Loughner was not on the right or left

In the height of the news media jumping on the "blame the right" bandwagon as for the reason Jared Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and injured many others, the one thing many of these commentators on MSNBC and writers at the New York Times left out altogether... was really Loughner himself.

As stated in my commentary blog on Monday, literally just moments after this massacre took place in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, voices on the left blamed the Republican Party, the Tea Party, Talk Radio, Fox News and particularly Sarah Palin, for provoking violence. Again, I honestly don't care that much for Sarah Palin as a politician, but isn't it just a little bit ironic that the same people on the left say that Sarah Palin is the stupidest woman on Earth, but yet she does have enough intelligence to help orchestrate a tragic shooting in Arizona?

Insane.

Well rest assured, this game of blame should soon quietly be laid to rest, based on an interview this morning on ABC's Good Morning America with Ashleigh Banfield. Ms. Banfield interviewed one of Jared Loughner's best friends from high school, Zach Osler, and was asked if Loughner was influenced by the news or talk radio. Osler replied: "He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn't listen to political radio. He didn't take sides. He wasn't on the left. He wasn't on the right."

That should pretty much debunk this notion of the right wing in this country being responsible. Another comment made by Osler was that Loughner was inspired by the 2007 documentary film Zeitgeist, which discusses a wide range variety of conspiracy theories including the International Monetary System, religion and how 9/11 was orchestrated by the American Government.

In short, the news media, particularly the New York Times and specific commentators on MSNBC such as Chris Matthews, seemed to have failed miserably to even do the slightest bit of research on this despicable example of human existence, instead relying on contributors to spew their same rhetoric over and over again. I have yet to hear anyone on MSNBC or at the New York Times bring up an issue over Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's election ad this last November were he was "promoting guns". Or what about the Democratic Committee in 2004 using almost an identical "target map" on Republicans, when President Bush was up for re-election?

All of that has just been an oversight?

Yeah right.

Some of these people in the news media are down right lazy, pathetic and apparently cannot take five minutes of their time to do a little bit of research on facts. The New York Times said in November of 2009 following the Ford Hood massacre for all of us to "not jump to conclusions". 

Why didn't that same rule of thumb not apply to the massacre in Tucson?

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shooting, leads to blame game

The despicable and senseless shooting this last Saturday on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona which left her in critical condition, six dead and others injured, certainly demonstrates the risk of taking public office. But now, the "blame game" following the shooting, is stirring up all over the internet and into the national news media.

There were already reports and comments popping up all over Twitter from online magazines like Salon and The Huffington Post that it was all about right-wing extremism. Never mind at least allowing some breathing time for people to pray for the Congresswoman's recovery or for those that were killed in the tragic shooting which involved a Federal Court Judge, a Congressional aide, a young child and three senior citizens. Apparently, left-leaning opinion editorial magazines don't have anytime for that, they must find someone on the right to blame immediately.

The first person on their list is Sarah Palin. What a surprise. I honestly don't care for the former Alaskan Governor's views on politics, but it is becoming rather insane that every-time there is a controversy among the Republican party, Palin is the first to blame. The reason Palin is brought into the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords steems from March 2010 when Palin apparently posted a map on her Facebook page showing individuals in the Midterm elections she hoped to "take down".

The second persons on their list are those associated with the Tea Party. Another surprise? The left is blaming the radical right-wing extremism as instrumental in leading to the shooting on Congresswoman Giffords.

There are also some reports to suggest that Tea Party members were angry with believing in the Congresswoman's opposition of the right to bear arms, when in fact, if you look at her track record, Congresswoman Gifford as a blue-dog Democrat, actually supported gun rights and even opposed a Washington D.C. ban on fire arms.

While the left immediately jumped to conclusions this weekend on the shooting, they seem to have been completely ignorant on the real perpetrator who pulled the trigger. A 22 year old, pot smoking, hateful, despicable and horrible individual known as Jared Loughner. According to law enforcement officials and what was found on his Myspace page, this was a man who despised American Government and apparently had a deep admiration for Hitler, Marx and Communism. Those strange elements honestly don't sound like a typical Tea Party member.

Since all of this, there are some in the news media that are taking a look at some of their remarks that have been deemed as hateful. Even MSNBC liberal commentator Keith Olbermann included himself in this arena.

We live in a nation were we're supposed to be allowed to have Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression. We can offer opinions, but it seems as though lately there is the notion of imposing opinions and belief systems on other people to the point that those people become insane and carry out acts of violence. We're all supposed to be responsible for our own actions.

And there is only one person responsible for the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona.