Palin's Rebecca Mansour wants to pee on your leg and tell you that it is raining.

[Anonymous]

"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," said Rebecca Mansour, who works for Palin's political action committee, in a interview with conservative radio host Tammy Bruce.

"It's a surveyor's symbol," Bruce suggested. Mansour agreed, adding that the graphic was contracted out to a professional and approved without much thought. "We never imagined, it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent," she said. It was simply "crosshairs that you would see on a map."

There is "nothing irresponsible about our graphic," Mansour added.

Giffords herself criticized the target map when her office was vandalized last year.

"For example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action," Giffords said in an interview with MSNBC.

There is a surveyor's symbol that resembles the circle used on Palin's map. (You can see it on the lower right-hand side of this U.S. Geological Survey guide to topographical map symbols). However, Palin herself referred to the targets as a "'bullseye' icon" in a post-election tweet. Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/palin-staffer-nothing-irrespon.html


Come on, Palin's group can't come up with something better than that.

[Anonymous]

With the broad spectrum of the internet, the argument can definitely be made that she and her PAC have acted irresponsibly but to be fair, being a congress person has always been a dangerous job: there have been several assassinations and attempts. After death by iron horse, the leading cause of death seems to have been duels and boy! a lot of suicides... http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/675.pdf

[Anonymous]

What do surveyors "reload" on? Pencil lead? Spare compasses? Lunch?

This is Sarah Palin's "I didn't inhale".

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Anonymous]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/palin_violence/index2.html?rc=fb_share1
The petition reads:
Tell Sarah Palin: Violent threats have consequences
"Threats of violence have no place in our democracy. Renounce the use of shooting images in political rhetoric immediately, and stop using your platform to promote and validate violent calls to action on the right."

[Anonymous]

Even Google Ads knows what Sarah Palin really meant.

Contrary to what you might expect (ha!), the ad on the left is not of surveying equipment. Shockingly, they are displaying a laser sight for a handgun.

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CLO7upKiosLm9AEQoAEYwgQyCLBOtUVmWJmp

Google AdSense knows the truth.

[Anonymous]

Look, this is for Palin's fans, not for general consumption. Of course, "normal" people will think this is inane. But Palin fans are a certain kind of pig-ignorant. Of course, they'll swallow this, and any other swill they're tossed. How could they not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, this is for Palin's fans, not for general consumption. Of course, "normal" people will think this is inane. But Palin fans are a certain kind of pig-ignorant. Of course, they'll swallow this, and any other swill they're tossed. How could they not?

To borrow an appropriate turn of phrase, they may not be able to swallow the swill this time: "le sang de Giffords qui ils étouffent."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

To borrow an appropriate turn of phrase, they may not be able to swallow the swill this time: "le sang de Giffords qui ils étouffent."

There is not a snowball's chance in hell that any Palin supporter understands that quote or knows its historical context!

(it's perfect)