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Dems, Media Blame Tea Party, Palin for Shooting; Shooter Linked to
Leftwing Politics...
Sunday, Jan. 9th, 2011...
WASHINGTON, DC (NS/NewsMax) -
As U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life after a mad gunman
shot her on Saturday, some Democrats and major media have moved to pin
the blame for her attack on the tea party movement and conservatives
like Sarah Palin , despite the fact that the shooter was both deranged
and fascinated by leftwing politics.
Giffords' Democratic colleague, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva,
told Mother Jones magazine within hours after the rampage that the
“political tone and tenor” created by Palin and the tea party movement
had set the stage for the shooting.
Grijalva said Palin's “apparatus” had put Giffords' and his own life
at risk.
“Both Gabby and I were targeted in the apparatus in that cycle
[saying] these people are ‘enemies.’” He added: “The Palin express
better look at their tone and their tenor.”
The liberal New York Times was not far behind Grijalva, publishing a
lead story headlined "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in
Politics."
The Times insuated that conservative criticism of President Barack
Obama and his policies may have been at the root of this weekend's
violence, noting "... it was hard to separate what had happened from
the heated nature of the debate that has swirled around Mr. Obama and
Democratic policies of the past two years."
The paper even suggested tea party criticisms of Obama's healthcare
plan, the debate over Arizona's new rules on police handling of
illegal immigrants and even the fact Giffords was Jewish could have
played a role. The Times also claimed that the fact Palin's political
action committee had targeted Giffords for defeat may have played a
role.
But Tea Party figures and Conservatives have assailed such
characterizations. The FACT of the matter is that the AZ Shooter was
a Left Wing Loonie...
Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, noted on his website
that Giffords is “a liberal,” but added, “that does not matter now.
No one should be a victim of violence because of their political
beliefs.”
Indeed, the profile of the accused shooter, 22-year-old Jared
Loughner, that continues to emerge is that of a deranged young man
whose mind was deeply distubred, but who also tinkered with both
anarchist ideas and leftwing politics.
ABC News reported Saturday night that Loughner had identified among
his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, Adolf
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and the fiction classic "One Flew over the
Cuckoo's Nest" -- hardly the reading list of a Palin supporter.
Other clues have emerged about Loughner's persona from Arizona press
reports:
He is "described by friends and former classmates as a loner, prone to
dressing in black regalia of boots, trench coat and baggy pants even
on the hottest days."
He was removed from Pima Community College "for causing disruptions in
classrooms and the library, college officials said. His dispute with
college officials led him to post a bizarre YouTube video declaring
the college illegal under the U.S. Constitution and culminated in his
suspension from campus."
His rants against the government that have surfaced on the Internet
don't suggest he had a conservative perspective on big government.
Instead Laughner's MySpace featured a photo "showing a close-up
picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled
'United States History.'" Another video shows a masked man burning the
American flag.
"I can't trust the current government because of fabrications,"
Loughner wrote in a YouTube slideshow. "The government is implying
mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
Loughner suggests that he was rejected from entering the U.S. Army to
which he applied because he was offered a "mini Bible" during the
recruitment process, but that he declined to "write a belief on my
Army application and the recruiter wrote on the application: None."