Tag: Gabrielle Giffords

America ain’t buying it: 72% of adults don’t believe Giffords’ shooting was political

Democrats been huffing and puffing and trying their damnedest to pin the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on some Republican – any Republican – and it just hasn’t worked.

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Bigfoot seems more plausible than the Democrats' spin on Jared Loughner

These must be very discouraging days for those who reside in the Democrat Party. Very discouraging days, indeed.

They’ve been huffing and puffing and trying their damnedest to pin the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on some Republican – any Republican – and it just hasn’t worked. Not even with the eager cheerleaders in the media rooting them on.

Rasmussen has the details:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% of Adults say the shooting in Arizona was the result of political anger in the country. Fifty-eight percent (58%) say instead that it was a random act of violence by an unstable person. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.

Just 28% buy the Democrat spin. About the same percentage that believes in Bigfoot and flying saucers. Coming soon: Democrats claim that E.T. caused the shooting.

Source: Rasmussen

Oops. Ed Schultz interviews Tucson hero, finds out he’s packing heat and willing to use it

We guarantee – absolutely guarantee – that as soon as this interview was over and they cut to commercial, Ed Schultz started screaming in the studio.

We guarantee – absolutely guarantee – that as soon as this interview with Tucson shooting hero Joe Zamudio was over and they cut to commercial, Ed Schultz started screaming in the studio:

“Why didn’t somebody tell me this guy was a freakin’ gun-totin’, First Amendment lovin’, right wing lunatic? You made me look stupid on the air.”

No, Ed, you do that all by yourself.

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin has blood on his hands

We’re absolutely positive that Joe Manchin’s TV ad is what motivated Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords. And we’re even more sincere about it than the lunatic left is that Sarah Palin’s little target symbols caused him to do it.

Remember this Manchin campaign commercial? Candidate (and now Senator) Joe Manchin said “I’ll take on Washington and this administration and get the federal government off of our backs!” Then he picked up his rifle and fired a shot right through Obama’s healthcare bill.

We’re absolutely positive that this is what motivated Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords. And we’re even more sincere about it than the lunatic left is that Sarah Palin’s little target symbols caused him to do it.

Is Sheriff Dupnik is responsible for the Tuscon massacre?

The real problem with Pima County Sheriff Dupnik’s on-going bombast – if you distract everyone by pointing fingers, maybe no one will notice that they should, perhaps, be pointed at you.

We love James Taranto. His Wall Street Journal Best of the Web Today blog is one of our favorites.

He pegged the real problem with Pima County Sheriff Dupnik’s on-going bombast – if you distract everyone by pointing fingers, maybe no one will notice that they should, perhaps, be pointed at you.

“I’d like to make one additional point on Sheriff Dupnik. I think we’re missing the point when we’re talking about his political agenda. This man and this suspect has had previous contact with the sheriff’s office. It looks to me, we don’t have many details on this, but it looks as though he slipped between the cracks. I think what we really need to look into is what happened when he had previous contact with the sheriff’s office with their negligence here. And, I think the sheriff is trying to distract from that question.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQ4q1woO8I

No, James. It doesn’t just look like Loughner slipped through the cracks, he did slip through the cracks.

TheChollaJumps has the specifics of the slippage:

Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation. My sympathies and my heart goes out to her and the rest of Mr. Loughner’s family. This tragedy must be tearing them up inside wondering if they had done the right things in trying to manage Jared’s obvious mental instability.

Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against Mr. Loughner. Perhaps with a felony conviction he would never have been able to lawfully by the Glock 9mm Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.

Hmmmmm. Makes a little too much sense to be ignored, doesn’t it?

H/T: GatewayPundit
Source: The Cholla Jumps

Judgment to Rush: Arizona sheriff blames Limbaugh for Tucson murders

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has made himself judge, jury and sounds as if he’d like to complete the trifecta and become the executioner. But of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, not of Jared Loughner.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has made himself judge, jury and sounds as if he’d like to complete the trifecta and become the executioner. But of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, not of Jared Loughner.

Dupnik announced that the talk show host is “irresponsible” for his vitriolic comments.

ABC News has the Dupnik details:

“The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information,” Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said today.

“[Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences.”

Limbaugh today railed against the media and Dupnik for trying to draw a link between the heated political climate and the shooting rampage, calling the sheriff a “fool.” But Dupnik stood by his assertions.

“The vitriol affects the [unstable] personality that we are talking about,” he said. “You can say, ‘Oh no, it doesn’t,’ but my opinion is that it does.”

Pot, meet kettle: Dupnik seems to be an expert when it comes to vitriol. He decided no investigation was necessary because he knew exactly what motivated Jared Loughner within minutes of the shooting.

At the risk of using a phrase that Dupnik might call vitriolic and irresponsible, one might call his actions a clear case of, “Ready, fire, aim.”

Source: ABC News

Daring to run against Barack Obama’s record is now “violent rhetoric”

In writing about the horrors that occurred in Tucson, his focus was “violent rhetoric” and it wasn’t just any old violent rhetoric that had Kaplan’s liberal knickers in a knot, but the horrible, evil of “the inflammatory rhetoric of McCain/Palin events in 2008” and “the ugly confrontations at congressional town halls in the summer of 2009.”

If you read the bios of all of the “journalists” at the Huffington Post you might believe them all to be brilliant political strategists, what with “Director” of this and “Professor” of that associated with their names. And Marty Kaplan would fit that mold exactly.

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Marty Kaplan is the highly-esteemed Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media & Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. How does he fit all that on a business card?

Why is it then that in writing “The Vitriol in Our National Bloodstream” Kaplan feels justified in making up his own facts?

In writing about the horrors that occurred in Tucson, his focus was “violent rhetoric” and it wasn’t just any old violent rhetoric that had Kaplan’s liberal knickers in a knot, but the horrible, evil of “the inflammatory rhetoric of McCain/Palin events in 2008” and “the ugly confrontations at congressional town halls in the summer of 2009.”

It’s kind of amazing how liberal memories work. Which “McCain/Palin events” is the author referring to? If our memory serves correctly, the only examples of violence during the 2009 town hall meetings attributed to the left, such as the infamous SEIU beating of an African-American vendor.

Going even further down the deluded liberal path, Kaplan finds the tragedy in Tucson the perfect opportunity to score political points against “right-wing anarchism” and the ridiculous individuals who “accord scriptural authority to the Constitution” and don’t believe as the author does that “The Constitution isn’t holy writ; it’s a living document whose text and meaning have evolved through the centuries” which essentially means that people like Kaplan can make it mean anything they want it to mean.

The author also wants this tragedy to be “a teachable moment.” That’s a noble sentiment, but unfortunately, he only wants it to teach something that is not true.

The right, whether speaking of Republicans, Conservatives or Tea Party, has no interest in “tearing down the government,” but merely in limiting it.

That became a crime when, Professor Kaplan?

Source: Huffington Post

The media puts on the Full Alinsky after tragedy in Tucson

Yesterday, as the Tragedy in Tucson unfolded, FOX gave viewers the journalistic basics – who, what, where and when. They left out “why” as it is yet to be determined, but that didn’t stop the other networks from making both assumptions and accusations.

One doesn’t have to look hard to discover why MSNBC and CNN jostle each other for last place in cable news ratings.

Yesterday, as the Tragedy in Tucson unfolded, FOX gave viewers the journalistic basics – who, what, where and when.

They left out “why” as it is yet to be determined, but that didn’t stop the other networks from making both assumptions and accusations. CNN and MSNBC put on the full Alinsky, disgracefully exploiting the shootings to make political hay.

In Rules for Radicals Saul Alinsky said, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it  and polarize it.” So   instead of blaming the actual shooter and his twisted left wing political philosophy, the mainstream media followed Alinksy’s instructions and blamed all their usual suspects: Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the Tea Party.

Liberals, the fraudulent Guardians of Free Speech, are once again making a pitch to silence speech they don’t agree with. Yet they choose to ignore the hateful screed of the liberal Daily KOS, who published, then scrubbed, multiple attacks on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, including bulls-eye targets and expressions of “She is dead to me now.”

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They tossed buckets of blood on Sarah Palin, then pointed their fingers and yelled, “She has blood on her hands!” And they did so without shame, without any sense of hypocrisy.

Six dead, including a child. A dozen injured. Dozens more in pain – the family and friends of the victims.

And all the mainstream media wants to do is exploit it, further fracturing the nation.

After Tucson, it can no longer be said that Obama’s media minions lean left. There is no lean – they are completely, overtly liberal. They’ve discarded the mask.

