“Critics” of Palins made those claims and they too did not represent all Democrats or all mainstream news outlets.
You can grab all your marbles and storm off to home, but As long as you continue to insult me by calling me a liar, I will repost the following debunking over and over again:
The following information proves that not all the mainstream media outlets tried to blame Palin, and those that did, later retracted those claims.
This CBS story which you use to claim that the entire Liberal media blamed Gifford’s shooting on Republicans, is a mainstream media source that you would normally distrust, and what was actually said in the article was this:
“We do not yet know what prompted 22-year-old accused gunman Jared Loughner to allegedly shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others, including a child and federal judge who died from their wounds.”
So, if the CBS story that you use as proof that the entire liberal media blamed Gifford’s shooting on Palin, actually stated that, (at the time of its publication), it did, “not yet know what prompted 22-year old gunman Jared Loughner to allegedly shoot Rep. Gifford’s (D-Ariz.) and others,” how then can you use that same news source to claim that it the left wing did blame Republicans?
And the New York Times story you cited included this:
“Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl. At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right.” Did you notice the words, “At the time?” and “Probably”?
The same article from NYT also said this:
“….A map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs. But in that case no connection to the shooting was ever established.”
In other words, the same New York Times that had been critical of the right, found that no political right-wing motives were discovered! So, the liberal Press did not completely lay this on the right’s influence, and those that did blame Palin most likely retracted their errors also.