A Statement from Sarah Palin on the AZ Tragedy and Its Aftermath

The Presidents Speech and Killing Sarah Palin
What was billed as a “memorial service” in Arizona last night was more of a pep-rally and celebration of life. It was complete with sloganeering, Bumper Stickers, and t-shirts. It is what was needed. What’s more, Mr. Obama gave a stunning rebuke to his own base who’ve engaged in a horrific blame game all week. But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of...

Sarah Palin receiving unprecedented level of death threats
(ABC News)- An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor’s team has been talking to security professionals. Palin has taken much heat for her “crosshairs” map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturday’s attack. ...

A Brief Remark On Sarah Palin
Jon Chait is defending her: Okay, it’s a little over the top for Sarah Palin to accuse her critics of “blood Libel.” But she does have a basic point. She had nothing to do with Jared Loughner. He was not an Extremist who embraced some radical version of her ideas. And her use of targets to identify districts Republicans were, um, targeting is not exceptional or prone to incite anybody. What’s happening is that Palin has come to represent unhinged Grassroots Conservatism...

Death Threats Against Sarah Palin at 'Unprecedented Level,' Aides Say
ABC News An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor's team has been talking to security professionals. Palin has taken much heat for her "crosshairs" map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturday's attack. Friends say Palin, a possible 2012 contender, was ga...

Jared Loughner Terrified Everyone At His Old Community College
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. Since the Arizona massacre on Saturday there have been some very pointless debates about the role of Rhetoric in American politics, and whether Sarah Palin used an inappropriate phrase in a video she posted on Vimeo. But the debate that will emerge have some actual impact is whether society ought to get even more aggressive about pro-actively protecting itself against psychos, which is exactly what everyone who came into contact with shooter J...

Sarah Palin's Tucson Statement Is Steeped In Stubbornness
Nearly four days after her notorious map targeting Congresswoman Giffords with cross-hairs was alleged by some people to have possibly influenced crazed Tucson gunman Jared Loughner, Sarah Palin has finally spoken. In a long Facebook message and corresponding Vimeo video posted online in the middle of the night, mainland America time, Palin focuses much of her attention on such accusations, which, it seems at this point, lack merit. Missing completely though is any acknowledgment at all that, up...

Sarah Palin Speaks from Some Undisclosed Facebook Location
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Sarah Palin chose to forget today that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brought up Palin’s “targeting” of her when lamenting the vitriolic political Rhetoric in this country before Jared Lee Loughner tried to assassinate her in Arizona. In a weirdly disembodied and out of touch statement from the abyss of her self-imposed political exile, Palin picks today, the day Pres. Obama will address the nation...

Sarah Palin's Arizona Shooting Statement Blasts Journalists & Pundits' 'Blood Libel' (VIDEO)
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin broke her silence on the tragedy in Tucson Wednesday, releasing her first comments on the shooting since a brief statement following the incident Saturday. In her extended remarks -- transmitted in a nearly 10-minute address -- Palin expresses sympathy for the Victims and responds to a flurry of criticism that has been leveled at her and others for supposedly pushing vitriolic political discourse in a manner that may have encouraged the violent flare-up: Ther...

Sarah Palins Statement on Arizona Tragedy
Presented without comment: Sarah Palin: America's Enduring Strength from Sarah Palin on Vimeo....

Let's Go to the Confrontational
The videotaped confessional (or these days, it might be better to call it a "confrontational") is all the rage among those who believe they've been aggrieved. What better way to defend yourself uninterrupted or go after designated critics without fear of having your message diluted? The tactic is big on the political front. Exhibit A is Sarah Palin's nearly eight-minute commentary on Saturday's shooting in Tucson that injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people. Palin spends ...

Michael Russnow: Media Pundit Sarah Palin Says She's Not Responsible: Oh, Yeah? I Don't Think So
The subject of the tragedy in Tucson has perhaps been talked to death on the major networks, but having watched the give and take on both sides of the political spectrum, as well as those who preach moderation, it's my view regarding Sarah Palin and her ilk, that they doth Protest too much. I'll let slide Sarah Palin's use of anti-Semitic terms such as "blood Libel" in her desperate attempt to cast aside aspersions to her integrity, because I honestly don't believe she has the intellectual dep...

Krauthammer: Palin’s Statement on Tucson ‘Unfortunate and Unnecessary’
He mainly laments that Palin gave the Speech at all. Sure, it might be a sensitive issue given that Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish, and she's fighting for her life while the rest of the nation debates allegations of "blood Libel"? I'm personally not bothered by the use of the term as it's applied to the libelous attacks on Palin and Tea Party Conservatives. Frankly, Glenn Reynolds' essay at WSJ the other day has been one of the most penetrating: "The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel...

