Reading Loughner's Mind

The Left Hypocritically Exploits Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting
Just hours after Saturday's tragic shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona, numerous news sources on the left from CNN to the Huffington Post were casting blame upon Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, and Second Amendment supporters. Hoping the shooter had right-leaning views, the Left immediately started portraying Jared Lee Loughner as a Right Wing nut. Even as information trickled in revealing Loughner had some left-leaning political views, the left ignored it and ran with their own spin, labeling hi...

Rationalizing the irrational
Oh, yes.  Politics will be spun, lies will pass straight-faced through the elite-owned media, and outrageous language will issue from those talking heads, cravenly kneeling at their masters' feet as they beg scraps from the table.  May their chains weigh lightly on their wrists as they obediently lick the hands that feed them. J.R. Dunn, consulting editor of American Thinker has a rational reaction to last Saturday’s Tuscon massacre:  "I have no intention of trying to draw a...

Woops! This Changes Things Leftist Loughners Hero Was Barack Obama
BUMMER… So much for blaming the tea partyers. The left wanted so desperately to blame the Tucson shootings by an anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, left-wing, pro-Marx, antiflag, “quite liberal” lunatic who dreamed of killing cops on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Now, they’ll have to eat crow. Killer Jared Loughner idolized Barack Obama. Loughner will face 5 charges of Murder. By now Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the horrific massacre in Tuscon, Arizona ye...

MoveOn.orgs Spin
MoveOn.org has sent out a blast email blaming “hate” on the shooting in Arizona. From their email: Windows were smashed at Representative Giffords’ district office last March just a few hours after the House vote on Health Care reform.2 At one of the infamous town hall events in August 2009, a man attending the event accidentally dropped a Handgun on the floor that he had been hiding under his arm. And violent tendencies have been inflamed by the careless and irresponsible rh...

"What is government if words have no meaning?" the question Jared Loughner asked Gabrielle Giffords at a "Congress in Your Corn
Mother Jones reports what he said to his friend Bryce Tierney: "Can you believe it, they wouldn't answer my question." Tierney says, "Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her." (By the way, 2007 is a year before Sarah Palin emerged on the national scene.) Loughner would occasionally mention Giffords, according to Tierney: "It wasn't a day-in, day-out thing, but maybe once in a while, if Giffords did something that was ridiculous or passed some stupid law or did som...

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...

Eric Boehlert: The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appears be the latest Victim of anti-government violence that has taken hold in America since 2009. It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist Rhetoric that far too many Conservatives refuse to condemn. Instead, the toxic talk is routinely defended as being nothing more than spirited debate. It's not. It's deadly. And until those in positions of power say so, the dangerous Rhetoric is likely to continue. Whether that Rhetoric ...

What should Obama do? | Michael Tomasky
In the wake of Saturday's horrific shooting in Arizona, those words are as true today as they were fifteen years ago. Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama promised to change the tone in Washington beyond the partisan bickering that defined the Clinton and Bush years, so that Americans could "disagree without being disagreeable." But his political opponents never agreed to play by those terms. Apocalyptic depictions of Obama and ludicrous Rhetoric about his record, which turne...

What Made Loughner Snap?
Glock 9mm on Loughner's MySpace Page FBI Chief Robert Muller confirmed today that a Glock 9mm was used in the shooting of Rep. Gabriel Giffords and 19 others in Tuscon yesterday.  He says that the suspect, 22 year-old Jared Loughner, bought it in November of last year.  It’s possibly the gun that appeared over a photo of the White House on Loughner’s MySpace page. Ever since the shooting occurred, people across the spectrum have been trying to read political motivation in Lou...

A moment of silence
The talking heads started in right away after the shooting. Once again they had no idea what they were talking about. This article will not be seen by many because it doesn’t cover Cleveland, Oh politics. The real reason is the truth. The truth is powerful and national politics affect everyone otherwise you would not pay federal Income Tax. The examiner review team obviously doesn’t understand that. The talking heads, the same people who are always asked when it comes to politics, ar...

Ugly politics
Via Dino: One Veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated Rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did. “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the Militia and anti-government people.” And politicans wonder why people do not respect them. ...

Arizona tea partiers balk at blame
Arizona tea partiers rallied in front of the State Capitol Monday, honoring the six people killed in the Tucson shootings, and balking at those who blame their fierce Rhetoric for the tragedy. Politico's Scott Wong reports. ...

"The Vitriol Vitriol"
Martin Kaplan of USC's Norman Lear Center writes at the Jewish Journal of what he fears will be lost in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings. He writes, "If this tragedy is going to be a teachable moment, the lesson won’t be found by determining whose vitriol is warranted.  It will be found instead in what the vitriol is actually about.  And that, as Sheriff Dupnik nailed it, is “tearing down the government.”" As attention turned over the weekend to ...

Tragedy in Arizona
A year ago, we introduced a new school Curriculum, Civil Discourse in the Classroom and Beyond, with this urgent call: "There is a pressing need to change the tenor of public debate from shouts and slurs to something more reasoned." The tragedy in Tucson this weekend reminds us that it's a call that politicians and pundits would do well to heed. We may never get a clear picture of what was going through the confused mind of the Tucson gunman. But as my colleague Mark Potok explained on NPR this ...

Cowardly Liar David Frum Exploits Shooting To Urge People to Think About His Pet Subject That had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with
David Swindle is the Managing Editor of NewsReal Blog and the Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine. Follow him on Twitter here Again: this talk did not cause this crime. But this crime should summon us to some reflection on this talk. Better: This crime should summon us to a quiet collective resolution to cease this kind of talk and to cease to indulge those who engage in it. How about this crime should summon us to some reflection on whether The Rolling Stones were better than The Beatles. Or...

Tea partiers balk at blame
Phoenix — Tea Party Activists were solemn but defiant at a rally Monday at the Arizona Capitol marking the opening of the new legislative session. Rally organizer Greg Western led a moment of silence, then read the names of the six Victims killed in Saturday’s massacre, in which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) survived being shot in the head. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset “It’s a day that I will never, ever forget, kind of like the Challenger [space] inciden...

Weighing the Consequences of Political Rhetoric.
Michelle Goldberg the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords may have been mentally ill, but his hallucinatory Fantasy World was informed by the real one. For the past two years, our political life has been charged with intimations of violence. Tea Party Activists have brandished guns at meetings with elected officials. (In 2009, a Protester dropped a firearm at one of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Safeway meet-and-greets.). Republican politicians have hinted at "second amendment solutions," in ...

Mein Kampf & The Communist Manifesto
Two big things in the news today: 1. California is expected to reveal its state Budget. I cannot imagine that there . . . Go George F. Will writes a paean to new House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton today. It includes this . . . Go Earlier today, GOP chairman Michael Steele released a statement on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. “I am deeply shocked . . . Go A Glimpse Into Our Future? No, not The Onion -- but close: CNN's Anderson Cooper. Enjoy. . . . Go ...

Putting the blame where it belongs [Reader Post]
On November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at a troop readiness center in Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 people. Within hours of the killings, the world knew that Hasan reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before he began shooting, visited websites associated with Islamist violence, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim Suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces his enemy, opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam, and told a neighbor shortly before th...

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...

More Loughner details: 9/11 Truther, perhaps an occultist?
Among the tragedies of mass Murders is the bitter truth that the murderer will often for a time become more famous than the Victims.  Perhaps that is especially true with true lunatics, as the public struggles to understand exactly what triggered the murder spree.  That will be the case for at least the next few days as more details emerge about Jared Lee Loughner and the very strange life he led in the years prior to killing at least six people and gravely wounding several others, including...

Tuscon killings
The attempted Assassination of US House Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of 6 people in the group is a depressing topic about which there doesn't seem to be much useful to say, beyond what Gail Collins says about the inexplicable fixation of the gun lobby of ensuring easy access to semi-automatic weapons (as opposed to plain old single round pistols). But in the particularly idiotic talking points revolving around the relative significance of Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto in Jar...

More on the Giffords shooting and the climate of rage
As Bloggers and commentators assess blame for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, it's pretty clear almost everybody is filtering what little we really know about the alleged shooter through their own politics and ideology. You don't need a Ph. D in Psychology to know Jared Loughner is a deeply troubled, possibly crazy young man. Was he driven to that point by ideology – or did he latch on to scattered ideologies because of his mental collapse? I'm more inclined to believe the latter, althoug...

Jane Fonda Blames Giffords Shooting on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party
Jane Fonda has blamed Saturday's tragic Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, conservative Talk Show host Glenn Beck, and the Tea Party movement. Actually, Giffords is not a Progressive. Wikipedia lists her as part of the Blue Dog Coalition. It would be nice if Fonda knew how to spell Beck's first name, but since she's likely never seen his show or read anything he's written, it's not surprising. Nice job, Jane. You're quite a rocket sc...

Difference of opinion is what makes the world go round
Posted by Guest Blogger Locutisprime. According to the Pima County sheriff, differences of opinion are what makes the world go round. Except of course when your opinion differs from his or other Liberal Democrats or the political talking points and politicians that he and they support. I have to agree. There are consequences to 'this type of behavior.' Of course, the type of behavior that this sheriff is alluding to, is any behavior (specifically Speech) that is contrary to the best wish...