The Left is correct, the political discourse caused the shooting...

Frisco_Slug_Esq

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Look at the timeline.

When this guy was voting in 2006 and 2008, there was a lot of hate and anger all the time, in the news, Cindy Sheehan, Senator Obama, I mean a lot of angry voices and a lot of hate and name-calling aimed at Republicans, especially Bush...

He looks like he was one of the angry Independents and Utes who bought into the hate speech and the hopey-changey mantra of the Left in bringing about Democrat Majorities. When he had a chance to be an angry Tea-Partier, he didn't act all that worked up, hell, he didn't even bother to vote. I think Stewart, Mahler, The View gals, Chris Mathews, et. al., have a lot to answer for in getting this guy so riled up. Maybe they should set an example because at this point because the Athiest, the reader of Left-wing literature, the guy getting his "education," who listened to Heavy Metal, did drugs and had a skull shrine really seems to have acted out according to the same voices that caused the Greek riots, the French riots, the English Student riots, the Berkeley riots, the beat-down of Tea Party attendees...,

I mean, he did kill a "Republican" Judge and try to kill a very "Conservative" Congresswoman, it's not like he went after Moonbeam or anything. Maybe it was the recent round of fresh hate after the election that really set him over the edge this time as he emulated heros like Ayers and Dohrn. Maybe is was all the anti-Israeli sentiment and an instilled hatred of Jews...

I stand corrected from any earlier position that was in denial of the effects of political hate speech.

Can't we all just get along?
 
Can't we all just get along?

Right after the evil rich and the jews pay for their sins.
 
Well, Michael Savage did call liberalism a mental disorder, so the voices that told the guy to kill must of been one.
 
His national listenership is on par with the number of CNN viewers worldwide...






In short, he has little relevance. Nor to date is there any evidence that Exclamation Point listened to any hate format other than Heavy Metal.
 
This collective j’accuse has now become a story of its own, and largely because, after the passage of another 24 hours, nothing at all had emerged from the mass of data on Jared Loughner that linked the assassin with tea parties or talk shows of any persuasion. Nor did Gabby Giffords turn out to be a particularly likely target if the shooter really were some incoherent brown-shirted dupe of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, or Rush Limbaugh. (Beck’s only public comment on Giffords had been to praise her criticism of the present immigration mess). It was, instead, the Daily Kos that had to airbrush from its website a complaint that Giffords had let down the Democratic side in Congress and could be considered “dead” to the interests of the Left (metaphorically dead, I presume, but bloody metaphors are forgiven when uttered by the Left).

In effect, the denouncers of “hate” had been roaring ahead entirely on hate fuel of their own. By the time we had passed the 48-hour mark, the absence of any connections between Loughner and any co-dependents on the Right hung the accusers in midair, spinning their wheels like Wile E. Coyote. That, however, only signaled a shift from blaming conservatives to blaming a “climate” of opinion in which homicidal rampages are encouraged to happen spontaneously, like oily rags self-combusting. This “climate” turns out to have only one kind of weather, formed solely by the updraft of, as Packer phrased it, “conservative leaders, activists, and media figures” who “have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents.”

The fundamental problem with this ornate political prurience is that assassination in American history has pretty regularly been the blessèd resort of the Left. Start with Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered the very conservative William McKinley; turn next to Harry Orchard, the union bomber who blew up Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905; turn again to Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marxist who murdered JFK (but whom Oliver Stone tried mightily to redefine as a clandestine conservative); add in Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who tried to attack Gerald Ford in 1975 on behalf of “clean air, healthy water, and respect for creatures and creation,” and Sara Jane Moore, who fired a .38 revolver at Ford a few weeks after Fromme’s abortive attack because the “government had declared war on the left”; and then top it off with John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan who claimed Lee Harvey Oswald as his role model, and you begin to get some sense of how closely the profile of the gun-toting lunatic assassin suits the Left’s enragés. When the Left talks about violence from the Right, the only name it seems able to come up with is that of Timothy McVeigh.
ALLEN C. GUELZO
NRO
 
The Cambridge Cop Media

The media is a massive failure spawned by the hate-filled humanities departments of our major universities.

"Why" is no longer a question to most of the media. The media knows "why." It just needs backing to say it. Put it this way: when a reporter goes on a story, he/she is not seeking to ask questions that will provide a story; he/she is seeking answers to questions that will fill the story he/she has already chosen to write. The media at large is openly choosing to do a story that will forever diminish conservatives and white men. It is simply seeking the quotes and attribution to fill this story. It is not covering events; it's mining for proof.

The targets you have seen on television are not Sarah Palin's political ones; that graphic is a media target, aimed at Palin and Limbaugh at Beck and Levin...at Prager, Hewitt, and O'Reilly, and Fox News, and here at American Thinker. And especially at white men.

The media is an abject panic over the flight of white men under its control in the previous election to the conservative side of the political ledger. The media feels that it must find a way to make the conservative message so hateful as to force white men back into line. In the newsrooms of this country, a failure to do so is a major threat to the future of our nation.
John Fricke
The American Thinker
 
If you want to stick to your own color, I have half a bottle of Tanqueray...





I have no idea what color John is, but Dan Rather was your color.
 
So now, we find out, that like naughtycakes, this guy was influenced by Left-wing documentaries, not Fox, not Palin, not Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Beck, Savage...,




He was closer to being a Truther than a Birther.

And, between page one and page two we have at least six Palin-hate threads.

Who, EXACTLY? needs to change the tone of discourse?
 
Oh Laurel, the Righ..., er, uh, the Left is gunning for "Free Speech..."

“Dr. King enters this struggle boldly. He says, ‘Violence anywhere is a threat to violence everywhere. An injustice anywhere, is a threat to injustice everywhere. Rhetoric inciting violence anywhere, is a call to rhetoric to incite violence everywhere.’ Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, others in the Tea Party trend, claim that political events tied to violence and rhetoric tied to violence are not causing the division in our nation. Tens of thousands of African-Americans have been lynched in a sea of rhetoric dripping with racist blood. Workers have been shot down on the picket line, drummed under by the rhetoric of mis-accusations. Students have been shot down protesting for peace under the rhetoric of unamericanism. Tens of thousands of Native Americans have been annihilated under the rhetoric of White American exceptionalism. We have to act. Dr. King says that ‘Courage is the ability to go forward in spite of frightening situations. Cowardness’ he says, ‘is a submissive surrender to circumstance.’ We’re asking everyone to ask all of our elected officials at the municipal level, the county level, the state level, the federal government, to pass laws that prohibit the use of rhetoric and actions and campaigns that incite violence. We ask that we all go back to our organizations of faith, our unions, our schools, our high schools, our middle schools, our elementary schools, and create statements demanding that there be communication and debate based on love, based on peace, based on community, based on a stronger democracy. Now, we have to be courageous because some of may say that’s just not enough, or why, that might not make a difference. Remember, words make a difference. I’ve just asked all of us to do some things and put words in the public, put words with the official seal of our government, put words under the titles of our schools, that say “We are family.”
Roy Wilson
From a vigil in Oakland to honor the victims of the Tucson shooting.
 
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