Bonnie Says: Denounce the Shooting of Congresswoman Giffords Sarah Palin & Apologize For Putting A Crosshair Target On Her!

Sun, January 9, 2011 6:36pm EDT by 113 Comments

After seeing the national tragedy that has happened in Arizona Sarah, it is time for you to acknowledge the role your actions could have possibly played!

Sarah Palin — you need to speak up now if you want to save your potential Presidential career. You need to apologize for targeting political opponents with crosshair symbols on an attack map!

The American people want debate, they want strong differing political views but they DO NOT want their political candidates and representatives made targets for assassination. Sarah- you as the virtual leader of the Tea Party movement have led the gun-slinging rhetoric, primarily against Democrats. You published a map of American Congressional districts last March on your Facebook page before the mid-term elections and you placed gun target “cross hairs” on 20 districts, targeting Democrats, who needed to be “removed ” especially because they supported health care reform. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was elected to one of those 20 targeted districts. It appears that someone  called Jared Loughner, 22,may have taken your target map and calls to arms seriously and now Giffords is fighting for her life, a respected Judge, John M. Roll, is dead, and so is a beautiful 9 year-old girl and three others.

You also exhorted your followers on twitter: “Don’t retreat! Instead – RELOAD!” Giffords’ Republican opponent in the recent Congressional race , Jesse Kelly, seems to have taken this order literally. He actually held  a rally event in which he invited supporters to shoot a machine gun. “Get on target for victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly,” on June 12, 2010, his ad for the event announced.

You have to stop your rhetoric which many believe is violence-inciting before more innocent people die and before anyone who wants a political career must wear a bulletproof vest and be surrounded by armed bodyguards at all times.You must address your supporters and order them to stand down and to use their weapons ONLY for hunting and target practice on firing ranges – not for silencing opposing political voices.

Sarah - - you have to take responsibility for raising the level of violence-inciting vitriol in this country. During your Vice- Presidential campaign you announced repeatedly that Barack Obama, ” pals around with terrorists”, eliciting someone in a Clearwater, Florida crowd, listening to you  to shout out “kill him!” Later in Pensacola, you said the same thing about Obama and a woman responded, “Get him, Sarah!”

It’s one thing to show that you can take down a caribou on your reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, but  it’s another to use gun lingo when addressing politicians that happen to disagree with you. This is NOT the Wild West nor the Alaskan frontier, much as you might love to live in it.

Violent words and images clearly have an impact on violence-prone individuals. We’ve seen it before – most clearly when “targeted” abortion providers were murdered. Our democracy is all about debate, but there is no place in it for physically violent and deadly disagreements.

Americans don’t want “differences” ended with assassination attacks or with acts of domestic terrorism. Sarah – President Obama has called for a moment of silence tomorrow at 11 am est. Now, it’s time to silence your political gun lingo and to commit to putting no more of your opponents in “crosshairs”!

-Bonnie Fuller

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justice4all

Posted at 12:58 AM on January 30, 2011  

Bonnie, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FLIPPIN’ MIND????

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meehoo

Posted at 6:59 PM on January 16, 2011  

I am so tired of all the bullsh*t in the world, and all the ridiculous cynicism and judging and hatefulness and meanness,and the venomous media and the bloggers, including people like you, it makes me just want to go live on top of a mountain and be a hermit!! You have serious issues, but the problem is that you are too stupid and hard-headed to understand anything or see things as they really are. I feel sorry for you, as much as I feel outraged. You are unbelievable! Shame!!

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connie

Posted at 5:55 PM on January 16, 2011  

“time for you to acknowledge the role your actions could have possibly played!”??? Are you so ignorant that you could possibly think anything she has done could have played a role in this tragedy??? You are INSANE, and she should sue you!!

This did not have ANYTHING to do with Sarah Palin, and idiots like you who try to make it seem that way make me SICK! What a hateful, conniving piece of work you are!! You actually twisted this cross-hairs joke around to make it look like some kind of plot, just to satisfy your own political agenda to make the opposition look bad. It was a JOKE, playing on the attention she has always gotten by the media because of her hunting.

If ANYONE should be apologizing for targeting political opponents and inciting anger and violence, it is YOU!!! The things you said were so ridiculous, I could not believe it! It is so SHAMEFUL that you are using the loss of these innocent lives to turn people against a politician that YOU cannot stand. YOU are the dangerous one here, inciting people to hate someone who had nothing to do with it. Perhaps some nut will see what you accused her of, and try to kill her, then how would you feel? (You’d probably like it.)

Loughner did this for his own personal reasons, because she did not answer a question to his satisfaction that he had asked her, and he let it fester and fester, and PLANNED OUT his revenge against her LONG before the cross-hairs thing. Don’t show your ignorance and transparency so much, OK??

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Maria

Posted at 11:46 PM on January 12, 2011  

And another thing…one of their regular Blog writers on the Daily Kos ( a leftist website) TWO DAYS before the attack (and something that has been scrubbed from their site – but can be found in the cache) wrote this:

“I am from the Tucson area and live in Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ district,” BoyBlue wrote. “Today, just a little while ago, I saw on Andrea Mitchell Reports that Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi as our minority leader. … Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is dead to me now.”

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Maria

Posted at 11:42 PM on January 12, 2011  

Bonnie,
You really should do some research before you post something as slanderous as this tripe. A simple google search would have led you to Loughner’s MySpace page and his youtube account.
His best friend said he did not watch TV News, or listen to talk radio and was a-political. The sheriff in his area knew him well as he started going psychotic after 2007 and was even kicked out of his Community College.
Let’s get into his psychotic ramblings on grammer and the monetary system as well. This very disturbed young man was upset with Gabby way back in 2007 when she wrote him a reply to a letter and it wasn’t the way Jared thought it should be written. He had it ‘in’ for her way back then (there is proof, some leaked, more that the FBI have).
As a reporter you didn’t do your job.
You leaned HARD LEFT and brought on an attack that was unwarranted. You have shown your cards and now there’s no going back. In essence YOU FAILed as a reporter in this instance.
And FYI the very first thing Palin did when she heard of the attack was offer her condolences to the families of the victims. This was done the DAY of the attack on her twitter and facebook accounts. But then again, if you would have done the research you would have known that.
Lazy commentary, jumping on the bandwagon without any shred of evidence or proof.
Badly done, Bonnie, Badly done.

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gbtw

Posted at 8:05 PM on January 12, 2011  

i read that the killer shot gifford because he was mad at her about not answering a question he posed to her over three years ago, in 2007. while i agree that palin’s rhetoric is tacky at best, dangerous at worst, it also is unfair to pin this attack on her— the guy was a delusional psycho and the atrocious state of political discourse is really something separate in my opinion. it should be ended, but blaming this on palin is just more of the same exaggerated and hysterical name calling being done by both sides, but blamed mostly on the right.

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Crystal

Posted at 3:00 AM on January 12, 2011  

UMMM here’s a thought, why doesn’t everyone stop trying to point the finger at everyone else and blame the shooting on the psycho who pulled the trigger? Oh because that would be the smart thing to do and the right thing to do. The way I see it there are two ways of murdering someone. You can physically kill them or you can kill their reputation with your tongue. With everyone trying to blame Sarah Palin for something she had nothing to do with, you are in fact murdering her with your tongue. I think it is very sad that innocent people are dead and instead of mourning or doing something to help their families or showing some kind of respect for the dead, Everyone wants to start pointing fingers and talking trash about someone. The ONLY person that can be blamed for the shooting is the shooter!! Blaming anyone else is just stupid! I have heard politicians from both sides make violent comments, but I am not going to act on what they say, why? Because I CHOOSE not to! Just like the shooter chose to kill innocent people. Let’s see a lot of people in this country are christians, so they probably wear some kind of jewelry or clothing with crosses on them. Do you see thousands of people being crucified each year because some nutjob heard the story of how Jesus died and got an idea? And what if someone shoots Sarah Palin, can I blame you for that because you have put a target on her? No I can’t, but why don’t you think about the shoe being on the other foot for a little while!

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eus

Posted at 10:20 AM on January 11, 2011  

Please someone shut Sarah Palin up. Wonder how she would react if it was someone in her family that got shot. I’m sure her big mouth would get bigger then.

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Lisa

Posted at 9:03 AM on January 11, 2011  

I agree with every word Bonnie but Sarah Palin will never take responsibilty for a single toxic thing that she says. She likes to talk about people manning up but she is a true coward as her actions have demonstrated from belatedly removin t+g the crosshairs then having her spokesperson blatantly lie about it being surveyors symbols. Then we have the scum of the earth Tea Party fundraising from the tragedy to attack liberals. On top of that Sarah Palin followers are psychopaths who say a child should be dead because she might have grown up to be a liberal and saying 1 down in regards to the congresswoman fighting for her life. I could ho on.and on but people will still support that woman and her toxic language and personality.

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Donna

Posted at 9:45 AM on January 11, 2011  

Lisa, which followers said children should be dead because she might have grown up to be a liberal? If any of them supposedly did, I agree it is a stupid statment. I also agree that the Daily Kos was vicious when they said that Palin should have aborted Trig after seeing him dressed up as an elephant on Halloween. The vitriol and hate language is dished out just as often by liberals as it is by conservatives. These shootings have nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

Bonnie, Barack Obama stated in 2008, “They bring knives to the fight, we bring guns.” Is your hero Obama inciting violence?

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Donna

Posted at 8:23 AM on January 11, 2011  

Please! The shooter loved “The Communist Manifesto”! What the hell does that have to do with the Tea Party? Aside from that, liberals went out of their way to tell people not to connect Islam to the senseless murders/shootings carried out by Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan in Fort Hood. Give me a break! I am not a Palin fan, and I don’t think she had anything to do with this tragedy one bit!

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kevin

Posted at 11:57 PM on January 10, 2011  

Yup these liberals act so self righteous and mighty all the time talking trash. Where are their complaints about people making death threats to the conservative judge that also was killed in this tragedy? Where was their outcry when some film maker made a movie wanting to kill George Bush? Typical double standard. This is a time for mourning not trying to politicize the killing and wounding of these innocent people. As far as the “target” comment it has been used before BY THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. Get a life this guy is a wacko plain and simple. And for the record he is not a member of the Tea Party; in fact he is a liberal. Also Palin did come out and denounce the killings…are you living under a rock? Stick to your celebrity reporting and TRY to actually get those stories correct because you aren’t doing a good job of getting real news stories correct.

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Denise

Posted at 8:19 PM on January 10, 2011  

Leave it to the liberals to turn such a horrible tragedy into a controversial blame game against the conservatives! Give it a rest and inform yourself before you put this kind of untruthful junk on your website. By the way, I completely agree with jason, decide what you want your blog to be about- Hollywood or factless information about conservatives you don’t approve of!!! I believe this is a gossip blog, your opinions on politics don’t matter and frankly are not to be taken seriously!!!!

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Spike

Posted at 11:56 AM on January 12, 2011  

If a republican was shot you would certainly blame it on our President. You, Palin, and the TeaPartiers are all cut from the same cloth…hypocrites to the core!!!

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Jason

Posted at 6:00 PM on January 10, 2011  

Sarah Palin…the Arizona murder…on Hollywood life? Figure out what you want to be Hollywood Life. Are you a blog on Hollywood or a general news blog? Stay true to your focus. Leave the general craziness to those who would rather read about national news on national news sites. Hollywood Life is, and I quote you, “…Celebrity News and Gossip”. Sarah Palin is a national news figure, like any other politician. Her daughter is another thing entirely and perhaps falls within the domain of your stated purpose of being. Don’t try to be all things to all people. Keep your focus and stay Hollywood.

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Wanda

Posted at 5:37 PM on January 10, 2011  

I knew some idiot would come out and print something so absurd as this!!! Sarah Palin can not be blamed for this in the least! Hey, maybe this guy was part of a Street GANG! THEY carry and use high-powered firearms all the time, 24/7, 365 days a year! The nations streets and gutters are filled with the bloody bodies of gang bangers, rapists, drive-by shootists and drug lords. Maybe this guy was part of that radical group! Maybe the authorities should be going after EVERY 22 year old college drop-out to see if they have guns.

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Elisabetta

Posted at 3:44 PM on January 10, 2011  

It’s interesting how people are trying to say that he is a Tea Party member. He lists Obama as one of his heroes, so I highly doubt someone that looks up to Obama is going to listen to anything Sarah Palin has to say.

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LB

Posted at 3:01 PM on January 10, 2011  

I wonder how many times the Democrat party has used the image of cross hairs in their campaigns against Republicans. It’s funny you don’t mention that in your article. Just another typical Hollywood liberal. You guys are so predictable. Yawn…

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lauren

Posted at 12:56 PM on January 10, 2011  

Bonnie is not too far off here, folks. Sarah Palin has been very provoking with her ties ith the tea party. Senator Giffords has been threatened by tea party members for months, she’s spoken openly about it, and has had her windows blown out at her headquarters and her life threatened. In such an atmoophere, should Sarah really be putting effing gunshot targets on Giffords and her location like she did? Sorry, but sarah palin is a horrible woman.

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dela

Posted at 12:52 PM on January 10, 2011  

meh, bonnie is right to a degree, and many are saying the same thing. Sarah Palin is a polarizing political figure, her rhetoric centers on exclusion and demonization, and she’s an idiot for engaging in the political discourse which has catered to the more extreme and unstable citizens of this country. Is she responsible for what happened in AZ? No. Must she take some responsibility for contributing to the vitriol that has helped fuel and cultural war that has targeted people like Gabby G? OH HECK YES!

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galey

Posted at 12:44 PM on January 10, 2011  

Bonnie, you make some absurd comments but this one has to take the cake!!!! Seriously, this is so ridiculous it hardly deserves a remark but STAY OUT OF POLITICS!!!

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Denise

Posted at 8:23 PM on January 10, 2011  

Agree, STAY OUT OF POLITICS!!! Your blog is about celebrities and gossip! Stick to the topics you think you’re well informed about. Although I’m sure many celebrities would disagree with what you post on here about them!

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Renee

Posted at 9:17 AM on January 10, 2011  

Bonnie,
What a bunch of BS!!!
I will never visit this site again!
You wrote an article that was false and based off of
your feelings!
You should be ashamed of yourself for writing such
nonsense!

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deet

Posted at 12:03 PM on January 10, 2011  

Exactly what in this article is false?

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Denise

Posted at 8:24 PM on January 10, 2011  

Oh poor deet! How old are you? Maybe too young and naive to rely on Bonnie’s gossip blog for accurate political information!!!

 
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Wanda

Posted at 5:30 PM on January 10, 2011  

I am so glad to see a post like yours, especially on a website like this one that caters to sensation-seeking teenagers! Way to go! YOU’RE 100% RIGHT!

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OhHAI

Posted at 7:46 AM on January 10, 2011  

Ok, so, I don’t like Sarah Palin. At all.
BUT.
This is an unfortunate coincidence if anything. It is becoming obvious that the shooter was an enemy of government, not any particular party. And he had beef against Giffords for years for whatever reason. His fascination with her did not start recently, but had been going on since at least 2007.
You just sound ignorant. I like this blog for the HOLLYWOOD LIFE GOSSIP. Stay out of politics.
“Get down from there, ram. You don’t belong there, ram.”

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lauren

Posted at 12:57 PM on January 10, 2011  

he was a tea party member, this has been confirmed.

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Capp

Posted at 2:38 PM on January 10, 2011  

That is incorrect.

He was not a Tea Party member. He was described by former classmates as a liberal, he smoked pot, dabbled in the occult, had an affinity for skulls and listed the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books.

 
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LB

Posted at 3:04 PM on January 10, 2011  

He’s a fan of the Communist Manifesto. Yeah, that really sounds like a member of the Tea Party. Nice try though…

 
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barb

Posted at 9:22 PM on January 10, 2011  

He was an independent who didn’t vote in the 2010 election.

 
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Donna

Posted at 12:41 PM on January 11, 2011  

Please prove it to us.

 
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Wanda

Posted at 5:34 PM on January 10, 2011  

He was also only 22. Does that mean we should fear all young people? He was also white, are all whites to be suspect? Just because he held radical beliefs does not mean he represents or ascribes to any political party. If Sarah Palin was “responsible” for his death then–and according to some Obama logic (when he talks about the bombing of the World Trade Center as being America being retaliated against for some wrongdoing)the Senator “deserved” to be shot. Both statements are totally false and cannot be made without raising the ire of all of America’s citizens.

