Behind the NYT's Smug Grin

The New York Times as a very interesting and detailed report about the AZ shooting ("Behind Jared Loughner’s Mug-Shot Grin" - NYTimes.com), but having read a variety of other stories about the shooter's ideologies, it is difficult to miss the writer's attempts to tie the shooter to conservatism:

He became an echo chamber for stray ideas, amplifying, for example, certain grandiose tenets of a number of extremist right-wing groups — including the need for a new money system and the government’s mind-manipulation of the masses through language.

And this,

A few days later, during a meeting with a school administrator, Mr. Loughner said that he had paid for his courses illegally because, “I did not pay with gold and silver” — a standard position among right-wing extremist groups.

It is pretty noteworthy, as reflected in the link/headline chosen by The Drudge Report, that the shooter was a GWB hater--"a tenet of a number of left-wing groups," you could say.

And I think the liberal media's account of another event is being obfuscated to make the shooter out to be a Pro-lifer:

In February, an administrator reported to the campus police that [the shooter] had disrupted the class with his strange reaction to the reading of another student’s poem, taking a huge leap from its context to abortion, wars and killing people. The school official described him as “creepy.” They would keep an eye on him.

Sorry, but the girl's poem was about an abortion, and it is not a big leap from abortion to "killing people" . . . unless you are a hard-core liberal. What lousy "journalists" . . .