Here is what dbgarlands friends down at slate had to offer about the Gifford shooting. Now keep in mind that all Palin did was offer up an obscure map with crosshairs on it, something that has since been done numerous times by multiple democrats. Also Laughner turned out to be a fan of Giffords, and a devoted leftist, something the nuts on the left always denied despite his own friends comments.
After this shooting there was no evidence whatsoever that this guy listened to palin, or the tea party, and no one in the tea party ever called for her shooting, and here is the response we got.
Now we have a case where Al Charlatan has went out in the streets, and said things like "no justice no peace" He has said that cops mowed down michael brown with his hands up despite oberwhelming evidence to the contrary, and people at his marches have chanted "Kill the cops" repeatedly. The perpetrator even said on his page that the shooting was retribution for the 2 so called innocent blacks that got shot.
So what are the odds that the left wing media calls out charlatan when all the evidence points at him, after they tried to pigeon hole palin and the tea party when none of the evidence pointed at them?
Id put it at zero, there is no chance he will be called out, the left wing media is an embarassment, and one really has to be a blind partisan to accept the narrative they pus.
The Tea Party and the Tucson Tragedy
How anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic populism made the Giffords shooting more likely.
By Jacob Weisberg
See Slate's complete coverage of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting and arrest of Jared Lee Loughner.
Jared Lee Loughner
There's something offensive, as well as pointless, about the politically charged inquiry into what might have been swirling inside the head of Jared Loughner. We hear that the accused shooter read The Communist Manifesto and liked flag-burning videos— good news for the right. Wait—he was a devotee of Ayn Rand and favored the gold standard, so he was a right-winger after all. Some assassinations embody an ideology, however twisted. Based on what we know so far, the Tucson killings look like more like politically tinged schizophrenia.
JACOB WEISBERG
It is appropriate, however, to consider what was swirling outside Loughner's head. To call his crime an attempted assassination is to acknowledge that it appears to have had a political and not merely a personal context. That context wasn't Islamic radicalism, Puerto Rican independence, or anarcho-syndicalism. It was the anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic populism that flourishes in the dry and angry climate of Arizona. Extremist shouters didn't program Loughner, in some mechanistic way, to shoot Gabrielle Giffords. But the Tea Party movement did make it appreciably more likely that a disturbed person like Loughner would react, would be able to react, and would not be prevented from reacting, in the crazy way he did...........
After this shooting there was no evidence whatsoever that this guy listened to palin, or the tea party, and no one in the tea party ever called for her shooting, and here is the response we got.
Now we have a case where Al Charlatan has went out in the streets, and said things like "no justice no peace" He has said that cops mowed down michael brown with his hands up despite oberwhelming evidence to the contrary, and people at his marches have chanted "Kill the cops" repeatedly. The perpetrator even said on his page that the shooting was retribution for the 2 so called innocent blacks that got shot.
So what are the odds that the left wing media calls out charlatan when all the evidence points at him, after they tried to pigeon hole palin and the tea party when none of the evidence pointed at them?
Id put it at zero, there is no chance he will be called out, the left wing media is an embarassment, and one really has to be a blind partisan to accept the narrative they pus.
The Tea Party and the Tucson Tragedy
How anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic populism made the Giffords shooting more likely.
By Jacob Weisberg
See Slate's complete coverage of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting and arrest of Jared Lee Loughner.
Jared Lee Loughner
There's something offensive, as well as pointless, about the politically charged inquiry into what might have been swirling inside the head of Jared Loughner. We hear that the accused shooter read The Communist Manifesto and liked flag-burning videos— good news for the right. Wait—he was a devotee of Ayn Rand and favored the gold standard, so he was a right-winger after all. Some assassinations embody an ideology, however twisted. Based on what we know so far, the Tucson killings look like more like politically tinged schizophrenia.
JACOB WEISBERGIt is appropriate, however, to consider what was swirling outside Loughner's head. To call his crime an attempted assassination is to acknowledge that it appears to have had a political and not merely a personal context. That context wasn't Islamic radicalism, Puerto Rican independence, or anarcho-syndicalism. It was the anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic populism that flourishes in the dry and angry climate of Arizona. Extremist shouters didn't program Loughner, in some mechanistic way, to shoot Gabrielle Giffords. But the Tea Party movement did make it appreciably more likely that a disturbed person like Loughner would react, would be able to react, and would not be prevented from reacting, in the crazy way he did...........
