Yesterday, Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and critically wounded. Her unstable assailant killed 6 others including a 9 year old girl and a federal judge. People are jumping up to blame someone and that person appears to be Sarah Palin.
Last March, Sarah Palin had put a map on her facebook page placing democrats who voted for healthcare in the cross hairs. Literally. Cross hairs. Now, while I don’t feel that Sarah Palin is responsible for the deaths of these people, I do think that she was irresponsible to use such divisive and subversively violent rhetoric. The constant fear mongering from people like Palin, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the tea bagging society has unhinged the already unhinged. The words revolution, war and taking back our country are batted around by the right without even blinking an eye. When the loonies actually take the rights’ pandering as fact and act out violently, the right blankly stares and offer condolences to the victims.
So, I’m not saying that these fringe right wing weirdos are as bad as the fringe right wing weirdos that actually do the shooting because I can’t believe, nay, I won’t believe that elected officials and television personalities are that evil. I am not that cynical. I am, however, cynical enough to believe that they are kowtowing to a portion of the population that are racist and ignorant for ratings and votes. I hope they don’t know that all the vitriol that they are spouting can make an unstable person go into a homicidal rage. I may be very naive.
