It turns out that Sarah Palin’s controversial list of “targets” in the 2010 elections, which included U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, is still on Facebook.
Giffords was shot over the weekend and is in critical condition.
No one thinks Palin was responsible or even indirectly to blame for the act of lunacy committed by Jared Loughner, but she been getting flack for her fiery rhetoric and apparent gun imagery in the wake of the shooting. Her response?
A Palin staffer defended the above graphic, saying, “We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights … It was simply crosshairs like you’d see on maps.”
Riiiight. Maybe we’ve been watching too much Sarah Palin’s Alaska, but somehow we weren’t thinking about cartography when we saw this. Or when she Tweeted at “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America [to] RELOAD!”
How about you? When you think of crosshairs, you think of …