Posted on 11/16/2011 11:11:13 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
In an hour-long special on Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona) and her miraculous recovery, ABC's Diane Sawyer ruined it in a segment about the Congresswoman's political future.
Sawyer praised the Congresswoman as being "upbeat" during the "unsettling" 2010 campaign season in which she received "vitriol" from her constituents. Sawyer then linked these events to someone shooting her office door while including a sound of a gun being shot. Continuing, Sawyer says Giffords was "targeted" by Sarah Palin. Cue video of Palin speaking and the ad which had a cross-hair on Giffords' district. Transcript below:
DIANE SAWYER: "So does Gabby Giffords really want to go back to Washington? Back where she was once called 'the most positive person in Congress.'
"Staying upbeat, even during the unsettling campaigns of 2010. When we all watched opposition sometimes become vitriol. After she voted for health care, she faced people in her district calling her a 'traitor,' booing her in town halls.
[gun shot]
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Giffords must have approved the report, or at least her husband. They are ultimately responsible.
You are mistaken (if you were serious) her book blames palin for “targeting” her district, and attacks Palin for defending herself with the term “blood libel”.
Giffords and her husband know Palin had nothing to do with her shooting. they owe Palin an apology.
IF they had any class they would have said Palin had nothing to do with it and they regret the accusations made by others. Instead they behaved as typical opportunistic divisive democrats.
No I meant Giffords and her husband also, you can add Sawyer. See my previous post.
I watched Diane Sawyer anchor the news once while I was ona treadmill at the gym.
The ENTIRE half hour was a marxist road trip from beginning to end. Every single story, even the puff piece at the end was about kids being home for Summer and the supposedly cute piece was saying won’t you really be glad when the little brats go back to school? The message was moms work, kids are annoying as hell!
That followed item after biased item cooing over Obama and Michele, attacking a Supreme Court decision limiting discrimination suits, on and on. It was quite an eye opener.
Please don’t let any experimental scientist use her in an aptitude maze — ‘cauze she would starve and we would be blamed for not bailing out her idiotness.
Her(and the sorry left’s) ontology is simple and utterly disgusting!!
She wasn't. That's why she went into politics.
Giffords and her moocher husband are going to milk this for all it’s worth.
When is their Lifetime movie coming out?
I think I liked the astronaut who wore diapers better than these two.
That’s great! ROFL.
And to think I used to admire Diane Sawyer. She’s turned into just another blood sucker. :(
Hunnnn-- Let me think... where do I know you from?
Oh yes, you're Dave Enderby... from my first episode on September 14, 1957 --
And didn't I get the drop on you... and turn you over to the Sheriff for hanging?
Yeah, but the Sheriff didn't hang me... They shipped me to Hawaii to run Five-O for 12 season from 1968 until 1980!
I knew I should have shot you dead... I'd have made a much better McGarrett than you.
Either of you... would be better than that guy they got playing McGarrett now!
Ah, I didn’t realize that. You’d think someone who’d been through what she had would have more empathy than that.
Cindie
“No I meant Giffords and her husband also”
I’ll cut the Giffords slack because Palin was probably the last thing on their minds. Alsomaybe the Giffords were not allowed to approve what went on the air.
Please don’t be fooled by the highly edited footage and the media propaganda machine. Giffords was coached and trained for quite some time before being puppeteered on the show. While I highly doubt that she herself requested to be on tv, I suspect that Kelly engineered the entire thing.
She detested conservatives before she was shot, and Kelly detested us afterwards. She and her staff, and their friends in the media, tried to blame the tea party for any number of “incidents,” never any proof, never any arrests.
Her hate-filled comments included accusing us of carrying swastikas — this she claimed on the local PBS station.
Because she was so afraid of us, she should have hired private security, or asked the PCSO for protection. She did not and an innocent child died.
Here’s just one example of what Kelly said after the shooting:
“Sarah Palin now in ‘cross hairs’: Gabrielle Giffords’ husband blames rhetoric for Arizona shooting”
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-01-10/news/27086959_1_sarah-palin-hoyer-cross-hairs
And, 11/15/11:
“Giffords was ‘troubled’ by Palin crosshairs”
“Kelly recounts that Giffords’ told him that “Palin’s rhetoric had no place in political discourse.” “It sends the wrong messages,” he recalls Giffords saying. “It’s a dangerous thing to do.”
Giffords, and later her political marriage husband, were masters at playing the victim during the last three campaigns.
Never mind that the only person turning so violent the security guards had to come === at the one debate she agreed to have in 2010 (after the early ballots deadline) -— was a leftist. She didn’t bother to tell her side of the crowd to tone it down or anything.
I’ve heard it’s in their book.
Are you sure i'm the guy you want to mess with Bender?
I got no problem with you, Jim... but that Valance character I can just keep killing and killing over and over again--
Whoa, Duke! Let's not keep harping on the "killing." This is... a family friendly posting area, ya know.
You bet your shiny metal ass, Bend... this is a family friggin' friendly posting area!
R. Lee is sooooooooooooo right, Bendy. We are... very friggin' friendly here--
We are so friggin' friendly, I give away coffee and sweets at my friggin' apartment... so drop by anything, Jim Rockford, you big strong friggin' brute--
Now you know why I, Michale Caine, now live in Spain... thet friggin' Shep doesn't ever visit here!
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