Not just the shooting; not just Sarah; not just the "blood-libel"; but *all* of them in conjunction?
When Palin was on Hannity, she said that right after the shootings (I believe she said the same DAY!), her cell phone, and Todd's, were lit up with calls from reporters seeking 'comment'.
She gave a standard, tasteful tweet of condolences, and waited for facts and development, while the left-wing nutcase sheriff Dipstick and others tied her, by name, to the killings, without evidence, and it was plastered all over the press.
Methinks that after the cell phone calls, she smelled a rat; so she waited further developments -- even though her enemies, from a cousin of Tiller the baby killer who called her to defend herself, to the lefty columnist accused her of hiding in a cave like "Sarah bin Palin".
She has had quite a balancing act: trying to be sensitive to the victims, defend the free speech rights against the left using the Tucson shootings as a springboard for censorship, and a base for attacks on her. And on top of this, she has to get the tone, timing, and length of her response 'correct' according to a dozen conflicting standards, all of which change according to the whims and convenience of her enemies.
I suggest that the last round (followed by the National Enquirer's publicizing of a rumor that Todd had an affair with a masseuse) is *really* the left's Tet Offensive against Palin. They are going all in and getting slaughtered: the Tea Party members would do well to compare the vile accusations against them ("Nazis", "racist", "violent", "racial slurs", etc.) to those against Palin; and the TV show Sarah Palin's Alaska (tho' scripted) shows a very different persona than the supposedly hate-consumed, deranged fanatic presented on MSNBC.
I'd say she's doing well: Keith Olbermann has been fired, and Dana Milbank is attempting a "Palin-free month". (This speaks volumes about her *real* internal polling, not the propaganda CNN issued. And she's a half-term governor of a low-population state who failed in her bid for the White House as VP. Not bad, not bad at all. Tell me again what Geraldine Ferraro or Jon Edwards have done on the national POLITICAL / newsmaker scene lately?)
Please pass this on to other pro-Palin posters if you feel it merits repeating...
Cheers!
Not very many. No television here. I do have FNC and CNN available via XM satellite radio.
FR is my primary news source.
Does that disqualify me from having an opinion?
At one time, "I will not dignify that with a response" was a legitimate reply to an outrageous question / accusation.
Thanks grey_whiskers.