Sarah Palin Staffer: Giffords attack nothing to do with ex-gov

[sabra]

Source: WTSP

A staffer for Sarah Palin is defending the conservative politician against attacks blaming Palin and the Tea Party movement for the horrifying Arizona shooting that left six people dead and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition.

"We have nothing whatsoever to do with this," Palin aide Rebecca Mansour said in an interview with radio host Tammy Bruce, a Palin supporter.

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In March, Palin released a map featuring 20 House Democrats that used crosshairs images to show their districts. (You can see it here.) Critics suggested at the time that she was inciting violence by using the crosshairs imagery and for later writing on Twitter to her supporters, "'Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!'"

In her interview with Bruce, Mansour said there was "nothing irresponsible" about the cross-hairs graphic.

"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said. "It was simply cross-hairs like you'd see on maps."

Though in a tweet following the November elections, Palin did refer to the "'bullseye' icon," noting how Republicans won in 18 of the 20 seats she targeted.

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[randr]

1. People in denial never connect the dots

No matter how many times the Palin crowd is told that their rhetoric could possibly incite violence they will still act as if this is about them and deny any involvement. It speaks volumes as to their insensitivity.
The fact that they took down the offensive map is all the evidence needed to, not place blame, but to assign complicity.

[BonnieJW]

24. Turn blue, Rebeca.

It doesn't matter what you think; everyone is blaming your idiot boss. I hope she is booed wherever she goes from now on. There is a little 9-year-old girl who will never grow up because of hateful people like Sarah Palin.

[marew]

26. Amen.

[SemperEadem]

32. well said--let us not forget that a child was murdered in cold blood because of spalin's crosshairs

[Magleetis]

2. They are in CYA mode

Fucking liars. Evil bad people spreading hate then not having the balls to own up to it. Worthless fucks.

[Lance_Boyle]

3. 'cross-hairs like you'd see on maps'

WTF? It's a mercator projection, not a murderer projection, you twit.

[wtmusic]

6. Teh stupid...hurts. nt

[Moostache]

22. Sadly, Sister Sarah is living proof that "teh stoopid" does NOT burn or hurt...n/t

[DirkGently]

28. "Murderer projection." Ayuh.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Wrong forum. Sorry.

[onehandle]

5. Palin ordered that she and nineteen others be defeated or shot.

19 down. Who is the 20th?

[No Elephants]

7. None of my maps have crosshairs. Now, what does "reload" mean, Becky?

LIAR!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. they really meant "refold" as in a map.

[Justitia]

14. LOL

[bigworld]

8. Then why did you remove the graphic?

Then why not put it back up?

[Roy Rolling]

10. Because

even while lying through their teeth, they are oblvious to what they say.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. What graphic? There's no graphic here.

Never was. If there was, it was a liberal plot intended to embarrass Sister Sarah.

[florida08]

9. really? that's your story?

Too late to walk this one back Ms. Mansour. The congresswoman herself called it out right before she was SHOT. Did you take it down then? Why no..no you didn't. Now you live with the consequences. Man up you coward and your boss as well.

[liberal N proud]

12. I say bulls#!*

[niyad]

13. I have never seen crosshairs on any map I have ever used.

[bemildred]

15. Probably very worried that the money river is going to dry up. nt

[JDPriestly]

16. Don't expect Palin or her staff to understand the effect that

Palin's rhetoric has on millions of frustrated Americans.

She has very little empathy and does not really feel what others feel. She simply lacks the capacity to feel real empathy for people she does not personally know. She is very focused on herself, her feelings, her ideas. That's the way she is. Just watch her and you will see this aspect of her.

She cannot really react in a sincere, emotional way to the suffering of another.

[forty6]

39. It's called Narcissitic personality disorder... and Sarah is the poster child for that! n/t

[BadgerKid]

18. Stick a fork in it, her 'career' is over. n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. forks don't go deep enough

pitchforks are better. They might even reach that dank dark nether region where she stores what is left of her soul.

