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Let's not make this something it isn't
Salon ^ | 1/9/11 | Steve Kornacki

Posted on 01/10/2011 2:27:14 PM PST by paudio

But it should also be noted that what we have learned so far about Loughner defies ideological branding. Based on his MySpace page and series of YouTube videos he apparently made, Loughner is fixated on his area’s literacy rate, government "mind control methods," and ... something having to do with America’s currency. A high school classmate describes him as "left-wing." He also is apparently fond of "Mein Kampf" and Karl Marx and may be somehow connected to a fringe anti-immigration group. And he despised Giffords. Make what you will of all of that. My hunch is that Lougnher is just basically crazy, and that his political thinking isn’t particularly coherent or organized.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: az; giffords; jaredloughner; palin; sarahpalin
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Some liberals realize that keep blaming Palin on this would simply make them look more foolish.
1 posted on 01/10/2011 2:27:17 PM PST by paudio
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Too late. We’ve got them on audio and video, and we can make hay off their vicious foolishness for weeks to come.


2 posted on 01/10/2011 2:30:39 PM PST by Mamzelle
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may be somehow connected to a fringe anti-immigration group
3 posted on 01/10/2011 2:34:36 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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Now they are starting to realize the guy is a left wing nut case they are trying to change the narrative to: “Oh political ideology has nothing to do with this case, the guy is just nuts”.
4 posted on 01/10/2011 2:35:44 PM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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Hitler hated liberals and commies. This guy was covering the full spectrum of idiologies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler’s_political_views


5 posted on 01/10/2011 2:36:17 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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"his political thinking isn’t particularly coherent or organized"

So he is a Democrat then!

6 posted on 01/10/2011 2:37:46 PM PST by hometoroost (From Hope and Change to Gropin' Some Strange)
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Hitler hated liberals and commies. This guy was covering the full spectrum of idiologies.

Not really, Hitler's National Socialist Party was economic statist, just like the Communists. Hitler hated anyone he didn't control (just like Stalin).

7 posted on 01/10/2011 2:40:05 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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Now that it is becoming increasingly clear that the accused shooter is a creature of the progressive society and marxist public schools — now — now the left wants to change the subject.
8 posted on 01/10/2011 2:40:53 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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>> Now they are starting to realize the guy is a left wing nut case they are trying to change the narrative

It’s not about “realizing”, their lie failed big time.


9 posted on 01/10/2011 2:42:22 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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Everytime I see a thread about news on this shooter I get the image of the scene where a young man fawns all over Obama at a public event a couple of years ago and says, “I love you Obama!”


10 posted on 01/10/2011 2:45:52 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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...we can make hay off their vicious foolishness for weeks to come.

I'm not entirely sure that "making hay" is the most useful descriptive, but I think I know what you mean.

I'm hoping that (following a suitable cooling off period, and a rational sorting through the pertinent facts) responsible spokespeople for our side will consistently and carefully note the left wing's hysterical, spring-loaded, and truly Stalinist blame-blitz.

That the left can't help themselves from this behavior gives us good (metaphorical) ammo support our notion that the left cannot be trusted to inform or govern.

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11 posted on 01/10/2011 2:46:18 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Hitler's National Socialist Party was economic statist...

NSDAP = National Socialist German Workers's Party. There's a well-circulated myth that Hitler was pro-business, thus giving rise to the left's misinformation campaign that the NSDAP was to the right politically.

From the outset to the end, Hitler was a socialist, striving to create a worker's paradise (via the German Labor Front and the Reichsarbeitsdienst) in Germany. The only significant difference between A. Hitler and K. Marx was that the the latter was internationalist in scope and the former nationalist. Both despised free markets and capitalism.

Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto are remarkably harmonious when it comes to economics.

12 posted on 01/10/2011 2:56:20 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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“But it should also be noted that what we have learned so far about Loughner defies ideological branding”

WHAT???? Are they serious??????????????????????????????????

REALLY NOW IT DEFIES IDEOLOGICAL BRANDING WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. They sure had no problem branding him the day of the shooting!

And please the Communist Manifesto defies ideological branding.

Just like they were wrong on other things I’d like to see if he really belongs to a group against illegal aliens. They were wrong about most things already and I would doubt that one. I know he belonged to that Above Top Secret site and I may be wrong but from what I heard that’s full of liberals.


13 posted on 01/10/2011 2:58:23 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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Sure, now that we know he was a leftist instead of Tea Party type...NOW we will just call him crazy.


14 posted on 01/10/2011 3:06:29 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: wolfcreek

The Nazi’s were the original Greenie’s so Hitler couldn’t have hated all the liberal things. And Wikipedia seems to have it’s own kind of history.

For your consideration...

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST

http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id9.html

Hitler’s Green Killing Machine

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/hitlers-green-killing-machine/


15 posted on 01/10/2011 3:11:46 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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The media would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for the internet.


16 posted on 01/10/2011 3:12:44 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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It’s too late for them to not make an ass of themselves. Their mothers already finished the job for them, and all they can do now is bray like one.


17 posted on 01/10/2011 3:40:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks that way to me:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=249429


18 posted on 01/10/2011 3:42:28 PM PST by goldi (')
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But the Left has this knee-jerk need to politicize tragedies. They can’t help it.


19 posted on 01/10/2011 3:44:25 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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“The only significant difference between A. Hitler and K. Marx was that the the latter was internationalist in scope and the former nationalist. Both despised free markets and capitalism.”

Well, that and the assumption that Hitler bathed on occasion, whereas the last bath Marx had was as an infant.


20 posted on 01/10/2011 3:45:00 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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