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Veterans Demand an Apology From Arizona Rep. Linda Lopez
bigjournalism.com ^ | 1/09/11 | Mr. Wolf

Posted on 01/09/2011 12:35:33 PM PST by American Dream 246

Yesterday was a HORRIBLE day.

We’ve seen an obviously unstable and deranged individual, Jared Loughner, shoot and kill innocents; we’ve seen a US Congresswoman declared dead, then not-dead, and we vets have been accused of being the shooter by none other than a state Congresswoman from Arizona.

While listening and watching all of the activity and coverage of this horrific event, one thing has become even more clear- the MFM has come unglued on the Right, on Veterans, and on grass roots organizations. This vitriol has GOT to stop, in both directions. But blaming Veterans just because it involved a gun is over the top. Especially for someone who should know better than to spread rumors.

The topper statement is from State Congressional Representative Linda Lopez, who is about as far-Left as you can get. Not that that’s a particular issue, but, given her next statement, we’ve got a HUGE problem …

”the shooter is likely, from what I’ve heard, an Afghan vet..”

During an interview with Shep Smith (please, do NOT get me started on him) she made these statements- you can hear them about 5 minutes into this interview:

Ms Lopez, on behalf of ALL veterans, and especially the Afghanistan veterans you have repeatedly defaced, I would like to ask this-

WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY

Your demented, irrational view of veterans shows in this despicable statement. You have, as most do on the extreme Left and within the MFM, caused irreparable damage to veterans everywhere- not just those in Arizona. You do a complete disservice to us, to your country, and to your state by repeatedly asserting that there was a likelyhood he was an Afghanistan veteran.

Granted, in the heat of the moment, things can be said that are ‘caustic’, but this goes beyond anything that was said all day (EXCEPT that Rep. Giffords was ‘dead’) and does a greater disservice to your party.

If you are not willing to issue a retraction, and apology, then I am asking those in Arizona to look at censuring and/or recalling someone who would put forth such discpicable accusations without cause nor merit. What caused you to even think that this person was associated in any way with the military?

He had a gun?

He was male?

He was WHITE?

Loughner was turned down by the Army (as stated by both CNN and to posted by Stars and Stripes) for ‘instability issues’. Just because someone used a gun in a despicable act, you want to throw it on the ‘veterans as victims’ pile.

What if one of Breitbart’s contributors had posted that they thought that, since a white Congresswoman was attacked, that the shooter was likely Hispanic/Latino, or Black? Who’s head would be rolling in the gutter then? The shrieking would go on for months…

All of you Brietbart readers, please feel free to contact Congresswoman Lopez at the following:

Lopez and napolitano

Linda Lopez House of Representatives 1700 W. Washington, Room 321 Phoenix, AZ 85007

Fax Number: (602) 417-3029

Phone Number: (602) 926-4089 or 1-800-352-8404

Email: llopez@azleg.state.az.us

Visit Linda’s State Legislature web page

Ms Lopez, I hope you have the backbone to do the right thing. But, I’m not holding my breath.

There certainly will be more to come on this.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; giffords; lindalopez; lopez; obama; palin
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1 posted on 01/09/2011 12:35:37 PM PST by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246
During an interview with Shep Smith (please, do NOT get me started on him)

Okay. Not to get you started on Shemp, but did you see him cherry-picking frame shots of Loughers video trying to portray him as anti-immigrant but not showing the final frame where Lougher says, "I don't trust in God!"?

2 posted on 01/09/2011 12:43:03 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: American Dream 246

I called her office yesterday afternoon after hearing about her reprehensible remarks. Took a little digging to find her phone number though as it seemed to be removed from her website.....all it showed was (602)....weird.


3 posted on 01/09/2011 12:43:39 PM PST by Prince of Space
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To: American Dream 246

She’s just profiling which is only good for a left wing insane person to do when the premise is a lie.

Vets = deranged
Guns = evil
White people = oppressors
God = irrational discrimination
heterosexuality = abnormal and not natural

Liberalism is a mental illness......it is soooo true and proven every time one opens their mouth. Their ignorance is legion, their logic is non existent.

No rational thinking for Marxists....None. Every thing is based on lies.


4 posted on 01/09/2011 12:44:17 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: American Dream 246

Ms. Lopez channeling her inner Stalin while participating in the Leftist coup fantasy frenzy the last 24 hours.

Good for the vets.


5 posted on 01/09/2011 12:45:45 PM PST by Free Vulcan (The cult of Islam must be eradicated by any means necessary.)
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To: American Dream 246

Hope the Arizona voters remember this when Lopez is up for re-election.


6 posted on 01/09/2011 12:46:42 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: American Dream 246

A pic of the goofy bitch

7 posted on 01/09/2011 12:46:55 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Because the left is ugly and the right is beautiful.)
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To: American Dream 246

Last light on Fox I caught Whorealdo blathering on about how Rep Giffords’ opponent posed in a campaign ad in camo weilding an M16, insinuating, ho hum, the divisiveness this sort of thing causes, and how dangerous easy access to firearms can be and blah blah BLAH! 20 seconds of this was about all I could stomach.


8 posted on 01/09/2011 12:47:00 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: American Dream 246

Thank you. There aren’t words strong enough to convey my disgust with this woman.


9 posted on 01/09/2011 12:48:20 PM PST by publana (Time to go Galt.)
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To: American Dream 246

Actions for FReeper vets to e-mail, call, fax this bitch!!!


10 posted on 01/09/2011 12:48:20 PM PST by danamco (')
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To: Impala64ssa

John Kerry ( who was in Vietnam) campaigned as a pheasant hunter with a REAL shotgun as well as camo. He also inquired as to where he could buy a hunting license in one campaign spot.


11 posted on 01/09/2011 12:51:42 PM PST by Renegade
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To: Cisco Nix; American Dream 246

Is the bitch inhaling???


12 posted on 01/09/2011 12:52:32 PM PST by danamco (')
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To: Renegade

Yes I remember, the HAUGHTY John Kerry, that is.


13 posted on 01/09/2011 12:57:48 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

There are only two types of veterans the democrats like.

1) Left wing vets

2) Vets they can blame stuff on

And that is a fact.


14 posted on 01/09/2011 12:59:56 PM PST by Terry Mross
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To: Renegade

Oh, I had forgotten about that.Where’s the outrage?


15 posted on 01/09/2011 1:01:03 PM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: American Dream 246

Bookmark


16 posted on 01/09/2011 1:03:38 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
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To: Terry Mross

Yes, I remember during the height of the anti-Vietnam War protests a group called Vietnam Vets against the war. They were indeed media darlings, not to mention useful idiots for the left.


17 posted on 01/09/2011 1:07:07 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: American Dream 246

Shep SMith is an Ole Miss graduate, and a HUGE Ole Miss fan like Trent Lott. Just sayin’.


18 posted on 01/09/2011 1:07:43 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Democrats- Forgetting 9/11 since 9/12/01)
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To: American Dream 246

Isn’t she also the one that talked about the Tea Party being the cause of this hate mongering that created this incident.


19 posted on 01/09/2011 1:08:24 PM PST by conservativesister
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To: American Dream 246

I want to know who Linda Lopez “heard” that from. IIRC, at the time she was saying that, no name had been released. How would she know that Loughner was claiming on his web page to be a military recruit?

I want to know what she knew and when she knew it. The timeline of her activities. The timing of all this is way too convenient, and the talking points surfaced way too fast.

I also want to know where Loughner was getting his drugs from.


20 posted on 01/09/2011 1:08:55 PM PST by butterdezillion
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