Yesterday in Arizona, a man by the name of Jared Loughner is accused of going on a shooting rampage with a semi-automatic weapon. Loughner was known to be unstable and had made threats in the past.

From CBS News:

Jared Loughner, the suspect accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others Saturday, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, had made threats in the past and even interacted with Giffords in 2007.

Giffords is a Democrat.

The media sprung into action almost immediately after this terrible tragedy. Who are they blaming?

The shooter? Nah. Why let a good crisis go to waste?

Before the victims’ bodies turned cold, left wing lunatics were placing blame on tea party activists and right wing commentators for this horrible crime.

Do they have ANY evidence to suggest that this man is a tea party guy? Nope.

Is there any evidence to suggest that this guy is a ditto-head? No.

There IS evidence that he is crazy.

From Michelle Malkin:

Update 7:08pm Eastern – In one of his YouTube videos, Loughner claimed to be a military recruit. Stars and Stripes reports the Army found no record of any enlistment contract with Loughner.

This is not left or right.

He was a nut:

The man linked to the shooting today of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others is 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, the Associated Press reported.

A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was “obviously very disturbed.”

“He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts,” said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College’s Northwest campus.

Sorenson doesn’t recall if he ever made any threats or uttered political statements but he was very disruptive, she said. He was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class, said Sorenson, a Tucson resident…

…The online accounts also contain bizarre discussions of a new currency and literacy, as well as threatening and despairing messages.

“WOW! I’m glad i didn’t kill myself. I’ll see you on National T.v.! This is foreshadow …. why doesn’t anyone talk to me?..” he posted on MySpace Dec. 14.

On Dec. 13, he wrote: “I don’t feel good: I’m ready to kill a police officer! I can say it.”

In a posting on YouTube, Loughner wrote repeatedly about a new currency.

“I’m thinking of creating a new currency,” he wrote. “Therefore, I’m thinking of a design for my new coins size, shape, color, material, and image to start a new money system.”

He also wrote repeatedly about literacy. In a written message on YouTube, Loughner said: “The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate — hilarious. I don’t control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure.”

In a message posted on his MySpace account, titled “Goodbye friends,” Loughner said: “Dear friends…please don’t be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven’t talked to one person who is literate.” It was unclear when it was posted.

…He lists among his favorite books “Mein Kampf” and “The Communist Manifesto”. But he also includes a broad variety of other titles, including: “Animal Farm,” “Brave New World,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.

Not only is he crazy, it looks like he’s a pothead.

CBS News quotes a high school friend of Loughner’s who said:

Loughner used to speak critically about religion. He also talked about how he liked to smoke pot.

Since we have no real evidence about his political leanings other than he liked to read “Mein Kamph” and “The Communist Manifesto”, let’s be grown up and focus on what we do know.

Where is pot to blame in all of this? I’m sure Loughner never met Palin or Beck–but it sounds like he did meet spliff and blunt. Why is there NO media attention to his pot use?

Because that doesn’t fit what the media wants the narrative of this story to be: Blame conservative rhetoric, not a drug that can be mind altering.

A 2005 study suggests that cannabis and the mentally ill do not mix.

Cannabis use moderately increases the risk of psychotic symptoms in young people but has a much stronger effect in those with evidence of predisposition for psychosis.

“Dude, we should create our own currency” sounds more like the ramblings of a pothead than a tea party guy.

There are rumblings in the media and on blogs that this guy was everything from a liberal, to a conservative, to an anti-Semite–and maybe a white supremacist.

In the end politics nor pot are responsible for Loughner’s actions, HE is. It’s just too bad that in the course of covering this story, many in the mainstream media sounded as if they smoke pot as well.

Our thoughts and prayers here at The Snark Factor go out to all of the victims of this terrible tragedy…

WikiLeaks has struck again. Two days ago, the website released 250,000 US cables illegally obtained by Australian hippie hacker Julian Assange. The cables contained correspondence between U.S. diplomats that contained sensitive information.

Here are some juicy details about the WikiLeaks document dump from Yahoo News:

Allegations from the 250,000 cables include that Iran’s supreme leader has cancer and will die “within months” and that Saudi King Abdullah urged the US to attack Iran and “cut off the head of the snake” over its nuclear program.

The Snark Factor has gone over all 250,000 cables for you, our faithful readers. I personally have read 140,000 cables. During that time, I consumed 3 Five Hour Energy shots, 7 pots of coffee and enough crystal meth to kill four mules.

