On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Somehow, the liberals have construed that to mean that Sarah Palin literally > wanted to "target" Giffords to be shot.
First of all, not only "liberals" are saying this. If the map was that innocent, why did Palin's staff remove it so quickly? > > Were the symbols on Palin's map really the crosshairs through a gunsight, as > claimed by Congresswoman Giffords herself? Palin's office says they were > not. They claim they were surveyor's marks. So who's right? > > "Aw, come on Boortz! Don't feed us this surveyor's mark nonsense. That's > just a convenient excuse. We know those are gun sight crosshairs." In addition to the map, Palin used consistent gun metaphors and imagery; Lock and load, don't retreat, reload, etc. To do that, then claim your gunsights aren't gunsights is just plain lying. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm