My prediction about the Right's reaction to the Norwegian terrorist:

[Bicoastal]

(I'm assuming that the information we've received from multiple sources continues to be correct)

For a while, they'll continue to try and find ways to paint him as a liberal commie pinko muslim, even though it's now looking like he was about as close to a European version of Timothy McVeigh as you can find.

But when it's firmly established in their minds that he hated Muslims, hated the unpatriotic, and hated left-wing politics in Norway most of all...

Well, at a certain point, someone idiot's finally going to say what they're all thinking:

"Well, with all that Socialism they have in Europe, it's no WONDER he snapped."

Mark my words.

[freshwest]

1. The RW is nothing if not predictable. After all, all their ideas are from centuries ago.

Still very upset about this. Their society seems to be better organized and united in some ways so this is more of a shock. Also, it's not that large a country compared to the USA so this event will reverberate for a long time.

[enki23]

2. they're already saying it. just not out in the open.

they're saying worse than that. to more than a few, he'll be a fucking hero.

[Lasher]

3. They'll never get to the part where they admit he's a fellow right wing fascist.

[bluethruandthru]

4. I think they'll do the same thing they did after the Gabrielle Gifford shooting.

After they're unsuccessful in painting the guy as a left wing wacko...they'll say it was just one mentally ill guy who was in no way influenced by their non-stop hate-filled rhetoric.

[Bicoastal]

7. Actually, I don't think THAT guy was any more politically-minded than Travis Bickle...

Then and now, he seems too young, too alienated, and too plain crazy to identify with anybody. And I thought it was sickening the way the Freepers and DUers alike started feverishly hunting through his pathetic little biography for political affiliation. "He smoked pot--he's a Lib!" "He loved Atlas Shrugged--he's a Con!" It was literally sickening. I don't think Gifford's shooter was representative of the extreme political partisanship in this country--but the reaction to the shooting sure as hell was.

This is something else entirely.

[kenny blankenship]

5. He didn't really hate Muslims - it was just a BLUFF!

[cwydro]

6. Can someone direct me to a link

that says he was a winger? Haven't found that yet.

Was he responsible for the bombing as well?

I think there is still much to come out about this event.

[jberryhill]

8. Links

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/norway-attacks-anders-behring-breivik-reported-suspect/story?id=14139886

Norwegian television said that Breivik belongs to right-wing circles in Oslo, and a Swedish newspaper has reported the Breivik has posted on right-wing forums in Norway.

Norwegian media has linked Breivik to a Facebook account in which the poster described himself as a Christian conservative.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0722/The-Norway-terror-attacks-Nationalist-motives-may-be-root-cause.

The alleged assailant is also identified as holding anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant views that are common among Norway's far right. A twitter feed of a man with the same name and carrying the same picture as the Facebook page has only one tweet, left July 17 in English: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests." The quote appears to be a paraphrase of John Stewart Mill, the 19th-century English philosopher of utilitarianism and liberty

[Bosso 63]

9. The Right is Always the victim, they only react

to what has been done to them. Some how they will see themselves as the "REAL" victims of this nightmare. It's always all about them.

[johnd83]

10. They have been calling for similar stuff to happen in America

What do you thing a "second amendment remedy" looks like? This right-wing militant mindset is extremely dangerous, and it is very powerful at brainwashing mentally ill people.

[shoutinfreud]

11. Comments on newspaper now show them playing the denial card

Saying that the press has it wrong or, my favourite, suggesting there was moe than one attacker because of the distance between the bombing and the shooting. Okay; so maybe there was more than one, but are they NOW suggesting that Right Wing nuts and Christians are working together now?

[BeFree]

12. This is what war brings out in people

They can't join the army and go shoot 'em up. So after awhile they take to the street and act out, trying to be an army of one.