Somehow Sarah Palin and her congressional target map managed to make it into what I understand was an otherwise fabulous special on Gabby Giffords and her remarkable recovery. Toward the end of the special, Diane Sawyer asks aloud if Giffords really wants to go back to Washington, and then goes into a disdainful tirade about the “unsettling campaigns of 2010″. It was at that point she injected Sarah Palin “targeting” Giffords district, showing the map with targets on it.

Now of course she didn’t say that Sarah Palin caused Giffords’ shooting. Of course she can’t go that far. However, the only reason that map ever became popular was because of a left-wing smear to suggest Palin caused the man to be so angry he shot Giffords. And to include it in this special is to continue to perpetuate this idea that Palin’s map created a hostile environment – the “unsettling campaigns of 2010″.

By the way, what she calls the “unsettling campaigns of 2010″, I call the American people rising up against an out of control Congress. They lied all the way to passage with ObamaCare and the media carried their water. And yet these elitist journalists like Diane Sawyer still show their contempt for the American people in little segments like this. The problem is, it does nothing but inspire me to work even harder on the way to 2012.

Here’s the clip and pertinent transcript, courtesy of RCP.

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]

“Someone even fired a gun into her office door. And you may remember Sarah Palin targeted her district with an ad that had a gun sight on it.”

Gifford’s once worried aloud to her husband:

“She says someday I’m really worried that someone is going to come up at one of these events with a gun.”




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8 comments
NickDeringer
NickDeringer

MSM is working overtime to blame the shots fired at the White House on Sarah Palin. Palin needs to start suing these people. They are no better than the lynch mobs of the pre-civil war South.

coralchristie
coralchristie

Diane Sawyer lost her integrity long ago. She just tows the "party" line. Too bad there are no real journalists in the main stream media.

FishyGov
FishyGov

I am a registered voter in Arizona's 8th District. My Congresswoman is Gabrielle Giffords.

A little background on the Rep. from the 8th District:

She was voted into our Arizona House of Representatives as a Republican and served in that body from 2001-2003. Then she ran for State Senator, won and served in that body from 2003-2005. She then made the switch to the Democratic Party just before she ran for the 8th Districts open seat in 2006.

Although she is a Tucson native her primary residence is Huston Texas. She does not live in the district she represents.

In September of 2009 -- at one of the loudest Town Hall meetings I have ever attended -- Giffords explained to her audience the virtues of ObamaCare and the other Reform Health Care Bills circulating in the House of Representative at that time. The following video doesn't do it justice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwy8UkDZmY

The Town Hall was held in the auditorium in a Tucson High School which filled the auditorium and the plaza outside of it too. At this meetings she said repeatedly that she would never vote for a Bill that wasn't PayGo. I did not believe her when she said it the first time and when she repeated it a second and then a third time I knew she was lying.

There were plenty of Tea Party people there and the purple shirts of SEIU made their presence known also as did the UAW. Giffords was booed so loudly she threatened to leave if it didn't stop. That Town Hall followed her previous Town Halls held in Sierra Vista and Green Valley. They weren't happy with Gabby's message of big government spending either.

To that point in time Giffords had never met a trillion dollar legislative act that she didn't like or vote for.

She also stated that she was a Blue Dog Democrat. That statement drew the biggest laugh of the meeting. The crowd knew that a Blue Dog Democrat meant that the Representative was saying that she's fiscal conservative which she definitive was not.

The point of this comment is that I too targeted Giffords Congressional seat as soon as I got back home after that Town Hall Meeting. I also targeted the seats of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Raul Grijalva, Ed Pastor, Nancy Pelosi and other Progressives spending our country into economic chaos.

Like Sarah Palin I targeted their legislative seats, not them.

I cast my vote against Giffords in 2010 and would do so again today. Her voting record cannot be undone or ignored.

She did not deserve to be physically assaulted in any way and neither do any other elected officials.

When we take up the gun to remove those in office we descend into anarchy.

blackbird
blackbird

Hussein's political hate speech.

- fundraiser: "They bring a knife, we bring a gun... Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl"

- to his supporters: "Get in their faces!"

- on ACORN Mobs: "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I'm angry!"

- to his mercenary army: "Hit back twice as hard"

- on the private sector: "We talk to these folk. So I know whose ass to kick."

- to voters: "Republican victory would mean hand-to-hand combat"

- to liberal supporters: "It's time to fight for it."

- to Latino supporters: "Punish your enemies."

- to democrats: "I'm itching for a fight."

Travis Pierson
Travis Pierson

The leftist narrative is collapsing and the dinosaur media is doing all they can to keep it intact. It will all be over in a few years.

blackbird
blackbird

Yes I agree also. I wonder how the eulogy would read.