Sarah Palin's Rifle Crosshairs Targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords For Elimination

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords responsive but critical
Stumble This! A US congresswoman was in a medically induced coma Sunday but responding to commands after being shot through the head when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at an Arizona political event. A nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge were among six people killed and at least 12 others were wounded before bystanders tackled the alleged gunman, 22-year-old local resident Jared Lee Loughner, who was arrested at the scene. Police have released a Surveillance camera photo of a possible accom...

Wayne Root: The Gabrielle Giffords Tragedy: How Liberal Media Distorted the Message and Lynched the Tea Party
Emailed by Wayne Root to [email protected]: What Liberal Media- Including Fox News- Didn’t Tell You. Is it the Tea Party to Blame, or the Media and Hollywood? By Wayne Allyn Root As Americans and simply decent human beings, all of us should be shocked and saddened by Saturday’s tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen shot. Six are dead — including a Federal Judge and an innocent nine-year-old girl. And a talented United States Congresswoman lies in a coma after being shot in the he...

Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck
While Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fights for her life in a Tucson, Arizona, Hospital, liberal media members continue to point fingers of blame for Saturday's tragic shooting spree at prominent Conservatives such as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to wo...

Full video and summary of medical update on Gabrielle Giffords
Yesterday a gunman opened fire at a public event hosted by United States Representative Gabriel Giffords (D-AZ).  Giffords was shot in the head, but subsequently rushed to the Hospital and is still alive following surgery.  A doctor at the Hospital stated he was “very optimistic” on Giffords’ condition.  Six other people were killed from the shootings, including a nine year-old girl and United States Federal District Judge John M. Roll. Fourteen people were injur...

Our Raucous Democracy, The Blame Game and the Arizona Shooting
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 shooter had been listening to conservative Talk Radio, was heavily influences by the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, loose Gun Laws in Arizona, and the hate discourse that is created by Right Wing organizations and politicians. Sherlock Holmes has...

My thoughts on yesterday's tragedy
As for the act itself, I already feel this country is at Civil War, with the right vs left, conservative vs liberal.  The funny thing is I am going to point fingers, as it was the Tea Party Conservatives and Republicans, who have been screaming, shouting and threatening, in such a way, that someone off kilter, would do something, like shoot to kill.  Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin are major players, in provoking and continuing to flame the hatre...

Pamela Geller, Big Government: The Jared Loughner Shooting of Rep. Giffords and the Left Wing Smear Machine
I refuse to "play" by a set of rules demanded by our oppressors. On the one hand, we should not exploit this horror, this mass slaughter for political purposes. Of course we shouldn't. But the left has been rabid. Vultures. Vampires. And we should not stand by while they destroy us and our most effective leaders and voices. Paulo in Brazil left this comment in a previous thread: I've just watched a report in Wolf Blitzer(CNN) about the shooting. They mentioned the name Sarah ...

Media Falsely Blame Palin for Giffords Shooting, But Refused to Talk Islam At Ft. Hood
The colossal Double Standard revealed in the past 24 hours at CNN is a microcosm of the larger media reaction to the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords yesterday. In short, the reporters jumping at the chance to use the shooting to score points against Conservatives would in all likelihood be demanding patience and temperance if the potential for political cheap shots weren't available. The Washington Examiner's Byron York recalled CNN's reaction to the Fort Hood shooting in ...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in the head
(01-09) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a Grocery Store during a meeting with voters, killing a Federal Judge and five others in an attempted Assassination that rattled the country and left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Giffords was the target of a gunman whom he described as mentally unstable and possibly act...

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...

Libertarian Party condemns shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Press Release from Libertarian Party national HQ: WASHINGTON - Mark Hinkle, Chair of the Libertarian Party, issued a statement condemning the shooting of Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and others in Tucson, Arizona. According to reports, Federal Judge John Roll and five others were killed in the shooting, and several others were seriously wounded. “The Libertarian Party condemns the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others today. We are saddened by th...

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...

The Blood of Eden
Pollock's "The Deep" I caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there from the start So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep. We called it a N...

Keith Olbermann Special Comment on Tucson Shooting: 'Violence Has No Place in Democracy'
From Olby: "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans." Good try, I must say, although the overwhelming bulk of the "special comment" blamed the right, despite the fact that the shooter was a Conspiracy theorist and atheist progressive and that Giffords was targeted by Democrats and Da...

