Palin staffer to hate radio jock: "We have nothing whatsoever to do with this..."

[jefferson_dem]

Palin Staffer: Giffords Attack Nothing to Do With Ex-Gov
Posted by Stephanie Condon

A staffer for Sarah Palin is defending the conservative politician against attacks blaming Palin and the Tea Party movement for the horrifying Arizona shooting yesterday 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."

Mansour called yesterday's shooting "obscene" and "appalling," and said the politicization of the event "disgusted" her. She pointed out that "battleground" rhetoric is nothing new in politics.

"We can't ban the words 'targeted swing districts' from the English language," she said. "We did nothing wrong here."

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[Angry Dragon]

1. is palin afraid to talk for herself??

[Raschel]

16. Do you think she feels sick to her stomach? I would.

[Angry Dragon]

18. No

I think she is working to figure out how she can benefit from the backlash
If she worried about others she would be a different person

[CAG]

2. Crosshairs that are on maps.....geezuz, the spin is amazing

[spanone]

3. dear rebecca, you are spinning like a top, out of control

mansour is more than a staffer...she is the voice of sarah....

[SmileyRose]

17. someone needs to ask "What maps?".

Every other map I've ever seen uses circles, dots or bubbles. Not crosshairs.

[abbeyco]

4. Mansour's little speech is totally discounted by Palin herself

Because of Palin's tweet the day after the 2010 elections:
"Remember months ago "bullseye" icon used 2 target the 20 Obamacare-lovin' incumbent seats? We won 18 out of 20 (90% success rate;T'aint bad)"



I know these teabagging fools can't help themselves, but they forget how much of their garbage, extremist hate-speech, and other rhetoric exists out 'there' in teh internets. Now they look like stumbling, bumbling fools - falling all over themselves to take the focus (or crosshairs, to be current) off their own backs.

They're a totally pathetic lot, aren't they?

[walldude]

8. 18 out of 20.Giffords makes 19.... n/t

[sabrina 1]

12. Damn! Bullseye! Those damn internets. You just can't delete all

of them.

Wait .... she was talking about the animal, the male version of the cow. She loves bulls, she has a collection of little furry bulls .... she didn't mean the target thingy, she meant real cute little bulls. Steiff makes them ... they're popular with outdoorsy, adventurous girls, like Palin ... em, well, anyhow, she didn't do it!

[KeepItReal]

5. Show me a map with crosshairs on it that *DOESN'T* have a violent connotation

No map used for geography uses crosshairs for pointing out locations... that's what BIG DOTS are for.

[Barack_America]

6. If it helps her sleep at night to believe that...nt

[kestrel91316]

7. The coward, Sarah MANSON, denies any involvement in the killings.

In spite of having ORDERED THE HIT.

[Pathwalker]

9. So does OSarah ben Palin.

She's a terrorist sympathizer. :evilgrin:

[IDemo]

11. OSarah ben Palin

Better than Crosshair Sarah.

:thumbsup:

[cbdo2007]

10. ha ha, they didn't use the terms "targeted swing districts" - they used "reload, aim, crosshairs".

The more they talk the more they're implicating themselves.

Just let them keep talking, they're just making it worse.

[Takket]

13. "said the politicization of the event "disgusted" her"

How exactly can the media NOT politicize an event that was politically motivated?

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I have never once seen a map with crosshairs on it

until this one that belongs to Sarah.

She owns it. She needs to face it.

[Raschel]

15. Crosshairs image + gun quotes = guns.

[Ikonoklast]

19. Tammy Bruce is insane.

She isn't a 'gun nut', she is a violence fetishist.

I actually listened to her show once, and for ten minutes I thought it was an over-the-top parody until it slowly dawned on me that she was serious.


And the people calling in to her show were lapping it up like mother's milk.