Inconvenient truths: Holocaust Museum shooter hated Fox News, Murdoch; Weekly Standard possible target

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 11, 2009 01:52 PM

I noted yesterday and this morning that Holocaust Museum nutball was an equal-opportunity hater.

He railed against Fox News and Rupert Murdoch.

And now this:

FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they’d found the magazine’s address

A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.

Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.

The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there’s no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn’s published rants included attacks on “neocons,” and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.

The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms.

No, they’ll just ignore whatever doesn’t fit The Narrative.

Keep screaming “RIGHT WING! RIGHT WING!” and don’t let reality intrude.

***

A glimmer of back-handed conscience from liberal writer Jason Zengerle at TNR:

The murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns by James Von Brunn was a political act. That said, I think it’s premature to start making political arguments about the shooting a mere two hours after it occurs–especially if the arguments are being directed at people who didn’t have anything to do with the shooting. I’m as sick of Michelle Bachman and Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin as anyone, but, frankly, I have a hard time seeing how their (stupid and misguided and unfair) criticisms of the DHS report led or even contributed to Johns’s shooting…I mean, a white supremacist nutjob walks into the Holocaust Museum, guns down a security guard, and people’s immediate response is to think about what some idiot said on a mindless Fox News show two months ago?! I just thought a little more time should have passed before something this terrible got turned into yet another, frivolous cable debate segment.

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  1. #718176
    On June 11th, 2009 at 1:54 pm, sonofdy said:

    Those right wing bigots hate “fox news”????

    Will we see left wingers burning down gores mansion next????

  2. #718188
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, Auggie Dog said:

    Wright says ‘Jews’ keeping him from Obama

    This story that just came on on AP and is actually already posted on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31246353

  3. #718196
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:04 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    The Weekly Standard is hardly “right wing”. A neocon is basically a liberal who strongly supports Israel and in using our military overseas for national defense. Otherwise, open-borders, big government programs, etc…, hard to differentiate them from your garden-variety liberal.

  4. #718204
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Since when do facts get in the way of a perfectly good DHS report to foist upon the unsuspecting.

  5. #718215
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm, Regulus said:

    In the spirit of “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” naturally the liberal reaction is to not let an act of murderous bigotry go unused as a way to:

    1. Attack domestic political opposition; and more importantly,

    2. Obfuscate the fact that today, by far the most enthusiastic proponents of anti-Semitism“Zionism” are their fellow-liberals.

    “Narrative, narrative, uber alles…”

  6. #718220
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:17 pm, trappedinnj said:

    I just read a blog linked on FR that this troll is also a registered Democrat in Maryland…This doesnt seem 100% confirmed to me yet though.

  7. #718232
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    The left insists this guy is a right-wing wacko. It needs to be that way to fit the template.

    It is time for liberals to bring out their standard line:

    “The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”

  8. #718239
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:29 pm, love2rumba said:

    whatever doesn’t fit The Narrative.

    Keep screaming “RIGHT WING! RIGHT WING!” and don’t let reality intrude.

    It has been the same thing with respect to the John Kennedy assassination…even though it was a communist nutball named Lee H. Oswald that did it, the assassination was still a right-wing hit job!

  9. #718242
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, John Deaux said:

    Don’t tell RSS or moonshot. It will disrupt their entire world view.

  10. #718257
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Double post alert from older thread…

    He ran a nutbar whacked out web site, and he tried to take the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hostage to put them on trial during the Carter Administration.

    This guy is sort of North Wing, where the Left goes so far they almost become Right and vice versa. Patrick Buchanan’s suspicions about the Jews is an example.

    But if there was anybody DHS should have been watching who hadn’t converted to Islam in prison and visited Yemen, von Loon was it.

  11. #718259
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:46 pm, Send_Me said:

    So, this man will now be charged with murder and a federal hate crime, and most will cheer. So much for equal protection under the law. Some will think I’m defending the murderer. I most assuredly am not. My point is merely this: those wanting hate crime (and hate thought) legislation will use this to justify their arguments, with the cheers of most Americans backing them without a thought as to what this will mean for them in the future. The guard was murdered. We already have a law on the books meant to protect us all. Why then do we now have unequal protection under the law for certain groups in our society? If I am murdered, a white, anglo-saxon male, no one would categorize the crime as a “hate crime”, hence there is less protection for me.

  12. #718267
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pm, sbw999 said:

    No, they’ll just ignore whatever doesn’t fit The Narrative.

    Keep screaming “RIGHT WING! RIGHT WING!” and don’t let reality intrude.

    I really wonder what would become of democrat demagogues, or the dim party, if the msm were really a politically neutral entity. I dont think the affect that a corrupt MSM has on elections can be possibly be underestimated, especially considering that we basically have a mostly uninterested or uninformed voting population.

  13. #718272
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Murder is murder, and although there may be extenuating circumstances in some cases, that may call for leniency, murder for profit, to eliminate witnesses during the commission of a crime, for revenge, or because a person is a ’special’ class of person, all deserve the maximum penalty.

    John Muhammad, the Beltway sniper, mostly targetted Whites, although he shot a Black school child. He was motivated by radical Islam, apparently.

    Killing people for being kaffirs should justify hate crime charges in a fair world, but don’t.

  14. #718274
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, spaceycakes said:

    The Dhimmis have never let reality nor truth hamper their screams.

  15. #718275
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    I’m waiting with bated breath for the silly lefties who frequent here to explain THIS…

  16. #718280
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:53 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Ed Mahmoud–uh oh. You used an apartheid-era slur. Do you think anyone will notice?

  17. #718285
    On June 11th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Freddy said:

    This guy is strictly LEFT wing. Do not be confused by various media people that are only interested in furthering their own agenda’s by manipulating words to mean what they want.

    This is exactly the tactic being used by Obama. He recreated welfare handouts under the name of ‘tax cut. Today, Obama claimed he does not want another government program, while in the same breath touting a new federal health care program.

    ALL LIES DESIGNED TO CONFUSE!

  18. #718293
    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm, Paul Revere said:

    “Distraction”

  19. #718313
    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:15 pm, letget said:

    Michelle,
    I hope to goodness with all the ‘hate mail and msm stories’ about you, you have ‘people’ looking after you. There are those who can be nasty, hateful, and very dangerous people at times. Just be careful, please.
    L

  20. #718327
    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    “Hate” crimes. What a crock. When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, we had all kinds of groups blowing up police stations, rioting, lynchings, beatings, and so on. I just don’t see a spike in hate and violence except for the explosion of hate levels among the left towards conservatives.

    They lynchings and bombings of my youth were probably “love” crimes.

  21. #718344
    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:44 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Kaffir may be an apartheid era slur, but it is also Arabic for “infidel”.

    May be spelled kufr.

    I suspect the Apartheid era slur may be derived from the Arabic. It doesn’t sound Dutch/Afrikaans.

  22. #718357
    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    I posted this on another thread, but it was running out of steam, so I’m re-posting:

    On June 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm, Lan Astaslem said:
    Been a little busy today, so I’m just getting around to this. The lunatic says he is a WWII Veteran? Does he say which side he fought on?? Just sayin’.

  23. #718378
    On June 11th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Oh, I know that it came from the Arabic kafir; the Arabic peoples had a port in Mozambique (at old Sofala), and the word usage spread from there…it is not Afrikaans. It’s just that most people associate it w/the racist South African.

  24. #718383
    On June 11th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, zyzzyg said:

    It is an incredible leap to suggest that since the ‘Holocaust Museum nutball’ had an address he intended harm at that address. Certainly the question, ” . . . asked whether the Standard had received any threats. . . ” would, and could, lead to a specific conclusion.

    What if the question were, ” . . . has the Standard received supportive communications . . . ” might draw a different conclusion.

    The point is, although Von Brunn is a whack job, having an address does not mean he was going to attack a place.

    A notebook was found in his car and if the Standard’s address was in the column ‘places to shoot up’, then OK, it was a target. But, an address alone, any address, it would be irresponsible to conclude, or suggest, that place was a target.

    A complete review, and examination, of the notebook (and, anything else written) would be extremely helpful.

  25. #718392
    On June 11th, 2009 at 4:29 pm, corona said:

    Did anyone read the linked blog post?
    There is absolutely nothing about Fox News or Murdoch – the names appear only in the comments

  26. #718406
    On June 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, chapoutier said:

    Corona, here:

    Nations pay JEWS for the use of their own (Nation’s) money. it’s similar to the KOSHER TAX ON MUCH OF THE FOOD YOU BUY. It doesn’t matter that you despise JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY you pay the tax – or else you don’t eat. Hillary, Obama, McCain, Ruppert Murdoch don’t mind paying the Kosher tax, why should you care .

  27. #718439
    On June 11th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, nbarry said:

    Von Brunn has been linked to a hate group called the National Alliance. Any word on them?