Video: Sarah Palin responds to accusations that somehow she caused the shooting spree in Arizona
I will admit, that I do not much care for Sarah Palin at all. However, I will give the ol’ gal credit — she knocked it out of the ballpark here and put all of her critics in their places. The Video: Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. The Transcript from Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page: Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent Victims. No words can fill ...

Sarah Palin is Now the Face of the Arizona Shooting and a Victim of "Blood Libel"
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Six people were killed when Jared Loughner started shooting in Arizona on Saturday, while Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains hospitalized. Sara Palin was also a Victim and she wants everyone to know. In her first public statement on the matter, save a brief Twitter and Facebook posting, Palin only uses the word "I" seven times, but she's the real subject of her own message. "No words can fill the hole left by the death of an in...

Sarah Palin's missed opportunity
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. I'll stand with Jon Chait and, oddly enough, Sarah Palin on this one: Palin is right to feel aggrieved. As Chait says, many have blamed her for a killing rampage that she had nothing to do with. A lot of Palin's Rhetoric is over the top, and her gun metaphors ("RELOAD!") and her target sights looked unsettling in light of subsequent events. But the subsequent events were not her fault. Moreover, I just don't care if Palin tho...

President Sarah Palin?
Who is President of the United States? It's Barack Obama right? But was it just me or did Sarah Palin look like she was President when she gave her address to the American People about the tragedy in Tucson? Watch the video below. This is pretty amazing to me. The whole backdrop and Speech looks downright presidential. Just one thing: can we chill out with all the tweets and Facebook posts coming from Wasilla? I mean I get the fact that Palin is looking to talk to the Grassroots and circumvent ...

Sarah Palin On Giffords Shooting, Brings Up Blood Libel
After the tragic Saturday Assassination attempt on Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords outside a Tucson, Arizona Supermarket that left six people dead and Giffords and more than a dozen others injured, former Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential Candidate Sarah Palin simply left a Facebook note, saying, "My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Victims of today's tragic shooting in Arizona. On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray...

Sen. Gillibrand To Az. With President To Address Shootings; Condemns Sarah Palin's "Vitriol"
Among the dignitaries who will pay their respects to the Victims of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner's Tucson Shooting Spree along with President Obama today: Our own junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand is slated to first visit the University of Arizona Medical Center to visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, staff, and other Victims and their loved ones. The senator is a close Capitol friend of Giffords, who is expected to recover well after being shot in the head a...

Video: Sarah Palin Claims She's a Victim of Blood Libel
Today, Fox News commentator Sarah Palin finally emerged from her bomb shelter to make a statement on the Giffords shooting. Her highly-scripted Speech was read from a Teleprompter (gasp!), and was very carefully written to evoke the maximum appeal to victimhood, while not backing down at all or taking any responsibility for the Hate Speech and violent Rhetoric that’s Palin’s stock in trade. But the almost unbelievably disgusting talking point she provides to the crazy base is that sh...

Sarah Palin's Response
Her carefully constructed message, posted on Facebook this morning, is about "America's enduring strength," but it may always be known as the "blood Libel" Speech. Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Her most Controversial line: "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.&quo...;

Sarah Palin Delivers Annual State of Hateful Charlatan Provocation Address
And there she is, Sarah Palin, the president of having no real job outside of making present-day-fearing Americans afraid of everything but themselves for money, walking down the aisle. She shakes hands with leaders of both sides, the one that wants to kill all Muslim Americans and the one that just wants to take away all their rights. Now she makes her up and sits on the speakin’ fireplace, flanked by Vice President of Victimhood Trig Palin and Speaker of the What Stephen Baldwin. LetR...

Oh No! Sarah Palin Removed Her Jew Blood Video! (UPDATE: Its Back Up)
It’s probably because Vimeo is fancy and elitist and doesn’t like Hate Speech on its website. We didn’t understand why Palin used that site in the first place. She should have stuck with Dailymotion or something like that. It’s more natural for her. Sarah Palin has scrubbed away this moment of Jewish history. Which is worse than saying that thing she said in the first place....

Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. ...

Video: Sarah Palin Addresses Media Coverage of Tucson Shootings
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. ...

Sarah Palin and `blood libel'
I didn't have a chance to put together a morning roundup today, so let's just lead off with Sarah Palin's video response to critics who alleged that her crosshairs map and no-holds-barred Rhetoric contributed to a political climate that may have helped lead to the Arizona massacre: Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. A few quick things to note. First, the obvious care that went into making this video -- the pre-written script is over seven minutes long; she cl...