The Note: Obama, Palin And Arizona: A Tale Of Two Speeches

“SCARED?’ These are the mindset of her followers…she’s no real “Annie Oakley”, and she indeed strives on the hate, fears and more ignorance of America…Not to it’s Strengths, Morals or Unity. So sad.

Scared of Sarah? Hardly–we’re just scared of the low-I.Q. people who think there’s a there there.

so glad Sarah spoke up! Her comments were appropriate and right on. ABC “news” objects to her getting in on the story. They must have just forgotten that leftists tried to blame Sarah for the acts of the evil, crazy shooter in Tucson.
If Sarah created the “climate of hate”, then it must have been crazy leftists who created the climate of hate when President Reagan was shot and President Ford was shot at.
You leftists are an odd combination of stupidity and evil!

Sarah Palin did not insert herself into the Tucson shooting. She had nothing to do with it, yet reporters like Falcone and Walter are being good foot soldiers of the media elite that are desperate to blame her, somehow, someway, for some reason, for it all. They are lazy, stupid and mean. They have also lost the argument, and deservedly so.
Gov. Palin has delivered a thoughtful, compassionate response to those that tired to drag her into it. I doubt that our President could offer anything half as thoughtful or compassionate. The Democrats, starting with Sheriff Dubnik, have taken a true tragedy and made it a a political outrage that is boomeranging back at them, and deservedly so.
Face it Palin haters, she has come out this stronger than ever, and the passion that lead to the wholesale sacking of Democrats from local, state and federal offices in November has just been reignited.
You lost, again, and oh, so needlessly.

What are contemporaneously called “liberals” are disciples of a morality – egalitarianism.
All the monikers attached to liberals (i.e. progressive, left, socialist, et al) share in common the philosophy of egalitarianism. From the word “equal,” egalitarianism translates into equality for all – by force, if necessary.
True believers of egalitarianism see free markets and the accumulation of wealth as immoral. Generally, they are intolerant, disrespectful and mocking of those who believe otherwise. When they have no argument, they compulsively attack. One need to look no further than the cruelty by which they assault Palin.
Egalitarians believe that equality is morality itself. And its disciples are actively engaged in changing the ruling paradigm from freedom and private property into an enforced – equality for all; from “pride and competition” to “it takes a village.” Equality is a noble consciousness and every American is entitled to hold the philosophy.
But ideology, or philosophy-turned-into law of this nature necessitates a disregard of private property and rejects prosperity driven by competition. Unfortunately, it also requires an awesome force to mitigate human reaction to their property being confiscated, their freedom limited to a narrow range and living their lives in the communal poverty created by collectivism.

Some of these elementary comments are as the “leader” of it’s intellect. But, I wonder if I entered the Airport and screamed through a megaphone BOMB, ARMED and Dangerous, In my Crosshairs, Terrorist, UnAmerican, Blood Libel, 2nd amendment REMEDIES, Communist, etc. etc. WOULD I BE HELD RESPONSIBLE? WORDS MATTER..PERCEPTION MATTER.

You have to be kidding me right? Palin has “inserted herself”? It was propagandists like you that drug her into the story less than an hour after the murders without a SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE! Now you attacker for releasing a statement about it? There are not words to describe the hypocrisy of you two and other political agents operating in your organization and others! I would say “shame on you” but obviously you have no shame or else you would not be exploiting the murder of a nine year old girl and others in this manner.

Bootm line..the MEDIA made a way to drag Palin into this…just shows their bias is all!

Sarah Palin name is at the top of this
political page every single day. I am
surprised they do not report on what
tampon she uses. The democratic party
and Allies are obsessed with her. It is
funny how the Pima county sheriff refuses
to release any police reports on the shooter
but we know everything Sarah Palin says.
THAT IS CRAP REPORTING.

What do you mean “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”?
Falcone and Walter, are you serious? Of course, you are!
The Liberal media, and now the authors of this article, are the ones that pulled Palin’s name into the debate. She had nothing to do with the shootings. Neither did any of the other Conservatives.
Why don’t you write copy that improves the situation rather than always trying to destroy people and things.
Feel free to quote me.
You people are absolutely hopeless.

Sarah Palin has once again found a way to become part of the story?
Uhmm yeah, after ABC news spent the last 4 days dancing in the blood of child trying without evidence to tie her to these murders.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
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What the hell is the author talking about?
People like the author pulled Palin into this story when the liberal media tried to pin the blame on the Tea Party when they had no facts to backup that assertion.

” Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
You’re an idiot. She didn’t put herself back in the middle of it, she was thrown into the middle of it. The media put her in the middle of it, she did nothing to put a spotlight on herself.

Do you think people are stupid? She didn’t find a way to put herself in the middle of the story. You and the rest of the national media threw her there within hours of the story breaking. She didn’t do it. You did. A person has a right to defend themselves. She’s doing just that.

once again, the LIB MEDIA writes and criticizes Palin, and calls it HER FAULT. totally laughable, if the Lib Media wasn’t so laser focused on blaming the shooting on anything right-wing that moves. turns out the guy didn’t even follow politics. How about an apology to Palin, and Rush, etc but you don’t have the guts!!!

“But she also used the address as a defense of herself and a critique of the media. Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
How haughty of Falcone & Walter! This is why a growing number of Americans despise the media. If anyone deserves to be called out for unfairness to Palin, it’s the media. Psssst: Sarah Palin’s speech was awesome. SHE and not the media has common sense and the pulse of most Americans. How dare you critique what was arguably one of the best speeches about the AZ tragedy!!!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Um, you might want to check the time line. She was falsely accused of causing this even before we knew the names of the victims, by you in the Loughner-left media.

Remember it was you the MSM who blamed Palin and all Conservatives immediatley after the shooting

Are you SERIOUS?! “Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” From the moment the story began to break, liberal bloggers, speculative journalists, misguided sheriffs, and various and sundry pundits INSISTED that Sarah Palin was ALREADY part of the story from the outset. Un-freakin’-believable!!

Funny – the left bring her into the story with their unavoidable hatred and obsession with her. She responds. Its her fault. Who’s the idiot now?

Bottom Line…”Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Who inserted her into the story? Boy you guys are really pathetic…

pathetic article

Nice try, but unfortunately for you Falcone and Walter, we the people actually have minds of our own. Try looking at WHO brought Sarah Palin into this story. If tomorrow something happened to Sarah Palin, would I be justified in publicly blaming either of you based on this article? And then would you not be justified in responding to false accusations against you? Give me a break, thanks for reminding me why the ONLY thing I watch on ABC is Modern Family.

While the rest of the world mourns the victims, Sarah Palin once again tries to make herself into one.

She was a part of the story the minute you loser MSM libs blamed her for the shooting…ie within 5 minutes of it occurring, & nonstop ever since.
And BTW, Obama is probably THE most polarizing politician today.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” is one of the most ridiculous statement I have ever seen in a long time. She did not INSERT HERSELF into this mess. YOU, THE LIBERAL MEDIA and DEMOCRATS did that all by yourselves, now you try to blame her for it. How low can you go?

The left has again used a tragic situation to propagate their agenda. Nothing was known about the shooter and they were already blaming it on the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Fox News, etc. They speak of hateful rhetoric but say nothing when Obama speaks of taking a gun to a knife fight or hitting back opponents twice as hard, etc. Hatred from the left is acceptable but when one of their own, such as Loughner, acts up, then they try to blame it their political opponents. Sarah Palin is part of this story because the left made her part of the story. Loughner did not listen to Palin or anybody else that the left has blamed. I applaud Sarah for standing up to these people.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Yes, this is all part of Palin’s secret plan to enter the minds of left-wing journalists and pundits and cause them to ruthlessly (and baselessly) attack her for 4 days so she can post a brief response on Facebook. She’s brilliant!

Hey wait a minute!? I thought George W. Bush was to blame for all the woes of the country. Hey ABC, stay on target of those DNC talking points, and stick to the script. If something bad happens, blame Bush. Such short memories, sheesh!

Only reason Palin is part of this story is because of bad journalism making her part of the story by blaming her speech.

You have to be kidding – “targeting” the opposition has been a metaphor used by both side of the political divide. There is NO evidence that using images like this contributes to a climate of violence. Where was the outrage when truly hateful and violent things were being said about President Bush (how about that movie about his assassination), or VP Cheney (how about all those left wing blog salivating at the prospect of the Vice President’s heart disease turning fatal)? What about the vilification of Governor. Palin – who has been treated as shabbily as anyone I can think of in American Political life in my lifetime).

To all liberals, thank you–thank you– thank you. Your Palin derangement syndrome is going to help elect Sarah as the next President. We can’t thank you enough for that. With every baseless attack against her, she gains thousands of more potential votes. Come 2012 I want you to remember that we couldn’t have done it without you.

Sarah Palin has a right to speak up and defend herself from the media that accuse her of putting a gun in the shooter’s hands. The media has to get over is obsession with Ms. Palin; it is so juvenile.

ABC makes me laugh!

YOU guys made her part of the story from day one! What’s wrong with you? Do you want her to become president? Talk about free publicity…

Maybe you should be asking why elected Democrats in power are trying to blame private citizens (Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh) for capital crimes with absolutely no evidence?

She didn’t insert herself into the story – you (the liberal media) did. You were looking for someone to blame that wasn’t the lunatic-with-the-gun and you went to the old reliable places: Palin, Beck and Limbaugh. It would be great if the MSM would be as cautious with these stories as they are when discussing stories about terror attacks carried out by Islam jihadists… If they took a moment they would have realized that this nut-job was simply, incredibly mentally unstable! That’s it.

You were the only “alternative” media I would occasionally listen to because of Jake Tapper’s and George Steph. fairly objective reporting, but your hatred for Sarah Palin has so blinded any objectivity you may have had left, I can no longer consider you a dependable news source. If you keep this up, you will soon be like MSNBC and only a bailout w/ taxpayers money will keep you going.

Your “Bottom Line” makes you wrong for the 2nd time, my dear writers. First the media wrongly accused Palin of motivating a hideous, multiple murder. Now you incorrectly say that she is trying to gain attention, when she merely defended herself.
Perhaps this article should be entitled, “Oops, I Did It Again”.

“Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
She is attacked unfairly from all sides constantly. It is an absolute obsession with the news media. So…you suggest she should just lay down and take it like a good dog. And become a noble sacrifice to the news gods. I thought her comments were pretty well balanced. Oh well.

ABC News, get your act together. No one put Sarah Palin into this tragedy except you and your like-minded journalists.

I’m originally from Eastern Europe and emigrated to the United States 25 years ago. I am all too familiar with the left’s propaganda tactics.
I cannot believe what’s happening to this country. Certainly, it is not the country I emigrated to. Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave.
The left’s lies and campaign of personal destruction against Sarah Palin are probably unprecedented in this country. It makes you wonder why they spend so much time trying to destroy her. If she was unelectable as they purport she is, why would they spend even a second reporting on her?
Finally, my question is, is there a way in this country to sue some of the news organizations who clearly used deceit in the past few days to sway public opinion? I mean, within minutes of the shooting last weekend, some of them started to “link” Sarah Palin to the event; and now they claim that she “inserted herself into the story”? Are these people for real?

ABC News, you are a joke.
I guess Sarah should “lie back and enjoy it”?

I hope some day, before all of you so-called journalists die you will come to the realization that that you have all trashed and ruined a once honorable profession. You are not there to offer up any lame opinion that might pop into your pretty little heads, you are supposed to report the facts. We’ve gone from the old lib Cronkite, at least he kept his opinions to himself until he retired, to having a media filled with the likes of little George Stephanopoulos and that bonehead Matthews. Like I said, I hope you all realize the crime you’ve all committed in the name of chasing fame and wanting to change the world.

“She gave no indication that the words she uses to describe her opponents (enemies) is going to change.”
Mike-Have you forgotten that President Obama called the Republicans “the enemies” in just this last election. In the 08 election he is the one who suggested he would bring a “gun” to the fight!
Why oh why can’t we be objective and fair. Do you always have to ignore the rants of the left and focus only on what the right says and does.

We listen to various Democrats/left-wing media types say Loughner was influenced by the likes of Palin for days, denounce her for the commonly-used-by-politicans cross hairs, then the lame stream media says PALIN has found a way to inject herself into the news!
You people are as crazy as Loughner.

MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER have the Nerve to accuse Sarah Palin of finding a way to become part of the story When the Lame stream Media Et Al wasted no time to blame her for her so called heated reterick. The media made her the
story and then they Criticise her for responding. Criticise her for using the term Blood Liable when the headline a couple of days ago was “Is Sarah Palin Blood Liable for the Arizona Shooting”
What Hypocricy. And now it has come out that this Lunatic Murderer did not listem to the News or Talk Radio.. Where is the Apology from the Lame Stream Media? You call this Unbiased Reporting????

Loughner’s most recent friend has stated that he didn’t like the news, didn’t listen to talk radio, wasn’t left of right. So now, knowing this, is Palin still responsible? Both sides of the aisle use trite little war analogies, maps and graphics when it comes to elections. What, are you saying that we have to police what the entire world says now for fear of influencing the handful of unstable people out there? No thanks.
When the left loses an argument (like the most recent election), their response is to promote fear and play the race card. I don’t think Sarah Palin has the intellect to be president, but I also don’t find anything that she’s done wrong here, much less to create hatred or racism. That’s just the left’s cliff notes to discount arguments that are counter to them. Paint all opponents as racists and heartlless nazis, then you don’t have to actually compare ideas and results.
It’s also a tendency of the media (and the left) to try to find some social/behavioral reason for every event that happens in the universe and to assess blame. Sorry to say, there are still random acts that happen in this world that can’t be explained away, and that you can’t sue anybody for. Sometimes, things happen. It’s truly unfortunate, but to assess blame on anybody like O’Reilly, Palin, and Beck is to use the same crass tactics of fear-mongering that they purport to be against.

“But she also used the address as a defense of herself and a critique of the media. Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
She was inaccurately and unfairly put in the middle of this issue by the media, and now she’s getting blamed for defending herself? I don’t think Palin would make a capable leader of our country, but the media’s obsession with (and distorted coverage of) her really make me distrust news outlets like ABC every time I see a piece like this one. As simplistic and golly-gee-willikers as her speeches are, at least Sarah Palin comes of as honest and trustworthy.

“Like most politicians, she is a great pretender. She was as real as her backdrop.”
Ummm. Actually, if you had watched her so called “reality” series, which ismore like a travelogue, you would know that the backdrop is the fireplace in her house. And that really beautiful lake that you see in other Palin videos? ITs looking out the window, at her house. So. In three words. It is real. So is she.

unbelievable. and you wonder why people are fleeing your old style media?
thanks for the morning laugh!
now i’ll be singing “another one bites the dust” all day long!! :-)

I have never read such a dishonest article in my life. Palin did not inject herself. She was supposed to remain silent while these maggots launched accusations? Nonsense.

I’m not a big Sarah Palin fan but it is the media that “inserted” her into the story. For you to use that as your bottom line shows your bias.

The necro-political media propagandists have erroneously accused Palin as the 1st reason for this insane shooter’s inflamed hatred.
She was dragged into this event by the necro- political class of hate mongers only to use her as the target for their character assassination agenda.
Her response was the clear, caring concern for those hurt by this tragic event. Yes, she defended herself against this unsubstantiated attack.
Nothing the Demos Regime can respond will match the high quality of Palin”s statement.
Obama, you have been outclassed.

Know why Palin is always blamed by the media when anything involving a Democrat happens? Because she dared to openly criticize Obama in ’08. Because she calls the media out on their double-standards. And because she was more qualified to be Chief Executive than Obama, who wasn’t qualified to be VP, and ABC knows it.

Whenever theirs Such violence, the Speaker of Violence also become the Story! She has did it AGAIN with her ignorancy of what “blood Libel” is. She needed have apologized for her “reload”, terrorist, UnAmerican and all of the other Hateful Speeches she started during her failed campaign and as a sore loser, saw the hate in her rallies as a money maker and seized the opportunity to cash in on the backs of other idiots…She knows as Well as Anyone She is a Failure and will NEVER be anything but a HATE MONGER for this “exceptional country”. She is UnAmerican at best.

ABC should be ashamed of itself.
Sarah Palin has every right to ‘defend’ herself against political theater and libel.
Period.
Why not use your ‘power’ for good, like discussing why mentally ill people fall thru the cracks, and sealing up those cracks instead of politizing this opportunity to clamp down on free speech!

This article is the height of hypocrisy, and should be example #1 why people do not trust the media today.
We are now four days into the media and the left blaming Sarah Palin for inciting a deranged man for the attempted murder of a Congressperson on whom he had fixated long before he had ever heard of Palin. And because she deigns to respond to theses fatuous accusations, she somehow has “found a way to become part of the story”? What a load of BS.
If you want people who have needlessly inserted themselves into the story for their own purposes, start with that partisan hack Pima County calls a sheriff, the media, and the left side of the Congressional aisle.

George W. Bush made the mistake of not responding to the bully MSM. Sarah has backbone, she refuses to back away from these classless lowlifes.
She is damned no matter what she does, because she is bitterly hated by the left, because she is effective against them and their ilk, and venom filled drivel they spew.
8 years of hatred spewed toward George W Bush helped Obama get elected. It’s not gonna work on Sarah, the the people (the silent majority) are not going to ignore it anymore.
Sarah is an unstoppable force that dances circles around the MSM, like Reagan before her she will triumph in spite of their best efforts to destroy her.

ABC news will just spin it to the end. How can Sarah Palin find a way to become part of the story when the Media made her her and talk radio the story? You libs who buy into this stuff really need to think for yourselves. Ask yourselves, who brought up Sarah Palin and talk radio into the discussion in the first place and then maybe you’ll get it.
It’s amazing how brainless and bias these people in the Media are…
If the “Fairness Doctrine” is brought back, it really needs to focus on those, like ABC news, who doesn’t give its listeners/readers the full story, only the story they want to tell.

Wow, you all really like to have your cake and eat it too.
You inject Palin, inappropriately, into the story. Now you don’t like it that she defends herself from your false allegations.

The left and it’s media outlets are simply using this tragedy to demonize their enemies. Sarah Palin is a serious enemy to them and they feel that if they can destroy her by continuously throwing mud at her then she will not be credible in anything she does or may run for in the future. The hacks like ABC did not make her so they cannot and will not break her. They make her seem stronger as they are getting more outlandish with each attempt to make her look bad. Keep it up left wing hacks and she will become the frontrunner in 2012. Your audience who believe or are influenced by you are shrinking daily.

Sarah did not put herself into the story, it was the politcos and media that blamed her to start with. How do you put yourself into a story that your opponents are already blaming you for. Just because you want to defend yourself??

Funny, the media criticizes Palin for NOT saying anything right away, and now criticizes her for finally saying something. The left needs some serious meds for their Palin Derangement Syndrome.

Wow. Sarah Palin IS INSERTED INTO the story by the MEDIA, and when she steps forward to defend herself from these stunning attacks out of nowhere, you then accuse her of inserting herself into the story.
Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.
If you are familiar with the Bible, remember the words of Jesus: check out the plank in your own eye before talking about the speck in another’s.

I’ve not been a fan of Sara Palin. I’ve also been quite disappointed in President Obama. But, mostly I’ve been disappointed with the media. This article is a prime example. Listen to her words and you’ll see that she didn’t find the limelight, it was thrust upon her and to remain silent is silly. Listen to her words. They make sense. I’ll paraphrase her key point; why should we sacrifice more rights when we’re attacked? Muslims attack us on 9/11 and we surrender the 4th amendment to get on an airplane. An idiot with a gun goes crazy and an elected member of the house of representatives wants us to sacrifice the 1st amendment?
Sara is absolutely right when she says that we shouldn’t blame free speech for the actions of an idiot.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Seriously?! You idiots in the MSM and that wacko sheriff made her part of the story.

The liberal news media (yes, that would be YOU) has spent the past four days blaming conservatives, Sarah Palin, talk radio (all the usual) and when Sarah steps up to address all the wolf attacks you have the NERVE to attack her again. It is DISGUSTING how the liberal media has behaved. Like a pack of wolves trying to kill prey. It makes the liberal party look ugly. It is THE reason you got thrown out on your bums in November and it will be the reason you lose in 2012. The liberal media has crossed the line now. There is no credibility whatsoever. Stop being partisan and do your jobs. Report the news in a fair and balanced way and stop advocating for the Democratic party.

