Democrats are using the bloody slaughter at the Tucson supermarket by an anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, left-wing, pro-Marx, antiflag, “quite liberal” lunatic to target Sarah Palin and the tea party.

(Going Rogue)

Glenn Reynolds went after the political scavengers in The Wall Street Journal today, via The Corner.
Glenn hits it out of the park.

To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a) asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?

I understand the desperation that Democrats must feel after taking a historic beating in the midterm elections and seeing the popularity of ObamaCare plummet while voters flee the party in droves. But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America’s political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.

Where is the decency in that?

 

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  1. #1 January 9, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    bigkahuna commented:

    Decency???? surely you jest !!!

  2. #2 January 9, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    ebayer commented:

    Palin Derangement Syndrome just seems to linger in the people infected by it.

  3. #3 January 9, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    JimmyT commented:

    The wasting their breath. Even my liberal leaning wife is saying “they’re idiots”.

  4. #4 January 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    rbosque commented:

    The media’s usual panty-wetting cry to “not to rush to judgment” is strangely absent….

  5. #5 January 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    T. Bielski commented:

    You know who else goes on and on about grammar? Noam Chomsky.

  6. #6 January 9, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    chuck in st paul commented:

    Dancing in the victims blood is a long Dim/lib tradition. Already one Dim is calling for the end of the 1st Amendment and another is preparing to trash the 2nd. Oh my, what a surprise.

    How long until the GOP caves on those?

  7. #7 January 9, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    #3

    They’re not idiots. Unwise and evil, yes. They know what they are doing, and they know from history that it works. Their desired result is nothing short of pure evil.

    Obama’s name may soon join those of Stalin and Mao and Hitler and Pol Pot, if the blood libel works again, as it did many times in our world’s past.

    Call me hyperbolic and crazy. Go ahead. And remember this when you smell the stench of death all around you, and when you live in constant fear.

  8. #8 January 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    Crap. I missed the previous post altogether when I reloaded the main page.

    Worse than I thought? No. Exactly as I thought. The train is speeding up.

  9. #9 January 9, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    CleanItUpJackass commented:

    Evidence is mounting that the shooter was very left of center in his politics, much like Sheriff Dupnik. We should follow the sheriff’s lead and speculate recklessly. Perhaps the hatefulness of Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews is to blame?

  10. #10 January 9, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    CleanItUpJackass commented:

    “They’re not idiots. Unwise and evil, yes. They know what they are doing, and they know from history that it works.”

    This is so true. It is a dangerous mistake to underestimate the intelligence behind these tactics. Many of the most powerful human minds in the world belong to the left. Further, many of us believe that perhaps some of these dark tactics are inspired by supernatural forces. That is difficult to fight against on our own.

  11. #11 January 9, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    DOES IT MATTER anymore? Whether he was Right or Left?

    These pols are going to do whatever they want to do. This they have proven. Whatever they want, they will do. And I don’t think they will be stopped, becuase I believe they are being allowed to do this by the God of Israel. Can you stop what the God of Israel has determined will happen? Better think on that.

  12. #12 January 9, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    donh commented:

    I would like to know how this unemployed Jarrod afforded his drug habit. No information available on his father. Mother worked for parks and recreation. I assume part of her duties at the park were to tend a flag pole. How nice to have a state employee with these respondibilities raise a son who urinates on the flag. The democrats are trying to command the conversation and steer it away from the embarassing details.

  13. #13 January 9, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    Sandy commented:

    So the Dems problems will be healed by one lunatic with a handgun–as border problems continue to get worse and not a word is said. The Democrats are like caged rabid dogs who think if they bark loud enough we will open the cages and let them back in to finish us off.

    Why is it not a gimmick when the Dems talk about amending the constitution–oh yeah that’s right it is a gimmick. Gotta have something to say on those Sunday talk shows and its easier to burn with rage over something like this then to come to terms with what they have done to our economy. They bore me silly — and this feigned outrage will only last until this story dies down. Take a time out Dems and leave us the Hell alone until you’re ready to talk seriously about cutting this deficit.

  14. #14 January 9, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    proof commented:

    Never let a crisis, or a tragedy, go to waste.

  15. #15 January 9, 2011 at 11:32 pm

    Swifty commented:

    From the following AP article:

    Shooting suspect’s nihilism rose with isolation
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gutbUc8KWEv3iMUewPN445D4uSYw?docId=c09a07a17e1b4aaa82815779cbf6f758

    He believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11

    So, Rosie O’Donnell is to blame for all of this!!!! tic

  16. #16 January 9, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    pardon my re-posting the following “rhetoric”..