[tyne]

21. What you just wrote

is worse than Palins map. Just an fyi.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. Don't Retweet, Refold!

[Roy Rolling]

20. Give Palin a Break!

Maybe there is no connection---she is a big enough moron even without the cred of being directly connected to this. :sarcasm:

[goforit]

23. The clock is ticking.

[marew]

25. Cross hairs like on a map? Get real!

[closeupready]

29. What map on this planet uses crosshairs?

That is such bullshit. :eyes:

[SemperEadem]

30. THE ATTACK HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH SPALIN

and she will not be given any space to get away from that being hung around her neck to carry for the rest of her life.

that and the asterisk next to her name tying her forever to this.

no, she is totally the reason why this went down--and the person who created that map and put in the time to create that in Illustrator/Photoshop is just as much to blame.

[louis-t]

31. I have never seen "cross-hairs" like that on any map

except yours. Dumbass.

[The_Casual_Observer]

33. I think the jury is still out on this one, literally.

[SemperEadem]

34. So, would it be bad form to scream "murderer" at splain at her next live event?

[CountAllVotes]

35. a child is dead Sarah

Note for you Sarah:

So much for your bullsh*t lies. We've all seen your "map" with the crosshairs on it and We The People know the truth.

Not to forget nor minimize the importance of the other 5 people that are dead because of YOU and also Cong. Gifford who, if she lives will very likely be totally disabled for life!

:dem: :kick:

[SemperEadem]

36. what kind of map has crosshairs like a gun's reticile?

because that's what you used: gun cross hairs. Why did you approve that design before you published the map to the web? Did you all put that map up on the site and spalin didn't bother to pay attention to that which she is gluing her name? Really? No one is in charge of your ship? You're a bunch of idiots with no common sense or home training let loose to put out incendiary rhetoric designed to make soft-minded white people angry?

You didn't use marking that are used on map legends... so, you lie.

If there was nothing wrong with your map, then why did you take it down? The innocent have no need to hide anything.

It was totally irresponsible, it was totally incendiary and you and spalin and everyone in that rag-tag knot of harebrains you slum around with are completely to blame and should always be held accountable and responsible for this.

No, we lay all of this at your door. Go back to Alaska and raise your damn children already.

[soupkitchen]

37. Sarah, just because your shit freezes quickly in Alaska

doen't mean it doesn't stink.

[forty6]

38. Think they're running a bit scared that their grifter empire is crashing down?

Speaking fees drying up? Threat of suits from families of the victims? Spending years fighting off lawsuits?

[theyne]

40. timeline shows the rhetoric that led to the horrific Tuscon shooting

Check out Josh Horwitz Blog that shows the history of the RW insurrectionist rhetoric that lead to the horrific mass shooting in Tuscon:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x153766

[RoccoR5955]

41. They're trying to call it

"culpable deniability."

Fat chance.
Time for Caribou Barbie and her entourage to hang it up. She's through, and so are they.

[AnneD]

42. Sarah Palin has blood on her hands....

and it is not from Alaskan wildlife...and it won't come off so easily.

[fatbuckel]

43. Clinton on Oklahoma City bombing...

"... there’s a basic line dividing criticism from violence or its advocacy, and ...
you have to think about the echo chamber in which your words resonate ...
And the more power you have, and the more influence you have, the
more responsibility you have." – Bill Clinton in April, 2010
on 15th anniversary of Oklahoma City bombing

[closeupready]

44. Christopher Hitchens remembered Ari Fleischer's remarks after 9/11:

http://www.slate.com/id/2149377/

>>The presidential press secretary, Ari Fleischer, condemned Bill Maher's irreverent comic response to 9/11 by reminding "all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Fear itself—the fear that "paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance," as FDR had it—was already being wielded as a weapon against Americans by their own government.<<

Which, to reiterate, was a member of the Republican Bush administration lecturing a liberal figure to censor his language.

[chelsea0011]

45. Then you would be comfortable making the cross hair graphic into a poster

and giving it out at your hate gatherings?