Bias Media Refuses To Link White House Shooter With OWS

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez is alleged to have fired two bullets at the White House late last week. Ortega was also allegedly hanging around the Occupy Wall Street gang in DC before he shot at the White House. It appears that he has no actual affiliation with them, yet he was apparently mingling with them. What makes Ortega’s connection with OWS so interesting is that the mainstream press is completely ignoring it.

That is in stark contrast to Jared Loughner, the savage who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner had no political affiliations yet the mainstream press spent the better part of a week decrying “violent” right-wing rhetoric. The mainstream press spent a week attacking the Tea Party as violent, Sarah Palin in particular. In fact just this week Diane Sawyer continued link Palin to the shooting by pointing out the fact that Palin “targeted” Giffords for defeat during the 2010 election.

So where is the media outrage over the violent rhetoric coming out of the OWS crowd? Why isn’t the press linking violent OWS rhetoric with Ortega? You can bet that if Ortega has hanging out at a Tea Party rally shortly before shooting at the White House the media would demand that the Tea Party be forcibly disbanded by the government. Yet OWS is never mentioned by the mainstream press, no connection between Ortega and OWS is ever discussed.

Ortega in fact has more of a connection to OWS than Loughner did to the Tea Party. Ortega at least was seen hanging around the OWS hanging around DC. Loughner had never been to a Tea Party event and was a political dissenter who hated everyone. Make no mistake, both of these guys are wicked criminals who need to be locked up for a long time. But the media treatment of both incidents shows off their massive left-wing bias.

After the Giffords shooting the media went on for a week, showing clip after clip of allegedly violent Tea Party statements. Most of the statements had nothing to do with violence and were little more than analogies. Nevertheless, where are the examples of OWS violent rhetoric? In fact, why isn’t the media talking about actual violence at OWS? There have been two murders, a rape, multiple sexual assaults, countless theft crimes etc. Over 3,000 have been arrested. OWS is allegedly having a “Day of Action” in New York today wherein they will attempt to shut down Wall Street. One OWS protester threatened to throw molotov cocktails into Macy’s.

So where is the mainstream press on all of this? They’re silent. They haven’t reported on the violence at OWS and when they have they’ve blamed the police. They don’t show videos of violent rhetoric coming from OWS, they don’t keep an arrest tally and they don’t comment on the murder, rape and general mayhem. They also haven’t rushed to judgment by accusing Ortega of being part of OWS. Yet they did rush to blame the Tea Party for Jared Loughner.

It’s as simple as this, the mainstream press is left-wing. They agree with OWS and so they report it in the most positive light. They disagree with the Tea Party so they paint it in the most negative light possible. A Congressman is shot and it must be the fault of the Tea Party. A nut hangs out with OWS and shoots at the White House, the media doesn’t make the connection between the two. It all begs the question why left-wing media bias is even up for debate.

Hypocritical Left Uses Violent Rhetoric Against Tea Party

Just a few months ago when Rep. Giffords was shot by a loner gunman the left immediately blamed “violent” right-wing rhetoric for the shooting. Never mind of course that the gunman had no political motivation. Sarah Palin was the left’s favorite target because of a fundraising ploy in which Palin put various Democrat Congressmen in her ‘cross-hairs.’ In other words, Mrs. Palin was targeting certain Democrat Congressmen for defeat in the 2010 election. The left was enraged at the ‘violent’ nature of the rhetoric and took the Giffords shooting as a chance to attack Sarah Palin.

Fast forward this week and what is the left-wing line about the debt ceiling negotiations? Vice President Joe Biden called the Tea Party ‘terrorists.” His office denies this but it is undisputed that Rep. Mike Doyle alleged that his party “negotiated with terrorists” and that “this small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.” I surely hope the Tea Party is preventing further spending, but it is outrageous to call us terrorists.

Over at the New York Times, Joe Nocera claims that the Tea Party is waging a “war on America.” He declares “you know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists.” Thomas Friedman called the Tea Party the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP. Meanwhile Maureen Dowd has a glowing review of Democrats who declare the Tea Party to be “the Republican Taliban wing.”

