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Sorry to disappoint if you were expecting a long rant. I'll simply post a comment I came across this morning online. Take what you will from it.

I'll say this, if your first instinct after hearing about a tragedy is to scrub yr websites, you have a problem as a political movement. - digby56

Geoff said about 21 hours later

I need some help with this one. I've got a few ideas but my brain still resides in Monday.
Geoff said about 22 hours later

I thought this was a good article today. In response to the recent assignation attempt.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110111/pl_yblog_exclusive/analysis-how-free-can-a-society-be-when-elected-officials-are-walled-off
Marc said about 22 hours later

I assume this relates to Palin taking her website down regarding the gun targets on specific political people including the one who was SHOT last week.

Regardless, Palin was an idiot for posting something like that, I don't think she should be receiving as much flack for what the crazy gunman did, but perhaps it'll be an eye opener for some of these political pundits that all that crazy crap you say, many idiots take seriously. Although it is getting harder and harder to find the difference between the pundits and the idiots.
GJ said about 24 hours later

Yes, it's referring to Palin and her staff first changing the Take Back the 20 website to modify the graphic and some other choice words (Don't Retreat...Reload!), but the site appears offline now. Whether they gave up trying to find references to scrub, or the crush of people trying to see for themselves what her site said, the site is toast now.

One of her staff tried to explain that the gun sights on the map were actually surveyor's marks. Really? Palin herself referred to them as bullseyes when tweeting about how they'd won 18 of 20 of those districts.

It's not just Palin, however. This problem has been rampant all over the political spectrum, but far more on the right wing than the left.

In all likelihood, however, the suspect was mentally ill and appears to have had a personal vendetta with Giffords for a perceived slight of him by not answering a screwball question he managed to get in front of her back in 2007...the hallmark of a paranoid delusion.

That said--the scrubbing of that website should tell you something, regardless of whether the shooter was influenced by it at all.