Posted on 01/13/2011 6:55:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik took time from gathering the facts about the Tucson, Ariz., shooting to denounce the "vitriolic rhetoric" that he claims played a role in the carnage. He insisted, without any evidence, that Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' support for ObamaCare helped trigger the shooter's wrath, resulting in six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Giffords, who was shot point-blank in the head.
"I think it's time as a country," said Dupnik, "that we ... do a little soul-searching, because I think it's the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business, and what we see on TV and how our youngsters are being raised, that this has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in, and I think it's time that we do the soul-searching."
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" requiring "soul-searching" include Dupnik's pronouncements that the popular Arizona immigration law is "stupid" and "disgusting" and "racist"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include former President Jimmy Carter's ugly assertion that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American"?
Would it include former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean's description of the contest between Democrats and Republicans as "a struggle between good and evil -- and we're the good"?
Would it include Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's characterization of then-President George W. Bush as "a loser and a liar"?
Would it include Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow's denunciation of President Bush as "dangerously incompetent"?
Would it include the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy's assertion that the Bush administration fabricated a case for war in Iraq, or, as Kennedy put it, "week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel's referring to Bush as "our Bull Connor," the infamous Southern lawman who, in the 1960s, turned police dogs and water hoses on black civil rights protesters?
Would it include the declaration by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart -- a man astonishingly described as a modern Edward R. Murrow -- that former President Harry Truman was "a war criminal"?
Would it include then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's declaration made at a fundraiser that "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"?
Would it include the false accusation that the N-word was yelled at black congressmen as they walked across the Capitol grounds, a still unproven charge stated as fact numerous times by the "mainstream" media?
Would it include Hillary Clinton's telling a black audience that the then-Republican majority Congress was "run like a plantation"?
Would it include Democratic Sen. John Kerry's demonstrably false claim that he lost the 2004 presidential election because Ohio was "stolen"?
Would it include the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, long before meeting with the FCC and demanding broadcasting decency standards, called the then mayor of New York a "nigger whore"?
Would it include the chairwoman of the California chapter of NOW who, after the female Republican gubernatorial candidate was called a "whore," said that yes, "Meg Whitman could be described as 'a political whore'"?
Would it include then-Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., who attacked a black political opponent: "He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black. I said that"?
Would it include the way then-President Bill Clinton, according to aide Dick Morris, described his 1996 Republican opponent: "Bob Dole is not a nice man. Bob Dole is evil. The things he wants to do to children are evil. The things he wants to do to poor people and old people and sick people are evil. Let's get that straight"?
Would it include the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations who, in explaining why Ronald Reagan had so few entries, said, "I'm not going to disguise the fact that I despise Ronald Reagan"?
Would it include the British director who made an assassination-of-President-Bush "documentary" called "Death of a President"? Or the British columnist who reviewed it and said, "You will never, ever be able to overestimate the degree to which the British people loathe George Bush. It will be a free round of drinks in every pub for the person who plays the assassin"?
Would it include the unhinged MSNBC host Ed Schultz, who, days before the Tucson shooting, said: "This is an ideological war. ... I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o'clock because I know what they're up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. ... They want to destroy the American dream, concentrate the wealth to the top and control minorities"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include ... oh, never mind.
Excellent article Larry.
Sheriff Depends really needs to be retired. Seriously.
SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL
Tune: "Simply Irresistible"
They say we're vitriolical
And deeply diabolical
They say that we're so horrible
Our hate speech is deplorable
See them rant, see them rage
Anger fills every page
But the hate they detect
Is a trait they project
They like to condemn the Right
But now I find they're
Simply hypocritical
Simply hypocritical
They say when we're rhetorical
It can't be metaphorical
The language must be literal
Unless it's by a liberal
They can wish Bush would die
Or hang Palin on high
With no sin of their own
They can cast the first stone
They like to condemn the Right
But now I find they're
Simply hypocritical
Simply hypocritical
(Simply hypocritical) They're so pure, there's no imagery that's violent
(Simply hypocritical) They're so sure there's no hatred of their own
It's unbelievable, the story that they spread
They say we're guilty, that the blood is on our head
But Beck and Limbaugh now, they're wishing they were dead
They like to fight the Right
Now I find they're
Simply hypocritical
They're so pure, there's no imagery that's violent
(Simply hypocritical) They're so sure there's no hatred of their own
Hypocrisy on overkill
The word is pharisaical
The evidence is plentiful
Their posturing is Pittiful
See them rant, see them rage
Anger fills every page
But the hate they detect
Is a trait they project
They like to condemn the Right
But now I find they're
Simply hypocritical
They're so pure, there's no imagery that's violent
(Simply hypocritical) They're so sure there's no hatred of their own
(Simply hypocritical) They're so pure, there's no imagery that's violent
(Simply hypocritical) They're so sure there's no hatred of their own
Simply hypocritical
As for this Dupnik character, his fifteen minutes of fame have long ago expired.
