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“The man linked to the shooting today of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others is 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, the Associated Press reported...
A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was ‘obviously very disturbed.’ ”
As this story was unfolding, nuts on the Left were quick to label the shooter as a Tea Party protestor -- thereby tarring all Tea Party protesters with that brush. Nuts on the Right were quick to label the shooter as a Leftie Lunatic -- thereby tarring all Leftie Lunatics with that brush.
Every time I checked in on MSNBC today, they were shamelessly attempting to link this senseless violence to the TEA Party. Fox News, I am happy to report, never once came close to speculating as to what the motive might have been.
But, more often than not, senseless one-off violence of this sort is carried out by somebody who is just plain crazy -- somebody whose political views, whatever they might be, are rendered utterly meaningless by sheer insanity. My impression at the moment is that this one fits that bill -- time will tell.
Of course…
If anybody in the Lame Stream Media had found any evidence that Jared Lee Loughner had EVER attended a TEA Party rally, I have no doubt at all that they would have made that the central focus of their reporting.
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