Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in March Interview With MSNBC re Palins Targeting

The Blood of Eden
Pollock's "The Deep" I caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there from the start So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep. We called it a N...

Network Journalists Advance Leftist Wish to Blame Palin (and Tea Party) for Shooting
“The shooter’s motivation is still unknown,” Katie Couric announced as she anchored Saturday’s CBS Evening News, but that didn’t deter CBS, nor CNN, NBC and ABC on Saturday night and into Sunday morning from forwarding attempts to blame Sarah Palin and, by implication, the Tea Party, for the Tucson shooting. “Giffords was one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up in cross hairs on a Sarah Palin campaign Web site last spring,” CBS’s Nancy Cord...

Roger Ailes
Howard Kurtz's Moronic Equivalence Greasy-wigged Republican Howard Kurtz has finally found a Victim in yesterday's massacre in Arizona. It's Sarah Palin. I hate to say this [sic], but the blame game is already under way. It began within hours of Saturday's horrifying shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and nearly 20 others, even before the gunman was identified. Political Target Map as seen on Sarah Palin's website. Inset: Sarah Palin and Gabrielle Giffords (AP Photo) One of t...

Surgeons say Giffords showing positive signs
TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. The FBI said Law Enforcement could bring charges against the gunman as early as Sunday, and House Speaker John Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting. Surgeons s...

The perversity of those who hate
In my other life I am a motorcyclist and have written for Examiner about riding motorcycles for nearly three years now. As such, the shooting yesterday of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hit me on both levels. The latest report are that the alleged shooter is connected with a radical Hate Group--that's the Common Ground Examiner hook--and Gabby Giffords is a motorcyclist. She is the chair of the House Motorcycle Safety Caucus. Obviously, that's the Motorcycle Examiner hook. I know in the grand s...

We Watch Palin (One Last Time) So You Dont Have To
Tonight is the two hour finale of Sarah Palin’s Alaska! Since the third episode of this miniseries, FrumForum had dutifully watched cataloged the “adventures” of Palin’s family as they travel around Alaska to hunt caribou, gut fish, pan for gold, and race around in neon pink stockers. We have been impressed by those rare moments when Palin’s family members admit that they’ve never done any of this before. We have also enjoyed the chance to see Palin’s ...

Arizona Shooter Charged As Political Debate Rages
AP The US Attorney in Arizona has filed charges against Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in yesterday's tragic shooting in Arizona in which six people were killed and 14 wounded. He has been hit with three charges of Attempted Murder (of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two members of her staff) and two charges of murdering federal employees (Judge John Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman, a Giffords staff member). And inspectors now believe Loughner was a lone gunman, and have found evidence of a pre...

Rancor Inevitably Returns
We've been here before. An unthinkable, terrible tragedy occurs: the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center attacks, and on Saturday, a murderous rampage aimed at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. - and rounds of recrimination follow. Something is wrong. Political discourse is raging out of control. We have got to tone it down. "It should be a moment. It's a moment for both parties in Congress to come together," the often combative Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., a friend of the g...

Liberal media promoting big lie against Tea Party, Palin in AZ shooting
There is an old saying - tell a lie often enough and eventually it becomes the truth. The "big lie" technique, originally named by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf was instrumental in what eventually became known as the "Final Solution" - the State-sanctioned Murder of millions of Jews. The same technique is apparently at work in many of today's newsrooms, as shown by the baseless attacks against Sarah Palin and Conservatives in general. Consider:  The man under arrest for the shoot...

Insanity Nation
First, toldja so: Newsmax declares “Shooter Linked to Left Wing Politics.” Yes, by Newsmax. Apparently it was reported the young man accused of shooting owns copies of The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, which of course (in the minds of righties, who cannot figure out why Hitler was a right-wing psychopath, not a left-wing one) proves he’s a leftie. Anyway, the more I hear about the shooter, the more it appears he was deeply disturbed, possibly psychotic. I am not qualif...

Flashback: Rep. Giffords Said of Sarah Palins Crosshairs Ad Theres Consequences to That Action
As details emerge about the Arizona shooting that claimed the life of Federal Judge John Roll, and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) fighting for her life, echoes of violent political imagery have come under eery scrutiny, no more so than in this March interview between Giffords and MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie . In the clip, Giffords talks about threats and Vandalism of her office, and specifically mentions Sarah Palin ’s “crosshairs” ad. This clip is eerily...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in the head
(01-09) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a Grocery Store during a meeting with voters, killing a Federal Judge and five others in an attempted Assassination that rattled the country and left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Giffords was the target of a gunman whom he described as mentally unstable and possibly act...

