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Meet Eric Fuller: The Left finds a new icon.
Human Events ^ | January 14, 2011 | John Hayward

Posted on 01/15/2011 8:26:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He’s one of the people injured in Jared Loughner’s shooting rampage, taking rounds in the knee and back. He’s also a vicious bigot, and because he’s elderly and a military veteran, the Left is going to fall in love with him.

Fuller gave an interview with the Democracy NOW radio show, in which he said of the Tucson shootings: “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle, and the rest got their first target.” Presumably he’s not talking about Judge John Roll.

“Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled,” Fuller ranted on, “senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even 9-year-old girls.” I didn’t realize the Second Amendment called for all those things. They must be lurking in one of the penumbras or emanations.

And John Boehner’s part of Murder, Incorporated now? Even by the frothy standards of liberal hatemongering, that’s quite a stretch. At least the fevered minds of the Left can say that Palin, Beck, and Angle are feisty and confrontational. Boehner apparently inspired a murderous rampage by gently taking that gavel from Nancy Pelosi’s hands.

Fuller’s emergence as a beeping smoke detector amid the right-wing haze of the “Climate of Hate” has already drawn praise from Soros operative Eric Bohlert, who issued a Twitter taunt to Michelle Malkin and Andrew Breitbart: “Countdown to smearing wounded veteran from Tucson massacre begins… now.” Gosh, I hope Michelle and Andrew don’t mind if I go first.

Let me make this nice and clear for simple minds: getting shot does not confer either insight or sainthood, and neither does service in the military. I already know people like Bohlert understand the latter, since I don’t think you’ll see a “McCain-Palin” bumper sticker on his car. Every decent American should run like the wind from the creepy notion that certain people are completely above criticism, even when they question the very humanity of others.

Honorable military service is a strong point on any resume… but the military doesn’t stand for suppressing dissent through bloody slander. A lot of the people who think Eric Fuller’s military service make him impossible to disagree with usually have a much more… nuanced view of veterans, and their red-faced insistence on perfect virtue for their icons of the moment is very temporary. Ask Cindy Sheehan to read you the expiration date on her Absolute Moral Authority card.

Anyone who would go on the air to accuse Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sharron Angle, or John Boehner of having anything to do with Jared Loughner’s actions is a disgrace. Nothing they did earlier in life changes that, and their deeds earlier in life are not erased by their current willingness to become part of the most disgusting political narrative of the new century. It’s all part of the concept of free will, which implies the ability to choose badly, and be held accountable for it… no matter who you are. Despite the urging of fringe characters like Bohlert, the mainstream media might back away from Fuller because he’s such an obvious nut. Then again, certain networks might be unable to resist the temptation to lean forward.


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To: 2ndDivisionVet
he’s elderly

At 63? LOL! Not these days.

41 posted on 01/16/2011 5:34:10 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: NoLibZone
*** As was Charles Joseph Whitman, the Austin University Sniper. Being a Vet is no guaranteed license for sanity or truth. ***

Whitman is a tad different case. During his autopsy they found a Brain Tumor. And depending where it is it can affect your thinking (sanity). Whitman's Brain Tumor 'likely' made him go off.

I suggested on a thread yesterday that Jared Loughner should have a PET Scan done. His lawyer should demand one to see if he has one.

(no excuse but could explain a lot).

42 posted on 01/16/2011 6:06:48 AM PST by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: machogirl

Wasn’t he a deranged before the shooting?


43 posted on 01/16/2011 6:41:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: piasa

Ahhh, thanks for clearing that up for me. Yes I see now.


44 posted on 01/16/2011 6:43:51 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amen


45 posted on 01/16/2011 8:01:46 AM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think that he was a little unhinged. (passionate for those libs)


46 posted on 01/16/2011 9:05:49 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eric Fuller is another pansy liberal metrosexual!


47 posted on 01/16/2011 11:46:51 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tim McVeigh, too.


48 posted on 01/16/2011 7:51:06 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Condor51

Actually, it would be an excuse.

If it’s true Loughner was delusional (and if he wasn’t he spent the better part of three years putting on a very good act) he really wasn’t responsible for what he did.


49 posted on 01/16/2011 8:10:30 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: BenLurkin

The guy has no shoelaces.


50 posted on 01/16/2011 8:36:04 PM PST by Mike Darancette (The heresy of heresies was common sense - Orwell)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2657562/posts


51 posted on 01/17/2011 8:48:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fuller has two interviews here. The first one varies from the second one in detail. Notice Fuller is really starting to get in his stride with the second one and starts changing his story.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=130244&catid=373

I hope the Tea Party guy presses his complaint and his group watches this poser. He isn’t wired too tight and he has a history. He will be back in action and after them.


52 posted on 01/17/2011 10:38:58 PM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (BOYCOTT NEVADA...!!!!)
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To: BlessingsofLiberty

Accomplice?


53 posted on 01/17/2011 10:49:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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