Alastair Campbell, of all people, shows how the ghastly Tucson shootings are to be exploited for political purposes:
That’s a pretty succinct distillation of the case. The important thing to remember is that it doesn’t matter if Jared Lee Loughner had any kind of connection with any kind of mainstream conservatism.What the right are now doing is trying to portray the killer of Tucson, Arizona as a crazed loner operating in some kind of vacuum. But even if it turns out that he had never heard of the Tea Party, did not know who he was shooting, and was in fact a card-carrying member of the Democrat Party, (all three unlikely) it is time for the right-wing prophets of hate, many of whom have grown rich and famous on the back of their bile, to recognise the harm they do to public discourse, and their possible role in the actions of those who follow and listen to them.
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