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January 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 13 Comments

From ABC News:President Obama’s dramatic news at last night’s memorial service in Tucson that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ has just minutes before opened her left eye for the first time since the shooting has created some confusion in light of news from doctors that Giffords “could...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 15 Comments

As I posted yesterday, I thought Obama gave a good speech at the Tucson memorial.  The mainstream media, which has been seeking a way to redeem Obama's presidency, is portraying the speech as turning point in which Obama brought us all together, in contrast to...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 13, 2011 8 Comments

In the list of egregious statements made about the Arizona shooting, many media personalities have been embarrassingly (or should be embarrassed, anyway) wrong about the nature of the shooter as details have been uncovered. While I don't really care much about their opinions, aside from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 63 Comments

I'm not sure if the various death wishes for Sarah Palin made on Twitter and Facebook, as a result of false accusations that Palin's electoral target map caused the Tucson shooting, constitute death threats.  Saying you hope someone is killed seems to walk right up...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 24 Comments

I thought Obama's speech at the memorial for the Tucson shooting victims was a good speech, better in writing than in delivery, which is unusual for him.The pep rally atmosphere was strange, but I learned long ago that people grieve in their own ways.  And...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 67 Comments

I linked earlier to a YouTube video montage [video removed, see update below] of death wishes tweeted about Sarah Palin after various bloggers maliciously linked Palin's electoral target map to the Tucson shooting.Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people who...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 12, 2011 6 Comments

There has been an article floating around the internet called "20 Ways to be Popular at an Expensive Liberal Arts School." While I technically go to an expensive research university, not liberal arts school, I think it's a pretty funny microcosm of the type of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 12 Comments

The people who falsely and maliciously accused Sarah Palin of inciting Jared Loughner to murder now are criticizing Palin for using the term "blood libel."The term "blood libel" has it's origins in the accusation in Europe (and more modern times, in the Middle East) that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 5 Comments

Is there anything left of the left-blogosphere, mainstream media and Democratic political accusation that Jared Loughner was motivated by right-wing vitriol?ABC News presents video of an interview with Loughner's close friend, who says:"He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 16 Comments

With each passing day, the evidence accumulates that Jared Loughner suffered from a mental illness completely disconnected from the political world, putting in context just how despicable the accusations were that a 10-month old electorcal map published on a Sarah Palin website contributed to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 25 Comments

Sarah Palin has released a statement on Facebook and video responding to the Tucson shooting and accusations that she caused Jared Loughner to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and to murder several people:Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.Here is the full text...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 11, 2011 29 Comments

"Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official, according to a person familiar with the congressman's intentions." This is really, really stupid. And, of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments

Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain:How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah PalinThe substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner:Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 11 Comments

David Brooks is correct in his overall analysis of the media smear against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement:All of this evidence, which is easily accessible on the Internet, points to the possibility that Loughner may be suffering from a mental illness like schizophrenia...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 9 Comments

CBS News has released a poll in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of several others.The poll results show that the attempts by the left-blogosphere, mainstream media and some Democratic politicians to blame right-wing political speech and Sarah Palin for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 18 Comments

Here we go, from Democratic House Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, writing at HuffPo (emphasis mine), who claims that the Obamacare repeal bill must be renamed in the wake for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting:As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 21 Comments

David Frum takes Sarah Palin to task for not being more public in her reaction to the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, not being sufficiently empathetic, and not grasping the scope (no pun intended) of the accusations against her, What Palin Needed To Say After Giffords'...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 14 Comments

This photo montage from National Review Online perfectly reflects what I have been writing about all weekend regarding the lie that Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties or right-wing "vitriol" caused Jared Loughner to shoot and kill dozens of people in Tucson:There really is no difference at...

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