The Las Vegas Sun, in it's coverage of the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords in Arizona, has sunk to a new low. Not surprising since the Las Vegas Sun completely lacks journalistic ethics, even today's story is a new low.
From the Sun: The shooting comes amid a highly charged political environment that has seen several dangerous threats against lawmakers but nothing that reached the point of actual violence.
A San Francisco man upset with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support of health care reform pleaded guilty to threatening the Democratic congresswoman and her family, calling her directly on March 25 and threatening to destroy her Northern California home if she voted for health care reform.
In July, a California man known for his anger over left-leaning politics engaged in a shootout with highway patrol officers after planning an attack on the ACLU and another nonprofit group. The man said he wanted to "start a revolution" by killing people at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/08/arizona-congresswoman-shot/
What the hell does this have to do with the shooting of congresswoman Giffords? Nothing.
But worse yet is some of the liberal comments left on it's comments section:
hey ed...we don't know the facts yet...but...my very first thought was that fox did this...that hate filled talk radio did this...and the saddest part of all...they will not do a damn thing to stop it...sure they will pay it lip service on monday...but on tuesday they will fire up the propaganda machine as usual...pathetic...absolutely pathetic!!! birdiedreaming
As much as it pains me to agree with Birdie, I do... I'm sure of a couple things:
The shooter isn't a Democrat, Republican officals have nothing to fear from a similar attack. Hate filled right-wing speech turns into actions in the minds of nuts. Arizona has become the Alabama of the west. smartone618
Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, there is now blood on your hands. Bobby G
Palin and Beck "targeted" this congress person. mred
you right loons are really something. boftx wins the "who is gonna be the first to say it's a really a left wing plot" sweepstakes. Sure, teatards, he's not a right wing nut, he's a left wing nut pretending to be right wing to make teatards look bad. don't you guys get tired of denying reality? is there no end to your lies? okra
Note to wing-nuts, tea party, Sister Sarah Palin and Frau Sharron Angle; the shooter is a gun-toting white trash Christian conservative (i.e. your "base") and not some scary Mexican immigrant or homosexual or Muslim robwhitetrash
Sunrise — 6:57.
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The Sun story came from the Associated Press. The same story, with the descriptions of other dangerous threats against politicians, appeared on the Madison.com website as well.
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Hillbuzz is on the case, doing actual investigative journalism.
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Dan,
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, this is an Associated Press story not a Sun story. That doesn't make the story any better and the comments are disgusting but no one at the Sun is responsible for the content of the story.
Sorry, but the Sun chose this to run this story, make edits as they chose and to allow comments. The Sun is responsible for what is in their paper and what they allowed was pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Adam, it was a very interesting piece. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteShows how much hate the Daily Kos has.