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ABC's Sawyer Says Palin "Targeted" Gabby Giffords In Special On Congresswoman
realclearpolitics.com ^ | Nov.15, 2011

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: dianesawyer; gabbygiffords; palin; sarahpalin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Further proof that the liberal media isn’t just biased. They flat-out LIE.


21 posted on 11/16/2011 11:40:45 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Williams

>>>Giffords owes Palin an apology. Period.<<<

Absolutely. And your comment reminds of one of my finest bosses of all time from Ketchikan, also named Williams. He had the ability to cut through the crap, and do it with a smile.


22 posted on 11/16/2011 11:43:45 AM PST by redpoll
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Diane Sawyer has “targeted” Sarah Palin with cheap shots, but the blanks missed the mark.


23 posted on 11/16/2011 11:44:39 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Must be sweep weeks. They save the sensational stuff for then.


24 posted on 11/16/2011 11:46:50 AM PST by McGruff (Hold the House, retake the Senate.)
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To: RexBeach

She’s a terrible “Journ O List”

And the most annoying voice on TV “newscast” EVER . the worst


25 posted on 11/16/2011 11:47:04 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
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To: chrisser

“...the thousands of American soldiers and Marines who are coming back home...”

I agree with you. Whenever someone who suffers tragedy is given national publicity, I think of the many other tragedies that go unrecognized.

As far as Palin and the Gabby shooting is concerned, Palin gave an excellent summation of it. I’d give a link to it but am too lazy.


26 posted on 11/16/2011 11:48:22 AM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: frposty
Maybe MSM is afraid that Palin will rise again.

That scares them to death, and she probably will.

27 posted on 11/16/2011 11:48:32 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Defamation.


28 posted on 11/16/2011 11:49:07 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Like Jared Lee Loughner is a Palinista?

Take your Geritol, Dianne.

29 posted on 11/16/2011 11:49:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.<sup>®</sup>)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sawyer is not only showing herself to be a mindless pawn of the Left, but incredibly stupid and should no longer be considered a journalist...even by the Left.

She's not even qualified to be a weathergirl who points at the Sun on the Weather map and says, “Sunny today”

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.

30 posted on 11/16/2011 11:50:10 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Williams

What the heck did Gifford do except get shot in the head? She hasn’t had time to blame Palin or anyone else because she’s BEEN TRYING TO RECOVER FROM A BULLET TO THE BRAIN!

Cindie


31 posted on 11/16/2011 11:50:24 AM PST by gardencatz (I'm lucky enough to live, walk & breathe among heroes! I am the mother of a US Marine!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Folks, You Fired The First Shot" - Vice President Joe Biden
32 posted on 11/16/2011 11:50:27 AM PST by McGruff (Hold the House, retake the Senate.)
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To: redpoll

“Giffords owes Palin an apology”

Do you mean Sawyer rather than Giffords?


33 posted on 11/16/2011 11:51:27 AM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Do these people REALLY confuse a MAP MARKING with a CROSSHAIRS? or do they only LIKE to stay confused when it involves Sarah Palin?


34 posted on 11/16/2011 11:52:17 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Gifford's constituents haven't had any representation since she was shot. If she cared at all, she would've resigned.

What constituents HAVE been represented other than the freaks in places like SF.
35 posted on 11/16/2011 11:57:45 AM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t know how she kept her job after going on the air stewed to the gills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_dM-IvMBS8


36 posted on 11/16/2011 12:00:45 PM PST by DManA
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To: frposty

Um... wierd how the mind works. I read “Sawyer.” But on the second reading... Must need more coffee.


37 posted on 11/16/2011 12:05:42 PM PST by redpoll
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Of course DS forgot to mention the media ‘targeted’ Palin when she came on the scene.


38 posted on 11/16/2011 12:06:17 PM PST by QT3.14 (OBAMA: First Halfrican-American pResident-for-Life of the Peoples Republic of Himself)
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To: chrisser

I absolutely 100% agree!


39 posted on 11/16/2011 12:06:29 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Free ThinkerNY

To quote Giffords, “yes yes yes yes.....brave....no no no.....yes.”


40 posted on 11/16/2011 12:08:08 PM PST by sbMKE
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