Rolling thoughts about the press, the Web, and political assassination.

The Giffords Shooting

@jaketapper anyone can be first with wrong information. —Jan. 8, 7:20 p.m.

@radleybalko What a weird criticism. RT @joanwalsh John McCain, don't stand in front of beautiful beach to express condolences to dead, wounded in Tucson. —Jan. 8, 6:52 p.m.

@DaviSusan If you want to read a good eye witness account of what happened at the Giffords shooting, WaPo has a good one: http://wapo.st/dLxGTd —Jan. 8, 6:26 p.m.

@joshtpm FLASHBACK: Vid of interview w/Giffords from last year on her being on Sarah Palin's 'crosshairs' list http://tpm.ly/ewIsRT —Jan. 8, 6:25 p.m.

@chashomans Thought experiment: Imagine the US media's treatment of the Giffords shooting applied to the Salman Taseer assassination, and vice versa. —Jan. 8, 6:20 p.m.

@benpolitico RT @RAMansour: We never removed this Facebook post: http://is.gd/kokfD "Take Back the 20" website is no longer relevant now tht elex is over —Jan. 8, 6:32

@CraigSilverman I collected the notable tweets related to the false death reports of Rep. Giffords: http://bit.ly/hIyv9m —Jan 8, 5:49 p.m.

@walterkirn People looking for a moral in the shooting are finding the one they went in with. The more things change… —Jan. 8, 5:37 p.m.

@Dahlialithwick looks like in 1994 Judge Roll found that background check provisions of Brady Law were unconstititonal http://bit.ly/gqCBlx —Jan. 8, 5:37 p.m.

@walterkirn Why are partisan types so disappointed when an evildoer turns out not to be a political enemy? it denies them their own violent thoughts. —Jan. 8, 6:20 p.m.

@walterkirn Intense, personalized ideological passion and excitement, regardless of content, seems to be the illness. —Jan. 8, 5:31 p.m.

@benpolitico Krauthammer wrote about the analyzing lone gunmen, nuts by definition, in a very different context in '09 http://is.gd/kohkD —Jan. 8, 5:11 p.m.

@billgifford And this: "No! I won't pay debts in a currency that's not backed by gold and silver!" (an actual Tea Party plank) http://bit.ly/freFZs —Jan. 8, 4:59 p.m.

@maddow There is nothing to be gained from speculating on the motives and affiliations of AZ shooter w/o facts. Retweeted by @pmjim —Jan. 8, 4:56 p.m.

@walterkirn stoned. lonely. excitable. half-literate. politically incoherent. on the the thin side. these lone gunmen are one brain sharing bodies. —Jan. 8, 4:46 p.m.

@weareyourfek* Today, John Boehner, is when you cry. —Jan. 8, 4:45 p.m.