The Palin-bots are scrubbing, spinning, and spitting with frustration, but for Sarah Palin the die is cast.

From Obama London:

Sarah Palin has a reputation for being an agressive editor of comments on her Facebook page - a reputation that has always seemed likely accurate to me, given the tedious consistency with which all comments on the page are along the lines of "I love you SARAH!"

But in the wake of the terrible events in Arizona, with many commentators pointing out the obvious fact that Gabrielle Giffords had been targetted by Palin in the November election on a map that used a chilling gun site graphic, I thought it would be worth watching her page for a little while to see if her team were indeed deleting negative comments routinely. But I had no idea how incredibly, almost comically, efficient her people would turn out to be in deleting comments that were even slightly critical of the former Governor. And then I came across... well, what I guess you'd have to politely call an appalling example of editorial misjudgement at best.

You simply have to read all of the examples that this poster found of the incredibly swift and frenetic manner in which Palin's Facebook editors try to stay ahead of ANY potentially negative comments directed at their Queen. (Read to the end of the post linked above to see the comment that was NOT removed and learn for yourself just what kind of sick pieces of garbage serve the Grizzled Mama.)

Careful Facebook editing was not the ONLY way that the Palin-bots tried to control the damage that they knew was coming Palin's way.  Sister Sarah's number one fan and omnipresent ghostwriter Rebecca Mansour pathetically tried to convince the world that the images on Palin's now famous map were instead surveyor's symbols and NOT the bulleye's that Palin herself identified them as.

@RAMansour
Rebecca A. Mansour
via @DLoesch The Difference Between Surveyor Symbols and Crosshairs http://is.gd/ktcQT
5 hours ago via web

However her sad atempt to rewrite history is NOT fooling anybody.

I can’t decide which possibility is more startling: That Mansour actually believes what she is saying, in which case she is an idiot; or that she merely thinks everyone else is so deeply stupid that we’ll believe it, in which case her stupidity would also be matched with cold cynicism.

Almost without exception EVERYBODY is pointing to Sarah Palin and leaving her the blame.

Even Rep.Gifford's husband blames the inflammatory rhetoric for the assassination attempt on his wife.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' heartsick husband told lawmakers he blames inflammatory rhetoric for the assassination attempt on his wife.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that in a conversation on Sunday Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, lashed out at the cantankerous politics dividing the country.

He is "very angry about the level of angry rhetoric that he believes incites people," Hoyer told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

And even Gabby Giffords herself foretold of the potentially dangerous consequences of Sarah Palin using those infamous gunsights to target her district.



It also appears that this incident may result in stricter laws that would make the kind of rhetoric toward federal officials and Congress that Sarah Palin is famous for illegal.

Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.

Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a public event in Tucson. A suspect is currently in custody.

"The president is a federal official," Brady told CNN in a telephone interview. "You can't do it to him; you should not be able to do it to a congressman, senator or federal judge."
Brady singled out the map as the type of rhetoric he opposed.

"You can't put bull's-eyes or crosshairs on a United States congressman or a federal official," he said.

Sarah Palin often talks about not needing a title, or to be serving in office, to make a difference.  Well nobody can deny that she has indeed made a difference.

However it has been a devastating difference which has dramatically increased the hateful rhetoric, and viciousness of our political debate to such a point that when somebody actually DOES turn words into actions all eyes turn toward Palin.

She has always seemed to desire nothing more than to be the center of att4ention, and has been willing to say, or do, almost anything to stay in the public eye. Perhaps she should have read more, and tweeted less for then she might have read the following.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James A. Baldwin

So now the eyes of the worldare upon you Sarah Palin.

And what do they see?