Sarah Palin did not find a way into this story. The media inserted her and held her liable for the unrelated actions of a crazed individual. The fact that Democrats and Republicans have all done the things that she is being held accountable for as an individual is what is truly laughable. Any offended democrat may want to look into their own party before they start slinging at others. She never talked in a more violent way then any other politician, and there are endless examples of “dangerous rheroic” from both sides.
Neither are responsible for the shooting, nor do they have any responsiblity for changing anything. It is unrelated, it is only an issue to those seeking to gain from this tragedy. This article is ridiculious, and the criticism of Palin in these comments seems like the rantings of a deluded and extremely LAZY public. The shooter did not watch or listen to any news programs, but even if he did, he is solely responsible for his actions.
And to those comparing what Palin says, to screaming “BOMB” in an airport: the comparison is ridiculious. An elementary reading of the law regarding speech would show you why your an idiot. There is a difference between shouting bomb in an airport and using metaphores to illustrate political points. Grow up and face the arguments. Stop trying to hide behind all this BS. It’s nothing but misdirection, a tactic to change the discussion from issues to character. Grow up, this isn’t high school.

Damned if she does. Damned if she doesn’t. Whatever Mrs Palin says or does, even in self-defense, is criticized by biased left-leaning media such as major DNC propaganda mill such as ABC, NBC,CBS, MSNB, CNN, NY Slimes, LA Slimes, etc

A tragedy is a tragedy and the incident in Arizona is tragic to all of America. Leave it to the socialistic, Obama arss-licking liberal, lame stream media to blame it on the likes of Conservative talk radio. Sarah Palin is just calling a snake a snake and ABC who are a snake.
That idiot Sheriff nearby is spewing the hate and poison. He Knew about nut-case long before the tea party and Sarah Palin were even factors. Liberals love to play the “blame” game and Americans are wise to it. Why do ABC, CBS, PMSNBC, CNN, etc even exist? They are the Joseph Goebbels of today’s “news” Their viewers have drunk the poison Cool-Aid.
Obama will have nothing news-worthy to say. He is too incompetent. He doesn’t have the guts to call the Fort Hood shooting an act of IslamoFacism.
ABC leading the way of playing the race/divicise/class warfare, etc card.

By your own words, she was “addressing criticism that has been leveled against her in the wake of the tragedy.” How does that mean she found a way to make herself part of the story? If you brilliant media folk would drink your own kool-aide for a minute, you would then see your own hypocrisy. She is not in office and has every right to defend her name when invoked by the likes of you and your peers.

This is why fewer and fewer people are watching or listening to mainstream media. Sarah Palin was merely responding to the barrage of accusations and insults thrown at her over the last several days. These so-called “journalists” really seem to be pretty ignorant.

Is there anything the liberals in the media won’t criticize Sarah Palin for? It sounds like they all somehow heard the shooter yell “Allahu Palin” before he started shooting or got marching orders from the DNC. The President, instead of asking people not to make quick judgements about muslims when an individual who did yell “Allahu Akabar” shot people at Fort Hood, did nothing when he saw the Democrats start foaming at the mouth and making wild, and, hopeful, baseless accusations. He, the DNC, and all these liberal media types like Krugman, Obermann and the like should be held accountable. The President should be apologizing for his party’s and its supporters in the media’s libelous words. And they should publicly admit to their over-the-top hypocrisy when it comes to using bulleyes, crosshairs, military terms, etc. in political speech.

ABC News:
Many personalities in the media, or through the media, brought Sarah Palin into the story by accusing her of having something to do with the murders and attempted assassination of a congresswoman in Tucson.
That you would say, “Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story,” is not journalistic in any sense. She didn’t find a way to become part of the story; you and your cohorts did this without her help.
Do you want to be able to assassinate her character and then condemn her for responding? Thanks for the added vitriol to the political climate, jackasses.

What a load of tripe! Sarah Palin is part of the controversy because the leftist media has made her part of it, without any evidence this mut bag ever even looked at her Facebook map. Palin is allowed to defend herself. And, yes the liberals have used crosshairs and bullseyes in their imagery of political opponents. By the way, ABC News, Palin was one of th first to issue condolences for the family last Saturday, long before you hero Obama or anyone else.

It does not matter what the typical “news” reports . . . we have the ability to seek out the truth and in times like this, the continued failure of orgainzations and “reporters” such as this only makes more and more of us to seek other sources of news from unbiased sources.

Sara sounds Presidential…

So proud of Palin! Perfect timing to her denunciation, ahead of Obama, who will once again pretend to be above politics while refusing to denounce the lackeys who blood libel conservatives with a paranoid schizophrenic’s mass murder.

I don’t think Palin inserted herself into this story at all. It seems to me, accusations from the left forced her to respond.
And, I listened to her video with an open mind and think it was a good response.
This was a horrible incident but in no way alters my belief in the 2nd amendment – if anything, we need a more armed populace, not less. I am tired of people expecting the police and government to be the only way people are protected. Unlike some people, I have faith that my fellow Americans are decent good people with values that I share, and I am not threatened by them being armed any more than I am threatened by police being armed. Who knows, if this gunman suspected many people in the crowd were armed, would he have attempted this act at all?

The traditional media is nothing more than a cheap, two bit bully that sneaks up and slugs you in in the head, then tries to pass it off as all your problem for responding to getting slugged in the head.
Sad that there are roughly 25% of Americans (liberals) who naively swallow and run with such lunacy while posing as the supposed enlightened guardians of “civility.”

ABC news shame on you. I actually viewed and listened to Palin’s video message. I listened to the entire message.
Sarah Palin did not lash out. Her demeanor was not angry or threatening. She presented a thoughtful and articulate response to the trumped up criticism the MSM and various pundits have leveled at her and others (e.g. Beck, Savage) relative to the shooting in Arizona.
The one person responsible for this tragedy is the shooter himself.

Sarah found a way to become part of the story? Seriously? The media spent all weekend making baseless attacks on her, accusing her on inciting the mass murder. You deserve all the scorn being heaped on you. It’s really quite unbelievable how low you’re willing to sink. As to the President, I think his speech would be far different if he’d been accused of being personally responsible for the killings. And the culture of hate he’s inspired. Don’t you think?

This will be a turning point, and the Democrats will be out after 2012. The common American can see through this!

Isn’t it time for Dan Rather to reappear and provide the much needed liberal credibility that these blood libel assertions, although factually false, are true?
America is paying close attention to the left, and we don’t like what we see and hear.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. And she may well face further criticism for the timing and scope of her remarks. She is already taking heat for her use of the term “blood libel” (see today’s Tweets).”
You’re accusing Sarah Palin of making herself part of the story?
Seriously?
In what alternate reality are you living? There is NO WAY any intelligent, rational human being could possibly come to the conclusion you just did after witnessing members of the media and liberal bloggers DRAG her into this story when they slandered her by accusing her of goading Jared Loughner into his rampage.
What a pathetic example of journalism.

DAVE in Houston – you are wrong about the crosshairs – only the dems called it “bulls eyes”.
To ALLL Libs who posted on here – ABC’s reporting of Sarah Palin’s speech on facebook is distorted and twisted. READ her speech and you might learn something for yourself.

“Should she have ended her video right after her expression of sympathy? After all, isn’t today about the victims, not the debate?”
She should just sit at home and take it up the wazoo and not respond, right?

Did you mean to say “once again we have found a way to drag Sarah Palin through the mud”.

HOORAY FOR SARAH. you can’t keep her down. Do you Media Types have any idea how dumb you sound when you knock her? YOU tried to make her the story, and when it took her nearly 3 days to speak up, you accuse her of trying to
be the story”?
Truth is, many Americans would rather hear what she has to say than what Mr. Obama has to say.

HOORAY FOR SARAH. you can’t keep her down. Do you Media Types have any idea how dumb you sound when you knock her? YOU tried to make her the story, and when it took her nearly 3 days to speak up, you accuse her of trying to
be the story”?
Truth is, many Americans would rather hear what she has to say than what Mr. Obama has to say.

It was the media and the left wing politicians that politicized the actions of a mad man and tried to tie them to their opposition before the bodies got cold. This is disgusting and they deserve every bit of critical backlash they receive. Palin has every right to defend herself from these politically motivated accusations and lies. If the media and liberals are so worried about rhetoric, then why haven’t they criticized the movie about the assassination of George Bush, Gov Manchin’s political ad of him shooting a hole through Obamacare and the Dems 2008 ad showing cross hairs over the states they wanted to win. They are all hypocrites.

I have to agree with other commenters that your spin when you write:
“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story” is an egregious lie.
Kos, Krugman, Olbermann, Matthews, Penn, Begala – those are some of the people who made Palin part of the story, not Palin.

Amidst all of the bogus “phobias” out there (“homophobia” for example) the only real one to have cropped up seems to be Palinophobia. Of course, that might also be considered a subset of Truthophobia. Liberals seem to be scared to death that everyone else just might listen to and agree with what Palin says if she is not drowned out with hysterical hyperbole.
This article is a perfect example. Palin is accused of fomenting a heinous act – a conclusion no reasonable human being can possibly support. And then when she includes an admonishment to the losers who propogate this crap to knock it off she’s accused of making herself part of the story.
There’s no gray area in this. The political left has fully exposed itself as hateful, shamless, anti-American liars.
Note – not un-American, Anti-American. The distinction is intentional.

WHAT? Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, et-al were TARGETED by Democratic Politicians and the MSM as the CAUSE of the shootings.
Palin needed to make a statement about it, and did so with the utmost respect for the situation.
Just the Left’s ideology to not waste any opportunity to politicize a horrible tragedy.
Glad the American people are waking up to the rhetoric of ABC News and Company.

OMG, Will you people (journalists and bloggers) PLEASE cut it out! You are literally going to usher her into office in 2012! You are blatantly attacking her and making her a victim of a situation that has nothing to do with her. She’s was never going to be elected President because she’s not qualified, but if you keep this up you will put her there yourselves!
No rational being actually believes she meant for people to go on gun sprees with that ‘targeted’ map. That symbol gets used all the time in politics and business and just about every other area of everyday life.
Her star would have fizzled out a couple weeks after she left office if you would have just stopped trying to make a big deal out of her!

“Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.” My god, the unmitigated gall of you so-called journalists is astounding. Sarah Palin said nothing after this terrible tragedy while pundits and politicians tried for three days to pin this crime on her. YOU people put her in the middle of this with your endless slander. “…this controversy,” as you call it, was entirely manufactured by YOU.

CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN CNBC..All of them covered for Obama and got him elected. They called you a racist if you asked to see his college transcripts. You couldn’t ask about “Spread the wealth”. How about Rev. Wright? The President wants to gain approval with the help of the MSM using this to divide us. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN. DON’T LET THE MSM TELL YOU WHO SHOULD LEAD AMERICA EVER AGAIN! Unless of course you want to live in a socialist country… They do!!!

Sarah was forced into the middle of this controversy by all accusers over the last 5 days. Her response was appropriate and moderate.

Palin has inserted herself into the story?! Please. You have got to be kidding me. Perhaps the authors are upset that after 4 days of being bashed by the media as one of the prime motivators behind the tragedy in Arizona, Palin has the audacity to stand up to the smears and correct the false narrative being spun by the media. Americans are sick of this constant knee-jerk blame game…especially when the facts don’t support the linkage.

Instead of Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story, The truth is that the media has once again found a way to make Palin a part of the story. It’s criminal how the media distorts the facts.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. And she may well face further criticism for the timing and scope of her remarks.”
REAL BOTTOM LINE: ABC is so full of it.
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While I am NOT a fan of Mrs. Palin by a long measure, I have to say that she is no more responsible for this cretin’s act of violence than I am.
If she’d not taken the time to scrub her blogs,facebook etc., she would have been better served by not feeding into this.
re: President Obama’s ‘we bring a gun’ comment. People, that’s a line from “The Untouchables” with reference to doing things “Chicago style”. Sean Connery’s character said it to Costner’s and it’s wholly different – targets on a map and lifting a line from a movie to illustrate a point each create a considerably different effect.
I’m a liberal, but at this time in our nation, we must first be Americans.
What that means to me is that we reach out to our fellow citizens and set aside
petty differences.
I don’t worship at my party’s altar.
We do not have time to waste when it comes to acts of violence on our citizenry.
Stop being childish, move forward and let’s get to the business of getting our country out of the mess it’s in.
Damn.

It amazes me how YOU, the media lambasted Sarah Palin for her words, accuse her of things that Democrats have been doing for years, yet you never call them to account. Now she sends her response to the endless diatribe of misinformation from the media and of course, you accuse her of making this about her. Fools! You made it about her. If you are going to throw accusations at people, expect them to answer back. Try gathering facts next time before you make accusations.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
No ABC (and the rest of the far left that has taken over the Dem party) blamed her and the Tea Party for WHAT THEY CAUSED.
The Flag burning, Marx reading anti-religious doper didn’t listen to Limbaugh, Beck & Palin, he listened to OBAMA.
He’s ALL YOURS Democrats, you and Obama and Rachel Maddow and Olbermann are all responsible for this shooting.
Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
The Democrats are responsible for this shooting, worse, they are trying to use the media to push that they aren’t, AND that they want more control of non-Democrat-controlled media, and they want control over the internet, AND they want to chip away at the Second Amendment.
The actions of these Democrats are clear – they lost the last election because of free speech, and now they want to take that away, as well as our ability to defend that free speech.
“It remains to be seen exactly what Obama will say tonight, but White House aides say another goal of his address will be to lift the nation up in this moment, not sully it with politics.”
ABC = ALL BRACK CHANNEL.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
thank you liberal media for pulling the curtain back so we can all see your socialist agenda. first you blame Palin, and when she responds then you claim she is injecting herself into the issue. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and PBS are the news source for Libtardia, but not for real Americans.

The difference between a conservative and a liberal? Conservatives feel the bigger the government gets, the more of a problem it becomes. Liberals believe the bigger government gets, the more of a solution it becomes.
I’ve been in enough government run facilities to know where the truth lies.

“It remains to be seen exactly what Obama will say tonight, but White House aides say another goal of his address will be to lift the nation up in this moment, not sully it with politics.”
Bwahahaaaa!
Wait … you were serious, weren’t you?

I’ll echo what so many others have said: Your “bottom line” that Sarah Palin “has found a way to become part of the story” is absurd and idiotic.
The media made her the story. From Halprin to Krugman, you made her the issue.
I’m a Democrat. I don’t like her, and I don’t support her.
But shame on you. Shame on you for not copping to what you did here.

No bias here: “she has used violent images …”. What bull from a once resepctable news organization turned opinion outlet. DailyKos used the same targets. So has the DNC. DailyKos even used one for Giffords because she is a Blue Dog Democrat. And President Obama is the one who calls opponents “enemies” and tells his supporters to “bring a gun” to the “fight”. Well this guy did just that and it wasn’t Palin that told him to “bring a gun”. And Palin didn’t bring her name up in connection with this left wing nut cases assault, the media did.

You got to be kidding…BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.
As an outsider looking in ( Canadian) she was dragged into this by the media with the weakest of arguements. She tries to defend herself AND THEN you basically call her a news hound?
Please…blatanly biased…some of us could walk and chew gum at the same time

Ah, that clever Sarah Palin. Inserting herself into the story by manipulating reporters into mentioning her name immediately after the shooting.

The MEDIA would love for Sarah Palin to just sit back and take the unfair hits. The liberals ran in front of the awaiting cameras blaming Palin’s “violent rhetoric and symbols” for an unrelated and horrific tragedy.
Why shouldn’t she speak out against such ridiculous and unfounded accusations?
The truth is that Sarah Palin scares the “you know what” out of the liberals–because she makes too much sense–and the majority of the American Voters agree with her.
Keep it up Sarah!

Seriously??? Palin found a way to get on the air??? You can thank the disgusting AZ Sheriff and the far left leaning MSM for that!! What a crock!!!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
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Are you joking ABCnews? I saw on your programming pundits and anchors alike calling out Palin and placing “suspected” blame on her. YOU MADE HER PART OF THE STORY. How dishonest.

So ABC reporters are claiming that Palin inserted herself into this news story? ABC news is about as liberal leaning as you can get and this is just another example of why their ratings keep spiraling downward.

You jerks were the ones that made this Tucson Tragedy about Sarah Palin.
Then when she thoughtfully responded a few days later, you jump on her for responding.
Bias much?
She can’t win for losing with you guys.
Bush was openly threatened by the left with mock beheadings, death threats, signs with targets on them.
Even a movie about his murder.
Where were you then?
Nowhere that’s where.
You guys need to shut up, quit the political posturing and get back to reporting the news honestly without bias.
You already have lost a good portion of your viewers.
How many more do you have to lose, before you wise up and go back to being credible honest journalists & reporters?

No sense of shame whatsoever presented by the left. None.
After days of being treated to intentional political attack by the leftist press/media culminating in an assault on Sarah Palin, who isn’t even remotely involved, started by the left even before the bodies of the dead were cold, and now being chased up by a Democrat Congressman who claims to be authoring legislation to attack the citizenry for any words that he determines to be “potentially dangerous” in direct violation of the First Amendment and previous U.S. Supreme court rulings, now we get ABC News trying to claim some sort of moral superiority in the words:
“Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
Now the leftists at ABC News have determined that Mrs. Palin can say nothing in her defense after being so wrongly, pathetically, and falsely accused buy them. They would have the citizenry believe that Mrs. Palin is a bad person for responding to what political leftists started and anyone who disagrees with them is the bad guy.
It’s interesting to see the party of no moral values, no principles, no Honor, no integrity, attempt to claim what moral superiority is. After all, “How dare you use you moral values upon us”.
To a leftist everything is a tool. Values, principles, honor, need not apply.

Sarah and the TEA PARTY was indicted by that democrat non investigating, all media 24/7, sheriff, Vitriol spewing, and media picking up on their sheriff hero bullhorn. If anyone is responsible for this outrageous massacre it was this sheriff for letting the shooter slip through his jurisdiction. How is this for blame… the shooter was paid by the sheriff to perform this heinous crime, while he looked the other way. although i have no proof, but free speech still prevails.

When will ABC News go back to the days when it used to be a real “news” organization? Because, today, it has become nothing more than a knee-jerk Leftist political cheer-leader.

“Her words, of course, amount to a rebuttal of those who have called her out for using violent [...].”
So where’s the problem?

ABC is laughable! You guys brought her up in the first place. Since you cant go after Bush anymore now it is Palin you have gone after. Pretty sad when you cant tell the difference between an ABC news reporter and Kathy Griffen.

I bet she didn’t need a teleprompter because it came from the heart.

ABC news is basically saying “shut up and let us slander you”.
The media drug Palin into this before she ever said one word. Now ABC is saying Palin isn’t allowed to respond?
PATHETIC ABC NEWS! PA-THET-IC!

This foolishness of attempting to connect Sarah Palin and Conservatives in general to the shooter in Az is simply a pathetic attempt on the part of the media to score points. The debate about the shooter has already surpassed the silly little map that Sarah Palin used which, as demonstrated by Neal Boortz, used engineering type map designations and not targets. Sarah Palin was drawn into this simply because the left is scared spitless about her power to attract an audience and the potential influence she has on the political scene. They’ll do anything to try and portray her in a negative manner.

Abcnews has once again proven their utter disgrace and unconventional political tactics of hate mongering and bashing political figures like Palin. Absolutely shameful. This story is WEAK, along with Dupnik and Krugman. Bunch of cowards.

Imagine that there are still people out there who are so uneducated, so ignorant, and so gullible that they still don’t think there is any such thing as a “liberal media”.

ABC News and the rest of the liberal press: shameless.

“Dancing in the Blood of the Victims” is the expression given for those in the media who use a tragedy such as the Arizona shooting for their own personal agenda and gain. Now you can plainly see the viciousness and ugliness of these despicable types. THEY are the ones that INSTANTLY jumped out and blamed Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, radio, free speech, guns… and Americans in general. REMEMBER THEM. KNOW THEIR NAMES. Know the networks, newspapers and magazines who employ and support them. They no longer should have your trust. Add ABC News for criticizing Palin for… DEFENDING herself after a WEEK of charges!!!

I’m not a big Sarah Palin fan, but there’s more common sense, truth, and class in that speech than in all of the mainstream media coverage combined.
What a shame that elite liberals in the media are using this tragedy to promote their own selfish, political agendas. Shame on you!

The media and the hard left is so obsessed with Sarah Palin that they again found a way to include her in this and most other political stories.
Most people are tuning out to this predictable nonsense.

The media and the hard left is so obsessed with Sarah Palin that they again found a way to include her in this and most other political stories.
Most people are tuning out to this predictable nonsense.

Yeah, she found a way for liberal opportunists and slime hustlers like krugman and mitchell and matthews and schultz and sharpton and williams and olbermann and on on on to blame her for a mass murder!! She found a way. This mope should be flipping burgers. She found a way to be part of this story. I hope this nation remembers full well how liberals act in the face of crisis and tragedy…they tried to score political points through cheap libelous tactics. They couldn’t care less about the victims

Ditto Mark’s comment.

