US Rep Gary Peters (MI-9) Still Claims AZ Shooting Occurred Because Of 'Violent Rhetoric'. TIME Mag: Blaming Rhetoric 'Completely Idiotic'

by The blogprof

US Rep Gary Peters (MI-9) Still Claims AZ Shooting Occurred Because Of 'Violent Rhetoric'. TIME Mag: Blaming Rhetoric 'Completely Idiotic': "Well this sure fits. After the ultra-liberal TIME Magazine admitted that blaming political rhetoric for the shooting is 'completely idiotic,' sole survivor of the bloodbath that Democrats took in November Gary Peters had this via The Michigan View: Peters: 'Violent rhetoric' shot Giffords. For the record, the Arizona shooter was a 'left-wing pothead' that didn't even listen to politics. Peters is apparently stuck on stupid:

While the link between alleged Tucson killer Jared Loughner and Tea Party rhetoric has long since been obliterated by press reports that he was mentally disturbed and unengaged in politics, prominent Democrats continue to try and use the violent rhetoric narrative to gain political advantage in the new Congress.

'Those who say right-wing rhetoric was the one factor tipping Loughner misunderstand the complex nature of psychosis,' concludes even left-wing Time magazine. 'In short, saying Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck caused Loughner's actions is, to put it charitably, completely idiotic.'

Apparently, stupid is as stupid does:

Yet, incredibly, Michigan Rep.Gary Peters (R-Bloomfield Townshop) ' over a week after the shootings - tried to draft Martin Luther King as an ally in the political-speech-drove-Loughner-over-the-edge campaign. 'The rhetoric of violence,' Peters told supporters in a completely idiotic email after the MLK holiday, is to blame.

'Last week when I began to prepare my remarks for the MLK day celebrations I would be soon attending, I found myself struggling,' the 'Peters for Congress' missive began innocently enough. 'My heart was heavy. I had just attended the prayer service for my friend and colleague, Gaby Giffords and the too many victims of the mass shooting in Arizona.'

'So I turned to one of my treasured possessions: a book of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings autographed by his late wife, Coretta Scott King,' he continued, soulfully. 'Dr. King taught us peace; in the face of hate, he taught us understanding.'

But then came the political knife.

'We must. . . reject hyperbole and the rhetoric of violence and to see them only as barriers to coming together to face the challenges we confront as a nation and a people,' he concluded.

And there you have it. 'The rhetoric of violence' shot Gabrielle Giffords.

Does that mean that he is repudiating the Democrat machine and the Daily Kos? Democrats had a map with bullseyes on them well before the Palin map, a fact I mentioned in a post from last year (theblogprof on 'Off The Record' with Tim Skubick, April 9, 2010). Here's one that appears on this page of the Democratic Leadership Committee website (dated 2004 during the Bush years):

The liberal Daily Kos put a bullseye on Giffords in 2008 (via HillBuzz):

What say you, Gary Peters?

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