(March 23, 2010; Sarah Palin’s website Facebook page)

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We have had hundreds and hundreds of protesters over the course of the last several months. Our office corner has really become an area where the tea party movement congregates. And the rhetoric is incredibly heated. … This is a situation where people don’t–I mean, they really do need to realize that the rhetoric and firing people up and, you know, even things–for example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list–but the thing is that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district. And when people do that, they’ve got to realize there’s consequences to that action.
—Rep. Gabrielle Giffords March 25, 2010

ADDENDUM the First:

ADDENDUM the Second:
Note that the date of the “Don’t Retreat–RELOAD” tweet is the same date the “Take Back the 20” image went up on Palin’s Facebook page. (See also http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40965541/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/)

ADDENDUM the Third:

(T)hose were appalling things … said …, and to have … listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. —Sarah Palin, on the importance of words and their meaning