Rob Warmowski: Following Giffords Shooting, Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Website Quickly Scrubbed From Internet


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Internet : In the minutes following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and members of her staff, the website operated by Sarah Palin that illustrated Gifford's 8th district with gun crosshairs drawn on a map was scrubbed from the Internet.

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The site, TakeBackThe20.com, was operating normally at 1:07 CST when I connected to obtain an image of the crosshairs map: View image When I connected approximately one hour later at 2:10 PM, the site had been replaced with a webserver error, meaning that t...

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Doug Terry posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

Major media disaster if misreporting death of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords . All over the air and internet . Double tragedy.

djonesix posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

been outta commission for a couple of days. return to the internet /tv world to see gabrielle giffords assassination news. horrible.

lauren webster posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

lolz. AY PALIN: Screenshots FTW. You can't delete shit off the internet . The gun sights you had on Rep Gabrielle Giffords will ALWAYS exist.

Gary Parrish posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

Awful story in Tucson. Gabrielle Giffords shot and killed. And b/c it was at a campaign event, video will be on the internet soon. Yuck.

Bry posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

The wildest thing on the internet right now is Sarah Palin's Facebook wall. Some of the Gabrielle Giffords comments are just astonishing.

Mike Wilson posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

"Initial reports that Gabrielle Giffords had died incorrect." Phew. I forgot how much a nightmare internet breaking news can be.

Allen Powell posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

Rep Gabrielle Giffords shot. Palin takes down website ..... feeling a little quilty are we? The internet leaves a paper trail. Sorry.

Margaret M posted 8th Jan 2011 (via twitter)

Just turned to the internet to see the news of Rep Gabrielle Giffords . What a dark day.

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