CBS Blames Sarah Palin For Injecting 'Politics and Controversy' Into Tucson Shooting
At the top of Wednesday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric lamented: "The President tries to comfort a nation in mourning, but even on a rare day of unity, politics and controversy intervene." A clip was then played of Sarah Palin's Facebook video reaction to the Tucson shooting and media finger-pointing: "Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel."
Later, correspondent Chip Reid reported that in his speech at the memorial service for the victims, "one thing we're told he [President Obama] will not do is get into the political battle that's developed over this tragedy." Reid then added: "a battle that became even more heated today when Sarah Palin joined the fray."
Reid proclaimed: "In a nearly eight-minute video, Sarah Palin defended herself against critics who have accused her of using inflammatory, even violent words and images, in last year's campaign. Especially a map that used the crosshairs of a gunsight to target some Democrats, including Gabrielle Giffords."
Continuing to attack Palin, Reid declared that she had "ignited a new controversy by using the term 'blood libel,' which refers to false allegations from the Middle Ages that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in religious ceremonies." A clip was played of Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center: "Jews have paid a terrible price. They were accused falsely. Their children were murdered because of these libels." Reid failed to cite liberal Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who defended Palin's use of the term: "There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term..."
Reid noted how: "Some political analysts say the remark was straight out of Sarah Palin's political playbook." He cited CBS News chief political analyst and editor of The Atlantic, Marc Armbinder, who slammed the former Alaska governor: "And she will often make her case in the most explicit, most inflammatory, most attention-getting way that's possible." Reid concluded: "Again, we're told the President will not take sides in that battle."
Like Couric and Reid mentioned, President Obama did avoid politics in his speech, and as correspondent Ben Tracy pointed out on Thursday's Early Show: "While some have rushed to politicize the tragedy this week, the President called on all Americans to rise above partisan differences." The word "some" would include CBS, which was politicizing the tragedy a little over an hour before the memorial service.
On Wednesday, NewsBusters' editor at large Brent Baker cited Reid's report while also pointing out NBC's Andrea Mitchell going after Palin on the Nightly News.
Here is a full transcript of Reid's January 12 report:
6:30PM ET TEASE:
KATIE COURIC: The President tries to comfort a nation in mourning, but even on a rare day of unity, politics and controversy intervene.
SARAH PALIN: Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel.
6:33PM ET SEGMENT:
COURIC: President Obama flew to Arizona today to speak at a memorial service there, but first, he stopped at University Medical Center to visit Congresswoman Giffords and other victims of the shooting. Chip Reid is in Tucson tonight. Chip, it's become a familiar role for presidents in times of tragedy – consoler-in-chief.
CHIP REID: Sadly, it has, Katie. And as you can see from these pictures, he's going to have a very large crowd to hear his remarks. Thousands of people are being diverted to an outdoor stadium where they'll get a feed of the remarks. One thing we're told he will not do is get into the political battle that's developed over this tragedy, a battle that became even more heated today when Sarah Palin joined the fray.
PALIN: That is reprehensible.
REID: In a nearly eight-minute video, Sarah Palin defended herself against critics who have accused her of using inflammatory, even violent words and images, in last year's campaign. Especially a map that used the crosshairs of a gunsight to target some Democrats, including Gabrielle Giffords. Today, Palin said it's not she but her critics who are inciting violence.
PALIN: Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn.
REID: But she ignited a new controversy by using the term 'blood libel,' which refers to false allegations from the Middle Ages that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in religious ceremonies.
RABBI MARVIN HIER [FOUNDER & DEAN, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER]: Jews have paid a terrible price. They were accused falsely. Their children were murdered because of these libels.
REID: Some political analysts say the remark was straight out of Sarah Palin's political playbook.
MARC ARMBINDER [CBS NEWS CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST]: And she will often make her case in the most explicit, most inflammatory, most attention-getting way that's possible.
REID: Again, we're told the President will not take sides in that battle. He'll spend most of his short speech memorializing the victims. Katie.
COURIC: Chip Reid reporting from Tucson tonight.
— Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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like the cleaning of a house...
Submitted by 76United on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:30pm.
...it never ends
I think it's precious
Submitted by optimist on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:34pm.
that these media morons still think that the memory hole still exists.
Are these people totally out of their minds?
Submitted by dronetek on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:36pm.
After 4 days of blaming Palin and the tea parties, they're going to seriously suggest that its Palin injecting politics? REALLY? Even when all the polls show the public isn't buying it?
Dronetek: From The Source
Its a tactic that children
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:02pm.
Its a tactic that children use. Pester a sibling to death, then when they get smacked, they run to mommy screaming how they got hit, conveniently leaving out the back story.
Juvenile tactics used by juvenile people.
Good analogy
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:12pm.
The alleged dialogue conducted by the MSM since the shootings has failed to rise to the level of adultness.
I once heard an analogy that I think applies to the MSM "narrative" of the Tuscon incident.
It's like trying to move a ton of Jello with a sledgehammer. Eventually, you move very little Jello, and you lose the sledgehammer.
The original murders have lost all context at CBS and other alleged-news services. They are now off on snipe hunts.
~Two hours ago, at my house
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:17pm.
Mommy, ----- hit me!!
What did you do to make ----- mad?
Uh, nevermind.
Freaking idiots!!
Submitted by Patriot II on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:54am.
CBS stands for "Complete Bull Shyt"!!!
John Kennedy
Submitted by SnapTie on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:39pm.
I once heard President GWB say John Kennedy was a straight shooter,all Democrats know that it was a codeword for violence
LOL...are these people for
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:39pm.
LOL...are these people for real? Are they really so stupid? Do they think we cannot read, see or hear? They must think we are as stupid as they are...
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
no kidding
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:46pm.
Rush was saying yesterday how he was just minding his own business on Saturday when it happened and of course the dipstick and others right away started blaming him and Palin(also minding her own business) and etc, there's just no winning against these people when they want it both ways. Talk about your double standards, might as well call them reverse standards too.
This is why liberals have to be UTTERLY defeated so they can't get away with this nonsense. It's just too bad they are really firmly entrenched now the way things are going.
Once again, proof positive liberalism is a mental disorder.
-Jon
Ya know Jon, it never ceases
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:02pm.
Ya know Jon, it never ceases to amaze me. These people are either so arrogant that they think we belive any thing and every thing they say,
Or they are so stupid they think we cannot think for ourselves, or they have no idea what is really going on.
Or, they are students of Gobbels...
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Lies become truth
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:17pm.
No, they believe that a lie repeated enough times becomes the truth. So they keep on their universal theme hoping it will get some traction. It's obviously coordinated since all of them are always on the same story. Probably they are directed by the secret White House KGB these days. That said, Palin did make a tactical error by coming out with this after the story had just about died.
definitely the last
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:20pm.
I'd say definitely the last because of the tactics this bogus potus and his bogus czars have been pulling since Jan 20, 2009. Too many similarities in history.
-Jon
It's just like in football,
Submitted by mang on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:39pm.
It's just like in football, the player that retaliates is always called for the foul.
What is all this UNCIVIL, "HEATED", "BATTLE", "FRAY" ...
Submitted by Jayke on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:41pm.
talk that's coming from Katie and Chip? Do they not hear themselves?
Obama's presence there is PURE politics.
Submitted by ajkrik on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:45pm.
"WTF" is all you can ask about CBS.
Obama attends every memorial service where a few people die? With T-shirts and another disingenuous call for "civility". It would be comical if there weren't about 45 million people out there who totally believe this nonsense.
I myself am tired of this
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:13pm.
I myself am tired of this triade. About 150K people die every day and some in more horrific circumstances. So I ask what is the big deal about Giffords and the people she was visiting with?
Easy answer
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:26pm.
She was a democrat in Arizona. Going there like they did with the people(Holder, Nappy, etc) with the pep rally...I mean memorial, was like doing a coup on the part of the WH.
That's all it was. Add to that Sheriff Dipstick's stance on the 1070 law and how the Chairman greeted him and thanked him, and how the WH declared war on AZ, they weren't there to do a memorial, they were making a statement.
I'm still curious as to Gov Brewer's reaction to the whole thing, she can't have been for the way it went down. She had to be thinking "what the hell is going on here?"
-Jon
The next question is how long
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:42pm.
The next question is how long will this crap continue, well the Giffords stuff. I know that the accusations will continue until man is wiped from existence.
Don't YOU get it?
Submitted by phryingphish on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:58pm.
Obama knows there will be an off schedule election to replace Giffords (She will step down) . He was getting the people ready to elect another democrat. I wouldn't put it past the Dem to try to change the law so that ONLY Democrats can run.
This, commette written, speach was the opening volly (opps) in Obams attack (opps) on the republicans in 2012.
I think what the President said to you folks at CBS, and else..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:45pm.
I think what the President said to you folks at CBS, and elsewhere in the national scene - was to shut up.
Now, I admit, that he's probably more personally interested in quelling free speech on the right, but why not take the hint and stop fueling the fire of division, CBS? Why not act like a news organization?
