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Classical Values —
... at televised football games, they simply turned their cameras away. The problem evaporated. These mass shootings are a little more complicated, and news organizations cannot completely ignore them. But they don't need to stop everything to cover them." I don't know whether these things are seen as providing a diversion, but I don't like the way they're dominating the news. More ominously, as so many people grapple over the unanswerable question of why , almost as if on cue yet another shooting has capturesd the media attention, injecting the gun issue in a manner that ...
Left Kicks Off New Battle Against Talk Radio
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... Though that one proved quite a stretch, with the gunman himself foreign-born and having no known conservative or GOP ties, the Pittsburgh incident provided a glimmer of hope to the far left: he was said to fear Obama's expected elimination of gun rights. ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... state in which 14 people were killed.
"Based on the evidence, we can firmly discount that claim," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said.
A man armed with two handguns killed 13 people at an immigrant services center on Friday before apparently turning the gun on himself, authorities in Binghamton, New York, said.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, whose district includes Binghamton, told the New York Times that indications were the gunman was an immigrant from Vietnam.
Three Officers Killed In Stanton Heights Shootings on Fairfield Street - Because of Obama Gun ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: NorthKorea)
Three Officers Killed In Stanton Heights Shootings on Fairfield Street - Because of Obama Gun Grab?
A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police ...
The Rhetoric And The Violence
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Many of us have worried that the heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces might sill over into violence in the hands of individuals prone to lashing out. We now have what seems to be a clear instance of that and three dead police officers. One wonders whether Fox News or the Second Amendment fanatics will chill it out a little. And then one realizes who we're talking about. ...
The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America
Library Grape —
... Many of us have worried that the heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces might spill over at some point into violence in the hands of individuals prone to lashing out. We now have what seems to be a clear instance of that and three dead police officers. One wonders whether Fox News or the Second Amendment fanatics will chill it out a little. And then one realizes who we're talking about. ...
Talk Shows and Cop Killers
TPMCafe —
... Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh Cop killer had been worried for weeks. He had abandoned his own attempts at talk show fame (an Internet talk show) because nobody called in. But still the fears he heard on Right Wing talk radio must have haunted him. ...
Kos Sez: Conservatives "Kill Cops"
Ace of Spades HQ —
Kos Sez: Conservatives "Kill Cops" Not just some jackass poster but the head jackass poster, Markos "Screw Them" Moulitsas, chimes in with some of his patented trenchant analysis of the nut job that killed 3 cops in Pittsburgh yesterday . Via Kos' ...
Glenn Beck cries of false gun bans is mimicked by PA shooter, earns the Media PUTZ award
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... , someone could get the wrong message. That someone could have been Richard Poplawski in the Pittsburgh shooting, one of many mass shootings in the last two months. Poplawski killed three Pittsburgh policemen, claiming according to a friend, Edward Perkovic, that Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."Where have we heard such rhetoric? Now, Beck claims that he is just a ...
The Long Arm of the NRA: Guns in Parks
Daily Kos —
... This where the issue leaves the ridiculous and enters into the disturbing. The NRA and the far right radio and cable hosts have been whipping their followers into a frenzy of fear about their guns being taken away and their rights stripped. (Again, where were these people when the Fourth Amendment was being eviscerated?) That fear has had tragic consequences. Obviously the young man in Pittsburgh who killed three cops had issues beyond paranoia, but prominent in all of the stories covering the shooting was the assertion from his friends that "23 year-old Richard Poplawski feared ...
Stewart on Beck
Balloon Juice —
... at Reason won’t admit this is what they have been enabling, because they have their heads so far up their asses from years of false equivalences and chants of “BOTH PARTIES ARE BAD!” Plus, everyone knows that when teabaggers and Glenn Beck followers run around worked up over bullshit packing heat, it is their GOD GIVEN RIGHT A CITIZEN and nothing bad could happen. The threat of right-wing violence is radically overstated. Just ask the cops in Pittsburgh, who met an armed Glenn Beck fan. ...
Maybe the 2012 Mayan Rapture Bloodfest Will Only Take the Stupid People
Firedoglake —
... Yeah. Damn radical leftists. always shooting cops.
A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said.
Friends said 23 year-old Richard Poplawski feared the ...