Yes, after Tucson it’s clear to see why CNN and MSNBC battle each other for last in the ratings, why they are so far back they are invisible in FOX’s rear view mirror.

Small justice, in that.

– Written by Sonny Palermo

Did the Tea Party or Sarah Palin incite Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords?

Sadly, charges are already flying over who is “responsible” for inciting Jared Loughner, 22, to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and a dozen others, six of whom have died.

Sadly, charges are already flying over who is “responsible” for inciting Jared Loughner, 22, to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and a dozen others, six of whom have died.

Liberal websites are quickly accusing Sarah Palin and the Tea Party of creating the environment that set off a crazed lunatic like Loughner. Even old liberal warhorse Jane Fonda has indicted Sarah Palin with absolutely no evidence to support her accusations.

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Jared Loughner's photo from the 2006 Mountain View High School yearbook

However, a quick look at Loughner’s YouTube channel offers no basis for such conclusions. In fact, if anything, it seems to indicate extreme left wing influences.

For example, Loughner’s YouTube channel lists the following books as his favorites.

I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver’s Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.

It’s highly unlikely that Mein Kampf and The Communist Manesfesto are listed among the reading material of very many Tea Party members.

Loughner created and uploaded three remarkably paranoid videos to his YouTube channel. You can see them at the bottom of this story. None of them have anything to do with the Tea Party or Sarah Palin.

That being said, we think you’ll find it instructive to watch the one video Loughner marked as his favorite among the millions of YouTube videos available. It shows a man wearing a smiley face mask walking up to and setting on fire an American flag planted in the desert. Burning the American flag is almost exclusively the domain of liberal protesters. It’s something no Tea Party patriot would ever condone.

Make sure you turn up the audio and listen to the words of the heavy metal music to understand Loughner’s twisted view of the world.

UPDATE: Catie Parker, one of Loughner’s classmates at Mountain View High School, also indicates that he was extremely left wing. Here’s a series of Tweets she left regarding the assassin aggregated into one continuous message:

This is a circus. Good Morning America just called me … it’s loughner just checked my year book … I haven’t seen him since ’07. Then, he was left wing … more left. I haven’t seen him since ’07 though. He became very reclusive … he had a lot of friends until he got alcohol poisoning in ’06, & dropped out of school. Mainly loner very philosophical … As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy … he was a pot head & into rock like Hendrix,The Doors, Anti-Flag. I haven’t seen him in person since ’07 in a sign language class … He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in ’07, asked her a question & he told me she was “stupid & unintelligent”

Here’s is Jared Loughner’s “favorite” video:

Here are the videos Loughner created and uploaded to his YouTube channel:



Of course, they did: NASA told al Jazeera about its Muslim outreach before it told Congress

Imagine that you’re a congressman or even an exalted United States senator. In your mind, you’re one of the most important people in the world. Now imagine how you’d feel when you find out that al Jazeera TV was told about NASA’s Muslim outreach before you were.

Imagine that you’re a congressman or even an exalted United States senator. In your mind, you’re one of the most important people in the world. Now imagine how you’d feel when you find out that al Jazeera TV was told about NASA’s Muslim outreach before you were.

Uh-oh. The Washington Examiner has the surprising details of the surprised congressmen:

Rep. Pete Olson, the ranking Republican on the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, got a call from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on June 28, the day the White House released its new long-term plan for the space program. “He ran down some of the things from the president’s new space policy, and mentioned outreach to Muslims,” Olson recalls. “That stunned me. I didn’t believe it.”

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Democrat who chairs the subcommittee (and is also married to astronaut Mark Kelly), got a briefing from Bolden the same day, according to a spokesman.

As it happens, Bolden’s calls to Giffords and Olson came several days after Bolden discussed the Muslim initiative with Al Jazeera. According to a NASA spokesman, Bolden sat down with Al Jazeera’s Imran Garda on June 17, during a stop in Doha, Qatar. Bolden’s Mideast trip, which was timed to mark the first anniversary of President Obama’s June 2009 Muslim outreach speech, was devoted to pursuing “a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.”

Make no mistake. Bolden’s interview with Al Jazeera interview aired on June 30, after Bolden briefed members of Congress. But it was recorded on June 17, before they were briefed.

Look for Congress to issue a fatwa on Charles Bolden.

Source: Washington Examiner

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