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How Should the Right Respond to the Arizona Shooting?

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  January 11th, 2011 at 11:49 AM  | 

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Today on Coffee and Markets we’re talking to Melissa Clouthier of LibertyPundits who shares her views on the political fallout from the Arizona shooting. We also discuss whether Congressional staff should be armed, and how the right should respond to the smears of old media.

We’re brought to you as always by Stephen Clouse and Associates. You can find our iTunes feed at CoffeeandMarkets.com. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you enjoy the show.

Related Links:

DC Examiner: Should Congressional Staff be Armed?
Marc Thiessen on the Outrage From the Left
Glenn Reynolds on the Politics of Blood Libel
Halperin: Pointing Out Smear Only Makes Things Worse
Poll: Americans Reject Democrat Spin on Rhetoric
Yousefzadeh: Short Memories Ignore Left’s Calls for Violence

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  • Goldwater_Conservative

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/11779_joescarboroughwantstherepublicanpartyback

    Thats one of the most insane stories I have ever read. Scarborough was proven right about toning down the retoric by the arizona shooting?

    • spainishirish

      Remember this man.

  • spainishirish

    on the defensive. Keep calling them out on the blood libel claims made within minutes of the shootings of innocents. When the Left, as it always does when it fails to successfully launch a smear campaign, demands a truce and declares a teachable moment, hit them again. This is where the left-wing and the media jumped the shark, and we need to kick them while they are down because this was so beyond the pall.

    To be fair, a few liberals and people on the Left, both in office and in the media, did not act this way. But the vast majority did for the sole purpose of shutting down opposition voices, and they need to be made to pay dearly for it.

    Name names and simply tell the truth. That’s been the Right’s response, it has kept these ghouls on the defensive, and it has been quite effective. Just don’t let up.

    • krutboo

      we need to push back on them whenever they do things like this. Rep. Giffords was not even at the hospital yet before they started tossing accusations at the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Rush, etc.

      I know I should not be at this p[oint, but I am appalled at the vitriol spewing forth from them. I made the mistake of visiting Palin’s Facebook page, on the advice of a poster here, and wanted to punch a hole through my computer screen! Overall, a very depressing situation.

      How can we work with people like that in the future?

      • spainishirish

        You can’t let them define proper speech. All you can do is call them on the carpet for their lies, deceit and blood libel. And if you scroll down to a CBS poll–yes, that CBS–you see this hasn’t worked out for the left-wing. Just don’t let up.

  • msctex

    . . .and let them prove further that they regard the Constitution as antiquated, and the Bill of Rights a nuisance. React strongly — and as strongly as imaginable — should they truly threaten our rights, meaning crafting legislation and putting it forth, or via the avenue of any of Obama’s “creative” Presidential fiats.

    But until then, their bluster only underscores who they actually are, and with the whole world watching. They are trying desperately not to let a crisis go to waste, because they honestly believe this is the way propitious change is initiated. But their rhetoric is easily disproven (see priceless Sheriff blaming Limbaugh, China, et.al.), and they do not or cannot understand that they have themselves forced people to wake up and pay attention, for the first time in generations.

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    … like any decent person should handle any tragic act of violence. With compassion, caring, kindness, support, and primary concern for those who were directly affected by the violence.

    How the Right should handle the Left’s shameless politicization of this violence, and the left’s rank hypocrisy when it comes to projecting their own vile hate-speech and actual violence onto the Right is another matter.

    The Right’s response to THAT should be to lock and load, join the battle, place the Left squarely in its crosshairs, target those who are telling the lies, and open fire. All RHETORICALLY, in the marketplace of free and open discussion, of course.

    Leftists: You don’t get to accuse decent people of being accomplices to murder, and then act outraged when you are met with defiance. Your accusations will not result in moderating the national discussion. They will exacerbate it.

  • grandma

    I don’t know if there is anything to this, but I read that the federal judge who was assassinated offered a ?preliminary ruling? in a case titled ?United States of America v. $333,520.00 in United States Currency et al? – Case Number: 4:2010cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010.

    Supposedly he was going to rule against Obama’s “authority” to
    seize American citizens money without evidence that a crime was committed.

    • carolina
    • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

      … but it was single-sourced, from what appeared to be a European-Union tabloid website.

      Until I see the charge duplicated elsewhere with multiple sources, I don’t think we should rely 100% on the “Judge Roll was the real target” theory. It is extremely conspiratorial, and the implications are staggering if it’s true.

      • grandma

        For telling me that. I didn’t know what to make of it, but it sickened me even more than the whole carnage.

        • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

          … I’m just saying that the fact that I’ve only seen it once with thin sourcing makes me wonder about the veracity of the claim, particularly in light of all the misinformation that is out there about this event.

  • Bobcat51

    with Rep. King pandering to Bloomburg by introducing tighter gun laws. What a disappointment you are Peter King !

    • CJB68

         I was wondering what the anti-gun lobbyists would do with this event.  This was tailor-made for them.

         My question would be directed to Sheriff Dupnik and the Tuscon, AZ city council members: “Where there laws on your books which would’ve prevented Jared Loghner from getting permission to carry that firearm which he brought?”  Perhaps someone from the state of Arizona should investigate.

         Loghner is said to have been known for terroristic outbursts (the way I put it — any time you say “Kill them all!” or something like that can be construed this way) since 2007.  The police had to escort him from the college campus he was attending class in on at least three occasions.  He has to have some sort of record.

         What I know for certain is, if I were a potential employer who called to get information on a potential hire, and the previous employer told me that he did things like what is being said about Jared Loghner (I’ll just start calling him the “Loner” from now on), I’d pass him up.  I wouldn’t know if he was likely to go off the deep end and start attacking coworkers, but I’d rather not risk the likelihood of the event taking place on my watch.  Loghner was a danger to himself and others, and this event bore that out.

         That it was known but not dealt with places part of the responsibility for what happened on the hands of those in positions of authority who could’ve blocked that gun purchase.  So much for gun laws working.  It took the armed person to bring this one down.