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Palin aide: Shes getting death threats at unprecedented levels

Hot Air ^ | January 12, 2011 | Allahpundit

Posted on by 2ndDivisionVet

I almost wish that this wasnt being reported as itll only inflame things further among fringe types, but after four days of screeching about Palin the murderer, who can blame her staff for wanting to show the world the ironic outcome? I trust and hope that shell be fine: Shes got the financial means to hire the best security that money can buy, and remember, as noted earlier, the truly dangerous nuts typically dont make threats. The vast majority of these people, Im sure, are liberals popping off at her in a rash moment and then cooling down later.

An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska governors team has been talking to security professionals.

Since the shooting in Tucson, Palin has taken much heat for her crosshairs map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturdays attack.

Friends say Palin, a possible 2012 contender, was galled as suggestions of her role in the tragedy have swirled. Given the amount of hate routinely directed at her, shes appeared at times to take an oddly too-casual approach to personal security. Remember how there seemed to be no bodyguards around when that weird guy followed her around the airport with a handheld camera? No disrespect to Todd, but if hes all thats standing between her and a Jared Loughner, thats not good enough. This week will, I assume, change that situation forever.

Now, lets see tomorrow how the media and the left react to this story. Therell be three responses, I assume. One: Hey, maybe we should tone down the rhetoric on Palin before she gets shot. If so much as one person offers that, consider it a victory.

Two: I condemn the threats, but we cant be held responsible for the actions of crazies. Thats actually the right answer, I think, or at least it would be if theyd been criticizing her for something shed actually done.

Having invented the Loughner connection out of thin air, though? Nope. Three: Shes lying, either to turn down the heat on herself and earn sympathy or because she enjoys the media spotlight. Mind you, theres actual documentary evidence of some of the threats, but this will be the default explanation anyway thanks to the magical civility gene that makes liberals who are mentally ill somehow utterly immune to the worst rhetorical excesses. Demonize Palin all you want  have Paul Krugman and Frank Rich scream in the face of an untreated schizophrenic that shes the prophesied antichrist  and it wont motivate him a bit, because even deranged liberals are ultimately too smart and civilized to do anything wingnutty like take a shot at someone. That, as best as I understand it, is the going theory for why the lefts endless casual assertions about the basic malevolence of the right  racist, sexist, fascist, plutocratic, 50 times a day in assertions great and small  can be shrugged off as harmless to even the most diseased sympathetic mind. Only fruitcakes would act on stuff like that. Right, Jared?

To cleanse the palate, heres our old friend Chris preparing for tonights post-Obama full-body tingle by insisting that we cant exonerate Palin in the shootings because we dont have all the facts yet about what motivated Loughner. She is, in other words, still a suspect in mass murder. Click the image to watch.

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I wonder if these jourbalists and other lefties that'll attack her for saying this have bodyguards?



To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am really getting tired of the libs. They better be ready with the repercussions if anything happens to Sarah. The media can kiss my ass. They are stocking the flames. Idiots do not have any idea what they are doing.



by 2 posted onby ABQHispConservative (Fire all the damn rino!)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin aide: Shes getting death threats at unprecedented levels Once again, Palin finds a way to interject herself into a story of prominence and somehow twist and manipulate it into a story about her. Is a sarc tag really needed?



To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t worry.

Obama has quelled the waters tonight.

I am sure the death threats will stop tomorrow. /s



by 4 posted onby mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)

To: 2ndDivisionVet; 1_Rain_Drop; 4woodenboats; Abbeville Conservative; abigail2; ABQHispConservative; ..

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by 5 posted onby onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)

To: ABQHispConservative

No weapon that is formed against Sarah Palin shall prosper. In Jesus name, Amen.



by 6 posted onby Lily4Jesus ( Jesus is LORD)

To: Lily4Jesus

Thank you for your prayer Lily. Sarah is under strong attack and needs strong prayers for protection. Even those who don’t support her for president should join in with prayers for her safety.



by 7 posted onby weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)

To: weston

It would be very interesting to know the actual number of threats that have been made against Sarah. Thousands? Or only 100s? My guess that whatever the number is it dwarfs the number of those made against any other person.



To: 2ndDivisionVet

...death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level... They should find each and every perp and put 'em behind bars.



by 9 posted onby Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)

To: onyx

Let’s all keep her, and her entire family, in our prayers. This country needs her.



by 10 posted onby Melian ( See Matt 7: 21 and 1 John 2: 3-6)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

The media lit a dangerous fuse this week, trying to place blame, without any facts or connections, of this mass murder onto Sarah Palin. If anything happens to her, the 1960s are going to look like a calm garden party in comparison.



To: 2ndDivisionVet

Having watched/heard some of the news reporters I've come to realise that they are not "journalists" - they are "Goebbelists"



by 12 posted onby brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !! Â)

To: brityank

I call them “jourbalists” and I think it fits.



by 13 posted onby 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just don’t understand the left’s hatred of Palin. Darrell L. Castle was the vice presidential candidate for the Constitution party, which the left also opposes. He also lost the 2008 election. Where is the vile rhetoric, negative press and hatred for him? Or is it about sex?



To: 2ndDivisionVet

An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona What did they expect? She was one of the main causes of this mass murder in Arizona. Those in government and the media said so.



by 15 posted onby dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: 2ndDivisionVet





by 16 posted onby icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)

To: Boiling point

I just dont understand the lefts hatred of Palin. Shes the sunlight, they are the roaches. That is why they fear her.



To: 2ndDivisionVet





by 18 posted onby icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin is giving George W. Bush a run for his money as the Most Smeared Politician in U.S. History. I don’t know how I will handle the gloating from my liberal coworkers and acquaintances if something happens to Palin.



by 19 posted onby Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I'm not the least bit surprised. I'm not even a particular fan of Sarah Palin but there's a bizarre, obsessive derangement going on in the Left, press and blog-o-pundits over her.



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