According to Sarah Palin "Crosshairs are back."

Courtesy of the Queen of Slow Learners Facebook page:  

CROSSHAIRS ARE BACK 

Evil jihadists raping, enslaving, killing women; crucifying Christians; beheading anyone standing in the way of their demonic, twisted death cult... you'd think that would be the target of these liberals’ self-righteous denunciations. Instead, the Left targets women brave enough to expose the anti-women radical Islamists. Glad my daughters shoot straight.

Palin then links to a ghostwritten post on Bristol's blog, accusing a "radical left wing" site of releasing a "hit list" of conservative women so that Islamic terrorists can target them.

Now that is an extremely inflammatory charge and, as usual, completely false.

To prove the point Nancy French links to World Net Daily, which most reasonable people recognize as one of the looniest sites on the internet, and a rather over the top piece by Fox's Megyn Kelly during which she accuses a representative from this "radical left wing" site of putting conservative women on a "hate list."

Now at this point you are probably wondering which "radical left wing" site would do something so horrible.

Well the answer is that it was the Southern Poverty Law Center which I think most of us find to be fairly reasonable. And as it turns out their article "targeting" these women is also pretty reasonable and not at all as vicious and vitriolic as WND, Nancy French, and Sarah Palin would have us all believe.

The article (Which you can read here.) identifies twelve different women as being aggressively Islamaphobic, and backs that up direct quotes and examples of Muslim bashing.

Among them are Ann Coulter who said “Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims — at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America.” (I guess Coulter missed that recent mass killing in South Carolina.)

Also featured is former Texas GOP chairwoman Cathie Adams who claimed that while Muslims are “extremely hospitable when you are under their roof,” as their religion requires, “Walk out of their home and you can be shot in the back.” (Are Muslims the ones shooting people in the back in America? I thought that was the police.)

And of course the article also includes famous Muslim hater Pamela Geller and describes her thusly:

Geller has a special hatred for Obama, who she says is “a third worlder and a coward” who seeks only to “appease his Muslim overlords,” “a muhammadan” who “wants jihad to win.” 

(Yes how dare SPLC point her out for saying such reasonable things, as well as organizing that "Draw Mohhamad" contest in Texas.)

There are of course nine others, each with their own hateful quotes to demonstrate why they were included in the article. (And if you read the article you will probably agree that all of them earned their inclusion.)

WND has described this as a "starter kit" for "Jihadists" but I would suggest that any Islamic terrorist worth their salt is already well aware of these particular individuals, and probably love the fact that they serve as examples which illustrate the anti-Islamic sentiment that they want Muslims to believe ALL Americans embrace.

In other words they have no intention of targeting them as they are essentially helping the cause of the Islamic terrorist. 

However returning to Palin for a minute, I was once again fascinated with her penchant for revisiting past failures in an attempt to repurpose them to serve her current needs. (Much like bringing up the "wild ride" while speaking to anti-abortion groups.)

After all, dredging up the image of her crosshairs map for this post is incredibly spiteful, and also ill advised, as it allows folks like myself to post an image like this one...

...once again reminding folks of Palin's connection to the shooting of Gabby Giffords and of course her blood libel speech in response to the media's attention to the map.

For a sane person these would simply NOT be things that they would want to draw further attention to again.

However Palin seems to have significant difficulty differentiating between bad publicity and good publicity, and seems determined to get attention by whatever means necessary.

Which makes me think that she must be ripping out what's left of her hair now that she can no longer get face time on either Fox News or TAPP, and instead must resort to saying ignorant things on Facebook and hoping that the media does not have more important things to cover that day.

By the way this has been a pretty big news day, and so far I have seen no news outlets covering this desperate cry for attention.