The Real Targets

As is well known, no sooner had the murders of six people and the attempted murders of thirteen more in Tucson, Arizona, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, it was transformed into a political blame game with the media, pundits, politicians and even law enforcement trying to put the blame on the Tea Parties, on Sarah Palin, and on our so-called violent rhetoric; as if what we've been saying, what we've been advocating, instigated Jared Loughner to start shooting at a Tucson Safeway.

Just read through the comments at a Daily Caller piece which came out the day of the shootings, and you'll see comments like these from a commenter who called himself Joe Steel:

Many of the commenters, thankfully, showed respect for the victims, but there's no question what the motivation behind these vile comments are: it's the targeting of conservatives, of Tea Partiers, 9/12'ers, etc. and especially of Sarah Palin.  It's something the SOB commenter notes on the same comment thread:

Unfortunately, you don't have to travel very far to see crap like this, and not only the playing of this blame game, but also using the crimes to stoke support for gun control (take a look at this piece (of crap from ):

And, unlike in the real Arizona of old, there was no Ordinance No. 9, no Earp brothers in the crowd yesterday to enforce it, to maybe spot the killer with the gun before he had a chance to use it.
The result was exactly the kind of carnage the Earps had sought to prevent with their attempt at instilling gun-control culture.

Boy, you people never let a crisis go to waste, do you?

Considering the truth that keeps coming out about Jared Loughner, it's apparent this was not some right-wing extremist, and it was not a normal person who committed this attack, contrary to what the Left has been saying.  Considering the truth about where the real violent rhetoric comes from, it's apparent the hypocrisy of the Left knows no bounds.

In the end, thanks to the Left playing politics with the horrific crimes committed, the people Jared Loughner shot at that Safeway in Tucson weren't the only targets in this episode.  May the truth of this latest blame game be exposed for what it is.

(By the way, check out Adrienne Ross' piece at Conservatives4Palin and this piece at Standing4Palin; they do a better job of fighting back than I do.)