http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47244.html

(I changed the thread title. It was a poor attempt at using Reagan's line, as I thought she was likely hurt but alive when I posted it first.)

This is some fuck shit.

This country is going to shit

Great job, AZ

this is pretty fucked up, even with palin's bull's eye on giffords' district and her opponent holding target-shooting events during his campaign and it being arizona.

Michelle Bachman/Sharon Angle's Second Amendment Remedies in action.

Yeah, Palin "targeted" her during the election, but all of that has been taken down from the SarahPAC site.

Fucking insane. This poor lady, her family, and her staff are all going to be rightfully mourned. This is a tragedy.

Seriously... I mean, seriously...

Fuck this. Your country's been tolerating and even abetting all this American Taliban rhetoric from the likes of Palin, O'Reilly, the Tea Party, the cocksucking Republicans, and then when it actually happens OH WE ALL SHOCKED.

what is that clip from?

I am American, I don't now, and have never, tolerated this. I have worked my whole life against this. Your essentialist rant is, in a sense, born of the same kind of insanity that propels the crazees. So, thanks very much, now leave us the fuck alone.

Gladly.

reports are saying she's still alive and in surgery

While I agree that the rhetoric has been there for a while, i don't know many people that tolerate indiscrimately gunning down folks in public like this.

It will be interesting to see what the shooter has to say.

Yeah... I lived during JFK, King, RFK... this pushes a lot of my buttons. A horrifying thought I had was "oh, maybe now Obama won't be assassinated." I have been assuming he'll be killed.

Six dead so far.... and counting

Not that interesting...

I figured he wouldn't be just because that will probably lead to civil war, and a crash in the markets, etc. And in the end, big business and Rove and his buddies are much more concerned with what makes them money than who is actually in the Oval Office, which is why they embraced and funded the tea party in the first place - it was good for business.

You know what I mean. We're all jumping to conclusions. Maybe he was sexually obsessed with her, or secretly wanted to be an astronaut. There's no ironclad guarantee he cares about her HCR vote. Or immigration or anything else.

CNN is saying she is in surgery at this time.

There has been a marked increase in angry rhetoric the past 2 years, primarily on the right. The Tea party folks and airbags like Glenn Beck have been spouting doom theories, stating the world as we know it is about to end... then we get to watch moronic Sarah Palin firing guns for fun in prime-time. Is it any wonder this happens? I have a bad feeling that it is going to get worse over the next year.

Things aren't "controllable" as they used to be... The Jackson Hole Overlords aren't as capable as they used to be. The Tea Party always had/has the potential to get out of control.

[url]Rep. Giffords Opponent, Jesse Kelly, Held June Event to “Shoot a Fully Automatic M16″ to “Get on Tar
http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/08/giffor...
Rep. Giffords’ 2010 Congressional opponent Jesse Kelly held a June 12 gun event that was billed as follows on the Pima County Republican website: Get on Target for Victory in November Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office Shot a fully automatic M15 with Jesse[/url]


In one of the more fascinating (if still disturbing) features of this emerging event.... at this point 10-12 Tea Party (and Palin) have already scrubbed websites of anything possibly indicative that rhetoric could have motivated this.

This is a good point.

So, who wants to wager that this 22 year old loser with a record was actually targeting Federal Judge John Roll who was killed?

It does appear she is going to live. Pima Co officials say they secured certainn other pubic officials, but didn't say who.

As I said, this will be pretty interesting to see what really went down.