At a minimum, if it is really necessary for you to keep this alive, then why not invite on to CBS, those dozens of national voices (the Krugmans and Olbermanns and Brokows and the editorial writers, etc) who chose from the moment that the bullets first tore thur human flesh, to "pointing fingers or assigning blame," and challenge them with questions about the damage that they've caused?
Can one of you do this? Or, is the entire national dialog limited to using Sarah Palin's words which were meant to calm the nation and to defend herself against the barage of vitriol hurled at her, to keep the smear mongering alive?
(;~/ gary
Precise definitions?
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:49pm.
If Couric was so concerned about the precise definition of words, she wouldn't accept any of the following:
Or any of a couple dozen other bastardizations of words and phrases used to incite or reward a particular position or party.
But then again -- Couric and her ilk only use precise definitions when it suits their socialist agenda.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Or using the word Journalist . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:36pm.
. . . to describe anyone on CBS News.Actually, this makes sense if you really think about it
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:52pm.
After all, the people who still get their "news" from CBS, CNN, etc., have memories that only go back 24 hours.
If even that far.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The public isn't buying the
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:54pm.
The public isn't buying the crap they put out since the shooting and now the One has declared the shooting non-political so the MSM has to move onto a new theme but of course any theme always includes attacks on conservatives and Palin in particular. It's what they do. It's their bread and butter.
Think about it. If you were a MSM reporter/writer what better way to get your story approved than having a Palin bash story. Where they come from it's a natural best seller. The Two Clowns on MSDNC have been living off of mysogynistic ranting's of all things Palin and Bachman for two years now. They are not very creative but hey.... it pays the bills.
"the One has declared the
Submitted by phryingphish on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:04pm.
"the One has declared the shooting non-political so the MSM has to move onto a new theme"
No, The One has elevated himself above the fray and will now let his minnions in the LSM conduct the witch trials and effigy burnings.
And the slanderous libnut media prattles on and on and on...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:00pm.
So much for a less vitriolic discourse, huh? Didn't any of these people hear what "The One" said last night? Why oh why aren't they listening to him?? (wringing hands worriedly)...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Prairie....The One can only
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:03pm.
Prairie....The One can only heal the sick and raise the dead. Not even HE can cure stupid.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
bass...LOL! Again, you are correct!!
Submitted by PrairieSky on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:09pm.
Forgive my ignorance! lol!
You're on a roll today, friend...Keep 'em coming! :-)
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Chip, Chip, Chip
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:03pm.
If only you could be as useful as your cousin Cow Chip.
Gall
Submitted by JPP on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:03pm.
Brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolenc. Yep thats them...
Palin did not join the fray,
Submitted by TerryWest on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:07pm.
Palin did not join the fray, she is predictably the continued target of the fray And responded.
Americans don't expect her to NOT to respond to the media's malicious contempt and dishonestly. Cleary some media falsely believe themselves to be the final word and judge and should be considered exempt from response and question not only by those they constantly target but American's as well.Katie you are so dumber than
Submitted by midnight cowboy on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:11pm.
Katie you are so dumber than a box of rocks. While you're on a roll, wasn't it what sent John Wilkes Booth over the edge in April 1865, was that he engaged in conservative talk telegraph? How about Lee Harvey Oswald hearing the hate from a 12 year old Rush Limbaugh.
8 minutes
Submitted by One on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:11pm.
Without even mentioning the names of the victims. Narcissism to the extreme.
What a coincidence.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:27am.
8 minutes is about how long one of your names last, omo, mud, one.
And how narcissistic is it to keep coming back to a site when you were banned 18 times?
Who do you think you are fooling?
Bwahahahahaha
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:14pm.
Barry sends out his minions to slander the tea party and Palin et al. Then delivers da Rodney "Can't We All Just Get Along" Obama speech on da graves of da dead. Then sends da minions back out again.
Ohhhh that's rich
roflmao
Last night, my wife and I both came up with the same analogy
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:18pm.
that this is like a prosecutor running down motive, time line, opportunity, material evidence; and when the accused says "But I wasn't there!" the prosecutor answers back "Oh! I'ts all about YOU, isn't it?!!"
"And she will often make her
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:19pm.
"And she will often make her case in the most explicit, most inflammatory, most attention-getting way that's possible." Reid concluded: "Again, we're told the President will not take sides in that battle."
I think it only gets the LSM attention that way. I watched the video and it was good and it was measured. It pulled no punches. Yeah right the President will take no side in the battle ... remind me what was the logo on teh T shirt?
She opened her eyes
Submitted by Master-of-Disaster on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:24pm.