  28. #718590
    On June 11th, 2009 at 7:27 pm, flenser said:

    Von Brunn was one of those “right-wingers” who hate Christianty and love socialism.

    By that definition the Democratic Party is riddled with right-wingers. It’s high time that chappy and lgm stopped supporting those right-wing extremists.

  29. #718593
    On June 11th, 2009 at 7:29 pm, flenser said:

    Read this to get an idea of just how leftwing the guy actually is.

  30. #718770
    On June 12th, 2009 at 6:22 am, frontierguy said:

    Anyone who hates Jews and despises the nation of Israel, the only viable democracy in the middle east, is a left winger. The sad thing is that conservatives are the only ones who get it. Add to it Nazis, complete lefties. I had so many liberal people tell me that Bush was a Nazi, I was always like , you have no idea what fascism is. Apparently they do, they have it now and they like it.

  31. #718829
    On June 12th, 2009 at 9:04 am, Aggie95 said:
  32. #718845
    On June 12th, 2009 at 9:24 am, chapoutier said:

    frontierguy,

    Ever heard of the “no true scotsman” logical fallacy?

  33. #719691
    On June 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm, frontierguy said:

    Chap, I am assuming it must be a “fancy” form of projection. I’m not into fancy stuff. Layman’s terms are just fine with me. So, yes, I know all about projection, like when you call “right winger” anti-semetic or fascist. Yeah, I know about that. The left has made it an art form for them.

  34. #719863
    On June 13th, 2009 at 7:52 am, chapoutier said:

    I’m not into fancy stuff.

    Only if you consider logic “fancy.” Based on your posts, I would not be surprised.

  35. #719916
    On June 13th, 2009 at 10:36 am, frontierguy said:

    Okay, I’ll play…

    Since Democrats support policies that are detrimental to the security of Israel,
    and…liberals support democrats, then
    liberals support the destruction of Israel.

    I’m not playing the game that liberals insist on. Whenever I debate them, they love to play in absolutes, when you bring up evidence contrary, they end up insisting in an end argument where the statement is something like, there are Republicans who are just as bad as the Democrats. Why are conservatives always the ones who end up compromising? I don’t do it anymore. If you support the Democrats then there is no way that you support the integrity of the nation of Israel. End of story, and therefore you hate the Jews. If I am called someone who hates gays because I do not support gay marriage, even though I am okay with civil unions, then it cuts both ways. That is the basis of Liberal logic, so, if you support the Democrats then you hate the Jews.

  36. #719926
    On June 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am, chapoutier said:

    Since Democrats support policies that are detrimental to the security of Israel,

    Absurd. You criticize liberals for speaking in “absolutes” and then post this drivel which 1) presumes that Israel is a monolithic entity without diversity of opinion 2)and treats anyone who does not act like Israel’s little lap dog and kowtow to its every opinion (or rather, the conservative’s notion of what Israel’s opinion is) as the reincarnation of Arafat.

    Bull. The only real question is whether or not you do this simply out of spite for liberals rather than any real concern for the state of Israel. Sorry, but Israel is not a game piece in your little left vs. right fantasy board game.

  37. #719942
    On June 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am, frontierguy said:

    Let’s look at logic:
    1. Israel has asserted that giving up control of land in the Gaza strip results in their enemies using it as a staging ground to launch attacks on their civilian centers.
    2. Every time Israel has given up control of land in the Gaza strip, they receive rocket attacks.
    3. Obama is aggressively pushing the 2 state solution.
    4. This will affect negatively Israel’s security and will get Israeli civilians killed.

    It is not absurd. That is the logical truth behind it.

  38. #719950
    On June 13th, 2009 at 11:24 am, chapoutier said:

    Fact:

    A 2 state solution is the only thing that has a chance for any sort of lasting peace. Unless you want to perform genocide on Palestinians. Which you would probably be okay with, since they are just a bunch of dirty Muslims in your eyes.

  39. #719959
    On June 13th, 2009 at 11:37 am, frontierguy said:

    since they are just a bunch of dirty Muslims in your eyes.

    Playing absolutes I see. I think the fact that the Muslim Palestinians, like the Muslim Lebanese, who refuse to take responsibility and keep the terrorists our of their territory is the reason that your fact of a 2 state solution will not work at this time. They have shown no commitment to peace, on the contrary their silence and refusal to stop the rocket attacks shows their approval of wanting to kill Jews and or drive them into the sea or wipe them off the map. Of course those Jews are just evil, right?

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