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'The View's' Barbara Walters: 'I'm feeling bad for Sarah Palin'
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On Monday's (Jan. 10) "The View," the ladies Hot Topic was the horrific shooting in Tucson, AZ hat happened over the weekend. Here is what they had to say.
Barbara Walters: "I'm feeling bad for Sarah Palin because I don't think that's what she should have said, and certainly crosshairs are very scary. This is a deranged young man. This is a Timothy McVeigh. Whether this happened because there is violence - too much commentary, too much violence as you say we've talked about. Sometimes we do it here, we get so angry. Whether that speared him on or whether he is just a very sick person, we don't know. We don't know what his motives are and we can hope that all the vitriol calms down. But to blame Sarah Palin as some are doing I think is very unfair to her. She issued a statement offering her condolences and hasn't said more. But I don't think this is the time now to start finding - you should excuse me - other targets to blame."
Whoopi Goldberg: "I want to point out Sarah Palin was one of several people who put crosshairs on this young lady."
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "It seemed extreme and almost inexcusable that crosshairs would be put over everybody, but because you put the crosshairs over someone or a district, does that in fact, if you are not the person behind the gun, are you to blame? Just the morning of the shooting, hours beore, the New York Post had this as its cover, crosshairs saying "Stop Him!" over Peyton Manning's face. Now are they then to blame if God forbid anything were to happen to Peyton Manning?"
Sherri Shepherd: "God forbid if anything were to happen to Peyton Manning, we would be holding this up going, "Why would you foolishly do something like this?" There were many people in addition to Sarah Palin, but you gotta say your words are powerful. Just because we have free speech and just because we can say certain things does not mean we should."
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i like lil' wayne's rap music but im not rushing out to kill somebody and tattoo a teardrop under my eye
"the devil made me do" it is not an admissible or sustainable defense in the court of law.
Not a Sarah fan, but this is not a result of anything she said or did. This is a mentally ill man who should have been committed long ago. That being said, Sarah and all others who are in office or aspire to office should take a good look. There is no need, in this country, to sink to the ugliness that has been going on for decades. Act like grown-ups and change what you don't like. VOTE. And if you are already in office - VOTE and DISCUSS and yes, ARGUE if necessary to get your point across - don't resort to juvenile tactics or words just to get to be the "soundbite of the day". You know, in this country, thank God, we can all have at least part of what we want. Many other countries don't have that. It doesn't all have to be one way or the other here - compromise is not always a dirty word. Sometimes you can get much accomplished by acting like a responsible adult.
The Democrats used a similar bullseye map back in '02. This guy isn't political; he's just plain crazy!