Blame Righty: A Condensed History

Michelle Malkin  "That same month, a sick, evil man named Jiverly Voong ambushed an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. Recently fired from his job, Voong murdered 13 people, critically wounded four others, and then committed suicide. The instant psychologists of the Left knew nothing about the disgruntled man of Vietnamese descent and undetermined political affiliation. But within hours of the shooting, commenters at liberal mega-website Huffington Post had overwhelmingly convicted GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the National Rifle Association, Fox News, Lou Dobbs, and yours truly. Liberal radio host Alan Colmes pointed his finger at the “huge anti-immigrant backlash in this country” — never mind that tens of millions of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens have coped with hardship, overcome racism, and embraced assimilation without going bloody bonkers."

Let Me Be Equally Clear  "Let me be equally clear. I am not arguing that the shooting caused the media to be recklessly irresponsible and wrong in its coverage of the cause of the shooting. It did not. But, separate from the Tucson shooting incident, now is a time to pause and publicly discuss the degraded state of mainstream media reporting and its effect on the health of our democracy."

Tucson and the Failure of the Political Class "The stampede to blame this terrible incident on a political movement that appears to represent more people than the traditional Republican and Democratic parties is horrifying, though perhaps not surprising. The attempt of Paul Krugman...to blame this shooting on what one saw “just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies” in the 2008 election campaign is the lowest and deepest excavation on public taste the Times has conducted since the 1985 headline about President Reagan’s planned visit to Bitburg, Germany: “Reagan Likens Nazi War Dead to Concentration Camp Victims.”"

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Krugman?  "Clearly, the MSM now has no justification to continue to make bogus charges against Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or conservatives in general. And Krugman and Olbermann and the rest are in a pickle. This is a potential public relations disaster for the left and they are in the middle of it. Fortunately, they have the MSM to cover-up for them.

"It would be media suicide for Krugman and Olbermann to admit they were wrong. Consequently, they have only one choice: continue the lie."
Ed Driscoll at Pajamas Media

Civility

http://townhall.com/cartoons/stevekelley

http://townhall.com/cartoons/kencatalino

http://townhall.com/cartoons/bobgorrell

Conservatives Criticize Free T-Shirts At Tucson Memorial Service (Updated)

TPM  "The shirts, which bear the same logo that adorns other items from the event -- including press passes, signage and volunteer t-shirts -- were placed on many of the seats in the lower sections of the arena when tonight's capacity crowd walked in. "

Weasel Zippers

Theme of “Together We Thrive” T-shirt came from Obama’s Organizing for America  "University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead.
"If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento.
"Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead."
This is what the Democrats have become.

Random Thoughts from Neal Boortz

Nealz Nuze  "....•People will scream louder and longer over a 15 cent increase in the price of their gas than they will about the loss of another freedom."....
"....•If you're in a bar, and some deranged killer walks in with a gun ... do you want him to be the only one in that bar with a gun?"....

The answer is: Those without shame

Lee Cary  "When the October 2002 memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D. MN) turned into a political pep rally, many were offended. But who realistically expected it to be anything other than that? In that extravaganza, dignity was only moderately conspicuous by its absence. To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel: The goal is to never pass up an opportunity to take partisan advantage of a prominent politician's death.
"It's happened again, this hijacking of mourning for political purposes, but this time the assault on dignity is more egregious. This time the props are innocent murdered civilians. And, this time they include a little girl."
Via  American Thinker

Hypocrisy, the Liberal God

Russ Vaughn "For every niggling example of conservative excitement to violence through political rhetoric there are multiple liberal transgressions where the vitriol and exhortations to violence are simply unmistakable or open to any mitigating interpretation. They don't tiptoe around the issue; they come right out and advocate murder and mayhem. Lest any liberal challenge me here, which I welcome and will gladly substantiate with example after example, I rest my case on this: "...

