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Various reactions to the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords from around the web:
Sarah Palin: Well, ya never thought anyone but a lunatic would take me seriously, you betcha.
Sharron Angle: You can’t blame me for what happened in Arizona!
John Boehner: SOB!
John McCain: BUILD THE DAMN FENCE!
Wayne LePierre, EVP, NRA: It would be a tragedy to use this isolated incident by an obviously deranged lunatic to impair the rights of ordinary citizens to semi-automatic weaponry.
Heinrich von Grammarrecht: Obviously insane, he used imply when he meant … WTF did he mean?
Gilbert Gottfried: A funny thing happened on my way through Arizona. A congresswoman got sh … what, too soon? OK–this family walks into a talent agent’s office. He says I don’t do family acts. The father says “Wait’ll you see this one!”
Anne Coulter: I can hear all the liberals whining now…
Glenn Beck: Is it possible this liberal got herself shot to help in her future run for the Senate? I’m only asking the question.
Wolf Blitzer: Some people are suggesting Congresswoman Giffords got herself shot to help in her future run for the Senate.
New York Times: . . . although, according to some commentators, it’s possible Congresswoman Giffords got herself shot to help in her future run for the Senate.
Rush Limbaugh: Congresswoman Giffords got herself shot to help in her future run for the Senate. It said so in the New York Times.
FoxNews: Communist baby-killer Congresswoman provokes citizen to defend himself.
Tucker Carlson: They should just take him out and hang him… oh, no, wait a minute, no, they shouldn’t…
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Greg Uchrin is a satirist, cartoonist and professional cynic in Alexandria VA. This diary is cross-posted to his blog Intravenous Caffeine, the post-Bush era successor to HAIL DUBYUS