Should we keep going? Politico ran an op-ed by Martin Frost titled “The Tea Party Taliban.” They also ran a piece by William Yeomans titled “The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics.” Margaret Carlson claims the Tea Party is a “nihilist caucus” who have strapped explosives on the Capitol. There are dozens of other examples from local newspapers around the country of leftists attacking the Tea Party by accusing them of being terrorists.

Keep in mind of course if the right ever accused Obama of being a terrorist the left would first call us racists then they would accuse us of hating Muslims. When they attack conservatives as being terrorists or part of terrorist Muslim groups it’s perfectly acceptable. Rather then engage in a battle of ideas with conservatives, the left would rather slander the right and act like spoiled school yard bullies.

Keep in mind, the Democrats won the debt ceiling debate. There aren’t any real cuts. Yet the far left is enraged, largely because they know Obama looked like a fool during most of the negotiations. In the end, they got bill that shuts out conservatives, raises the debt ceiling and doesn’t actually cut anything. You wouldn’t know that listening to these people whine about the Tea Party terrorists or the Hezbollah wing of the Republican Party.

The far left has two reasons for attacking the Tea Party in this manner. First, the left is furious that the debate was controlled by the Tea Party. Second, they’re setting up the Tea Party for when the economy gets worse. They’re going to blame the debt ceiling deal for the economy falling into a double dip recession, which of course will have nothing to do with a couple billion in cuts. Never mind of course that the debt ceiling bill was written by Senate Democrats.

Truth doesn’t matter with these people, all that matters is slandering opponents. It’s why they spent a month attacking conservatives after Rep. Giffords was shot even though the shooter wasn’t a conservative. They called for civility and an end to violent rhetoric by conservatives. Just six months later they’re calling conservatives terrorists and nihilists who are part of Taliban and Hezbollah factions of the Republican Party. So much for civility, so much for non-violent public discourse. On the left, the ends justify the means even if they’re hypocritical. That is the state of public discourse in America.  

 

Leftist Counter-Protesters Disrupt Tea Party With Violence, Racism

The left-wing media narrative is that the Tea Parties are violent, filled with frothing at the mouth racists. For those of us who have been to such events this narrative is absurd in the extreme. The Tea Parties I have attended have been tame affairs, filled with ordinary middle class Americans who are sick and tired of seeing their grandchildren’s future mortgaged by incompetent government. Most of the Tea Partiers wouldn’t know how to froth at the mouth even if they were encouraged to do so. The Tea Parties haven’t so much as left a water bottle at a protest site, much less engaged in any violent behavior.

But of course that has never stopped the left-wing media from claiming the Tea Parties are dangerous. After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting the left-wing media jumped on the idea that the shooter was a right-wing Tea Party crazy. They claimed that violent Tea Party rhetoric was to blame for the Giffords assassination attempt. Of course it turns out that the shooter was a apolitical and demonic individual with no affiliation with the Tea Party. In fact, he was on record hating the Tea Party. But that hasn’t stopped the left from blaming the Tea Party to this day.

In fact, it isn’t right-wing Tea Party rallies that are violent and/or racist and hateful. It is left-wingers who engage in such acts. Left-wing, socialist protesters set up a counter demonstration at a Portland Oregon Tea Party. This is of course their right. However, these left-wing groups engaged in the very sort of behavior they accuse the Tea Parties of engaging in. One video shows protesters claiming they wipe their A** with the American Flag. Another video shows leftists giving the middle finger to the National Anthem while dropping the F bomb. Still another video shows these socialists picking out a black conservative and calling him a token black and house servant. The worst of that video is the white guy claiming the black conservative is a “strong black man” in mocking tone.

The left often accuses the right of the very acts they engage in. The fact is that historically it hasn’t been conservatives who have been violent, it has been liberals. From the violent union protests of the 30′s to Bill Ayers to the murderous camps of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, it has been the left that has engaged in violence. Yet the left-wing media narrative has always been that it is the right that engages in such conduct. As though people who believe in freedom and equal justice would waste their time taking others right to life away from them.