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: US gun law likely to be unaffected
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is unlikely to lead to any change in US Gun Laws....

Palin aide says target map not irresponsible
Rebecca Mansour, a media aide to Sarah Palin's SarahPAC, told a Talk Radio program Sunday that there was "nothing irresponsible" about a map posted by the group, reportedly since removed, targeting 20 lawmakers for defeat for their Health Care votes, Ben Smith reports: An aide to Sarah Palin said images of cross-hairs were never meant to evoke violence, in the Palin camp's first extended comment on yesterday's attack. "We have n...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on being put on Sarah Palins crosshairs website
This is from months ago. Please note Chuck Todd being a smartass in dismissing Rep. Giffords’ concerns about the ‘ atmosphere’ that was being created, as well as the eery comments by Rep. Gifford. Tags: GOP talking points, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. I noticed his response, too. He now looks like the fool that he is. Or, what is your saying, “they are...

Gabrielle Giffords Talks To MSNBC In 2010 About Threats Against Her
Submitted solely for your consideration without commentary, here is video of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords speaking to Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie about...

No More Mister Nice Blog
A HORRIBLE MOMENT, AND THE BLOGOSPHERE IS MAKING IT WORSE I've been away from computers since yesterday morning and I learned about the Arizona massacre from the Sunday print New York Times. At that point I really didn't want to get online, because I knew what was coming, and I was exactly right: the shooter is mostly crazy and, though clearly influenced by angry right-wing Rhetoric, in a political gray area. Our side is essentially On MSNBC, Rep. Giffords Warned About Palins Having Put Gun Sight On Her and Her District
No matter what her defense is. In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes about California politics with PeyserPoem, a daily feature at KPCC's news-driven page on Facebook called The Freeway. Ms. Smith Goes to Washington ...

Congresswomans intern stanched blood from gunshot
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A 20-year-old intern to an Arizona congresswoman says he used his hands to apply pressure to a gunshot wound while holding her head in his lap. Daniel Hernandez, a Political Science major at the University of Arizona, started his dream internship just a week ago. He was at an event with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a Tucson Grocery Store when a gunman started shooting, wounding the congresswoman and killing six others. After the shooting, Hernandez says he checked the pu...

Out of Touch: the leaders seem flummoxed by America
Out of Touch by digby James Warren on Robert Gibbs' "relatively modest" Salary: [I]t's natural to labor hard in government, see what goes on a few blocks away and feel entitled to same. People who came to town to change the world, and fight for the working guy, wind up thinking that a salary that would be a king's ransom to most of their constituents is chicken feed. It's partly because they inevitably contrast themselves not with others in government, or cushier locales in the nonprofit worl...

Local Pols React with Shock, Sadness to Giffords Shooting
Tri-state political leaders reacted with shock and concern over the attempted Assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- a shooting that left the Democratic politician hospitalized and six other people dead, among them a Federal Judge and a 9-year-old girl. Giffords, 40, had been meeting with constituents at an Arizona store when a gunman opened fire on Saturday. Nineteen people were hit in a spray of bullets. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who described Giffords as a close friend, c...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and Staff Gunned Down at Event
Awful news from Tuscson, Arizona, where Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was just shot at point-blank range, along with at least two of her Staffers, at a town hall event. Given the lack of details, one shouldn't jump to any conclusions, but this is exactly the sort of tragedy that so many people have privately (and some openly) been worrying about, as anger has increasingly suffused our national politics. I could be mistaken, but I believe Rep. Giffords was among those whose offices...

Portrait Of Gabrielle Giffords: Democrat Who Repeatedly Won In Conservative District
Phoenix (AP) - Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state’s most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party’s position on many issues as a key member of the “Blue Dog Coalition” Democrats. She has been toug...

BREAKING: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Killed in Arizona
UPDATE: At least six others were killed in the shooting. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords died after being shot in the head at a public event on Saturday, Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat was outside a Tucson Grocery Store when a gunman ran up and began firing indiscriminately. The suspect was taken into police custody. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head and killed outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Pu...

Video: Media Bash Repealing ObamaCare As A Waste Of Time
With Republicans taking control of Congress, those in the media suddenly feel that proposing Legislation, such as repealing ObamaCare, is a waste of time. From CBS's Harry Smith referring to it as "a fool's errand" to MSNBC's Chuck Todd fretting over the GOP "relitigating Health Care," here is a video compilation of the slanted coverage this proposal has received. Submitted by celator on Sat, 01/08/2011 - 12:08pm. Destroy healthcare? All of it? They want to close ...