Crosshairs, Targets and Sarah Palin

One Mans Opinion 1/19/2011
By Dewaine Shoulders

The usage of targets, or crosshairs has been used in everything from advertising to political campaigns for as long as I can remember, and now, lo and behold, crosshairs are to be considered politically incorrect.

Geez! Have we become so thin-skinned that a simple thing like the word crosshairs, or the actual symbol, can cause people to get their panties in a wad and act like it's the end of the world? Have 'some' people lost their ever-loving minds?

Now granted, Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee used crosshairs when targeting districts that they wanted to focus on during the midterm election, but was that the reason that someone decided to start shooting people? No!

The crosshairs are also an surveying symbol, if I'm not mistaken. So should we outlaw anyone in the surveying industry from using it too? For crying out loud, the politically correct leftists out there are grasping for straws by blaming Sarah Palin for the shooting by SarahPAC using the crosshairs on the website, but to say that crosshairs, ot the mere mention of the word should now be taboo is ridiculous.

Now here's something amazingly stoopid... CNN's John King had to apologize to his meager audience (probably a few dozen at best) by saying, "Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from that kind of language."

CNN has to apologize for someone uttering "crosshairs?" It's okay to call people nazi's, but crosshairs (both the symbol and word) should be verbotten?
Having mentioned the John King statement, let's take a look at this tidbit of information: From 1982 thru 2005, CNN aired a program called 'Crossfire.' And during the 23 years that it was on the air, approximately 1.3 billion people died. Is CNN guilty of hate speech and the deaths of all of these people from a show called Crossfire? No! But the real question is: Should they apologize to their braindead audience because they used some symbolic word that could cause nutjobs on the left to grab a gun and start popping off hip shots into crowds?  Well...

Then there's the chain of department stores named Target. Should they have to change their name and logo because it conjures up feelings of anger and promotes hatred against anyone? Again, I would have to say no!

So, is Sarah Palin guilty of using a crosshair target on the SarahPAC website in hopes to stir some liberal loonfish to take up arms and shoot people? NO!

The left is simply trying to deflect the focus away from the fact that their Community Organizer in Chief is an utter failure. The economy he's in charge of is teetering on the brink, so they are taking advantage of a bad situation (the Tragedy in Tucson) as to change the national subject from the economy and lack of jobs to 'Lets all hate Sarah Palin for the umpteenth time since 2008 because she's an easy target' (oops, politically incorrect usage of the word, I know).

Also, the dolts on the left have been trying to limit the first amendment by this nonsensical censorship of a word here or there for some time now. After all, that's what political correctness is really all about... Censorship!

They claim that the right is full of hate because of this symbol:

I say the left is guilty of hate because of these images:

You tell me which is worse... A simple crosshair, or the hateful images from the left?

Perhaps a nice dose of Obamacare will make all you leftist loonfish feel better... If you can actually see a Doctor for what ails you. And what ails you is stupidity!

But that's just my opinion, I could be right!