Yep I remember Clinton and his “voices of hatred” speech.
Tucson was supposed to be Obama’s “Oklahoma City” moment, but it doesn’t seem to have helped him long term in the polls. Obama had a “Tucson bounce” in the polls but it’s long gone.
Why are liberals able to get away with this sort of thing? Clinton was never called out on this, as far as I know, in incorrectly blaming talk radio for the bombing.
And that idiot sheriff in Arizona, who decried how Arizona has become ground zero for hatred and violence, and blamed the political climate for the shooting of a deranged man. Has that sheriff ever been called out for incorrectly blaming that Tucson shooting on the allegedly violent political climate????
It always seems to me that liberals are llowed to say and do anything, and do not get called out on things when it turns out they made factual errors in describing a situation.
But conservatives are pilloried for misspelling a word, or allegedly saying they can see another country from their house, and we’re lectured that such incidents prove the lack of intelligence and sophistication of said conservatives.
Yet a liberal can ask a handicapped man to stand up out of his wheelchair, or misstate the number of states in the union, and we’re not supposed to say anything. Yet we know if conservatives had said these same things, the reactions of the liberals and the MSM would have been very different.
Who was the Arab seen leaving the truck? What were his ties to Iraq?
Because of two things. Shock and disbelief in the Conservative community--especially those outraged by the masssacre at Waco of a Church group by Federal forces--permitted Clinton in particular and the liberals in general to push the meme that somehow the OK City bombing was in retribution for Waco.
Note, too, that this took the wind out of the sails of the push for investigations into the slaughter at Mt. Carmel; the moral high ground had been lost by conservatives in the selfsame media which trumpeted the theme that somehow the images of a bloodied child in a firefighter's arms erased the evil of immolating children who had been beseiged for the last two months of their lives.
When one considers the deflection involved, it is small wonder that many Conservatives were hushed--Alinskyed into silence by the stigma of being associated in the public psyche with anyone who would perform such an horrific act.
Consider that the call for a repeal of the "Assault Weapons Ban" went dead in the water because of this same stigma, the Waco investigations were soft-pedalled and only partially available to those with CSPAN (some time between the close of House business and their early AM programming--anytime between 5 PM and 5AM, so you could not even set your VCR to catch it all), and the MSM (especially CNN) ONLY televised the first hour of Schumer's histrionics while cutting to commercial for questions from Republicans (five minute rule meant that the sides of the aisle alternated questioning for 5 minute periods--for CNN it meant 5 minutes of Dems, followed by 5 minutes of commercials, followed by 5 minutes of Dems...).
As a result, for most of America who even bothered to watch, the die was set that somehow the Branch Davidians were manufacturing drugs (not, and the Gov't knew it, and not the BATF's gig), were abusing children (not the jurisdiction of the BATF, not cause to assault the 'compound' with 100 armed agents of that agency), and in posession of unlicensed fully automatic weapons and explosive devices (which was never demonstrated--else they would have used them when they were defending their home).
As a result, the Clinton smear machine managed to lump Conservatives into the 'evil Neonazi baby-killer meme, en masse, and that general mindset persists and is still pushed by the likes of the SPLC, which has the willing ear of Federal Law Enforcement.
By the time the Obamites tried to pull this with the Giffords shooting, conservatives in general and gunowners in particular were wise to the tactic, and immediately and vocally stepped up to say "not us", and when the facts about the shooter's background came out, went on the verbal attack to point out that the shooter wasn't a conservative, nor a TEA partier, but a liberal whackjob.
Unless the media are spewing absolutely what willingly deluded people want to hear, people are beginning to realize the inaccuracies and falsehoods of what passes for journalism these days, and beginning to see that it won't pass the smell test of critical thinking.
Of course, that leaves roughly 40% of the population sucking up the pap, because they are hearing exactly what they want to.
We are on the defensive in the PSYOPS war, and we have to understand, not only what happened, but why it worked, or we will be doomed to manipulation by the same tactics.
So far, Conservatives have handled the Arizona shooting incident well, calling to account those who villified Conservatives, the TEA party movement, and gun owners before the facts were even out, as well as our genuine and gracious well wishes for Mrs. Giffords' recovery (along with the other wounded) and sincere condolences for the survivors of those who did not make it.