Over the weekend things got a little crazy and, in the heat of the moment, I referred to Sarah Palin’s online campaign graphic (seen below) as “Sarah Palin’s Hit List“.
For this I want to apologize. I was angry and frustrated at the time and, to be frank, it wasn’t my finest moment. It’s just that, speaking as a blogger, we sometimes post before we think things through in the rush to be be first or “win the internet” as they say at Politico. Such was the case on Saturday morning when I didn’t stop and calmly think it through which, I’m embarrassed to say, exposed me at both my most reckless as well as my least thoughtful. For this, I apologize to my readers, both those of you who have followed me over my nine years of blogging and newer readers who have only recently discovered my humble blog. You deserved better and I let you down.
Having thought about it and searched my conscience over the past few days, I will agree with my fellow Americans on the conservative side of the aisle that my description of the graphic was grotesquely inaccurate and that it is obviously “Sarah Palin’s Death Map” because, upon further review it is obviously not a “list” as most Americans have come to understand the term but a map indicating the locations of people Sarah Palin doesn’t believe should live… but only as long as she is not blamed for their untimely, yet just, deaths.
Again, I apologize and I hope you can find it your heart to forgive me, and I give you my word that I will try to serve you better in the future.
Gawd, I’m glad I got that off my chest.





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I can hear Patrick Appel fapping.
Now apologize to Bill Kristol for suggesting he “eat a bag of salted dicks.”
You know he has high blood pressure.
Well, I’m happy to see that you’re a big enough man to admit when you post misguided statements like that. I really didn’t want to change from obsessively reading your posts and commentators for the snark, to obsessively reading them to find reason for outrage, like your rightwing trolls do.
OK, now I think I’ll go look at puppy pictures for a while. I could really use a break from the world.
Stop apologising you wuss ~Sarah Palin’s Death List is OK but the Map gives those happy travellin’ wingnuts a chance to get recreational and Take the Country Back at the same time. It’s win – win ~ except for all those CommieIslamofascistgaylesbianblackpinkogreenielibrulmoonbats.
Now if yall had just been quiet Sarah and Glenn and Rush would have taken the hit for this. Howard Kurtz and Cokie and Wolf would have lambasted them for creating an atmosphere of of BWAHAHAHAAA HAAHAAHAA OWHEEEE hahahaha mmmmmm we are so fucked
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/voterrecord.jpeg
sic’em boys
Apparently Sarah Palin’s Death Map doubles as a Geography aid.
Its actually a star map overlayed on the continental US that shows the home solar system of the Pierson’s Puppeteers who have started their generations long plan to produce Teela Brown. Because anybody will be damn lucky to survive the next 50 years.
I certainly don’t forgive you.
It’s this kind of sloppy misuse of language that has destroyed the credibility of the professional left. And wins you awards, you scamp.
But have you re-styled Saturday’s terrible event as “Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Sarah Palin’s character?” Doubleplusungood if not.
I wasn’t offended when I first read it. But on further reflection I see now that it was under the top.
Look, considering that Sarah “I have become dumb, destroyer of words” Palin herself called it her “bullseye map” when first defending it (only more recently saying no, they were just “surveyor’s symbols”) your characterization of it isn’t actually any more harsh than hers was.
You can do better, in other words.
Under the top FTW.
Also it adds a nice hint of circus atmosphere, fittingly.
Forgiven. Just don’t let it happen again. Also. Too.
I’m glad you cleared that up, Tbogg. For awhile there, I was afraid some of those wingers with big amygdalas and teeny weenie anterior cingulates might up and take offense at your previous inaccuracy. They’re terribly sensitive when it comes to them, you know.
Ur really teh best, TBogg.
Feh, can’t trust those fucking hippies with words. They’re better left to professionals like Douchehat and Jonah. Nice try with the groveling apology, but the wingnuts will forever hate you for having pets that are smarter than them. Dust bunnies, too.
I’m only disappointed that you were less than generous with your words when it came to Sharron (Obtuse) Angle and her dumbass ‘second amendment remedies,’ Tbogg. Didn’t she deserve a little pub too?
TBogg, you are a loser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_YcQlYxyY
T, no matter how you pander to Sarah, she’s never going to let you see her naked.
“Sarah Palin’s Death Map” strikes me as shrill. I would suggest instead one of the following.
* Sarah Palin’s Snuff Chart
* 2011 Patriots’ Popgun Party
* Troofers’ Teabagging Targets 4 Today
* Kouncil of Koncerned Killahs
* Democ-RAT Party Extermination Squad
* Arizona: Doing the Job the Feds Won’t Do
* Sarah Palin’s A’ll-ask-ah, You’ll-deny-ah
* Sarah Palin’s Lynchpins
* Sarah Palin’s PowerPoint Bullet List
* Sarah Palin’s Wolf-Substitute Diagram
* Sarah Palin’s Git-’er-Done Guidebook
* Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue Bonus Infographic
* Sharron Angle’s Patent Remedies
* Sharron Angle’s Angel-Making How-To Manual
* Sarah Palin’s “Stop-Making-Fun-of-Trig” People-We-Should-Just-Plain-Up-and-Shoot-in-the-Head Chart
On behalf of the commentariat, I accept your apology. Don’t do it again.
When surveyor’s symbols are outlawed, only outlaws will have surveyor’s symbols.
Way to introduce yourself!
“* Sarah Palin’s “Stop-Making-Fun-of-Trig” People-We-Should-Just-Plain-Up-and-Shoot-in-the-Head Chart” for the win.
