Blame Palin

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NationalReview.com:

In the week since the Arizona shootings, much of the media’s commentary exemplified Palin Derangement Syndrome. It became a joke: On Twitter, one of the most popular “hashtags” was #blamePalin, which was used to, well, blame Palin for TV-show cancellations, malfunctioning toilets, and bad restaurant service.

Unfortunately, for all the joking of the Twitterati, liberals were serious. Here’s a list of the top ten most inane comments connecting Palin to the shootings.

10. Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall responded to Palin’s video message by writing, “Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she’s one of them.” Not mentioned was the fact that the Left had previously castigated Palin for refusing to address her “role” in the shootings.

9. Nuanced thinking isn’t the forte of at least one New York Daily News headline writer; the paper published a column titled, “Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ blood is on Sarah Palin’s hands after putting cross hair over district.” The columnist, Michael Daly, pontificated that “Palin would no doubt say that she was only speaking in metaphor, that she only meant her followers should work to unseat Giffords and 19 other Democrats who had roused her ire by voting for health care. But anyone with any sense at all knows that violent language can incite actual violence, that metaphor can incite murder. At the very least, Palin added to a climate of violence.”