cnn-Candy Crowley: There is absolutely no percentage in any

[babylonsister]

politician casting blame for this gunman's actions. Paraphrased, but she mentioned Pelosi. So Dems, don't go there and blame teabaggers. Got it?

[Joanne98]

1. Natch!

[Kdillard]

2. Thanks but no thanks.

[flpoljunkie]

3. MSNBC just reported he was liberal and obsessed with end of world in 2012.

Solar flares, etc. Many on the far right are also obsessed with this.

[babylonsister]

5. WOW! I'm in a hotel and not able to get m$n; that's the first I

heard he was liberal. I read he was an admirer of Palin; wtf?

[flpoljunkie]

6. This was the perspective of a young woman who knew him in high school and college.

What I have read about him shows he was unhappy with the current government. He seems, more than anything else, mentally disturbed.

From the Arizona Republic:

On both the MySpace and YouTube Web pages, Loughner mentions his concern over literacy rates and that few people speak English. He also talks about his distrust of the government and suggests that anyone can call anyone a terrorist.

"I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slide show. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/09/20110109jared-lee-loughner-gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting.html

[babylonsister]

8. Thanks for the additional info. nt

[rasputin1952]

9. As far as....

"...suggests that anyone can call anyone a terrorist."

I'll say it...this clown is a terrorist.

Nothing like self fulfilled prophecy.

[RBInMaine]

13. This is right wing obsession with English-only, anti-government, and currency backed only by gold.

He clearly has radical right wing attitudes.

[AlinPA]

28. Those are teabagger obsessions, inspired by Beck. nt

[ProSense]

10. Irony:

The circumstantial evidence suggests a teabagger, but the "responsible" MSM gets to absolve high-profile people and politicians on the right of any blame while insisting that he was a "liberal."

[Kdillard]

11. Yep but not surprising.

[flpoljunkie]

12. This was the perspective of a college acquaintance. In truth, he is mentally disturbed.

[RBInMaine]

14. "Disturbed" or not, he KNEW just what he was doing, planned it, was no doubt ginned up by TeaRadical

rhetoric.

[flpoljunkie]

16. There seems to be no question he was mentally ill.

From what we know, or think we know, Jared Loughner, the suspected shooter, was This was not an organized act of political violence, or even a rational one. Loughner's statements were clearly insane, and though his ravings contained some political content, it is not political content that either side of the spectrum would easily recognize as their own. "I'm able to control every belief and religion by being the mind-controller" does not appear in the platforms of either party, for instance.

In the first hours after the shooting, however, we didn't know that. And it was scarily easy to tell a story in which an upset citizen had taken the exhortations various political leaders had made in recent years too literally. A lot of the attention focused on Sarah Palin's call to "Commonsense Conservatives and lovers of America: Don't retreat, Instead -- RELOAD!" That was linked to a map in which gunsights were placed on the districts of various vulnerable Democrats. One of them was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's. "It's time to take a stand" was written across the top of the map. But Palin wasn't alone in using violent imagery and rhetoric to rouse her supporters.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/01/some_thoughts_on_the_shooting.html

[Imajika]

17. Where is the evidence...

...or even any indication he was "ginned up by a TeaRadical"?

People keep throwing this around, but where is the evidence of this?

[DCKit]

7. Guess he shouldn't have murdered a nine-year-old girl then (especially).

Looks as though he's going to the hot place.

[Enthusiast]

4. Tea Bagger demonstrations all

over the nation have fallen just short of violence. Many of the participants have been armed as if they needed protection from........something.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. yeah we wouldn't want to go there, wouldn't want to hold these fucks

responsible for what they have done.

[Phx_Dem]

18. I saw that. Candy was frantically trying to excuse Republican hate rhetoric

from being in any way to blame.

We're talking about LEADERS of the GOP party making incidious, hateful and/or inciteful comments. I can't think of several GOP leaders who have done it (Palin, Bachman, King, Boehner), but I can't think of one single Democratic leader who ever made such violent or hateful comments.

Boehner told an Dem rep from Ohio he was "a dead man when he returns to the community" after he voted for HCR. I just read this last night in the latest Rolling STone issue. I heard about it at the time, but had forgotten.

[Dawson Leery]

19. There is a reason why CNN is last in ratings.

[Imajika]

21. Ofcourse Fox is number 1 in cable news ratings...

...and they are saying the same thing.

[Dawson Leery]

22. The point is the tea party/right wingers are at Fox.

CNN is trying to copy Fox without any success.

[golfguru]

23. yap, success has many fathers, failure is an orphan!

[impik]

20. Stupid woman.

[cilla4progress]

24. It doesn't matter his political bent...

this is about violence and insanity, and the incitement thereof, thereto. How many on the left - even during the Reign of Terror (GWB), actually incited acts of gun violence, as we have heard from the right over the past 2 years? Most on the left want strong gun control, also.

[roguevalley]

25. Candy Crowley is a lard ass. There. I said it.

[Bunny]

27. I'm a lard ass, too. I guess Candy Crowley and I are exactly the same.

:eyes:

[roguevalley]

29. only if you think so. excuse my impolitic statement but I mean it at

that moment. so.

[Zoeisright]

26. Candyass Scowley is a tool.

A repuke tool, no less. Why she is on television is beyond me. Nothing about her is remotely appealing.

[JamesA1102]

30. She has been a RW hack for years. nt

[oasis]

31. Candy Crowley:Half Baked Journalist.

She's gotta be Wolf Blitzer's niece. How else can you explain why she's kept her gig so long?

[golfguru]

32. This dude has been obsessed about Rep. Giffords since 2007

when he attended one of her public meetings and was not happy
with her response to his question.