“As Clarence Dupnik, the sheriff responsible for dealing with the Arizona shootings, put it, it’s ‘the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business.’  The vast majority of those who listen to that toxic rhetoric stop short of actual violence, but some, inevitably, cross that line.”  Paul Krugman New York Times 1/9/11

I had to wait at least three days to allow the facts to settle over this heinous shooting carnage that took place in Tuscon Arizona by a mentally deranged, perhaps a person with a ‘thought disorder or a schizophrenic’ as Charles Krauthammer, a renowned columnist and psychiatrist said, before commenting on this tradegy.  But, the left wing mouthpiece of this administration, the New York Times stepped up to the plate and commissioned, Professor Krugman of Princeton to write an essay one day later with little or no facts of the motives of the alleged shooter.  And today the Times compounded this attack by writing an editorial that blames right wing Republicans and their toxic rhetoric for this carnage.

Shame on you New York Times and Professor Krugman for your lack of intellectual and  historical perspective on the incidents, the likes of which we just witnessed, that have taken place throughout American history without the connections with which you theorize.

The same rhetoric took place in the Revolution, the Civil War throughout our political assassinations of presidents and attempted assassinations of other presidents as well as other political leaders.

I am not going to spend the time here to educate the New York Times nor Professor Krugman on American History.

However, I would make reference to an incident, not in our so distant past, when a New York Times reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting a similar carnage on September 7, 1949.

The reporter was Meyer Berger who reported on a veteran who killed 12 in a mad rampage on a Camden NJ street, and yes a boy of the age of 2 was among the victims.

As the Times reported this story in the lead, the shooter, was 28 years old,”a mild soft spoken veteran of many armored battles in Italy, France , Austria, Belgium and Germany, killed 12 persons with a war souvenir Luger pistol in his home block in East Camden this morning.  He wounded four others.”

You see these deranged anomalies, unfortunately, are part of our history without implying the cause of political rhetoric or nefarious connections to which the left want to apply to the right at the drop of a hat today. Inflammatory rhetoric applies to both political parties, but when one party plays the ‘blame gain’ over a tragedy for strategic objectives, it is despicable.

To the best of my knowledge the Times did not do that in 1949.

The facts as we know them after three days:  Jared Loughner was the alleged shooter.  People that knew him said he was, “anti social, a loner, creep-ed-out students in his class, he was a left wing pot head, had a dream journal, a shrine in his backyard, students warned of his behavior, was rejected by the Army because he failed a drug test, did not make friends and that there was a side of him that people were apprehensive of.”

Charles Krauthammer nailed it, “he has a thought disorder.”

The New York Times stroked the ‘Climate of hate’ call – for it is a climate of hate that they want to perpetuate along with Professor Krugman as a strategy for the progressives of today who are on the run.

The Columbia Journalism Review is also critical of the media, “for its rush to blame conservative political rhetoric for the Tucson shooting in the absence of any evidence to support that narrative.”

In contrast to this unfortunate tragedy this weekend it is necessary to point out the carnage  Maj. Nidal Hasan caused on November 5, 2009 when he opened fire at a troop readiness center in Ft. Hood Texas, killing 13 people.

The Major shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before he began shooting.  He visited websites associated with Islamist violence, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered US forces his enemy, opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afganistan as wars on Islam, and told a neighbor shortly before the shootings that he was going “to do good work for God.”

There was ample evidence that the Ft. Hood attack was an act of Islamist violence, and we now know that by their own acknowledgments.

Nevertheless, the administration, public officials, journalists, and commentators were quick to caution that the public should not “jump to conclusions” about Hasan’s motive, despite the motives before them.

And where are those left wing hacks of today with no evidence of a ‘climate of hate’ other than what they generate lacking all the motives to support their case.

I can’t help but pass along a thought that today words move globally faster than a bullet.  However, a bullet when the trigger is pulled, whether it be by a deranged shooter or one with a motive, causes more human carnage than a word.

I have read the Constitution, I hope you have.  Finally, the Congress heard it for the first time, at least the few that were present to hear it – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was one of the readers, she read the first amendment, the right of free speech and the right of the people to peacefully gather.  Today she fights for her life because she exercised that right.

If I ever had the choice to give up an amendment to the Constitution it would be the right to bear arms.

The right to free speech is the essence of our democracy, a right we should never aqueous.

However, the left seems to follow a philosophy of never letting ‘a crisis go to waste.’