Re: {OT:} Stand up for Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

It WAS a political assassination! What planet are you on?

The irony in that position is that Giffords is a Democrat with leanings more to the left than to the right (although is bears mention that she is a centrist-left as opposed to a centrist right), and Loughner is known to believe the far left rantings that GWB was in on the 9/11 attacks. W, at the very least, knew of the attacks before they happened and therefore is complicit in them.

So here we have a political assassination of a leftist by a leftist perpetrated on the left and decried by the left as being instigated by the right. This rhetoric emanates from the left, not from the right. If you want to blame vitriol and heated rhetoric, perhaps you should look to Maher, Stewart, Colbert, et al, for the sources instead of those supposed boogey men and women that the good Sheriff of Pima County has indicted.

I have to ask, what planet are YOU on?

I reject the heated rhetoric argument(s) out of hand, but for the sake of discussion if we are going to follow this line of reasoning, the heat and hate must be brought into focus.

Who is hating? Who is heating? Who is listening? I'm by no means a source for scientific studies (some will assert that I have to spell-check "science"), but if national TV ratings are any indication, those that listen/view to the Three Stooges I listed earlier, plus those that fall into the "et al" category, all combined do not number the audience of any one of the media sources indicted by Sheriff Dupenik. And the shooter clearly belongs to the former group, not the latter. He's been listening for years to the hatred directed at government from the left and upon the right.

Bush didn't do anything right for eight f---ing years, starting with wiping his ass -- hatred directed at the right.

9/11 is a conspiracy -- hatred directed at the right. You do not deserve to earn your money and keep it -- hatred directed at the right. Palin is a ditz and the Tea Party is worse -- hatred directed at the right. Marriage is one man and one woman -- hatred directed at the right.

The list goes on.

The trouble with growing a list like this is that the shooter drew into his cross hairs a person that is generally inclined to agree with his belief that all of these things are true. I would not suggest that a sitting Congressman (or a retired one for that matter) would believe in all of these things, but clearly Congressman Giffords would carry the party line of the left much further than she would carry the party line of the right.

Loughner has serious mental issues, and a behavior pattern that would seem to eschew the motives as ascribed by the Sheriff. And if the Sheriff's asserted motives are true, Loughner drew his hatred and vitriol from the left.

Only crazy or ignorant people have tried to inject partisan politics into this tragedy. Hey, didn't you portray assassin Jared Laughner as a liberal? Yes, you did, you petty child.

Well, the liberals portray him as a conservative whipped into a lather by the likes of Sarah Palin. What liberal would be excited to the point of shooting a Democrat because of anything Palin has to say?

It was the good Sheriff of Pima County that said Palin got this guy going, but his (the shooter) own diary, for lack of a better term, would indicate that he was more inclined to follow the rantings of left wing personalities rather than the right wingers.

Nobody is calling Loughner a liberal, but it is important to tie his own views to the proper sources if one is inclined to blame everybody in sight, except the shooter. Dupnik is the one that put the political spin on this event. Keep that in mind.