    Frances Fox Piven Rings in The New
    Year By Calling for Violent Revolution

    [She’s considered by many as the grandmother of using the American welfare state to implement revolution. Make people dependent on the government, overload the government rolls, and once government services become unsustainable, the people will rise up, overthrow the oppressive capitalist system, and finally create income equality. Collapse the system and create a new one. [.]

    In a chilling and almost unbelievable editorial again in The Nation (”Mobilizing the Jobless,” January 10/17, 2011 edition), she calls on the jobless to rise up in a violent show of solidarity and force. As before, those calls are dripping with language of class struggle. Language she and her late husband Richard Cloward made popular in the 60s.

    “So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations,
    sit-ins and unruly mobs?” she writes.[.]

    “[T]he out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times
    and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who
    are in fact responsible.”

    Only then, once their rage has been properly stoked, can the angry take
    action. And when they do, sh[e] says, the “protesters need targets.”

    For Piven, the best “targets” are the people or organizations “capable of
    making some kind of response to angry demands.” Regular demands, notice,
    just won’t do. No, people must be fired up and not easily deterred. Angry
    and not quickly placated.[.]

    seems to me that Jared and Frances have a lot in “creative”
    common, they also repeat their “creative” selves quite often..

    the only reason i can think of as to why the idiots can’t see
    the writing on the wall is, they are the ones writing on it..

    which, in turn, is why they see us as being the idiots, and so far i have to
    agree, also wouldn’t say we (the American people) have the advantage at
    the moment, and imho, it’s only going to worsen.. :-(

    ==

  17. #17 January 9, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    A E Smith commented:

    I don’t understand Mr. Reynolds’ argument. Is he claiming the Right doesn’t engage in violent, eliminationist rhetoric or that violent, eliminationist rhetoric couldn’t possibly lead to actual violence?

  18. #18 January 9, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    gus commented:

    This MURDEROUS LIBTARD was not a result of OVER-HEATED POLITICAL RHETORIC.
    This ABJECT PIECE of Sh!t, was a PRODUCT of PUBIC SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION and a MINDSET that REQUIRES all MORAL VALUES to be DISCARDED at the ALTAR of MARXISM a.k.a GIMME GIMME GIMME-ISM.
    And how APPROPRIATE. Mommy has as MAKE WORK GUBMINT JOB.

    This is LIBERALISM. Marxism is where LIBS ARE IN CONTROL, and PROMISE…..LOSERS…..A share of a pie so small, so shrunken, that Barney Frank would lose a few pounds.
    Liberalism/Marxism, is the PROMISE of………….EQUALITY….and TONS OF STUFF!!! But doesn’t explain how STUFF exists WITHOUT PRODUCTIVE CAPITALISTS.

  19. #19 January 9, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    Gman commented:

    Hey Jim, You need to add “9/11 truther” to that list you use to describe the shooter.

  20. #20 January 9, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    Liam Benson commented:

    The debate over whether the shooter is a liberal or a conservative is pointless. All that matters is that he had a gun like everyone else in AZ and he used it with an intent to kill. This has little to do with the shooter’s politics and more with his own beliefs. Regardless, it was still never a good idea for Palin (or any politician for that matter) to post a map with crosshair targets on Gifford’s congressional seat. That is why she has since removed the map from her site. It’s just sad that it took a tragedy like this to make her actually think about her actions for once. However, I do not think she or Fox News is to blame any more than the books he read.

  21. #21 January 9, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    quote Joy, Rosie, Keith, Ed, Chris, Roseanne, etc, etc, etc.. heck, quote
    Obama, then compare them to anything Palin has ever said, she couldn’t
    win the “rhetoric award” if they all STFU for a year.. gah!!

    ==

  23. #23 January 10, 2011 at 12:01 am

    echo commented:

    Liam,
    You make lots of sense in your last offering.

    I have said previously that anyone of either political bent, if unhinged mentally, can go off.

    Pundits and pols should be mindful of that, however.

    Meanwhile, Chomsky knows lots about grammar AND the language that manufactures consent among media types, pols, corporations, and the sheeple. He remains an intellectual tour de force. You know the guys at Fox are scared to put him on; they simply put on half-wrought Dems who are easy to handle.

  24. #24 January 10, 2011 at 12:03 am

    MrGoodWench commented:

    Will Sharptoon shut up now ?
    He has been instigating riots in AZ every chance he gets.
    Black Panthers and muslims openly call for killing us and ” craka babies” .
    And what can we say about Hussain’s aggressive inciteful language . Will he come out and apologize ? Will he call his communist racist cronies to chill it with their hate ? What about muslims ? Will anyone in DC have the guts to ask muslims to stop their hate and terrorism ?

