{"id":28458,"date":"2011-01-10T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28458"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:35:27","slug":"whos-to-blame-for-the-weekend-murder-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28458","title":{"rendered":"Who’s To Blame For The Saturday Shootings In Tucson?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said that most people left are center are so because of the left’s effective demonization of the right, not because they hold left-wing positions.<\/p>\n

We conservatives think this guy Jared L. Loughner should be executed. Liberals say no. He’s not culpable for what he did.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton should be removed as secretary of state. To compare Islamic terrorists to this man Jared L. Loughner as an example of our extremists just like you do, wow. Hillary Clinton tells the Arab world that we have the same problem. This is vile.<\/p>\n

The only thing to be learned from this weekend’s terrible event in Tucson is how the left lies to further its agenda by demonizing the right.<\/p>\n

Many of you are asking, am I demonizing the left?<\/p>\n

Demonizing means you attribute things that are not true. Are you lying with negative rhetoric?<\/p>\n

Hysteria is almost a monopoly of the left, from heterosexual AIDS in America to zero population growth or the world will have no more food. They are like the borderline personality — in need of constant tension. There are individuals who need permanent crises so they create them. They thrive on emotional eruptions. That’s the left. The left lives for the next reason to be hysterical. Is it peanuts in school or carbon dioxide emissions or silicone breast implants? The list is endless.<\/p>\n

When President Reagan was shot, there was no talk about all the hate rhetoric against President Reagan from the left. It was understood that his shooter was deranged, but if a Democrat is shot, then it is right-wing hate.<\/p>\n

Leonard Bernstein said, “If Ronald Reagan is elected, the Klu Klux Klan will come to office. I have been warned my entire life that right-wing violence will tear this country apart. It’s never happened and it won’t happen. It’s not part of the DNA of the right. It is part of the DNA of the left. Look at the animal rights groups and the violence against professors. Give me an analogous thing on the right.”<\/p>\n

“Who needs body guards when they go to speak on university campuses? Right-wing speakers. It doesn’t matter how radically left you are, you don’t need a bodyguard. Ann Coulter. David Horowitz. They travel with bodyguards to college campuses. Whose speeches get interrupted and ended on college campuses? Right-wing speakers.”<\/p>\n

The WSJ editorializes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nIn a better world, no one would attempt to exploit his madness for political gain. We would instead focus on the contributions of Ms. Giffords, by all accounts a laudable public servant. We would celebrate the lives of the other victims, and we would praise the survivors who intervened to tackle Mr. Loughner and disarm him before he could kill others\u2014like 74-year-old retiree Bill Badger, who was grazed in the head by a bullet before helping to restrain the shooter.<\/p>\n

But the shooting news had barely hit the wires on Saturday before the media’s instant psychoanalysis put the American body politic on the couch instead of Mr. Loughner. “Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics,” declared a story in the New York Times, which focused primarily on the tea party and Sarah Palin in the context of mass murder. The story even hauled in opposition to health-care reform.<\/p>\n

Politico, the Beltway website, chimed in by quoting a “veteran Democratic operative” advising the White House “to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” just as “the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people” in 1995. <\/p>\n

…Judging from Mr. Loughner’s own website, his mind was a mess of conspiracy theories, influenced by tracts like “Mein Kampf” and the “Communist Manifesto.” His main complaint about government seems to be that he believes it is trying to control American “grammar.” Yet this becomes an excuse for the media to throw him in with the tea partiers as “anti-government.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From DennisPrager.com<\/a>: Who takes the blame for Arizona murders? Sarah Palin and the Tea Party? Keith Olbermann and the Daily Kos? Martians? Or maybe the sicko who pulled the trigger? <\/p>\n

Monday, January 10, 2011 Radio Show
\nH1: Raising Arizona
\nPrager H1: Over the weekend the usual suspects Paul Krugman, Frank Rich and alike, wrote columns attributing the murderous Arizona nut\u2019s motives to the Right, Sarah Palin, and so on. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton said in the United Arab Emirates that: \u201cwe have the same kind of problems\u2026\u201d Dennis clarifies why we do not have the same kind of problems.<\/p>\n

Monday, January 10, 2011 Radio Show
\nH2: Danger on the Right
\nPrager H2: The discussion of blaming the Right for the assassination in Arizona continues. Callers weigh in.<\/p>\n

