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I was horrified to read about the Tucson shooting yesterday, when 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner killed six people and wounded 13 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
And I was disgusted at the immediate finger-pointing which occurred by many on the Left who were instantly hell-bent on blaming this horrific crime on Sarah Palin because of a campaign website graphic that used crosshairs on a map to indicate which politicians need to be voted out of office.
Over at Left Coast Liberal, a blogger named “Proof” juxtaposes the Palin graphic with a similar post that was made on Left-wing site Daily Kos, showing how ridiculous it is to attempt to assign blame just because of campaign information showing politicians with whom one may disagree. Neither the Kos site nor Palin had anything to do with this shooting.
Besides, Verum Serum notes that the Democratic Leadership Committee uses targets on their website as well. That does NOT prove guilt or complicity with violence. If one is going to assign blame based upon a politician’s use of firearm analogies, does that mean President Obama is to blame for Loughner’s actions because of his “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” rhetoric? C’mon, get real.
But that didn’t stop the Far Left from their blame-fest. For an example of Progressive knee-jerk opportunism and ugliness, check out the video of this asshat who dressed up in what he thinks all Tea Partiers wear and used a Southern accent to smear every Conservative as guilty in this shooting…
YID With LID lists the ultra-progressives whose spin went into overdrive, attempting to implicate Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and the entire Tea Party movement. Michelle Malkin screencapped Jane Fonda’s Twitter feed, showing unhinged rantings blaming Palin as well.
A quick look at Jared Lee Loughner’s MySpace and YouTube pages reveal that he was a far-left radical whose favorite literature included Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. His favorite YouTube video shows the U.S. flag being torched.
And by the way, here’s an inconvenient little fact that totally destroys the whole Palin guilt thing: Loughner was obsessed with Gifford since 2007. News flash for Lefties: the Tea Party wasn’t even around until February 2009.
If politics were involved in this, Loughner might have been upset that Rep. Gifford wasn’t “Progressive” enough. To him, her crime was that she was a centrist; a “Blue Dog” Democrat. And in his intolerant little mind, that’s a crime worthy of death. Loughner’s friend, Bryce Tierney, hinted as much in an interview with Mother Jones.
Tierney tells Mother Jones in an exclusive interview that Loughner held a years-long grudge against Giffords and had repeatedly derided her as a “fake.” Loughner’s animus toward Giffords intensified after he attended one of her campaign events and she did not, in his view, sufficiently answer a question he had posed, Tierney says…
I have no idea whether Loughner’s politics inspired his murderous rampage. He’s keeping quiet about his motives. But I do know he was an absolute lunatic:
The suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers, but the threats weren’t against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Dupnik said. The suspect is unstable, Dupnik said, but the sheriff would not say he is “insane.”
A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was “obviously very disturbed.”
“He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts,” said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College’s Northwest campus.
Sorenson doesn’t recall if he ever made any threats or uttered political statements but he was very disruptive, she said. He was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class, said Sorenson, a Tucson resident.
Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner’s behavior stood out, Ali said.
“It almost seemed like he was on his own planet, because his comments would have nothing to do with what we were talking about,” Ali said.
I hope that Arizona prosecutors will be able to get Loughner the death penalty. In the meantime, the victims and their families deserve our continued prayers and support.
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UPDATE: Philip Klein at American Spectator notices that The New York Times was all about caution when it came to Islam and the Fort Hood shooting, but shows no such restraint when they believe they can pin the Arizona shootings on Republicans. Ed Morrissey also notes the hypocrisy and contemptible behavior of the partisans at The Gray Lady and CNN.
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UPDATE: Megyn Kelly does a great job pointing out how Sheriff Dupnik’s political grandstanding is out of line.
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UPDATE: Michelle Malkin posted a must-read article — The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010. It’s important to see who really has been stoking the fires of hatred in this nation over the past decade. When you take a look back at the preponderance of evidence, it’s worse than you think. And it’s mostly from the Left.
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UPDATE: More inconvenient facts for the blame-meisters on the Left…
Even more curious are Loughner’s ‘heroes.’ He mentions by name Venezuelan Communist Hugo Chavez, Latin American Communist mass-murderer Che Guevara, American Socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky, and even Barack Obama.
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UPDATE: Dana Loesch has a brief roundup of death rhetoric from the Left, namely from Markos Moulitsas and other “Progressives” on Twitter.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
These are outrageous lies.