As some media reports pinned the Gabrielle Giffords shooting on right-wing rhetoric, conservatives went on the defense. Howard Kurtz on the politics behind the coverage-and the media's worst mistake.
It was as inevitable as a chemical reaction: Once the tragedy in Tucson became politicized, the right would quickly come to feel aggrieved.
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Not everyone on the liberal side has tried to tie the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others to the violent imagery used by Sarah Palin and other Republicans; many have been admirably restrained.
But conservatives aren't happy about the emerging narrative, and on Sunday, they started punching back.
Keith Appell, a top publicist for conservative causes, declared in an email that "some in the media have implicated conservatives, the Tea Party, talk radio, Republicans, etc." in the shooting that left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded.
It was as inevitable as a chemical reaction: Once the tragedy in Tucson became politicized, the right would quickly come to feel aggrieved.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Tunisia Shows Democracy Can Spread Without America
Not everyone on the liberal side has tried to tie the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others to the violent imagery used by Sarah Palin and other Republicans; many have been admirably restrained.
But conservatives aren't happy about the emerging narrative, and on Sunday, they started punching back.
Keith Appell, a top publicist for conservative causes, declared in an email that "some in the media have implicated conservatives, the Tea Party, talk radio, Republicans, etc." in the shooting that left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded.
- 1/10/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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