He’s out trying to do a CYA
because he and his department are fully responsible for this guy being on the street and able to purchase a handgun.
On thread titled “The Arizona Clouseau”, I responded to some of Sheriff Dipstick’s remarks.
See my post #17 & see what any of you can add.
The whole thing has backfired on Democrats hasn't it?
It's just beginning to dawn on them that they and their ideas were summarily rejected in the recent election, and apparently, it is driving them crazy.
This morning on ABC (!!!!wonder of wonders!!) it was announced that there are 51 pages of incidents at the colleges where Jared attended, which will finally be released. Rightly so, since this information is public per Arizona las.
There were at least 9 other ‘contacts’ between LEO’s & Jared, which I eagerly await to hear about when released.
This Sheriff will go down in history as one of the biggest jerks & enablers of a tragedy ever to be recorded, IMO.
He is well past his usefulness to Tucson/Pima County citizens. Recall him & vote in someone who cares about your safety.
This tragedy was another instance of “death by PC”.
Tune into any Liberal talk radio show and that is exactly what you here - Left-Wing Vitriolic Rhetoric
Did Charles Whitman listen to Beck, Levin, Savage, Limbaugh, et. al.?
Fifteen minutes of fame punctuating a lifetime of idiocy.
Put a sock in it, Dupenut!
>>His own deputies paid repeated visits to the Loughner home. >> The killer had made previous death threats, and Dupnik knew about them---he admitted it to Fox News' Megyn Kelly. >> The shooter's classmates and teachers were terrified of him. >> He was throwing off lone-gunman vibes everywhere he went. >> And yet he was able to buy a gun and ammunition.
Dupnik is the plusperfect example of a sap-happy liberal who ignores our laws to advance his cockamamie lefty agenda.
People Like Ohaha and Dupnik are a clear threat to US national security......they have no compunction about undermining our constitutional freedoms.
THE STORY THIS FAR Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was beatified as a courageous law enforcement officer-----personally congratulated by our president----- b/c Dupnik blamed Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party for the Tuscon shootings.
Now it's been revealed the shooter had made previous death threats that were reported to DUPNIK's office----BUT DUPNIK DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. News reports say at least five other calls about Loughner were made to Pima County L/E BEFORE the shootings.
Was there any pressure not to prosecute? What personal/political relationship does Pima County Sheriff Dupnik have with the suspect’s mother? Loughner’s mother works for the Pima County Board of Supervisors.
Wadda ya wanna bet-----any day now Ohaha will be eating his words.
Dupnik and is now under investigation by Internal Affairs. The FBI needs to nail him, as well.
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Stupenik is a brainless old hack.
Actually I wasn’t at all surprised to read today in one of the New York newspapers (I believe it was the Daily News)that Jared Loughner was described by his jailers as, “...sitting in his cell with this weird “Smirk” on his face, “Creeping” them out...”. They can’t understand why, but I believe I have the answer.
I Blame the Media, period. all of it. Left or Right, top or bottom, whatever. Remember that guy from New York? Andy Warhol? Good old Mr. Warhol said it best when he said “In the future everyone will have 15 Minutes of Fame”. Well Mr. Loughner got it, all right. At a terrible cost but got it he has. He’s famous now, everyone knows him. Like Oswald, Like “Squeaky” Fromme, Mark David Chapman, and so many others.
The Media has devolved into both a useless propaganda tool (news wise) and an entertainment instrument coming dangerously close to being on line Porn.
Anyway that’s my rant for the day ...
without any evidence.It’s a liberal progressive thing.
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