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Originally Posted by cologal
Bucco.....you quoted my post. That is why I responded.
I had a typo....the app on my IPhone is for the New York Times so I might have read that article. Yes the media is talking about the political climate but most everyone, I even watched Fox News interview the Sheriff, is being very careful to state this probably had nothing to do with this tragedy.
Now in your post you used the Presidents knife vs gun quote.....you did not include the other 2 quotes.
So think of this .The Dems, as pointed out on this site used a target in 2004, Palin used the crosshairs of a gun with the candidates names and then someone running against, the now wounded Congresswomen, invited people to a firing range during the campaign. That progression is terrifying......
I am in NO WAY saying this shooter is anything but mentally unstable but think about that progression.
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It does not appear to me that everyone is being careful at all. I am sad and sickened by what has happened. I had hoped everyone would realize that this was a lone sick man but not so....
Even in England...
"How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin"
The UK Mail is surely not a conservative site, but they continue after that headline...
"Gabrielle Giffords was a Democrat and much - but not all - of the badly spelt, incoherent YouTube jumble that passed for the politics of her attacker was broadly ‘Right-wing’.
As a result, many liberal *commentators and establishment figures have leapt at the opportunity to blame conservative politicians.
The rush to make political capital out of a mass shooting shows just how nasty U.S. *politics has become. Under Barack Obama, America is more polarised than it has been for 40 years."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...rah-Palin.html
I am so saddened and sick by all of this. I initially felt as Gracie did...the forum was bad but the media was doing ok...but as the days go on, and I read quite a bit in a day....the march is consistent, the same, and appears to be together. As others have pointed out, there were no worries by anyone when Bush was potrayed as a Nazi on a daily basis in NYC central park, nor when the "Kill Bush" signs came out plus so much other stuff...it appears that kind of hate is ok....I dont get it and I am so disgusted by it all.
How we allow the media to pick based on political orientation what the news will be is just insulting. I thought the election of 2008 was terrible but this is beginning to edge on bizarre and crazy !