[Servant of the Cross]

To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it? … Glenn Harland Reynolds; (WSJ: 1/10/11)

[Diogenesis]

Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter
One veteran Democratic operative: “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers”
“Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City
bombing on the militia and anti-government people."

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Breaking: Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter
Democrats plotted to blame the tea party patriots for yesterday’s slaugher in Arizona.
A democratic operative admitted this to The Politico."

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More recently, in a series of videos he posted on YouTube,
Mr. Loughner, now 22 years old, rages against the government
and the constitution and refers to himself as a "terrorist."

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Click here for more info

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"Is Daily Kos involved in Arizona Murders?"

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"Jared Lee Loughner Burning the American Flag"

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Loughner...... Confirmed Leftist by Friend on Twitter"

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DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization"

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Friend of Loughner Confirms: He is a Liberal
Caitie Parker, a woman who went to high school and
knew Loughner during college, confirmed that his politics were left wing"

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The Last Honest Liberal-Caitie Parker (Friend of AZ Shooter)
"As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal.
& oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy."

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Leaked govt memo: Shooter may be linked to hate group
The group is "anti government, anti immigration,
anti ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government),
anti Semitic"

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Arizona Shootings: 'It Was a Colossal Failure of Journalism'
There is no evidence that Loughner was a Sarah Palin fan.
There is no evidence that he was associated with the Tea Party
"He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts,"
said one student who had attended a pre-algebra class... with Loughner.
In mid-December, Loughner wrote on his MySpace page,
"I don't feel good: I'm ready to kill a police officer!"
Loughner listed Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto
among his favorite books..."

[hennie pennie]

So...... has it really come to the point that the entire LEFTIST establishment wants to allow an obviously diagnosable paranoid schizophrenic to determine the nature of all future political discourse in this country?

These people are nuts!! -- but NOT stark raving mad nuts like mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner who apparently had a crush on Gabby Giffords whom he was insanely fixated & psychotically obsessed upon for three years.

Just what in God's name does Governor Palin or Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Newt Gingrich or ANY conservative have to do with the broken brain of this pathetic 22 year old?????

AND why did that local sheriff who is blaming political discourse for this mass murder permit such a severely sick individual to purchase a gun and stalk the Congresswoman who'd recently gotten married to a NASA astronaut?

Isn't local LE culpable for not merely ignoring this obvious psycho, much less permitting him to purchase the Glock?????

[FlingWingFlyer]

There needs to be an investigation of each “Laughner” TEA Party page that went up on FB and MySpace as soon as Loughner’s name was released. The names of these lying, leftwing maggots should be available to everyone for any future legal actions.

[dawn53]

Good article...total craziness to attribute this guy’s acts to anything other than “insanity.” My caution would be there are those on the right that, in response, try to link the guy to left wing groups. Linkage of any sort, considering the guy’s unintelligible rants on the internet, is wrong.

Playing defense against the MSM attacks on the right is one thing, defining blame to the left for this guy’s actions is another. It’s a fine line, but we need to walk it.

What absolutely fries me is when someone tries to use a tragedy to make political hay. If down the road it comes out that the person was politically or religiously motivated, so be it. But in the midst of the tragedy, slinging mud is wrong. Sympathy toward the victims and their families should be where our minds and hearts are focused.

[arthurus]

It will work so long as Big Media keeps up the drumbeat- the accusations of Palin and Tea Party people without acknowledging any contrary information. Most folks won’t really believe it but they will have a new queasiness about conservatives that they know. They will say that yes, the conservatives’ ideas are right but aren’t they just a little violent? and we need to stay away from that. And they won’t vote easily for conservative candidates.

[Logic n' Reason]

I don't mean to differ with the sacred "National Review", but the "blame game" against the gun totin', christian soldierin', fist raisin' right wing is working very well indeed....and it has not yet reached anywhere near full crecendo!

If the victim lives and is capable of being in public, just wait till the next election!

If you thought James Brady was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet!

And tho it is only a rumor...I hear that in private, the little tin god is dancing with glee over the shooting!

What was the quote??? "Never let a tragedy go to waste."

He (and the entire left wing) surely won't!

And....OBTW: I've not heard yet a peep from the "Momma Grizzly"!!

Just sayin'.....

[cva66snipe]

The louder the left screams and tries to play a blame game the more credibility they loose. Only one person caused this and that is the shooter himself. If Sheriff Dumbkins shuts his unprofessional irrational arrogant opipnated mouth maybe there will be a conviction. The DEMs actions are making a conviction unlikely in this case. By making this a political matter rather than one of sole personal responsibility of the shooter the Democratic Party shows this nation their inability to be serious disciplined leadership of sound mind. Their hysterical responses lacking common sense will do them far more long term political damage than any other issue. So go ahead DEMs scream it. The seats lost will be your own.

[Carley]

The dipstick sheriff made it so much easier to discredit the big lie. Not that those scummy left wing pols won’t try to blame Sarah and the tea party.

[kaylar]

Americans have become skeptical of cynical efforts to stigmatize entire ideologies based only on the actions of lone, clearly deranged criminals. That’s especially true where, as here, there’s no real evidence that the suspect actually subscribed to any coherent political creed.

Too sanguine by half! Many of my nonpolitical, "social" interests seem to attract people towards the left end of the political spectrum (typically THEY think they're moderates) and apolitical people who are completely uninformed (ie they parrot whatever the media tells them is The Truth). On those boards, it's all Water is wet. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Jared Lee Loughner was inspired by Sarah Palin's rhetoric and is probably a teabagger. The desert is full of sand.

The UK media in the main is blaming SP and the TEA Party, too. :-(

But in the main, what truly matters is that WE let TPTB know we will NOT be made to sit down, shut up, vote for whom we're told, and pay our taxes, which is precisely how "political figures" are already trying to use this heinous crime.

[radioone]

“Rush coming on today and they’re fearful”. They should be, he’s had all weekend to “stew” on all the crap that was put out. Can’t listen to him on radio.....wabc.com streams his show.

[Scotswife]

predictably - my liberal “friends” are using this occasion to arrogantly request that we “all” (meaning - conservatives) take this opportunity to re-examine our “rhetoric”

As if I’m going to let some nutcase stifle my freedom to my own opinion.

I’ve seen this happen before, but it seems to be even more bizarre with this case.

Thoroughly disgusting.

[what's up]

Howard Fineman and Howard Kurtz – neither of them conservatives – have called a halt to “opening rhetorical fire,” as Kurtz put it, in the wake of such attacks.

That's because they know it's going to backfire (no pun intended) on the Dems.