Tuscon AZ shootings: aftermath

First, the good news, Congresswoman Giffords condition is upgraded from critical to serious, although there is still limited information regarding her true condition & prognosis.

Here are a few articles that I think are interesting in the aftermath of the shootings and the overkill of the politicians and the pundocracy, who are intent on spinning this terrible incident to political advantage.

Jonah Goldberg: on the idiocy of the mainstream media -

"False ‘national debates’ that journalists only have with themselves"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/where_the_media_leads_we_don_follow_1ykcLkS1e2v97rUHj1LtQO#ixzz1BGLUp04C

Kyle Smith: on the inappropriate venue for Obama's speech

The Maddening Crowd

Cheering students marred O’s speech — but he has only himself to blame

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_maddening_crowd_JqXyn0dQn9mO5O4rUkhtHO

And then there is this idiot / nut, James Eric Fuller, a shooting victim in Tuscon, who found out that getting shot does not innoculate you from being arrested for being an idiot or moron who can threaten the lives of others without consequences.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110116/us_nm/us_usa_shooting_victim_arrest

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A victim of last week's Arizona shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation after threatening a Tea Party leader during the taping of a television show, police said.

James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee on January 8, objected to comments from Trent Humphries, leader of the conservative Tea Party political movement in Tucson, during taping of a town hall meeting organized for an ABC News special program on the aftermath of the shootings.

Fuller stood, turned and snapped a picture of Humphries, said Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Ogan.

"Then he yelled at him and said, 'You're dead,'" Ogan said.

Deputies arrested Fuller on charges of disorderly conduct and making a threat.