Massacre, followed by libel  "Furthermore, the available evidence dates Loughner's fixation on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to at least 2007, when he attended a town hall of hers and felt slighted by her response. In 2007, no one had heard of Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck was still toiling on Headline News. There was no Tea Party or health-care reform. The only climate of hate was the pervasive post-Iraq campaign of vilification of George W. Bush, nicely captured by a New Republic editor who had begun an article thus: "I hate  President George W. Bush. There, I said it." " Charles Krauthammer

http://townhall.com/cartoons/lisabenson

Gasoline’s prepping for a return to $4 a gallon

Marketwatch  "Gasoline, diesel markets have plenty of excuses for price spikes."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

House set to vote on healthcare repeal

Reuters  "The repeal vote would fulfill a campaign promise of Republicans who won control of the House in November elections. But the measure will likely die in the Senate, where Democrats remain in control.

"Even if repeal were to pass the Congress, Obama would veto it, the White House has said."

OBAMACARE BACK IN SPOTLIGHT NEXT WEEK  "The Democrats believe they have a potent new weapon in their quest for ever-larger government. As soon as the language become heated - which is to say as soon as the Republicans start making some good rhetorical points - the Democrats will start screaming that the Republicans are trying to incite violence. The Democrats and the big-government left would have us to deny and repudiate our very Constitution in order to avoid language that might offend the super-sensitive among us. Sorry --- not in my camp. I will defend, not deny the Constitution ... an act that puts me at direct odds with most Democrats."  Neal Boortz

On Obama’s Speech

Jonah Goldberg  "Will he hold to the spirit of his speech? Who knows? Bill Clinton’s Oklahoma City remarks were more high-minded than people remember. It was his comments the day after that were so horrendous and shameful.
"Like the man said, trust but verify.
"One last point. It is amazing how moving to the center amounts to taking the high road. Obama wants to be president again. That requires being a better one than he has been. The press will launch its usual lick-bath fawning, but I doubt they’ll acknowledge the subtle rebuke they’ve received."



http://townhall.com/cartoons/stevebreen



Punishing the Victims of Islamic Gender Apartheid?

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=32312

Phyllis Chesler "She is marked for certain death.
"Her final hearing takes place on Friday, January 14, 2011. If American Immigration decides to deport her back to her Muslim family in Africa, she will, without doubt, first be genitally mutilated and then honor murdered for insisting on remaining a Christian, for having fled an arranged Muslim marriage—and for having secretly married a Christian man.
"I doubt she will be able to take her case to the United Nations. After all, that august body has condemned free speech/truth speech as hate speech, especially where Islam is concerned. Incredibly, presumably “progressive” European countries have increasingly launched criminal investigations against their own politicians, human rights activists, academics for daring to tell the truth about Islamic gender apartheid if that truth shows Islam in a negative light."

Fire Krugman, Olbermann Now For Blood Libel Against Palin, Americans, In AZ Shooting

Big Journalism  "This week, a senior Democrat operative apparently told Politico.com that Obama needs to “deftly pin this on the tea partiers just like the Clinton White house deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
"Well, it looks like media like Krugman and Olbermann are doing their best to help them out. In the light of this tragedy, it is unfortunate to have to reduce it now to political terms. It would not be the first time a tragedy was misused by both politicians and the media. As some commentators have correctly pointed out, some members of the media didn’t wait even 24 minutes before trying to exploit, degrade, and distort this true American tragedy for their own gain. They should be worse than ashamed.
"They should be fired."

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

Neal Boortz  "Another thing ... no matter how wonderful Obama was last night in Tucson, we cannot let his expert and moving performance cause us to forget the agenda he harbors for our country. This speech does not mean that he suddenly believes in American exceptionalism; that he now realizes that the private markets are not "the enemy;" and that more government is not the answer to every problem, no matter how trivial, that faces us. He is still proceeding with his goal to radically transform our country ... and the Tucson tragedy doesn't give him that license."

The Non-Accusatory Case for Civility  by Rich Lowry  "The pep-rally atmosphere was inappropriate and disconcerting, but President Obama turned in a magnificent performance. This was a non-accusatory, genuinely civil, case for civility, in stark contrast to what we’ve read and heard over the last few days. He subtly rebuked the Left’s finger-pointing, and rose above the rancor of both sides, exactly as a president should. Tonight, he re-captured some of the tone of his famous 2004 convention speech. Well done."
  Via National Review

Instapundit  "ANOTHER UPDATE: “It was pretty close to a rebuke to his liberal supporters. He was telling them, and everyone, that the entire process of casting blame for a lunatic’s crime is foolhardy and simply wrong. He deserves credit for that. This sounded like much of what I and others have been writing since Saturday.”"