(August 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm)CliveStaples Wrote:What I find disturbingly interesting is the scant coverage of the FRC shooting by the leftwing news media, especially since they're so quick to blame and to link conservatives and the Tea Party to other shootings like the recent shooting in Colorado and the shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. Here we have a person, a volunteer at a gay center, that intended to kill people at the FRC building who was obviously influenced by the heated rhetoric from the left, including Mayors Rahm Emmanuel and Tom Menino and including the Southern Poverty Law Center over Dan Cathy's comments supporting traditional marriage. There's been very little coverage on the FRC shooting from the liberal news media because it draws negative attention to a liberal platform that they support.....(August 16, 2012 at 9:16 am)Epimethean Wrote: Clive, do you want to talk about the gunman, his sanity, or his actions, and, based on which of those should we discuss ideology?
People are generally motivated by beliefs--unless this guy really just randomly decided to shoot up this place and then randomly decided to say it was because of what the organization stood for.
Figuring out what beliefs motivated this guy could be important--helpful in predicting if/when it could happen again, identifying potential targets in order to better protect them, looking for "red flags" that could help identify similar offenders in the future, etc.
ABC's Brian Ross was too quick to suggest that a Tea Party adherent was responsible for the Auroa shooting before he had to retract and apologize......
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20...89471.html
Chris Matthews suggested a link of Palin and Bachman to the shooting of Giffords....
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-di...us-gun-cra
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