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Note: If this should have been included in the other thread about Giffords, my apologies. I just wanted to focus on one aspect of the coverage.
CNN's Candy Crowley yesterday had Sen Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Alexander of Tennessee on her show, and within thirty seconds, Durbin and Crowley were blaming Sarah Palin for Giffords injuries. Palin put out an ad targeting certain congressional seat before the last election and to show which seats were being targeted, there were crosshairs over the districts.
These ads were never a problem until Crowley and Durbin decided to illustrate how the tea party supposedly used nothing but violent rhetoric to win 60+ seats in the house.
First of all, this idea that that ad promoted violence is so far out of the mainstream way of thinking it's laughable. Sarah Palin is an avid outdoorswoman. She has herself shown hunting at every opportunity. Putting crosshairs ona political ad is an homage to hunting moose and caribou, not going Rambo on politicians, and anyone with a lick of sense would know that. Furthermore, assumuing that a nearly year old ad would inspire someone to wait for a random event to be scheduled five minutes from his house to attack is a stretch. Was he looking at her website every day for six months chanting "Palin wants her dead" to himself waiting for an event to be in his neighborhood, and then it jsut happened to be scheduled? That seems ludicrous.
What it seems to me is that the left is still angry about gettng their asses kicked by historic proportion, still angry that Sarah Palin is the voice of the average American, and still angry that they let Pelosi and Reid lead them so far out of the mainstream in America that it will take them decades to come back, that their only recourse is to blame someone for murder. This theory seems to be put together by 9/11 truthers. There are just as many leaps of faith and holes in the logic.
Once again, the left has targeted Sarah Palin in an attempt to smear her, which, if it works as well as last time, should finish the job and get the Senate and Presidency back for the right in 2012. Thanks Crowley and Durbin. Thank you for making the left look even more incompetant than they already did.
CNN's Candy Crowley yesterday had Sen Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Alexander of Tennessee on her show, and within thirty seconds, Durbin and Crowley were blaming Sarah Palin for Giffords injuries. Palin put out an ad targeting certain congressional seat before the last election and to show which seats were being targeted, there were crosshairs over the districts.
These ads were never a problem until Crowley and Durbin decided to illustrate how the tea party supposedly used nothing but violent rhetoric to win 60+ seats in the house.
First of all, this idea that that ad promoted violence is so far out of the mainstream way of thinking it's laughable. Sarah Palin is an avid outdoorswoman. She has herself shown hunting at every opportunity. Putting crosshairs ona political ad is an homage to hunting moose and caribou, not going Rambo on politicians, and anyone with a lick of sense would know that. Furthermore, assumuing that a nearly year old ad would inspire someone to wait for a random event to be scheduled five minutes from his house to attack is a stretch. Was he looking at her website every day for six months chanting "Palin wants her dead" to himself waiting for an event to be in his neighborhood, and then it jsut happened to be scheduled? That seems ludicrous.
What it seems to me is that the left is still angry about gettng their asses kicked by historic proportion, still angry that Sarah Palin is the voice of the average American, and still angry that they let Pelosi and Reid lead them so far out of the mainstream in America that it will take them decades to come back, that their only recourse is to blame someone for murder. This theory seems to be put together by 9/11 truthers. There are just as many leaps of faith and holes in the logic.
Once again, the left has targeted Sarah Palin in an attempt to smear her, which, if it works as well as last time, should finish the job and get the Senate and Presidency back for the right in 2012. Thanks Crowley and Durbin. Thank you for making the left look even more incompetant than they already did.