What happened in Portland over the weekend is further proof that the left has lied about the nature of the Tea Parties. It furthermore highlights their lies about the nature of left-wing protests. Left-wing protesters aren’t about the little guy fighting the big bad corporate world. They aren’t about ending racism, how could they be when leftist protesters engage in racial attacks on black conservatives? Leftists hate freedom and they hate the inalienable rights given to us by God. They believe in social justice, they believe in state control over our lives. Yet the media portrays them as kindly freedom loving hippies while the Tea Parties are rabid, violent racism. In the day and age of You Tube the left-wing narrative is easily proven false.

Loughner Hates News, Where Is Obama?

Sarah Palin issued a statement condemning the ‘blood libel’ of the left-wing media. I couldn’t agree with Mrs. Palin more. The rush to condemn the free, open and vigorous debate we have in this country is disgraceful.

Meanwhile, more evidence comes out that Jared Loughner wasn’t influenced by talk radio. One of Loughner’s friends said that he hated watching the news and didn’t listen to talk radio. So much for Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck causing Saturday’s shooting.

The people who are using the Giffords shooting to further their own left-wing political agenda should be ashamed of themselves. The more information that has come out about this case the more it is clear that the shooter wasn’t right-wing and wasn’t influenced in any way by right-wing groups, radio or personalities. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County (a Democrat of course) disgraced his office by blaming the Tea Parties and Rush Limbaugh for the shooting without any evidence. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton disgraced her office and hurt the United States internationally by linking a lone criminal in Jared Loughner with international Muslim jihadists. The Democrats have cried wolf and it’s pretty clear they aren’t to be believed.

Speaking of Democrats, where has President Obama been in all of this? Rather than bring the country together, which is what most Presidents do at a time of national tragedy, Obama has been missing in action. He gave a brief statement on Saturday and has been mostly silent since. Meanwhile his party is busy trashing conservatives and Republicans, linking them to a crime that has nothing to do with politics. Once again, Obama’s lack of leadership skills shine for the country to see.

Peter King’s Proposed Gun Law Ineffective

Republican Rep. Peter King is planning on proposing a law that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a ‘government official.’ These officials will include members of Congress, the President and Vice President as well as Federal judges. This law is unnecessary and would have done nothing to prevent Jared Loughner from shooting Rep. Giffords last weekend.

To put Rep. King’s proposal into perspective, he wants to make it illegal to bring a gun within nearly three full football fields (I’m including both end zones) of a government official. It’s a radius of nearly a half mile. The size of this area is overly burdensome for gun owners. It’s arguably overly burdensome for law enforcement because if a Congressman has security with him the law would allow weapons checks within 1,000 feet of him. If law enforcement wanted to do such checks, the focus would move away from the Congressman himself thus setting him up for other forms of attack.

What really gets me about this proposal is that it places the burden on gun owners in two ways. First, it places a burden on gun owners to know when they are wining 1,000 feet of a ‘government official.’ Second, it places a burden on gun owners to know who government officials are. Focusing on the second point first, how many millions of Americans have no idea who their Congressman is? Yet it is up to the gun owner to know who he is and keep their gun 1,000 feet away from him. Almost no one knows who Federal judges are, most can’t name anyone on the Supreme Court much less local District Court judges. Yet it is up to the gun owner to know who they are and keep their guns 1,000 feet away from them.

Getting back to the first point, let’s imagine a certain person has a concealed carry permit that allows him to take a concealed gun anywhere he wants. Let’s say that first this person takes his gun to the local mall. Let’s also imagine that a Congressman is shopping at that mall with his wife. Even if the man with the concealed weapon has no idea the Congressman is even at the mall, he is guilty if his gun is anywhere within 1,000 feet of the ‘government official.’ They could be in different stores and never see each other, the gun owner is guilty under Rep. Peter King’s law.

Let’s imagine that a certain Congressman is running for re-election and is going door to door to solicit votes. Let’s say he knocks on the door of a gun owner who is at the time carrying a concealed or even an unconsealed gun. That gun owner is now guilty because he’s carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of a Congressman. Let’s say the Congressman never knocks on the gun owners door but does knock on the door of his next door neighbor. It’s a shame for the gun owner, he is guilty of having a gun within 1,000 feet of a Congressman because of Rep. Peter King’s proposed law.

