NYDailyNews! } Giffords' blood is on Sarah Palin's hands ...

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' blood is on Sarah Palin's hands after putting cross hair over district

Here is what Sarah Palin said on the Facebook page where she depicted Gabrielle Giffords in the cross hairs of a rifle scope: "Don't retreat! Instead - RELOAD!" Well, the guy who shot Giffords yesterday managed to keep firing until he killed six, including a child, and wounded 13 .

Palin would no doubt say that she was only speaking in metaphor, that she only meant her followers should work to unseat Giffords and 19 other Democrats who had roused her ire by voting for health care. But anyone with any sense at all knows that violent language can incite actual violence, that metaphor can incite murder. At the very least, Palin added to a climate of violence.

Palin should have taken it as a warning of what might happen when a Tea Party hothead dropped a gun while heckling Giffords at an earlier Congress On Your Corner event, more than a year ago. That did not stop Palin from declaring Giffords a "target." Giffords' district office was subsequently vandalized, and the congresswoman noted that Palin had put "the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district."

"When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action," Giffords said. Giffords herself at least publicly failed to appreciate the full magnitude of the danger. She said at the time of the dropped gun incident that "at no point did I ever feel in danger and at no point did I ever feel there was a problem."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/09/2011-01-09_palin_put_a_target_on_her_she_should_have_known_the_dangers.html?r=news


... there's a poll. You know what to do.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Crosshair Sarah's got a little PR problemo today, eh?

Couldn't happen to a more deserving POS.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. You cannot tell me that a full third of respondents do not hold her somewhat responsible

Anyway, I'm glad to see the topic of Palin & violent metaphors linked in the media - even if it's mere apologia. I'm counting on the fact that more people see her rhetoric for its violent potential rather than giving her a pass.

[mzteris]

2. and we've heard not a word from her. . .

interesting admission of some type of culpability.

I bet the lawyers are all over this.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. her twitter staffer posted a request for preyer.

or was it prayer?

[upi402]

5. She quit the twit too?

She can't even follow through with twittering now?


Crosshair Sarah is toast.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. no, she did twit (I suspect it is a staffer, most of the time)

And I read someplace she asked for prayer on facelessbook.

[upi402]

7. Fox is asking for prayer too, and MORE scurity

Same page, huh?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. Yesterday's tweet was a link to her statement on Facebook...

..."On the tragedy in Arizona." She truly is low class. I just waded in again, and no more tweets; I imagine she might be pretty busy with her lawyers...

[mzteris]

14. she removed the "crosshairs map"

Following Giffords Shooting, Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Website Quickly Scrubbed From Internet

In the minutes following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and members of her staff, the website operated by Sarah Palin that illustrated Gifford's 8th district with gun crosshairs drawn on a map was scrubbed from the internet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-warmowski/following-giffords-shooti_b_806248.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Her career is OVER

Bye bye Caribou Bitch. :hi:

[malaise]

9. Absolutely correct

Fuck that warmonger.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. She's a shootist, A warmongering shootist.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. If she wants to "Serve Her Country" and shoot and fight, then send

her to a combat zone in an Army uniform and say, go right ahead and do your thing.

[lanlady]

22. I agree

This may actually be her undoing. The one bright spot in this senseless tragedy.

[malaise]

10. 66% agree

Arrest that woman

[Crystal Clarity]

17. Poll is being freeped. 62% now. Please weigh in folks

:kick:

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

19. Yep, it's being heavily freeped....

... there are multiple threads at the cesspool linking to the poll; it started out at 72/28 earlier this morning.

[lpbk2713]

12. Out damned spot.

[AC_Mem]

16. K, R and took the Poll!

Bring the truth out!

[xiamiam]

18. 60/40..nt

[bbernardini]

20. "Palin would no doubt say that she was only speaking in metaphor..."...if she knew what it meant. nt

[cbdo2007]

21. Luckily this isn't up to the internet voters. There will most certainly be a wrongful death lawsuit

here.

[Jim Lane]

25. A lawsuit would almost certainly fail.

I hope no one even brings one, because its dismissal would be taken as vindication of Palin and her ilk.

By the standards currently applied in the American legal system, the connection between Palin's map (even with her "Reload!" tweet) and the shooting is too attenuated to be actionable. I base my conclusion on my 20+ years' experience as a lawyer representing injured victims in personal injury cases, including wrongful death actions. (I'm licensed in New York, not Arizona, but I think it very unlikely that Arizona law would be exceptionally liberal on this score.)

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

23. Very Sad: Freeping has prevailed: 48 / 52.

:puke:

[Amaril]

24. Yep, they were ALL over it like maggots on..........

.....well, you know what maggots are drawn to.