Assassin's politics lean'left wing, quite liberal'

Aaron Klein Hides Facts On AZ Shooter's Book List
Aaron Klein Hides Facts On AZ Shooter's Book List Topic: WorldNetDaily Aaron Klein begins a Jan. 9 WorldNetDaily "news analysis" by asking: "Are the News Media deliberately disguising the reported liberal politics of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in yesterday's fatal shooting that left six dead and gravely injured a U.S. congresswoman?" As evidence, Klein highlighted "the men actually listed by Loughner as among his favorite authors, Karl Marx and Adolf H...

Left, right struggle to define Loughner
Liberals and Conservatives have rushed to frame Jared Lee Loughner’s motives – in hopes of gaining the upper hand in the debate over the Arizona rampage early, and for months to come. But despite the attempts on both sides, the picture that crystallized this weekend of Loughner was not of someone who identified neatly with politics on the left or the right. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset In fact, about the only thing that could be said for certain about Loughner – base...

Does harsh rhetoric and glorifying guns lead to murder sprees?
SarahPac Called for Ariz. Congresswoman to be 'Targeted.' So far it would seem that Jared Lee Loughner shot Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 20 other people because he was unstable, possibly mentally ill. There are still people who feel that Right Wing pundits and leaders, such as Sarah Palin, have encouraged such attacks. “Palin's Fundraising instrument, SarahPAC, had posted an advertisement to target Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The photo has since been remo...

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...

Nuts with Guns is Nuts
Instead of blaming partisan Rhetoric why not examine how the Arizona killer got a gun? There's no evidence that political hot Speech turned Jared Lee Loughner into a Murder -- now the trendy opinion among the chattering class -- but we do know that Arizona's incredibly lenient laws allowed this known crazy person to walk into a Sportsman's Warehouse outlet and purchase a semiautomatic Handgun with no questions asked. Anyone seeking to purchase such a weapon ought to raise at least as much susp...

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....

Some interesting shooting-related links | Michael Tomasky
I just wrote my big take on the shooting for tomorrow's newspaper. I assume it will be posted here this afternoon some time US time. Rebecca Traister wrote a fine piece at Salon on Giffords. Michele Goldberg had an interesting-as-usual take at the Tablet. Ditto Adele Stan at Alternet (she closely chronicles the right, and frankly I don't know how she can stand doing it). Max Blumenthal has a wonderful piece, also in Salon, about the slain judge, who seems a man of great distinction. Max once t...

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...) ...

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...

Internet Trail Of Liberal Jared Loughner
From the UK’s Telegraph: Gabrielle Giffords shooting: strange Internet trail of ‘loner’ Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged Tucson gunman By Jon Swaine, New York, 09 Jan 2011 Loughner, a 22-year-old local man, was named by police as the man arrested for the killings of six people and shootings of 10 others, including Gabrielle Giffords. Witnesses said the shooter "came out of nowhere" and sprayed bullets at the congresswoman and the crowd. Arizona Court Records show ...

Shooting suspect's nihilism rose with isolation (AP)
TUCSON, Ariz. – At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his High School friends the question was essentially this: "What is government if words have no meaning?" Loughner was angry about her response — she read the question and had nothing to say. "He was like ... 'What do you think of these people who are working for the governmen...

'My assassination' message found as charges laid over mall rampage
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. An Arizona sheriff and a former classmate describe the alleged gunman involved in the shooting of a US lawmaker at the weekend. Federal Prosecutors in the US have brought charges against the gunman accused of attempting to assassinate congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at ...

Jared Loughner, Arizona Shooter, Appears to be a Lunatic
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. The man who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, including a 9-year-old girl who died, today in Arizona is Jared Lee Loughner, the AP reports. YouTube videos posted by a man with that same name include rantings about "mind control and brainwash methods" and an incoherent obsession with grammar and years: Elsewhere he lists Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf among his favorite books, and a video of a person in a mask burning an A...

Described by Classmate as 'Left-Wing Pothead'...
​A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "Left Wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. Caitie Parker did not immediately respond to our request for an interview, but her "tweets" in the hours after the shooting paint a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent." We'...

Who is Jared Loughner?
An interesting analysis of Jared Loughner by Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center. At one point, Loughner refers disparagingly to “currency that’s not backed by gold or silver.” The idea that silver and gold are the only “constitutional” money is widespread in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement that produced so much violence in the 1990s. It’s linked to the core Patriot theory that the Federal Reserve is actually a private corporation run f...

