Posted on 01/12/2011 6:14:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sarah Palin found a very strange ally on Monday.
With media outlet after media outlet disgracefully accusing the former Alaska governor of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to go on a shooting rampage in Tucson Saturday, Barbara Walters said on "The View," "To blame Sarah Palin as some are doing I think is very unfair to her" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now the country is, is still in shock trying to make sense of Saturday’s insanity in Tucson, where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition after 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at her public appearance, killing six people, including a nine-year-old young lady called Christina Taylor Green and federal judge John M. Roll. And, you know, there is a lot being said because, you know, there are so many -- we've become so vitriolic. We talk about this on the show so often. Is this what happens because we've become so vitriolic that, you know, people who are unstable are hearing things, saying go and get these people? Because this woman, this Congresswoman, she was one of nine of the Congress people who, particularly Democrats, who had been targeted by several different organizations. I mean, it's just crazy.
BARBARA WALTER: Because she voted, in part because she voted for healthcare.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Right. There was an interview you remember in the press. As of late, there's been a ton of criticism over the, was it Facebook page of Sarah Palin when she had the crosshairs over different districts and she said something like don’t something reload or something.
BARBARA WALTERS: That's a different thing. She had, she had, this was an ad she had with the crosshairs about who you should vote for or not. But she also, what you're talking about is she tweeted at one point, conservatives and so on, she said, “Don't Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!”
I'm feeling bad for Sarah Palin, because what -- I don't think that's what she should have said and certainly crosshairs are very scary. This is a deranged young man. This is a Timothy McVeigh. Whether this happened because there is violence, you know, too much commentary, too much violence, as you say, we’ve talked about it. Sometimes we do it here, we get so angry. Whether that really speared him on or whether he's just a very sick person, we don't know, and we don’t know what his motives are. And, and we can hope the all the vitriol calms down.
But to blame Sarah Palin as some are doing I think is very unfair to her. She has, she issued a statement offering her condolences and hasn't said more. But I don't think this is the time now to start finding – you should excuse me - other targets to blame.
HASSELBECK: But they seemed to that she was the first target, I mean it was her, right? They seemed to say, “Okay, this is the direct link.”
SHERRI SHEPHERD: If you look at the map with the crosshairs, Giffords' name was on there.
GOLDBERG: I just want to point out, she was, Sarah Palin was one of several people who put crosshairs on this young lady.
WALTERS: That’s right, that’s right, she’s the one being condemned the most.
HASSELBECK: And all of which, I mean, we talked about it here on the show. I remember saying it seemed extreme and almost inexcusable that crosshairs would be put over everybody, and because you put a crosshair over someone, or a district and does that, in fact, if you were not the person behind the gun, are you then to blame?
I mean, just the morning of the shooting, hours before, the New York Post had this as its cover. Crosshairs saying “STOP HIM” over Peyton Manning's face. Now, are they then to blame if God forbid anything were to happen to Peyton Manning?
Great point, Elisabeth.
More importantly, a classy job of Barbara to stand up for a much-maligned woman that is once again being grossly mistreated by members of the media.
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Brava, Barbara! Brava!
Blaming Palin for this is not only “very unfair”, it’s also very moronic. But it is what communists do to get rid of anyone who stands in their way. They’ve been after Sarah for years now. This was just a commie cheap shot. I’m ashamed that these people even live in my country.
She did a good job. It would be nice if we had a real heavy hitter like Liz Cheney on there, not that she would ever lower herself to go on some midday gossip show (or that ABC producers would want her in the middle of those debates!)
I can never quite figure out what to think about Walters. On the one hand, she isn’t an irrational lunatic like the other “ladies” on her show. On the other hand, she did hire them and associates with them so there is guilt by association. I guess she’s more of an old school Liberal. She holds Lib views but does not buy into the insanity and brutal partisanship that characterizes many of the younger Libs she has on the show.
Most of this crap is being driven by the White Trash in the media.The NYT and rest of the so called Liberal establishments uses this as a wedge like Jackson and Sharpton.They protect Major Hassan and villify White America. I predict for the White Race to survive in America it will have to get worse. Most of these slime balls in the press could not survive on their own they have to stir tensions and the Democats are most adept at it.
Unfair?
I’d go so far as to call it outright wicked and evil - exactly what you’d expect for folks working for Lucifer.
Now, if we could just find the transcript for the show where they were condemning the people who were putting crosshairs on Bush’s face...
just can’t seem to find that one.
Whoopi Goldberg calling someone else vitriolic,
I wonder who told her what the word vitriolic meant?
What a fool Bwahahahaha
Baba Wawa what a joke she is.
What a waste of electricity to turn a television on to watch this pack of pukes
Three extreme liberals, and one moderate conservative...
That’s not really fair either, is it Baba?
A liberals favorite word. Funny how they all use it at the same time. Maybe all getting talking points?
A Broken clock is right twice a day...
Yes it goes way beyond unfair. Have you seen what’s being posted on twitter about Sarah?
Did Behar and Whoopie get up and leave the room?
Then fire those satanic wh0res you hired babwa.
LLS
Yeah, why are the crowd in the View so supportive of Jared. If they had any sense they’d realize this guy’s a killer ~ not a politician ~ and get off their brooms.
Notice they don’t mention the Lefts profuse use of the target. On Bush, Palin etc. Hasselbeck has jumped the shark. Ofcourse I don’t watch the view...TO HATE-FILLED.
Even a broken clock is right twice per day. That’s Babwa.
No, not really, but it shows the lefts hypocrisy.
This it total BS.
Too little, too late.
Baba goes out of her way to give a forum to radical a-holes, and continues to. This exchange is nothing but Demwit talking points with a tiny little misdirection (”I’m feeling bad for Sarah Palin” but not so bad that I won’t continue to regurgitate talking points) in the middle.
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