History reloaded
By J. Kingston Pierce
Much has been said (and probably remains to be said) about failed former half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s offensive “crosshairs” map of the Democratic U.S. lawmakers she thought, in her infinite wisdom, deserved ouster because they’d supported President Obama’s historic health-care reform legislation last year. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona), who was critically wounded this last weekend during a deadly shooting in Tucson, was among the people pinpointed on that map.
Now, The Stranger--the marginally less boring of two “alternative” weekly newspapers serving Seattle--has come up with its own version of Palin’s chart, substituting for her “targets” the names of political figures who were, indeed, assassinated over the last century and a half, or who survived assassination attempts.
Palin’s map is on the left, The Stranger’s is on the right. Click on either image to open a larger version in a new window.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4cVguCrj830FothfkNdfJUDKMe3PUgLorc8JKhnE8M9HCAqOk6pEDmka2-bZNHDjRBw3xuIGb7p8j4md2w46FUOWYh5V1SFrzPZRxSbpQxFH3a7QRekqD6Ym6Pe73ekRazakaw/s320/SarahPAC+Targets+Map-1.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0K3is1tkttoZLZqeEnTyvjH_cd8ly3LT3QH-jiB2ZTCkaQLddGFbm1B_rK_uEnXRxCffBSgay6i5wJ38yMnQSiIC-u12ftdmL777UtEGUdF4p-7ALkFixrNl0h3SVBYOgQe2GfA/s320/Crosshairs+Stranger+Cover.jpg)
(Cross-posted at Limbo.)
Much has been said (and probably remains to be said) about failed former half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s offensive “crosshairs” map of the Democratic U.S. lawmakers she thought, in her infinite wisdom, deserved ouster because they’d supported President Obama’s historic health-care reform legislation last year. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona), who was critically wounded this last weekend during a deadly shooting in Tucson, was among the people pinpointed on that map.
Now, The Stranger--the marginally less boring of two “alternative” weekly newspapers serving Seattle--has come up with its own version of Palin’s chart, substituting for her “targets” the names of political figures who were, indeed, assassinated over the last century and a half, or who survived assassination attempts.
Palin’s map is on the left, The Stranger’s is on the right. Click on either image to open a larger version in a new window.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4cVguCrj830FothfkNdfJUDKMe3PUgLorc8JKhnE8M9HCAqOk6pEDmka2-bZNHDjRBw3xuIGb7p8j4md2w46FUOWYh5V1SFrzPZRxSbpQxFH3a7QRekqD6Ym6Pe73ekRazakaw/s320/SarahPAC+Targets+Map-1.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0K3is1tkttoZLZqeEnTyvjH_cd8ly3LT3QH-jiB2ZTCkaQLddGFbm1B_rK_uEnXRxCffBSgay6i5wJ38yMnQSiIC-u12ftdmL777UtEGUdF4p-7ALkFixrNl0h3SVBYOgQe2GfA/s320/Crosshairs+Stranger+Cover.jpg)
(Cross-posted at Limbo.)
Labels: Arizona shooting, news media, political violence, Sarah Palin
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