MSNBC: "Not politically motivated"

[gatorboy]

What the hell? He shot a politician!

[Odin2005]

1. Fucking corporate media!

[patrice]

2. AND a Federal Judge! . . . by accident?

[malaise]

8. Not just a Federal judge - the Chief judge

and one who had to be protected because of threats over a civil rights case.

[cherish44]

3. "was an obviously disturbed individual"

No shit????

[patrice]

4. That's just what ALL of Palin's boosters HAVE TO SAY now, because they are complicit. nt

[devilgrrl]

5. Of course not!!!!!

Who would think such a thing.

:wow:

[Angry Dragon]

6. And they know this how??

[DJ13]

7. The MSM wants to diffuse the political aspect

Because THEY are the ones who made both the tea party and Sarah Palin household names, and they arent done using either of them just yet.

[patrice]

14. God, I hope some of these families sue the fucking shit out of MSM. nt

[movonne]

35. You are so right.....palin loves killing animals and people...the faux

darling...MSM has made her,the teabaggers and the rest of the whack jobs..and they will keep on doing so..

[zanana1]

9. I knew they'd try to de-politicize it.

After all, that would make the Republicans look bad.

[TBF]

10. He killed a Federal Judge - that is what we should be focusing on. nt

[malaise]

19. John Roberts just put out a release

on his murder.

[valerief]

11. I guess the little girl was actual target.

:sarcasm:

[tallahasseedem]

12. They're spinning so hard right now...

The MSM is culpable in this assassination attempt. Period.

[zanana1]

17. Same thing happened with JFK and RFK. nt

[zanana1]

24. Tea Party Express just expressed their shock and sadness...

They are just breathtakingly stupid and amoral.

[movonne]

37. and martin luther king....

[killbotfactory]

Shooting a politician at a political event means it was politically motivated

It wasn't random. The guy chose this event and knew who he was shooting. He was clearly mentally disturbed, but most lone assassins are.

[d_b]

13. SHOCKED

[blondeatlast]

15. She's not dead. Please take care. I know that we're all upset.

Judges are not, and should not be--political.

[onehandle]

16. It's true. He was aiming for the Barista across the street.

Starbucks bruised his latte.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. What utter bullshit!

I am disgusted beyond belief.

:mad:

[EFerrari]

20. Support the independent media. Today is Exhibit A. n/t

[upi402]

21. and MSNBC is our ONLY voice

So sad. This country is gone.

[xchrom]

22. Remind me again-- who was critically wounded an killed? Nt

[Takket]

23. pretty sure he wasn't there to rob a casher.... nt

[Barack_America]

25. Apparently MSNBC is close with the shooter?

To have this kind of knowledge of his reasoning?

Idiots.

[d_b]

26. His initial target was the burger king across the street

but he got lazy and said fuck it, these folks will do

amirite?

[Lucian]

27. She's not dead.

A judge, among others, are dead.

But I believe it was politically motivated.

[zanana1]

31. I hope, hope, hope...

I hope she isn't brain damaged, but that would be quite a feat, seeing that the bullet went into one side of her brain and out the other.

[Lucian]

34. Yeah, it's hard to tell now.

We won't know for probably weeks what her prognosis will be.

I hope she'll make a full recovery.

[CTyankee]

36. god, me too...I hope it wasn't in the part of her brain that controls her

ability to think rationally...brain injury survivors can have very limited lives...and it's sad...had a friend whose husband had one...lingered 4 years in nursing home, died finally of an infection (due to his having to be prostrate for so much time each day)...they kind of "let him go"...that must have been a horrible experience...cannot imagine...

[gatorboy]

32. Fixed.

[2Design]

28. political terriorism by nuts being incited by nuts in news media

[liberalmuse]

29. How absurd!

It appears as if a politician was targeted if you go by the fact that she was shot at point blank range. Sometimes (hell, truth be told, most of the time) the MSM, even MSNBC are such fucking dolts.

[Sonoman]

30. He didn't know the gun was loaded, either.

Hell, he was probably just trying to scare her.

I wish everyone would simply take a deep breath and stop all of this over-reaction.

Sonoman

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. He's also apparently a delusional psychotic.

Who to judge from some of the insane and paranoid ramblings posted on his Youtube channel and his Myspace page etc would have likely shot a Republican as soon as a Democrat (since he seems to have had some generally bizarre broadly anti-government beliefs not directed against a particular party). Saying 'not politically motivated' is probably not true on the sketchy evidence that's available so far, and it's too early to really know; but it also doesn't necessarily appear that he was motivated by right-wing extremism as much as by psychosis (but again, it's still too early to really know).

[kestrel91316]

38. MSNBC, as a corporation, is a person. A mentally handicapped person.

[Darth_Kitten]

39. Oh, the spin continues....

Let's ALL take our share of the responsibility... we all contributed to this!

:puke:

[Raine]

40. and their proof is??????

Have they talked to the guy or seen what he has in his house? Unless they have they can't say exactly what or wasn't the motivation was.

[Edweird]

41. Was John Hinckley politically motivated?

[jberryhill]

42. He had an obsession with a movie about a political assassination

Hinckley believed that by acting out the movie Taxi Driver, he would impress an actress in some way.

Loughlin's Youtube rantings indicate that he has mental instabilities which involve a constellation of political ideas. Some of these political ideas resonate with teabaggery.

I would guess there will be quite a bit of conspiralunacy in the bag as well.

[Edweird]

44. Well, he's alive (for the time being) and we'll be hearing more about his motivation.

Whether or not it's the least bit coherent is another matter entirely...

[walldude]

43. Depends on how deep you want to go.

There is a story about the Bush family, about Reagan stealing the presidency from Bush and about Neil Bush having dinner with Hinckley's brother a couple days before the shooting. http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

But that's all just a conspiracy theory. Just like Beck, Palin and Limbaugh have nothing to do with this shooting aside from their thinly veiled rhetoric on "taking back the country".

[Edweird]

48. I think the rush to assign blame is a bit premature.

I'm not absolving any of the RW'ers of their rhetoric. Loughner is alive and in custody so there will be plenty of time to get all the details. Given the circumstances I find it unlikely that it was not politically motivated, but it's still possible that he was just crazy.

If this is 'civil war', we have plenty of time to ramp up and get the war machine into high gear. The teabagger massacre can wait till tomorrow.

[spanone]

45. that's like saying that a bank robbery isnt' motivated by finances....

[AlabamaLibrul]

46. It was not politically motivated in the same way that me passing gas earlier was not beans motivated

They should be ashamed.

[Kurovski]

47. Which reporter said this and in what context?

I've been on MSNBC and seemed to have missed that.

[gatorboy]

49. It was an hour earlier.

I don't remember which reporter it was but he came to the conclusion that since there were no direct threats to anyone in office on his postings, then it wasn't politically motivated.

[Kurovski]

50. Thank you. (nt)

A hastily drawn conclusion, extremely Bad reporting.

[Divine Discontent]

51. exactly... you summed it up for me in 1 sentence... I get a tad wordy, so thanks, I'll just K&R!

:kick: