They want people to note the "crosshairs" instead of the 20 Congressional individuals that need to be gone after the 2010 elections.

Here is a map -- THE map -- that has been used by the most violent segment of our society, the hard left, to try to garner points as "they" continue to politicize just about everything that moves.

The very cute Ann Curry, on NBC's Today Show, tried [she's just doing what she is told] to put Senator McCain on the defense regarding this map, a creation of Sarah Palin. Apparently Curry thought the map was a bit over the top what with the gun-sights and all.

Did we say "and all?" Oooops ! "And all " ???!!! There is no "and all." But to hear the Radical Left and their parrot media hosts, there is so much more to this map besides the notion that certain Representatives need to be targeted for defeat in the upcoming mid-term election.

And who said they were "gun sights?"

We studied the entire image -- nothing about violence even hinted at. Nothing.

Curry asked "These are very dangerous times. Is this the language we should be hearing today?" Perhaps Miss Curry should take the challenge and look up the word "target." Here is an Internet definition found at the very liberal "Word Web" : "Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal." Anything in that definition that reminds you of violence or gun sights?

You say, "Target, what target? Its the gun sights that are offensive." We would argue that these "sights" are those found in a scope, whether hand held or mounted on a gun or part of a survey tripod. There is nothing found on this Palin map that suggests an intention to cite violence against the individual's named or to imply that these are "gun sights."

What we have in the very lame objection is an effort at distraction. The Dems are fully aware of the anger caused by their own arrogant cramdown of the healthcare bill -- make no mistake, they know this. They are hoping to mute the message embedded in this map and the message made front and center is this: there are 20 Congress people who reside in McCain districts that need to be voted out of office this coming November. THAT is the message of the map. So we really should simply ignore the childish efforts at changing the focus of the conservative counter attack and make certain these people do not come back to Congress after January of 2011.

As an important side bar to the above, we have these words from the Senate Sargeant-At-Arms, Terrance Gainer: " there has been an increase in telephone calls and emails that are probably more harassing than threatening and the number of House Members being threatened has increased this week." So there you have it - "more harassing than threatening." There is an uptick in threats but the bulk of the protests have nothing to do with violent intent. Look, the most violent political side of aisle, in this country, is the hard left. Billions of dollars in damages have been the result of environmental terrorism. While the Oklahoma bombing was the result of a Right Wing nutcase, the Unibomber killed and terrorized hundreds of individuals over a period of decades -- and was cheered by many on the Left. There are plenty of nuts to go around but only the Left actually give them employment at places like MSNBC.

Having said all this -- let's work hard to rid Congress of those on Palin's list and not get lost in a silly defense engineered by those clearly on the run --- jds.

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