Palin Aide Rebecca Mansour: Our Crosshairs Map Had Nothing To Do With Violence Or Guns

[Amerigo Vespucci]

WASHINGTON -- Shortly after news broke that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot at a congressional event in her district, observers began noting that she had, during the campaign, literally been Sarah Palin's target. But a Palin aide is now explaining that it was all a misunderstanding: the infamous image was never meant to evoke guns or violence.

Palin's "Take Back the 20" campaign (the website has been taken down since the shooting) called on Americans to vote out of office Democrats from conservative districts who had voted for health care reform.

On March 23, she posted an announcement about the campaign on her Facebook page, which was accompanied by an image of her targeted districts. The districts all had crosshairs over them, which are usually associated with gun sights.

But SarahPAC staffer Rebecca Mansour, who has been tweeting in defense of her boss since the tragedy took place, is stating that the crosshairs were never intended to be gun sights.

"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said in an interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce Saturday. "It was simply crosshairs like you'd see on maps." Bruce suggested that they could, in fact, be seen as "surveyor's symbols." Mansour added that "it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent" and called any attempts to politicize the Arizona tragedy "repulsive."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/sarah-palin-rebecca-mansour-crosshairs-arizona_n_806375.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, yeah..........sure.

:eyes:

Recommended.

[Little Star]

2. Yeah right.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. But then Sarah directs her followers to reload!

[eleny]

4. It's too late. There's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide from your own rhetoric

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. No, that's Sean Connery in "The Untouchables," but welcome to DU anyway...I guess.

:eyes:

[maritimer]

12. If anyone brought guns anywhere, it was the tbags

Witness the gun-toters at the rallies of the past two years.

If you line up the sum total of inflammatory comments side by side in two columns, you will find that the right wins this one, hands down, with an avalanche of eliminationist speech (look it up) intended to rend this country to shreds. And it's working. We are literally at each other's throats.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. It's hard to unring a bell.

but they try sooooo hard.

[RainDog]

7. bullshit. Palin's rhetoric is tied up in guns - reload -

is this person going to say Palin was referring to a web page, not guns?

twit.

[cutlassmama]

9. If not, then why did she take it down as soon as this happened???

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. I'm hoping that question gets answered at some point

From what I've seen in Olbermann and Maddow's reporting this weekend, it's going to get asked...maybe it already has been...but the real test will be when the Palin camp tries to duck the response.

Seems to me that "Why did you take your site down on the day of the shooting" deserves a simple response.

[kestrel91316]

10. Sarah MANSON denies involvement or responsibility. Of course.

Why would we expect her to do anything else?

[HuckleB]

11. The Palinistas are terrorists of the worst kind.

They spread terror but deny their actions.

:puke: