Apology denied.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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.
And many of them weren’t even vets. Much less Viet Nam Vets.
Mutt, was Shep a cheerleader? If not, he should have been. I wonder if he took a make up class at Ol’ missy.
Apology denied.
Actual Topic: Sheriff’s News Conference Yesterday
Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik
I think people such as yourself need to remember when you are so intent on blaming what voters have said as the cause for this tragedy, why not mention the rhetoric from Democrat politicians and liberal talking heads including:
President Obama:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
And “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
Or John Kerry who said on the Bill Maher show: “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
Or Howard Dean “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…”
and: “This is a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good?”
and “we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush, not each other.”
Or Senator Chuck Schumer who called a flight attendant a “bitch.”
Or the Florida Democrats who ran an ad calling for the assassination of Donald Rumsfeld
Or New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi who called for Senator Schumer to “put a bullet between the president’s eyes?”
Or Jonathan Chait who said “I hate President George W. Bush.”
Or singer Rickie Lee Jones who aid of President Bush “You’re an ignorant, low-class, opportunistic man, both personally and politically, who does everything for political gain and nothing for the wellbeing of the people, and you should not be in office, and the kind of fascism you’re perpetrating on our country we don’t want, and you’re out. We’re done with you. Ffffhgggmm.”
And when asked if she would be willing to take Bush out for the benefit of democracy? “If I say that, I might get arrested when I go back. And I have to go home.” She’s thinking it out carefully. “I guess the question is, would I kill anyone? And the answer is, no. But would I feel sorry if someone killed him? No, I wouldn’t. It would depend on who killed him, I guess.”
Or “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” where they superimposed the words “Snipers Wanted” over an image of Bush delivering his acceptance speech at the Republican convention.
Or Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams who said she could kill President Bush?
Or Randi Rhodes who joked about killing the President?
Or Reverend Wright who called Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Condoskeeza [sic] Rice.
Or England’s Charlie Brooker who wrote: “On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod’s law dictates he’ll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr – where are you now that we need you?”
What an incredibly STUPID thing to claim, she had NO facts at that time, it was all drivel, and presumably all encouraged by that Idiot Shep Smith -- I can't watch him, he acts like The Archetypal Funeral Director -- can't stand him, LOL
GREAT list there!
We know now the shooter tried to join the Army but was not accepted, which is no surprise from his internet ranting on YouTube. The Rep owes an apology, but I won’t hold my breath.
FAIL!
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ALSO, He was supposed to have bagged two birds . In the picture another guy is carrying the killed fowl for Kerry ( who served in Vietnam) which turned out to be illegal in that state .
BTTT
Any apology from one of these loons is just another lie.
“This vitriol has GOT to stop”.... What Obama and the dems have started, ‘THEY’ can not stop.
THEY are disingenuous as hell because they don’t really want the vitriol to stop, instead, THEY want us to shut up, surrender and sit quietly, while they continue to destroy what’s left of our country.
Video at the link for Bigjournalism. Both the “teaparty” and the “afghan vet” accusations.
Sheer ignorance.
Probably worried about being attacked by the hordes of Genghisssss Khan his pronunciation, not mine, but hey, he knows better. He’s a Senator, ya now], and wanted to carry legally. He was, no doubt traumatized by his Christmas trip to Cambodia. < s/o > .
Left out the brackets [] around ‘his pronunciation, not mine’. Sorry.
Hmmm, kind of like this photo of Giffords?
WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY
Won't get one...just ask any veteran of Viet Nam..the hard left still vilifies our service.
An “Afghan vet”? IOW, the perp is Afghani, right?
(rolling eyes)
I am not sure if Sheriff Dupnik will appreciate them though. LOL
Pundits heralded the ad as clever and convincing for Manchin. Nobody called it "vitriol."
-PJ
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