My OperaArizona shootings fallout
Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:50:02 PM
SARAH PALIN claims she is THE VICTIM
Judge John Rolls, nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green and 4 other people are shot dead! Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is shot in the head
and 13 others are wounded! and [/ALIGN] SARAH PALIN claims she is THE VICTIM
Sarah Palin has a special responsibility and opportunity in the wake of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. For it was Sarah Palin who earlier put the crosshairs of a gun on Rep. Giffords. And so far, Palin's response has been Facebook prayers for the victims and an official denial that her widely... distributed map involved gun sights at all. This is obscene duplicity at best.
". . . For example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've gotta realize there's consequences to that action. . ." - Gabrielle Giffords
Arizona shootings fallout
Sarah Palin's presidential hopes can't survive this assassin's bullet
Sarah Palin didn't pull the trigger, and she's not the first to use the language of combat. But the Alaskan's career will certainly suffer. Just imagine how a Palin presidential campaign would now unfold. Her fellow Republicans might steer clear of the Arizona killings in the primary phase of the contest but, if she somehow became her party's nominee, she would be challenged constantly about a single image: the map she posted on her website last autumn dotted with 20 gunsight-style crosshairs over 20 congressional districts occupied by Democrats who had dared to vote for Obama's healthcare reform – among them one Gabrielle Giffords. Palin might try to argue that she wasn't really targeting Giffords and the others, echoing the absurd attempt by one of her closest aides at the weekend to pretend those rifle sights were really "surveyor's symbols". But that won't wash, not when Palin herself referred via Twitter to the "'bullseye' icon used 2 target the 20 Obamacare-lovin' incumbent seats". More importantly, there would be a potent witness ready to testify against Palin: Giffords herself. The most important 13 seconds of videotape could prove to be the clip, already running on a loop on American television, of Giffords complaining last autumn about that crosshairs ad, warning those behind such violent imagery to "realise there's consequences to that action". That statement, full of poignant prescience, can't help but point a finger at Palin. If, as those around her hope and pray, Giffords survives, she would need to do no more than appear on a platform or in a TV ad in the 2012 campaign to indict Palin. Jonathan Freedland
sarah palin presidential hopes
"The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment, he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information ... [Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences." Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
THE USA IS BEING HELD HOSTAGE
by
THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION!
(here's the gun that was fired)
SHIT, I GOTTA GET ONE!
and
HERE'S THE GUY THAT SHOT THE GUN
GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM
IT'S THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE GUN
The father of shot American congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has said that her political stance made her many enemies. "The whole Tea Party were her enemies"
Sarah Palin had published a 'target map' on her website using images of gun sights to identify 20 House Democrats, including Miss Giffords, for backing the new health care law.
Her father Spencer Giffords, 75, wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies.
"Yeah," he told The New York Post. "The whole tea party!"
Kaat Schille ♫eitaps # Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:38:07 AM
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/the-right-wing-war-against-sarah-palin/72443/
s-mScattergood66 # Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:44:10 PM
" . . . arguing that anti-intellectualism represents a danger to the conservative movement seems a strange tactic when most Republicans in Congress profess not to believe in global warming and when some large portion of the conservative base thinks that the president was born in darkest Africa. Selectively applying that argument to Palin - and to Palin alone - strikes me mostly as futile, both in the sense that it will be unpersuasive to the conservative base and also in the sense that it will have the desired effect on Palin herself. When has disapproval from establishment Republicans stopped her in the past? And especially from conservative intellectuals? If the goal here is to intimidate Palin into staying on the sidelines, it seems to me the likelier effect is that it will goad her into entering the race."
Kaat Schille ♫eitaps # Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:52:35 PM
No, of course: art & intellect-haters (like Palin at your, and Wilders at my country) will never stop on intellectual arguments. They have but one drive: the power from the most stupid majority, and suppression of hated minorities at choice.
Kaat Schille ♫eitaps # Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:01:35 AM
s-mScattergood66 # Friday, April 1, 2011 3:10:36 PM
. . . another snow storm on this side of the puddle - and I thought it was spring!!
Kaat Schille ♫eitaps # Friday, April 1, 2011 3:57:58 PM
This weekend the weather-people promise temperatures up to 22°C! But yesternight still was freezing.
Where do you live? NYC?
s-mScattergood66 # Friday, April 1, 2011 4:43:27 PM
Kaat Schille ♫eitaps # Saturday, April 2, 2011 12:21:31 AM
http://my.opera.com/eitaps/albums/showpic.dml?album=5880722&picture=101326302#bigimg