At the top of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal websites (accessed at 12:11 PM Pacific time) beneath the headline about the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords is the same Associated Press photograph - Giffords smiling beside John Boehner. In particular, the LA Times article spends approximately 20% of its lines quoting Boehner's condemnation of the attack (no other Congressman is quoted - not even past statements by Giffords herself).
This will be an uncharacteristically short diary, because facts are still coming in and deeper analysis should take longer than immediate impressions, but beyond the media coverage there is something that needs to be highlighted. This statement from the Tea Party, as reported in the WSJ article (emphasis mine):
Tea Party Nation, the group started by Tennessee lawyer Judson Phillips, put out a statement to its supporters decrying the shooting. "Congressman Giffords was a liberal, but that does not matter now. No one should be the victim of violence because of their political beliefs."
However the situation develops, Congresswoman Giffords was alive at the time these people described her in the past tense. Freudian slip?
The statement went on to say that "no matter what the shooter's motivations where, the left is going to blame this on the Tea Party Movement."
Whatever the shooter's intentions, we know what the "Tea Party Movement's" intentions are.