Left Lashes Out Recklessly To Smear Its Foes

IBD Editorials ^ | January 12, 2011 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[Kaslin]

The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the "climate of hate" created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, ObamaCare opponents and sundry other liberal betes noires.

The verdict: Rarely in American political discourse has there been a charge so reckless, so scurrilous and so unsupported by evidence.

As killers go, Jared Loughner is not reticent. Yet among all his writings, postings, videos and other ravings — and in all the testimony from all the people who knew him — there is not a single reference to any of these supposed accessories to murder.

Not only is there no evidence that Loughner was impelled to violence by any of those upon whom Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times, the Tucson sheriff and other rabid partisans are fixated. There is no evidence that he was responding to anything, political or otherwise, outside of his own head.

A climate of hate? This man lived within his very own private climate. "His thoughts were unrelated to anything in our world," said the teacher of Loughner's philosophy class at Pima Community College. "He was very disconnected from reality," said classmate Lydian Ali. "You know how it is when you talk to someone who's mentally ill and they're just not there?" said neighbor Jason Johnson. "It was like he was in his own world."

[Kharis13]

“You know how it is when you talk to someone who's mentally ill and they're just not there?” said neighbor Jason Johnson. “It was like he was in his own world.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

[treetopsandroofs]

Just something to the effect that the words she used were considered to be anti-semitic, so yes. Got disgusted when I started seeing MSNBC/Weather cheering for Hussein instead of delivering the weather. Now they’re his hit team.