Media Trying to Inoculate GOP in Giffords Shooting

[kpete]

Media Trying to Inoculate GOP in Giffords Shooting
by Troubadour
Sat Jan 08, 2011 at 12:36:00 PM PST

At the top of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal websites (accessed at 12:11 PM Pacific time) beneath the headline about the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords is the same Associated Press photograph - Giffords smiling beside John Boehner. In particular, the LA Times article spends approximately 20% of its lines quoting Boehner's condemnation of the attack (no other Congressman is quoted - not even past statements by Giffords herself).

This will be an uncharacteristically short diary, because facts are still coming in and deeper analysis should take longer than immediate impressions, but beyond the media coverage there is something that needs to be highlighted. This statement from the Tea Party, as reported in the WSJ article

******Tea Party Nation, the group started by Tennessee lawyer Judson Phillips, put out a statement to its supporters decrying the shooting. "Congressman Giffords was a liberal, but that does not matter now. No one should be the victim of violence because of their political beliefs."

However the situation develops, Congresswoman Giffords was alive at the time these people described her in the past tense. Freudian slip?

*****The statement went on to say that "no matter what the shooter's motivations where, the left is going to blame this on the Tea Party Movement."

Whatever the shooter's intentions, we know what the "Tea Party Movement's" intentions are.

more & links: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/8/934337/-Media-Trying-to-Inoculate-GOP-in-Giffords-Shooting

[ClassWarrior]

1. Now why would someone at a progressive message board unrec this?

NGU.

[Chimichurri]

6. trolls are out in full force right now. They did the same to my post showing

Rep Clifford talking to MSNBC about being threatened.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x140046

[ClassWarrior]

9. Just recommended yours. Thanks for posting it.

NGU.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. Big surprise about the LA Times. They totally suck - n/t

[abq e streeter]

3. Of course they're doing that

I'm sure there will be plenty of "BOTH SIDES need to cool the rhetoric" BS in the coming days. Gotta stay fair and balanced of course..... Bastards....

[EFerrari]

4. Was just going to post about this. Am watching Faux

and they're working overtime to paint this guy as "not normal", crazy, etc.

[FrenchieCat]

They are covering themselves and those whom they support; the GOP!

The Media Blew It! In unison, they reported inaccurate News!
http://democratsforprogress.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1574

[BrklynLiberal]

5. They pour the gasoline, light the match, set the fire..and then bemoan the burning down of the house

Give me a break. They are all lieing hypocrites and I hope that a significant part of the public can see thru their bullshit.

[Stagecoach]

7. Guarantee

Within the next 48 to 72 hours we'll hear reports of a "copy cat" situation targeting a GOPer, even though it doesn't actually exist, to make it look like the Giffords incident wasn't only isolated to democratic congresspersons.

[Dark]

8. Uh, up until the hospital press conference, there were reports she was/wasn't dead flying around.

This most likely was a political assassination, but it can't be proven yet -- could be a stalker for all we know.

Other than that, BOTH sides are already turning this political, which is going to happen when a political personality is killed.

Personally, I think it was some crazy 'bagger, but at this point the media can't confirm it.

[EFerrari]

10. The thing is, Fox is trying to paint this guy as an insane person

as if they haven't supported violent political rhetoric for months and years. Fox and the rest of the presstitutes helped create a climate where people get shot at political meetings and they know it.

[ClassWarrior]

11. Of course he is. Just the kind of person we've been saying you'll incite...

...with your criminal calls for violence, Beckster and Orally.

NGU.

[WinkyDink]

12. Wait. Soon the shooter will be shown passing out leaflets for ACORN.

Only slightly in jest here.

[Kurovski]

13. Kick. (nt)

[CRF450]

14. Despite that, it didn't long for freepers to say the shooter is a LWNJ nt

[ClassWarrior]

15. A what?

:shrug:

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

16. Interesting acronym. Had to go look it up since you didn't answer. How do you come to be...

...so familiar with a hate meme like that that you apparently don't feel a need to explain it?

NGU.

[Supersedeas]

17. fully blown wagon circling in the media around the GOP--acts of a lone wolf

Now, that authorities say that others are involved, how will the media spin it?