  25. #25 January 10, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Chippy commented:

    In a liberal/socialist/commie world everyone is to blame except the guy who did the killing. Therefore, the collective masses should be penalized and punished through more regulation and negative liberties. Now these erudite politicians want to bestow upon themselves the same protections that are given to our president. Soon there will be no more town hall meetings and debates with constituants. You see, “We the people of the United States”, will become the problem. It seems to me that some of our politicians look at “us” as the problem. The only way they will feel safe will be to enslave us even more.

  26. #26 January 10, 2011 at 12:04 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Facts are facts #22

    and you consider that sad & sorry display of opinions facts??

    please tell it to the world!!

    rotflmbo!!

    ==

  27. #27 January 10, 2011 at 12:05 am

    donh commented:

    For all we know the shooter may have been motivated by the DADT repeal. Got turned down from military application for being visibly gay. Called Giffords to ask some questions about the new law, and found her to be of no help and acted on grudge.

  28. #28 January 10, 2011 at 12:06 am

    darcy commented:

    Good article, Glenn. But the conclusion? Decency? The Left has no decency; you remember I’m sure, that these are the “ends justify the means” contingent of the political spectrum.

    For example: Tonight on Foxnews there sat Juan Williams dissembling out the wazzooo; he voiced every possible right-wing sounding bit of trivia about the shooter and DELIBERATELY said nothing about evidence found linking the shooter to left-wing sentiments, such as having the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books.

    Juan Willimas was a liar in failing to give a FAIR description of the assailant — and it was done deliberately to lead people to think that he was a product of right-wing extremism, when the only extreme about him is his psychosis.

  29. #29 January 10, 2011 at 12:12 am

    darcy commented:

    By the by: Foxnews and O’Reilly, Greta, Hannity, and Beck — you are in the toilet as far as I’m concerned; I’ve watched Fox maybe three times in the past month after tuning in for years EVERY SINGLE DAY. And the reason is because I can’t stand the likes of Juan Williams and the garbage LIES that come out of the mouths of your liberal guests; even your conservatives these days are pathetic: where were they when DADT repeal sailed by — NOWHERE — to speak forcefully against this outrage. Charles Krauthammer: “It was inevitable.” Sure, if God is dead all things are permissible, even the embrace by a once great culture of sodomy.

    You make me sick.

  30. #30 January 10, 2011 at 12:16 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Facts are facts #22

    a few more “facts” for ya..

    Daily Kos

    “Targeted Republican”

    then there’s the Rev Wright, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Mailk Shabazz,
    etc, inciteful ramblings, not to mention Michelle and Barack Obama’s..

    fyi: DK target shot via HillBuzz & DLC target
    shot via Verum Serum (more & links @ link)..

    ==

  31. #31 January 10, 2011 at 12:18 am

    DaMav commented:

    Superb piece by the InstaPundit guy. Time to reload and fight back

    One place to start might be to let your Reep Congresscritter that you aren’t buying the smear and they need to get back in the saddle and ride out to battle. We need voices in the arena denouncing this Big Liberal Lie.

  32. #32 January 10, 2011 at 12:19 am

    MrGoodWench commented:

    But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America’s political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.

    Where is the decency in that?

    +++++++++++

    Where is the decency in calling TEA partiers racists ?
    Where is the decency when ( even today) they are yapping that they were called the
    n-word and f-word 15 times @ the steps of the Capitol, when a reward of $ 100,00 still remains unclaimed ?
    We are dealing with gutter snipes.

  33. #33 January 10, 2011 at 12:19 am

    Morons are morons commented:

    #22 – And your point is? Palin has every right to clean all the garbage people are posting off of her Facebook page. She is no more responsible for this shooting than you are. You people should be ashamed of yourselves … you really are morons to use this tragedy to launch political attacks. People are dead and families are grieving. Have you NO shame? I know you’re desperate and upset by the fact that you got your butts kicked in November, and that Obama has completely sold you out, and that “hope and change” turned out to be a total scam, but can’t you find the decency to leave the politics out of this and show some respect for the people involved?

  34. #34 January 10, 2011 at 12:26 am

    rk commented:

    Great piece. But the goal of the disinformation campaign is not people who read the WSJ, or the very politically savvy people who visit blogs such as this. It is the low information voter. Not the engaged voter.

