Searching for answers to Tuscon tragedy
Image via CrunchBaseFrom New York newspaper columnists to an Illinois senator, the liberal left is blaming the Tea Party and conservative stars for the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman. How about blaming the communist and Nazi-loving shooter?There is much more.
It didn't take long for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the shooting outside a Tucson supermarket that seriously injured Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and left six others, including a 9-year-old, dead.
Writing Saturday, as the shooting was still fresh and little was known of the shooter or the circumstances, Krugman spoke of a "connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc." and the violence in Tucson. He noted that Rep. Giffords was opposed in 2010 by a Tea Party activist. "And yes," Krugman said, "she was on Sarah Palin's infamous 'cross-hairs' list."
The prize for insensitive slander, however, goes to Michael Daly of the New York Daily News. Under the headline "Rep. Gabriel Giffords' blood is on Palin's hands after putting cross hair over her district," Daly wrote that Palin, by designating 20 congressmen as targets in 2010 for voting for ObamaCare, "added to a climate of violence."
It matters not to these loons that the accused shooter was described by former classmates as "left wing," "quite liberal," prone to "nonsensical outbursts" and a person "on his own planet." A video posted on his YouTube channel featured a flag burning. His favorite material, apparently, included "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf." Hardly your classic Tea Partyer.
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I am not sure the loons are looking for answers so much as an excuse to slander theri political opponents. They are certainly not lowering the rhetoric.
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