I don’t usually comment on items, however this is beyond the pale.
The liberal MSM put Sarah Palin into this unfortunate and despicable story.
There have been four days of the liberal press distorting the facts of the case, blaming conservative radio speakers, Fox News, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and other conservative leaders, instead of blaming the shooting on the true criminal.
Jarrod Lochner was a paranoid schizophrenic. He not only shot a Democrat, he killed a Republican, he killed an innocent 9 year old child, and 4 other innocent Americans, and wounded others.
SHAME, SHAME ON THE MSM who can’t report HONEST NEWS.—WHO,WHAT,WHERE,WHEN,WHY
you injected your OWN, WHY…
SHAME, SHAME. The MSM has lost ALL credibility.

LOL The Liberal Media inserted Sarah Palin and she had no choice but to answer back. What a bunch of b.s.

She Injected Herself Into this????
They had the graphics prepped for this story way before this happened.
Palin drives them up the wall and I love to watch them squirm and fight to make her irrelevant when it is the Media that is commenting on her Facebook page or her web site.
Who is going to be the first journalist to do a Lexis/Nexis search on how many times the word “target” was used by ABC/NBC/CBS and MSNBC?
Anyone? Anyone?

LOL! ABC Journalism Fail.

Sarah Palin’s response to the liberal media’s rhetoric that in somehow she is responsible for this maniac’s tirade is FINDING A WAY TO BECOMING A PART OF THE STORY! I DON’T THINK SO.

I thought the state media made Palin the center part of the story. I thought Palin had layed low for 3 days before saying anything. Never saw her interviewed or featured on state TV

Turns out the shooter was a “truther” conspiracy nut.
Did the president condemn the sheriff for “acting stupidly”?
Is there a beer summit scheduled with Dupnik and Limbaugh?

Give us the news, not your jaundiced political views. The MSM throws blood on her and everyone to the right of the NYT, but when she points out the lack of logic in your bile, you come back to renew the attack by calling her stupid, a racist, and a PR hound for jumping back into the story. The hypocrisy and lack of logic is shocking.

I’m confused ABC. First you do everything in your power to portray Sarah Palin as too simple and unqualified for the Presidency. Now you’re implying she is some kind of evil genius, who has cleverly injected herself into the media spotlight by somehow finding a way to get blamed for this shooting. So, which is it?

Wait a minute….the news media started talking about Sarah hours after the shooting. How the hell can you now say she found a way to make herself the story???? You news guys made her part of the story!!!

Like her or not (I don’t), Sarah Palin is in the center of the political and media universe. She is unfortunately a polarizing figure, and has effectively taken control of her own “brand”. She communicates through the internet, controlling all communication and avoiding situations where she must think on her feet and answer to criticism. Everything she says comes back to her religion, she prays for everything, her thoughts and actions are supposedly guided by her christianity. This, I believe, is the most frightening (and irritating) aspect of her style and substance.

I am not a Palin backer. But to say that she “once again, has found a way to become part of the story” is not only ludicrous, it is dishonest.
Just hours after this tragedy occurred, Sarah was dragged into the middle. The allegations were justified by nothing more than pure speculation and sheer animosity.
The saddest part of all is that you don’t care. You’ve generated comments on your article and even been linked by Drudge.
You don’t report the facts; you interpret them. You provide the bottom line. Unfortunately, the bottom line for you is money.

Why is ABC politicizing this tragedy?

Apparently, the media and political opportunists don’t like it when Palin stands up to their incessant bullying. If they keep trying to make her (and the Tea Party, Talk Radio and most other Americans)the problem, they better get used to the swift response from those groups. I think people have just about had it with the illogical, unfounded smears.

Sarah palin gives the emoting social liberal left wing press a history lesson and all they can do is revert to petty name calling. Such hate from the left is our real danger. Thanks Sarah, you look presidential. November 2010 elections taught the hating social liberals nothing and in the end they will pay a heavy price.

Who wrote this Palin hit piece? Sarah was spot-on with her message. She courageously responded to the unfair attacks on her in the wake of this terrible crime. Apparently she has class, and whomever wrote this hit piece, does not.

This article is utter nonsense. The liberal media manufactured out of whole cloth a nexus between this counterculture twit and Sarah Palin and now has the nerve to find her at fault for responding. Shame on you. If you are wondering why your rate of viewership is dropping, this is one reason why.

I am amazed at the comments. To twist Palin’s comments to fit an agenda is sad and disheartening. Listen to the speech again without prejudging. it is a speech touting the strengths of the nation and people, and a reminder not to be sidetracked by rhetoric.

The smoke from the gun fire had hardly dissapated when Paul Krugman was establishing the “facts” that caused this deranged shooter to go on his rampage; including dragging Sarah Palin into the mix.Now you morons want claim that she inserted herself into this story. It’s no wonder that the LMM is losing it’s audience.

I think it an interesting paradigm that many left of center journalists have to pool their intellectual resources just to write one article, as in this case wtih Michael Falcone and Amy Walter (i.e. Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift to further the point). Funny and sad at the same time.

Yeah, she found a way for liberal opportunists and slime hustlers like krugman and mitchell and matthews and schultz and sharpton and williams and olbermann and on on on to blame her for a mass murder!! She found a way. This mope should be flipping burgers. She found a way to be part of this story. I hope this nation remembers full well how liberals act in the face of crisis and tragedy…they tried to score political points through cheap libelous tactics. They couldn’t care less about the victims.

Um, I believe that leftist political pundits and the mainstream media put Palin into this story. So, I give you, ABC News, the credit that is due you. You’re obsessed.

By the way, thanks for creating thousands of new Palin supporters. We’re going to need them in 2012.

Blood libel is a most appropriate term considering the number of unhinged leftists that have been screaming that she has blood on her hands. Is the writer of this propaganda piece one of them?

So you can accuse her of being responsible for this tragedy, then expect her not to make a statement? She interjected herself? She is defending herself and her values from malicious false attacks plain and simple. You don’t have to like her, or her politics but I do expect the media to be honest. How many of you still think Twisted Sister and Dee Snider are responsible for teen suicides? You can predict the actions of someone clearly with mental health issues. We can’t walk around mute because something we say might send someone over the edge. We are not responsible for other people’s actions.

Why do the Left always feel the need to tout their supposed “Intellect” over Sarah Palin and Conservatives in general?
Napoleon Complex maybe?

Bottomline: You are the ones who brought Ms. Palin into this in the first place. You are the reason I have turned ABC news off at my house.

Please tell me, how do these two sentences appear in one column?
Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.
Her words, of course, amount to a rebuttal of those who have called her out for using violent images to “target” Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other Democratic lawmakers during the 2010 election.

I also agree with an earlier commenter (greg miller) – I don’t need to be unified or comforted by the President. I want him to act like a LEADER and respond to the tragedy in AZ with a command of the FACTS, not baseless accusations. A well-respected congresswoman, a 9 year old girl, a federal judge and 4 other innocent people are dead because that young man pulled the trigger. Completely fed up today.

Washington’s most influential tipsheet? Keep dreaming. More crap from hack writers.

YAY Sarah Palin! you are terrific. smart, eloquent, and intelligent.

You are both kidding right. This is satire, right?
Stop,stop!!!
Please stop…..
Na, come on….really, your killing me

Hmmm, are Michael Falcone and Amy Walter suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome? Seems to be so, which is unfortunate considering the very debilitating effects of this syndrome. It renders a person incapable of reasoned thought.

Looks like the reporters are taking two stories and calling them one. 1) A tragedy in Tucson 2) The media’s lack of intellectual rigor in printing any allegation without regard to fact in its rush to have something to say. If Palin complains about how the media have made her part of the story, her response is hardly “injecting herself” into the story. The media injected Palin into the story long before Palin said or did anything.

This article is typical Alinsky: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…” The target is Sarah Palin, who had nothing to do with Loughner’s actions. But ABC pundits will do all they can to tie Palin’s name to the incident, crossing their fingers in hope that she will say or do something wrong so that they may further shift the story’s plot. Walter and Falcone did not even mention Loughner’s name in the article, simply reducing his actions to merely “last weekend’s shooting in Arizona…” in the first sentence.

These people threw Sara Palin into the story and now they act upset that she’s is in it… nice

Well, It looks like you broads got this one wrong. At least you’re consistent.

You would be more accurate to say that, once again, the media has found a way to make Sarah Palin part of the story. She WAS the story within hours of the Tuscon Massacre. Whatever she does – speaks, doesn’t speak, sneezes – will draw knee-jerk condemnation and criticism. The more you beat her up, the more “average” people will rally to her defense. Leave her alone, and she may become yesterday’s news.

My Lord, the media makes a full frontal attack on Palin within an hour of the newsbreak and now ask, “why is she’s once again in the middle of it? Because you put her there you idiots! She has every right to rebuttal your disgusting behaviour in what ever fashion she chooses. BTW: Does your audience actually accept this twisted logic?

It is time for our government to pass a law that the term “News” cannot be used for purposes of spreading Leftist PROPAGANDA – as ABC is demonstrating for all the world to see.
YOU made false accusations, ABC – YOU are libelous slanderers, liars, con-artists and propaganda-mongers.
America reject YOU, ABC, and your evil objectives.

Is there anyone sane left in the media. Palin inserted herself into this story? Thats Laughable. You guys did from the first moments of the event by slandering her. Now you’re upset because she is reacting to your libel. Shameless. If I were to show this kind of contempt for the facts in my job, I would have been fired long ago.

“But she also used the address as a defense of herself and a critique of the media. Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
I wonder why that is? How dare she speak out against those who accused her of having blood on her hands. Those who would claim she is just as responsible as the nutjob that pulled the trigger. Yeah, she alone always makes it just about her.

Divide and conquer. Working out great for the globalists and China. I just want to hear one democrat..liberal, moderate or otherwise say they love the constitution and freedom. Only then can we come together to fight against the globalist and the end of USA. I hate Bush, I hate Obama. There I said it. Can you?

The term “blood libel” has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People,its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz

PS. Nobody I know of saw the map with the targets on it produced by the democrats..we lost remember. Palin is a rock star..her stuff gets seen.
Go back to sports metaphors, stop using guns..ALL OF YOU!.
THOSE OF YOU WHO SAY WE SHOULD GET BACK TO THE CONSTUTUTION AND THE 2ND AMENDMENT..Cool. That means NO SEMI OR FULL AUTO GUNS. SINGLE SHOT ONLY. THAT IS WHAT EXISTED IN 1776.

The media’s knee jerk ideological ambulance chasing is what pulled Palin into the carnival show they’ve created by trying to blame the “right wing” for a senselss act perpetrated by a mentally ill young man who it appears had no political affiliation with anything other than the illogical ramblings taking part in his head. Shame on you!!! I’ve haven’t seen such a disgusting display of bias since Bush was out of office.

The mainstream media spent days blaming Sarah Palin for the murders. Then, Sarah issued an articulate, sincere, thoughtful response, and the mainstream media angrily asserts that she has “once again found a way to become a part of the story.”
So, she could be silent and be blamed for the murders, or she could speak out and be blamed for inserting herself into the matter.
The MSM is beyond parody. No wonder its credibility is in freefall.

Falcone and Walter, you are both media tools. No, I don’t mean tools of the media. I mean you represent the media and are tools in the slang meaning of the word. The media elite inserted Palin into this story before the smoke had cleared or the blood had dried. Truly disgusting!

“Her words, of course, amount to a rebuttal of those who have called her out for using violent images to “target” Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other Democratic lawmakers during the 2010 election.”
violent images?
what are you talking about?
Give it up, media.
You lost the election. Get over it.
And does anyone really care what Obama has to say anymore? I like how he came out and said “Don’t jump to conclusions” about Loughner. Oh, wait, he didn’t say that. He only does that for Muslim terrorists.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”? Could you lib writers be more out of touch? The lib media and Democrats made her a part of the story the very afternoon of the murders. You two are a disgrace to high school journalism.

ABC News’obviously biased reporting should be ABC AMUSE. But this just isn’t laughable anymore.

This was an excellent speech by Sarah. She properly framed the tragedy and the feelings and sentiments of most of the good folks in this country. And properly shamed ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,NYT, Jane Fonda and others that tried to capitalize on the shooting for pure political gain. She also beat Obama at his game — looking very presidential while doing so. Go Sarah!

when will the media let the victims families mourn?
Markos, Krugman, Matthews, etc.. have been bashing the right nonstop since the shootings.. Krugman and Markos were sending out hateful ‘tweets’ about Sarah Palin while the blood was still wet in the parking lot. have they no shame?

Gotta be kidding me…It wasn’t Palin who forced herself into the story….She was pushed by idiots like the sheriff, olberman, etc. And to say that because she is responding to their stupid remarks is forcing herself into the story….GET REAL. Bunch of liberal hacks.

>BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.
What a complete pile of crap.
I only read this story because someone forwarded a link. It simply confirms why I took ABC News out of by bookmark list a long time ago.
Falcone, Walter and ABC – You are pathetic.

Do the test , sit in front of your TV one morning or night. during the news click from abc, nbc, and cbs, back and forth every 5-10 seconds and watch the harmony of stories and wording being repeated from station to station all in the same time slot,same wording. And there many sit listening to an orchestrated agenda specifically designed for your thoughts.Amazing aware and awaken people listen to this, or are they awaken yet?
Make your own educated decision, this nut case that shot these people was just that, a mentally disturbed individual who had no business even purchasing a gun.The focus should be on a national database for the mentally disturbed not being able to purchase any kind of weapon, Palin had nothing to do with this. Keep it in perspective america,constructive minds together can move forward, divided empowers the ones that want to stay in charge.

I was so sorry to hear of the events in Arizona. Such a horrible tradgedy. Now the politicians are jumping to conclusions as to the cause. If you want my honest opinion it is the cause of the people we send to Washington every election day. They will not do a thing about jobs in this country. I read this morning where construction of new homes has fallen into depression era status. Do they care? No. All they can think to do is to shut people up from expressing their true feelings. We need jobs. Construction jobs. Those we have are being taken by illegals. Something has to give here or things are just going to get worse. Right now in Congress they are wasting time. I know if they keep on waisting time about racial slurs and whatever things are getting worse. We all sincerely felt awful for the people who were shot but it is time to get on with it. They were at that grocery store that morning to try to make it better in their styate. Now we need our senators and congressmen to just get to work on jobs. The frustrated voices of the people out here in America might get a lot kinder if we only had jobs. They need to stop their jabber jawing and get on with it. Now.

first off if the media actually reported the truth. the vial things started in 05. it seems the media has a short memery or wishes not to remember. democrats had actual bulls eyes in comericials ran in 05, we had vial things said about a sitting president, we had a assasination movie from democrats friends in hollywood. since 06 when democarts took control of congress on a daily basis they were making vial comments. where was abc then? this a rahm plan lets not let a castrophe go to waste. lets try to villify palin so we besmirch her and get her off the air. plain and simple. after reading alot of the blogs it seems people here are more drone than human. to believe this dribble!

God the media is so bad…..they point to Sarah, then call her out when she speaks and points out the obvious!!! Never thought I would say this, but she looks very presidential IMO.

I don’t understand why S. Palin even has a section devoted to her..she is a nobody…she left her governorship without completing anything and left the state in financial ruin. She is not liked there as one of her follow Alaskans said..she is less like than Obama in Alaska. She has done nothing special, she only divides people. Her rhetoric is a double entre….she says words with two meanings and the gun totlers know exactly what she means. C. Matthews had an excellent program on a few months ago about the violence and hate in this country. The rise of the new reight….take a look at it and realize there are groups all over this country who feel the country is being taken away from them and the government is bad and they have been feeling this way for years even before Obama was elected. Of course, having a black President only incites them more. Many are members of the old Klu Klux Klan and other radical groups. It will amaze you and you will realize after seeing it that words do matter and have consequences and Sister Sarah knows it.

Walter & Falcone have finally got some attention. Nothing like writing a propaganda piece about Sarah Palin to get them some badly needed attention. LOL!

Dirty Dirty Dirty
The lefties in the “debate” circles *immediately* started bringing up Sarah Palin, Rush, and Beck. The lefties made it political, almost before the blood on the floor started to dry.
Way to make a rather pitiful attempt at rewriting history. Fortunately, for normal people, most comments & posts have datestamps, and they can see through your pathetic ruse.
This blog post has guarenteed that today will be my last time I visit any abcnews properties.

The news media pulled Sarah Palin into this story by force, trying to blame her for the shooter’s actions. Now, when defending herself from false association, she is accused of “inserting” herself into the story. One has to be stupid or insane or both to EVER listen to the main stream media again. I am done with them. This was the last straw. INSANITY!

Perhaps Mrs. Palin should have said “The media has once again tried to make me (and others of my party) LIBEL for the BLOOD spilled by a lone, apolitical,drug using psychopath”. If so, then these so called journalists would have had to dig even deeper into their usenet list servers to find the appropriate “smoking gun/gotcha” moment. How sad and how psuedo-intellectual. This is why the left wants to regulate the internet and the airwaves into oblivion. If you can’t win the argument, silence the opposition huh? Nice work ABC :(

Excuse me but the media accused her of being responsible for the death of all those killed by this mad man. They had no evidence but that did not stop them from accusing her. Wow. I’m not a big Sarah fan but the media went WAY TO FAR this time.

MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER
Just throwing another log on the fire to get some attention with that headline?
Really folks, this has been going on for three days now. If the media would have let it die, as is not in this case, it would have died.
YOU WANT THIS TO BE READ….it ended up on Drudge and you got what you wanted.
Fools. Perpetuators.

I dont want ABC to fail as an endevour. And I’m not asking for truth in fiction.
I would prefer ABC to use actuall facts. At least on every page where the word “News” appears.
Integrity, does ABC still use that word in relation to its work? Can anyone still employed by ABC even cite Integrity’s definition from memory? Odds are if there is, their an intern desperate for a job. And no one has notice that they have integrity yet

This page uses Sarah Palin to get people on this site. It’s the only they can hope for you to click on one of the ads on this page. I “bet cha” a million htat every time they post a page with her name their ad clicks/revenue skyrockets. The medial loves to use the Palin name to their advantage.

You people are amazing. You take no responsibility of the power that you hold with your ability to spread your media on such a broad spectrum. Also, it was the media that began putting Palin in the spotlight! She simply wants it to be recognized as it is and not be left alone as it has become unchecked over the last decade or so. As far as her timing goes, she has the right to do it whenever she likes. You might not like it, bur welcome to America. “Poor timing” would have been during Obama’s speech. As far as being polarizing, look at your your own writing!!!

Sarah Palin was dragged into the discussion regarding this tragedy by being accused of fomenting the “anger” that caused the shooting. Therefore, she has a right to refute such accusations.
She did not, “[find] a way to become part of the story.” She was made a part of the story by the same critics and irresponsible journalists that obviously compiled this story.
I suppose this is an opinion section of the website(?). However, the authors are simply and blatantly wrong — either of which is indefensible in a “news” or “editorial” script.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” Are you kidding me!? Obviously, you people don’t read the writings of your own colleagues! They made her a part of the story probably even long before she had heard it and now, when she does address some of the vitriol that has come her way via the media, she is accused of insinuating herself into the story. My guess is that she would have preferred to have been left out of the mix; but, after having been raised as one of the reasons this insane individual committed this crime — now let me get this straight — she is not supposed to defend herself, no matter how thoughtful and subdued her response? You duplicitous little windbags!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Are you insane? As soon as the shooting occurred, Sarah Palin was THE story, being blamed because of some (innocuous and unremarkable) images on her website.
If she is “part of the story,” it is none of her doing.

What a beautiful person, inside and out. Sarah Palin got involved only because she was being labeled by leftists as the reason a mad man killed and wounded 20 people. But the leftist media keeps it going, all for the sake of the leftist agenda, power and collapsing our systems. How do they live with themselves? I do not know.

ABC = just one of the reasons I watch FoxNews and no one else. Of course the other reasons are: NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN

The only reason Sarah Palin is involved in the Tuscon shootings is because the idiot Sheriff Dupnik, and the rest of the loony left (including the media), have attempted to scapegoat her for the tragedy. The idiots on the left disgust me. As usual they project their own idiocy on conservatives.

As an American, I am disgusted by the manner in which the mainstream media is manipulating this story. What value do you bring by degrading a person’s character in the manner that you have? How ashamed you should be as lay down at night and try to sleep knowing that you are using this tragedy for your selfish “journalistic” maneuvers. Why can’t you focus on what is really happening and stop with the conjecture about how Sarah Palin is somehow behind this. You are an embarrassment to your party, and this country. I don’t normally watch ABC News and wish I hadn’t wasted my time on your site this time around. May God give us all some capability to be civil and compassionate at least for the families that have to endure this tragedy.

Evidently these 2 supposed ” journolist” didn’t even know that their own GMA show interviewed a friend that the shooter never listened to talk radio and good chance he didn’t listen to Sarah Palin either:
This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a high school friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre.
Osler says his friend wasn’t shooting at people, “he was shooting at the world.” Regarding the high-pitched talk radio and cable news political rhetoric, Osler says his friend didn’t even watch the news.
He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.

