"hold off commenting"? Probably something Sheppard Smith on Fox should do also. Repeating his journalistic mistakes a la hurricane Katrina, Smith had a state senator on Fox this PM who managed to get a Tea Party reference into her discussion of the victim.

"If I had my druthers, the news networks would ban political commentators of all stripes for the first 24 hours after these kinds of tragedies."

If that were to happen, then given the fact that the MSM is composed almost exclusively of left-wing political extremists AP, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN would go silent for 24 hours.

Nor is a waiting period going to help create a climate for more accurate and honest reporting, since there are no cooler heads to prevail in the MSM. On major stories like 9/11, the Cold War, the welfare state, and ObamaCare, it makes no difference to the MSM whether 24 hours or 24 years is allowed to pass. Politically-motivated disinformation is king at the MSM, and probably always will be.

The hits just keep on coming.

MSNBC Breaking News: "Sarah Palin, who TARGETED Rep. Giffords in 2010 election, offers condolences"

(source: Twitter)

At least the president's statement, though not overly graceful, was in no way inappropriate or political. He deserves credit for that. The temptation to use this -- as we have seen already -- is obviously enormous. He may, and probably will, use it yet. But not today.

Hyperbolic rhetoric from mainstream right wing writers/tv and radio personalities accusing Democrats of a secret plan to destroy the country and install socialism/fascism = meh.

Complaints from liberals about that hyperbolic rhetoric both before and after people are dead = unconscionable.

Do I have that math correct Jonah?

rails warner = the reason Jonah posted this. Unfreakingbelievable.

May God bless not just the souls of those killed and injured and their families, but you, too.

Maybe all political comments should have been withheld, but it's too late now. Time to get out and defend our people from baseless, horrific, unjust attacks by the Left. Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, FoxNews, and the TEA Party are all being blamed by Lefty luminaries like Paul Krugman, Jane Fonda, MSNBC, even one of the Dem Congressmen has jumped in.
Yes, there are people dead and people in surgery still. But that's no excuse for us to sit on our hands and hope the attacks by the Left somehow just go away.
And speaking of targets and a map, someone might want to reference the Daily Kos map that Markos tried to hide. Too bad the screeshots are getting out.

Absolutely infuriating that anyone would try to make political hay over this. Doubly so before all the facts are in. But somehow it managed to get even worse as the day goes on.

The initial reaction of many on the left was despicable but unsurprising. They wanted to blame the right for this attack, and they couldn't even be bothered to wait for the facts. With each fact that emerged, the "right-winger" hypothesis becomes increasingly absurd. We now have evidence that this murderer was a flag-burning atheist who was "quite liberal," in the words of a high school friend. Oh, and while a Democratic Congresswoman is wounded, a Republican federal judge is dead at the hands of this guy.

You might think that the left would stop at this point and backtrack, or at least shift to "he's-a-nut-and-politics-has-nothing-to-do-with-this," but you'd be wrong. They're doubling down, still trying to pin this on the right.

This is absolutely disgusting. I haven't been this angry in months.

I wonder if comparing liberals to Hitler had anything to do with it. Maybe if there was a high-profile website out there whose contributors literally say that Democrats are conspiring with Jihadists to destroy America, then those clowns and cretins might offer an apology or a retraction right about now instead of pieties and off-topic mea culpas.