Wonder what you would find if you frisked the liberal mainstream media and their coverage of the Rep. Giffords shooting?
Answer: They cannot resist the urge to use tragedies in order to play politics.
First, click here to see some of the crucial facts that the liberal mainstream media has been ignoring.
In my blog post yesterday, I mentioned that it comes as no surprise that the liberal mainstream and others from the Left are trying to use this tragic event to play politics. Those who are blaming this horrible event on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Fox News, the Republican Party, and other conservative political identities are immature and irresponsible.
What’s the reason for all of this? Glenn Reynolds – from The Wall Street Journal – elaborates:
Shortly after November’s electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews’s TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday’s tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped that Jared Lee Loughner’s killing spree might fill the bill.
With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and reporters seemed to agree that the massacre had to be the fault of the tea party movement in general, and of Sarah Palin in particular. Why? Because they had created, in New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s words, a “climate of hate.”
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To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a) asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?
I understand the desperation that Democrats must feel after taking a historic beating in the midterm elections and seeing the popularity of ObamaCare plummet while voters flee the party in droves. But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America’s political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.
Where is the decency in that?
I believe the last paragraph says it loud and clear. The Left is so frustrated that they cannot find any hardcore evidence against the Tea Party movement in order to use it against them and discredit their political ideology – plain and simple. Therefore, we can only expect a lot more garbage and nonsense to spew out of the enormous megaphone known as the liberal mainstream media. Heck, it has already started.
Here are some of the liberals who are trying to play politics with this tragic story (this list will be constantly updated):
- NJ Democrat Blames Fox News for Giffords Shooting
- Jane Fonda Blames Giffords Shooting on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party
- RedState: From the Mailbag
- Markos Moulitsas from The Daily Kos
- Fire Dog Lake Blames Sarah Palin
- The Left already blaming Palin and more for Gifford shooting
- Before the shooter was identified, Paul Krugman was already blaming the incident on Sarah Palin, Tea Party activists, and opposition to national health care.
- He Goes There… Olbermann Blames Palin, Allen West, Tea Party, Beck & O’Reilly for Shootings Today By Marx-Supporting Liberal Lunatic (Video)
- CNN Singles Out Palin Rhetoric Even Though There Is No Motive (Video)
- Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) Blames Sharron Angle For Giffords Shooting (Video)
- Rep. Grijalva (D-AZ): Palin Rhetoric Contributes To Shooting
- NOW: MSNBC Guest Blames Giffords’ Shooting On The Right. BEFORE: MSNBC Guest Calls For Violent Leftist Revolution…
- Hillary Clinton: A wonderful Congresswoman was just shot by an extremist in our country
- Former US Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE) Claims Gunman Was ‘Angry’ Over Obamacare Repeal
- US Rep. Brady (D-PA) Suggests Gunman Motivated by Sarah Palin’s Website
- AZ Sheriff Again Blames ‘Free Speech’ for ‘Angry Country’ Benefiting ‘Some Party’
- Newsweek Columnist Jonathan Alter Can Hardly Contain His Excitement Over Ways Obama Can Profit Politically From Giffords Shooting
- Rep. Clyburn (D-SC): “Reading Of The Constitution” Contributed To Climate Of AZ Shooting
- California-Berkeley Chancellor’s Reaction To Arizona Shootings Is Just What You’d Expect
- Barbara Walters: I Can’t Shake The Feeling That This Isn’t Sarah Palin’s Fault
- Senator Sanders (D-VT) Fundraises Off Arizona Murders
- Chris Matthews Cites Mark Levin Being Complicit In AZ Shooting
- Dem Congressman: If Violent Rhetoric Didn’t Cause This Shooting, It Will Cause Next One
- BECK HATE-FEST: Liberal Talker Stephanie Miller Says AZ Shooting Scenario Right Out Of Glenn Beck Transcript, Beck One Drink Away From Being This Guy
Expect this list to grow quickly…