I was there and she opened her eyes for the first time. Did you hear that I was there and shortly after I left she opened her eyes for the first time. I was present in the room and just after I was present she opened her eyes for the first time. She opened her eyes after being on the brink of death and it was because I was present! I guess voting present all those years has some perks after all............Aww comon that was funny! Typical Wellstonian political rally, wholly inappropriate with T-shirts and signs. The only thing missing was the balloons, confettie and noise makers (not counting the ones on stage)....Now that was funny too. Here is what I posted on another site about Sarah's video.
She doesn't have to blubber or chose her words to satisfy anyone. She is a private citizen who has been savagely assailed every moment since 2008. She was accused of criminal complicity in something thousands of miles away. The term she used was appropriate by any measure. What she said was presidential I think. No fanfare, no T-shirts and whoooping. Sincere, heartfelt. Reminded me a bit of Reagan after the Challenger disaster (how come no one is referencing that?) In any case, she put this on her Facebook page. That would infer it was for those who follow her. I do not but that;s because I am not a big social networker. No one would be interested in my little life and I'm not interested in theirs to be honest. In any case if you don't like her, don't follow her. If the media picks up something that was not intended for her detractors then wouldn't that be on them? I think that is what the whole Facebook thing is all about isn't it? Her page, not like You Tube. Now if someone else posts it there that's not her doing either. If she puts it on her own page it is for her own followers. That is just one more way the MSM and the libs attack her, by taking her messages, intended for her supporters and contorting them for their own political purposes and to foment hate. I know that is just life but I'm just saying. Well she has my vote regardless cause I like her better than any other person out there contemplating a run.
It's time to pull out the of
Submitted by Average_JoeMN on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:32pm.
It's time to pull out the of the liberal playbook the boycott tactic. Who are CBS News advertisers? (Not having watched them in 20 years I wouldn't know...) Once we know, Facebook the names, phone numbers and email addresses of these people. I can't believe any reasonable human, one who cares about being associated with murders being used for politics would continue to support them.
~CBS advertisers
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:41pm.
h/t Hillbuzz
OK, but I am not going around with a wet jet
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:41pm.
.
What I would like any news
Submitted by jdhawk on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:35pm.
What I would like any news agency out there to report on is what was Sheriff Dipstick doing to prevent this trajedy? How many reports of disturbances, of threathening telephone calls, of threathening letters or vists to the residence by sheriff's officers, does it take for the Pima County Sheriff''s office to act?
How many people telling authorities what a disturbed man this was does it take in Sheriff Dipstick's county to have him evaluated as mentally ill?
How many news agency does it take to cover up the above? Apparently all of them. None are reporting the discrepancies between events of the past regarding this murderer that should have been acted on and the misdirection on the part of the sheriff's office since this event.
However, it appears that the sheriff's office has given a defense attorney plenty of lame excuses, blunders, and missteps to get this thug off.
I can't wait for the media circus that is the trial. And, of course, the diatribes on the part of the media that it is all Governor Palin's fault. Or is it Rush Limbaugh's? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Meanwhile, we have t-shirts and political pamphlets at a memorial service for the dead at which duhbama spoke. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//110112/480/urn_publicid_ap_org_ffb533d16d6548058df1085e682a679d/
Is there no shame on the part of the dimocrats?
Still wondering
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:00pm.
Those t-shirts and pamphlets, were they pre-stocked somewhere to be used for this occasion? How long would it take to produce those things in a short time? I know production technology has come a long ways in the last 20 or so years, but still, doing this in less than 4 days time on a large scale?
Because of that, I keep wondering how much this whole thing was planned and I mean even the shooting. Sure, we know the loon had it in for Giffords since 2007, but I'm still finding it hard to believe he was acting alone in this incident. Especially when it seems like a global effort on the LSM to lay blame within the same hour as the shooting.
This whole thing isn't making a whole lot of sense. What am I missing? I really don't understand this.(not saying there's a conspiracy, will be happy if there isn't one, but I don't really see the whole picture yet)
-Jon
Yes it is very possible with
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:44pm.
Yes it is very possible with iron on transfers and depending on how many get into the act. The leaves the logistics of materials and transport and if you have many volunteers it is easy. The back story might be intriging.
I had worked at a small
Submitted by astonrickenbach on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:54pm.
I had worked at a small screen printer when in college in the 80's. They would print 1,000 dozen every 8 hours and they only had 3 machines so in 4 days it would be no problem. Especially since it is only 1 color (multiple colors have to be lined up to make sure there is no bleeding outside the lines). I would imagine the newer machines and technologies would have had to improve since then.
Typical. MSM goads her for silence
Submitted by Ms. Independent on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:15pm.
