Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Kathy Griffin: Shameless Trifecta Exploit Tucson

From the time news coverage of the Tucson shooting began streaming across television screens till now, there has been a concerted effort to affix blame for the shooting on conservatives like Sarah Palin and bodies of conservatism, like the Tea Party. And while these efforts have been carried out by seeming equal numbers of Democrat officeholders and media talking heads like the always embarrassing Keith Olbermann, three people who have predominated in these efforts are Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, and Kathy Griffin: a trio I’ve personally dubbed “The Shameless Trifecta.”

And while it’s no real surprise that these three losers have linked up, after all, “birds of a feather [do] flock together,” the cause of their coming together is somewhat ironic.

All three of these individuals are obnoxious in their own way. Moore is anti-American to the core. He’s not only a U.S. war protestor who hates capitalism, but also a supporter of things the American people at large consider to repugnant: things like the Ground Zero Mosque. (His support for the mosque runs so deep that he raised $50,000 so the little jihadists can build a monument to their terrorism.)

Fonda is also infamous for protests of wars the United States has had to fight, particularly the Vietnam War and raq War: the latter she protested in 2005 and 2007. Moreover, in addition to protesting these wars, Fonda actually supported the North Vietnamese against the United States during the Vietnam War: she believed Ho Chi Minh could teach President Richard Nixon a thing or two.

Griffin, to her credit, actually supports the troops, but they have been known to boo her when she stands in front of them because of her obnoxious rants against Bristol Palin. Nevertheless, she has placed herself on par with Moore and Fonda via her seeming inability to address persons with whom she disagrees without going on a tirade (as when she referred to Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity as “idiots” and “liars,” said she hated them, and claimed both of them could “suck it”).

Yet all these things aside, in the end the issue that brought all these three shameless individuals together seems to have been their all-consuming hatred of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.

For example, after the shooting in Tucson Moore took some of Palin’s words out of context and tweeted: “When Palin put crosshairs on a map w/Rep. Giffords & 19 other Dem congressmen/women, she urged followers to ‘reload’ & ‘aim’ for Democrats.” On the very day of the shooting, Fonda made an unfounded assumption and blogged of how “sure” she was that Giffords had been “shot by ‘right wing fanatics who have been repeatedly harassing and threatening Giffords, egged on by Sarah Palin and…Tea Party members.'” And Griffin, ever the least exciting one, reiterated the number of persons Loughner had shot then asked simply: “Happy now Sarah?”

Moore, Fonda, and Griffin should all be ashamed, and they would be, except that they aren’t capable of feeling it.

Thus the title, “The Shameless Trifecta”