Jared Loughner

Tim Blair: Naturally, Arizona gunman Jared Loughner is a truther: That puts him in great company. And the quality connections continue, with the lawyer who once represented an idealistic Berkeley math professor set to defend the murdering misfit…..TRUTH DAWNS

NY Daily News: Gunman Hid Creepy Skull Shrine in His Yard

Meanwhile, the unhinged left is determined not to let  a good crisis go to waste:

• AZ Sheriff Again Blames ‘Free Speech’ for ‘Angry Country’ Benefiting ‘Some Party’ US
• WatchFmr. Senator Claims Gunman Was ‘Angry’ Over Obamacare Repeal Politics
• WatchVideo Flashback: Some of the Left’s Angry Rhetoric
• Rush on AZ Shooting: Left Will Use it to Institute a ‘Clampdown’ Media
• WatchDems’ Enemy Amnesia: Obama or Palin – Who’s Really Responsible for Ramping Up the Rhetoric? Politics
• WatchPA Rep. Brady Suggests Gunman Motivated by Sarah Palin’s Website Government
• Michelle Malkin Details ‘Climate of Hate’ on the Left Media

NewsBusters:

• Barbara Walters Defends Sarah Palin: Blaming Her For Giffords Shooting ‘Very Unfair’ (you’d never think she knew anything beyond the ‘fairness doctrine’…..)
• Arizona Shooting Coverage Is a Media Campaign to Criminalize Conservatism
• Ex-Newsweek Editor Howard Fineman Counsels Obama on How to Spin Shooting for Political Gain

Michelle Malkin:

• Truther. Pothead. Creep. Nihilist. Psycho.
• Idiocracy: Conservatives who say “job-killing” are spreading hate

Andrew Bolt:

IT took just hours for the media to finger the villain responsible for the shooting of US Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  It was Sarah Palin what done it, officer. And other Right-wingers just like that witch.

Such is the deranged hatred that so many on the Left feel for the former Republican vice-presidential candidate.  But there’s a few things wrong with this narrative. It’s false, it’s foul; and it’s savagely hypocritical.

The framing of Sarah Palin