Twitter death threats to Sarah Palin

After the Tucson shooting of Jan 2011, there was a tidal wave of hatred directed at Sarah Palin. There is no evidence that the shooter was interested in Sarah Palin. The shooter was a 9/11 truther who was atheist, anti-war, hated Bush, and burnt the American flag. He never showed the slightest interest in Sarah Palin or the Tea Party. There is nothing to connect Sarah Palin to the shooting.

This did not stop the hatred and fury, which is well captured on Twitter. People below felt free to express in public that they wanted Palin dead, raped, or both. One even wants her children dead.

I am not really a Palin fan. She's all right, and I would prefer her to that idiot Obama, absolutely. But she's hardly my dream President. My dream President would be Victor Davis Hanson.

But this is not about Palin. This is about a blood libel, and the crawthumping hypocrisy of the left.

Joking about raping Palin and her daughters
Mocking Palin's disabled child
More death threats against Palin on Facebook.
I tend to agree with Johnathan Pearce. I'm not a big Palin fan. But I can't stand the people who hate her: "It got me thinking about why certain politicians, even if they espouse views which are not necessarily all that outrageous or objectionable, provoke feelings of such hatred in some quarters. ... There is .. something quite useful about Sarah Palin in this regard. Although I do not agree with all her views, at least as far as I know what they are, I usually find that the sort of people who say they hate or despise her are nobs of the first rank. So it is a sort of useful marker: if I find myself talking to someone and her name comes up and the reaction is as described, I can usually pigeonhole that person as someone to be avoided."

Twitter death threats - Part 1 (not collected by me)

Twitter users wish death on Sarah Palin after the Tucson shooting, Jan 2011.
Of course there is no evidence that the shooter was interested in Sarah Palin.
And Sarah Palin - unlike these scum - has never called for political violence.

The video:
- This video was originally posted by Newswatcher89.
- The above is my edit at my YouTube channel. You can download it as a WMV file.
- Search for more copies on YouTube and Vimeo.
The tweets:
- Screenshots (and here)
- Links to the Twitter users
- N.B. There were two innocents caught in the original Twitter net:
  - Moriah Jovan is innocent - she was not issuing a threat, but commenting on the violent rhetoric. She is in fact conservative / libertarian.
  - John Book is innocent - he was not issuing a threat, but just reporting this pathetic story.
- Also, if you are not familiar with Twitter syntax, note that when you see @someuser in the body of a tweet (not the header), then someuser is not the author of the tweet, but rather someone to whom the tweet was addressed (perhaps against their will). For example, do not blame "exiledsurfer" for this (original here).

Lauren Bendik issued the above public comment about Sarah Palin.
She was upset that it was included in the above video.
So she got YouTube to take the video down on grounds of "privacy"!
Disgusting.

She makes an apology: "im sorry and i regret what i wrote."
She should also apologise for getting the video pulled.

Before It's News points out other Twitter users who do not apologise, like Stephen Patten.

Adam Fine does not apologise. Instead he complains about the video: "It really is funny yet pathetic that someone went through all the trouble to gather so many posts about wishing for palin's death".
That's not what's funny and pathetic here, Adam.

Tweet complains that Palin never gets any death threats.

Twitter death threats - Part 2 (collected by me)

I was interested in whether the above compilation was repeatable. It is.

You can search Twitter at any time and you will find fresh death threats.

Here's a new search, turning up a variety of people who advocate violence, death and rape against Sarah Palin. Why? Who knows. None of them seem to use logic. But I agree with this comment that: "These tweets prove there's no shortage of 'Jared Loughners' out there."

From here.

An unending stream of death threats

You can search Twitter any time Palin is in the news for terms like:

"shoot palin"
"kill palin"
"die palin"
"palin cunt" (a particularly productive search)

and you will find fresh death threats.

Actor Orlando Jones thinks it is funny to crack this joke about killing Sarah Palin.
Would a white man joking about killing a black woman be equally funny?
He is unapologetic.

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