Stalin
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As usual, the marxists have the drop on the whore media.
"...most important issue is what led Loughner to target a Democratic congresswoman. Understanding this necessarily requires an examination of the political circumstances that shaped the gunman’s actions.
Here the central role was played by the ultra-right media campaign mounted by Fox News, talk show hosts like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, including one Republican Senate candidate who called for a “Second Amendment solution” to political issues―i.e., the use of firearms.
As the World Socialist Web Site explained yesterday (See “Arizona assassination spree tied to political right”), the political conceptions in Loughner’s Internet postings are expressed in the vocabulary of the ultra-right media and the Tea Party, including his references to gold and silver backing for US currency, the predominance of the English language, and attacks on sections of the US Constitution, like the 14th Amendment, targeted by the ultra-right. He also reportedly remarked that a young woman who had an abortion was a “terrorist for killing the baby.”
Moreover, both Fox News and the New York Times have reported, citing law enforcement sources, that Loughner may have links to a white supremacist publication called American Renaissance. Ongoing investigation may well develop more evidence of connections to the extreme right―a prospect that makes the “deranged individual” explanation even less credible.
Those media outlets that are the most directly implicated in creating the political climate for the January 8 attack are the most strident in self-justification. In their programs Monday, both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh heaped scorn on efforts to link the attack to their right-wing hate campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal, in its editorial Monday headlined “Murder in Tucson,” wrote: “Jared Lee Loughner is a mentally disturbed man who targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anyone near her in Tucson on Saturday because she was prominent and they were tragically accessible… Whatever confused political motives he expressed seem merely to be part of the maelstrom of his mental sickness.”
After denouncing suggestions that there was a political motivation to the attack, the Journal, part of the Murdoch media empire along with Fox News, essentially demanded that President Obama provide the right wing with a political amnesty. He should “lift the level of public discourse by explaining the reality of Mr. Loughner's illness and calling out those on the right and left who want to blame the other side for murder.”
A companion column by pundit Glenn Reynolds compared the charge of right-wing moral responsibility for the Tucson massacre to the anti-Semitic “blood libel” of the Nazis.
more at ( please read the article rather than go on auto-react ) at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/ariz-j11.shtml
Comrade Stalin
"...most important issue is what led Loughner to target a Democratic congresswoman. Understanding this necessarily requires an examination of the political circumstances that shaped the gunman’s actions.
Here the central role was played by the ultra-right media campaign mounted by Fox News, talk show hosts like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, including one Republican Senate candidate who called for a “Second Amendment solution” to political issues―i.e., the use of firearms.
As the World Socialist Web Site explained yesterday (See “Arizona assassination spree tied to political right”), the political conceptions in Loughner’s Internet postings are expressed in the vocabulary of the ultra-right media and the Tea Party, including his references to gold and silver backing for US currency, the predominance of the English language, and attacks on sections of the US Constitution, like the 14th Amendment, targeted by the ultra-right. He also reportedly remarked that a young woman who had an abortion was a “terrorist for killing the baby.”
Moreover, both Fox News and the New York Times have reported, citing law enforcement sources, that Loughner may have links to a white supremacist publication called American Renaissance. Ongoing investigation may well develop more evidence of connections to the extreme right―a prospect that makes the “deranged individual” explanation even less credible.
Those media outlets that are the most directly implicated in creating the political climate for the January 8 attack are the most strident in self-justification. In their programs Monday, both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh heaped scorn on efforts to link the attack to their right-wing hate campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal, in its editorial Monday headlined “Murder in Tucson,” wrote: “Jared Lee Loughner is a mentally disturbed man who targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anyone near her in Tucson on Saturday because she was prominent and they were tragically accessible… Whatever confused political motives he expressed seem merely to be part of the maelstrom of his mental sickness.”
After denouncing suggestions that there was a political motivation to the attack, the Journal, part of the Murdoch media empire along with Fox News, essentially demanded that President Obama provide the right wing with a political amnesty. He should “lift the level of public discourse by explaining the reality of Mr. Loughner's illness and calling out those on the right and left who want to blame the other side for murder.”
A companion column by pundit Glenn Reynolds compared the charge of right-wing moral responsibility for the Tucson massacre to the anti-Semitic “blood libel” of the Nazis.
more at ( please read the article rather than go on auto-react ) at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/ariz-j11.shtml
Comrade Stalin
