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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…
A staffer for Governor Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend were brutally attacked after leaving a Republican fundraiser during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Friday. Why?
From Gateway Pundit, via Free Republic:
The governor’s office said Monday that Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered a concussion and fractured nose and jaw in the alleged incident. (KSLA) A Republican activist and her boyfriend were savagely beaten in New Orleans on Friday for wearing Sarah Palin pins. Free Republic reported:
Allee Bautsch, chief campaign fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown, were savagely beaten Friday night in New Orleans after leaving a Republican party fundraising dinner by a group of thugs who reportedly targeted the couple because they were wearing Sarah Palin pins.
Bautsch’s leg was broken and Brown incurred a broken jaw and nose as well as a concussion.
The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons:
Two people at the Brennan’s event have now confirmed that the protest had largely broken up by the time it ended, but we also understand from someone who visited Allee Bautsch in the hospital Saturday morning that she and Brown were followed and attacked expressly because they had Palin pins on (she heard one of the attackers say “Let’s get them, they have Palin pins on”)– so the attack WAS politically motivated as its victims understood it. It was not a mugging, it was not an argument gone wrong and it was not a bar fight.
The story of a Republican and her boyfriend being viciously attacked for wearing Palin buttons has yet to make national headlines, unlike say, unfounded rumors of nasty words being said by Tea Party protesters.
Violence and hate are unacceptable from any side of the political spectrum. If that was the motivation for the attack, I have some questions:
Who was responsible for this attack?
Was it the SEIU?
Was it a bunch of drunk college kids who are majoring in anthropology?
Was it David Schuster?
Will every liberal democrat now have to rebuke the SEIU and other left wing organizations due to the hate and violence that these groups are known to spew?
Will Congressman John King and other lefties denounce violence and hate speech from the left?
Will the mainstream media show concern for the real violence from libs, or will it continue to concentrate on “tea party hate.”
I will wait patiently for answers to my questions. I expect to get them when hell freezes over.
H/T Gateway Pundit.
UPDATE!!!
There was a reason why I put question marks after the title of this post, and why I wrote:
“Violence and hate are unacceptable from any side of the political spectrum. If that was the motivation for the attack, I have some questions:”
Unlike the mainstream media, I do not go out of my may to deceive people. It appears that the Palin pin part of the story is just a rumor.
From Michelle Malkin:
From Gov. Jindal’s office, via The Baton Rouge Advocate:
“While there were protestors around at that time, we are not aware of any evidence that the individuals involved in the altercation were protestors,” Plotkin said in a statement.
Plotkin said the New Orleans Police Department is investigating.
“We are refraining from further comment to allow them to fully investigate and ensure justice is done,” [Jindal press secretary Kyle] Plotkin said.
Update 3:15pm Eastern: I just heard from Mr. Plotkin that Bautsch and her boyfriend were NOT wearing Palin pins.
My thanks to Lyndsey Fifield for hitting me up on Twitter with the latest on this story.
I don’t recall anyone in the tea party movement throwing eggs at Nancy Pelosi and other Dems as they slowly strolled through the anti-Obamacare protests 2 weeks ago in Washington DC.
Oh, and I am still waiting for the media to come up with any footage of those protesters hurling racial and anti-gay insults at the Congressional delegation. Fail…
But here is some video of Harry Reid supporters throwing eggs at what appears to be a tea party bus, and one guy who wants to knock Andrew Breitbart’s head off. Ahhh, lefty tolerance…
Nevada made news today with tea party activists denouncing a 3rd party bid to oust Senator Reid. So today I pose this question:
