Loughner’s Jewish mother? Not so much

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Loughner’s Jewish mother? Not so much

By Ron Kampeas

I noted the other day that an acquaintance of Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, believed his mother was Jewish.

Bryce Tierney told Mother Jones that Loughner listed Mein Kampf as a favorite book in part to provoke his Jewish mother.

Nate Bloom, the noted Jewish roots columnist and researcher, has done the legwork -- and pretty much buries this notion.

I'll hand it over to him:

It is appalling how one comment---a friend of Jared Loughner telling a Mother Jones’ reporter that Jared Loughner’s mother is “Jewish”---goes viral in an instant.

In hours, "this fact" was all over on anti-Semitic sites. And, of course, there are the “commentators” who love to ‘blame the victim’ via some pop psychology theory that Jared acted out of “Jewish self-hatred.”

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http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2011/01/12/2742519/loughners-jewish-mother-not-so-much

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. +1 I'm waiting to hear that he was covertly gay.

And that's why he shot Gifford. Cause she voted to repeal DADT. And he's a self-hating homo.

Yada, yada yada, blah, blah, blah.

[boobooday]

3. The Freepers already floated that one. n/t

[Ian David]

2. Here's more debunking...

Conservatives Desperately Try To Claim That Loughner Is A Liberal and Atheist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x180958