If you’re not angry at our federal government and the MFM you’re not paying attention.

The ratings of the leftist media will certainly plummet after this pathetic attempt to topple conservatives.
Hey, leftists, you don’t get to rule anymore. Get it?

My God. Have you no shame? It’s no wonder Gallup shows the percentage of Americans who trust television news has plummeted to 22%. Seriously, the vast majority of Americans can see you for the lying sacks that you are. Turn off the liberal propaganda machine and start working for the good of this country before you face the unemployment line.

I’m disgusted that after 5 days of vicious attacks on Palin that started just hours after the shootings blaming her for the attacks, some even accusing her of directly causing the shootings, that ABC would have the gall to accuse her of inserting herself into the story like a publicity hound. I don’t understand how an honorable man like Jake Tapper can work for ABC. BTW, a close friend of Loughner’s has just stated that Loughner didn’t watch political TV; listen to talk radio; or care about politics. So much for Palin ‘bought the gun’ for him even if Loughner pulled the trigger.

To America Broadcasting Communism, I.E. ABC. You were among the first to assess blame to Sarah Palin for her hunting.
You have been a Democratic talking points leader for 20 plus years. Your constant stream of criticism is laughable. Keep making fools of yourselves.

To those who say they only listen to Fox no news ..I say too bad..you are cheating yourself of truths. To keep ones mind open is what you need to do and listen to many stations…you would be surprised at what you can learn..to limit yourself to one station tells me you are hearing what you want to hear and do not want to have an open mind.

It all comes down to political correctness and spin. The left HAS to use PC to control the debate or else they lose everytime. If the right does or says something … it is hateful. They say that to suppress objection to their socialist agenda. Nobody can say anything without the ‘offended victim’ complaining and hate speech allegations being brought.
The fact is that ‘we the people’ are outraged at the policies and spending that have been rammed down our throats and the administration knows it (look at Nov. 2010). They cannot even debate it. So what they do is suppress it by saying that we are all angry because Rush and Sarah ‘riled us up’. Then they tell us that what we say is wrong and we are not allowed to say it anymore, simple as that.
They use tragedies (a.k.a. never let a crisis go to waste) to trot out the same old agenda items and attempt to stifle more liberties. Well, those of us who are outraged DO listen to Rush and Sarah, but not so they can work us into a frenzy. We are already in a frenzy. I personally listen to Rush because then I know there is someone who is telling millions of people, everyday, what I am feeling and thinking. It reminds me that I am not the only person seeing this insanity in our nation. If anything it calms me down considerably.
These morons in the MSM are going to keep ignoring the publilc’s voice and continue trying to tell us what we think until they have to close their doors for good, and many are on the brink of that already. The difference between now and 50 years ago is that now, millions more see and understand exactly what the left is doing … and we do not like it at all.

Neat trick. First the media attacks Palin for something she had nothing to do with, and then chastise her for defending herself.

You snarky little leftists are going to see a great big backfire in your from-moment-one attacking of Palin, who, no matter what one thinks of her politically, has not only no discernible connection to this atrocity, but responded to your despicable opportunism with passionate grace, expressing sentiments quite in consonance with anyone not swimming in coastal cultural cesspools. Feel satisfied that if Palin had little political future before this, well, you may have revived it. Beware of unintended consequences, children…

No. Sarah Palin did not find a way to become “part of the story.” She was already part of the story thanks to you guys. She just put a spin on it that you guys at ABC didn’t like.

“Shut up and let us slander you!”
-The entire ABC news department

If we believe Democrats and their lamestream media that the use of crosshairs on more than 20 states and the word reload cause people to kill then I suggest Republicans never bring a knife to a dem rally or they’ll all pull out their guns and shoot you because we are the enemy who should sit in back of the car and shut up.Because thats what Obama told them.Oh and im still waiting for Obama to part the seas.Leave it to the Democrats to pick and choose the symbolisms.

Sarah Palins response was a masterpiece rebuttal to the dirty divisive politics pointing the saber at her since the horrendous shootings by a deranged 22 year old leftist in Tuscan.
She put it directly back at the liberal media. Their response now to her including this hit piece on ABC news is frightening.
Hers was one of the most Presidential speeches I have heard for a decade. Without a teleprompter and looking directly into the eyes of the leftist media she told it like it is.

Sarah Palin “inserted herself”!?!?!? You have got to be kidding me. ABC News is a parody of itself. First you libel her, then blame her for responding to your false charges. The lefty media has shamed itself beyond repair on this one.
Have you no decency, sir?

Sarah’s response may have been wordy? But is the woman not entitled to defend herself?
So this is how they play it. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth over spiteful rhetoric be damned. The left doesn’t intend to allow any of their publicly excoriated targets to defend themselves either. Certainly not the evil Medusa of the Tea Party that they hate so much (Sarah Palin.)
So the vitriol and the vilification continues, all the while as the left preaches against it and points crooked fingers at their adversaries and continues to try and nail their liberal nonsense Jello to the wall.

Oh! I see what you did there… you drag Sarah Palin into a discussion, then blame her for being there.
Clever, but we are no longer fooled.

I find it amusing that Palin has once again worked herself into the heads of the mainstream media. I guess she offends the leftist sensibilities of such institutions. And it offends them even more when she *gasp* actually goes on the offensive to answer the libels and slanders thrown her way. More in the Republican party should take this tact, otherwise the slander from the likes of Howard Kurtz, Joe Klein, most of the DNC, and this gang of reporters here @ ABC will continue to run unanswered.

The MSM put her in this position.
Blame yourselves.

Sarah has responded to the blame placed on her by the progressive/liberal media who made the story about her.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” This is underly rediculous and laughable. All you in the liberal media made her part of the story and then complain about her being part of the story. Do you really believe your own words. We don’t. Any thoughtful person can easily see through this utter nonsense.

BLM=blood libel media, on full display right here.

The only hate and violence is coming from the left. Perhaps you are angry there is no more money to steal from others to pay for your fruitless failed dreams. When people point it out, it makes you face an inconvenient reality, liberalism is a failed program. Rather than dealing with this reality, you make false claims against your opponents, much as you are doing here with Sarah Palin and the AZ tragedy. The only danger to freedom, safety and the truth is coming from the leftists.

I have to agree with Mark,what should Sarah Palin do,just stand by and be hammered by the left leaning media,they drag her in to a situation and then complain when she gets back at them or even replies with class that they are not used to.I imagine that they wish for their good old days when they could spew out their take on things and no one was able to get back at their stupidity,anyway we need to pray for the victims in Tuscon,and remember to ask God to bless America.

Rob that is exactly right!!! The liberal/Progressive/socialist President did say if they bring a knife we bring a gun, but since a liberal said this it is OK.

WHO injected Sarah Palin into the story? That would be the left, looking to score political points and the media, their ever willing enablers.

OK, I have read your story along with the numerous others. ABC, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times, et al have gone out of their way to include Governor Palin in the this story and intentionally direct all blame – in their ignorance—at Governor Palin and others under their propaganda efforts. Are the mainstream media and democrat operatives/representatives guilty of a Blood Libel? They are, and the people recognize it as such.
What you want is to drive common sense Americans, who have a voice away from the debate; yes to silence them because you do not trust the American people. Your fear in the likes of Governor Palin is obvious.

ABCNEWS drags Sarah Palin into a story with false claims and when she responds to their irresponsible actions they complain she has found a way to become part of the story.The liberal news media can’t get over the beating that liberals took on November 2nd.Loughner is nothing more than a severely mentally ill individual.The media has tried to tie him to Tea Party and conseverative values.Loughner was a pothead, hated religion and his favorite books were the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.Hardly, values one could equate with the Tea Party or conservatives.Sounds more like values associated with liberalism which is a mental disorder.Liberals jumped the gun with their conclusions and got caught with their pants down once again.

Falcone, Walter, Bottom Line here is that you two hate-mongers and most of your pals in the liberal media lack any sense of decency and propriety, gleefully using this tragedy as an opportunity to advance your political agenda by spewing venom on anyone who might threaten it.

I am not a Sarah Palin fan, but in this instance it was the media themselves that made her part of the story. If they had not brought her social networking site into the limelight she might have sat quietly on the sidelines for a change.

It was the Left-Wing MSM that brought Palin into this. But if you don’t have a brain and think, you will go on listening to these idiots. Grow a pair, listen to all news outlets.
Mark

I believe the story they are saying she is inserting herself into, is the story of tonight’s memorial Ms. Palin certainly does have a right to answer charges and innuendo leveled at her. The question to me seems to be, is today the day to answer those charges, or is the just the best day to grab the most attention. I thought the article was overall pretty fair in asking that question.

The shooter was a leftist whose favorite books were the left’s communist manifesto and Hitler’s Mien Kampt (Hitler was, after all a socialist). Main stream media’s attempts to blame conservatives and free speech are just more fascism from the left. God Bless Gabby!

Sarah Palin made herself part of the story? Seriously, the media has been non-stop trying to blame her for this event from the moment the gunshots stopped echoing. The deaths and injuries are being hijecked into a thinly disguised attempt to silence poltical opposition.
Governor Palin’s speach was, frankly, presidential and drew our attention to the broad picture and principles involved. It was by no means about her it was about us.

After reading through the comments your marketing department should re-asses who they have hired and are writing your copy. Your market is against ABC.

I was going to write the exact same thing as Dave Koenig. I’m glad I scanned for someone else with clear thought before I posted a redundant comment.
Good on you Dave, for catching that logic.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. ”
As did Nancy Pelosi and President Obama.
Her brillant video shows how foolish the pundents and media have become,just like the authors, MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER. How embarrising for them to make such a statement. She did not bring herself to the story, the Media did with thier foolish claim a webpage caused this horrible act.

And, in other ABC News, the chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grams per week!

I am just going to repeat what Dave Koening wrote because he does it just fine:
“Your “Bottom Line” opening sentence “Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” is one of the most laughable summary statements I have ever heard. It was not Sarah Palin that made Sarah Palin a part of this story, it was the Media and Blogs accusing her of culpability though conjecture and outright pontification that made her a part of the story. She is simply responding.”

It is almost comical to read the mainstream media articles. Over the last few months it has become evident that the public can see through the almost pathological liberal agenda organizations such as ABC News push forth. Their latest attempts to diminish people like Mrs. Palin fall flat on their face and serve for nothing more than to, if possible, wipe any remaining credibility they may have. Nobody has bought into this latest liberal attempt to squelch free speech and muzzle the voices that speak out for freedom and truth. Please crawl back under the rock you came from and spare us any more inane print.

Another ABC news hatchet job on Palin. You guys are a pathetic disgrace.

The main steam media is such a joke! They are the ones that injected Sara into the story. They are the ones, along with that dufas sheriff in Az., that tried to blame talk radio, the internet and anyone else that doesn’t think the way liberals think! The liberals have 2 or 3 pages in their play book. Blame the Americans that don’t think as a liberal, restrict our freedoms and tax us. That is their entire play book.
Then we find out the deranged killer didn’t listen to the radio,watch t.v. and was non-political. We also found out he had several run in’s with the local law.
Liberalism is a very sick philosophy!

The Democratic propagandists are just so brilliant, aren’t they! I’m falling for it now…it’s just so clever, I can’t help myself. Geez, if only I were as smart as those “progressives”, maybe I could see through their transparent BS, but they’re so brilliant, I can’t. I’m putty in their hands! I’m going to vote for the Dems now! Anything to keep the violent monster Palin away!

ABC has been riding the Palin express ever since she came on the scene.
The election of President Obama and the network media’s “inability” or “refusal” to critique his presidency…created a VOID which Sarah Palin filled quite nicely. ABC…CBS…NBC were circling the drain until Sara Palin came on the scene…they should be paying her a commission.

ABC news network is a part of the “blood libel” liberal media Sarah talks about and it is obvious by their response that ABC news feels Palin is right on in her condemnation of their agenda and that is to silence free speech that they don’t agree with. The truth always hurt and the liberal media like ABC is feeling the backlash of their ignorance and misinformation they are famous for spewing.

The left and the “mainstream media” did everything they could to vilify and damage Bush and Palin, and still are. Tying this insane 22 year old to conservatives with zero evidence is just as insane as the shooter himself. Shame on all of you!

Falcone, What are you thinking? Palin threw herself into the fray? No, just the
opposite. You thrust her there forcing her to react responsibly and state the facts.
Where’s your article about the damning rhetoric of the libs and demos. Oh, that’s right — nowhere to be seen. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
Become a news media rep. not a left political “bandwagoner”.

Hey Falcone and Walker – YOU MORONS IN THE MEDIA MADE HER PART OF THE STORY – Duh.

anyone that is still a liberal after this week has serious mental problems…really, they need to be examined by a shrink.

Amy…..Michael……Can I ask one question? On your payment stubs, does it say ABC news Corp. or Democratic National Comm./ Media Matters/ or some Soros affiliated group.
Both of you seem to have some fascination with Sarah Palin. You and “your” friends brought her into this horrible situation.
Do you hear that sound that is ABC news circling the toilet. America has had enough.

Unbelievable, “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
You idiots know that Palin was dragged in by every lib news org including yourself within hours of the shooting right?
There is a rather long list of liberal politicians that have really interjected themselves into the story for no other reason then to try and curry political points or fund raise, how come your not calling them out?

“the challenge is for her to decide who she wants to — or can — be.”…
Huh??? Why? Because you say so???
She IS being EXACTLY who she wants to be!! What you see is what you get with Sarah! Not so with most other pols…
Just because you media hacks desperately want to keep her “contoversial” she was MADE part of the story THE SAME DAY it happened!
But then…what else do we expect to see from anything ABC?

It is the liberals and the media that have tried to blame Ms Palin for the acts of a deranged young man. I doubt very highly that Ms. Palin would have said anything beyond her initial expression of sorrow had the liberal’s not blamed her. Funny – the liberals blame the right for this mass murder, then claim to what to tone down the rhetoric. You cannot have it both ways.

You make it seem that Palin somehow found a way to inject herself into this story. It seems to me that the Tucson Sherriff, a number of Democratic Congressmen, and the media made her part of the story wheather she wanted to be or not. That is not her fault.

I don’t really like Sarah Palin, but every news outlet accuses her of being complicit in this shooting and when she defends herself your comment is “Sarah Palin finds a way to become part of the story” the press drug her into the story!!!!

As usual, ABC thinks I’m stupid and I’ll believe Sara Palin has found a way to become part of the story. Come on! ABC and all the rest of the liberal media made her a part of the story from day 1. You can’t fool me anymore.

How ridiculous is this, it was the mainstream media and the leftest blog like the Huffington Post and Daily KOS that have become feeding troughs for the main stream media that first tried to place the blame of this tragedy on Palin. When she fights back against the libel The Media screams how dare she defend herself?
I think we were fifty years too late in removing lead from the paint used in baby cribs, those children have grown up to be “reporters.”

Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”?
ABC you’re laughable. If it wasn’t for you and other insecure left wing media, no one would even know who this gal is.

WOW ABC, how can any conservative do anything that you don’t agree with? Label Palin and conservatives as responsible for this random madman’s act, then when they say anything to contradict it, insist that they’re ‘injecting’ themselves into the debate?
Do you even realize how flawed and incomprehensible your statements are? Have you no editors?
Oh, and I do believe that President Obama has been much more polarizing than Mrs. Palin, but we’d never mention that would we…..

hi. you guys made her a part of the story. she didn’t choose it. please give your readers more credit next time.

The lesson here ABC is that you have to wait AT LEAST a week before you can hope the people forget that it was the MSM that drug Palin (and Rush and the rest of the right-wing boogeymen) into this.
I guess at ABC News you just forget everything you’ve reported when you go home each day. Makes it much easier to make up the news tomorrow.

Use the adblock plugin for Firefox to view this website it denies ABC of revenue.

Question to ABC news:
What makes Bill Clinton or every other leftist you trot out on your network relevant to ANY national tragedy?
You have the nerve to call your network un-baised? What a pathetic joke.

Craig Idiot… I mean Eliot…. I didnt know she wore her speech….????

ABC has once again heaped shame and scorn upon themselves (although they don’t understand shame) by trying to defame and ridicule a nice, honorable, decent and loyal pro-American, Sarah Palin. Beign pro-American is what the Left sees as her big crime.
It is always amazing how unintelligent and mean the Left is. Instead of covering these horrific killings in a proper journalistic manner ABC is just another sorry Leftist propaganda machine spewing the big-boys talking points. ABC=crap.

so the left accuses Palin of these killings, she defends herself and because of this, she gets herself in the story. how pathetic. you people ar fools of believe this story.

ABC and the rest of the MSM could use an enema for their coverage of this tragedy,——innuendo,speculation,and basicly blaming everyone but the shooter,and I bet the Defence council will have a ball with Sheriff Dumbniks statements,and of course the MSM flocked to him for more of his gems of wisdom everytime he opened his mouth. Not a proud time for our News Media.

Why haven’t you people put up pictures of all the kill bush protests that were all over the place? You didn’t have a problem with that. You are so busy trying to assassinate the character of those you disagree with that you continue to lose the market to FOX NEWS! Know why? Because folks that are not dumb enuff to believe your propaganda machine are all there. They appear to out number your useful idiots. Note there standing compared to yours.

Hey ABC. You and the rest of the liberal media made her a part of the story by saying she was part of the murder. She has a right to defend herself. I’m glad Sarah gave you hacks a kick in the nuts.

This is yet another disturbing and manipulative story thrown out by the collective radical left media to cover their own obvious mistakes, aka turning a tragedy into a personal attack on every member of media not radically liberal by name.
BOTTOM LINE THIS IS DISGUSTING PROPAGANDIST ABUSE OF MEDIA.

green goddess-
isnt it a fact that in order to be a liberal your IQ has to be below a 50…Otherwise you wouldnt be one b/c it takes a DUMBASS to be a liberal otherwise how do you explain putting the dumbest most ignorant president in history in office….You liberals are really the most ignorant bunch of dumbasses on this planet…Its you and cockroaches

What’s really sad is this left wing rag and the rest of our “fair and balanced” media blaming Sara for this hideous act and then writing a condemning article about her after she rightfully responded to their accusations. How ignorant must ABC think the American public is to not see through this sham or total lack of journalistic ethics. We get it, you don’t like Sara or any of the good things she stands for. Why not just come out and say it and openly campaign for the radical left wing cnadidates you love? It’s never too early to start your campaign for 2012. Will the fairness doctrine also apply to ABC , NBC and CBS or just to FOX?

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
What a joke. The MEDIA brought Palin into the story within minutes of it breaking. Palin is just defending herself against non-factual accusations thrown at her and right wing conservatives. She had every right to speak out.

ABC you and your reporters must learn to report a story correctly, without bias, and take time to find the proper details.
This started when the Sheriff in Tucson opened his mouth and probably blew the case against the shooter with any investigation instead of keeping his mouth shut. The shooter will likely be locked up for “insanity” only.
This started the media feeding frenzy on Palin and Talk Radio. ABC you have had several days to get it straight, but nothing. Palin’s response is smart, credible, and very good.
ABC stop the bias and the lack of proper reporting and investigation!!!

“…But she also used the address as a defense of herself and a critique of the media. Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
So if she responds to accusations of inciting this evil psychopath to kill, she is ‘putting herself in the middle of it’???
What is wrong with this reporter???

Once again she has found a way to become part of the story? Are you guys really that stupid? Seriously?
I knew responsible journalism was dead, but COME ON!

Yesterday the press was accusing Palin of hiding out, being ‘on the lam.’ Today, the press is complaining that Palin is inserting herself into the national dialogue. So which is it?
Not that it matters. ABC and the rest of the MSM have already decided how they will shape the narrative. Fortunately, we can find our news elsewhere and make our own decisions.

Aww, the loss in November…it’s been too much for these fools…they are liblocked. Ace said it best:
“Paranoid schizophrenics see patterns and connections where there are none, and where tangible, real-world evidence tells us there are none.
“Leftists see patterns and connections where there are none, and where tangible, real-world evidence tells us there are none.
“Therefore, leftists have become paranoid schizophrenics.
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What has happened to Journalism in America? This story “leans” so rediculously left, it is appalling. Wake up and get a clue America.

I cannot believe this story!! YOU printed “Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” huh??? Seems to me is was the NEWS REPORTERS and the TALKING HEADS that put HER into the story by making it sound like it was HER fault!! Saying “She used targets on pictures” and such… Well, guess what, that type of picture has been used by BOTH SIDES – Democrats and Republicans alike – and they have been doing it for many years!
Give us all a break and quit MALIGNING people just to MAKE (or make up!) News!!

