Gohmert (R-TX): FBI ‘Stonewalled’ On Shooter Profile To Avoid ‘Embarrassing’ Obama’s Constituents

[Emit]

Yesterday morning, FBI representatives briefed House Republicans on the tragic shooting in Tucson. Unsatisfied with the level of detail provided by the FBI, the ever-hyperbolic Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took the divisive fingerpointing to an absurd level. Believing the FBI was “stonewalling” him on its profile of gunman Jared Lee Loughner, Gohmert suggested the FBI was playing politics to avoid admitting Loughner’s “a liberal” and “embarrassing” President Obama’s liberal supporters:

“It may be if the things he was reading, that he’s a liberal, hates the flag, supports Marx, if those type of things turn out to be true, then it may be embarrassing to the current administration’s constituents, and heaven help us we wouldn’t want to embarrass the president’s constituents,” Gohmert said.(...)

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Joining the company of fellow conspiracists Newt Gingrich, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries, Gohmert is not only insisting that Loughner’s left-wing allegiance is a foregone conclusion but implying that the FBI is involved in “an elaborate partisan ruse, orchestrated by Democrats, the White House, and Justice Department” in order to cover it up. ...

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/13/gohmert-fbi-critic/

[louis-t]

1. They are mentally disturbed.

Being a republican is a sickness.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. And it MAY BE, if there is a secret plot by cats to control the world's cheese supply

a counter-revolution by freedom fighting mice is in the works, causing magic monkeys to fly out of my unicorn's ass.

[DBoon]

10. and the fact you are witholding details of this plot

proves it exists

[postulater]

11. That one is true.

I have two cats that are in on it.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. So it's BAD when 'lefty' jumps to conclusions and the MSM goes all aflutter

.. but a congressional person can do it and it's regarded as 'just askin' and throwing in Tin Foil Hate Conspiracies........... ???

I really really don't understand.

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Great tactic.

Piss off the FBI.

[DCKit]

5. What a Goober. nt

[shraby]

6. Gohmert says "the current administration’s constituents, ...

I was under the assumption that ALL of Americans were the President's constituents.

[xchrom]

7. recommend

[mike_c]

8. speaking of constituents...

...how in the hell did that idiot end up warming a chair in Congress? Is there something in the water in his district?

[w8liftinglady]

9. louie needs to remain silent.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Louie_Gohmert

[Ian David]

12. He's also Chaotic Evil failed his saving-throw vs fumble on the reload. n/t

[Beaverhausen]

13. they are desperate to paint the shooter as leftist/liberal- I'm hearing it everywhere

[spanone]

14. i think an i.q. of over 12 should be required for representatives

[mariawr]

15. Gomert is an evil man. Just evil.

[fascisthunter]

16. Anyone Have any Quotes of this Guy Spewing Hatred?