Several bloggers are postulating that this murder and the shooting at the Knoxville Unitarian Church are, in some ways, parallel.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Police and neighbors are struggling to explain why a man described as a loner drove more than 30 miles to Arkansas' Democratic Party headquarters and fatally shot its chairman hours after getting fired from his job.
Police said Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, of Searcy, barged into Bill Gwatney's office on Wednesday and shot him multiple times. There were no signs that Gwatney and Johnson, who was later shot dead by officers, knew each other.
A Target retail store in Conway had fired Johnson early Wednesday because he had written graffiti on a wall, police said. Before noon, Johnson was in Gwatney's office in Little Rock with a handgun.
"He said he was interested in volunteering, but that was obviously a lie," said Sam Higginbotham, a 17-year-old volunteer at the party's headquarters.
More here.
Of course, conservative bloggers are sure to use this event as a way to attack Democrats.
It didn't take Michelle Malkin long to use the dead in Knoxville and Bill Gwatney as an instrument with which to attack those who disagree with her.
The Arkansas Democrat Party chairman was shot today at his office in a horrible attack and is in critical condition. There is scant information about the unhinged shooter, but it seems he was disgruntled over losing his job. There is no indication of his political affiliations, his ideology, or his motives for singling out the Democrat Party chairman.
No matter. I’m already getting blamed for the incident.
Yeah, I did it:
....I am also guilty of last month’s shooting at a Knoxville church, for which a nutroots blogger similarly says I need to be held “accountable.”
For what? For blogging, writing columns, and authoring books with which they disagree.
Such stalwart, principled champions of free speech they are
Malkin's predictable handling of this ( she published the name and email of the person that claimed her and other far-right conservatives are fueling hatred ) it was a comment on her blog that caught my attention.
I cannot count the many times people like O'Reilly, Malkin, Ingraham - and other far-right people that don't understand how the internet works - have complained about "hate-filled" comments and proper "vetting" of comment sections while letting the same comments appear on their respective sites.
John Amato @ CrooksAndLiars has more.
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