"Shooter was a Left-winger" - It's started

[OKNancy]

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/shooter-jarod-laughner/

[d_b]

1. lol of course he was

[d_b]

6. when i think left-winger

I think a) ass-hat in the desert burning an american flag because "flags aren't in the constituion" and b) shooting a democratic congresswoman in the head.

It doesn't get more left-wing than that, folks.

[valerief]

14. And carrying a loaded gun EVERYWHERE! nt

[MichiganVote]

2. Yup.

[rucky]

3. Of course!

[WCGreen]

4. Why do people think Hilter was a liberal or even a lefty....

[EV_Ares]

11. They don't most everyone knows who & what Hitler was, it is just the

ignorant bottom feeders of the right-wingers who try to play that out & it doesn't work.

[Darth_Kitten]

12. Because they never paid attention in history class.

:)

[zbdent]

17. because it makes such a good talking point ...

truth never has to do anything with their talking points ...

[CJvR]

20. Because...

...the Nazis were National Socialist.

Sounds like a real wierdo in the article, more like he is generally nuts than any particular party-color nuts.

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. And, of course, the dimwits don't know anything about fascism or socialism

and so don't realize that the two systems are diametrically opposed, and that the 'socialist' in the national socialist was only there to draw in disaffected people who also didn't know the difference because while socialists had been around for close to a hundred years, fascists were brand spanking new, created only in the 1920s.

But of course, you knew that already.

[CJvR]

36. Well...

Fascism isn't exactly Nazism.

As for the vast difference between Nazism and the Socialist dictators active at the same era there isn't much. How much? That depends on where you draw the line, Social-Democrats and Socialists a'la the Soviets are two very different things.

[anakie]

24. assuming this is not rhetorical

that would be the 'S' in NSDAP - Hitler's political party. But I am sure you already knew that.


Peace

[WCGreen]

43. Well, the Cleveland Browns claim they are a football team....

And yet anyone who knows anything about football would say they are not...

Really, just because you call a party socialist, doesn't mean that that party is socialist...

[anakie]

44. or an oldy but a goodie..

the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.


Peace

[emulatorloo]

27. Because they refuse to educate themselves.

[krispos42]

32. Because he was a National Socialist.

It's a dumbass comparison, but there ya go.

Of course, we can make the comparison with Republicans and Stalin, who after all ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist REPUBLICS, but hey.

[stuball111]

37. Because of the "Socialist" word in the party's name....

But we all know that the Nazis' were no where near socialist on the spectrum. It was just a word they threw in there to make them sound like they had peoples interest at heart.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. Yep. By the same reasoning, North Korea is democratic. -nt

[tuckessee]

47. Read the 25 Points of the NSDAP. n/t

[WCGreen]

49. I read the Democrats Platform and I would call them progressive...

in name only...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yeah, right.

whatever.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. yup, a looney liberal leftie.....

:sarcasm:

[bluestateguy]

8. So his English only, anti-immigrant, goldbug views are Left?

If anything he may be more of a radical libertarian of the Ron Paul mode.

[Kurovski]

9. Whatever he was he liked right-wing nut Sharron Angle's advice.

I'm most angered that a child was taken down.

Sick people take sick advice such as that from the right.

[GSLevel9]

10. we'll see...

remember... the farther you go towards the right, you come closer to the far left. At the very far far left/very far far right there are very few differences.

At this point he neither fits into the "liberal" or "conservative" mold.

[Desertrose]

13. Like we knew it would.....nt

[EV_Ares]

15. Yeah, the bottom feeders of the right-wingers can try that all they want. Sure a

left-winger is going to go after politicians who tried to give us good healthcare. BS, we should continue to expect ignorance and lies from them, it is what they feed on.

[gateley]

16. I read a tweet in which a friend said he WAS a left winger 'at the time' -

indicating he no longer was. But people seem to be jumping on this without considering this is an opinion of a former fellow-student, not a factual claim.

[RichGirl]

26. He hated stupid people.

"At the time" Bush was president. If he hated Bush then his right-wing friends (which they say they are) would have considered him left-wing.

[gateley]

39. Good observation. We won't know for sure for a bit, but boy, we

do like to second-guess! :7 :hi:

[Catherina]

41. +1 n/t

[Catherina]

40. +1 n/t

[tigereye]

18. yeah right, liberals always try to solve their problems with

gunfire. :eyes:

[shugah]

19. the consensus seems to be that he read books

so he must be a liberal :shrug:

[Raine]

31. Oh sure, well that explans it

now I can see why some would say that. :yoiks:

[vi5]

21. And the mainstream media will run with this....

If there are 200 signs pointing to him being a right wing loon, and one half of 1 sign pointing to him being a lefty then for purposes of media narrative, he will be a lefty.

I ultimately think he was just obviously insane overall and his ideology is an afterthought. But regardless of any truth, the media narrative will be that he was a liberal.

[emulatorloo]

22. YAHOO comment: "A left wing progressive shot a democrat that voted against his communist dream "

Comments on this article:

Giffords had been target of violent threats
By Zachary Roth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110108/ts_yblog_thelookout/giffords-had-been-target-of-violent-threats

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Oh, I love the spin. A left wing progressive shot a democrat that voted against his communist dream and the left tries to blame the right.

Some people were shot and all the left can do is run around and spin it to look like the right's fault. Looks like the progressives are the ones spreading hate.

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Obama likes to incite others to "punish your enemies"... and if you disagree with his failed policies- you are labeled as ,"terrorists" and "hostage takers".... he has a radical way of bringing people together ,by pitting one group against another ,as he works his marxist agenda behind the scenes.

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Can you believe the media making it out to be Sarah Palin? Sounds like the shooter was a communist/socialist leaning psychopath.

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The guy was a leftist. Two of his favorite book were the The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.

[B Calm]

23. Damn! Now we have 3 threads on this right-wing friend spinning like a top!

[Mist]

25. A left-winger who admired "Mein Kampf" and had ties to Larouchians. Umm, yeah. nt

[la la]

29. actually-

one of the first things i thought about WAS the larouchies---i've have run-ins with them at my little PO, and they shout out terroristic phrases about Obama, Pelosi, Reid,'Obamacare', death panels--have terrible posters at their 'table'with gunsights on them--i wouldn't be surprised if the 'shooter' had larouche info in his 'room' - along with beck's Goldline and hannity and limbaugh info....

[Nostradammit]

28. It's started right here on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x142632

[Raine]

33. Teabaggers want to get out of the responsibility

they have for this ... I hope our side doesn't let them but I'm not holding my breath.

[xchrom]

34. +1

[Twilla]

35. Spin control

I lurk at a forum that is now trying to claim it's somehow Pelosi's fault. I won't even try to explain their tortured logic behind that one because frankly I can't wrap my mind around it. And yeah, they're all true blue REAL American patriots of the Republican persuasion.

[Goblinmonger]

42. We already had "he did it because he's an atheist" on DU

so nothing's going to surprise me.

[RegieRocker]

45. I need my waders and a shovel for this.

[lpbk2713]

46. The usual bullshit. Right off their campaign trail.

Tell a lie often enough and loudly enough and sooner or later it becomes accepted as the truth.

[Puregonzo1188]

48. Well, his reading list was interesting to say the lest.

Communist Manifesto, Animal Farm, The Republic, Fahrenheit 451, Mein Kempf--I don't know to say about him, other than no, I don't think he was a leftwinger. He may have been a rightwinger, he may have just been a nut.