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Title: The unseemly rush to blame Sarah Palin, Tea Party and Republicans for murder in Arizona
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Telegraph
URL Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t ... blicans-for-murder-in-arizona/
Published: Jan 9, 2011
Author: Toby Harnden
Post Date: 2011-01-09 10:13:33 by Rudgear
Keywords: Culture, Tea Party, Democrats
Views: 26392
Comments: 39
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, by all accounts an outstanding public servant and person, is battling for her life in hospital after being shot by a 22-year-old man at close range at a “Congress On Your Corner” event in her home district. Six people are dead, including a judge and a girl of nine, and a dozen others are being treated for their wounds. It is, as President Barack Obama said, an “unspeakable tragedy”. It is also, as he added, “a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society”. That much we know and the President wisely did not seek to make political capital out of the carnage or jump to conclusions about the motivations of the gunman, named as Jared Loughner. That, of course, hasn’t stopped some on the Left clamouring to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party or Republicans in general for what happened. Paul Krugman of the “New York Times” suggests darkly that Giffords was shot because she was “a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona” and “violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate” (those reponsible for such a climate being, of course, Republicans). TBogg of FireDogLake wades straight in and blames Sarah Palin for the shooting because of a graphic of crosshairs placed on the districts of moderate Democrats who voted for healthcare reform. Was the Palin graphic clever? No. But martial imagery is standard political fare and, as Matt Lewis points out, there’s no shortage of Democrats who’ve engaged in it (VerumSerum has found a Democratic Leadership Committee target map). Jane Fonda pins it on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party. Even the local sheriff (a Democrat) has been getting in on the act. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik (a Democrat) said: When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry. Well, we’ll see. Personally, I’d be more reassured by a sheriff who concentrated on facts rather than over-heated, sweeping generalisations. So what are the facts we know so far? From what we know about Loughner, he was a deeply disturbed young man who railed about literacy rates, spoke of flag burning and creating a new currency. Former classmates talk of “nonsensical outbursts” and a person “on his own planet”. His favourite reading apparently included “Mein Kampf” and “The Communist Manifesto”. My colleague Jon Swaine has a summary here of the raving of a person who most people would judge to be a complete nutcase even if he hadn’t gone out and shot people. Oh, and another former classmate said he was “left wing, quite liberal”. Naturally, this doesn’t stop Jacob Heilbrunn, pontificating that the shootings are evidence of that the “radical right is becoming even more radicalised and violent”. Ben Smith sums up the current picture of Loughner pretty well: The obsession with the gold standard and the hostility to the federal government resonate with the far right, the burned American flag with the left, but the discussion of mind control and grammar sound more like mental illness than politics. This is highly inconvenient for certain people on the Left so they ignore it. They would much prefer the shooter to have been a white male in his 50s, the description the sheriff gave of a second person of interest (we’ll see if such a person materialises) but they’ll still try to make hay with a weirdo like Loughner. Giffords herself doesn’t quite fit the likely victim of an enraged Right-winger. She is a Blue Dog Democrat, a deficit hawk and voted to lift the ban on guns in DC and voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. On Thursday, she took part in the reading of the Constitution in the House, reading aloud the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion, speech and peaceful assembly. She’s certainly not the “progressive” that Hanoi Jane tweeted about and provoked as much anger on the Left as on the Right for her political stances. Just the other day, a blogger at DailyKos said that Giffords was “dead to me” for failing to back Pelosi. Plenty more will emerge in the coming days about Loughner’s motivations and those of any accomplice. It seems certain that the attempted assassination was politically motivated but in exactly what way is, at this stage, very murky. This is a time for sombre reflection and a calming (rather than an escalation) of rhetoric. Sadly, however, some see it as another opportunity to score political points and vilify those they hate.
Poster Comment: This is a time for sombre reflection and a calming (rather than an escalation) of rhetoric. Sadly, however, some see it as another opportunity to score political points and vilify those they hate. The above cannot be stated enough.
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#4. To: Rudgear, All (#0)
Unseemly!? Unseemly is blaming Iraq/Afghans/Muslims for PeakOil and the Us War for Resources. And you can expect little to know sympathy from the various parts of the globe that we now occupy. And I notice in passing how the article was able to work Jane Fonda in. Nice touch. 8D
Jane Fonda came out from under her rock to denounce Palin and the Tea Party. Deal with it. ;}
I'll be needing to see that quote now. But since Jane went evangelical herself, I really don't care except that the 'gunners/VietNam could've been won 'ers' keep bringing her up. And btw, Palin doesn't know the first thing about firearms. Those folks especially should be concerned about using inflammatory language. ;}
You could have done this yourself, stoooooooooooopid.
First off, she needs more server space. Someone's hitting her site big time. 8D Second, I don't do twitter. yet. Third. Jane's a busy girl!!!! Fourth. I don't see anything wrong with those twitters. 8D Fifth. for the Ad Hominem, a special reply: "Title: Phoenix Radio Station Offers Bristol Palin Job. Station Director Says it's Not a Publicity Stunt -- Whatever You Say, Brah Source: [None] URL Source: blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/va ... nix_radio_station_offers_b.php Published: Jan 7, 2011 I want you to know the truth about our declining Empire. The rigged game exemplifies and signifies that decline. The owners want you to participate in their rigged system. As long as you do so, you will remain enslaved. The only liberation available to you is to reject their phony politics, and the idea they want you to believe that the owners only have your best interests at heart. Understanding and rejecting this nonsense is the first, crucial step toward true freedom. And now here's George. It's called the American dream because you have to a sleep to believe it. 8D
Your back peddling is weak and you don't need to 'do' twitter. Others do and preserved this idiot's inane ramblings which prove conclusively she is no evangelical. If you don't see the problem, then you ARE part of the problem.
And so we re the circle. I agree with all of Jane's posts. The evangelical's been downtoned by her. Live by the gun. Die by it. See Palin/Gifford for details.
You libs are the ones who resort to shooting elected officials. Statist puke.
example. tick tock.
A Deranged Imperial City of a deranged USEmpire inveitably breeds deranged citizens: Mike Ruppert: "There will undoubtedly be those who want to go off down blind alleys and after red herrings looking for all kinds of things. Anti-Semitism has already been offered on the altar of public consumption because the Congresswoman is Jewish. The Tea Party and Sarah Palin are being routinely injected into media discussions. We may see some new gun laws but they will not alter the fact that there are already an estimated 250 million firearms and perhaps billions of rounds of ammunition that are in the hands of an increasingly distressed American populace. Conditions are inevitably going to worsen despite Fed Chairman Bernanke’s recent proclamation the “The recovery is taking hold”. Continued irrationality on the part of the government will produce more irrationality from the people until the time comes when it will not be possible to conveniently categorize would-be assassins and shooters as deranged. Otherwise the government will be in the position of having to label us all as such and by then it won’t matter."
#26. To: mcgowanjm (#25)
Sounds about right. Do you think the Pubbies will really back off from their Health Care reform nullification legislation?
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#7. To: Rudgear (#5)
Jane Fonda came out from under her rock to denounce Palin and the Tea Party. Deal with it. ;}
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#22. To: Rudgear (#11)
this idiot's inane ramblings
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#24. To: Rudgear (#23)
You libs are the ones who resort to shooting elected officials. Statist puke.
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