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 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.
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 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.
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."
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.