And the winner of most bizarre, hysterical denunciation of Sarah Palin by a brainless lefty is...

American Thinker ^ | 01/09/2011 | Ric Moran

[SeekAndFind]

It's not Paul Krugman, although I know he has many fans on the right who were hoping he would win the prize because he fits the "brainless" description so aptly.

Nor is it any lefty blogger who, over the last 24 hrs, has stretched, and stretched, and stretched the point some more about Sarah Palin's "target" list actually meaning that she hoped someone or someones would grab a gun and off the congressmen she wanted defeated.

Sorry - you're all wrong. The winner is the NY Daily News' Michael Daly.

The headline on his column: "Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' blood is on Sarah Palin's hands after putting cross hair over district;"

Here's the passage that nailed down his victory:

Palin would no doubt say that she was only speaking in metaphor, that she only meant her followers should work to unseat Giffords and 19 other Democrats who had roused her ire by voting for health care.

But anyone with any sense at all knows that violent language can incite actual violence, that metaphor can incite murder. At the very least, Palin added to a climate of violence.

Palin should have taken it as a warning of what might happen when a Tea Party hothead dropped a gun while heckling Giffords at an earlier Congress On Your Corner event, more than a year ago.

That did not stop Palin from declaring Giffords a "target." Giffords' district office was subsequently vandalized, and the congresswoman noted that Palin had put "the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district."

"Metaphor incite murder?" Where? When? Who? WTF? Just one example would be helpful, but apparently Mr. Daly is far too busy drooling his hysterical rant to pay attention to such mundane details as proving such an outrageously stupid charge.

Congratulations are in order to Mr. Daly for topping the rest in vitriolic hate of Sarah Palin. The competition was stiff, but Daly prevailed due to his mindlessly idiotic "analysis" of the tragedy.

I leave it to AT readers to come up with an appropriate prize.

[TheConservativeParty]

The response to the creeps on the left, is this well known OBAMA QUOTE:

President Obama “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

That is the left.

[cruise_missile]

From the DailyKos. Before it was scrubbed :

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2653556/posts

[crescen7]

Isn’t Daly’s headline coupled with Pallin’s picture quite a bit more likely to incite violence than a website graphic?

Should some wack job go after Palin today is Daly going to turn himself in as the one who incited her attack?

Way to to tone down the rhetoric Daly.

[SeekAndFind]

I just wonder where I can get the link that people in FR got for the Image. Can You provide it for me? Thanks.

[houeto]

But anyone with any sense at all knows that violent language can incite actual violence, that metaphor can incite murder.

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” - BHO

[Smokin' Joe]

I leave it to AT readers to come up with an appropriate prize.

Oops. Sorry. I flushed it.

[jpsb]

Pretty obvious to me that the MSM and the left is going all out to insight violence against the Palins. Scary stuff

[Terry Mross]

Giffords said this a while back. Then the sheriff kept bringing it up yesterday. Bottom line is the guy had a permit and it was no big deal.

As for her office being vandalized, the sheriff said yesterday, as fact, that her glass office door had been shot out. It didn’t happen. Any vandal could have kicked her door in but there was no proof of a gun shot. Of course, who needs proof when the “little boy” press is reporting it. I bet everyone of the “reporters” today wrote for their high school newspaper.

[Ditto]

As they scream for one side to tone down the rhetoric they shift their own hate filled rhetoric into a foaming at the mouth hyper mode.

I wonder where all of these ‘tone down the rhetoric folks were a few years ago? And has Sarah Palin said anything approaching the vitriol contained in the following?

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“The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and communist propaganda machines.”

— George Soros

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“(George W. Bush’s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president.”

— Al Gore

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“(Republicans are) coming for our children. They’re coming for the poor. They’re coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled.”

— Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

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The contest between Democrats and Republicans is “a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.”

— Howard Dean, then-Democratic national chairman.

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When asked if the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism, he said, “Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.”

— Harry Belafonte, entertainer and liberal activist.

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He called President Bush’s perceived lack of help for Katrina victims “ethnic cleansing by inaction” and called it a “calculated ... policy.” He added, “So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this ... crisis that was so greatly exaggerated by Katrina, they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing, and their hands are clean.”

— Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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“When you look at the way the (then-Republican-controlled) House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I’m talking about.”

— Hillary Clinton

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“George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.”

— Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

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“It’s not ‘s**c’ or ‘n****r’ anymore. (Instead, Republicans) say, ‘Let’s cut taxes.’”

— Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.

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“You’re damn right; Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.”

— Ed Schultz, MSNBC and radio host.

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“We are in danger. The extreme right wing has seized the government. Tonight (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look out, because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. ... Martin Luther King could have been. ... The right-wing media, the FBI — they are targeting our leadership.”

— Rev. Jesse Jackson.

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“And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. ... (George W. Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America.”

— Rep. Jim McDermott, D - WA.

[MortMan]

Giffords HERSELF claimed Palin had “placed a crosshair”. So, it is the congresswoman who injected the rifle scope visual, not Sarah.

I’m sorry this leftist buttwad shot her and those other folks, but the libs need to understand one thing: IT IS THE PERPETRATOR’S FAULT, NOT SOME THIRD PARTY WHO HAS EXPRESSED POLITICAL OPPOSITION.

/rant

[tcrlaf]

Obama ordered his liberal minions to punish his enemies.
then, the liberals act surprised when someone follows through on it.

I know smart, intelligent people who are STILL blaming Sarah Palin for this. It speaks volumes to the power of propaganda and media control.

[reasonisfaith]

“Did Barack Obama Cause the Shootings Yesterday in Tucson?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2653814/posts

[Lachisula]

Here’s a good one showing targets on the map. Spread it far and wide.

http://vocalminority.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/liberal-hypocrisy-guess-who-used-target-imagery-on-their-maps.html

[TheConservativeParty]

The left knows that a large percentage of democrat voters are total idiots, easily swayed by anything they hear or read. It’s frightening how many uninformed dolts are out there, and they vote. It’s no wonder our country is in such trouble.

[Baynative]

"Giffords said this a while back. Then the sheriff kept bringing it up yesterday. Bottom line is the guy had a permit and it was no big deal."

How did they ID the guy as being a Tea Party advocate since no one carries a membership card?

[Cementjungle]

Anyone who doesn't take these attacks on Palin (and us) seriously just doesn't understand the problem.

Personally, I fear for her life. The lefties are completely unhinged and will continue to get worse.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cruise_missile.

[SeekAndFind]

You know, I keep seeing the same Image from Daily Kos in every related thread since yesterday. I just don’t know where the original source is... anyone knows?

[SunkenCiv]

it's here somewhere...

• Well that's inconvenient. Daily kos put bullseye on Giffords back in 2008
• Kossacks & Klugmanites Give Glenn Beck, Dare I Say, 'Ammunition' To Highlight Their Hypocrisy
• Markos Blames Palin for Giffords Shooting -- There's Just 1 Problem: Kos Put a Bulls Eye on Giffords
• Did DailyKos destroy evidence?
• Who Is Kos Blogger BoyBlue Who Said, "Congresswoman Giffords is dead to me now?"
• Democrat used Cross Hairs on Republican in 2006 election
• DailyKos had Giffords in their "bulls eye"(excerpted from HillBuzz)
• Pelosi loses 19 Dems in election as minority leader (Giffords was anti-Nancy)
• Is Daily Kos involved in Arizona Murders?
• KOS: My CongressWOMAN [Giffords] voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!

[llandres]

“Can you just imagine how many democrats would committee suicide if she was elected?”

There was an old song (before my time a bit) called “I Can Dream, Can’t I?”