"His favorite books were the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf"

[Saboburns]

Per Republican talking head lady on Fox News at 9:18 am Eastern time

[stray cat]

1. Actually on the mass murderers Facebook page

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. ..so he targeted a Democratic congresswoman.

Fox, you're really desperate, aren't you?

[tnlurker]

3. One is Far Left...The other is Far Right

What is her point?

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Prediction:They were both written by *atheists*.

I think I see where they're going with this.

(Despite the fact that Hitler wasn't an atheist.)

Plus which... on youtube he lists about twenty favorites, some political, some not. No coherent ideology ( or philosophy) discernible from his reading material.

Edit to add: the main aim here, you realize, is to get the word "Communist" out there.

Doesn't matter how much contradictory information one has to ignore; GET IT OUT THERE.

[Chipper Chat]

Well, excuuuuuse me Fox lady.

I thought his favorite book was 'Going Rogue'

[WinkyDink]

4. Along with about 100 others (FB).

[SoCalDem]

He probably just copy/pasted the High School Required reading list

:(

[slackmaster]

5. I only heard of the shooting about 20 minutes ago

From what I have seen so far, the guy sounds like a mentally disturbed person who took politics far, far too seriously.

[MH1]

6. Also 'We the Living'. Sound familiar? It should. (Ayn Rand)

[MH1]

7. But funny how they don't mention THAT one, huh?

[DaveinJapan]

10. nor Animal Farm. nt

[zeemike]

16. You beat me to it.

And that book was mandatory reading for the far right.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Manson's favorite was the Bible

nt

[mmonk]

9. Which indicates he watches Glenn Beck.

[jody]

12. Some scholars assert Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's writings that spawned

Left and Right Hegelianism were the source for Marxism and Fascism.

That's interesting because neoconservatives first found fertile ground in the left political community but in the 1980s moved to the right political community.

[HereSince1628]

13. This list of his favorite books was take from his website...

I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno."

http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-lee-loughner-2011-...


This is a great example of how the media spins the news.

[Smarmie Doofus]

15. There ya go. Siddhartha. He musta been a Buddhist. n/t

[HereSince1628]

17. Also Alice in Wonderland...he must have been the Mad Hatter!

Everyone is looking for ways to say "he's not like me, he's not like us" because if we can say that it makes "me/us" feel safer.

Even if it's just through the act of denial, we want to think we could never walk into a shopping center and be killed by an act of violence. We want to think that no one like us could do such a terrible thing, no family member, no classmate, no political soulmate etc, would do such a horrible thing...

and if they did, it would be because they are 'deranged.'

[upi402]

14. Saw that

In honor of the slain I'm monitoring Fox. It's been a looong time and is unnerving, I'll tell ya.

[OHdem10]

18. FBI says not much to be gained from reading List. They have

associated him with a Group that is anti-semetic
anti-government anti -immigrant. They believe
he could be a member.

[demwing]

19. "Anti-semetic, anti-government, and anti-immigrant" - sound familiar?