The possible scenarios are endless. Someone with a gun could be at the 7-11 when a Federal judge comes in to pick up milk or get a Slurpee and he is guilty because he’s within 1,000 feet of the judge. This is so whether he knows the guy buying a Slurpee is a judge or not. What if a Federal judge moves in next door? Sorry but you’ll have to give up your guns lest you have them within 1,000 feet of a government official. This is so even if you have property large enough to shoot on. If your gun is within 1,000 feet of the judge, you’re guilty.

The sad part of this reactionary and draconian law is that it isn’t going to protect government officials from anyone. Law abiding citizens don’t use guns in illegal ways and are thus not dangerous when they bring their guns around Congressmen or judges. Criminals like Jared Loughner by their very criminal nature ignore the law and it’s a safe bet that they won’t be deterred by Rep. Peter King’s law. Does anyone really believe that Jared Loughner would have decided not to go through with his shooting had King’s law been on the books? He’s a murderer, I promise you he could care less about what the law is. Thus making King’s proposed law ineffective at protecting government officials and overly burdensome on gun owners.

Left-Wing Media Blames Everyone But Loughner

Some thoughts regarding the left-wing media’s reporting of the Rep. Giffords shooting:

If Jared Loughner were named Mohammed you can bet the media would be calling for caution in assigning blame. This is what they did after the Ft. Hood shooting. But since Loughner isn’t a Muslim, the media isn’t interested being cautious in assigning blame. Giffords is a Democrat, so the shooting must have been done by someone who supported the Tea Party, Sarah Palin or worse both. Within hours after the shooting the left-wing media, Fox News included started questioning whether the ‘toxic’ political environment created by Palin and the Tea Party caused this incident. To date there still isn’t any evidence linking Palin or the Tea Party to Loughner. The left-wing media acknowledges this but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to question Palin and the Tea Party.

Speaking of Sarah Palin, isn’t she supposed to be the dumbest person alive? The media has presented her as though she’s a total boob and yet she’s just smart enough to get people to gun down her political opponents.

The media is almost exclusively based in New York and Washington. By being based in two cities with relatively the same culture the media fails to understand how those in flyover country live. In failing to understand how the rubes in flyover country live they’ve failed to understand the popularity of old west culture. In fact, the wild west and the gun slinging language that goes with it is incredibly popular down south and out west. Those just happen to be the places where Sarah Palin’s biggest fans are. By refusing to understand how the rubes in flyover country live, the media has willfully refused to put Mrs. Palin’s statements in context.

The left-wing media is pushing the idea that conservatives have created a climate of hate. Yet the media apparently can’t see that they contribute to the climate of hate by demonizing conservatives. Or do they really believe that liberals can’t hate?

Having watched four days worth of left-wing media coverage of this tragic shooting there is only one person who hasn’t been blamed. While the media has spent a considerable amount of time attacking conservatives and blaming us for the current state of political discourse in this country what the media has failed to do is blame Jared Loughner. At the end of the day, it is Jared Loughner who planned this shooting and pulled the trigger. It is Jared Loughner who obsessed about Rep. Giffords since at least 2007. It is Jared Loughner who bought the gun and it is he alone who is responsible for this dastardly attack. There is no such thing as collective blame in a situation like this. Everyone makes decisions in life and Mr. Loughner made a decision to buy a gun, plan an assassination attempt and ultimately carry that plan out. He alone is responsible but he is the only one not being blamed by the left-wing media.

The media has exposed itself once again as far left-wing. They aren’t interested in reporting facts, they’re only interested in pushing a left-wing ideological agenda. Anyone who believes otherwise is either an idiot or willfully blind to what’s going on. The press is taking their opportunity to attack the people they hate most: Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. They have no evidence linking conservatives with Jared Loughner, they even admit that. But it hasn’t stopped them from attacking their political enemies. We do not have an unbiased press, we have a far left-wing ideological media that masquerades as unbiased. They are liars and charlatans.

Left-Wing Attacks On Free Speech Escalate

The left-wing assault on free speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting Saturday continues. Rep. Jim Clyburn renewed his call for reinstating the Fairness Doctrine yesterday. The Fairness Doctrine is little more than a vehicle for liberals to remove conservatives from the talk radio airwaves. The socialist motto is never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s pretty clear the progressive socialists in the Federal government aren’t going to let this shooting go to waste without demanding conservatives shut up. Make no mistake, this is their goal. They’re tired of conservatives questioning them over the airwaves. They’re tired of conservatives rallying around the ideas of small government. They’re tired of conservatives challenging their moves towards progressive socialism.

The remedy for these troublesome conservatives is two fold. First the progressive left demonize them. This is exactly what they did to Sarah Palin over the weekend. The shooter has no association with Palin and wasn’t influenced by anything Palin has done or said. Yet the left-wing media and liberal Democrats threw her name around and attacked her political speech. Second, the progressive left will try to regulate troublesome conservatives out of the marketplace of ideas. Jim Clyburn’s Fairness Doctrine demand is one way to regulate troublesome conservatives out of the market. Rep. Robert Brady is set to propose sweeping new regulations on speech aimed at members of Congress. All of this is meant to regulate speech, particularly the speech of conservatives.

What’s amazing about all of this is the sheer hypocrisy of the left lobbing these accusations at the right. In their minds only conservatives are to blame for the tense and vitriolic political climate we have today. Their very accusations of course contribute to this climate. But of course, the left can do no wrong. It’s only the right that needs their speech controlled. After eight years of extremely nasty attacks on President Bush, the left has the audacity to blame the right for the current political climate. The hypocrisy of these people is incredible.

The truth  of course is that political debate in this country has always been contentious. President John Adams and the Federalist Congress passed laws outlawing speech against the Federal government because the political debate of the day was so heated. The early 19th century saw extremely nasty debates over the Bank of the United States. The Progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th century had extremely heated debates. The New Deal was not supported across the board and was debated in extremely heated ways. The civil rights debates of the 50′s and 60′s were heated and just about every issue since then has been passionate and heated. Contentious political debate isn’t new, it isn’t worse because of 24/7 television coverage (which is only watched by the political junkies who would debate these issues anyway) it’s part of American culture and tradition. It’s part of our culture and tradition that must remain in order for us to continue in freedom.

Left-wing Media Exercises Zero Caution When Attacking Sarah Palin, Tea Parties

The media fallout from the Giffords shooting is nothing short of amazing. Is there any doubt the mainstream press harbors a left-wing bias? After the Ft. Hood shooting the media urged caution about blaming Muslims for the shooting. The fact is the shooter was a Muslim who shouted Allahu Akbar while shooting. But the media tells us to proceed with caution after that incident. Yet on Saturday the media outright blamed Sarah Palin and other conservatives for causing the Giffords assassination attempt. Where was the caution from the media? It doesn’t exist when they have a left-wing political agenda to push. Anything that makes the right-wing look bad, even if it isn’t true, is fair play according to the left-wing media.

In 2008 President Obama said about Republican attacks“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” But of course it’s only Sarah Palin’s gun rhetoric that causes crazy people to shoot Congressmen. Mind you of course there is still no evidence that Loughner even heard Palin’s statement, much less used her statement as justification for his attack. In fact, since Palin was once part of government and since she ran for Vice President, it’s a safe bet that Loughner considered Palin part of the vast conspiracy to control minds through grammar. In other words, Loughner was a nutcase and political rhetoric of Sarah Palin and other mainstream folks played no role in his assassination attempt. But of course, the zero caution left-wing agenda driven media won’t bother to make such connections. It doesn’t serve their political goals.

