Within Minutes of Shooting, CNN Finds Local Liberal to Blame State’s ‘Rabid Right’ and Gun ‘Fetish’
Within minutes of reporting the horrific shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other innocents in Tucson, as the early reports wrongly cited Giffords as dead, CNN found a local liberal cartoonist/columnist to suggest the violence was “inevitable” because local conservatives had been “stoking the fires of heater anger and rage.” When CNN anchor Martin Savidge pointed out there was no information yet on the shooter, the cartoonist acknowledged “That is correct,” and then added blame to the state's “fetish” for guns and repeated his attack on the “rabid right.” The CNN anchor buttered him up by saying “We do appreciate your insights” even as he repeated there was no evidence. The liberal cartoonist was David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star: MARTIN SAVIDGE: I want to turn to David Fitzsimmons who is with the “Arizona Daily Star,” a political cartoonist. He is on the scene at Safeway. David, are you there? DAVID FITZSIMMONS, “ARIZONA DAILY STAR” (via telephone): I'm pretty shaken, frankly. This is a very surreal dream-like experience.
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on January 9, 2011. Filed under