Report: Von Brunn targeted Weekly Standard

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

Report: Von Brunn targeted Weekly Standard


James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, was reportedly carrying a long list of potential targets at the time of the attack. Among the names on it are some that may surprise a few people, including the Weekly Standard and a Fox News office.

Politico's Ben Smith reports that the Standard, a conservative magazine founded by Bill Kristol, got a visit from FBI agents yesterday, and that the agents told staffers they'd found the office address on a piece of paper "associated with" Von Brunn.

Separately, a Fox affiliate reports that during a search of Von Brunn's car, law enforcement found a notebook that contained information about "six to nine locations in the D.C. area," including what's described only as "a Fox News location," the White House, the Capitol, the Washington Post and, of course, the Holocaust Museum.

Really, it shouldn't be all that surprising that Von Brunn would have directed some of his ire at the Weekly Standard. Based on his writing published to the Internet, his hatred of Jews appears to be pretty all-encompassing. Like a lot of people on the fringe, that hatred extends to neo-conservatives, who he saw as running U.S. foreign policy in service of Israel. Considering the Weekly Standard's prominence as an outlet for writers like Kristol, it was natural that he'd focus on it. (As for Fox News and the Washington Post, well, the old canard that Jews run the media dies hard.)

Von Brunn has now been formally charged in the case. According to the criminal complaint, among the things he'd written in the notebook was, "Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America's money. Jews control the mass media... JVB swore (LT USNR) to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Jews -- Bolsheviks -- Zionist are America's enemies." The complaint also reveals that Von Brunn was shot in the face, apparently by a shot fired by another museum guard, who was using a .38 caliber weapon. Von Brunn was allegedly using a .22 caliber rifle.

― Alex Koppelman

[michreject]

1. I heard on the radio today

That he hated bush the elder and younger and all republicans. Also thought 9/11 was a Gov't job.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS242US242&q=Von+Brunn+hated+bush

[babylonsister]

2. So he just had a hate-on for everyone. I'd say he was mentally

unbalanced.

[Marr]

6. If he was a big anti-semite, it makes perfect sense that he'd hate the Weekly Standard.

I've met plenty of right-wing racists who devotedly vote Republican, but cannot stand the fact that our country supports Israel. Unlike the left, their objection is not based in any coherent foreign policy argument, it's just an expression of anti-semitism.

[TerryRay]

7. So wait

If someone on the left is agianst 100% support of Israel then they are doing out of good sound foreign policy ideas..but if someone on the right feels the same way it is automatically because their anti-semite?

[Marr]

8. No- if someone talks about the "Jew conspiracy" and refers to

"kykes" every other sentence, they are an anti-semite. In my experience, 99.99% of those people have been on the right. Practically all of the people I've met who were against supporting Israel based on coherent foreign policy ideas and not just outright anti-semitism were been on the left.

That was an ridiculous question.

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. no, the story has it all wrong...

"long list of potential targets at the time of the attack" should read:

"long list of potential interviews at the time of the attack"... he wanted to be published and on-camera after the deed.

[T Wolf]

4. Wrong - he wanted to know where to pick up his paycheck. Let's just see how vigorous

the feds are in spinning this into shit.

[Marr]

5. Well, well. I wonder if some of these right-wing apologists might have some

second thoughts about how innocuous this phenomenon is? Once you stir up these lunatics, they can explode in unexpected directions. You can't be assured they're only going to kill liberals and government employees.

It'll be interesting to watch them flip-flop from, "ignore it, it's inconsequential" to "we are martyrs!".

[Blue For You]

9. He was probably going to Fox to see if they were hiring.