Dont blame the tea parties or talk radio for senseless violence
Less than 24 hours after the mass Murder and suspected Assassination attempt allegedly perpetrated by Jared Loughner, some were immediately attempting to pace the blame for this horrific tragedy, not on the perpetrator, but on the level of “Hate Speech” which has supposedly entered our mainstream discourse.  Had hate Speech truly gone mainstream I would be willing to at least entertain the suggestion, though the blame would still lie with the person who commits the act regardles...

Reading Loughner's Mind
Grist: "His favorite book list is actually rather good, I must say, featuring Orwell’s Animal Farm, Huxley’s Brave New World, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hesse’s Siddharta (as well as Marx’ The Communist Manifesto and Hitler’s Mein Kampf). While these are all masterpieces, they have in common that they deal with the topic of reality perception being controlle

Dont Let the Progressive Rhetoric Talk Distract You. Its a Ruse.
Don’t Let The Progressive “Rhetoric” Talk Distract You. It’s a Ruse. I should not have to say that a mass Murder and attempted Assassination by a wackjob who did everything to advertise his wackjobbery short of renting the Goodyear Blimp had nothing to do with political discourse, but it appears I must. Even before we knew Jared Loughner’s name, members of the progressive commentariat and the MSM blamed his crime on the so-called violent rhetoric of Sarah Palin and/...

This grim morning
Tipping point in Illinois. John Kass on a state where soon those who suck at the public teat may outnumber the rest of us. With this: But don't worry about the political leaders. Madigan is making a fortune as a tax reduction attorney, even while controlling state tax policy. Cullerton has a nice deal with that title Insurance company. And the Daley boys? Well, the mayor is set to cash in once he retires, Billy is watching over President Obama, an...

ED MORRISSEY: The shame and hypocrisy of CNN. CNN clearly didnt inadvertently cross th
ED MORRISSEY: The shame — and hypocrisy — of CNN. “CNN clearly didn’t inadvertently cross the line once, but repeatedly kept insisting on a link between the shooting and political Activism on the Right, especially Palin’s.” CNN’s coverage could be fairly described as “Hate Speech,” couldn’t it? Because that’s what blood Libel is. Plus this: “Contra David Frum, I don’t see this as a particular moment to reflect on ‘extreme

Giffords Shooter Had Previous Problems
The documents, obtained by The Daily Caller and can be seen here, show his problems began in October 2008, where he was listed as a “criminal” for an unspecified “local charge.” That action, described by AZ Central as a “minor drug offense,” was dismissed by the local city attorney. Loughner also had a complaint for a “UNIFORM CITATN,” shorthand for a universal citation, filed against him. “But all of that changed last year,” reports AZ...

Arizona Shooter Jared Loughner Targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Back in 2007
"He was a political radical" "He was Left Wing" "As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal" Loughner's leftwing High School friend Caitie Parker ("I went to high school, college, & was in a band with him") We know Loughner was a poltical radical back in 2007 according to High School friend, college friend, bandmate and fellow liberal Catie Parker.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Jared Loughner targeted Giffords as far back a...

Despite the fact that killer is a left-wing nut, liberals continue to try and blame Tea Party, Sarah Palin for Arizona shooting
The left-wing pothead killer Jared Loughner is a left-wing wacko who's favorite book is Communist Manifesto. His favorite YouTube video is of the American Flag being burned. From Phoenix New Times: Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead". A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "Left Wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. Caitie ...

Liberal media promoting big lie against Tea Party, Palin in AZ shooting
There is an old saying - tell a lie often enough and eventually it becomes the truth. The "big lie" technique, originally named by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf was instrumental in what eventually became known as the "Final Solution" - the State-sanctioned Murder of millions of Jews. The same technique is apparently at work in many of today's newsrooms, as shown by the baseless attacks against Sarah Palin and Conservatives in general. Consider:  The man under arrest for the shoot...

Irony Alert?
Words of supposed wisdom from Gary Hart: Gradually, over time, political Rhetoric used by politicians and the media has become more inflamatory. The degree to which violent words and phrases are considered commonplace is striking. Candidates are “targeted”. An opponent is “in the crosshairs”. Liberals have to be “eliminated”. Opponents are “enemies”. This kind of language eminates [sic] largely from those who claim to defend American Democracy ag...