    The goal is create a feeling, a sense, that conservatives are bigoted and scary. That a congresswoman who supported Obamacare and immigration reform was shot down. The main way the Left wins elections is to scare people, old people, sick people, minorities. And the emerging narrative is that no good citizen would vote for conservatives.

    They are not trying to convince conservatives…they are trying to shake up the 1 out of 20 people who will make the difference between winning and losing.

  35. #35 January 10, 2011 at 12:32 am

    StrangernFiction commented:

    What Taqi and darcy said.

    “It makes you worry about having a free and open government.” – Juan Williams

  37. #37 January 10, 2011 at 12:36 am

    Morons are morons commented:

    #29 January 10, 2011 at 12:12 am
    darcy commented:

    “By the by: Foxnews and O’Reilly, Greta, Hannity, and Beck — you are in the toilet as far as I’m concerned…”

    I’m feeling the same way Darcy. FOX News was about the only network that wasn’t a total liberal joke, and that even TRIED to be balanced, but lately, it’s just falling apart. Some of the garbage they’ve been reporting, and the idiots they’ve chosen to report it … well, it’s becoming laughable. That goes for their on-line, radio, and TV feeds too. So, where are we supposed to go for unbiased reporting now?

  40. #40 January 10, 2011 at 12:42 am

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    This, #39, the news I’ve been wanting to see.

    I’ve been up since 8, worked all day, after staying up with GP until 4:00 AM last night. I’m exhausted. Thank you all for your work in “doing the job Journalists won’t do”.

    Good night all, and God bless you. Be praying for this nation.

  41. #41 January 10, 2011 at 12:45 am

    MrGoodWench commented:

    @ Taqiyyotomist
    G’nite…and bite some bedbugs ..or something like that
    :D

  42. #42 January 10, 2011 at 12:47 am

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    From Hillbuzz:

    “Conservative Pup Says:

    January 9, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    I’m not a doctor, but a registered nurse of 36 years. She very likely will be kept in a medically-induced coma for the next several days, and be given meds–steroids–to prevent/lessen swelling. As the bullet simply passed through the brain, and didn’t explode inside her brain, and given the millions of synapses within the brain, she could very well make a complete recovery. Maybe not within a few days, but hopefully soon.

    Praying for her healing, and for healing for the others hurt, and praying for solace, comfort, and strength for the families of those who were killed.”

    ====

    Hey JIM! End this day of posting with some GOOD NEWS!

    (If you’re not already asleep like I’m about to be in mere minutes.)

  43. #43 January 10, 2011 at 1:05 am

    darcy commented:

    Hang on to the internet, morons; turn off the boob tube, and read books. Keep up with Mark Levin on the radio, and you can get his radio program online as well. Rush is OK, but sometimes he goes wobbly. And to borrow a phrase from Casablanca: “We’ll always have Paris,” er, I meant gatewaypundit — in the short term at least. Pray for liberty.

    Yeah, StrangernFiction, I caught that too. I think that’s the comment that was one too many straws for this camel’s back. I am finished, caput, with FOX.

  44. #44 January 10, 2011 at 1:37 am

    bigL commented:

    Well, the President of the S called the GOP “hostage-takers” just a few weeks ago.Now kidnapping and hostage taking, are capital crimes. Federal crimes. Reember the Linbergh law?
    That was a terrible thing to say and he had to retract.
    Reminds me ofd the Paul Wellstone Memorial and Wake.
    I wish Boehner would play that on the HOuse floor, saying How bout this? Is this what you want donks?

  45. #45 January 10, 2011 at 1:48 am

    bigL commented:

    I just don’t think these “news” people, like Geraldo, shep and Won williams aret hatsmart to instantly figure out all the alleged links to Palin and all this weird 6 degrees of separation. If they are pursuing all this goofiness then Fox is really sicke. But no, they hare handed a sheet of paer to read.It isthe editors.
    and FOX is part owned by the Saudis-one of the Princes has 20-30% investment in the parent co…

  46. #46 January 10, 2011 at 3:24 am

    vote for pedro commented:

    This is so true. It is a dangerous mistake to underestimate the intelligence behind these tactics. Many of the most powerful human minds in the world belong to the left. Further, many of us believe that perhaps some of these dark tactics are inspired by supernatural forces. That is difficult to fight against on our own.

    Garbage, they are no smarter than anyone else. Supernatural forces? Bwhahahahahaha! I hear a garlic necklace or salt in your pocket will ward off evils spirits.

