Sarah Palin hates violence. She's a real peacenick now

The old Palin.  Will she join the Sierra Club and the ACLU next?

As the previous blog pointed out, the right wing are out to distance themselves from the mayhem in Tucson and the assassination attempt on congresswoman Giffords' life.  The tendency among most bourgeois commentators, including the targets of the right wing's vitriolic attacks  will be to call for unity,  understanding and civility, afraid as they all are of fragmenting an already broken US poltiical system.  The liberal commentator Keith Oberman was pretty direct though saying:

If Glenn Beck who obsesses about gold and debt and who joked about killing Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly who said Tiller the killer until it was burned into the minds of their viewers. if they do not begin their broadcasts with an apology. then those commentators and the others must be repudiated by viewers and listeners, by all politicians who are appear on their programs including President Obama... and by the networks that employ them.

I agree with the comment on the previous blog about the effect this will have on Palin and the right. Glenn Beck, the right wing demagogue shared some of his back and forth e mails with Palin on his morning radio show:

Beck:“Sarah, as you know, peace is always the answer. I know you are felling the same heat, if not much more on this,”  I assume the misspelling was due to nervousness.

“I hate violence,” Palin wrote back. “I hate war. Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence.”

There is an all out offensive to distance the political and economic conditions from the event and to portray the assassin as a sick individual with no political motives but this is not easy with the access to information these days.  "I doubt people who say this is about politics have a good understanding of mental illness.",  says one director of a mental health facility.  He goes on to say that, "It could be conspiracy or men from outer space. The important thing here is, why wasn't he in treatment?"

That's all well and good, capitalism makes us all sick.  They are talking about the death penalty though which they surely won't administer to a mental patient; will they?  And what about the pilots of the attack helicopter that mowed down innocent Iraqi's?  Are they "mentally ill"? 

Palin's spokesperson as the comment pointed out says now that the image on her blog was not cross hairs but some sort of map figure, some geographical icon or whatever.  And the e mails between the two bigots above makes them sound like a couple of tree huggers. It will be interesting to see how this develops with regard to the the likes of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Savage and other anti-worker racists.