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- 12:59am — May 21, 2012
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The mayors of Tucson and Los Angeles are calling on mayors across the country to lead their cities in ringing bells to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 8 shootings. L.A.‘s Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said his fellow leaders should “affirm our commitment to a new civility in politics.”... Read more»
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Why does it always have to be “including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords” as if she were more important or something? More than anything, I wish the Sentinel and each and every other mass-media outlet would either choose to list ALL the names, or none of them. Putting one victim over the others is nothing short of absolutely disgusting.
I am now at the point where I am officially sick of the term “civility”. I hate how it’s been hijacked and redefined to essentially mean “censorship.” Perhaps someone should send each mayor that signed that idiotic “civility accord” a dictionary with the page that contains “civility” bookmarked and the definition highlighted.
Very good. Even though he’s only been in office roughly a month, and I don’t want to jinx it here…but this Rothschild guy seems to have a good head on his shoulders. I hate how he plugged the “Civility accord”, but the rest of his quotes are non-partisan, intelligent, lucid, and unifying. Rothschild is not trivializing or marginalizing the pain, suffering, and loss of other victims of this tragedy and their families by placing them below one particular victim, as many others-including the Sentinel.
Keep up the good work, Mayor Rothschild. After 12 years of a brain dead moron as mayor, you seem to be the breath of fresh air this community so desperately needs.
Why is it always “...including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.”??? I hate how every mass media outlet puts one victim over the others, as if the other victims and their families didn’t experience loss, pain, or suffering or something. The right thing to do would be either to list the names of ALL the victims, or none of them. To put one over the others is nothing less than absolutely disgusting, and it needs to finally stop.
Let’s rewrite that sentence, just to try in on for size, shall we?
“Six were killed and 13 others wounded in the attack”.
See, what in the world is wrong with that? Is that quote not factual? Does it take away anything from the story? Is there anyone on the planet at this point who doesn’t know that Giffords was shot that day?
I got a lot to say about this story, so I’m about to go Britannicus on y’all here with another post or two…
Damn duplicate post. I thought my first one didn’t make it. Dammit. Well, here’s another one…
To me, the first anniversary is just going to be a source of anger for me. It will mark one year that we’ve all been waiting for Jared Loughner to finally be held accountable for his idiotic and tragic actions that day. I understand the wheels of justice turn slowly, but there should be a limit to that. Reason has to work its way into the process somewhere, and a year and counting for his trial to start is absolutely unacceptable, no matter what standards you measure it by.
Bret Linden opined:
Given your usual viewpoint, one would think you’d be used to looking to the right, Bret.
@Dylan Smith
Put some stories in here that are actually from a right-wing perspective, and you’ll see me bash them equally. I’m looking forward to the day when I am able to prove that to you.
@Bret Linden
You missed the point, Bret. I meant physically look to the right, and read the sidebar on the story.
To yours: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/tag/goldwater+institute/
@Dylan Smith
Very good. Props for that list. But, that list wasn’t there when I initially read the story, which was before you put in the final paragraph of the body. The editing is probably what sent my posts haywire and caused the duplicates, but I’m disgressing…
But, my point stands…you’re still putting Giffords above everyone else in the body of the story, and it ain’t right. But, I will acknowledge that having the sidebar story is better than not having it. So, you’re moving in the right direction here.
Dylan Smith asserted:
But for one Buckmaster show, they’re ALL “guest opinion”. I was speaking of stories that are under the Front Page or Local sections…
But if you want me to reread those pieces and bash some of those guys, I’m more than happy to do that. :)