Posted on 01/12/2011 2:20:15 AM PST by markomalley
Imagine the Saturday morning of congressional aide Mark Kimble. Kimble told of going to a Safeway for a typical meet-and-greet event with his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Kimble said he went into the store for coffee, and as he came out, Giffords was talking to a couple about Medicare and reimbursements, and federal judge John Roll had just walked up to her and shouted “Hi” – when a gunman opened fire.
Nobody in America should greet this scene with any other initial reaction than horror. Six people were killed, including Judge Roll, several retirees, and a nine-year-old girl. Over a dozen others were seriously injured in the carnage. Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition. Sadly, shamefully, within just minutes, a nasty political spin was kicking in without any brake for decency or evidence. Conservatives were to blame.
CNN broke in with this horrible news at about 1:30 Eastern time, and within an hour, CNN put on on the local political cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons, who announced that the shooting was “inevitable” considering “The Right in Arizona, and I'm speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state.” The state also had a conservative “fetish” for guns that added to the inevitability, he claimed.
Fitzsimmons later apologized, something a whole of lot people should consider doing if they have a shred of decency. I have never witnessed such an immediate rush to tar a majority movement in my life – without a ounce of evidence.
The star of the media’s Smearing Olympics was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat who rushed to the readily available media microphones to proclaim the shooting was the natural outgrowth of hot “anti-government” talkers, that “the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from the people in the radio business and some people in the TV business” was to blame.
At first Dupnik didn’t name names, but you knew who he meant. He later said he wanted to say Rush Limbaugh first, and Glenn Beck as well. That began a deluge of “news” coverage blaming conservative radio hosts, Fox News, and politicians like Sarah Palin for their alleged encouragement of nutty lone gunmen to kill federal judges and congressmen.
Even as they acknowledged the shooter’s motive was a mystery, liberal reporters were filling their buckets with mud. Typical was CBS reporter Nancy Cordes, who scolded that “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in cross hairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring. Giffords and many others complained that someone unstable might act on that imagery.”
Jumping into special coverage on MSNBC, that dispassionate news “anchorman” Keith Olbermann insisted that Palin should apologize or be “dismissed from politics.” It mattered not one iota to this man who drools nightly hatred that his friends at the Daily Kos also talked of a “target list” with Rep. Giffords – and dehumanized her a “congresscritter.”
This flood of slanderous sludge is designed for nakedly political benefit: to paint a permanent black mark on conservatives as accessories to murder, and criminalize any expression of conservatism as a dangerous anti-government conspiracy.
Happily, after a few broadcasts of this vomit, CBS pollsters found 57 percent of Americans questioned on Sunday and Monday didn’t accept the notion that the country’s “harsh political tone” had anything to do with the Tucson rampage.
Conservatives could see the liberals trying to replay the Oklahoma City bombing smears from 1995. An anonymous, cowardly “veteran Democratic strategist” whispered to Politico that Team Obama needs to “to deftly pin this on the tea partiers … Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
Is this deft? Or just daft? This partisan insanity was presented as savvy by the usual suspects. Ex-Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman oozed that Obama needed to gain advantage over Republicans without seeming political: “The trick is to make it without seeming to be trying to make it. He will, after all, be speaking at a funeral.”
Another sicko at Newsweek, Jonathan Alter, was so indecent that he calculated how Giffords is more valuable to Obama alive than dead: “Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank God, which offers other possibilities. We won’t know for weeks or months whether she can function in public. If she can, she will prove a powerful referee of the boundaries of public discourse – more influential, perhaps, than the president himself.”
Thank God Giffords survived – so Obama can be re-elected? Alter is the one who needs a referee – some editor who can tell him he couldn’t find a “boundary of public discourse” if it slapped him in the face.
Alter sounds like such a creepy character. it seems like he is saying.. “well, if she had died, we would have tossed her useless corpse into the ground and forgot about her, but now that she has some value to us and we need to use it”
I guess the 9 year old girl is just some corpse to him as well.
I mean what the hell is wrong with his mind. and the others.
I don’t believe Gabrielle Giffords will blame conservatives. I could be wrong. But I have a gut feeling that she is not that kind of person.
as far as the media in general..So far so many people here don’t want to get into the mud. But we may have to risk getting dirty to fight back against this. because if they keep pounding this into peoples minds, it could work.
