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Immediately After Arizona Shooting, MSNBC's Russert Suggested ObamaCare Backlash Was the Cause

During MSNBC's live coverage immediately following Saturday's attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), correspondent Luke Russert theorized that the shooting was probably a ...

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer: 'People' Are Blaming 'Vitriolic Right-Wing Talkers' for Shooting

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer on Tuesday spread the blame for Saturday's spree shooting, singling out "vitriolic right-wing talkers and the Tea Party." Several groups seemed to be on Brewer's list, with ...

MSNBC's Mitchell Blames Palin, Again, for Tucson Shooting

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell continued her crusade against Sarah Palin on Tuesday, reiterating the fallacious contention that the former Alaska governor is at least partly responsible for the shooting ...

CBS Admits Tucson Shooting 'Not Partisan,' Reveals Poll That Most Americans Agree

On Tuesday's Early Show, correspondent Ben Tracy acknowledged that the facts in the Tuscon shooting do not support media spin that the tragedy was incited by right-wing political rhetoric: ...

George Stephanopoulos: 'No Evidence' Shooter Was Motivated by Politics, Focuses On It Anyway

According to Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, there's "no evidence" that the Arizona shooter was motivated by political ideology. But, that didn't stop the ABC host from speculating ...

NBC's Mitchell: 'There's No Direct Link' to Palin in Giffords Shooting 'As Far As Investigators Know'

NBC's Andrea Mitchell just can't let go of the media spin that political rhetoric, specially from conservatives like Sarah Palin, is somehow partly to blame for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords ...

Ex-Newsweek Editor Howard Fineman Counsels Obama on How to Spin Shooting for Political Gain

Within hours of the mass shooting in Arizona, former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman on Saturday was offering Barack Obama tips on how to manipulate the outburst of violence for his political ...

NBC's Mitchell Digs Back to 2005 to Locate Beck's Hate Speech, But Can't Find Any on MSNBC

There's no evidence political vitriol drove Jared Loughner's murderous rampage, ABC, CBS and NBC all acknowledged, but that didn't deter them from taking up the left-wing line holding ...

Classless NYT Columnist Krugman Said Shooting Was Political Before Killer Even Identified

Behold Krugman's sanctimonious motivated sorrow: "When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity ...

CNN Goes After Arizona's Gun Laws as Major Factor in Shooting

On Monday's Newsroom, CNN treated Arizona's gun laws as a significant contributor to the shootings in Tucson. Correspondent Jessica Yellin prompted the local prosecutor to spout her pro-gun ...
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