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The Aurora Shooting: Sometimes There’s Nothing Wrong with Politicizing a Tragedy [BARF]
Time ^ | 7/20/2012 | Michael Grunwald

Posted on 07/21/2012 2:02:26 PM PDT by markomalley

The telegenic schoolmarms we call pundits are all denouncing the politicization of the tragedy in Aurora, calling out the crass opportunists who would dare to use human suffering to advance their preferred public policy choices. I feel terrible about what happened in that movie theater, and I’m agnostic about gun control, but there is nothing wrong with politicizing tragedy.

(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; US: Colorado
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Of course there is nothing wrong with politicizing a tragedy...provided that it is the left doing the politicizing.

Disgusting.

1 posted on 07/21/2012 2:02:29 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

...is this the same Time magazine that is sitting on stories that make Obama look bad?


2 posted on 07/21/2012 2:04:01 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: markomalley

So when a guy pulls out a gun and screams “allah ackbar” as he begins spraying a crowd with bullets we’re told by the media that it is NOT an act of Islamic terrorism.

When a crowd of black teenagers brutally beat a white person while screaming racial slurs, we’re told it is NOT a hate crime.

When a guy pulls out a gun shoots people in a theater, we’re told that it’s the Tea Party/lack of gun control’s fault.


3 posted on 07/21/2012 2:07:51 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: Tzimisce

I think this one earns at least a triple barf!


4 posted on 07/21/2012 2:08:18 PM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: Tzimisce

Fact is, zero’s a staunch supporter of OWS and admonished them to ‘get in their faces. If they bring a knife, you bring a gun.’

Well, one of his guys took him up on it. That’s called inciting violence around these parts.

I don’t think it will take long to show Holmes was OWS.


5 posted on 07/21/2012 2:14:20 PM PDT by txhurl (Scott Walker is my President.)
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To: markomalley

As long as a tragedy can be exploited by the left, they’ll be there.


6 posted on 07/21/2012 2:18:01 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: markomalley

Time Magazine has about same amount of pages as “My Weekly Reader” these days.


7 posted on 07/21/2012 2:21:31 PM PDT by dancusa (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. H.L Mencken)
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To: dancusa

I remember years ago the saying was that ‘Look’ was for people who can’t read and ‘Time’ was for people who can’t think. La plus ca change ...


8 posted on 07/21/2012 2:36:24 PM PDT by Old North State
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To: markomalley

Just imagine if the shooter did have provable ties to the Tea Party. All of the rat media broadcasters would have paper bags over their heads to control their hyperventilation. Meanwhile, Brian Ross is still in mourning, not over the attack, but over coming ‘this close’ to being a lib hero.


9 posted on 07/21/2012 2:38:11 PM PDT by JPG (Whatever semantics are used, it is still a TAX.)
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To: markomalley

They may just pull a Lee Harvey Oswald just to give the whole event more of an impact on the gun control crowd.

Imagine an America where all law-abiding citizens are disarmed. The place will be unlivable.


10 posted on 07/21/2012 2:38:18 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: markomalley
The Aurora Shooting: Sometimes There’s Nothing Wrong with Politicizing a Tragedy [BARF]

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Sometimes it's not about politics at all...

There is genuine evil in the world--
Occasionally breaking forth and manifesting in the hearts of unrepentant and godless men--

Who then decide to act out...
...And laugh about it later...

11 posted on 07/21/2012 2:47:13 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: txhurl

The media is being carried in Obama’s purse. If the shooter was a part of OWS, we’ll probably never hear it reported.


12 posted on 07/21/2012 2:49:48 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: dancusa
Time Magazine has about same amount of pages as “My Weekly Reader” these days.
But way, way fewer readers.
13 posted on 07/21/2012 3:03:40 PM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: Tzimisce
"but there is nothing wrong with politicizing tragedy."

It's that thinking that gave the world the "Reichstag Fire" school of politcs

14 posted on 07/21/2012 3:46:07 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: markomalley

This took the heat off of Huma Abedin and Erica Groshen.


15 posted on 07/21/2012 4:47:04 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: markomalley
(Article) The telegenic schoolmarms we call pundits ....

Yeah? Well, then what the hell are you, tool?

16 posted on 07/22/2012 10:34:42 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: 353FMG
Imagine an America where all law-abiding citizens are disarmed. The place will be unlivable.

Yeah, you'll be able to tell, by all the piles of the dead.

What was their number? 25,000,000? But that was way back in 1971. Wonder what Bill Ayers's number is now?

They have ever been the party of butchery. People who refuse to believe it will find out the hard way. Leopards don't change their spots, and neither do hyenas.

17 posted on 07/22/2012 10:40:15 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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