Day: January 16, 2011

Before Tucson, Fox Vitriol Inspired Six Domestic Terror Attacks in Two and a Half Years

Jon Ponder
Domestic Terror: From left, Wilson, Williams, Adkisson, Poplawski, Von Brunn, Giusti, Beck, Goldberg
Domestic Terror: From left, Wilson, Williams, Adkisson, Poplawski, Von Brunn, Giusti, Beck, Goldberg

In an article titled, “6 Lunatics Inspired by Fox News and Glenn Beck,” published on Oct. 28 — so six weeks before before Jared Loughner’s terror attack in Tucson that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — Jim Edwards, columnist for BNET, recapped six instances over the past two-and-a-half years in which lunatics who committed violent acts, or were thwarted before they could act, later said they were inspired to violence after intense exposure to propaganda from Fox and Glenn Beck:

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More on Right-Wing Influences That Drove Loughner to Violence

Jon Ponder

A week or so after crazed gunman Jared Loughner’s Jan. 8 alleged terror attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents in Tucson that left six dead and 13, including Giffords, wounded, it’s the consensus now that Loughner was not driven to mass murder by Sarah Palin’s crosshairs map.

The Times asserts that only liberals like to smoke pot and listen to the Jimi Hendrix and the Doors.

The fact that there is no provable causal link between Loughner’s actions and Palin’s map does not mean Loughner, in his madness, was not influenced by GOP-tea party toxicity. As we noted on Jan. 12, Loughner was definitely influenced by a right-wing kook named David Wynn Miller and his “sovereign citizens” movement, which advocates declaring oneself exempt from laws set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Some of the more extremist factions in the right-wing militia movement are founded on a similar concept.

The Los Angeles Times also published a report on Loughner’s influences on Jan 12:

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Schwarzenegger Says Being Governor Cost Him $200 Million

Jon Ponder

$200 Million

Amount former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he spent and/or failed to accrue from acting gigs during his seven years as governor. Of course, it was his choice not to move his family to Sacramento and instead fly to Los Angeles in his private jet every day — an incredibly decadent waste of time, money and fuel at a time when the state was facing financial devastation as a result of the Bush recession. And many wonder what sort of acting gigs he passed up, as no movies were in the works that featured Skynet androids who appeared to be in their 60s and who sported orange hair plugs. So what’s with the whining? The ex-gov probably feels unappreciated. He left office with a 22 percent job approval.