Suspect had a “vendetta” against the Capital Gazette

Gunman killed five journalists in a ‘targeted attack’ No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Friday, June 29  ‘TARGETED ATTACK’ Jarrod Ramos, the 38-year-old suspect in the shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland Thursday, had a long-running feud with the newspaper and sued it for defamation in 2012, according to reports. Authorities believe the “targeted attack,” which left left five people dead and two injured, was part of a “vendetta” against the newspaper. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] HANNITY: BLAME DEMS Sean Hannity, the Fox TV entertainer and White House glove puppet, suggested that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was somehow responsible for a shooting at the Capital Gazette earlier in the day. Online, members of the far-right, who bathe daily in the anti-media froth peddled by propagandists such as Hannity, celebrated the deaths of the five journalists gunned down in Annapolis. [HuffPost] RUBIO ROASTED In the wake of the Maryland shooting, Sen. 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