““At a time like this, it is terrible that we do have to think about politics, but no matter what the shooter’s motivations were, the left is going to blame this on the Tea Party movement,” Mr. Phillips, from Tea Party Nation, said on his Web site.
“While we need to take a moment to extend our sympathies to the families of those who died, we cannot allow the hard left to do what it tried to do in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing,” he wrote. “Within the entire political spectrum, there are extremists, both on the left and the right. Violence of this nature should be decried by everyone and not used for political gain.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09capital.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
“As of Saturday, Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' name appeared on a website titled "take back the 20" as part of a list originally issued by Sarah Palin of vulnerable House Democrats. A map on the site showed crosshairs over the contested Democratic districts.
“Palin first posted the list in March 2010, naming 20 House members who voted for health care reform and represented districts that Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona won in the 2008 presidential election…
“At a press conference Saturday, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik criticized people who are making a living off "inflaming the American public."
"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," Dupnik said. "Unfortunately, Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
“And Saturday's tragedy was not the first time the Arizona Democrat was targeted. The day after she voted in favor of health care reform, a glass panel at her Tucson office was shattered.”
“http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/”
Giffords expressed similar concern, even before the shooting. In an interview after her office was vandalized, she referred to the animosity against her by conservatives, including Sarah Palin's decision to list Giffords' seat as one of the top "targets" in the midterm elections.
"For example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action," Giffords said in an interview with MSNBC.
In the hours after the shooting, Palin issued a statement in which she expressed her "sincere condolences" to the family of Giffords and the other victims.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/08/national/w111222S57.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1AYgyoUYO
Washington (CNN) – Sarah Palin's political aide removed a controversial web post Saturday after a gunman attempted to assassinate an Arizona congresswoman in a mass killing that left, among others, a 9-year-old girl dead.
But a Palin spokeswoman Saturday denied the web posting from the 2010 congressional campaign - featuring gun sights over the congressional districts of 20 Democratic candidates – was designed to incite violence. Rebecca Mansour told conservative host Tammy Bruce that it was a political tool and noted it should have been removed after the November election.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
Cassi Creek:
What degree of responsibility for the Tucson shootings can be attributed to Palin, Beck, and the other GOP\teavangelist demagogues, if any?
While it has yet to be shown that Rep. Giffords was targeted for assassination because of a Palin web page or tirades of lies spewed by Beck and Limbaugh, they and their clones are guilty of attempted incitement and have been since the 2008 campaigns.
At this point in time, we have no evidence linking the would-be-assassin with teavangelist interests. It may well be that there is no direct link. I certainly hope so.
If we look back at the past three years, Palin campaign rallies were often marked by racist and anti-intellectual chants. They were often marked by chants of “Kill him!” in reference to Obama. Palin did nothing to prevent or quell such chants. In fact, she often seemed to encourage them by her actions. At no time did she ever tell those chanting that such action was wrong.
Palin’s actions over the last years since losing the 2008 election have consisted of fronting for teavangelist groups, spreading lies about Obama, furthering hatred, bigotry, theocracy, and targeting Democratic office holders to prevent their re-election, while blaming all the faults and flaws in her life and political campaign on others. It is never “Sarah’s fault.” The now-infamous cross-hairs ad which included Rep. Giffords was pushed off onto an un-named staffer who neglected to take it down after the election. Palin has repeatedly claimed the use of targeting crosshairs meant nothing. Anyone who has ever hunted with a scoped rifle immediately knows that to be a lie. The Cross hair reticle has only one purpose, to increase the probability of a lethal shot.
Palin’s organization is busily denying her intent and scrubbing anything of similar nature from the web. The Palin family seems to be in frequent need of such practice.
Today’s point is that Palin authorized a vicious campaign advertisement and then lied about its meaning. When a deranged murderer tried to kill one of her “targets”, she couldn’t begin to admit that her campaign ad might have been of some causative nature. She is retreating from her own actions, approved by her only, and blaming her staff for not removing the ad after the 2010 elections were over.
Saying she didn’t know the gun was loaded is not a valid excuse. Her former staff all indicates that nothing is done unless she signs off on it. Therefore, running an ad that has high potential among her minions and followers to trigger violence is highly irresponsible on her part. However hard she tries to blame others, no matter what she tries to sanitize, her complicity is demonstrable.
It is time we dial back such political rhetoric. Given the wealth to be made lying for the teavangelists\GOPer, I doubt it will be ratcheted down but rather expect it to become more dangerous in nature and in intent.
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