Comments | jpmassar: You can't make this stuff up

jpmassar

You can't make this stuff up

Jan 10, 2011 09:57

Palin’s team... insist[[ed]] that an oft-cited “crosshairs” logo used on a Palin PAC website over Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ district was not in any way intended to look like gun sights.

The images on the map bore a resemblence to a surveyor’s symbol, a Palin spokeswoman said Sunday.

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Comments 5

tom_bayes January 10 2011, 18:21:03 UTC

They sure were quick in scrubbing the SarahPAC website on Saturday.

hgfalling January 10 2011, 18:21:51 UTC

I don't get it. I mean, clearly the map is supposed to be "districts to target". But target icons don't look as cool.

Obviously what Palin is claiming about the surveyor symbol is completely laughable. But do people really believe that this map or Sharron Angle's "second amendment remedies" (a far more objectionable thing to say) was a cause of the attack on Giffords?

AFAICT, this guy was a crazy, and crazies do crazy. I'd be happy to be pointed toward actual evidence to the contrary though.

Crazy is as crazy does... freelikebeer January 10 2011, 18:38:14 UTC

The contrast between the crazy here that tries to whack a Congresswoman and everyone recoils in horror, and the crazy in Pakistan where the governor gets whacked, and half the people sing his praises.

I am mostly fearful that the former could turn into the latter.

jpmassar January 10 2011, 18:41:38 UTC

I haven't read any serious claim that such was a "cause" of the attack. (Obviously, there are always going to go some people who say such things, but let's just consider the non-wackos).

Let me try an analogy to get at what I think is the general sentiment. If you have a bunch of molecules at a given temperate, the probability of finding one at an extremely high velocity is a certain value. If you raise the temperature, even slightly, the probability increases pretty significantly.

No one would say that raising the temperature 'caused' that particular molecular to achieve that velocity, but it made the even more probable.

clutch_c January 10 2011, 20:31:36 UTC

Yes, crazies do crazy. But if you get a bunch of crazies in an audience and scream "Kill! Kill! Kill!" at them, it increases the chance that one of them will go off. No one actually did that, but political rhetoric that suggests that violent responses might be justifiable amounts to the same thing, to a degree.