Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooter NOT Republican, Identifies as Woman | Dana ( 3:19 )
Published on Nov 30, 2015
Dana & Jim Hoft discuss the media spin on the recent Planned Parenthood shooting
Posted on 11/30/2015 12:26:10 PM PST by wagglebee
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, November 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The media made a rush to judgement in blaming the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting on the pro-life movement, according to Sen. Ted Cruz.
Shortly after the shooting, Planned Parenthood blamed the violence outside the abortion facility on "smear campaigns." But Cruz rebutted the notion that Americans who support the right to life are responsible for 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear's shooting spree, that ended three lives.
"The media promptly wants to blame him on the pro-life movement when at this point there’s very little evidence to indicate that," Cruz told The Texas Tribune, a liberal political website in his home state.
After a campaign event in Newton, Iowa, on Sunday afternoon, Cruz denied that an unstable person's actions should be blamed on a broad philosophical movement, adding that Dear's political leanings seemed complicated.
"It’s also been reported that he was registered as an independent, and a woman, and [he's] a transgendered leftist activist," Cruz said. "If that’s what he is, I don’t think it’s fair to blame [the shooting] on the rhetoric on the Left."
The only designations the shooter deserved were "a deranged individual" and "a murderer."
Cruz declined to label the shoot-out an act of "domestic terrorism" as Mike Huckabee had this weekend on CNN, instead calling it a "murder" that was "evil...horrific and wrong."
"We’ll find out more out about the facts, but I don’t think we should jump to conclusions," said Cruz, who has risen to second place in Iowa, just a few points behind Donald Trump in the latest Quinnipiac poll. "We don’t know...what those motives were."
"I have spent much of my adult life working in law enforcement, working against murderers and those who commit violent crime, and that one officer lost his life is particularly tragic," he said.
Officer Garrett Swasey, who was killed during the hours-long standoff with Dear, was a pro-life Christian pastor who gave his life trying to defend people inside Planned Parenthood.
Listen to an audio recording of Cruz's remarks:Link to Audio
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Since the guy was shooting at cops it’s much more likely he was motivated by the BLM crowd.
I thought Republicans were required by law to apologize to everybody for everything?
I think most likely this guy is like the other gun-wielding mental defects we’ve seen who are just looking to get attention for themselves. He apparently believed that disguising his attack as an abortion protest would get him more notoriety.
Yes, the BoweL-Movement crowd.
Either that, or the motivation to cause a Bank-to-Lose-Money.
Fox news radio is going forward with the pro-life attack. No evidence just unnamed sources.
If the liberal meme is true:
The Beatles caused Charles Manson (Helter Skeltor)
JD Salinger got John Lennon killed (Catcher in the Rye)
Jodie Foster shot Ronald Reagan
and Al Gore inspired Eco-terrorists.
Maybe he was mad that they wouldn’t let him use the women’s rest room...
The Left always tries to make mass shootings, done by white males, to appear to be terrorism, no different than a Muslim’s suicude bombing or targeted shooting.
And Lee Harvey Oswald killed Abe Lincoln...
Doesn’t quite work as well.
If people REALLY want to look to blame someone for inspiring things, they should look at the link between liberal horror writer Stephen King’s book (as Richard Bachman) “Rage.”
“Rage” concerns a loner who goes to school and kills the popular kids.
Several school shooters have either had the book in their possession or cited it in their manifestos.
If the liberal meme is true, then ?
This attack would have never happened if Planned Parenthood were not in exsistannce.
EVEN IF this had been a “right-wing extremist” attack on abortion providers... it would be the first since Tiller died and raise the death toll to 4 in this millenium. AND YET the MSM feels confident that they’ve identified a trend.
Meanwhile... Islam. Nothing more needs to be added.
Crazy, lonely losers shoot people because they are crazy, lonely losers. They may glom onto a left-wing cause or a right-wing cause or something else to justify themselves and try to make their blood lust heroic, but the cause isn’t why they kill people. They kill people because they want to kill people.
I think the guy was actually a nut, but half the country opposes abortion. The shooting (if it was actually about abortion) is Obama’s fault for funding PP with taxpayer money. It’s congress’s fault for not defunding PP. When half the country opposes something, you don’t cram it down their throats, which is Obama’s style. It’s his fault.
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