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. And she may well face further criticism for the timing and scope of her remarks.”
TOP LINE: YOU, the irresponsible and oh so scummy media, made her PART OF IT from the get-go. That didn’t quite work out the way you wanted it to, so now a fresh narrative. You people ( and I use the term loosely) are so predictable,
“She is already taking heat for her use of the term “blood libel” (see today’s Tweets).”
Are these more tweets from the honorable markos mouwhatshisname or olberdork? The sheriff, maybe? News it’s not, Like this article, it’s just more campaigning from the left.
“In her video she notes, “President Obama and I may not agree on everything, but I know he would join me in affirming the health of our democratic process.””
I know she is sure to be disappointed on that.
“It remains to be seen exactly what Obama will say tonight, but White House aides say another goal of his address will be to lift the nation up in this moment, not sully it with politics.”
Ha! It will certainly be the VERY FIRST TIME. He’s campaigning and AZ is just one of his pit stops. It’s gonna take an awfully lot of hot air to lift this country up out of the pit it’s in.
A question for ABC? Why not do a story, full of FACTS about all the gun, fight, anger & gettin’ in their faces, terminology used by his oneness? Huh? I can’t hear you.
Or, put up the map that Daily Kos had, ya know the one with all those targets on it. Interview his MM and ask what exactly do they mean?
OUR BOTTOM LINE – We’re wise to you and all the direction you take from the progressive left. We aren’t buying it. This story along with all the other smears and accusations will be your further undoing.

So, once again she’s found a way to be part of the story?? REALLY?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
Excuse me, but she was MADE a part of the story already and it was not by her choice. Certainly, Sarah Palin has the right to rebuff her accusers, just as anyone reading (or writing) this article would do.
You guys must be scared to death of Palin, for there’s almost no other way in which you guys provide so many examples of twisted journalism than when you are “reporting” on Sarah Palin.
“Is she going to lead or continue to be a polarizing figure?” UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
Believe it or not, Falcone and Walter, wwe’re not stupid.

If the MSM wants to regain some credibility you check out Senator Bernie Sanders of VT.It seems he’s using this Tragedy to collect campaign funds for himself. I got this information of The DrudgeReport.The MSM seems to have missed it,—or don’t care.

I can’t believe this. How can these people sleep at night with the lies they spin. Both MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER need to be FIRED for this outrage.
When we can no longer believe or trust our media we are doomed as a country.
Shame on both of you Mr. Falcone and Ms. Walter!

Let me get this straight. The news media including ABC News have been conducting an assault on Sarah Palin saying her “crosshairs map” drove this nutcase to kill with NO EVIDENCE. They are all pontificating about this. Now with a lot more facts we find that her map, TV news, and Talk radio had NOTHING TO DO with motivating this guy. Now that Sarah Palin is calling the media out for their grossly irresponsible commentary and reportage she is making herself part of the story. Wonder why my only contact with MSM is thru drudge and not of my own desire to go there. This is a completely irresponsible commentary that is just as bad as what they did just after the shooting.

Hypocrites… How stupid can the media be. Drag her into it hours afterwards, complain about hernotrespnding, complaining when she does.
Hypocrites…

I am going to support Sarah for national elective office. I will write checks. I will volunteer. I am SO into this.
I will back Sarah for two reasons.
First, she is a bright, articulate lady with common sense, grace, dignity, wit, great judgment, and fantastic leadership skills.
Second, because supporting Sarah will drive idiots in the MSM stark raving insane. Thanks for making this decision so easy, Falcone and Wlater.
Those two reasons–they are in no particular order.

This is a joke. Palin chimed in on FB, Twitter–whatever–to simply acknowledge the tragedy. The MSM made her into a demon on this story. Although I am a conservative, I have no intention of voting for her–and frankly, I do not think she will run. She regularly exposes her real value–she makes the MSM and the libs nationwide (particulalry on the East Coast) run scared. Very scared. And every time they do, they dig themselves deeper into a hole they don’t beleive is there. You go, girl.

The leftwing fear of Gov. Palin continues to grow producing insanity. Now, I understand democrats hate the American people for voting them out of office. But, how does democrats getting beat at the polls in honest elections have to do with the shooting of the congresswoman last Saturday by an insane young man?!?!
Therefore, isn’t the real aim of these democrat political attacks on conservatives to stop their effective speech against democrats? There is no connection between Republicans (Limbaugh, Palin, the Tea Party, etc.) and last Saturday’s national trauma.
On the other hand, there is a connection between the democrat party’s explotation of last Saturday’s trauma as a political strategy to exact punishment on Republicans (Limbaugh, Palin, the Tea Party, etc) to payback the people democrats feel are directly responsible for giving voice to the people in our free society.
The real targets of the democrat party in this political attack are the American voters of Nov. 2010 because they are the ones who put democrats out of office.

ABC synopsis that “Sarah Palin put herself into the AZ. shooting story” …. What? The 3 networks worked in harmony to show the map with targets from her website the VERY DAY of the shooting. What kind of brain dead squid wrote something so obviously moronic and how stupid ABC must think the public is. Why does Palin scare you so much that you risk the believability of the network on it? You blatantly lie and expect to be taken seriously. Wow.

Why aren’t these “news” (NOT) media outlets required to be truthful in what they really are? Propaganda and opinion supporting the commiecrat party.

She did not ask to be pulled in……. remember the progressives have used references like the “target” before. Do your own research……

Minding her own business in Alaska…. she hears a bunch of Liberals blaming her for anything that goes bad. She defends herself and the liberas that wrote this article say SHE injected herself into story.
Maybe if the liberals would stop slandering her…. she would not have need to defend her self.
As usual, the liberals lose on the FACTS so they try to win with lies, slander, and politics of personal distruction

Liberals want to provoke a reaction so they can start a civil war and justify killing republicans just like they did after the Emancepation Proclamation.

Blood Libel Seems appropriate
Alot of people want to pick at any little thing Cause They Hate her

“once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
Is the writter serious? the left wing media made her a part of the story.

Liberal democrat, Bob Beckel admitted on Hannity that he created the crosshairs term and used it many times against republicans. Clinton also used the term war room. Obama has said, you should bring a gun to a knife fight. This list goes on and on of the hateful things they say. Liberals/democrats clean your own house before you come to ours. The comment about you being crazy and evil was spot on.

So let’s see, you media guys recklessly race to blame Sarah Palin for the actions of a murderous madman, and then when you’re caught in your libel, you try a different approach and try to pin this on Palin and say “she found a way to become part of the story.” Could you be any more transparent? Look, character assassination worked in the old days but now we have other ways to find our news. ABC News and the mainstream media is a joke!

MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER
Just how stupid do you think we are?
Are you frigging kidding me!
I’m a Democrat but I’ve simply had it with the blatent dishonesty. This woman has been accused of being an accessory to Murder and you people have the gaul indicate she “found a way to insert herself” simply by making a statement in support of the victims of this horrible crime. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain now this piece of crap killer is just another brain dead lunatic pot head liberal.
You people make me sick and it’s people like you who are the reason the MSM is dying and no one is watching.
Rock on Sarah !
You have another solid vote in your corner from me
-Bob

Way to go Liberal Media … You give Americans more reasons everyday not to watch your distortions and accusations.
No Wonder Americans are switching to Fox News.

Liberals and Loughner are really not that different. I am sorry this young man fell through the cracks, and did not recieve help. It seems, though, Liberals gleefully jump through the cracks at their own peril, time and time again! What is that Einstien said about insanity?
Liberals are bringing about what they fear most. All by themselves.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
You got to be kidding me. She didn’t find a way to be part of the story. The story found her! You said it yourself, her video was a “rebuttal”, as in, there must have been something to rebut. Good gosh, at least get your logic straight.

Oh really, ABC? Palin “inserted herself?” Have you all any idea of how foolish you look? Guess not. keep it up. What small shred of credibility you have left you continue to destroy. Keep hanging out in the echo chamber and you will never get a clue. What a laugh our pathetic media have become.

ABC NEWS — YOU and your alphabet network and print brethren brought Palin, Beck and Limbaugh into the story yourselves. Typical legacy media sleaze to invent a narrative and then apportion blame to the subjects thereof.
Actually, “invent” is giving you and your fellow networks too much credit. I’m sure “unnamed Democrat operatives” had already promulgated talking points to align with — was it Mark Penn — President Obama’s “Oklahoma City moment”.
Was it another “unnamed Democrat operative” who advised the President to “deftly pin” the events in Tuscon on the Tea Party? Well, if Pres. Obama tries — and shame on him if he does — he’d better hope he does so more deftly than you have done.
“Bottom Line” — it’s right there in your ever-shrinking viewership…and “Good Day” to you…furious

What most of you democrats don’t seem to relize is that thru his comment the sheriff of Pima county has made Palin a target. If you think for a minute that there are not individuals, who identify themselfs with your party, willing to commit murder for the “greater good” then your are mistaken. These comments have only increased the divisiveness that you are all bitching about. If you want it to end stop smashing windows, if you want it to end stop beating people up because they don’t believe in socialism, if you want it to end relise that it is the individual that is responable for his/her actions and NOT society at large. And remember just because you say it does not make it so!

Not being an ardent Sarah Palin fan but what she said was very appropriate and focused on the issue. No blame game is the way to go.
Hate speech is speech that one does not agree with. Being as someone that supported Obama people also need to watch the speech of Olberman, Maddow, Matthew, and Schultz. These are individuals that spew with hate and vial speech. I personally enjoy the Wolf Blitzer’s, and Parker/Spitzer’s of the media world. People that are logical in their thoughts and focused on the story and not hate.

“White House aides say another goal of his address will be to lift the nation up in this moment, not sully it with politics.”
Yeah, of course not, he would never do anything like come out and make a public statement voicing support for the sheriff who has done nothing but criticize the right. That would make him the Great Divider, not the great uniter the left poses him as.

I should edit my previous statement… ABC = Always Blame Conservatives channel….

It’s the media that made Sarah Palin part of this story. Within hours of the terrible tragedy the media put Sarah Palin into the story. She didn’t do it. Now you have to pick on her because the media got the background story wrong (again) on the shooter and his motives – so the media still feels it has to bring Sarah Palin into the story. Why can’t you just ignore her?

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Wow! What an insight! Before the bodies are even cold, Ms. Pakin gets Paul Krugman, Keith Olberman and the usual suspects to link her to the shootings by name. That puts her in the story, with charges she can rebut through a second news cycle.
I tell you, that woman’s more diabolical than Karl Rove.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” Are you kidding me?
She was put into the story by others, and now that they’ve accused her and others on the right of being complicit in a mass-murder, if she dares to speak up in her own defense, she’s putting herself into the story?
Since you cannot be stupid enough to believe your own statement, you must be writing such drivel with the purpose of slamming her, pure and simple. Too bad it won’t work, as most of the comments on here show.
I’m not a huge Palin fan, and doubt I’d ever vote for her in a primary, but I’ll gladly call you out as faux-journalists and call you what you are, merely partisan commentators.

It amazes me how ignorant the left wing media and thoughtless the liberals are every day. I think the points have already been made that Palin was drug into this story by the liberals and now she is standing up for herself by commenting and they once again spin the story.
Mitch Daniels for president!

I love war and violent imagery in politics. And I don’t believe it incites actual physical violence. I would like to see the proof that it does. Any eveidence at all.
I do know this, both sides do it. Alot.
I also know that those who want to limit speech are the same ones that defend Hollywood when the inundate our kids with thousands of real violent imprints.

Before you get a big head over the huge response to this article ABC, just remember it was posted on the Drudge Report. I doubt you’ve had this much of an audience for anything put out by your lefty organization in quite some time.

Liberals do NOT want you to stand up for yourself… you are to do as they say and hand over a good portion of your check so they can blow it and then ask for more…
Liberalism is a big reason we currently have a 14 trillion dollars debt
Liberals tried to profit off of a horrible tragedy!!! That is sad, and you know they have no problem sleeping at night. They just knock themselves up with pills or smoke their drugs and go off to la la land waiting for the 1st of the month and that check to show up.

I watched Joe Scarborough this morning and couldn’t believe the hypocrisy.
Amazingly, like this article, they like to blame Palin for anything.
For Mika and Joe, Palin incited hate, here she incites herself into the story while ignoring the fact that the NY TIMES had an Op-ed (Paul Krugman)on Saturday, hours after the massacre blaming none other than Palin and other conservative public figures. Not to mention the Sheriff who was incredibly unprofessional at inciting conservative viewpoints such as free speech, freedom, etc. as hate-speech and ignoring Frances Piven’s 1-week old call to violence to progressives.
Unbelievable. There is no shame.
Whatever it takes I guess ABC, since the 2012 campaign is gearing up. You’ve got to do your best to make sure that Palin is derided at all costs, warranted or not.
We know from the 2008 campaign that so many lies about her and what she did or said were never corrected by the media. Yet, the media never bothered to investigate this president on his extremist ties.
Who knows if she will run or if she’ll win, but I thought she looked “presidential” here. It was a good speech and should make progressives very nervous.

Palin found a way to become part of the story?!!!
Are you delusional?
Palin was dragged into this mess by those people who wanted to make this whole event a political statement.
You’re unbelievable and serve as an example why the mainstream press is in the pocket of the Democratic party.

- “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
This has to be the most stupid comment I’ve read in some time. She was a part of the story from the moment Dupnik, Krugman, Olbermann et al opted to – a mere few hours after the incident, before the bodies were even cold – try to capitalize on the incident for partisan politcal purposes by trying to blame it on her and others on the right. Since then we’ve seen that there was NO basis at all for these assertions. And have those who made these stupid claims retracted or even toned them down? Hell no. They’ve dug in, rationalized them and even ratcheted them up.
I have to think there’s something in the water over there in Leftistland.

We are witnessing the slow motion implosion of the radical left wing of the Democrat Party.
The lies just can’t keep up with public opinion.
It’s good to see Jason Blair found a job at ABC.

Who wrote this garbage?? Someone educate this ABC writer please. They come out here writing this garbage wanting US to believe what they write??? Are you serious?? So she minds her own business and morons like YOU accused her and now she’s at fault?? You must be mentally challenged or seriously ill. I pity you
WoW unbelievable

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
Seriously, are you kidding? What a joke.

when the media and left-wing pundits instinctively and reflexively flew off the handle without the slightest inking of any facts AT ALL (like that has ever mattered) to hypocritically smear rush, palin, the tea party, et.al., I was still pretty shocked that these idiots would reveal their blind partisanship when the risks were so high that until anything at all was known, they could be dead wrong and then held up to the ridicule they (now) rightly deserve.
now that us more sober folks have some facts about the matter, and sarah palin has the gall to actually defend herself against their machine-like smears, the media (or at least this author) are now outraged that she’d do so?? am I really reading this correctly? I guess the idea is they slime whoever they want and the aggrieved party should just shut up?? absolutely unbelievelable. just incredible.

How ironic that Sarah Palin is pilloried for having the temerity to defend herself from attacks that, incidentally, come from those who were quite comfortable with injecting themselves into the “story” at the expense of truth and ethics.
Remember the MSM’s oh-so-judicious caution against “jumping to conclusions” when Hasan engaged in jihad against American soldiers at Fort Hood? In modern-day America a radical, murderous al-Qaida sympathizer enjoys a level of media magnanimity patriotic Americans can only envy.
On Saturday, when within an hour, leftist pundits, politicians and one pathetic excuse for a local sheriff dusted off their talking-point template and — nearly in unison — launched attacks at Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, ObamaCare opponents and anyone else not in fealty to the Obama agenda. One would expect the lib talking heads to commence with their assigned diatribes, but the spectacle of Sheriff Dubnik’s choosing loyalty to Party over principle was over the top. Pima County voters, do you really believe HE’S the best you can do?
One can only imagine what kind of blame-the-right narrative the lefties have prepped for roll-out when radical islam levels its next hit on America. It’ll be one for the ages.

Do Michael Falcone and Amy Walter secretly love Sarah Palin? This obsession of news journalists, editorial columnists, and pundits… it’s beyond ridiculous. They write like kids passing notes in study hall.

This story ladies and gents is a perfect example of why trust for our news sources in our country have hit rock bottom. ABC and the rest of the liberal media is a joke, and most of the country gets it. The rest just have someone read them the story and explain it to them while they wait for their liberal talking points.
I love debating liberals, they quickly turn away from facts because they have none.

Sarah Palin has ‘found a way to be part of the story? Found a way?! She found a way when, just a few hours after the shooting, CNN(which I was watching)managed to mention her name as possibly complicit in the massacre no less than 5 times! She didn’t make herself part of the story, the disgusting liberal media’s raging hatred for her did.

Wow. What hypocrites.
You know full well you dragged her into this yourselves. So does everyone else willing to admit they know it – as well as the overwhelming majority of those leaving comments here. You are small, small people.

“Washington’s Original and Most Influential Tipsheet”
Bwahahahaha.
All you people do is type Sarah Palin bad. President Obama good. Sarah Palin bad. President Obama good. Over and over. It’s obvious your network and the other shrinking 2 are orchestrating attacks on her to demonize her and eliminate her as a viable candidate. I don’t know if “yellow journalism” applies here but it’s close.

Sarha Palin is part of the news because you guys and others put her there the day of the shooting so get the story right!

Sorry excuse for “reporting”, ABC. A network “is a terrible thing to waste.”

Wait, what??? PALIN has found a way to become part of the story? Palin did NOTHING except to defend herself from the slander from the left wing media who pointed to her campaign website as a possible cause for this deranged losers actions. It wasn’t Palin that got involved with this story it was the media that dragged her into it trying to blame her for this tragedy.
ABC needs to be slapped down for this irresponsible story. No wonder the Big3′s news ratings are in the crapper. They are tools and don’t know the meaning of “news coverage”.

The democrats are nervous about losing more elections in 2012…I don’t blame them, they have good reason to be nervous. Having Obama as our leader should be their number one concern.

Once again, the media finds a way to create a story that isn’t there.
The obsession with Palin is laughable.
This is the reason I don’t tune into ABC for news. I found this article through a link, but I would never seek out what ABC reports.

Shamelessly, the Left did play with the blood of the innocents and tried to use the tragedy for political gain.
I hope this comes back to bit them in their liberal rear.
In contrast, Governor Sarah Palin has taught everyone a lesson in Prudence and Civility.
Her speech about the tragedy and about the controversy was right on target.
It is a well balanced analysis. It speaks volumes about her command of the facts, of our Constitution and our Laws. Her words are patently sincere, and full of love for all of us and for the victims.
Once more Palin shows she possesses true GRAVITAS…one that –I dare say it- does not come from a Teleprompter.
The hate mongers made her part of this story…
Thank you Future President Palin!!

When my co-worker told me that ABC News had an article stating that Sarah Palin had now found a way to make herself part of the story, I thought she was yanking my chain.
I mean really, since Saturday in at least 70% of the news reports about the shooting, Sarah Palin’s name always seemed to come up so there is no way ANY news organization would say something that everyone knows is simply not true.
Well you can imagine my shock to realize my co-worked wasn’t joking about ABC News.
Apparently in the ABC news room, when a person finally RESPONDS to the multiple accusations made in the media about that person, that person is just finding a away to make themselves part of the story. That is friggin’ hysterical !!!
I really wonder how does ABC News expect anyone to take anything they report seriously after such an absurd comment.
The CBS poll showed the public not buying the Tea Party tie-in to the shooting as they could clearly see that a Korn listening, dope-smoking, anti-establishment punk is more likely to be a WTO protest than a Tea Party rally.

Obama will call for toned down rhetoric, which is and of itself political. i don’t remember such calls when a broadway play and film were produced depicting killing Bush or a comedienne said she hoped Sarah Palin was gang raped by a bunch of her black brothers ( which is bizarrely racist too).
The reason calls for toned down rhetoric is political is that this murder wasn’t political. The shooter was insane and seemed to feel slighted when the congresswoman didn’t answer his off the wall question to his satisfaction at a rally in 2007. There is as much evidence that violent hiphop videos influenced him as Sarah Palin or any other person or image. That is to say there is zero evidence for either position, but you don’t hear anyone calling out gangsta rappers to tone down the rhetoric in light of this shooting.

So if a nut case goes on a shooting spree at Target. Who is to blame? The Board of directors who used a “Target” as their logo? The CEO?
Do you see how ludicrous the left is in trying to find a way to blame Palin’s campaign site for this tragedy. They were little map symbols on a….map of the country (no pictures of candidates involved). Way less provocative than an actual Target.
Liberalism really is a mental disease that leaches all logic from the brain.

ABC’s attempt to compare Palin’s response to her critic’s to Obama’s speeech tonight horrendously pathetic.

I am so saddened that the media that I grew up with, trusted, watched has become so tainted. Do you not realize that the majority that watches you knows how to make decisions, that can watch the mistruths you call truth. We didn’t hear Sarah Palin on this awful Saturday of death, no we heard a sheriff that instead of looking into the shooting starts shooting off his mouth and his own agenda. And that is what you do, your agenda, not the peoples. You sadden me.

