By William A. Jacobson
Legal Insurrection
January 10, 2011
It is said that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes.
This weekend, a lie traveled several times around the world, and the truth still is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media.
That lie is that a political target map posted on a Sarah Palin PAC website 10 months ago had anything to do with the shooting by Jared Loughner.
As of this writing, there is not a scintilla of evidence that Loughner ever saw the map, much less was motivated by it. Connecting the map to the shooting was a monstrous lie.
The lie started with bloggers at DailyKos and Think Progress, then spread throughout the left-blogosphere and then into the mainstream media, which has taken up the theme that "right-wing vitriol" contributed to the shooting. One of the purveyors of this theory, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, finally admitted late yesterday afternoon that he had no evidence to support the theory and that it was just his opinion.
The shooting in Arizona brought together the worst instincts of the mainstream media, a desire to get Republicans and Palin Derangement Syndrome. If it means peddling a ghoulish lie, it's all in a day's work.
Before the shooting, I warned that anyone who thought the mainstream media was not still 100% in the tank for Obama needed to think again. The peddling of lies about the cause of the shooting has proved me to be right, albeit sooner than I thought.
Update: Must read - Michelle Malkin, The Progressive Primer of Hate, 2000-2010, and Tim Blair, Allahu Palin, documenting a history the mainstream media willingly ignores.
This weekend, a lie traveled several times around the world, and the truth still is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media.
That lie is that a political target map posted on a Sarah Palin PAC website 10 months ago had anything to do with the shooting by Jared Loughner.
As of this writing, there is not a scintilla of evidence that Loughner ever saw the map, much less was motivated by it. Connecting the map to the shooting was a monstrous lie.
The lie started with bloggers at DailyKos and Think Progress, then spread throughout the left-blogosphere and then into the mainstream media, which has taken up the theme that "right-wing vitriol" contributed to the shooting. One of the purveyors of this theory, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, finally admitted late yesterday afternoon that he had no evidence to support the theory and that it was just his opinion.
The shooting in Arizona brought together the worst instincts of the mainstream media, a desire to get Republicans and Palin Derangement Syndrome. If it means peddling a ghoulish lie, it's all in a day's work.
Before the shooting, I warned that anyone who thought the mainstream media was not still 100% in the tank for Obama needed to think again. The peddling of lies about the cause of the shooting has proved me to be right, albeit sooner than I thought.
Update: Must read - Michelle Malkin, The Progressive Primer of Hate, 2000-2010, and Tim Blair, Allahu Palin, documenting a history the mainstream media willingly ignores.