Please provide an address where we may forward today’s internets.
That’s better, mister.
Your words made baby Rush cry!
I hope you’re happy.
Hey, here’s how one Palinista interpreted those surveyor’s sites on Palin’s map.
Be sure to click the link check out the accompanying pictures.
In case the site gets scrubbed(pun intended), here’s a notarized version.
Don’t forget to apologize to all those manly, tough-guy reich-wingers that had their feelings hurt because they were called out for being sociopathic douchebags.
Words hurt, doncha know. But bullets fired at others by an unstable individual – hey, it’s not their fault! Or as those who need to eat bags of salted dicks would say, “Man up!”
First they toppled Confederate Yankee’s barbecue and I didn’t speak up because I order take out.
Then, true patriots sent silly putty to congressmen and I didn’t send any because I thought it was, well, silly.
Then, they ‘pied’ some great patriots, and I didn’t speak up because I don’t really care for pie.
Then, they came for the grifters just because some people got dead, and now they taken away my surveyor symbols and now I can’t find my local K-Mart on a map to buy more ammo and cheetohs, so I’m stuck in my parent’s basement with only an old box of stale triscuits and a betamax tape of Red Dawn.
Wait, that’s not so bad. ‘Murica is Exxcepshunal!
Obviously that’s a map of churches that Palin wants us to visit–see the little cross inside the circle?
No, sorry. You can get those with anything on them you want put on them. I wouldn’t have known that right off the bat, but it’s been out there long enough now that the rebuttals have shown up, and they’re convincing.
For shame! How dare you use their own words to indicate that they’re incapable of expressing themselves in any way other than through violent imagery!
Now hold out your hand so that I may lightly smack it.
Apparently, Sarah doesn’t like the metaphorical surveyor symbol locked onto her. She’s invoked the family-hostage victim-shield to provide protection against any errant metaphorical sight lines that may be coming her way.
Seriously, she had an opportunity to say,”boy, did I fuck up when I greenlighted that idea.” But, true to her character and Party – it’s the fault of those mean Lefties and Democrats for pointing out my 2nd Amendment remedy to correct errant voting results. Being Republican means never having to take responsibility for your actions.
And let me add that I, for one, appreciate your efforts to expose the real victims in Saturday’s shootings – Sarah Palin, Sharon Engle, Michelle Bachmann, the RW Wurlitzer, and the Teapublican Party – who we all know have worked relentlessly in their efforts to make this country a better place for the bottom 98%.
According to the latest RNC/Fox News Talking Point blast fax, these symbols are printing targets used to line up photo-ready artwork. The Latino in charge of this assignment had an epileptic episode while prepping the graphics and this went undiscovered until this weekend. So the real question is, why does the Left hate brown people with medical problems?
There’s no way that all of those gun sights were placed by one graphic artist. There had to be a second draftsman.
I’m guessing that Sarah had help from Rush, AKA the Gassy Knoll.
I’m sure TBogg meant for Cardia Salt to be used
Pink Himalayan Salt on those dicks, please.
Much better, TBogg. I was worried about you for a while there. If you can’t be precise with language, with what are you left? Meghan McArdle.
When are you people going to wake up?!1??!!!1 Those aren’t gun sights nor surveyor symbols. It’s plain as day that they are islamofacist symbols. Instead of using a crescent moon they simply used a full moon instead, therefore it is a full moon with a star in the center. Everyone knows, especially now, that Sarah is a libtard mole. Wake up Murka.
This proves nothing. He was probably one of that new (just since Saturday) breed of far left loony ‘Republicans’ we are always hearing about (since Saturday). Or, this was a personal vendetta against conservatives (who are actually the real victims of this shootin, doncha’ know)and he just registered as a Republican to make the right look bad. Or, there is a conspiracy at the AZ Secretary of State’s Office and they changed his real registration from ‘Communist/Fascist/Nazi’ to ‘Republican.’ Or, since it is AZ, ‘Republican’ might be the only option you can select when registering to vote. I’m sure pundits on the right will select one or two options from the menu above and their hapless followers will accept it without question.
Thank God I got to the second paragraph without puking and before I left a comment.
This is why you are the undisputed king.
I was mostly kidding in my earlier comment about this registered Republican being a new variety of really loony leftist Republican, but they actually went there: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gop-rep-loughners-beliefs-the-liberals-of-liberals.php
Oh you big silly. Those are obviously places where the Palin brood is planning to buy yet another foreclosed house. Hence all those “surveyor’s symbols”.
Or….
Jesus, TBogg, don’t scare us like that.
Yay! The idiot from my state opens her mouth and embarrasses us all once again! I think she’s trying to pull ahead of Michelle Bachmann for the title of “Craziest Lady Of Congress.” Sorry hon, but I don’t think you really have much of a chance there…
I’m sure your apology will be accepted in the gracious spirit of the new civility world order which we are all devoutly hoping will begin any day now, as Rush and Sarah lead America along the gold brick road toward the shining city on the hill.
Don’t anybody look behind the curtain.
I’ve tried to figure out how that came to be and whether or not it’s a photoshop fake, but can’t. I’d like to believe it, but I can’t replicate it for myself without knowing his drivers license or voter i.d. number (here’s the site: https://voter.azsos.gov/VoterView/RegistrantSearch.do .)
It may be too good to be untrue, or too untrue to be good, but right now I’d leave that information in the “unconfirmed” category.
It’s like a million branes cried out for oxygen, and were suddenly snuffed out. By the stupid, Also.
Hope you caught Dan Savage’s map of actual murders of progressives across the country the last 50 years.