I revel in the fact that if you disagree with a progressive nut job you arent just the holder of an opposing viewpoint you automatically become a racist homophobic bible beating gun hoarder that lives on pure hatred. OH REGINALD. . . I DISAGREE!

Americans and innocent victims are killed in Obama’s wars almost every day… People kill each other everyday… 99.999999999% of those people receive no mention… The media and politicians never let a crisis or a tragedy go to waste…

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
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Just when i think you media clowns can go no lower, you out-do your earlier efforts-YOU are the ones who MADE her ‘part of the story’!!!!!!!

Are you joking? This woman has been insulted, maligned, slandered in addition to about five other unlawful libelous “tort” in the last 120 hours. What this says is that anyone can be attacked personally and professionally without due recourse of a defense and I don’t care who it is. ABC, you have just yanked my last nerve. Until this political journalistic insanity is toned down or the network is sold, there will no further business from me or from my precious extended and immediate family. KABC will now be blocked from our family viewing matrix. This goes for all subsidiaries and advertisers as well. I know that I would not be the only one to take this action as I am a Democrat, clarification, I am a reasonable Democrat that’s find this whole charade pathetic. I also understand this won’t account for much but regarding revenue but this is unequivocally an issue of principal with Husband and I and we have had more than enough. Regardless of the fact we may like some of your programming, our Country is much more valuable by factors of 100 than General Hospital or Oprah. There is no more to be said on the matter other than in that voting booth. MSM is not going to get it until Cable News overtakes them which IMO will happen before 2012.

Don’t let the “left” mis-direct your attention. The real issue is the “Sheriff”. First he stirred the ire of conservatives by blaming the “Tea Party”, Glen Beack, Rush, etc. He is just trying to take the focus off himself. This guy is a “Politician” trying to be a cop. He failed in his duties, by not putting this guy into the “Mental Health” system after numerous occaisions. Had he done his “JOB” a 9 year old girl, and 5 others would be alive! Not to mention the other dozen that will have thier lives changed forever. If he had been put into the Mental Health System, he would have been unable to buy a gun. Pure Neglegence on the sheriffs behalf! I smell a huge “Lawsuit” (rightfully so)coming after these people get over thier grief. What a tangled web we weave.

Once again lamestream media creates the story and drags a conservative into it and then turns around and blames the conservative for what the writer did. These people are beyond hypocritical idiots making up stuff from nothing. Sarah never asks them to bring her into this conversation yet they somehow blame her.  Amazing the have a twisted view of themselves as somehow some kind of saints incapable of doing wrong no matter how much crap they spew!! I am not a big fan of Sarah as a politician, but I love that she stands for liberty and freedom unlike liberals who want to control everything and everyone except themselves!! 

When the Democrats forced Obamacare and big deficits on us, it was an arrogant and outrageous act that has enraged the citizenry. Blaming the Sara Palin for the tragedy in Tucson is nothing more than an attempt to change the national dialogue away from their failure to govern for the people instead of themselves. They are proving on a daily basis that they are, “Radicals”. Control speech, guns, the airways and anything else that limits their power. They are experts in the art of propaganda.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Except that Krugman, Matthews, Olberman, and other Liberal hacks MADE HER part of the story before the bodies were even cold in Tucson.

Awww….poor lamestream media!! Palin provides LEADERSHIP…where impotent obama provides empty words!! She speaks for ALL Americans!! Deal w/ it! :)))

“injecting herself in the story” you and your ilk made her the story within hours of this disaster. You are sophist farces which is why your ratings continue to dwindle.

“Once again made herself a part of a story?” Puh-leeeze. She was atttacked by the trash in the media who were looking to blame her before they knew anything about the shooter because they clearly hate her guts. It is transparently obvious that these state-worshipping drones in the press corp have a vendetta. Do you fools in the press think we don’t see this? The alternative to her responding was to simply lay down and take it. Non-socialists aren’t allowed to defend themselves from those looking to gain politically from a tragic event? This is why many of us hate the mainstream media and don’t trust you.

Mike and Amy please go back to writing for the middle school year book..you two are laughable and so is ABC for carrying this tripe!

Uhh… the news media MADE Sarah Palin the story.
ABC… what a joke…

Let’s see; the very day of the shootings, we find news reports all over the media reminding us of the bullseye Sarah imposed on a map of Gifford’s congressional district…72 hours later we learn not only that the shooter was mentally unstable, but neither was political nor a fan of talk radio ….Yet even today Hillary Clinton is being quoted as saying the shooter must be “politically motivated” (and how many people remember Bill Clinton blaming talk radio for the OK City bombing) Yet Sarah is expected to ignore these attacks and be highminded? How about a public apology to Sarah, Mike Savage and Rush Limbaugh from the politicians and pundits who “rushed to judgement”? Nope- just more trashing by the media…

ABC once again shows the world what a bottom-feeding organization is has become. If this wasn’t so stupid it would be laughable. YOU injected Palin into the discussion, even before a single fact was known and against all common sense and decency. She has every right to defend herself, and at least she had the decorum to wait until an appropriate time. The US press corps has become a joke that is no longer funny… I only wish I had the luxury of being so incompetent at my job and still keep it.

We really should not be surprised by this article, they are preaching to their choir…..People who only read headlines and have a brain the size of a flea!

You media and leftees made her the center of attention by accusing her of murder.

Sara Palin’s message?.. you guys are incredible! What about the messages from the idiot Democratic Sheriff or the idiot Senator from Vermont. You are both pathetic liberals….. keep up the hypocrosy…. cover only the stories you need for political point scoring. America is watching this backfire in all your liberal faces!

That’s rich. The media for days has publicized the attack by attributing it to the rhetoric of Sara Palin – making her the central part of the story – and now when she defends herself you criticize her for “sullying” the discussion with politics and making herself part of the story. Well guess what? She is part of the story because the media has made her part of the story with its libelous attempt to blame her and her rhetoric for the deaths. I’m not a big fan of Sara Palin, but watching the out of control media over the past five days and their irresponsible attempt to make a connection between the killings and the political rhetoric (when there was not the slightest bit of evidence linking the two and now it’s known the attacker had no political leanings or motivation) has been surreal. Is there any wonder why the public holds the media in such low regard, even contempt? Not after watching your reporting. Step up to the plate on this. You have used this horrendous event as an excuse to attack people that you don’t like – and the American people are smart enough to see through it (just look at the polls). You owe us all an apology.

Sarah Palin has been attacked visciously by the hate filled left ever since she ran for office. The right is tired of the attacks and we will defend ourselves against the hate speech from the left. Lock and load.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
Are you kidding me? She was pulled into it! Do you think her, or anyone else, would appreciate being accused of causing this? The Left blames the Right, the Right blames the left… its tearing the Republic apart. I’m willing to settle in this case the fact that this guy is completely crazy.

Lawyers rejoice! You are no longer the most despised group in the country. This line of lame, biased reporting has the main stream media vying with congress for the most deceitful and mistrusted body in the country.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
LOL!!!
This HAS to be an Onion article. The lib media can’t possibly be this stupid.

Obama didn’t work through the night on amy speach, his team did. This is a luxury that Palin doesn’t enjoy.

“Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
After the unjust accusations the media unleashed on Mrs. Palin, she should try to get beyond it? Are you insane? Even if she did “try to go beyond it” YOU WOULDN’T LET HER.
If Mrs. Palin being in the news is bad then try to get beyond your coverage of her.

This is the dumbest argument i’ve ever heard. Palin’s web page showed a “target” over The congresswomans district not a “target” on a picture of the congresswoman. We are all grown ups so why the need to parse words or stymie debate baffles me. Get a clue, this guy is a nut and could have been set off by anything (like his crazy mind). There is one person responsible for this and his name is Jared Lee Loughner.

Wow, others have addressed the hypocrisy and flat inaccuracy (lie) that this story is pushing. Wrong facts, wrong premise, one sided, it’s simply nuts.
More to the core, it’s funny how ABC (and the other “major” networks) used to have actual journalists working there. I fail to see any now. Fox has plenty of commentary in addition to their news coverage. The difference is that their news actually resembles news and that their commentary (which self identifies) almost always offers credible competitive opinions. The “majors” seldom offer this level of journalistic standard.

How ’bout this for name calling?
* President Obama called Republicans “hostage takers.”
* Former Rep. Alan Grayson called his GOP opponent Daniel Webster “Taliban Dan.”
* Black conservative Kenneth Gladney was hospitalized in St. Louis after SEIU thugs beat him outside a Tea Party event. The NAACP has called him an “Uncle Tom” who “deserved” to be beaten, and said he wasn’t “black enough” to protect.
* Governor Bobby Jindal’s assistant was beaten and suffered a broken leg after she left a Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
* Air America talk show host Montel Williams said of Michelle Bachman: “Michelle, slit your wrist. Go ahead… or, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. Start right at the collarbone.”
* The same target graphics seen on Sarah Palin’s website that the Left famously denounced all weekend were – gasp! – splattered all over the Daily Kos website back in 2008 when they were moving to “target” Congresswoman Giffords and remove her from office.

Does anyone else here think that this smear is being directed by the White House? All of these reporters and Dems are using the same talking points.

The media DRAGS Sarah into this and tries to hold her complicit in these murders and NOW tries to say that she worked her way into it!!!
Do you media clowns realize that most of us are educated and no longer fall for your lies and agenda oriented editorializing for which you abnegated your responsibilities as the Fourth Estate and have become nothing more than Obama cheerleaders and Lackeys for the Government !!! Instead of Watchdogs of the Government , you have become the Lapdogs of the Power Brokers and totally undeserving of the little amount of credibility you might have had left. You should begin your stories with: “Once upon a time…”—-You have lost all crediblity and have become a case study in how the radical left now control the media and government. Most here are not fooled by your endless diatribes and find you not only usually WRONG but also BORING in your childish attempts to direct our society into the image and likeness of Joseph Goebbels —-and all the other Propoganda Machines which have ever tried to assist tyrants to control the people. Shame on you, ABC and at this ersatz Sheriff who thinks he is a television personality instead of performing his duties as an objective enforcer of the Law. Into what “alternate reality” has modern day journalism and Police work plummeted? You are all Frauds!

Sorry Msss…. Walter It was you and your liberal cadre who thrust Mrs. Palin into the story. Your self-proving liberal bent is only amplified by this article. Most of us in the Tucson / Oro Valley area are just wishing you and the rest of the media would simply note that this is nothing other than the tragedy it is, and let us morn our dead and injured and pray for the return of our representative to health so she can once again represent us.

Great job at showing leadership at a terrible times Libs. The blood isn’t even cold, let alone the bodies burried and you are lying to the faces of all Americans while spewing hate…then you blame the right for the things that you have done.
You fail ABC/Disney/ESPN. You’re failures and you’ve used murders to try and sway the public.
I can’t say that I’m shocked that Liberals are actually going to USE MURDER FOR POLITICAL GAIN! Nice job!

Thank you once again, Sarah, for more sound, sane, level-headed and logical words. Very aptly timed as well. You are the epitome of class, ma’am.

The criticism from the media is ridiculous.
“The timing of her remarks”????? Oh, so she should have held off because the president is going to speak some several hours later? Whatever.
And to say “she has made herself part of the story ‘again’ ” ??? AGAIN? The frikkin media mader her part of the story initially. Is she not entitled to respond in her own defense?
Sick of the MSM.

Bottom Line: Once again the leftist media has found a way to put Sarah Palin in the middle of a story she had nothing to do with.
The leftist media knew within 5 minutes the real reason this loon killed in Tucson. Contrast this the Ft. Hood massacre by the Muslim Maj. Hassan….the left still doesn’t know why he did it.

The media did not wait for the blood to be washed off of the floor of the supermarket before they were blaming Mrs. Palin for the incident.
Now they have the gal to insinuate she injected herself into the story? EVERY news outlet and leftist thinker in this country (I’m looking at you, Krugman) took all of 30 seconds to begin blaming her for it, and now when she rebuts them she’s “inserting herself” into the story? This is incomprehensibly stupid.

As a retired Police Officer, I know that had this many complaints come in on any individual concerning his mental stability and danger to the public that any police officer, on his own signature, could have involuntarily committed this nutbag for 72 hours of observation and examination by a psychiatrist, in that he posed a danger to himself or society. Why didn’t the Sheriff do so? He failed and the offender’s mother served in some kind of municipal capacity so it looks as if there is more there than the Sheriff’s Dept is admitting. The Sheriff is refusing to turn over his case history to the press and they should force him to do so through the Freedom of Information Act. And the Sheriff’s leftist posing for the media and jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions is Outrageous to anyone who is a professional in Law Enforcement and totally foreign to what his duties require of him. I suspect that he is trying to divert the attention from his own failures in preventing this from happening by taking action when action clearly was demanded by nearly everyone in this sick individuals sphere of reference from school to friends etc. and had been made known to Police Authorities who FAILED TO DO THEIR DUTY !!!! AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC !!!!

Ayers, Dorn, Van Jones, SDS, Black Panthers, La Raza etc. need I say more

ABC, how dare you disparage Sarah Palin for her appeal to everyone for civility and reason in national debate, her expression of anguish over the tragedy, and to send a message of sympathy for of the victims’ families and of the Tucson community! Elsewhere and herein you have helped to facilitate personal attacks on her and to single her out as a contributing factor in the Tucson attack. This both unacceptable behavior and bad journalism. If you desire to question motives, why are you not questioning why Obama is on the scene in AZ to deliver a eulogy, or more accurately a speech to extract political value out of a situation. Why did he not attend the funeral for the Boarder Agent recently shot while trying to protect our country? I am not a Sarah Palin fan, but every time you perjure yourself with this disingenuous reporting, and increasingly toxic reporting style, the more credible Sarah Palin looks as a national spokesperson and viable candidate for high office.

Who do you think you are- she did not insert herself into this story – it was all you idiot so-called news idiots that immediately threw her under the bus. You are really ignorant. No wonder people are sick of you

I really don’t think its appropriate to call someone “Governor” who quits before her term ends

It is sad the way ABC is so deceitful. And now the O administration is trying to stifle talk radio and license internet users.
No wonder ABC’s ratings are so low. People see the bias.

Leftists always whine when anybody actually fights back against the lies and smears.

What Governor Palin knows how to do best it to deflect the insidious criticisms of her by people like the two “reporters”, MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER. No, she did not “make herself” center of attention. Michael Falcone, Amy Walter, and the rest of the “left” brought her into the center of attention and expected her to lay down and die. Sorry, folks, but the next President of the United States does not lay down and die. Nor does she ride a bicycle with a little helmet on her head. She climbs mountains, hunts, fishes, and acts like an American of years past when people had integrity, were honest and had common sense intelligence and a love of God and country.

Your journ-o-list is showing.

John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan. All were affected by gun violence DURING the enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine. What talk show host, conservative celebrity or news channel caused those? None of the above. ABC news is just a liberal mouth piece that can’t stand success by hardworking capitalists. I am sorry, I guess this is hate speech to ABC.

Such an ignorant article. Palin was forced into the story by baseless smears against her by the left. She did not ” seek it out. She is entitled to defend herself after days of smears. I cannot believe ABC would even post should an ignorant article.

Why must Sarah Palin insert herself into this story by defending herself against charges of inspiring murder?

HYPOCRITES!!!!
Worth reposting:
What do you mean “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”?
Falcone and Walter, are you serious? Of course, you are!
The Liberal media, and now the authors of this article, are the ones that pulled Palin’s name into the debate. She had nothing to do with the shootings. Neither did any of the other Conservatives.

Why is it that the “Anointed One” can use a line like, “if the Republicans bring a knife, we’ll bring a gun” but Sarah gets crucified for the crosshairs imagery? Why is she attacked for defending herself when she was brought into this debate by the socialist media and some members of the Socialist Party in Congress. As for talk radio and the Tea Party movement. They merely give a voice to those who cannot be heard through the government media outlets.

If you are a law abiding citizen then you should have the right to carry a gun. Lets get serious though. Do we want to continue to make it easy for these types of loose cannons and sick people to kill innocent Americans. Also, realize that constant hatred against a group being verbally distributed over the airwaves is a form of brainwashing. What kind of info do you think is being constantly driven into terrorists heads? It’s normally love of their God and hatred for those who don’t think and believe like them.

It was the liberal media who dragged her name into this. How pathetic it is the way they always try to twist things. How foolish are the people who blindly follow them off the cliff. The liberal media tried to assign blame for this tragedy on “right-wing hate speech.” There is no such thing. All the venom is spewed from the left. Once again they jumped the gun and have egg on their face. This lunatic had leftist views. So if anyone in the media/pundits should get blamed for his actions, it should be those on the left.
Good job ABC on continuing to divide America!

So ABC now critiques Sarah. Everyone be sure and get a jab in??
I’m glad Sarah rebutted the attacks on her. What else is she supposed to do. The media cannot have it both ways. Attack her, expect her to respond.
Thanks for your leadership Sarah. No matter what you do the left will pick the opposite side. They will just look for the bad in others. I hope one day we can come together as a nation.

I think this lady has done a magnificent job with her statement.
She did not place herself in the spotlight….you, the Media, did.
And if you weren’t so biased, you would be recalling the vitriolic statements made by the Left…….shall I remind you???
My father was an editor who always tried to be fair when he opined. But, he realized years ago that the old timers like him were dying off and that we cannot trust our current Media for fair, unbiased, well-researched articles.
I think your article here has thoroughly convinced me that I will never watch public tv news again.
Oh, I don’t now……….!

If you dishonest hacks wouldn’t have inserted her into it, then maybe she would have stayed out. YOU were the ones who made it about her, remember.
This is why no one believes you anymore and why no one is watching/reading.
I really hope you and yours are put out of work. You and your cohorts should be ashamed of yourselves.

Amazing–ABC helps make Gov. Palin the story, without evidence to support their narrative, then accuses her of aggrandizement when she defends herself.
Her remarks were amazingly restrained, given the accusations against her.
Does anyone believe that President Obama is not politically motivated in his presence in Tuscon?
Sarah Palin is more presidential than Barack Obama because she has more integrity. You clowns at ABC can’t hide that from us, no matter how hard you try. He keeps showing who he is.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Can someone tell me how this can be? She was responding to the fact that she was being dragged through the mud by media outlets who pointed blaming fingers at HER for the mad actions of an isolated loser.
In other words, she was ALREADY IN THE NEWS. SHE didn’t find a way to become part of the story, the media made her part of the story 3 days ago!

She wasn’t part of the story until the MSM, leftist and so called progressives brought her into it. I’m sure she would have been content to not be included in the conversation but when she defends herself from your hate speech again, she has found a way to become part of the story”. I’m not a fan of hers but the MSM and progressives are nothing but gutter trash for the way you’ve twisted this tragedy around.

What a load of crap. Sarah Palin did not “find a way a way to become part of the story”. She was already a part of the story thanks to the slipshod journalism of you and the other mainstream media who dragged her name into before a single fact could be determined.
Here’s a thought, get off your high horse and do your damn jobs!

The left can’t get enough of her. They shamelessly dragged her into this unspeakable tragedy, and now they are MAKING her the story. It’s reprehensible.

Wait’ll the Dems see voter reaction in November, 2012. Think 2010 was a drubbing? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

You poor morons here. Sarah Palin didn’t make herself part of this story, the PRESS blamed her. The Killer was more a LEFTIST than anything remotely similar to a Tea Party member. You can sneer and make fun all you like, but you will do it at your own ignorant peril. Idiots like you only allow the EVIL in this World to thrive. You are what they feed on, stupid useful idiots!

What is interesting is just last night, Ed “I Know nothing” Shultz said on MSNBSleaze that Palin owed it to the country to answer for her actions on the cross hairs, and the “vitriol”. He said she needs to set the record straight and be Presidential.
So, she makes a video, is in fact very Presidential, very heartfelt and oh yes, scolds the media. What does ABC news and others do? Accuse her of injecting herself into the media. Oh, yea, and take pot shots at the term “blood libel.” There is a poster who says he does not remember cross hair son Regan or Ford; are you serious. They hung him and GW Bush by the way, in effigy. Bulls eye targets were used in 2003 by the DNC and Bob Beckel said he and another politico are the ones who invented the idea of bulls eye and cross hair on maps.
There is a reason I have not watched any of the nightly news for the past 15 or more years… FOX NEWS, Drudge Report, News Busters, etc.

I swear ABC must post these inane “news” stories to get hits from Drudge readers or something, as they know Drudge will end up linking something so absurd as this.
There’s no way they keep their web site in business from reporting actual news.
Sheesh.

No, Amy and Michael, Sarah did not make herself part of the story. People like you who hate her did that. As for being polarizing, she is no more polarizing than Obama. Objective journalism is dead at ABC, NBC, and CBS. You people are pathetic.