Alter sounds like such a creepy character. it seems like he is saying.. “well, if she had died, we would have tossed her useless corpse into the ground and forgot about her, but now that she has some value to us and we need to use it”
I guess the 9 year old girl is just some corpse to him as well.
I mean what the hell is wrong with his mind. and the others.
I don’t believe Gabrielle Giffords will blame conservatives. I could be wrong. But I have a gut feeling that she is not that kind of person.
as far as the media in general..So far so many people here don’t want to get into the mud. But we may have to risk getting dirty to fight back against this. because if they keep pounding this into peoples minds, it could work.
I do not think it is working for them anymore. The smears and lies are not taking hold. We have the counter to it now. It is easier to expose.
Another example that leftwing liberalism/socialism IS a mental disorder and pure evil.
We need to stop projecting onto them our standards and our values. We need to stop staring agape at their behavior. We need to accept what they are telling us...and gird our loins for war!
Their intended audience isn't conservatives but fellow Lefties and independents who are left leaning. And their message to their faithful is quite effective at building morale and firming support.
“Liberal Sickos Exploit a Rampage”
Should read: “Pscyhotic, Adolescent Liberals Attempt to Sway Brilliant, Intellectual, Really-Really Smart Independent Sentiments by Accusing Tea Party of Murder”
IMHO
Exactly.
Alter is the guy who a) listed all the press campaigns then current in his Newsweek column, 15 years ago or so, and called on fellow liberal journalists to be careful about taking on too many causes, lest the MSM be unable to focus .... and then he b) told the GOP in 1995, after the MSM's "campaign of personal destruction" against Republicans had been raging for about eight months after the 1994 election in which the Dims lost both Houses of Congress, that they were on the verge of becoming a "non-serious", marginal political party, and that what they needed (he's talking to the RiNO's now) to recover from the ravages of Newt Gingrich's disreputable leadership, was to nominate someone for President in 1996 who had gravitas, who would be the anti-Rush, anti-Newt: Bob Dole.
I've got $500 for anyone who wants to take the sucker bet, that Alter didn't have the results of Slick and Dick Morris's under-the-radar (Chinese-treason-financed) political research and focus-group test-marketing of Clinton's Campaign '96 themes, that Bob Dole tested out as Slick's ideal matchup -- the worst, the weakest, the most feeble candidate the GOP could nominate against Slick Willie.
But that's who Alter told all those MOR, trimming, respectability-junkie UMC RiNO's, that they absolutely had to nominate -- Bob Dole, or <shudder> they'd never be taken seriously again!
Oh, the horror!
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Folks dont go shopping At TARGET,You will be castagated by liberals for contributing to the Hate in our discourse.
As was reported on Hater Glenn Becks show Yesterday a Shopper Braved going into the T store and said there were these dangerous Figures with Wings with Bow and arrows all over the Place ,I think Janet Napolitano should be Notified.
Thanks Glenn for taking the Most effective Weapon in Saul Alinskys Manual ,RIDICULE!! There is No way to answer this, makes them Look like the Idiots they are
Just like 1995 -- "Rush drove the truck, and Newt lit the fuse! Ten people saw them!" Slick Willie was a bag of vomit that week, all phony "I feel your pain" just so he could do, next to 169 open graves, what he came to do -- stick a political knife in someone's back.
Brent Bozell has one of the toughest, dreariest jobs in America. I'm glad he does it for us, but I couldn't blame him if he were a screaming alcoholic or half nuts by now.
Even with that, Dole still would have won if not for the Perot effect.
I agree with you. Knowing that people like Jonathan Alter exist makes my day darker.
Not.
The cracks of doubt started to appear when disparate information sources became available, and the left lost their monopoly on the dissemination of information.
Now, everything they say, for some people, is either checked before being believed, or outright dismissed as leftist propaganda.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655685/posts
‘HE DID NOT WATCH TV. HE DISLIKED THE NEWS. HE DIDN’T LISTEN TO POLITICAL RADIO’ (MSM throws up!)
drudge ^ | 1/12/2011 | dr
Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:21:14 AM by milwguy
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