Monday, January 10, 2011 Radio Show
\nH3: A Monopoly on Hate?!
\nPrager H3: Why is hate always ascribed to the Right? Dennis makes the point that hate is not only, not exclusive to the Right, but that it is far more prevalent on the Left.<\/p>\n

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Robert Davi Sings Sinatra <\/a><\/h2>\n
Monday, January 10, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:00 PM<\/div>\n
You can get more information on Robert Davi and his concert this Saturday, January 15, at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, CA here<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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Sarkozy: Christians Being Ethnically Cleansed from Arab Middle East<\/a><\/h2>\n
Friday, January 07, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:46 PM<\/div>\n
The French leader is more capable of speaking truth <\/a>than most European leaders. Why isn’t this a bigger international news story? Even a liberal columnist for The Atlantic is wondering<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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Environmentalists Exaggerate Wildly Again<\/a><\/h2>\n
Friday, January 07, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:25 PM<\/div>\n
You know that big plastic island of garbage <\/a>floating in the Pacific the size of Texas? Huh, it’s barely there.\n <\/div>\n
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Your Tax Dollars at Work: Georgia and “Hopemobiles”<\/a><\/h2>\n
Friday, January 07, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:10 PM<\/div>\n
High School students in Georgia <\/a>with a B average get “free” money for college — a Hope Scholarship. They use it to buy themselves a new car. <\/div>\n
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Assassination in Pakistan Rocks That Country<\/a><\/h2>\n
Thursday, January 06, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:23 PM<\/div>\n
This is the biggest story of the year, so far. And it’s very disturbing<\/a>. If Pakistan falls, the consequences will be very grim, not just for Pakistan, but for the world, too. <\/div>\n
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Thomas Sowell: Basic Economics<\/a><\/h2>\n
Thursday, January 06, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:09 PM<\/div>\n
<\/a>Dennis talks to the greatThomas Sowell, scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essential book Basic Economics<\/a>: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy has now been issued in a 4th edition.\n <\/div>\n
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More on Alison Armstrong<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:00 PM<\/div>\n
You can learn more about Alison Armstrong, her books, and her popular seminars here<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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A History of American Death Penalty<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:14 PM<\/div>\n
<\/a>Dennis talks to David Garland, Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. His new book is Peculiar Institution<\/a>: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition<\/p><\/div>\n
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Study: Give Alzheimer Patients What They Want<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:49 PM<\/div>\n
Give chocolate to a 96 year-old-Alzheimer patient. Why is this so innovative?<\/a> Isn’t it just plain common sense and decency? What a world we live in. <\/div>\n
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Michael Young: Why Is US Placating Syria?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Monday, January 03, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:11 PM<\/div>\n
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The President used the Congressional recess to appointment an ambassador to Syria for the first time since Syria orchestrated the assassination of the prime minister of Lebanon in 2005. The very measured Michael Young calls it foolish<\/a>, but it’s clear that he thinks it’s stupid and counterproductive.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Young Europe: Educated and Frustrated<\/a><\/h2>\n
Monday, January 03, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:09 PM<\/div>\n
The most important story of the year <\/a>and we’re only three days into it! Do these young Europeans understand why they are in this position? That socialism is a dead end. That only free market capitalism can save them? <\/div>\n
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How to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child<\/a><\/h2>\n
Thursday, December 30, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:02 PM<\/div>\n

<\/a>Dennis talks to Anthony Esolen, professor of English at Providence College. His new book is Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chaim Amalek emails me: “Do you think the recent attempt on the life of Representative Giffords will make it harder for you to get within microphone range of Dennis Prager?”<\/p>\n

Khunrum emails: “If it wasn’t for my association with Luke, I would still not, to this day, know who Dennis Prager is. Even now I view him as some wacko with an opinion on everything who also plays an accordion. I believe the assassin who is out to kill Dennis Prager would also have a grudge against Pee Wee Herman.”<\/p>\n

Chaim Amalek emails: Seriously, I live in what many regard as the “media capital of the world” and I have never, ever, ever heard or seen this guy’s name come up. It is entirely possible, therefore, that this is a “Fight Club” type situation, and “Dennis Prager” is purely a creation of Luke’s imagination.<\/p>\n

Similarly, it is entirely possible that “Luke Ford” was born “Leon Kampowski” in Patterson, New Jersey. The human imagination is a mighty thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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