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Nice blood libel you frame here, Dr. Krugman. In less than 3 paragraphs you place this nutcase on the right, and blame right-wing 'extremists' for his craziness. You do realize that this man voted for Barack Obama, don't you?

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Barack Obama, 6/14/2008.

Jared Lee Loughner listened to whom? Not to Sarah Palin, or 'right-wing extremists'; Loughner was a lefty who likely hated Sarah Palin and I doubt he listened to any right-wing pundits on radio or TV. Maybe Jared Lee Loughner listened to Barack Obama, and pushed back against a decidedly blue-dog Democrat? Maybe he reads Markos Moulitsas (proprietor of the far-Left blog Daily KOS, a prominent Democrat site that has hosted diaries written by Democrat politicians, and yes, even Keith Olbermann)?

Daily KOS had a diarist's post up two days before the shootings, since scrubbed, stating that Ms. Gifford was 'dead to me'. More likely that a 22-y/o was attracted to Daily KOS than to the 'old men' in the party of FOX.

Professor Glenn Reynolds asks this:

"To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?"

From what I read here, Dr. Krugman, and from many other far-left news organizations and web sites, I see no reason to have any reaction other than contempt.

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