Robert Parry: Palin Depicts Herself as Tucson Victim

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



Palin Depicts Herself as Tucson Victim

By Robert Parry
January 12, 2011


It didn’t take long after the Tucson massacre for the American Right to retreat to its favorite default position: victimhood.

Initially, there seemed to be some hope of reflection in the face of Saturday’s horror, which left six people dead and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords grievously wounded with a bullet through her brain.

A map showing crosshairs on Giffords’s and 19 other Democratic congressional districts was pulled from a Web site of ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who also issued a statement of condolences to the families of the dead and the wounded. But Palin stopped short of accepting any blame for stoking the fiery rhetoric which has fed the anger and incipient violence that now envelop U.S. politics.

By Monday, however, Palin was seeing herself as one of the Tucson victims. She sent an e-mail to Glenn Beck, another right-winger who has profited from over-the-top rhetoric. He read her message on his radio show, quoting Palin as saying: “Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence.”

On Wednesday , Palin went further, stating: "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event." ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/011211.html

[Demeter]

1. Palin is Her Own Victim

and as such, should file for a Personal Protection, Cease and Desist Order against herself.

Maybe a vow of silence, poverty and chastity...

[Doctor_J]

2. Heh

A whore take a vow of chastity?

[DenverDad]

3. I agree with Parry's notion

that Sarah Palin is immersed in angry counter culture. I've always felt that she spoke to that group that "is against 100% of everything, 100% of the time". If one is anti-everything, than what does one stand FOR? Nothing! She is the leader of those who are always angry and never satisfied, no matter who is in power. I believe this makes her unelectable in a national capacity.