Sarah Palin's 2008 rallies contributed to death threats.
By ladybugmagic
@ladybugmagic (3978)
United States
January 10, 2011 10:36pm CST
She encouraged and created angry mobs and death threats against Obama. She gave fodder for supremacists.
Her speeches would include people in the audience saying, "terrorist", and "kill him".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d2acfd960a8cda1%2C0
Oh, yet another "isolated" event by the GOP and queen bagger.
Perhaps, after one million of these "isolated" events, people will finally catch on that they are not "isolated" anymore.
Shame, shame, right wing.
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Yesterday, one of the local stations here replayed a speech Bill Clinton made. He wasn't talking about what happened in Arizona. I think he was talking about the Oklahoma city bombing. Still, he summed it up better than anybody else I've heard.
Basically, he said that when the words go out there, they fall on everybody - the sane and the dranged alike and it's important that the words be responsible.
Unfortunately, there are irresponsible, pandering, inciting words (and actions) on both sides. Sarah Palin is probably the most high profile of the rabble rousers but she is by no means, the only one.
As for this guy in Arizona not having any particular political affiliation, it doesn't matter. The words were out there and they spoke to him and he acted. In my opinion, the politicians (and media reps) who insist on using rhetoric that incites these unstable people are claiming them. If they pander to a nutcase, he becomes THEIR nutcase regardless of affiliation.
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Those words were highly publicized and they fell on us all and that is exactly the point. In this case there is documentation that Gabrielle Giffords herself felt that Sarah Palin's tactics targeted and endangered her and would have consequences.
I don't need a scapegoat but it's pretty obvious from your response here that you do.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Just want to point out that I stated in my response that there was blame on BOTH sides. In your response, you built a case against the sheriff. Who's looking for a scapegoat here?
@AliceWonderly (70)
• United States
11 Jan 11
I too think Sarah Palin is an awful person. Not so much because of her politics, but because she used her teenage daughter Bristol as a pawn when the girl was going though some awful stuff. Also Ms Palin strikes me as an exhibitionist, a phony, and someone who is quite willing to appeal to the lowest instincts of Americans.
Yet this shooter in Arizona was a person with massive and overwhelming mental problems. Can there be any doubt? People like that come in all political stripes. He didn't kill because of what he heard on cable TV or talk radio. It was the stuff he heard in his head.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
11 Jan 11
I totally agree with you on all counts! I regret the day that McCain brough SP to the forefront and I know I'm not alone on this one. I feel for the family members who have lost a loved one. I also feel for the parents of the suspect. They have to be going through hell right now. What I don't understand is why people with mental illness are not kept a closer eye on. Once again a sad day in America.
@AliceWonderly (70)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Yes, exactly. So tragic for the members of all families concerned. This media blitz does not help, either.
@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Once again, a mass killing has sickened the nation, a killing perpetrated by a mentally ill trigger-man. And once again, the nation will carry on without examining what really happened, satisfied with political propaganda over the reality that mass killers are almost always schizophrenics who should be institutionalized to protect them -- and us -- from random and murderous violence.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
11 Jan 11
"Her speeches would include people in the audience saying, "terrorist", and "kill him"."
That crap was thoroughly debunked. NOBODY besides the one left winger who reported it, heard ANYONE yell "kill him" at a rally with Sarah Palin. The Secret Service investigated this thoroughly, watched all the videos of the event, interviewed witnesses, and couldn't find ANYONE to back up that claim. It was a load of bull designed to make Sarah Palin look bad.
Your source is complete garbage. All they do is make a bunch of claims and cite THEMSELVES as their only source for their claims.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Sorta like UFO abductees.
And I don't want to give those people a hard time, but I think we all know how credible they are.
But there are many people who buy into it.
The more I read about this, especially here on myLot, the clearer it's becoming who has some serious issues and who can approach the situation with a level head.
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
12 Jan 11
Sorry Sarah Palin would have to beat the entire GOP first before even getting a chance to kick Obama out of the White House.
I hope if she does run that some one in the GOP talks of her husband being an Independent Party or something where they want Alaska to Separate from the Union. She spoke at one of their rallies and so how American is Sarah Palin when she wants Alaska to become its own country.
Personally I think we should let them. That way Sarah Palin would be ineligible to be president. ;)
