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Palin Plays the Victim Card
CBS ^ | 01/12/2011 | Dan Farber

Posted on 01/12/2011 12:49:33 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

It's becoming increasingly clear that Jared Lee Loughner is mentally unstable. Sarah Palin's bullseye on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords did not direct Loughner to shoot Giffords point-blank in the head on January 8, 2011.

Did the vitriol in political discourse, crosshairs and phrases like "Don't retreat, reload" (by Sarah Palin) or "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" (by President Obama) influence Loughren's state of mind?

Perhaps in an idiosyncratic way, according to Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University. "Political rhetoric provided some of the context for his thinking, the pretext for his actions, but the core reasons for his actions were his psychosis," Lieberman told National Journal.

Regardless of what motivated Loughner to pull the trigger, the tragedy in Tucson has put the tone of political discourse, and those who tend to inflame more than inform, in the spotlight.

Campaigning has often been rough and tumble and full of venom and half-truths since the founding of the country, but as Giffords told MSNBC on March 25, 2010, after her campaign headquarters in Tucson was vandalized, "In the years that some of my colleagues have served--20 to 30 years--they've never seen it like this."

In reference to her district being targeted with the image of a crosshairs gun sight by Sarah Palin, Giffords said, "We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, the way she has it depicted, it 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."

But Palin doesn't seem to think that there are any negative consequences associated with her campaign words and images.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
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To: Responsibility2nd

“...the tragedy in Tucson has put the tone of political discourse,and those who tend to inflame more than inform,in the spotlight.”

Uh...no. The media(like the writer of the article) put”the tone” on the shooting.


21 posted on 01/12/2011 12:57:56 PM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“It’s time for Palin and others engaged in the democratic process to stand back and consider the full impact of their words and images”

I think CBS ought to practice what they preach..


22 posted on 01/12/2011 12:57:59 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Mr. K
Let me get this straight. A psychiatrist who has never heard of, met, examined, diagnosed, consulted on Jared nonetheless offers a clear cut diagnosis of mental disease and cites the direct cause.

This man should lose his license!!

23 posted on 01/12/2011 12:57:59 PM PST by BillM
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s obvious Farber missed the Ashleigh Banfield interview.


24 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:41 PM PST by abigailsmybaby ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun". BHO)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Its disgusting. Even though Sarah, Tea Party et al had nothing to do with this they put her and others at risk of physical violence.

THE LEFT IS SETTING THE TONE FOR VIOLENCE DIRECTED AT THE RIGHT AND CONTINUED DIVISION BETWEEN THE PARTIES. Imagine these fools telling people to “tone it down” in one breath and wrongfully accusing people of death, destruction of life in another. NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER WAS REQUIRED.


25 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:47 PM PST by IH8DEMS (.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

These people will never stop. We already know that, we must just keep dealing with it. Refute with facts, continue to answer back with truth.

Their voices ae getting smaller and weaker even as we speak. The dinosaur media is becoming extinct.


26 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:59 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: bgill

>>Campaigning has often been rough and tumble and full of venom and half-truths since the founding of the country<<

The phrase “Fake, but accurate” comes to mind. :)


27 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:59 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Mr. Farber,

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28 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:59 PM PST by ozark hilljilly (Y'all had enough, yet?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Aren’t they also responsible for keeping the heated rhetoric going? If they think it’s a problem wouldn’t the responsible thing to do be to SHUT UP?


29 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:24 PM PST by brytlea
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To: Responsibility2nd

Giffords pretends to be a gun owner and a supporter of the second amendment.

I would like to know where she ever saw a shooting target shaped like the target on Sarah’s website.

We buy targets and they certainly do not resemble Sarah’s depiction of a political target.

The congresswoman added to the libel, didn’t she?


30 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:28 PM PST by Carley (THE MEDIA UNDERSTANDS CREDENTIALS BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND PRINCIPLES)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, the first page of comments took them to the woodshed. I’ll not go further. It’s SeeBS, after all...


31 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:53 PM PST by bcsco
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To: Responsibility2nd

So basically what CBS wanted her to do is come out and beg for forgiveness, am I getting close..I wonder how Catty Katie would react if someone had accused her of being a co conspirator to the deaths of 6 people..No one watches CBS news because they are NO longer legit news, they are nothing more than pimps for Obama and the progressive movement. Hey idiots in the press, Sarah IS the victim here, you guys day after day after day accused her of being a murderer, and you what, didn’t expect her to come out fighting back


32 posted on 01/12/2011 1:00:13 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Responsibility2nd
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University. "Political rhetoric provided some of the context for his thinking

And when did this "Dr" have time to examine him? He must have channeled Bill Burkett...

33 posted on 01/12/2011 1:00:22 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (YOU BETCHA!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Its hard to tell who is more out of touch with reality, the shooter, or the MSM.


34 posted on 01/12/2011 1:00:52 PM PST by Conan the Conservative (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
But Palin doesn't seem to think that there are any negative consequences associated with her campaign words and images.

What about the "consequences" of Obama's negative words and rhetoric? Why is that glossed over? Oh, never mind...

35 posted on 01/12/2011 1:01:18 PM PST by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: Responsibility2nd
those who tend to inflame more than inform

That is exactly what the writer (and CBS) are doing with this hit-piece. They're attempting to incite hate for Palin while being dis-informative.

It's the age old practice of "accuse others of what you do".
36 posted on 01/12/2011 1:01:39 PM PST by adorno
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To: Responsibility2nd
It's becoming increasingly clear that Jared Lee Loughner the MSM and left wing liberals are mentally unstable.

There...although the first is still true...the later covers it better, IMO.
37 posted on 01/12/2011 1:01:52 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: Responsibility2nd; IncPen
Regardless of what motivated Loughner to pull the trigger, the tragedy in Tucson has put the tone of political discourse, and those who tend to inflame more than inform, in the spotlight.

Not accurate, Farber. It was you media pukes that put the "tone of the political discourse" in the spotlight.

Is this now what SeeBS has sunk to? Dishonest, hateful "editing."

Time for a new IncPen graphic.

38 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:11 PM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: skeeter

LOL


39 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:35 PM PST by brytlea
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To: Responsibility2nd
But Palin doesn't seem to think that there are any negative consequences associated with her campaign words and images.

They don't seem to mention that Obama hasn't acknowledged it, either.

40 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:51 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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