Is this for real? Do you people actually take yourselves seriously? Do you actually read the drivel you pass off to us as news? Even op-eds need to have some basis in fact. This has none. No wonder nobody watches your news broadcasts anymore! You people haave made yourselves as irrelevent as a typewriter. Now why do you go to Tucson and talk to that mind addled sheriff and find out what he knew about that criminal and when he knew it. He’s definitely got something to hide, and it will come out eventually. Lastly, don’t even pretend you have the power to “frame the narrative.” After several days of everyone on the left going off on the right, without any facts whatsoever to back them up, now you people in the press have the nerve to tell us to be kinder with political talk? Not in this lifetiime!!

you idiots.. she didn’t find her way into this! the left drug her in and accused her of somehow being partially guilty for the shootings.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
The truth here, is that Sarah Palin should never have even been dragged into this tragic event. The same can be said for “Afghan War Vets” as the blame was laid on one of them by State Senator Linda Lopez.
The media, the Democratic Party and the blogosphere have dragged the likes of Palin, the Tea Party, and Conservatives through the mud these last 5 days, trying to lay the blame squarely at their feet.
For the very same news outfit that dragged her into this, to turn around days later and accuse her of injecting herself into it, is beyond shameful and dishonest.
Maybe you can run all of those violent quotes of Obama’s, like “if they bring a knife, you bring a gun” or go back and cover the story of Kenneth Gladney for balance? Honestly, I sincerely doubt that you have the integrity to be impartial, and non partisan, so I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

amazing… this article both praises her for saying something and slams her for saying something… what’s that saying…

You people are despicable. Why would you expect Ms. Palin to sit still for this slanderous trash. Surely this is not the kind of writing they teach in journalism school. You should be ashamed.

Wow, every day ABC “News” descends into the depths of entertainment journalism and biased journalism. Sarah Palin was made a part of this story by liberals, Democrats, progressives since it happened. (Along with Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, the tea party, and anyone else that the very biased Democratic media hates).
She is defending herself, not inserting herself, in this story. A sick, evil individual committed this crime for his own evil reasons. Let’s put this responsibility where it lies.
I am SO sick of the media, especially the obviously biased ABC, CBS, NBC news!

ABC, are you serious with your “bottom line” comment?
It was YOU, THE MEDIA, who made Sarah Palin part of the story. It was YOU, THE MEDIA, who inserted her into this story minutes after the nation learned of the tragedy.
Today, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE TRAGEDY, Sarah Palin responds to YOUR attacks on her and she injected herslef? you media “journalists” are ridiculous!

Thanks ABC for clarifying the whole situation to me – Sarah Palin caused this guy to kill a bunch of people outside a supermarket on a Saturday morning and then she inserted herself into the story.
Forgive my mistake, but I thought that a deranged young man who has no clear direction or philosophy shot those poor innocent people and we have yet to determine why other than he was deranged ;
Forgive my lack of comprehension, but I thought it was the Sherif of Pima County who couldn’t even wait until his close friend was even out of Surgery to start blaming everyone except his own law enforcement failures for this, and injected the names of anyone he doesn’t agree with into this in the most grotesque manner;
“insert herself into this” PLEASE ….. you guys have had this story written since when? …….. just waiting for her comment ….. just as grotesque as the Sherif and all the people who are using this for their profit.

Rob Reilly is correct….she was drug into this tragedy by you people in the media. Get a grip on your professionalism, or what shred remains.

I am glad Palin fought back here. The media made a huge mistake trying to use this tragedy to blame the right wing, Talk radio, the tea party, for the actions of one totally unrelated lunatic. Its like trying to say the Beatles created Charles Manson with the White album. Now embarrassed the media just screams louder.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Because YOU and the rest of the media PUT HER THERE.
If you can’t understand that, then you really need to find another job.
Idiots.

Palin 1
Obama 0

So Palin is condemned if she didn’t respond to all the critics and now she’s condemned for responding to the critics.
The bias of abc news is obvious. You just hate women! You bash Palin, you bash Bachmann, you condemn any female politician that doesn’t fit your liberal world view.
Palin’s statement was clear to anyone who listened. It’s no wonder ABC news has declining ratings….!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Wow… just, wow!
You “journalists” are nothing, if not brash, in your shameless smears of Sarah Palin. She’s been accused of “having blood on her hands” — along with everything else imaginable — and now you accuse her of grandstanding when she dares to comment.
Again, wow!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Is this The Onion?

What???
You state, “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story…”. You write this AFTER acknowledging, a couple paragraphs previous, that Ms. Palin’s words, “…amount to a rebuttal of those who have called her out…”.
You admit that she was involuntarily dragged into this mess, then turn around and accuse her of inserting herself into it, and even seem indignant that Ms. Palin had the nerve to defend herself.
Your very first sentence implies that she is attempting to steal Obama’s thunder by “stepping in with her own message…”, “just hours before…Obama is scheduled to speak…,” even though, by your own admission, her message addresses, “criticism that has been leveled against her in the wake of the tragedy.”
Meanwhile, the rest of us await a single shred of evidence to justify dragging anyone besides the person now under arrest into any of this, though it appears at this time the competence of Tucson’s sheriff’s department ought to be examined. Alas, looking for facts would require actual work.

Who are you to decide what is appropriate for Sarah Palin to say while defending herself. If she did not respond, you would have found a reason to criticize her for that. You agenda is showing. As for the idiot that said only stupid people think there is a there there, what have you accomplished?

Once again ABC News fails.

Uh, I think it was the lame media who involved Sarah Palin. I mean, you’ve got to be kidding! Hammer her and when she responds criticize her for doing so? The lame-O folks in the media are just stung by their gross shilling. Sorry, it’s YOU, not Sarah Palin (and I say this as a person who is not a Palin fan).

I think you are horribly confused. In case you missed it….Sarah Palin was DRUG into this mess by no effort of her own.
She is speaking BACK to those who injected her into it.
Good grief. Get out much?

Wow, blaming Palin of inserting herself into the tragedy? She was inserted only 2 short hours after the tragedy by Krugman. That circus continued for three whole days until the media finally figured out the madman was a-political. I guess she should have not responded to attacks that were unfounded? Think for a second, if someone had shot Ms. Palin…would you then be blaming the left for the vitriol aimed at her? Of course not!

I can’t believe two so-called “journalists” had the audacity to post such utter nonsense for the entire world to read. Why the two of you willingly chose to embarrass yourselves with the posting of such ilk is a mystery that apparently only the two of you are privy to. You’re entitled to your opinions. However, I think we’re also entitled to rightfully shame you for them.

-quote- After all, isn’t today about the victims, not the debate? -end quote-
If it was about ‘victims’, there would be no reason for national political figures to weigh in on what is essentially a bunch of senseless murders.
But when the Leftists among us — who claim to be Democrats but really oppose the democratic process at every turn — use a senseless crime to promote their anti-freedom agenda, it behoovs all of us to stand up for ourselves, just as Palin and others are standing up for what’s right in the face of smears and lies.

Ha, Palin is suppose to get over it and shut up? Funny, i didn’t read such a comment when the Krugman’s and MSNBC yacker’s were soiling our nations media with their nonsense. Btw, no one i know “turns to their president” during such times. What are you twelve?

BOYCOTT all of ABC, NBC, and CBS’ sponsors. It is time we shut these divisive networks down ONCE AND FOR ALL.
If you love this country, you’ll boycott with the rest of us. These 3 organizations are pushing this country into a civil war. If you think the hub-bub over Jared, a non-political person, was bad.. imagine what would happen if a REAL political assassination occurred… or occurs.
ABC, CBS, NBC — BOYCOTT THEIR SPONSORS

ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc … the only way that you can get people to read your stories is to put Sarah Palin’s name in them. You guys are pathetic! The news media immediately began blaming people who had absolutely nothing to do with the horrendous acts committed by a homicidal maniac. Sarah Palin shows more class than you morons are even capable of. When the leftist media learns to simply report the news, without their obvious left-leaning bias, maybe then they will gain some semblance of the peoples’ trust. But, they have a long way to go.

How many people actually watch your station anymore or read your rhetoric? I only read it because it was on Drudge. I mean, really? The media like ABC,NBC,CBS, all of you, pulled Palin into the mix FIRST! You all jumped the gun. You all equated a psychotic with the right wing. You sir and madam are not journalists. You slander people and make up stories just to please your handful of viewers. It’s no wonder our nation is divided – with “journalists” and opinion columns like yours – you pit us against each other in a time crises. Guess you follow good ole Rahm’s, never let a crisis go to waste.

The Media is the one that made her part of the story she had no other choice but to speak out ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC you should be ashamed of yourselves for your reporting what ever happened to facts, you yourself should be ashamed of the state run media you have become!
you are so quick to condemn, belittle and ostracize anyone who does agree with the current administration. Its DISGUSTING

…no CBS, Mr. Obama takes the title of the great devider. Community organizers are by trade deviders who practice grievance politcis.

Although I loathe Palin, she didn’t make herself part of this story; she was dragged into this story by accusations (gloatingly presented by ABC and by others) that she was in part to blame for the shooting. You’d like her to shut-up now that that theory has collapsed, but she’d be foolish to do so.

Here’s how it goes I am not a fan of either Palin or OBAMA.. and I most diffidently am NOT a fan of MSM..
Mr. Obama for the 1ST time in his adult life spoke APPROPRIATELY and in a appropriate length of time after the AZ shooting.. HOWEVER call me a cynic I would give the credit for that to DALEY more than OBAMA.. What I did NOT hear from Mr. Obama was telling those who were hysterical on the left to calm down hold blame for facts and to quit jumping at the bit to Politicize this by introducing bills to stop everything from speaking to guns..As for Sarah she is saying what she feels.. and there is NO law or proper length of time to speak.. As for what she said.. found NOTHING wrong with it.. it’s the truth the left has more than once with NO fact blamed violent acts on the right when fact’s were the left were the ones involved.. It’s time the MSM and the left WHO the MSM represents SHUT UP until all the facts are in because THEY are the ones with the nasty speech..

I’m glad to see so many people point out the obvious that the ONLY reason Sarah Palin has anything to do with the AZ shooting is because she was dragged into it by the state run media. There is a very unhealthy obsession with destroying this woman, whose really just an average woman with a few kids and a nice looking husband. Sorry you idiot liberals. Epic fail again.

WHO MADE HER PART OF THE STORY ?
WITHIN HOURS OF THE SHOOTINGS ?
WHO ?
WHO ??
WHO ???

Oh … it’s HER fault for becoming part of the story … I thought it was HER fault for creating the atmosphere FOR the story? You folks in the media blamed her so she responded; she didn’t “sit down and shut up” while you folks LIED about the facts, LIED about the tea party and LIED LIED LIED about Sarah Palin.
I’m not a great fan of Palin, but it was the Mexican jumping bean media who said it was her fault and made her part of the story. So is she or isn’t she? Palin didn’t inject herself, YOU did – you bunch of irresponsible, first-stage thinking, CHILDREN who react to something without knowing all the facts.
If this weren’t so sad, it would be an SNL skit.

What a lame comment: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
Excuse me, it is the media and their pals in the Democratic Party that have chosen to draw Sarah Palin into the story. These reckless accusations about her, the Tea Party, and talk radio somehow inciting this kid in Arizona to kill are outrageous, but they are why she was drawn into the story. Perhaps if the media had not jumped, once again, to ridiculous conclusions, Ms. Palin would not have felt a statement was needed.

MEDIA: Sarah Palin directly and knowingly caused the murders of six innocent human beings.
PALIN: No, I didn’t.
MEDIA: Stop making it all about you!!! This is about the people who were shot!!!

Sarah Palin HAD to say something after being accused of being responsible for the tragedy. Would you stay silent when the news media and politicos propagandize against you? She owes it to all of us to speak up because you obviously are among those who would push the Fairness Doctrine (anything but fair) to rob us of our right to dissent and right to free speech. If you had your way you would silence “talk radio” in order to let only one viewpoint to prevail.

the media knows that they will get no readers if they write about dems, so they have to write about palin constantly, which is an effective way to get readers. so sad. but so truth. it’s their way of income.

I’m also curious why the media immediately connected “right wing” talk radio, Fox News, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin to this shooting, yet made no mention of the hate speech we’ve been hearing for years from the left. Why was there no speculation that this guy watched MSNBC and was incited to do this? Or that he read Daily Kos, which had this moderate Democrat “targeted” for quite a while. Why does the media always start blaming “right wing” talk for everything while ignoring the heated rhetoric we heard for years when George Bush was President and that we still hear today from the left?

She did not find a way to become part of this story Due to reporting of her cross hair map she was dragged into this story. So what your actually saying is if somebody is attacked wrongly they should just SHUT up and take it because after all your the only one that’s right.

Doesn’t anyone in the media read the comments or at least realize that they cant think their opinion into our minds by writing this junk. palin is just living her life. Unless you’ve been asleep all week you would know that it’s the media dragging her into this . Her response was excellent, but for u, probably nothing would be good enough.

“”BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”?
I just love the way Liberals spin this. They put her into the debate. If she didn’t respond then the BS they print is accepted as true and the lie stands. If she responds then she is guilty of interjecting herself into the story.
How about the third option you don’t have the guts to print?
The media made THEMSELVES a part of the story by printing Liberal talking points, lies, and conjecture with NO PROOF and now, when the truth is getting out that the shooter was anything but a right wing nut and the so called journalists are exposed for the biased hacks that they are, they are scrambling like roaches when the lights come on to distract their readers from the truth.
Nice try. No Cigar.

This is getting absurdly ridiculous. Do the Left really fear Palin this much? I have a hard time taking her that seriously, but this over the top haranguing and libelous reporting makes me think the Left sees far more in her than do have. We truly are a nation of wimps. Political correctness is the instrument of our slow collective suicide as a nation.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Really? It seems to me that the media and leftwing bloggers made her part of the story long before she responded. It’s no wonder that fewer and fewer people take the media seriously these days.

ACTUALLY, TV, anyone who held an elected office keeps the title – like former Presidents: they are still called “Mr. President”, ergo, it is appropriate, strictly speaking

This hit piece is a prime example of why the mainstream media is regarded with contempt by so many today. Sarah Palin do not remote seek to be part of this story, it was forced upon her. Was she supposed to remain silent while this was disgustingly used as an opportunity to score political points for the Left?
So, Ms. Walter, are you still beating your dog?

Krugman started two hours after the shootings to involve Sarah Palin, just like the JournoList. Hypocrital little weasels write sleazy articles like this and make sure no one should trust ABC or any member of the press.

Sarah Palin definitely spooks the media in general, otherwise they would not spend half of their lives talking about her. To deny that would be ignorant. Sarah Palin would have nothing to say at this moment had she not been brought into the debate by groups looking to make a political argument. Who cares if she used “crosshairs”? Who cares if Obama used the term “If they bring a knife we will bring a gun”. Americans in general have become such sissies. It really is a pathetic sight.

There’s too much snow in the south and in the northeast this winter. Palin is from Alaska where it snows alot. Ergo, the excessive snow this winter is due to Palin.

You think these lefty spokesmen for the DNC would learn!! The more you deomize Gov. Palin, the more we like her!! Look at her rising approval ratings compare to your disasterous viewer ratings. The Joke is on you!!!

Let’s see…wasn’t it in 2004 that the Democratic Party also had a publication that had crosshairs on Republican incumbents? And wasn’t it the Democrats that wrote the memo entitled: Behind Enemy Lines? Sounds pretty violent to me.
What’s sickening about this, besides the shooting, is how the left has politicized the whole thing and the Main Stream Media, like little parrots, have echoed the stupidity that’s been spewed.
To use an event like this to promote an agenda is amoral and disgusting…and so democrat…

This heading is exactly why your news agency is going out of business. You really need to fire these two reporters(Walter and Falcone) and find people who really can report truth and facts! The liberal propaganda media have brought Gov. Palin into this, get it right!

Palin did not place herself into this story she was dragged in by you lame stream media and the right wing nut shrills. Even you nightly newscast was duplicitous. Have you reported that our Pres said if they bring a knife we will bring a gun – what about this nut shooter did not watch TV or talk radio!
You really must think that all Americans are as stupid as you listenership. This BS only hastens your irrelevance!

I would be willing to bet that the journolisters here shared an email just before this hit the web – “Let’s see if we can get mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show”…if they didn’t try to pull this, chances are their own family members wouldn’t have read this “article”…lord knows paying customers aren’t

How DARE Sarah Palin defend herself against all the media accusations?? Why, she should have confessed on Saturday, had Loughner released from custody, and taken her rightful place in prison for life. /sarcasm

You fools don’t recognize that she was dragged into this by MSNBC.

Sarah Palin doesn’t back down to idiots.

Yes, I’m sure Sarah was delighted to be libeled by you leftwing morons, so that she could become “part of the story.” I suppose you wanted her to just shut up and take it, huh. What a joke!

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Are you kidding me? You dopes in the “lame-stream” media made her a part of the story. You tried to blame the AZ tragedy on her and everyone you disagreed with politically. You “jumped to conclusions” after begging people to not do that very thing when the nut-job in fort hood killed people.
You people in the lame-stream media have never been more transparent. Now that she dares to defend her-self, you attack her again. “How dare she! She should just sit there and take it.”
The American people are now wise to you because you pursued your agenda a little too vigorously. You have lost any credibility you had… enjoy your fading audience and irrelevance.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” Are you people serious? You MADE her part of the story before the victims’ blood even dried! Tell me, when a woman gets raped, do you blame her? If someone gets shot in a drive-by, do you blame them for getting in the way of the bullet? Thank you for reminding me why I stopped watching the Big Three networks years ago; “Pravda” contains more honest reporting than you provide. And then you wonder why Fox News is growing while the legacy media withers away….

Um…She found a way to become part of the story? YOU made her part of the story when she shouldn’t have been. Then after blaming her for something that she wasn’t even remotely connected to or responsible for, she finally responds and you act like she’s just now forced herself into the spotlight and she did it all of her own accord and initiative and for no particular purpose. Are you KIDDING?

Correct me if I’m wrong but was it not the foolish Media and Bloggers that pulled Mrs. Palin into this VERY TRAGIC Incident? Seems to me the Media should be looking at the Sheriff’s office for a little history on this lunatic as it now appears to be. Maybe if the Sheriff’s office did their job and used one or two of the common mental health laws to protect the public and the individual from themselves , those poor Sole’s that died may still be around today………

The only reason Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure is due to the constant rhetoric and personal attacks from the left with anyone they disagree with. The source for vitriol persistently emanates from the left without any sense of tolerance for other’s views. It is time for the Progressives in America to tone down their rhetoric and is it only serves to incite others.

Are you kidding me? You people started blaming her before the bodies were even taken away. You live in a parallel universe, not here.

I am disgusted with the media’s quest to blame this criminal’s acts on conservatives. He was an insane, drug user, who believed in the conspiracy that Bush was responsible for the Twin Towers’ attack. He was obviously a Liberal NUT — so, why do the media outlets think American’s are going to buy their outrageous lies that this criminal was driven by Conservatives. This is laughable!

I like to think of Sarah as a community activist!

ABC, have you no shame?

I laugh everytime I hear about Palin being polarizing. Its the liberal media that is polarizing. Time to grow up little liberal boys and girls. Life is REAL. It is not some reality TV show you can tune into periodically for your momentary gratification.

Amy Walter is absolutely right, we are stupid, intellectually lazy and ignorant of history…To some she might just be another overpaid pied piper of liberal swill, but to me she is great comic relief.

‘Inserted Herself’??? The writers of this article are either unable to report factually (Hello, Paul Krugman inserting Palin TWO HOURS after the shootings!) or else are so ideologically biased against anyone who disagrees with them that they are willing to suspend disbelief and report wholesale lies as established facts in order to support their (erroneous) prejudiced opinion. Moreover, the American people, while ignorant of many things (due primarily to the inability of most of the media to perform their job) are not stupid. when asked by Falcone and Walter ‘What do you believe, our words or your own lying eyes?’, most will rely on the facts at hand, not some biased group of reporters who have forgotten basic journalistic principles (as well as common sense) and report falsehoods made up of whole cloth, and taken from far-left organization talking points as factual. Apparently, the majority of American Media has now transitioned from closeted proponents of a partisan viewpoint to open and blatant propagandists for a Socialistic and neo-totalitarian partisan machine.

Unbelievably poor journalism. Bottom Line: ABC cannot report news anymore, they only have the ability to attempt to demonize any political viewpoint that they disagree with. Fact is, Sarah Palin did not ask to be thrust into this, that was done by the liberal media, specifically and in order: MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS.

Why is ABC news so misogynist?
Sarah Palin didn’t ask to be drawn into this…you did it…then when she replies, you attack her.
Really, you should just drop the news division altogether and stick with television programming and sports.

