Saturday, January 8, 2011

Rep. Giffords was targeted.

A reminder: Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was on Sarah Palin's gun sight "map":







...and she had read the 1st Amendment as part of the tea-party inspired reading of the Constitution in Congress this week, saying she was pleased to do so.
     A surgeon who is treating her says he expects her to recover...but he would not characterize what "kind of recovery" that might be. A federal judge was among the six people who died. In all 18 victims were shot by a young gunman, about whom we do not know much as of this moment. A 9 year old girl was among those killed.



[UPDATE: a quote from the Arizona Sheriff handling the investigation:]



“The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, I think Arizona has become sort of the capital, we have beome the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry,” he said. “There’s reason to believe that this individual might have a mental issue, and I think that people who are unbalanced might be especially susceptible to vitriol.”
                                                                          (From a New York Times story)



[UPDATE: There's more about the Sheriff in this Washington Post story published Monday.]



[UPDATE: video on MSNBC...via Roger Ebert... of the Congresswoman decrying the vitriol...including Sarah Palin's cross-hair target poster.]



[UPDATE: 1/12/11... It wasn't me!, Palin continues to say.]

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