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On the recordJanuary 11, 2011
If you don't like a person's vision for the country, you're free to debate that vision. If you don't like their ideas, you're free to propose better ideas. But especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
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Sarah Palin
Republican · Alaska

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Palin criticizes the media's response to political discourse following a tragedy.

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