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.”
Did Olivia de Haviland also fail to call and apologize?
So lame.
Most astronauts retire with dignity. This fool wants to be John Glenn.
Gee, a lib astronaut—who knew.
Hey Kelly, Sarah did not have to contact you—she didn’t do anything wrong.
If anything, you owe her an apology for even insinuating she had anything to do with the shooting of your wife by a —wait for it—radical lefty mental case.
Let’s see, the media created the narrative from a lie blaming her for what some liberal nutburger did and Sarah was supposed to contact them to say she was sorry?
NOW THAT IS SORRY! Screw you Kelly, you friggin whiner!
Giffords husband has exposed himself as a whiny little #$#%.
Has he ever blamed the LIBERAL that actually shot his wife?
What an ass.
I bet he didn’t even mention that I’ve never contacted him either...
Why should she have to call? She doesn’t know her, why should she have to call..Mark Kelly’s book is tanking on amazon.com..ever since he went on his blame Republican for everything media fest, his book has been going downhill. This guy just doesn’t want to let go of his 15 min of fame, using his wife to bolster himself, pretty pathetic Mark, pretty pathetic
“If anything, you owe her an apology for even insinuating she had anything to do with the shooting of your wife by a —wait for it—radical lefty mental case.”
RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
If you use the word "but" it just cancels out anything before that.
And how about silencing the hateful rhetoric on your side, you self righteous wind bag.
These people just won’t give up their BS will they?
They are as delusional as Laughner if they think Palin had ANYTHING to do with the shooting.
Apparently you don’t have to be very bright to be an astronaut. At least as long as you spout leftist propaganda. John Glenn is a good example.
Why the hell should Palin have contacted Giffords or her family? Sarah had nothing to do with the criminal behavior of some lunatic. This guy seems to be running around crying about each individual that didn’t call him personally to sympathize. First it was complaints that Boehner didn’t call, now Palin. I expect soon he is going to whine that I didn’t send him a fruit basket.
And quite frankly, Gabby is not in any condition to be a congressional representative. She should have resigned long ago. She can’t adequately do her job and it’s high time the media start questioning why she still clings to a tax payer funded position she can’t actually do.
i find it extraordinary that piss morgan finds it extraordinary that Sarah Palin never contacted giffords over this...has anyone from the rat party contacted any Republican they “targeted” in the same manner??? didn’t think so...
and?????
What a load of crap...
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