Let’s talk backdrops, shall we?
by digby
So Sarah the huntress made a big splash at the NRA convention today slamming President Obama for “exploiting” the Newtown tragedy:
At the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, Palin slammed Obama for flying the grieving parents of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Air Force One and then “making them backdrops” at rallies.
“That same media is now the reliable poodle-skirted cheerleader for the president that writes the book on exploiting tragedy,” she said, wearing a T-shirt that said “women hunt.”
“Now, emotion is a good and a necessary thing. But we have politicians exploiting emotion for their own agenda,” she said. “We have well-meaning Americans who are desperate to respond.”
She’s right, you know. The one thing about Republicans is that they never used citizens as props or exploited tragedy.
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“These boys and girls are not spare parts.” President GEORGE W. BUSH