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

[bemused_leftist]

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/

Comments

[trinker.livejournal.com]

There's no target over Arizona in the Daily Kos link.

Fox News is ubiquitous and nearly inescapable in some parts of the country. I don't know if Tucson is one of them, but I know all along the Eastern Seaboard, in the Red areas, every business I went to that had a TV, was tuned to Fox - supermarkets, banks, and I think at least one post office.

(Actually, also in the Blue areas that were catering to tourists, as I was seeing Fox in hotel breakfast rooms and lobbies.)

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

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.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

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.