HuffPost's article isn't what I'm mad about. In fact, I think they did a great job covering the tragedy, with multiple sources and unbiased (so far) reporting. Read this.
"Police said they don't know a motive. However, they said that moments after the shooting he pointed a handgun at the building manager at the nearby the Arkansas Baptist headquarters. He told the manager "I lost my job," said Dan Jordan, a Baptist convention official."
Karen Ray, executive director of the Republican Party of Arkansas, sent her workers home early "out of an abundance of caution."
"Our hearts go out to everyone at the Democratic headquarters. What a tragedy," Ray said.
"Our hearts go out to everyone at the Democratic headquarters. What a tragedy," Ray said.
So now that we've cleared up that there wasn't a clear motive, that the shooter threatened Baptists, and that Republicans (surprisingly) mourn the loss, just as much as the Democrats.
SO WHY ON EARTH WOULD THE FIRST INSTINCT OF HUFFPOST READERS BE TO BLAME REPUBLICANS ON THIS GUY'S DEATH!?
Yes, that's right. After the somber article (my thoughts are with Gwatney's family and associates), there's a comment board. The comments go like this:
levibatgirl: Another member of the right wing base out of his mind. Aren't they all?
LCDTV: just another crazy violent republican. that is who they are.
bored2tears: This comes how many days after McCain's plans to label Obama a "job killer?"
GooeyButter: When you started arousing hatred and exploiting the worst in people in order to get elected, you're left with this kind of world that we have today. God curse the Republicans.
KOisGOD: I've got Savage on the way home. Expect him to be all giddy about this. Hannity will couch his joy, but he'll just warn his audience that this is what happens when LIBERALS, push America into a corner.
jazzman: There are plenty of nutcases feeding on a steady diet of Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Savage, Malkin, Beck and others who some day are bound to go off. With these hate merchants screaming over the airwaves 24/7, I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing repeats itself several times.
TXfemmom:I know that conservatives are despicable people. They demonize liberals and have advocated killing them, listen to Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Now, here's the explanation they come up with for their logic:
coyote4: We know the s hooter was at the Arkansas B aptist headquarters.We know he said that he lost his job.And we know that he t argeted and m urdered a liberal.
*Sigh*. It's the HuffPost's readers that make it such a terrible place. Well, some of the editorials and articles are nonsense, but that by itself wouldn't really provoke anyone. At least some of the readers here aren't insane:
creationwaits: The amount of pure hatred for conservatives in these comments is terrible. We don't know what this guy's motives were, and what little info we do have suggests that it may not have been politically motivated. And still so many commenters are already sure that this is really Limbaugh's fault, or the fault of all those bitter people Obama talked about, or have even worse things to say. It's despicable. If this fellow does turn out to be not a conservative, I hope everyone who is already so sure that it will be takes a good look at their own hearts.
As Rush would say, "I don't make this up, folks."
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You do realize only about a month ago a person walked into a fairly liberal church and tried to murder them all for views. And now a democratic leader is shot dead for one reason or another.
Maybe if a few more liberals are murdered we can see a patern starting to develop. Maybe it is time liberals armed themselves, just in case.
So you think, that as conservatives, we're predisposed to violence toward different points of view? Like I've confirmed before, a motive hasn't been found. For all we know, it was because he was a mentally unstable person and "irate employee", or because he was terminated, according to the official police report.
But that's a rather disturbing comment you've left. "Maybe if a few more liberals are murdered we can see a patern starting to develop." It's paranoid. The people whose comments I posted, they hope for tragedies like this to happen, because in the rare occasions that they do, they get to wallow in their paranoia, play victim, and feel persecuted.
Perhaps you feel that way, too.
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