Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/tea-party-group-blames-leftist-for-giffords-shooting/69153/

Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting
By Garance Franke-Ruta Jan 9 2011

Showing no sign of tamping down on divisive political rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of 20 people that left six dead in Tuscon Saturday, the Tea Party Nation group e-mailed its members Sunday warning them they would be called upon to fight leftists in the days ahead and defend their movement.

TPN founder Judson Phillips, in an article linked off the e-mail "The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and the left's attack on the Tea Party movement," described the shooter as "a leftist lunatic" and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik as a "leftist sheriff" who "was one of the first to start in on the liberal attack." Phillips urged tea party supporters to blame liberals for the attack on centrist Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot through the head and is now fighting for her life, as a means of defending the tea party movement's recent electoral gains.

"The hard left is going to try and silence the Tea Party movement by blaming us for this," he wrote. Clinton used the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to "blame conservative talk radio, especially Rush Limbaugh" and "The tactic worked then, backing conservatives off and possibly helping to ensure a second Clinton term." "The left is coming and will hit us hard on this. We need to push back harder with the simple truth. The shooter was a liberal lunatic. Emphasis on both words," he wrote.

The Tea Party Nation is the sponsor of the Tea Party Convention at which former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker in February 2010. "America is ready for another revolution!" Palin told the assembled at the conference, to standing ovations....

[treestar]

1. Why wouldn't leftists shoot someone who was at least a Republican?

Or a tea partier? Man, talk about idiots.

[Kablooie]

16. Oh, now you're just using logic. Logic has no place in the Tea Party world.

[Kingofalldems]

2. That tells me they are feeling the heat

Rush will have the same response tomorrow.

[fascisthunter]

3. cult of sociopaths.... feel guilt? They don't have that capability

every sociopath does the same shit, accuse the victims of deserving it.

[begin_within]

4. Do we even expect them to live in reality anyway?

[d_b]

5. Good luck with that

[OHdem10]

6. Who has been the shooters so far. Not Leftists.

Would someone get it through these peoples thick skulls
Todays Leftists are not the 60s Leftists. Even then
the Lefties were not walking around brandishing weapons
show up at Presidential Campaigns with guns.

[mrcheerful]

13. Remember tighty whities think Black Panthers were liberals even though they

weren't interested in liberal causes, their major thing was stopping the oppression of black people by white police, but tighty whities can not see the difference, all they see are armed black guys who vote for liberals.

[emulatorloo]

7. Demonizing Liberals? they have a lot of NERVE to be using this type of Rhetoric today

[DCKit]

8. Attack! Attack! Attack! It's all they know. nt

[Canuckistanian]

9. Pathetic.

They're just counting on their sheep to believe this BS.

Why would a "liberal" try to assassinate a (very rare) Democrat in a blue state? It makes no sense whatsoever.

[emulatorloo]

11. The spin I read yesterday is that "he was a socialist/progressive who attacked her because she voted

against his communist dream"

I think I posted this yesterday somewhere -- wingnut comment on Yahoo or YOUTUBE yesterday

[Canuckistanian]

15. They'll say anything now

Anything to try and deflect criticism. And, it's basic denial behavior.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. Lie loud.

Nothing's changed.

[Odin2005]

12. They always blame "liberal infiltrators" when they are caught.

[Raine]

14. Why aren't they bragging about it, isn't this what they

have been advocating all along? Now they run from it, thought they wanted to be tough, macho and have our side in complete fear of them.