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Lone nuts and convenient definitions of "terrorism"
"Columbine" author Dave Cullen wrote yesterday that most media figures compulsively -- and incorrectly -- assign all killers to one of two binaries: Crazy or political. Right-wing commentators do the same thing, for the most part, though they tend to say killers are either crazy or Terrorists. And while they'll usually freely admit that Tim McVeigh counted as a terrorist, for the most part they reserve that term for Muslims who kill. There is, for example, Charles Krauthammer's classic column on...

Of the right?
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok has followed the Far Right, in detail, as long as anyone, and he was the first to tie Jared Loughner to an obscure, bizarre theorist of mind-control through grammar, David Wynn-Miller, who styles himself the King of Hawaii. (Miller supported that view in an interview with my colleague Carrie-Budoff Brown.) “The idea weirdly enough of controlling grammar, of somehow the government using grammar to control the people is an idea that exists on th...

Glenn Beck Says 9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous, But Guest Host of Beck's Show is a Truther
I’d normally rather have a root canal than watch Glenn Beck’s show, but today I wanted to see how he would try to spin away all responsibility for his insane Extremist Rhetoric. And sure enough, he came up with a real jaw-dropper. Here’s a Screenshot; these are the people he thinks are really, really dangerous (not him): I almost couldn’t believe this one. Because Beck has had a 9/11 Truther guest hosting his show, and more than once: Judge Andrew Napolitano, who went on ...

Glenn Beck Says 9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous, But Frequent Host of Beck's Show is a 9/11 Truther
I’d normally rather have a root canal than watch Glenn Beck’s show, but today I wanted to see how he would try to spin away all responsibility for his insane Extremist Rhetoric. And sure enough, he came up with a real jaw-dropper. Here’s a Screenshot; these are the people he thinks are really, really dangerous (not him): I almost couldn’t believe this one. Because Beck has had a 9/11 Truther guest hosting his show, and more than once: Judge Andrew Napolitano, who went on ...

ADL's Jared Loughner Report: Mental Illness, Not Ideology Likely Led To Tragedy
Mental Illness, rather than Tea Baggery's likely to blame for Loughner's rampage, says the ADL Since Saturday's massacre in Tucson, both the left and the right have parsed alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube videos, the statements of his supposed school chums, his favorite books (everything from To Kill a Mockingbird to Mein Kampf), and any other scraps of info out there on the guy. The left has surmised he's your classic anti-government, Wingnut Teabagger. The right's labeled him an a...

Author of Anti-American Manifesto, Ted Rall, says Loughners violent attack not part of coming revolution (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller TheDC Exclusive: A secret $6 billion Bailout for Puerto Rico? Campus Progress reports on for-profit schools issue while coordinating with liberal coalition to push regs Author of 'Anti-American Manifesto', Ted Rall, says Loughner's violent attack not part of coming revolution Despite GOP's best efforts, specter of Steele Second Term hangs around Ask Matt Labash Vol. XLVI: Torturing a dog-torture lover, and defending John Boehner's tan For the past three ...

Brave Woman Who Grabbed Clip from Shooter Blames Right-Wing Media and Rhetoric In Fox News Interview
Patricia Maisch, 61, was the brave woman who kept alleged shooter Jared Loughner from unloading a second clip into a Tuscon crowd on Saturday. Wounded herself from a bullet, she saw him attempting to equip his gun with another magazine, grabbed him and knelt on his ankle, delaying the reload and potentially saving many more lives.  So when Fox News interviewed her on Sunday, they clearly wanted to know if her strength could translate to psychic healing as Americans grappled with the tragedy...

CBS poll: 57% of Americans reject Palin did it media spin on Arizona massacre
According to a CBS poll, a 57% majority of Americans do not believe this weekend’s mass Murder had anything to do with politics. Bad news for the Far Left which has worked overtime to smear Sarah Palin and the Far Right in the wake of the shooting. Just how badly folks on professional left failed at politicizing this tragedy for their own political gain? Even a 49% plurality of the survey’s Democratic respondents does not buy the meme that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are at fault ...

Dont you get it, you stupid, reactionary, racist, white, trashy, snowbilly, flagwaving, Constitution-fetish, Liberty-loving Reds
We don’t care that Loughner’s shooting rampage wasn’t inspired by anything other then his Mental Illness … YOU are still to blame. Whether Jared Loughner is a far-left nihilist or a right-wing Racist or — as he most likely is — some weird politically incoherent amalgamation of Extremist beliefs tinged with paranoia, he wasn’t driven to Murder by angry campaign slogans. Steve Kornacki’s right — Loughner was not a Gadsden Flag-wielding Tea Pa...

The Tea Party and the Tucson Tragedy
How anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic Populism made the Giffords shooting more likely. By Jacob Weisberg Posted Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 There's something offensive, as well as pointless, about the politically charged inquiry into what might have been swirling inside the head of Jared Loughner. We hear that the accused shooter read The Communist Manifesto and liked flag-burning videos—good news for the right. Wait—he was a devotee of Ayn Rand and favored the gold standard, so he was a righ...

Gabrielle Giffords, Christina Green & The Place The American Dream Went To Die
Like flies to feces, the Extremists who have so debased the American political system in recent years are feasting mightily on the latest watershed event out Arizona — the place where the American Dream went to die. The irony, of course, is that this debasement continues apace because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free Speech, no matter how vile, while Congress and Obama Administration, cowed by the NRA, all but assure the kind of violence that leaves a congresswoman with ...

The Monetary Theories of Boom Ba
A quick footnote to Peter Suderman's post below on Jared Lee Loughner's contributions to the UFO/Conspiracy/Forteana site AboveTopSecret.com: The currency thread mentioned in the Daily Caller article should dispel the theory that Loughner was a gold bug. There are actual gold bugs in that discussion, and they're as mystified by Loughner's ideas about an "infinite source of currency" as anyone else. On a related note: On Sunday Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center declared it was "prett...

Gunman's Grammar Conspiracy Connection
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A nation is trying to understand the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. that left 14 wounded, including a congresswoman in critical condition, and six others dead, including a Federal Judge, a congressional aide and a 9-year-old girl. As investigators look into the life of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner they are noticing his strange obsession with grammar and its ties to a Milwaukee man's Conspiracy Theory website. In early coverage of Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabri...

No, Really: WND's Klein Tries to Blame AZ Shooting On Bill Ayers
No, Really: WND's Klein Tries to Blame AZ Shooting On Bill Ayers Topic: WorldNetDaily It appears that selectively quoting from Jared Loughner's reading list was only the beginning of the misinformation and outright falsehoods WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein intends to peddle about the Arizona shooting. Because apparently Bill Ayers must be worked into this story somehow, a Jan. 10 article by Klein begins: Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting, attended...

Hannity Cites Description Of Loughner As Pot Smoking Liberal - No Mention Of Anti-Abortion Comment
As far as we know, Jared Loughner does not appear to have any clear political orientation - despite attempts on both the left and the right (ignored by Fox "News" which whined about "political cheap shots" from the left) to ascribe one to him. He was registered to vote as an independent. Based on what little was known of him, the right ran with the description of him as a "pot smoking liberal" - a description found on Alex Jones' website as well as numerous others despite comments, from those wh...

Clinton in Yemen to press counterterror efforts
SANAA, Yemen — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Yemen to step up security cooperation with the United States during an unannounced visit to shore up ties with a nation that is fast becoming a major focus of American Counterterrorism efforts. Following the Obama Administration's pattern in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clinton also emphasized that the United States wanted a broader relationship with Yemen beyond the fight against violent Extremists. Clinton ...

The latest terrorist tactic: litigation
On December 29, Scandinavian authorities arrested five Terrorists planning an attack in Denmark. Almost as interesting as what they targeted is what they spared and the lessons it holds for future Counterterrorism efforts. The plot was to storm the Copenhagen newsroom of Jyllands Posten and Murder its staff. It was the fourth attempt this year by Islamic Extremists to punish the newspaper that published the Mohammed cartoons. But the Terrorists are guilty of selective prosecution. They have yet...

"Stochastic Terrorism"--A powerful, highly accurate new meme
In a recent discussion thread, Sadie Baker called attention to a very important DKos diary with a powerful new meme, "Stochastic Terrorism". The diarist has been using the term for some time now, and many others have described this process as well. But the time has never been ripe before for this particular picture-perfect formulation to gel. Now, however, the time is ripe--it cuts through so much BS all at once (particularly the way that individualist assumptions and framing cloud people's un...

Loughner is Anti-ZOG, Truther; Likely Schizophrenic
As Yael of the BokerTov blog notes, “Yep, two and two IS four.  I could feel it in my Zionist kishkehs:” (JTA) — A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo reportedly notes that Gabriel Giffords is Jewish in describing the motives of the Arizona congresswoman’s alleged assailant. The memo, obtained by Fox News Channel, says that Jared Lee Loughner mentioned American Renaissance, an Extremist anti-immigrant group, in some of his own postings. “The group’s

Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was a 9/11 Truther
Liberals, who have already connected the dots in the Tucson massacre, linking psychopath Jared Loughner inextricably to Sarah Palin, may want to pause briefly to consider emerging details about the man and his past. Mistrust of government was Loughner’s defining conviction, the friends said. He believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11, and worried that governments were maneuvering to create a unified monetary system (“a New World Order currency” one friend said) so that soc...

AP reports "anonymous friends" claim shooter was 9/11 truther
[...] Both friends spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they wanted to avoid the publicity surrounding the case. [...] Mistrust of government was Loughner's defining conviction, the friends said. He believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11, and worried that governments were maneuvering to create a unified monetary system ("a New World Order currency" one friend said) so that social elites and Bureaucrats could control the rest of the world. [...] - Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FB...

Jared Lee Loughner a 9/11 truther and atheist
Jared Lee Loughner - a 9/11 Truther and atheist Well lookie what we have here! Not only is the this whole Jared Lee Loughner story being a Tea Party member and a big Sarah Palin fan, crumbling on the lame stream media and Progressives, it’s turning out to sound like the guy was in fact a Far Left nut job after all. I don’t know of too many Atheist 9/11 truthers who are right wingers do you? I know Van Jones is a 9/11 truther. Wasn’t he a big Right Wing teabagging extrem...

What Does Jared Lee Loughner Believe?
This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. Jared Lee Loughner, the young man who allegedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six others in Tucson on Saturday, would seem to defy easy categorization. Yet the evidence does provide clues into the mind of a man who even the staunchest partisans should be able to agree held muddled politics far outside the mainstream. It seems clear based on Loughner's YouTu...

Homeless Man with Golden Voice Already Picked Up By Police
Ted Williams, the Ohio Homeless man whose golden voice made him a YouTube sensation and brought him offers of work, was detained by the Los Angeles Police Department Monday night at a Hollywood hotel. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Na...

'Loughner was crazy' argument misses the point in the Arizona shootings case
Last Saturday Jared Lee Loughner alleged shot and  killed six people and injured another fourteen at public event hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).  Since that time some have claimed that Loughner behavior was caused, at least in part, by the heated political of the past two years.  Others have essentially argued that Loughner was a "nutjob" or "a crazed Lone Wolf", that society had no control over.  Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck both argued that Lougher was s...