[Diogenez]

A few weeks before the Kennedy assassination a woman protesting Adali Stevenson let a protest sign slip and some of the cardboard brushed Adali’s head. This incident was extensively reported on at the time by the MSM. At the time of the Kennedy shooting - in the first hours and days after the shooting, the video of this incident was played and replayed in the MSM with the overwhelming commentary and implication being that the assassin was right-wing. This defamation was later cited by left wing commentators as being an important fact underlying and proving Oswald's innocence.

[livius]

The fact that Kennedy’s assassin was an unstable, poorly educated radical Communist who had spent time in Russia and thought he had a grudge against the US was barely reported even at the time. I lived through this, and as soon as the press realized that Oswald’s connections were entirely left-wing (in fact, extreme left), analyses of his motives disappeared from view...and then he was dead.

I think this current assassin, Loughner, was probably unstable at best and psychotic at worst. The latter may have been the result of some adult-onset form of schizophrenia, or it may possibly have been caused by excessive dope smoking. In high school in the 60s, I knew stoners who smoked so much that they were afraid to go into their lockers because “they” were watching them. I was never sure who “they” were, but then again, I didn’t dare ask.

[joelt]

More recently; Lefty mayor Bloomberg commented on the failed Times Square bomber as being someone unhappy with the healthcare debate.