House of Reps. member Giffords shot in Arizona today

Just what the U.S. needs, conservative media promoting anti-semitism.

The only thing i feel really bad about is how badly the media got it in the forst few hours. Most news had Gifford alrady dead. Whatever happened to journalistic responsibilities of "Get it right"?
Jeez, this internet 24 hour cable cylce of news is killing truth.

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The only thing i feel really bad about is how badly the media got it in the forst few hours. Most news had Gifford alrady dead. Whatever happened to journalistic responsibilities of "Get it right"?
Jeez, this internet 24 hour cable cylce of news is killing truth.

It isn't journalism any more and hasn't been for a long time. It is for-profit corporate/government/special interest/political public relations

Just what the U.S. needs, conservative media promoting anti-semitism.

It isn't journalism any more and hasn't been for a long time. It is for-profit corporate/government/special interest/political public relations

The truth is far more prosaic.

You say you've never said the guy was politically motivated, but you continue to argue that Palin's political race map supposedly had something to do with this event.

The talk in political circles has been that Sarah Palin had a rare opportunity in the wake of the Tucson tragedy to reach out beyond her base and recalibrate her image beyond that of a gun-toting mama grizzly.

After all, the strategists said, there was some sympathy for her—beyond the Palin-haters—for being tied to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, even if she had erred with her “reload” talk and by posting that map with the gun-sight targets last year.

Instead, Palin chose to throw kerosene on the embers of a smoldering national controversy.

“Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding,” Palin said in a video on her Facebook page, “journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.”

Blood libel, for those who are not familiar, describes a false accusation that minorities—usually Jews—murder children to use their blood in religious rituals, and has been a historical theme in the persecution of the Jewish people.

Had Palin scoured a thesaurus, she could not have come up with a more inflammatory phrase.

As someone who has argued that linking her rhetoric to the hateful violence of Jared Loughner is unfair, I can imagine that the former governor was angry about how liberal detractors dragged her into this story. But after days of silence, she had a chance to speak to the country in a calmer, more inclusive way. She could have said that all of us, including her, needed to avoid excessively harsh or military-style language, without retreating one inch from her strongly held beliefs.

Instead she went the blood libel route. Daily Beast

Well, now that you've given me a clue about how little thought and responsibility you take for the impact your words might have on WHOEVER may hear them, holding my breath would be a waste of time, wouldn't it?