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Arizona Shooting Coverage Is a Media Campaign to Criminalize Conservatism
Managing Editor's Note: Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement after a thorough, two-day review of how the media have covered the tragic shooting in Arizona. Implicating a conservative tie to this heinous act of violence or to Jared Lee Loughner, who is no conservative, is nothing short of a naked campaign to criminalize conservative thought. Sadly, those who point their finger are at the nexus of hypocrisy. Take the unidentified “Veteran Democratic...

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. ...

Political opportunism never lets a crisis go to waste
I continue to be incredulous of the blatant political opportunism this shooting of Rep. Giffords has unleashed on the left. OK, not really. But in a way, it is the Paul Wellstone memorial all over again on a national level. First, all of this angst over political Rhetoric is so overwrought and overblown as to be laughable.  There has never been a time in the history of this land that the language hasn’t been rough or partisan.  Never.  Pretending this is the worst it has ever be...

When Violence Comes From the Right, Media Hear No Evil
Despite the work of media Watchdog groups like Media Matters, and groups that track right-wing Extremism, like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, the corporate media insist on ignoring the influence of the Far Right’s toxic rhetorical drumbeat of hatred and anger in promoting a political context where violence can break out. “At a time like this, it is terrible that we do have to think about politics, but no matter what the shooter’s motivations wer...

If He Had Been a Muslim.
Peter Beinart observes that the national conversation would be much different if Jared Lee Loughner were a Muslim: Had the shooters’ name been Abdul Mohammed, you’d be hearing the familiar drumbeat about the need for profiling and the pathologies of Islam. But since his name was Jared Lee Loughner, he gets called “mentally unstable”; the word “Terrorist” rarely comes up. When are we going to acknowledge that good old-fashioned white Americans are every bit as capable of

Fox News Prez Roger Ailes: I Told 'Our Guys' To 'Tone It Down'
Fox News President Roger Ailes -- who is no stranger to making incendiary comments -- recently told globalgrind.com's Russel Simmons that both the right and the left are wrong in their response to the Mass Shooting in Arizona. "This is just bullshit.  This goes on ... both sides are wrong, but they both do it," Ailes said on the media's using maps that target Congressional Districts in their coverage. Ailes cited the map former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) used that put targets over Democratic...

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: Fox And 'The Other Side' Need To Tone Down Rhetoric
Source: Huffington Post Fox News CEO Roger Ailes said that he has told his network to "tone it down" in the wake of the shooting in Arizona, and that he hopes the "other side" will do so as well. Ailes' comments appeared in a conversation with Russell Simmons that was published on Simmons' website, Global Grind. He said that any attempts to connect FOX News or the Tea Party to the shooting were "bullshit," and that "both sides" were responsible for extreme Rhetoric. But Ailes did say that he had...

Video: AZ Sheriff that blamed talk radio, tea party for shooting called illegal immigration opponents 'racist'
Well this figures: "The same man who accused Talk Radio and Cable News shows of inciting violence by using vitriol had no hesitation in labeling proponents of Arizona's illegal Immigration law as "Racist". Ironically, he made the comment on a vitriolic Cable News show."Previously in that sheriff: 1995: Bill Clinton blames Talk Radio for Oklahoma City bombing. 2010: Tucson Sheriff blames Talk Radio for Arizona shooting. More here: Sheriff Dupnik: "I Have No Agenda" But Angering Americans "May Be...

Bad name; bad statement; bad vibes
Does the name "Tea Party Nation" have a negative sound to you?  No, I don't mean because it's a faction or organization within the tea party movement.  Conceptually, I don't have any problem with a well-meaning political or reform movement.  But -- and apart from what we know of the tea party movement's behaviors in town hall meetings and so forth -- "Tea Party Nation" has a belligerent sound.  It reminds me of something I can't q...

Poynter Gives Politico the Nod
The Poynter Institute has written an entire story about Politico‘s coverage of the Arizona shootings. In turn, Politico is reporting on itself this morning. News of the story showed up in a number of Politico messages by reporters on Twitter last night. For instance, Politico‘s Jake Sherman wrote, “ Very proud of the work @politico did this weekend, good detail here.” Colleague James Hohmann , who has been covering the Arizona shooting story all weekend, also wrote of it ...

Top Jewish Historian: Glenn Beck, Roger Ailes, Anti-Semitic
On Saturday night, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked someone on the scene in Tucson if Anti-Semitism played any role in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting. His response was "no." It is well known that Giffords is Jewish, but Anti-Semitism per se did not seem to be a contributing factor in the shooting of Giffords and 17 other Victims in front of a Tucson shopping center. That seems right, although all weekend I received emails from Jews indicating a special fear that, on some level, Anti-Semitism played...

Roger Ailes: Tone it down
Roger Ailes spoke to Russell Simmons about how the media was painting the shootings in Arizona, noting that both sides were guilty of violent Rhetoric, but agreeing that it was important for both sides to tone it down. You know, they’re using this thing...apparently there was a map from one of Palin’s things that had her (Congresswoman Giffords) targeted district. So, we looked at the Internet and the first thing we found in 2007, the Democrat Party had a targeted map with targets ...

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: Fox And 'The Other Side' Need To Tone Down Rhetoric
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes said that he has told his network to "tone it down" in the wake of the shooting in Arizona, and that he hopes the "other side" will do so as well. Ailes' comments appeared in a conversation with Russell Simmons that was published on Simmons' website, Global Grind. He said that any attempts to connect FOX News or the Tea Party to the shooting were "bullshit," and that "both sides" were responsible for extreme Rhetoric. But Ailes did say that he had issued a warning to F...

Roger Ailes on the Shootings: An Expletive, and an Order to "Tone It Down"
While citing cases where his opponents have put bull's eyes on his head, or where Sarah Palin was hung on the end of a rope, Ailes said, "I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually. You don't have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that."...

Satanic Shrine Found at Home of Tucson, AZ Gunman Jared Loughner
Maybe the LEFTIST MSM and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik might want to comment on this? A SATANIC SHRINE was found at the home of the gunman, Jared Loughner, responsible for the deaths of 6 and injuring 14, including US Rep Gabby Giffords who was shot in the head and recovering in critical condition. Let’s focus on the real person responsible for this heinous crime, not try and play party politics. Honor those who were lost, those who are trying to recover and those who acted so bra...

There Is Yet No Loughner / Far-Right Connection
It is worth stating again that there is at present no — zero — evidence that purported Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was affiliated with any Tea Party group or other mainstream conservative cause. But nor is there any reason to think that Loughner was aligned with even far-right or radical political causes.  Some people who study right-wing Militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner’s comments on subjects like the Am...

Times Goes to Left-Wing SPLC to Suggest Shooter Had 'Far-Right' Leanings
Monday’s front-page story from Tucson, the site of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Murder of six others, began with concerns from suspect Jared Loughner’s college classmates about his bizarre and aggressive behavior, but the Times switched to the role of politics in his life. Times reporters treated as an objective source of facts an unlabeled left-wing group that reliably finds right-wing “hate” wherever it looks on the right. Sure enough, the Sout...

Paul Krugman on Toxic Discourse
PK: Climate of Hate: When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Put me in the latter category. I’ve had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008 campaign. I remembered the upsurge in political hatred after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 — an upsurge that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. And you could see, just by watc...

No More Mister Nice Blog
TURNING POINT FOR PALIN? THE HELL IT IS Jonathan Marin of Politico thinks the Tucson shooting is a turning point for Sarah Palin. That sounds right, but it's nonsense: ... the rush on the left to affix some of the blame on her for the Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has suddenly turned the tragedy into a defining moment in Palin's meteoric Political Career. Whether she defends, explains or even responds at all to th...

Pathetic: James Clyburn Blames Sharon Angle for Giffords Shooting
The narrative is set among those on the hard left even though there is absolutely no connection between the shooting and ANY political discourse. Clyburn is just trying to use this shooting for political gain by trying to paint the Right as Extremists. What a dope. 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 invi...

White House Africa moves
With the Obama Administration expressing tentative relief that voting in South Sudan’s Referendum on Secession has proceeded relatively smoothly so far, it is giving kudos to the top White House Africa advisor who has helped manage and keep the administration on top of the potentially hugely volatile issue to date. But now, officials say, National Security Council senior director for Africa Michelle Gavin is planning to leave the White House later this month, despite heartfelt regrets e...

Shameless: Politico.com insinuates the right wanted Giffords dead over green stance
As I noted yesterday in response to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ8), the Mainstream Media has been nothing short of shameless in its attempts to try and insinuate - or outright declare - that it was “the right” who targeted her for Murder. Josh Trevino wrote yesterday numerous times on Twitter about how Politico had joined in on the “Right Wing vitriol” bandwagon. Today, they continue to add to it with their latest extremely irr...

Nonsensical Attempt to Tie Loughner to Conservatives Is Deliberate Strategy
To the extent Jared Loughner's psychotic views have any political coherence, they are decidedly Left Wing. Yet liberals have raised a deafening chorus attempting to blame Conservatives for the incomprehensible horrors he inflicted. This may be a reflexive reaction by truly unhinged moonbats like Hanoi Jane Fonda and Clarence Dupnik, who can be counted on to blame their ideological opponents for any and all misfortunes. But for others, it is part of a deliberate political strategy. Timothy McVeig...

MARK HALPERIN IN TIME: Maybe a horrendous act of violence will kill hundreds, even thousands, of Am
Mark Halperin IN TIME: Maybe a horrendous act of violence will kill hundreds, even thousands, of Americans and thereby brighten Obama’s political future. “No one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe. But when a struggling Bill Clinton was faced with the Oklahoma City bombing and a floundering George W. Bush was confronted by 9/11, t...

1995: Bill Clinton blames talk radio for Oklahoma City bombing. 2010: Tucson Sheriff blames talk radio for Arizona shooting
The Democrats are a Green Party. They are pro-recycling, including false political memes that don't work. From a prior post of mine last April when Bill Clinton tried to tie the Tea Party to the Oklahoma City bombing, a flashback: Back in 1995, Clinton used the tragedy to lash out at Talk Radio. From the New York Times via American Spectator: "I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today. Well, people like that who want to sha...