A gunman opened fire at a town hall style meeting hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D- AZ; 8th district) outside a Tuscon-area Safeway grocery store, shooting 19 people on Saturday before being subdued and having his pistol wrestled away by bystanders.
A Federal Judge, a US Marshall, one of Gifford's aides and a 9 year old child were reportedly among those killed in the shooting. Early media reports had erroneously said that Giffords was one of the fatalities, but doctors at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tuscon said that the Congresswoman was responsive and is expected to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.
The gunman, believed to be 22 year old Jared Loughner, shouted something before opening fire on Giffords and the crowd. He was reportedly wrestled to the ground and subdued by bystanders after he started shooting.
Loughner left a farewell message on his MySpace page and left YouTube videos that consisted of white text on a black background saying that an individual could start their own language or circulate their own currency before ending with 'My Thoughts- Jared Lee Loughner' [Milblogger JR Salzman was able to post some of the videos at his place- NANESB!]. According to police, a preliminary investigations indicates that Loughner acted alone.
Already, the MSM and progressive blogosphere are showing their concern for Gifford's well-being by attempting to single-handedly pin the shootings on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, even though Giffords is one of the more conservative House Democrats to win re-election in 2010. In fact, the Daily Kos felt it necessary to delete a diary entry marked 'My Congresswoman [Giffords] is DEAD to me' posted about 48 hours before the shooting that was captured elsewhere for posterity.
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Mrs. Palin took down her website where she had a map of the US with targets painted over Congressional Districts, including Rep Gifford's.
ReplyDeleteOf course! That would explain all the other Democrat congresscritters that were cut down in a fussilade of gunfire in the last 2 months! Sarah Palin made them do it.....
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....maybe she took it down because the elections are over? Just a thought.
But I'll indulge you in your stupid little passive-agressive game.
Care to explain this? http://www.verumserum.com/media/2010/03/DLC-Targeting-map.gif
I mean....this 2004 map from the Democratic Leadership Committee and it's got targets and hostile militaristic rhetoric and everything! It even refers to a good number of US states as BEHIND ENEMY LINES.
Or this more recent map from the DCCC listing 'targetted Republicans'?
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=13647
But I'm guessing you'll find somewhere else to troll instead of clicking on any of those links.
When I pass along something reported on broadcast news this evening, I'm not sure why you are so upset. But you of course should be who you are. Rep Gifford read the freedom of speech and religion portions of the Constitution this past Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why you are so upset
ReplyDeleteYeah yeah yeah.....it's my fault for being so gosh darn angry and irrational. Because as we all know, broadcast news in the past has shown itself to be completely without bias and infallable.
Funny how with all the facts flying fast and furious after the Fort Hood shooting the same broadcast media was absoluteley certain what the shooter WASN'T (even though he likely was).
Now with this spree in Arizona, the same broadcast media is attempting to establish the narritive of what the shooter WAS (even though he likely wasn't).
Six people died yesterday due to an deranged little anarchist wannabe. One was a federal judge, one a ten year old girl born on Sept, 11, 2001. The shooter listed Mein Kampf and the communist manifesto on his favorites list, yet somehow Sarah Palin is to blame. The left has showed their ugly faces once again.
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