Posted on 01/10/2011 6:04:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Just hours after Saturday’s tragic shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona, numerous news sources on the left from CNN to the Huffington Post were casting blame upon Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, and Second Amendment supporters. Hoping the shooter had right-leaning views, the Left immediately started portraying Jared Lee Loughner as a right wing nut. Even as information trickled in revealing Loughner had some left-leaning political views, the left ignored it and ran with their own spin, labeling him a product of the right.
Loughner is far from a right winger. A former high school classmate of Loughner’s described him as “…left wing, quite liberal...a pot head and into rock, like Hendrix, The Doors, Anti-Flag.” Loughner’s list of favorite books on his MySpace page include The Communist Manifesto, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Two YouTube videos he posted include numerous rants about the government and mind control, and reveal he does not believe in God. In one video he states, “No! I won’t trust in God!” Another of his 'favorite' videos shows a masked man burning the American flag.
Ignoring these facts about his political persuasions, the Left instead has tried to turn the focus of the shooting to blaming the right and Sarah Palin, trotting out a map Palin created last year “targeting” incumbent Congressional candidates. This is outrageous. There is no comparison whatsoever between “targeting” members of Congress for defeat in elections and attempting to murder them. Right-leaning politicians and activists do not approve of murder. There is also no indication Loughner was inspired by Palin’s map, considering his political leanings come from the anarcho-left.
In order to justify that desperate stretch, the left ignores the fact that one of their own, defeated Arizona Democrat Congressman Harry Mitchell, ran a campaign ad against JD Hayworth in 2006 featuring Hayworth in the crosshairs of a rifle.
The Democrat Sheriff of Pima County, Clarence Dupnik, a partisan who has long fought with conservatives over enforcing illegal immigration laws, implied Saturday that the actions of Loughner were akin to Arizona’s stance on SB 1070 and illegal immigration. "We have become the capital, the mecca for prejudice and bigotry," Dupnik told reporters. He also said some of the anti-government sentiments in the media may have influenced Loughner.
The Left embraced Dupnik’s politically motivated smear of right-leaning viewpoints, using it to associate Loughner’s shootings with Tea Party activism. The liberal blog Blue Wave News posted an article entitled, “Tea Party Rhetoric: Nothing better than a dead liberal,” using one lone woman’s inappropriate remarks on video to justify lumping the entire Tea Party movement in with Loughner’s shootings. In actuality, Loughner has little in common with the Tea Party. His dislike of the American flag, his choice of The Communist Manifesto as a favorite book and his anarchist ramblings all point to someone on the other side of the political spectrum. The Tea Party’s biggest issues have been government spending and Obamacare, and Giffords was regularly protested by Tea Parties for her support of Obamacare. There is zero evidence that Loughner had any concern about those issues.
The left is using the shootings to call for stricter gun control laws, placing blame on Arizona’s strong pro-Second Amendment laws for the shootings. At this point, it is not fully confirmed whether Loughner broke any gun laws, so it is premature to assume that stricter gun laws would have stopped him. He has a history of arrests and convictions for various criminal activities, and was removed from community college for disruptions. There is no reason to believe he would have respected gun laws.
Most likely the real story is that Loughner is a seriously disturbed individual who fits the profile of a psychopath and was motivated by a number of factors, none of them being conservative ideology. Did the values pushed by the left of moral relativism, self-indulgence promoting acceptance of his imbibing of illicit drugs, and “tolerance” of hate-filled totalitarian books like The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf while dismissing the teachings of the Bible contribute to Loughner’s delusions? Perhaps.
Loughner is behind bars, so we may find out someday. Meanwhile, as more evidence comes out revealing Loughner has ties to the left, not the right, expect the left to suddenly blame his actions on mental illness.
I just happened to see “Good Morning America” with their crew tut-tutting about “political vitriol” and how it played a part in this shooting.
What did they show? Sarah Palin, Tea Party Protests, and some people arguing in front of the Capital Building. The propoganda is coming fast and furious now.
Had the today show on for about 3 mintues this morning long enough to hear Matt Liar talk about the Palin map. These guys are so predicitable. I immediatly changed the channel.
You know, if Loughner is capable of any degree of rationality, he’s going to figure out pretty quick that saying “Sarah Palin made me do this” is going to help improve his eventual outcome. This is a Reichstag Fire moment, and the defendant is going to be given a script.
No matter how much information trickles out about the leftist leanings of the killer, all the American public heard was the first round of “information” that he was a conservative, tea-party, Palin-loving wacko.
The record will not be corrected in their minds.
We’ve got to get the truth out DESPITE the media. THAT is the real challenge of the next 5 years.
Watch for Obama and his crew to use this to further control guns and the internet.
Be not surprised...
this is what we always see from the
“agenda above all”, no moral absolutes crowd.
We just need to point it out, LOUDLY.
The left has a bunch of agenda items queued up,
each just waiting for the right event to use to
advance their control agenda.
I couldn't believe it and thank Heavens I haven't seen the interview repeated.
If anything, this monster, for lack of a better term, was a lefty through and through. He totted around the Communist manifesto, an utterly left-wing book that every right-winger, from fascists to true conservatives, hate with a passion. He was a rascist, which is definitely not a conservative or even a right wing (not counting fascists) philosophy. This man was mental, not a political ideologue who sought to cut down the opposition. True, this man did not like Giffords, but, that doesn’t mean he was a right-wing radical.
I think Microsoft and Bill Gates are responsible, whenever I right click with my mouse a menu appears with the word “reload”.
Loughner Bible was Communist Manifesto - Just Like Many of Obama Staff and Advisors
And the problem is the republicans must all be just plain dumb. All they have to do is carry around with them the Kos page with the target on Giffords and bring it out everytime the interviewer mentions the tea party and Palin’s “gun sites”. And they need to have the “picture” of the surveyor “gun sites”. But, they’re just too damned dumb to even defend their own positions much less the Tea Party. Then again, they want the Tea Party and Palin to be blamed. WE NEED A THIRD PARTY NOW!
The left is mad because they lost in the last election. They hate normal people and want to blame them for all their problems.
This murder was caused by an unbalanced individual choosing to commit violence.
I would bet that the DOJ will exploit the hell out of this. The obama media is already crowing about the charges against a federal employee. This kid will be treated much more harshly than Tim McVeigh, while Major Nidal is still in limbo about his mental competance to stand trial.
Just my prediction.
We already have 39 “third parties”. That isn’t enough?
Why do you watch the lame stream media channel?
Fox and Friends, and then a little while go on America’s Newsroom, they showed the map also. But they also showed the Target map of the democrats, I bet they didn’t show that on on the today show
A third party? No thanks
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