But it was worth it. I have uncovered new information from WikiLinks about secrets that the United States government has tried to hide for decades. Prepare to be shocked.

1. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter was invented by the CIA as a mind control chemical agent to make Americans like Ryan Seacrest.
2. Meghan McCain is a FemBot built by the National Organization for Women to make real blondes “look smarter” when compaired to the dim-witted McCain.
3. President Barack Obama was briefly the lead singer of the left-wing, post-punk British rock group Scritti Politti.
4. Joy Behar kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, dumped a fake baby body to fool police into thinking he was dead–and raised the boy as her own. She renamed the lad ”Rob Reiner.”
5. George Soros secretly founded Halliburton Corporation with the help of Che Guevara and Don Knotts in 1957.
6. Every bridge in the United States is secretly owned by Ross Perot and Ron Paul. Under every bridge you can find a pot of gold.
7. Vice President Joe Biden is Snookie’s father. 
8. Governor Sarah Palin wrote the song Who Let the Dogs Out?
9. Kathy Griffin is a comedian.
10. Nancy Grace can comfortably house a family of four in her nostrils.

 I will continue to read these documents until my head falls off…

It is time for the new game that is sweeping the country–Who Said It?

The rules are simple. I will give you a quote and you have to guess what great American said it. Your three choices are President Barack Obama, former Vice President Dan Quayle or former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Here we go!

1) “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

2) “I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about… It — it — it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about — hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

8)  “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

9) “It was … interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing…”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

10) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin

Answers to this quiz will be posted tomorrow…

Thanks to Linkiest for the link love!

In a move that shocked communists all over America, NPR signed Karl Rove to a three year contract Friday. Rove will provide analysis and commentary on such popular NPR shows as…

I contacted NPR President Vivian Schiller, and she had this to say about the Rove hiring:

You know, five years ago I wanted that man taken out of the White House in handcuffs. But did you see how he tore apart Christine O’Donnell? I mean wow! His anger was so delicious that it had to be fattening.

The irrational hate Rove spewed after that witch won the Delaware primary, it showed me that he was NPR material.

Diane Rehm, of NPR ‘s The Diane Rehm Show likes the idea of Rove joining the NPR family:

You know, five years ago I wanted that man taken out of the White House in handcuffs. But did you see what he had to say about that idiot Sarah Palin? (Rove recently said in an interview that Palin doesn’t have what it takes to be President.)

The comments he made about that hayseed moron demonstrated the kind of journalistic integrity that fits NPR’s code of ethics… or something.

I was able to track down Mr. Rove. When I asked him about his new NPR contract he said:

Who the hell are you and how did you get in my garage?!?

I will continue to follow this story until I need a nap.*

*Warning, a portion or all of this story is complete b.s.

Our favorite stalker Joe McGinniss was on The Today Show and got an uninterrupted few minutes with liberal Hair Club for Men member Matt Lauer. There is video of the interview below (I deleted the shower scene).

Matt made poor Joe look like a real victim didn’t he?

Yes, death threats are stupid and should be condemned.

But while Joe had a view of Governor Palin’s(Joe’s new Hitler) backyard and the ovens that she owns to murder 6 million Jews (Hitler was a real Nazi), I wonder if he pondered left wing hate? Do you think these thoughts ever enter Joe’s mind?

I wonder how many death threats the Palin family has received from left wing nutjobs over the past 18 months?

I hope the Palin’s aren’t bothered by left wing Nazi troopers that mock her and her family on a daily basis.

Did I leave the iron on?

I find liberal hatred of Palin comical.

All this for a woman that gives an occasional speech, is on Fox News once and a while and has a Facebook page?

Hey Joe, who is the dumb one again???

H/T NewsBusters

Author Joe McGinniss is writing a book about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. So naturally, he moved in right next door to her family home. Howdy neighbor!

Invasion of privacy? What invasion of privacy? She’s a conservative, so she doesn’t deserve privacy.

From MSNBC:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to complain about her new neighbor — a writer penning a book about her.Author Joe McGinniss has taken up residence in a house next to Palin’s lakeside home in Wasilla.

“Yes, that Joe McGinniss. Here he is about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window,” Palin posted on Facebook late Monday, hours after returning from a trip to the Lower 48 and learning of McGinniss’ presence.”We’re sure to have a doozey to look forward to with this treasure he’s penning. Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” she wrote.

Unhappy with this development, I moved in next door to McGinniss–and captured exclusive video footage of the author stalking Palin. Warning, the footage may shock you!