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west 1

Posted at 6:30 AM on January 10, 2011  

i ain’t takin sides but considering that after
every high school/college shooting videogames were
blamed,especially on pink pages like this one…

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Matt

Posted at 9:28 AM on January 11, 2011  

It makes no difference whether the shooter was a Democrat, a Republican or even a Tea Party member. He visited with the Congresswoman from his District several years ago and there was no problem. It wasn’t like he sent her hate letters ever since that initial meeting. He was healthier then–and then mental illness came. When he was at his sickest, Sarah Palin was the current Queen of Snark and he heard her messages about retaliating, targeting, even told people who to target with bullseye and where they lived. Palin was the Messenger of Hate and such a divisive and polarizing speaker. She was the cheerleader champion for stirring up the crowds into anger and she was paid very well for doing this. She has a huge staff of former newsmen and speech writers and publicity agents to spread her messages of hate. It is hard to go to the internet or listen to FOX without hearing her efforts to incite anger in her loyal fans. Look at how she activated these fans to cheat on the voting for Bristol on Dancing with the Stars; listen to all the loonies who, like Palin, still believe that Obama is a Muslim and was born in Kenya or believe in death panels. Sarah’s appeal is to the less educated and more blindly loyal–and they LISTEN when she preaches about violence or anger.

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margaret

Posted at 7:57 AM on January 12, 2011  

Good point – Sarah Palin can try to deny this all she wants, but when she puts “Crosshairs” on politicians names/photos/districts over the Healthcare vote she is guilty.

 
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monila75

Posted at 4:28 PM on January 13, 2011  

i agree wholeheartedly. if this wasn’t a reaction to her negative campaigns, this should be a warning for her negative selection of words which all has to do with guns and blood. I think she wants everyone to see her as macho woman. when you don’t ever apoligize for your bad behavior you’re not macho woman you are a pu$$Y cat!!! meow!!!

 
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OhHAI

Posted at 8:30 AM on January 12, 2011  

You cannot place the blame on anyone but the executor for his actions. I’m sorry, but his mental health was in his own hands and he dropped the ball.

 
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monila75

Posted at 4:30 PM on January 13, 2011  

I want you to pronounce after me “WORDS — HAVE — CONSEQUENCES!!! ALWAYS!!!

 
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Al

Posted at 6:14 AM on January 10, 2011  

Sara Palin is not only killing wolves any longer.

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bonnie get a life

Posted at 5:24 AM on January 10, 2011  

Bonnie FUller get a life. It shows how disgusting of a person you are that you can’t put your political attacks aside for a brief time. This should be a time when our nation comes together in support of each other! Right or Left, what happened to Giffords and the others in AZ is something no American should wish upon another and only the scum of society would use what happened to those Americans as a means to further their own agenda. That is why people who think like Bonnie Fuller are a minority and always will be.

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Bill

Posted at 5:17 AM on January 10, 2011  

Good for you Bonnie –

Giffords was also one of the lawmakers that Sarah Palin “set her sights on” by putting up a Map with simulated gun sights on it (you can see it at sarahpac.com) –

And, by the way, Palin is NO patriot.

You put out this kind of crazy stuff like Palin and OTHERS like her have done or are still doing, and it only serves to incite the real crazies who wind up listening to it, believing it, and at some point who go out and actually do this kind of stuff.

Yes, this guy is responsible for his own actions, and was obviously unstable to begin with, and he deserves to be put away for a very long time – but if you have people out there spewing incorrect information or the type of vitriol that has been going on lately, it doesn’t help any of us, and it may contribute to this type of situation.

Anyone know why would Palin feel the need to jump in so quickly to offer up her condolences? is she feeling a little sorry now for putting out that kind of stuff?

And just wondering why it is that when people who disagree with someone like Bonnie, for stating her opinion, rarely tend to offer up a real opinion of their own, or facts, or anything legitimate to create a real debate about what is going on, and instead simply attack the person personally with insults or incoherent analogies.

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