ABC's Sawyer Says Palin "Targeted" Gabby Giffords In Special On Congresswoman

realclearpolitics.com ^ | Nov.15, 2011

[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]

[LibLieSlayer]

Where indeed!

LLS

[frposty]

Already in a post but so funny, here it is again:

Diane Sawyer taken off of jury:

“You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, ‘Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?’ And I said, ‘That’s what journalists do.’ And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I’ve ever had.”
- Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 7/12/07

[frposty]

from Borax Queen: “please don’t be fooled”

Thanks for enlightening me. Yep, the Giffords also ride on the hate-Palin bandwagon.

[Lazamataz]

I love ya, man.

[Borax Queen]

They so do and thank you for reading my post.

I’ve seen the Giffords trick and manipulate for so many years now — my shackles especially went up when they tried to blame the tea party and Palin in that tv special.

I was at so many events, just about 95% of the DeathCare protests in front of her office, you couldn’t find a more polite and “normal” crowd! NO tea partier was going to stick around and shoot a hole in her door at 3 am.

Local politicians here are always doing things to themselves (sending white powder, shooting doors, graffiti, finding “missing ballots”), then get their leftist media to smear us some more.

How dare she (her handlers, including her husband) continue their hate-fest toward us!? They “forgive” the actual killer but not the innocent tea party and Palin? Makes me sick.

[Still Thinking]

So, they are going to continue to slander Sarah for something a Bush hating, Christian hating, liberal did?

Duh! Cover their own butts while getting in a hit on the opposition? To them that's like manna from heaven, which, well, you know, they don't believe in.

[Still Thinking]

Any person in a lunatic asylum picked at random would have better chance at presenting the news accurately that this sell-out to the Marxist cause.

I thought that was where they got HER.

[Still Thinking]

"You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had." -- Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 7/12/07

You can't do the time, don't do the crime. OR....if you cling to the belief that you're one of the few left that's honest, blame all your peers for trashing your profession's reputation, not the public for having the temerity to notice.

[ErnBatavia]

Like Jared Lee Loughner is a Palinista?

Stupnik's words of 'wisdom' apparently stuck with some folks.....

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

Too true LOL!!!