirited political discourse, complete with name-calling, vilification—and, yes, violent imagery—is a good thing,” he writes. “Better that angry people unload th...

Atrocity in Arizona
Posted by Arnold Ahlert on Jan 10th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. A town hall-style meeting held outside a Supermarket in Tuscon, Arizona was the scene of a deadly rampage on Saturday. 19 people were shot.  Five were killed at the scene and one died in the Hospital. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who hosted the event, was shot in ...

U.S. Tea Partiers run for cover
American Tea Party and Republican leaders were quick to disassociate themselves from the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona this weekend. And indeed, there is no evidence that the shooter is directly or indirectly associated with them. But Tea Partiers and Republicans are right to worry about a public backlash, in the United States and throughout the democratic world, in the wake of this tragedy. And if there is any justice they will get that backlash, since it is richly deserve...

US: Calls to tone down fighting talk
THE vicious American political climate has become a suspect of sorts in the Arizona rampage - already, appeals are being heard to tone down the Rhetoric. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democratic leader in the Senate, yesterday cited imagery of crosshairs on political opponents used by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her combative rallying cry, "Don't retreat; reload." "These sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people t...

Rand Paul on shooting: 'Weapons don't kill people'
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) may only be an eye doctor but he didn't hesitate in offering a medical diagnoses for the man that allegedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Saturday. "I looked at some of the writings of this young man," Paul told Fox News' Bret Baier Sunday. "From a medical point of view, there is a lot to suggest paranoid schizophrenia, that this man was a really sick individual," he said of Jared Loughner, the man suspected of shooting Giffords. "Absolutely we need to condemn the vi...

Mother of 9-Yr Old Victim Speaks
Fox News reports: The mother of a 9-year-old girl gunned down in Saturday’s shooting rampage outside an Arizona Grocery Store described her grief as “beyond words,” saying her daughter was a beautiful and intelligent child who was interested in government. Christina-Taylor Green had just been elected to the Student council at her Elementary School and went to the “Congress on Your Corner” event outside a Tucson Safeway on Saturday to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. The

Roger Ailes
Howard Kurtz's Moronic Equivalence Greasy-wigged Republican Howard Kurtz has finally found a Victim in yesterday's massacre in Arizona. It's Sarah Palin. I hate to say this [sic], but the blame game is already under way. It began within hours of Saturday's horrifying shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and nearly 20 others, even before the gunman was identified. Political Target Map as seen on Sarah Palin's website. Inset: Sarah Palin and Gabrielle Giffords (AP Photo) One of t...

Inside the Beltway
THE FAULTY PRESS News coverage of the Arizona shooting showcased a wide spray of partisan attacks in the 48 hours that followed the tragedy, with Collateral Damage and much talk of political Rhetoric and biased media coverage. A charged environment, intense public interest and minimal facts led to extrapolation, error, blame and instant agenda. "This is a horrendous act of violence. But does it surprise you, in the context of the bitterness of Arizona politics at the moment?" asked ABC News co...

Violent rhetoric leads to senseless shooting of Gabrielle Giffords
MoveOn.org and Credo Action are circulating online petitions calling for an end to the violent Rhetoric that led to the senseless shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others at a political event in a Tucson, Arizona shopping center on Saturday. Across the world, columnists are writing about the ugly and confrontational political climate in the U.S.  In Los Angeles County, over half of all Registered Voters are Democrats, and local residents are upset about the violent rhetor...

The Weekend That Was
A troubled 22-year-old College Student, Jared Lee Loughner, has been charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, during a shootout that left 20 people (Read more...) ...

Mark Goulston, M.D.: Jared Loughner: Understanding the Arizona Shooter from the Inside Out
Over the next few days to weeks, we will try to piece together what could have caused Jared Lee Loughner to attempt to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, kill six and wound fourteen others. We will learn of a long trail of "red flags," and questions as to why there was not some earlier intervention will arise. We will hopefully nail down whether this was the act of a lone individual or part of some Conspiracy. Forensic and other Psychiatrists will weigh in on this being the act of a...

Shooter profile: Increasingly alienated from society
DESPITE initial ideas of gunman Jared Lee Loughner as Timothy Mcveigh-style far-right supporter, the picture emerging of the 22-year-old shows little in the way of a coherent political ideology. In fact, Loughner seems to have been suffering from mental problems. He had recently posted on his MySpace page a photograph of a United States history textbook, on top of which he had placed a Handgun. He prepared a series of Internet videos filled with rambling statements on topics including the gold...

Lawyering Up
Judy Clarke, who has represented "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and Zacarias Moussaoui, will be representing accused mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner. ...

More gun control legislation in the wake of Gabrielle Giffords shooting
It was predicted here on Saturday that there would be calls for more Gun Control, and now Politico.com reports that Congresswoman Carolyn Mccarthy (D-NY), using the Jared Lee Loughner shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others as a springboard, is ready to introduce new gun control Legislation. Since her husband was killed and her son injured in a 1993 shooting incident in Long Island, McCarthy has been a very strong gun control advocate. One must sympathize with her ...