Posted on 01/17/2011 12:03:46 PM PST by pissant
The Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people has been center stage in the news for a week now. That is understandable. What is truly bizarre is how people with no known connection to the shooting living thousands of miles from Arizona became the focus of the news coverage.
The tea-party movement and talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are being asked by prominent pundits and Democrat leaders to "tone down the rhetoric" – when the shooter had no involvement whatsoever in conservative politics, grass-roots or otherwise.
The shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, has a history of bizarre behavior, but according to statements by friends and former school classmates, he did not listen to talk radio, watch Fox News or engage in political activity on the left or the right. Although described by friends as left-wing in his high school years, he lived in his own world, not the world of conventional liberal or conservative politics. Yet, somehow, according to our most visible pundits, the American political culture is deemed to have "inspired" his violent acts.
This is premium-quality hogwash. It is also a calculated and deliberate slander on Arizona and America, intended to intimidate and silence the tea-party movement and conservatives generally.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I’m glad Tom has spoken up. There has been a dearth of politicians willing to speak up and defend conservatives on this.
I’m bummed he didn’t win the CO governorship. He’d raise bloody hell with the federal socialists.
Meanwhile, in related news, the Democrat Party has blamed Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Sarah Palin for the attack on Pearl Harbor.....
The Dems want the rhetoric toned down because it is successfully turning the American public against Obama and his regime.
We need to increase the rhetoric, not decrease it. The right is winning, and so we need to keep on doing what turns more of America against him.
America does not want Obama care.It needs to be repealed. And Obama wants us to tone down the rhetoric? EFF HIM !
I like him a lot. I’m hoping he tries again, or something else opens up. If nothing else, he can edge out Gingrich as our philosopher-pundit. He is too valuable to be on the side-lines.
If Coloradans don’t want him, he needs to find a better quality electorate.
The “dearth” of politicans who speak up to the Left is led by the senior Senator - Juan McCain. Thanks Sarah, for assuring his re-election.
I sure wish Fox would trade him for that finger in the wind Newtster. But they won’t. Tanc is too conservative.
I thought I just read that a picture of George Bush would set this moron off.? Oh wait that would mean he hates Republicans ... therefore he did not engage in political activity. Hating a Republican is natural human behavior.
Yep. So is listing the communist manifesto as your favorite book. Typical apolitical 20 something
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