  47. #47 January 10, 2011 at 3:34 am

    vote for pedro commented:

    The debate over whether the shooter is a liberal or a conservative is pointless. All that matters is that he had a gun like everyone else in AZ and he used it with an intent to kill. This has little to do with the shooter’s politics and more with his own beliefs. Regardless, it was still never a good idea for Palin (or any politician for that matter) to post a map with crosshair targets on Gifford’s congressional seat. That is why she has since removed the map from her site. It’s just sad that it took a tragedy like this to make her actually think about her actions for once. However, I do not think she or Fox News is to blame any more than the books he read.

    Nice passive-aggressive tripe. Let’s not blame anyone, but just in case, use Gov. Palin as an example. It was over a map! Does that mean she wanted the entire districe punished?BTW, it always takes a tragedy for action, especially when it comes to government, that’s why we advocate for less of it.

  48. #48 January 10, 2011 at 3:42 am

    vote for pedro commented:

    Liam,
    You make lots of sense in your last offering.

    I have said previously that anyone of either political bent, if unhinged mentally, can go off.

    Pundits and pols should be mindful of that, however.

    Meanwhile, Chomsky knows lots about grammar AND the language that manufactures consent among media types, pols, corporations, and the sheeple. He remains an intellectual tour de force. You know the guys at Fox are scared to put him on; they simply put on half-wrought Dems who are easy to handle.

    Chomsky is smart alright. He avoids going on cable shows because he knows he’d be exposed for the fraud that he is. The same companies and industries he rails against, he invests in. SHOCKA!!!

  49. #49 January 10, 2011 at 3:57 am

    AuntieMadder commented:

    bigL : Prince Seaweed owns 5.7% of News Corp, the parent company of Fox News. News Corp owns 10% of Rotana, the Saudi media conglomerate.

  50. #50 January 10, 2011 at 5:56 am

    Arch commented:

    In the last election, Americans told these fools we want more freedom, not less. If more people in Tucson had exercised their Second Amendment rights, not even the limp-wrist democrats would not be talking about limiting everyone’s First Amendment rights.

    What evidence do we have that this dope-head, communist loser was motivated by inflammatory language?

    We already have laws against incitement. What constitutes this new inflammatory language?

    In Politico, Brady, an uneducated union thug, will “introduce a bill that would make it a crime for anyone to use language or symbols that could be seen as threatening or violent against a federal official, including a member of Congress.”

    On his website, the first image we see is Brady man wearing a boxing glove. What, exactly, do boxing gloves symbolize? It’s just hilarious – Brady as Rocky!

    http://www.brady.house.gov/

  51. #51 January 10, 2011 at 6:27 am

    squeaky commented:

    i’m listening to the people on fox questioning [lead in] about whether or not congress should be protected. the question i have is who is going to protect us from them. when you deal with a class of people who feel that they’re beyond reproach – an expression of rebuke or disapproval 2: the act or action of reproaching or disapproving 3a : a cause or occasion of blame, discredit, or disgrace b : discredit, disgrace
    4obsolete : one subjected to censure or scorn]…..when there’s a concerted effort to stiffle dissention and people feel they no longer have control of their lives. DON”T TELL ME WORDS DON”T MATTER – remember those words…..i’ve always thought that those who issue fiery rhetoric without concern as to how the less that stable members of their flock interpret what is said and act on those words should be held accountable….
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NS9unm-OQ

  52. #52 January 10, 2011 at 7:24 am

    pamlinson commented:

    What a disgrace to see the media and those in government use this tragedy and the people who are suffering right now to their poliltical advantage. Makes me sick to my stomach.

  53. #53 January 10, 2011 at 8:09 am

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    Any printers, graphic artists, or scoped rifle experts out there?

    If you look at the ‘crosshairs’ used in the Palin political maps, they are not crosshairs, they are crop marks, placed on graphics to show where it is to be cropped for size. Those are not what you see when you look through a rifle scope.

  54. #54 January 10, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Rob De Witt commented:

    More:

    http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703667904576071943007100666-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwMDExNDAyWj.html

    As has been amply stated above, there’s exactly no hope that the lefties will recognize sanity in any way. The only hope is for all here to continue to, ah, refudiate the idiocy we all encounter daily with facts – when they lie in your presence, call ‘em on it.

    Don’t forget to pass this around:

    http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

  55. #55 January 10, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Jim commented:

    If you elected officials would do what you say when you are running for office and not say things you dont mean, then you really wouldnt have anything to worry about. REMEMBER You Are Working For The PEOPLE Of The Country Not the Money you get for personal gain on your words. Quit whining and do your job you were elected to do. What The People Want!!!!!!!

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