As details about the tragic shooting in Arizona came to light, members of the right-wing media quickly used the fact that Hitler's Mein Kampf was listed as one of Jared Loughner's favorite books as evidence that his politics are "left wing." This characterization coincides with years of effort by Fox News personalities to tie the fascist Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler to progressivism.
Suspected Gunman Jared Loughner Listed Mein Kampf As One Of His Favorite Books
Loughner Listed Mein Kampf As One Of His "Favorite Books" On His YouTube Account. From alleged gunman Jared Loughner's reported YouTube account:
Books:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
[Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube, accessed 1/9/11]
Right-Wing Media Seize On Mein Kampf To Label Loughner A "Left-Winger"
Hoft: Loughner "Reportedly Left-Wing, Quite Liberal," "His Favorite Books: Comminust [sic] Manifesto, Mein Kampf." From a January 8 post by Jim Hoft on Gateway Pundit:
He is definitely NOT a tea partier....
Killler identified: Jared Loughner. He is 22. Born September 1988.Here's a photo of Jared at a book fair.
He was reportedly left-wing, quite liberal.
** His favorite books: Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf
[Gateway Pundit, 1/8/11; emphasis original]
Newsmax: Shooter "Fascinated By Leftwing Politics," His Favorite Books "Hardly The Reading List Of A Palin Supporter." From a January 9 Newsmax article titled "Dems, Media Blame Tea Party, Palin for Shooting; Shooter Linked to Leftwing Politics":
As U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life after a mad gunman shot her on Saturday, some Democrats and major media have moved to pin the blame for her attack on the tea party movement and conservatives like Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the shooter was both deranged and fascinated by leftwing politics.
[...]
Indeed, the profile of the accused shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, that continues to emerge is that of a deranged young man whose mind was deeply distubred [sic], but who also tinkered with both anarchist ideas and leftwing politics.
ABC News reported Saturday night that Loughner had identified among his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and the fiction classic "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- hardly the reading list of a Palin supporter. [Newsmax, 1/9/11]
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