I just don’t think that many people are interested in Gifford, i think it is just a time filler.
If I was Gifford, I would be ashamed to be getting so much attention when there were others killed.
Yes, and no. She is the new Jim Brady (there is another round going over releasing Hinkley, by the way), which means she is the new poster child for gun control.
Cosnidering the irony of using her as time filler when the network could have been peeling back the rocks about 'fast and furious' (a 'non-story' of corruption, misfeasance, murder, and miscellaneous felony behaviour which makes Watergate look like a third rate burglary), the irony is unreal.
From all accounts, despite her politics, Gifford was a nice and likeable person before the shooting, and still may be. If she is still capable of being mortified, of understanding the way she is being used at this point, she just might be ashamed of the attention.