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The Boston Globe’s top headline with the mug shot of the shooting suspect: “Few words as suspect faces court.”
The New York Post: “Psycho with a ‘killer smile.’”
The New York Daily News also splashes Loughner’s mug shot on its cover with this headline: “Face of evil.”
“In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner’s lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley’s successful insanity claim after shooting President Reagan led Congress to raise the bar, making the task harder,” AP writes.
“Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords wrote an e-mail Friday, a day before she was grievously wounded, congratulating [Trey Grayson], the new director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and saying she wanted to talk with him about ways to tone down the political debate,” the Boston Globe writes. Grayson, a Republican, ran for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky.
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After seeing the crazy eyes of Loughner, NBC looks so foolish for trying to bring Palin into this.
El Rushbo is a jerk.
I await, with interest, the right wing excoriating Limbaugh for politicising this tragedy. If you were writing posts yesterday, attacking those of us who believe that words matter, you have an obligation to take Limbaugh on about what he said yesterday...that is, unless you believe that it is only wrong if it is the other side.
That is part of the problem. We need the more responsible Republicans to call out the extremist when their rhetoric goes too far.
I first tried listening to Rush Limbaugh thirty years ago. I couldn't stomach him then and I can't stomach him now. I couldn't believe how he put a spin/out right lie on everything. I feel that he is a coward as he would not take any calls that disagreed with him. I guess that explains the term Ditto Heads. So here it is thirty years latter and he still has, a large audience. I have to think of the old saying, there is a sucker born every minute.
Thank you Mr Limbough. You prove once again where the hate eminates from.
When Sheron Angle says she will look for "second amendment remedies" if she loses the election, and Reid responds by calling he evil, is that equivalency? If you listen to the pundits, it is.
The logic seems to be pointing out evil, is evil. Give me a break.
The right-wing has missed an opportunity here to lead. They should have said "good people need to come together to work on a solution to prevent gun violence, and we will lead on this issue." Instead, they act with aggression to batter their political opponents, whining, harrumphing, insulting, and yelling, thus proving the very charges, that they are bullies and demagogues, they are trying to dispute. And none of it brings back the citizens who were gunned down on the street or prevent the future mass casualties that have become common place.
Why haven't we seen or heard from Dick Armey? His organization Freedom Works was partly responsible for the Tea Party movement. Remember Dick on the campaign trail standing with Michelle Bachman spewing hate against President Obama? Since the shooting in Arizona Saturday, Dick and Michelle have been silent I wonder if they are having second thoughts about all the hate they are responsible for, I doubt it though.
What Limbaugh said does not surprise me in the least. He once again shows himself to be the steaming pile of pig feces that he truly is!
Understanding the ill conceived conventional wisdom that 1) there is no right or wrong 2) that all blame must be split down the middle and equally divided - just like in Kindergarten. 3) that after a tragedy - all past ills must be artificially forgotten - Kumbaya time ! - "can't we all just get along?"
Understanding all of this - and having watched the hate filled rhetoric spew for years now - It's easy to say:
The Tea Party has blood all over their hands.
Wash all you like - it's still there.
And I won't suspend all intelligence and entertain your notion that YOUR BOY was a Gold Standard, End the Fed, End Fed-Med, bring down the government & kill Democratic Leaders 'Liberal' - because that's RUBBISH.
The blood is on YOUR hands.
Rush Limbaugh is a narcissist with absolutely no shame or conscience. Nothing that is said about him, phases his hateful ego. He isn't capable of feeling empathy, or guilt. He only knows what makes him feel good and what feeds his sense of power. It is useless trying to argue or debate a person like that. The only way to thwart him is to ignore him. The simple, uninformed that hang on his every word, also are a lost cause. You can't reason with people like that as they are completely unreasonable. I firmly believe that they ARE NOT the majority, and will soon be made irrelevant.
Hopefully when congress reconvenes, if we are very fortunate, there just might be a change of attitude among the hate mongers. Is it possible that just maybe, we might even get a bill introduced to ban ammunition for assault weapons? Maybe?