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Sheriff blames Arizona's bigotry
St. Petersburg Times ^ | January 9, 2011 | PAULINE ARRILLAGA, AP

Posted on 01/09/2011 3:52:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Look at the link to see that headline (along with picture) on the front page of the St. Pete Times. Screen save it if you can. This is the title when you go to the story:

"AZ shooting targets US congresswoman, kills 6"

"....The sheriff blamed the vitriolic political rhetoric that has consumed the country, much of it occurring in Arizona.

Giffords expressed similar concern, even before the shooting. In an interview after her office was vandalized, she referred to the animosity against her by conservatives, including Sarah Palin's decision to list Giffords' seat as one of the top "targets" in the midterm elections.

"For example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action," Giffords said in an interview with MSNBC.

In the hours after the shooting, Palin issued a statement in which she expressed her "sincere condolences" to the family of Giffords and the other victims.

During his campaign effort to unseat Giffords in November, Republican challenger Jesse Kelly held fundraisers where he urged supporters to help remove Giffords from office by joining him to shoot a fully loaded M-16 rifle. Kelly is a former Marine who served in Iraq and was pictured ...

"I don't see the connection," between the fundraisers featuring weapons and Saturday's shooting, said John Ellinwood, Kelly's spokesman. "I don't know this person, we cannot find any records that he was associated with the campaign in any way. I just don't see the connection.

"Arizona is a state where people are firearms owners - this was just a deranged individual."...

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arizona; gabriellegiffords; giffords; griffords; jaredloughner; loughner; reichstagfire
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1 posted on 01/09/2011 3:52:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The left will use this to expand the police state and weaken the 2nd Amendment.

Be vigilant!


2 posted on 01/09/2011 3:54:36 AM PST by Lessthantolerant (The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The MSM can go to hell...this was another leftist, and I’m fed up with their incessant lies (and no, that doesn’t mean I’m going to blow something up or shoot someone...that’s the type of actions liberals take and I’m no liberal).


3 posted on 01/09/2011 3:55:46 AM PST by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: Lessthantolerant
Good information about the “map” as well as the Democrat “target” map over here: The unseemly rush to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and Republicans for murder in Arizona
4 posted on 01/09/2011 3:55:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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I wonder if this guy was referring to the Aztlan and Reconquista Mexican KKK nonsense taught in Tuscon schools....the abject Mestizo-Racism just recently stopped by the state of AZ?

Naw....knowing these liberals...probably not that racism. Only white, gringo, anglo can be racists....


5 posted on 01/09/2011 3:59:32 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Whenever something is "Global"...it means its bad for America)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“shoot a fully loaded M-16 rifle. Kelly is a former Marine who served in Iraq and was pictured ...”

Let’s see, a fully loaded 20 rd mag would be the same as a
2/3 loaded 30 rd mag.........


6 posted on 01/09/2011 4:01:19 AM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Who is going to blame this shooting on global warming?


7 posted on 01/09/2011 4:03:09 AM PST by monocle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Don’t be surprised if this does not happen again this time aimed at a Tea Partier or Repubulican.

These leftist are quite insane.


8 posted on 01/09/2011 4:03:29 AM PST by Lessthantolerant (The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
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To: highlander_UW

DITTOS


9 posted on 01/09/2011 4:04:29 AM PST by DeaconRed (Everything IS Broken. . . . MSM won't report it. . . . The community organizer can't fix it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The State is bigoted against members of Congress?


10 posted on 01/09/2011 4:09:04 AM PST by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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Oh nooooooooooooooooooooow I get it. This is Sarah Palin’s fault because she used the word target in her endorsement of Jesse Kelly. Now why didn't I think of that? It makes perfect sense ( if you are an insane liberal desperate to steal back our government).
11 posted on 01/09/2011 4:11:42 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Yeeeess... Yeeeesssss...

Never mind a left-cook is responsible for the bloodshed, never mind...

It always prove all those who owns and carry guns are evil people.

It always show the “right” of the politic spectrum is evil...

Only them, the cooks ate the left are good and responsible and carrying people, always them.

12 posted on 01/09/2011 4:12:53 AM PST by Mayr Fortuna
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This is Sarah Palins fault, because the Democrat need a new Boogie Man, They have worn out “It’s George Bush’s Fault”.

They are scared spitless that Sarah will be President.


13 posted on 01/09/2011 4:29:34 AM PST by Venturer
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To: popdonnelly

No, obviously, they are bigoted against white women and white male judges.

Why would a bigot shoot a white person who apparently was pretty centrist?

THey hate us.They will try to Alinsky us to our death.

WE MUST NOT BACK DOWN, NOT BE INTIMIDATED - NEVER SURRENDER ! The TEA Party had NOTHING to do with this. Zero, zip, nada.


14 posted on 01/09/2011 4:30:27 AM PST by Reagan69 (Let me know when those health insurance premiums go down.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In the lib/progressive mind - Sarah Palin is to blame for the Arizona shootings just like Americans are to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

I don’t know if it’s willful ignorance, naivety or an outright attempt to destroy our country. Maybe a combination of the three.

In any case, prepare for increased attacks on our freedoms and rights.


15 posted on 01/09/2011 4:31:36 AM PST by APatientMan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Meanwhile, pick up any newspaper this morning (Sunday) and see how many inner-city murders took place overnight. Hardly a yawn is elicited from the chattering classes.


16 posted on 01/09/2011 4:34:51 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Sheriff is a full tilt Olbermann fanatic.


17 posted on 01/09/2011 4:39:20 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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How can somebody this mentally deranged be a sheriff? He needs to be shown the door.


18 posted on 01/09/2011 4:42:35 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yo, libtards, name one, just one, conservative who has gone on a shooting spree.

They are all libtards, just like you.


19 posted on 01/09/2011 4:45:01 AM PST by CPOSharky
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It wasnt anything of the sort. Poor Jared ranted about dreaming and the fact that people cant read.
Jared was a nutjob lefty. The shame is how the left is using this event to promote their agenda.
No Tragedy can go to waste. This is the lefts wetdream.
20 posted on 01/09/2011 4:46:12 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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