Right-Wingers Rush to Label Arizona Shooting Suspect a Liberal While Simultaneously Accusing Left of Politicizing Assassination
by MoHotta18 We still don’t know all the facts about Jared Loughner, the suspect held in the Arizona shooting rampage, and we may not for some time. But right-wing Bloggers knew immediately — right away! — that this anti-government goldbug who has been connected to an anti-immigration Hate Group, has an odd fixation on the Constitution and federalism and an enthusiasm for guns — was in no way a right-winger, and in fact, a total liberal. While the bodies were still warm...

I Would Very Much Like an Alternative Explanation of This...
Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva are both Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Arizona. On Tuesday January 4 the number of hits on the "Gabrielle Giffords" page on Wikipedia began to rise. The number of hits on the "Raul Grijalva" page did not. By Friday January 7 more than three times as many people were looking at Gabrielle Giffords's Wikipedia page than had done so in a normal day in the previous month and a half. On Saturday January 8, of course, six people were murd...

Its Sarah Palins Fault! Will it stick?
Talk to people who are not political news junkies, like I assume we all are here at iOwnTheWorld. I’ve already heard from numerous people that it’s Sarah Palin’s fault for the shooting in Arizona (along with Fox, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc…) I’ve already heard it’s a Tea-Party member. I’ve already heard it’s a Obama-Care opponent. And this is WITHIN the LAST HOUR when we (the informed political news junkies) already have seen the FACTS: the You...

Even violent rhetoric is still free speech
**Posted by Phineas Jack Shafer has a great rebuttal in Slate to assertions by the Left that violent Rhetoric and imagery are to blame for the mass-murder in Tucson, yesterday. His point is that our Political Speech is often over-the-top, but only the shooter is to blame for what he did — In Defense of Inflamed Rhetoric : For as long as I’ve been alive, crosshairs and bull’s-eyes have been an accepted part of the graphical lexicon when it comes to political debates. Such “...

Obama calls for moment of silence Monday morning
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on people in the United States to observe a moment of silence at 11 a.m. EST Monday to honor Victims of the Arizona shooting. A White House statement says the moment of silence will allow people to come together, in prayer or reflection, and keep the Victims and their families close at heart. Obama will observe the moment of silence with White House staff on the South Lawn. The president has signed a proclamation calling for flags to be f...

Contact info for Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Click above to embiggen contact information for the Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik. If you have 15 minutes or so to spare today — and I most certainly hope you do — I strongly urge you to get a postcard and write a message to Sheriff Dupnik, letting him know what you think of him…in a professional and businesslike, respectable, but STERN AND SCOLDING way. Postcards are the very best way to handle situations like this, where you want to tell an elected official how terribl...

Alleged Tucson Shooter Faces Federal Charges
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at the Pima County Sheriff's Office Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. Law Enforcement officials said Sunday afternoon they now thought it less likely that the individual in a who image was captured by a security camera at the Tucson shopping center was connected to the shootings of 20 people which left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded. "We do not have any belief at this time that that individual was a participant in the shooting," said ...

Tucson rampage casts light on toxic political tone
WASHINGTON—Politicians of all stripes are bound to be haunted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' warning, 10 months before she was shot, to cool the Rhetoric. It's been a year or more of raw politics, with anger spilling over on both sides and gun-related metaphors coming loosely from the lips of some Candidates and Activists. Giffords, a figurative target of the right, on Saturday became the actual target of a gunman who shot her through the head and killed at least five others. She was critica...

Giffords has deep ties to NASA through husband
The horrific shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords is being felt all the way to space. Giffords' husband is Astronaut Mark Kelly, who is slated to fly a Space Shuttle in April. His identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, is commander of the International Space Station. From space, Scott Kelly tweeted his thanks for support and prayers. He praised his sister-in-law, and called it a sad day. He is stuck on the space station until March. The shuttle flight Giffords' husband is supposed to lead...

Docs say hard to predict brain damage in Giffords
Doctors say they are optimistic about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' odds. But it can take weeks to months to learn the level of Brain Damage she might suffer from the gunshot blast to the head on Saturday. Dr. Peter Rhee, a trauma surgeon in Tucson where she was shot, said the bullet traveled the length of the left side of the Arizona congresswoman's brain, from back to front. That offers a better outlook than if it had entered the brain's center or both sides of the brain. She is also responding non...

Tucson rampage casts light on toxic political tone
Politicians of all stripes are bound to be haunted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' warning, 10 months before she was shot, to cool the Rhetoric. It's been a year or more of raw politics, with anger spilling over on both sides and gun-related metaphors coming loosely from the lips of some Candidates and Activists. Giffords, a figurative target of the right, on Saturday became the actual target of a gunman who shot her through the head and killed at least five others. She was critically wounded. The g...