This is a classical whisper campaign to discredit the right. (Payed for with your tax dollars)
see also ms google for...
judge roll, giffords, madsen, etc.
Blood Libel!
Giffords is the only victim who counts, apparently, since the others don’t even get their names mentioned. Maybe it’s inconvenient to the Left to note how many of the murdered were themselves Republican or conservative in orientation, and that the killer was more of an anarcho-socialist Satan worshipper than anything else. That doesn’t fit their script. The Right MUST be to blame.
Hmmm.
A nutcase whom his friends call a radical leftist pothead goes berserk and shoots a bunch of people, and the left blames on Sarah Palin and the GOP.
I guess we really don’t need any further evidence regarding who is responsible for the breakdown of discourse.
I believe their prophet said something along the lines, “Get out there and get in their faces.”
Careful whose face you get into, libs. Be very, very careful.
That's because there is no such evidence.
However there's plenty of evidence of the leftists not only creating a "toxic political environment" with their acerbic speech, but also committing acts of violence both historically (KKK) and recently.
These leftist ideologues are cut from the same cloth as European Socialists, Soviets, Nazis and Maoists.
Other examples of violent leftists, Black Panthers, Union thugs, skinheads, "anarchists" and environmental terrorists.
The shooter has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His actions would seem to have as much to do with partisan politics as the Lizzy Borden ax murders.
A Conservative Federal judge was killed, no?
Go to Hell, NPR.
Civil Discourse is just a ruse to allow the democrats to control opposition speech.
Visit any democrat forum...any forum...lets just see the civil discourse they express. It was always far worse than anything the GOP did or said.
OK, I blame Dems for Occupy, all of the deaths at Occupy, all of the robberies, assaults, and rapes at Occupy, all of the damage done to local businesses due to Occupy, and all of the damage and expense due to Occupy.
Giffords is still alive. Occupy killed people, hurt people, and caused much damage.
You win, Dems!
From what I recall the guy was certifiably insane, and had communist leanings if anything. He hated Giffords for voting against some Obama program.
Typifies why I wouldn’t wipe my backside with the New York Times.
This type of journalism was considered the lowest form of journalism during much of the 20th century. Tying opponents to tragedies is “Reichstag Fire” journalism and nothing more than propaganda that has the added stain of intending to foment hate and possibly violence against those holding opposing views. Interestingly, it is not unusual to see it funded by public or state dollars because such hate often thrives knowing it has the support and force of the state behind it. It is a method of crushing dissent and it should be illuminated for what it is.
What does one do in the face of this stuff? How can someone politely correct someone so hateful?
All the more reason to abolish this uncivil NPR and its biased jackassed employees and watch them try to get real jobs, productive jobs for once.
Ms. Giffords was not then nor is now looking out for Arizona...just her 'funding' base.
Didn’t the Obama campaign set up a ‘war room’ in Iowa to ‘attack’ Republican front runner Mitt Romney? I guess toxic is relative.
Wasn’t the guy who shot her a Leftist nutbar?
I’m not a homosexual, pedophile or drug addict so I don’t have a clue what NPR is talking about. “Civil discourse” had nothing to do with this shooting. Giffords was shot by a college kid whose elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top.
With no sense of irony -
NPR launches biased slime attack -
Concerning incivil discourse.
Leftards to the core.
Those of us in the reality-based community know that the “Tucson shooting” occurred not because of a lack of civil discourse, but because a lone nut was obsessed with Giffords.
I know that the true reason for the shooting precludes anyone from exploiting the tragedy for ideological gain, but reality is reality. Perhaps the lesson of the tragedy is that we need better community mental health services.
It would be better for liberals and others to focus on such a cause, rather than saddling us with even more politically-correct nonsense and calls for government control.
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