bemused_leftist ([personal profile] bemused_leftist) wrote2011-01-10 07:30 pm

Unfortunately, Giffords was 'targeted' from both Left and Right

From Democratic source Daily Kos, graphics similar to those Palin was criticized for.

ETA: Added detail on source of map.

[A] nearly identical map, included in a Democratic Leadership Committee publication in 2004, featured nine bullseyes over regions where Republican candidates were considered vulnerable that year, and was accompanied by a caption reading: TARGETING STRATEGY. A smaller caption, beneath the bullseyes, read: BEHIND ENEMY LINES. The map illustrated an article on campaign strategy by Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute…

www dot foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/arizona-massacre-prompts-political-cheap-shots/







[identity profile] bemused-leftist.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Are you looking for direct links to the Arizona shooting? I'm looking at type of imagery that might promote a nationwide 'climate of anger' etc.

Imo Loughner probably never saw either map.

[identity profile] trinker.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think Loughner was acting in response to any one thing, nor acting as the agent of any specific agenda. I do think that *if he is indeed mentally ill, in a delusional state*, that there has been a suffocating blanket of rightwing hate for him to draw his target concept from.