Bill Pascrell narrowed it further to Fox News, the home of Glenn Beck.Įlements on the left are now connecting the dots - the words of Palin and Fox News - to the deeds of accused mass murderer Jared Loughner. “I’d just like to say that when you look at unbalanced people, how they are - how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths, about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.”ĭupnik later narrowed it to some “people in the radio business and some people in the TV business.” Democratic Rep. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat and friend of Giffords, kicked off the campaign Saturday with this excoriation. Had not talk-show hosts on Fox News used incendiary language that can drive weak and deranged minds over the line? And had not Palin used the expression, “Don’t retreat, reload!”? Had not Sharron Angle in Nevada talked of “Second Amendment remedies”? Giffords, it was said, had been “targeted” by Sarah Palin for defeat in ads depicting her district in cross hairs. Gabrielle Giffords, the old smear machine had been wheeled out. judge, and wounding 13 in an assassination attempt on Rep. Saturday, even before Jared Loughner had been charged with murdering six people in Tucson, including a 9-year-old girl and a U.S. Right-wing radio and its anti-government rhetoric, it was said, created the atmosphere that made it easier for McVeigh to feel justified in blowing up a federal building. The same smear tactic was employed when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, killing 168, among them 19 children. Had not, the press asked, Adlai Stevenson been lately jostled by a crowd in Dallas? Had not LBJ and Lady Bird been verbally abused in the lobby of a Dallas hotel in 1960? Was Dallas not a hothouse of the right? Yet moral culpability for what he did was laid at the door of the city of Dallas and the rising American Right. Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist who had defected to Russia and a member of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, who had only recently arrived in Texas. That came three decades later, when conservatives were charged with having “created the atmosphere” in which JFK was assassinated. There was no campaign to accuse Republicans, after a rough election, of creating an atmosphere in which a deranged mind may have been driven to try to kill FDR. There was no wailing that Zangara, a misfit suffering from a stomach ailment, was not fully responsible. In that time, if you knew what you were doing, knew the penalty for it and then committed the crime, you paid the price - and swiftly. When Cermak died on March 6, Zangara was retried for murder and sentenced to the electric chair, where he died on March 20, 1933. In two weeks, Zangara, who pled guilty, had been sentenced to 80 years. He wounded four people, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. So, he stood on a folding chair and was piled on after the first of five shots. 32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami.įive feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the crowd. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his.
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