Shots fired NEAR the White House, not AT the White House

 This headline was splashed all across the internet this afternoon: Shots fired at the White House.

  The implication was clear, the media was trying to give people the impression that someone fired shots toward the White House–probably a teabagger angry with the healthcare law. Wasn’t that the first impression you had when seeing the headlines for the first time? That is the impression I got, but that is not the case for it turns out that the woman who was eventually killed by police didn’t even have a firearm. There were shots fired near, not at, the White House and those shots were fired by the police, not by the woman who rammed the White House barricade before leading the police on a chase.

  The headlines have since been corrected but not before the New York Times tried to tie the incident to the government shutdown in a Tweet. The politicization of this issue has begun and now the disgraced Charlie Rangel is blaming Republicans for what happened today in the nation’s capitol, here is what he had to say:

“Listen, people are so frustrated and angry with members of Congress, particularly Republicans,” Mr. Rangel told Politicker today. “My first thought was that frustration ignited somebody already imbalanced and caused this type of thing.”

  Here we have cases of both the media and a Democrat throwing around baseless claims without knowing all the facts in the case. Well, two can play this game so here goes.

  Could not violent and irresponsible rhetoric also have played a role in driving an obviously unstable person to commit such an act of violence? I think so, and what party has been guilty of this? 

  The Democrats of course: They have said that the Republicans are jihadists, terrorists with political bombs strapped to their chests, political arsonists, extremists, radicals, and much more. Hell, Barack Obama even used the analogy of the Republicans holding a gun to the head of the American people to make his point. Is it not possible that this demagoguery is what finally drove her over the edge? 

  And then there is the news that a one year old child was removed from this woman’s car after the incident was over. What happened yesterday that could have driven this woman to carry out such an act with a child in her car? Oh yeah, Harry Reid blocked funding for children with cancer, maybe this is what drove her over the edge.