Here Sarah (blessed be her name) is on a Saturday afternoon hunting moose, chopping down a Douglas Fir or skiing down a glacier and the next thing she knows she is accused of murder. How should she not re-insert herself into the story.

I was Newsweek design director when Reagan was shot, John Lennon was shot, The Pope was shot, and Sadat was shot. The press then did not immediately attribute the actions of each shooter to some political personality or radio talk show hosts as the main street media did. For Sarah Palin to respond was a reaction to really bad journalism. Shame on you.

Uh,oh. She sounded very PRESIDENTIAL in that rebuttal.

I presume that you think she should have silently bore the smears of the loathsome sophists trying to make political hay out of tragedy. Tell us, when should she have commented?

Not 15 minutes after it happened, the media was blaming Palin. To suggest she “found a way to become part of the story” qualifies as sophomoric propaganda worthy of a middle school “C” grade.

Although the media has dogged her, called her names, incited violence against her by their hateful rhetoric and verbally punched her as much as possible over the past five days and only after all of that, Palin comes out to set the record straight and the media says, Bottom line: Palin has once again inserted herself into the story. But the real story here is the low intelligent quotient of the media and liberals who only recite talking points, because they do not have the ability to think critically. They do not understand what they are rambling, charging targeted adversaries with off the wall idiocy and then scream and kick (like the children they pretend not to be) when are put straight what’s what. The media’s target has been Palin from the day McCain announced she was his Vice Presidential choice in his run for President. She’s been in their cross hairs ever since (or a wild hair up their as*). The liberal media of today report everything but the truth and America is catching on. It took long enough.

“BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”…… and WHO made her part of it?????

Bottom Line…’Sarah Palin once again has found a way to be part of the story….’….You must be kidding me..The media through her in to the picture front and center from the moment the tragedy occurred….??Did you people at ABC not learn anything from the last election…?? WE are FED UP with your Biased reporting and feeding us lies..

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”. Are you serious? Sarah Palin didn’t find a way to become a part of anything. Liberal kooks like you, hell bent on pinning this thing on Sarah Palin’s crosshair map and the Tea Party in general, dragged her into the story on their own.
Sadly, if Jared Loughner was found to actually be a tea partier (or even followed politics at all) the media would still be blaming Palin.
Now that the insinuations (that Palin’s map had something to do with this tragedy) have been thoroughly discredited, and the Main Stream media’s agenda has become completely transparent, you are going to shift gears and blame to Palin AGAIN for “seeking attention”.
Her name is the one that every one of you government mouthpieces slandered to push your Obamarific agenda. Sarah Palin didn’t ask for any of your slander on this matter, and doesn’t deserve more of it simply because she’s holding media accountable for irresponsible propaganda.

Once again the main stream media does not get it, who interjected Sarah Palin into this tragedy? The MSM and Liberal politicians…
Get a grip you guys…so clueless no wonder your ratings are free falling.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Amazing. The media attacks her viciously, speculating and accusing her of being responsible. Thus thrusting her into the discussion. Then when she makes a statement, she is accused of aggrandizing herself and putting herself into a national story. Well guess what? You put here there!!!
Worst part is I don’t even like Sarah Palin and think the media’s rush to judgement was in EXTREMELY poor taste. :(

I can’t believe what I am reading. First of all…the media brought her into this…now you want her to sit there and take the insults?

What do you mean Palin managed to find a way to become part of the story?! The damn press and a moron of a sheriff drug her into it the day it happened. She had nothing to do with the incident but you fools are blaming her and anyone else that is not card carrying leftist.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
<< I KNOW! She was totallt not mentioned by anyone in the press – everyone ignored her and no one blamed her and here she is just coming randomly out of nowhere responding to — oh, yeah… critics who blamed her, her supporters, and anyone who doesn't think she's evil personified for the wack-job murdering at least 6 people. Yeah, like WHY would she think she has any right to defend herself against inflamtory accusations?

Once again she’s part of the story …. because the media made sure that would happen with rush to blame her for the tragedy. this story isn’t about political preference; it’s about an inability, as well as an unwillingness, to recognize and treat mental illness.

The liberal media accuses Palin of inciting murder for speaking her mind politically. When she responds to that insane charge, they the accuse her of finding a way to become part of the story.
The mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the leftists. They no longer have any respect for or interest in the truth and need to be replaced by a media that is interested in learning and reporting the truth.

And who made her part of the story to begin with? She didn’t inject herself into it but merely responded…appropriately.

The media hs lost its audiance to muc lib back slapping .

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
With comments like that, you make the shooter look rational. Palin did not find a way to became part of the story, you and the rest of the left-wing media clubbed her over the head, drugged her, and then dragged her into this simply to feed you irrational hatred of her.
As for her use of the phrase “blood libel”, both the ADL and Alan Dershowitz acknowledge that, in addition to its historical meaning, it has come to also to mean any false accusation.
Sadly, as usual, the facts are irrelevant to those who are solely driven by their hatred.

I can’t believe the biased jerks in the media can spend days maliciously using guilt by association to attack not only Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity and other media figures, but MILLIONS of Americans that fit somewhere outside the boundaries of what the liberal press considers modeate, sane, normal, etc. Then complain when finally somebody defends their own good name. MILLIONS of us have been insulted, even if they don’t want to see Palin become president. This is about basic fairness, and ther media has shown NO basic fairness.

“If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government.”
I see – so when it serves her purpose, like, in a political speech, government is good – and can do good things and solve problems.
But when it comes to health care, when it comes to regulating big business – Government bad?
Can’t have it both ways you hypocrite.
Stay in Alaska where you QUIT your job.

Look, this stupid women represents a core group of assorted weirdos. We’ve always had weirdos; that’s just the way of the world.
If you want to blame someone, blame McCain. But if it wasn’t her it would be some other idiot.

Do you guys at ABC News ever engage in self-criticism and/or reflection? You made Sarah Palin part of this story in a negative way. How can you now criticize her for defending herself? What bozos.

ABCNEWS is responsible for bringing Sarah Palin and others into the media limelight with no evidence that they contributed to the incident in Tucson.The individual responsible is Mr. Loughner and only Mr. Loughner.The media tried to blame the incident on the Tea Party and conservatives.Mr. Loughner was consider by his friends to be a left wing pothead who burned the flag and stated his favorite books were The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. Traits one would hardly associate with Tea Party members or conservative values.The liberal media just proves that liberalism is certainly a mental disorder.

What an ignorant article: Palin “found” a way to insinuate herself into the Arizona massacre?
Ten minutes after the story broke morons and sanctimonious journalists had put a “bullseye” on Palin’s back as being indirectly responsible for this horror.
SHE put herself in the middle of this?
How utterly and almost incomprehensibly stupid.

Sara Palin found a way to become part of the story? LOL Are you kidding me? Morons like Representative Clyborn, Paul Krugman, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC brought Sara Palin into the mix when they blamed her for the slaughter in Arizona. How stupid could MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER be writing this column? This is hysterical. LOL

Did ABC even listen to Palin’s speech? After reading all the comments in the press you would have thought she tore into the press. Instead, it was a very thoughtful and uplifting speech.
No wonder the press is scared of her…

Palin was not part of this story, nor did she seek to be part of it. Liberal pundits made her central to the story. The outrage toward Palin is misplaced; our anger should first be directed at the assassin, and second on the liberal pundits who made a sordid issue out of the tragedy. Before the tragedy, Palin did only what her opponents do, but probably at a more respectable level.

Sarah Palin didn’t insert herself here. The media and the left have branded her as an accomplice to a murder!! So it is right for her to defend herself. ABC news finds itself lost in the wilderness again.

I can’t believe how biased and disingenuous the media has become. Within hours of the shooting they were blaming Sarah Palin, Limbaugh, everyone they could find, even using unsubstantiated reports of the shooter being a member of a conservative organization. Then, when she dares to defend herself, they claim she is injecting herself into the issue??? No wonder reporters are looked upon with disdain nowadays.

Ummm… she became part of the story because the media made her part of the story, by accusing her of being complicit in the AZ murders.

The left are making this coward a victim, right before our eyes, of “right wing vitriol”? The truth is that anything from the right is right wing vitriol for a leftist. Questioning 0bama’s past, his preacher, his grades, his birth, his religion, his wife’s disdain of America, is just the tip of the iceberg for right wing vitriol.
Loughlin is a victim of America. Just ask Michelle 0bama.

Hooray for Sarah Palin. Her comments cut to the reality of just where we are now as a nation. I agree: Let us pray. We need God’s influence at all levels of our corporate lives now and in the future.

It is YOU, the media, the media like ABC, that has destroyed the country and not Sarha Palin.She is a victim like many others, thanks to you and your liberal agenda.Luckyly most of America rejects it. Look at the election results from last year. If you don’t change, you’ll be the losers.

Palin is just a cute clod and waaayyyy out of her league. She’s finished now. Maybe she’ll take the hint this time.
She’s a bitter, hateful, vengeful woman who can’t hide the fact very well. It comes out loud and clear in her sarcasm. Absolutely NOT what a leader is made of. She’s the idiot who dug her own grave.
Go back to the hills where you came from.

Palin did not find “a way to become part of this story”. You, the liberal news media made her part of it by blaming her for the acts of a crazy person. A link which has absolutely no merit. Everyone who knows this killer says he is either liberal or indifferent. He does not watch news, or listen to the radio. He is a liberal pot head. All you media elites have been dead wrong on every point.

ABC, you are continuing to lose creditability without thoroughly investigating. Within 1 1/2 hrs of the shooting, reports from CNN, MSNBC & others, brought Palin and the Tea Party into the discussion.

Who injected Sarah Palin into this story if not the left-wing media and pundits. Are you people for real? Good God!

“[She] once again, has found a way to become part of the story”??
The MSM slanders Palin for 4 days & she finally defends herself. That’s her “finding a way to be part of the story?” You think she should have just taken the beatings, submitted to the judgment of the all-knowing liberal fascists. Falcone, Walter, you’re either shills for the Democrats or idiots, most likely both.

EVERY big media company attacked Palin. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. Every last one of them did. She was in Alaska minding her own busines and they used the event in Arizona to attack her.
THEN they have the gall to criticize her when she defends herself. Get used to it big boys, You don’t own the airwaves any more and you don’t controll them. You don’t get to write the narrative without a rebuttal and isn’t it funny how the American public reacts once they know the whole story? THAT is one of the many reasons why you are loosing viewers. That is why you are loosing CONTROL. That is why come the next electiom, you and the socialist you support are going to be out on your keesters. Get over it.

Can’t you libs do anything but stoke the flames of hate and division.. you’ve not dissappointed me again…

“In her video today, Palin tried to find a way to be both. She expresses great compassion and sympathy for the victims, praised our “exceptional nation” that is “a light to the rest of the world.” But she also used the address as a defense of herself and a critique of the media. Instead of trying to get beyond this controversy, Palin has put herself back in the middle of it.”
No–she was being LIBELED and was responding to it. What was she supposed to do? Sit there and take it?

Amazing speech, and no speech writers involved. May God Bless those hurting in Az and the USA!
How can the media say Sarah Palin is ‘using’ this time to promote herself. Didn’t the media bash her in the first hour after this tragic event.

So let me get this right: without one shred of evidence, the lamestream media (thanks Sarah) tries to hang culpability on Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and any one on the right for this tragedy but ignore Francis Fox-Piven calling for armed revolution? Sarah Palin responding to what she appropriately termed “blood libel” is “lashing out”? Are you kidding? She is a private citizen and you tools are fortunate if she does not slap you with a lawsuit. … use the left’s tactics of legal harassment against them . . . maybe we ought to give it a try, turn about is fair play. Face it libs, you’ve overplayed this one and the majority is not going to forget.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it was you yokels in the MSM that made her a part of the story in the first place.

A real example of someone inciting hate and violence was when Newsweek falsely reported that an American soldier flushed a Koran down the toilet. After it was published, protesters flooded the streets of Afghanistan, burned American flags, and clashed with the police, leaving 16 peopled dead and scores of others injured.

Palin has always been at the center of the story despite having absolutely nothing to do with this tragic event because of the failure of the news media who are apparently more than willing to carry the water for liberals who are trying to use this event to further the political agenda. Only the emotionally and intellectually stunted would try to connect that political map showing vulnerable Demcoratuc held seets to a republican challenge as some how evidence of an attempt to foment violence. Did any of you connect Obama to this violence when he suggested Democrats should use guns if republicans use knives?
Why are we even talking about Sara Palin? We are talking about her because the media went with and gave credibility to the fanciful machinations of her political enemies… What kind of circular logic is it when she is now being slammed by the supposed unbiased media for defending herself from baseless charges they are facilitating? I fear for this nation.

The Left and their media attack dogs have not just jumped the shark with their pathological hatred of Sarah Palin, they’ve jumped the whole shark tank and the perimeter fence of the entire theme park. They are bringing into stark clarity the true face of their twisted sickness. And what is Palin’s crime against them? She refused to kill her unborn baby and the baby of her unwed daughter — the worst offenses to Leftists who suck on human death as if it were an after dinner mint. So-called “Progressivism” is a Death Cult.

ABC just proves its doggerelness since Jennings exited and they polarized the organization further. The mouthpiece and its minions frothed at the mouth in response to the massacre – then instantly put their foot in it, finding any way to connect the right, because, after all, it’s only the right who creates these situations. Clearly, those that are independently minded waited for facts to come in and we see, like most political assassinations, were simply the response of a lone psychotic. Toning down the rhetoric starts with you.

Sarah did a fine speech. The memorial was like a circus. The Lib media still will always be blaming Sarah. She got nothing to do w/ the shooting. But the gunman himself. He got history of mental problem. Y didn’t he get help? Y didn’t anybody see the warning sign when he post all that crap on all the social network??? It’s no one’s fault but himself & other who didn’t turn him in!! Sarah will always have me in her corner & she does deserve a fair treatment!! God Bless Sarah!!

Amazing Reporting!! ABC!

I thought they were both good speeches considering the circumstances. Obama’s good have gone from good to maybe great if not for the over zealousness of some in the audience that wanted to applaud every sentence at what was a solemn occasion for some reason. Reminded me of the Wellstone death pep rally a few years back… But Obama ignored it for the most part.

“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.” . . . . . How does ABC allow hacks like this to sit in front of a keyboard? These two can’t possibly be this ignorant, but I don’t see how any ABC editor can approve an article with a statement like that. ABC has really lost it’s way and it appears that they’re all just fine sinking with the ship like the band on the Titanic.

You americans are weird. The rest of the world is watching in bemusement at how fractured your society has become, that polemics can incite violence.

You all have tried both sides of the isle and it’s failed…miserably. Most of these politicians aren’t following the rules. They aren’t representing the people. They represent unbridled greed and power-grabbing. Why is the fox guarding the hen-house? Why are Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase’s fingerprints all over this miasma of crap we’re starting to see before us? Why do we have a foriegn owned private federal reserve that has more power than the president, printing money backed by nothing? I’m tired of seeing legislation slip through in lame duck sessions. Tired of the lies these representatives and presidents have told. Obama just appointed Daley for his “chief of staff”…great, wouldn’t you know? JP Morgan Chase top executive. People, we’re being “Bam-boozled”. Exercise your common sense. Too many may watch the news and take in what the host spits out as the whole story and no spin. They are far from it. You will see through this propaganda in time as long as you are aware of it. The congress has worked in tandem when it comes to laws that benefit the lobbyists, big corporations, and banks. It’s not quite so with the people of this country. Follow the money. Obamacare was written by the big insurance companies, but after it passes they say they need to raise the premiums. It’s so terrible….for you. The food safety act, over 100 million dollars lobbied by the big agri-businesses to pass it. We need officials that we can trust. That aren’t spying on us with cameras on the streets, intercepting e-mails, listening to citizen’s phone calls. That won’t violate our personal space without reasonable cause. Officials that live by the constitution and bill of rights above all else. I would like to see lobbying done away with and the beuracracy slimmed down and leashed. The only person I can think of is Ron Paul, though I doubt he will get much coverage. Just like 2008. But he seems to be the best bet for 2012, otherwise it’s just more establishment George Soros connected candidates.

Oh, SHE found a way to become part of the story.
Right: NO ONE mentioned Sarah Palin in connection to the shooting before she opened her big mouth.
I’m a pro-life Catholic, but listening to such utter BS makes me want to do Oliver Wendell Holmes one better: one generation of imbeciles is enough. For the good of the human race, sterilize yourselves.

Just like the good Sherrif Dupnik, who’ s not doing that good of a job on the border. That’s why he’s so high strung, looking for someone else to blame, the media doesn’t do it’s job to correct his allegations but they step forward to attempt to correct her syntax. Unfortunately, she’s correct in her analogy.The Jews were maligned (Blood Libel)but that’s what they’re doing to her. Then they complain when she responds and again, she correctly puts them in their place. Unfortunately, once again one of their own dweebs pops up and takes out one of their own plus a few others. Then they want the rest of us to give something up. Just like the North Koreans.No wonder they’re hyper.
hyper. Just like the North Koreans

Sarah Palin responded to all the leftist columnist throwing blame at her for something she did not do. You in the media need to look into the mirror every day and repeat the following: I will be civil in my comments and not stir up hatred against those that think different than I

This is lame even for the lame stream media. Slander her and then claim she is a media hog when she responds. How pathetic.

“What do you mean “BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”?
Falcone and Walter, are you serious? Of course, you are!
The Liberal media, and now the authors of this article, are the ones that pulled Palin’s name into the debate. She had nothing to do with the shootings. Neither did any of the other Conservatives.
Why don’t you write copy that improves the situation rather than always trying to destroy people and things.
Feel free to quote me.
You people are absolutely hopeless.”
WELL SAID!

Found a way to become part of the story?
She’s part of every story, all you Palin obsessed stalkers do is froth at the mouth over her … now that’s her fault too?
She sat idle while the very Sheriff of the county involved in the psychotic attack made media rounds blasting her, with every liberal pundit drolling over a chance to take shots at her, rather than being respectful to the families of the victims. Now Palin asks people to cool off and refocus on the victims and the red-eyed ABC pundits are frothing at the mouth.
What a load of ABC.

If the kids at ABC were grounded in reality, then they would know the depths that their network has fallen. It’s obvious that seasoned professionals are in short supply, otherwise the story would accurate instead of propaganda.

You have the worst comment software on the face of the earth. What good does it do to comment when it takes 15 minutes to get to the end of the list to find it. SERIOUSLY, ARE YOU THAT BROKE?

Sarah and the Tea Party put crosshairs on a map of gainable congressional districts. It was the left wing media stooges that moved the crosshairs to Congresswoman Giffords’ head.
I think it’s time for the owners of these news organizations to fire some of these jerks.

Sarah did quite well today.
Obama’s situation was quite different. He had to figure a way to ease his stooges under the bus without having to join them. Time will tell if it worked.

What a phony! I can’t believe people can’t see through the mask. This cretinous being hasn’t a whiff of sincerity.

I don’t get it. Is she a public official. What does she do for a living. Does she make laws, have a skill, write profound policy papers? The only thing that scares me more are the people who buy this kind of crap.

How is it that you media shills and prostitutes can accuse Palin of “finding a way to become part of the story?” Do you aloof, imbecilic propagandists even listen to yourselves?It seems to me that you and your mainstream brethren were the first to inject Sarah Palin into the story. I don’t often come to Palin’s defense but once again your ridiculous arrogance is laughable. And you idiots wonder why no one gives you any credibility anymore? Amy walter…what a moronic stooge.

Sarah Palin did not put herself in the middle of the story, the press did. She was accused by many political opponents of having caused this incident, and as it turns out, they could not have been more wrong. The press held its punches in the the Ft. Hood incident, but here, before any facts came to light, she and her cohorts, conservative political figures were demonized by the press, the sheriff and leftie pundits as the master puppeteers of a man with serious mental problems. Sarah Palin HAD to respond to the malicious libel against her, and she did it ONCE THE FACTS CAME TO LIGHT, not before. She did not thrust herself in this, the press did.

Bewildering to envision that there was actually a physical process of writing, editing, and approval involved with this nonsense.

Patio is exactly right.
How ironic that the ABC Libs make a story about Palin, but say it’s Palin’s fault.
She’s got the Kool Aid drinkers running scared, and that’s great.
Falcone and Walter need the views so badly they try to smear Palin and end up looking stupid themselves.

Are you kidding? YOU made her part of the story, when she shouldn’t have been.
The astounding dishonesty, maliciousness, and hysteria of the left wing media, which is no longer the mainstream media, seems to know no bounds.
Face it. You can’t offer convincing arguments for the hyperliberalism/socialism of the current administration, so all you can do is attempt to smear, charicature, and tar a movement of people who are opposed to these policies.

no wonder you are irrelevent.
You still need conservatives to defend you and this country, because you will not defend it