Posted by
Far_view on Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:47:30 PM
There's a good post
here at
American Spectator about how journalists used the event of the tragic
shooting in Arizona of Congresswoman Giffords with Sarah Palin and the
Tea Party. One of my leftie friends on Facebook was also trying to make
that association. As the American Spectator piece points out, there is
no association whatsoever between the shooter and the Tea Party. If
anything, the guy might have been something of a liberal as pointed out
in the article in a citation of a Twitter exchange with one of the
shooter's classmates:
"One of Loughner's classmates in high
school and community college, Caitie Parker, voided much of the baseless
media speculation with a few Twitter messages Saturday afternoon.
Parker, herself a liberal, said Loughner was "
a really good friend," whom she described as having been "
left wing," "
a political radical" and "
quite liberal" when she knew him, although she lost touch with him after 2007 when he "
became very reclusive." Loughner was a "
loner" and a "
pot head," Parker said in a Twitter colloquy with Anthony De Rosa of Reuters."
Even liberal journalist
Howie Kurtz has pointed out that there is no basis for trying to pin any responsibility on Sarah Palin.