Posted on 11/26/2011 12:55:06 PM PST by presidio9
CNN host Piers Morgan spoke with Gabrielle Giffords‘s husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, on Wednesday and discussed Sarah Palin‘s controversial crosshair map, which targeted the Congresswoman’s district. Kelly wrote in a new book that the former Alaska governor never reached out to them. “We were never contacted by her,” Kelly said.
“I find that extraordinary,” Morgan exclaimed.
“Yeah, I was surprised too,” Kelly replied. “You know, certainly the targets that she put over Gabby’s and other people’s districts, in our opinion, was not the right thing to do. She is not the first person to do that. And it hasn’t always been Republicans that have done that.”
“Some interesting insights in the book into who, you know, walked to the plate and who didn’t, really, in terms of political colleagues and people that she had worked for and against. Sarah Palin doesn’t come out of this very well, I don’t think, because there was a woman who at the time had been putting these cross hair things on her website and stuff, including Gabby,” Morgan observed. “And in her haste to take responsibility didn’t even bother to pick the phone up, to write, do anything.”
“I liked your line about it, which is if you had had the chance to talk to her, and you were expecting to, you weren’t going to say that you were responsible,” Morgan pointed out. “But you were going to say, you’ve been irresponsible.”
“Yeah, that’s my plan. You know, this was no surprise to us. Gabby even spoke about it before January 8th, during the election cycle, leading up to the election, in an interview. I think it might have been on MSNBC or some other — another cable news network. She made is very clear that, hey, this is what’s going on, and this could ultimately incite people to do violent things. So it wasn’t a big surprise on January 8th that — you know, that we — you know, where we knew this map existed with the cross-hairs on it. Now, having said that, you know, Sarah Palin certainly is not responsible for what happened. But I think the angry rhetoric in an election year is not — it’s not helpful.”
He goes on to talk about how his wife went on MSNBC and was in “Fear because of the map” gee, really Mark, so afraid that when she didn’t think to have ONE armed security guard at her event..not even one..so if Mark Kelly wants to go around blaming Sarah Palin, might as well blame his own wife for not having protection
Ah yes, leverage your victim status for political attack purposes. That will show everyone the right way to behave. Good for Palin for not playing their game.
What a load of CRAP, Mr. Gabby. I’ll bet you didn’t complain when democrats first invented and used the target idea for focusing on districts that they felt were important.
“I submit to you the nutjob that drove cross-country in a diaper to kill another woman.”
NASA had better get with it, Imagine going to Mars and back with HER?!
Sorry, these people are idiots.
The astronaut sounds like a babbling idiot. Sorry to hear about his wife, though; maybe the stress has caused him to have a breakdown himself.
What a douche.
Talk about Palin derangement syndrome! These rats can have half their head blown off and their number 1 goal is still to take Palin out! What about the clown who shot her?Does she even bother to go after him,or is he a dem/rat?
Sen. Bill Nelson is another one. He is on his way out this election as we have a deep field in the primary that can retire that goof Astronut. Beady Eyes Nelson I call him.
Why would Palin contact them? She had nothing to do with any of that.
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Revolting...the left has zero shame.
Oh just give me one huge, honkin’ break........fercryinoutloud.
Too bad none of it’s actionable. A tagteam hitpiece by the vile little hitman Piers Morgan and Gabby Gifford’s obviously brain damaged astronaut husband.
Why would she contact you?
And of course if she had contacted them they would be saying she has some nerve contacting them.
Why should she have?
Did democrats contact Palin to apologizing for libel and slandering her?
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