After hearing about the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, some of my first thoughts: was she a Democrat and did she support health insurance reform. The answers to both were of course yes. This was a political assassination - of course there is going to be politicking about it.
Then I started thinking about Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and their contribution to this - the cross-hairs, the reload, the gun imagery, and pretty much every Beck diatribe every aired. Despite any denials, they are both fully complicit in this and their inability to own up and see that the language they use is dangerous just adds to this tragedy. We will have learned nothing.
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