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Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
LOL, a random twitter account claims to "know the shooter" and divulges his political leanings to a heavily right-wing media blog. Puh-leeze. I'm sure they will be a random twitter account claiming on some left-wing media blog to also know the shooter and that he had a statue of Glen Beck carved from cheese sitting in his living room.
Sad day in America when a TWIT (tweet?) becomes proof of anything.
OK, if the shooter danced his way in before going on a shooting frenzy then YES, it was Palin's fault . But he didn't, he was just another left wing lunatic with a gun.
Originally posted by whaaa
If I painted a target/crosshairs on your picture or name, or one of your families picture; would that seem like a threat to you or your loved one? You know perfectly well that it could be logically construed as a threat of violence.
Originally posted by whaaa
Apparently Palin saw it as threatening or else she would have left the picture up. This right wing damage control is so transparent.
Originally posted by whaaa
And what will the hateful rhetoric from the likes of Rush, Bork, Sean, Savage, Levin, Medved, Mancow, Hal Turner, ORilley, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter eventually lead?
Originally posted by inforeal
reply to post by loam
My position is based on the fact that Sarah Palin, because of her popularity, has responsibilities as a human being to foster human interactions that don’t symbolize any violence towards people.
What if the pope or other world leaders used such epithets towards people?
If Obama did the same thing I would denounce him as well.
Originally posted by inforeal
No one for one minute believes that the assassin went out and shot those people for Sarah Plain’s causes.
That’s not the issue at all. The issue simply is her violent rhetoric can and may have connected with a man who is mentally unstable; and it can happen again.
It doesn’t matter whether this assassin was a left winger, right winger or apolitical, it is his mental state that is the question and famous people who use inflammatory rhetoric like Palin can affect all kinds of people and particularly the mentally deranged.
I’m happy she finally has the sense to take down that rhetoric about reloading and putting human beings she doesn’t agree with in crosshairs.
I don’t believe a logical sane follower of Palin would ever assassinate anyone.
But if one has the ear of millions of people as Palin does then she should have the sense to refrain from such rhetoric, but she obviously doesn’t.
Of course now she takes down the site that has those inflammatory words toward democrats. That alone is an admission that it was wrong and immoral to do in the first place.
When you're mentally unstable "personal responsibility and accountability" isn't part of their reality. I think the OP's point is, any kind of political rhetoric can have an impression on unstable minds.
This little political dance in the blood of the victims in Arizona is not going to serve them as they hope.
Originally posted by loam
reply to post by Stormdancer777
B I N G O.
Amazing how proponents of the Pailin-is-at-fault-crowd can't see that.
I've made this very point several times now in several threads.
The truth is they ignore this point because it gets in the way of their ability to exploit this tragedy to make a political point.
Pathetic, really.edit on 9-1-2011 by loam because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by zroth
more lock down to come.
Originally posted by rnaa
reply to post by Alxandro
OK, if the shooter danced his way in before going on a shooting frenzy then YES, it was Palin's fault . But he didn't, he was just another left wing lunatic with a gun.
Your first sentence was funny. Your second sentence is BS propaganda. You should learn to quit while you're ahead.