Dem Rep On Tucson Tragedy: "Everybody Who Tries To Put It Off On A Deranged Individual I Think Is -- That's A Political Statement In And Of Itself'

Joe Schoffstall | January 13, 2011
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Democratic Rep. Bob Filner appeared on "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell and spoke on the Tucson shooting tragedy. He claimed this is something much larger than just one incident. Filner said, "This is not an isolated incident. Everybody who tries to put it off on a deranged individual I think is -- that's a political statement in and of itself." He also mentioned "the start of a revolution." As Jeff Poor from the Daily Caller writes:

Prior to President Barack Obama’s address at a memorial service paying tribute to the victims at the University of Arizona, historian Douglas Brinkley said the tragedy would rank up with the Civil Rights Era events in Selma and Birmingham in the historic overview. However, Filner made that prognostication pale by comparison. “The next day, Lawrence, and also right after Gabby’s shooting, there were blogs to say that clearly politics doesn’t work for us because Filner the sneaky Jewish guy obviously defrauded us, and we have to go to violence. And here`s some AK-47s; here`s how you do sniper work. And that was repeated a couple days ago with — when they said this is the start of the revolution, the shooting of Gabby Giffords. So this is not an isolated incident. Everybody who tries to put it off on a deranged individual I think is — that’s a political statement in and of itself, because they are absolving themselves of the responsibility of their words and their actions.”

Via The Daily Caller.

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