Almost every "media" outlet that has done a story about Sarah's "involvement" with this tragedy has thrown out some jab basically saying that her silence points to her complicity and then when she makes a statement, they want to criticize her for not staying silent.
My sincere hope is that all of this will backfire and people will realize how unfairly Gov. Palin is being treated, yet again, and that it will actually make people look at her more favorably.
Of course, there's no rationalizing some people's hatred of this woman.
Retreat?
Submitted by MissMinPhx on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:48pm.
I love Sarah Palin, but I think it's time for her to lay low for a while. I thought her video statement was beautiful and touching, but the left and the media will never be happy. On one hand, I want her to keep fighting and defend herself against the rabid left, but on the other hand, it just breaks my heart the way everything she says and does is distorted to the point absurdity. Palin is the only one who has rightly pointed out the media's role in formenting the hate and the partisanship that goes on in this country yet instead of the American people standing up and demanding more accountability from our media, they instead turn on Palin. It's maddening. Laying low for a while might take the attention off of her for a while.
~D@mned if she does
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:48pm.
d@mned if she doesn't. If she vanished from the radar the MSM would be screeching, "Reclusive Palin Goes into Hiding After Inspiring Murder".
The media is obsessed with her, they're determined to smear her any way they can. If she died they'd still be bringing her up just to slur her. The level of hate is downright breathtaking.
Obama is claiming the College (UA) supplied the t-shirts.
Submitted by phryingphish on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:14pm.
He would be very well advised not to use "Together We Thrive" as his slogan for the 2012 election.
Excuse Me?
Submitted by DaMama on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:36pm.
The Pima County Sheriff is the one who brought the political aspect into this tragedy. This man's personal agenda against anything conservative was made very plain when he spoke on camera.
But of course, the liberal left, who hate Sarah Palin with unbridled passion, have to throw her into the fray in order to make her look bad.
The liberal MSM is the epitome of evil.
The Delusional Left
Submitted by Cajun on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:43pm.
I've listened to Mrs. Palin's speech first - because hers was the first video eulogizing the senseless killings of a deranged young man - and on Wednesday, I listened to Mr. Obama's. Guess his speech writers needed a few days?
In any event, just as the left-leaning mainstream media did when our minds were on nothing but the tragedy itself, it was the MEDIA that ran with the unsupported statement of the town sheriff. Now a string of Democratic and leftist politicians have "theoretically' elaborated with their OWN theories, such as representative Clyburn (D-SC), (who must have just learned the definition of 'VITRIOLE' because he used it in his own 'RHETORIC' many times on Fox News Sunday).
Clyburn: "The vitrole...the people feel so enboldened by this...who are a little less than stable...people aren't thinking for themselves..." and "easily influenced".
Does he mean those ignant, racist, gun-toten tea party supporters? Maybe one of you are friends with fiscal conservatives who believe in reducing the size of a monstrous government that GOT us where we are? Do they seem unstable to you? I know many, and they seem like quite a sensible and responsible bunch? Hmm..
And now, again, what was a well-delivered, heartfelt plea from Mrs. Palin is turned into a propoganda opportunity by the political pundits! Where's the 'coming-together'? How biased!
Obama goes on in his [the] memorial speech "Let's make sure it's not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the nex news cycle." Yet early on in his speech, he does just that in saying "Already we've seen a national conversation commence...about everything from the merits of gun safety laws to the adequacy of our mental health system (a couple opportunistic plugs there).
Then there was "...when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those ...[slight pause with smug look]...happen to think differently than we do..." Who are 'those' and who is 'we'?
But like the good Reverend Wright who married the Obamas, baptised his children and gave BHO advice and guidance for 20years would say about such criticism "G*D DA*N AMERICA!".
Credit where credit is due.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:10pm.
What about the various liberal celebrities, commentators, and politicians that immediately pointed their fingers at Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Fox News, etc. ? Aren't they the ones who made this political and controversial? And what about the TV networks that were only all too happy to give them a platform? After all, things wouldn't have gotten this out of hand if it had been restricted to the blogosphere.
And now, they're attacking Palin for trying to refute the accustions that she's somehow responsible for the shooting! What was she supposed to do? Just roll over and let them trash her? It's not like she was trying to milk this for sympathy or cheap political points. So, she's not even allowed to defend herself against people trying to tie her to the attack? The shooter sure as Hell wasn't a Sarah Palin fan. But, Sarah's the bad guy for wanting people to know that?
And isn't there kind of a difference between "joining the fray" and getting dragged into it?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
What???
Submitted by scottyusmc on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 8:03am.
Their delusion is so transparent!!!