There was a cavalcade of Leftist – and media, please pardon the redundancy – politically opportunistic idiocy in response to this weekend’s horrendous Tucson, Arizona murders.  Which were committed unilaterally and without any assistance from anyone by the deranged Jared Loughner.

Never ones to let facts get in the way of a good beating, a great many Progressives grabbed onto the complete lack of any evidence to assign complicit blame for the homicides to Governor Sarah Palin, conservative talk radio, the TEA Party and anyone else right of center of whom they could think.

This is of course just another Left attempt to silence speech they find unhelpful to the advancement of Leftism.  Those who claim that speech with which they disagree leads to violence – aren’t at all comfortable with truly free speech.

The Marxist Media “reformers” at Free Press likewise rushed to not let this crisis go to waste.

I would like to specifically highlight the Twitter work of Free Press’s Campaign Director Tim Karr.  Who jumped on board the blame bandwagon – and the shark – with a series of Tweets aimed at taking advantage of the Arizona body count to advance Free Press’s media “reform” agenda.

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An agenda which includes amongst many other terrible ideas the exponential expansion of the government funding of journalism – so as to improve it.  Which is always what happens when you increase the government’s role in something.

The gallant and classy Karr unleashed a flurry of Tweets that connected conservative “haters” to the murders committed by a man none of them had ever met.  And as if that weren’t sufficiently untethered from Reality, Karr also blamed the conservatives’ “media enablers.”  As if the endless reams of evidence of the Leftist media on this and all things just… didn’t exist.

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