As stated in my past post, Palin and conservative rhetoric had nothing to do with Jared Loughner’s lunatic shooting. Loughner believes the government controls grammar and is involved in mind control. He’s believed this for years, having confronted Rep. Giffords three years ago on the matter. Now we find out Loughner had a creepy occult shrine in his back yard. Complete with a skull, shriveled oranges, cerimonial candles and oddly a bag of potting soil. This scene suggests to me that Loughner is less motivated by actual political issues than he is by either is occult religious beliefs or his own lack of sanity. But of course, the media will continue to blame conservatives. If only they could discover he went to church once in his life they could blame Jesus Christ!

While the media is busy blaming Sarah Palin and conservatives for projecting violent imagery in their speech, it’s important to look at what the left has done in the past on this very subject. Michelle Malkin has put together an incredible list of violent or disturbing political statements or acts by left-wingers aimed at the right-wing. I don’t believe this is speech that should be banned. It may not be in the best taste and it may not be speech that I would engage in but it is speech that is protected by the Constitution. Furthermore, I would suggest that this speech doesn’t cause people to fly off the handle and gun down Congressmen or anyone else. It’s little more than charged rhetoric, albeit slightly more charged than anything you’ll see at a Tea Party rally or coming out of the mouth of Sarah Palin.

The Left Attempts To Chill Conservative Free Speech

As I’m sure everyone is aware Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday. The shooter, Jared Loughner, appears to be a mentally unstable lunatic with no serious political motivation. Loughner has been described as a left-wing pot smoker who may have been part of some micro-racist organization. According to videos he posted on You Tube, he appears to be obsessed with government mind control and government control over grammar. In short, Loughner is a lunatic.

Just an hour or two after word of the Giffords shooting hit the news the left began attacking Sarah Palin and other conservatives for heated political rhetoric that contained mildly violent imagery. Palin told Tea Partiers last year to not retreat but ‘lock and reload.’ Her message was clear, rather than retreat and accept defeat Tea Partiers should reload and prepare for the next election or next big political fight. But of course, her context is completely ignored by liberals who have an agenda.

There’s no doubt that political debate in this country is heated and contentious. People on both sides of the aisle make statements that contain violent imagery, though in context are not violent at all. Today liberals are using the Giffords shooting to advance an agenda aimed at silencing conservative speech. They may not attempt to regulate it via Federal law but they are attempting to create a chilling effect on free speech by associating conservative speech with this shooting. This isn’t the first time the left has done this, they did it after the Oklahoma City bombing. They accused conservatives and Christians of using charged language which then Caused Timothy McVeigh to go over the edge. In reality, McVeigh was an atheist who could hardly be described as conservative.

Statements made by conservatives during the 2010 election campaign had nothing to do with Loughner’s shooting rampage. This guy was a lunatic and had been for quite some time. There is no evidence he was influenced by any mainstream political group. In fact, since he believes that government controls grammar and is involved in mind controlling conspiracies, he’s just as likely to hate Republicans as he is Democrats.

Three years ago he met Rep. Giffords and asked her ‘what is government if words have no meaning?’ This suggests two things to me. First, Loughner has been a nutter for more than the last six months. He’s clearly been off in his crazy world of government mind control for three years. Second, it suggests to me that recent political debates have nothing to do with Loughner’s rampage. Three years ago we had a Republican President, if he believes in government mind control it isn’t just Giffords who is involved in the conspiracy. It would have to include conservatives.

The fact is, heated political debate and even political speech that includes violent imagery doesn’t create a situation where Federal House members are shot. The left wants conservatives to just shut up and so they’re going to use Saturday’s tragedy to try to force conservatives to self censor themselves. But the fact is, there’s no amount of self censoring that could have stopped Saturday’s shooting. Jared Loughner is crazy and was hellbent on killing Giffords.

By demanding conservatives censor themselves, the left is really signaling that they want us to shut up while they try to force socialism on the country. They want us to shut up when Obama tries to force through Cap & Trade via regulation. They want us to shut up while Obama tries to push death panels via regulation. They wanted us to shut up last year during the Obamacare debate. In short, the left wants conservatives to keep quiet while they abuse their power. If they can’t force the right to shut up through Federal agencies like the FCC, they’ll guilt conservatives into shutting up by accusing us of being responsible for a lone lunatic like Loughner. The left has politicized the Giffords shooting. These people on the left have no shame and no decency.

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