Following Giffords Shooting, Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Website Quickly Scrubbed From Internet

[Turborama]

Rob WarmowskiA writer from the South Side of Chicago.
Posted: January 8, 2011 04:43 PM

In the minutes following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and members of her staff, the website operated by Sarah Palin that illustrated Gifford's 8th district with gun crosshairs drawn on a map was scrubbed from the internet.

The site, TakeBackThe20.com, was operating normally at 1:07 CST when I connected to obtain an image of the crosshairs map:



When I connected approximately one hour later at 2:10 PM, the site had been replaced with a webserver error, meaning that the webserver was answering but that the content upon it an hour earlier was not being served



Later, at approximately 2:45 PM, the server could no longer be reached at all. Clicks to it met with a DNS error, meaning that any clicks to TakeBackThe20.com would not find an underlying IP address.



While material on the site including the aformementioned map can be found elsewhere on Facebook and Twitter and other web sites, at press time, no image of the site was found in The Internet Archive at archive.org.

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-warmowski/following-giffords-shooti_b_806248.html

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Oh my. I thought it has been taken down along time ago. How disgusting of Palin!

[Maru Kitteh]

25. I thought so too. Don't retreat, reload though, right?

Her whole "I"m not gonna be p.c." shtick? What a despicable woman.

[tabasco]

2. An admission of culpability.

Destroying evidence.

[emulatorloo]

3. I just tried archive.org too - "Data Retrieval Error"

Very very interesting

[David Zephyr]

4. K&R. This is a news story in and of itself. She's obviously aware of how bad her target map was.

She's scum.

[sabrina 1]

23. Yes, she's aware. There was so much controversy over it

when she posted it initially. She just ignored all the warnings people were giving her. I don't know if she's really that stupid, you would think she'd be afraid that something could happen to one of those people, and realize she could be blamed. She is clueless if she didn't see the possibility. The other alternative is that she intended to send a message to some lunatic, but I would hate to think that, even about someone like her.

[somone]

5. That by itself speaks volumes

[sabrina 1]

6. Hiding the evidence.

As if it scrubbing their site will remove it from the web. Fortunately it is already all over the web and I hope to see it on the MSM as I'm sure they will want to point out how this kind of subtle call to violence, could have tragic consequences ~ :sarcasm:

[Turborama]

10. Yep

This one is still easy to find...

[sabrina 1]

16. It certainly is creepy. But then Palin has always been a bit

creepy. And with Rep. Gifford's statement that the 'whole teaparty' were her enemies, I guess they'll all be running for cover.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x142518

Otoh, no one knows what motivated the killer. But if I were one of the others on Sarah's target list, I would be a bit worried.

[Turborama]

19. I think it might be time to repost this...

With an update: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=244130

Thanks for the link, checking it out now.

[LiberalArkie]

7. yep:traceroute: unknown host takebackthe20.com

[Name removed]

8. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[gatorboy]

9. Admission of guilt.

[justiceischeap]

11. Another possibility you're overlooking...the Fed Govt could have taken it down

Since a Federal judge was killed this site could be used as evidence in a trial, the US Gov't could have taken the site down, just like when they take torrent sharing sites, etc.

[Turborama]

14. Interesting points. Either way, this is removal of evidence that could be used against her n/t

[tallahasseedem]

12. There would have been no need to take...

this down if she didn't think that this could be a factor in this insanity. She did and now it makes it even worse.

[SidDithers]

13. Destruction of evidence...nt

Sid

[stuball111]

15. Palin

Will NEVER admit she had anything to do with inciting this. You watch what her response will be in the next few days. The common thread in all conservatives is that they will never admit when they are wrong

[Unrepentant Fenian]

17. Thanks for posting that. Do you have a bigger version you could post? nt

[Turborama]

18. Those are the pics the author put online. Try going there and see what message you get

http://takebackthe20.com/

I posted a larger version of the target map itself upthread.

[begin_within]

20. There's also this...

Not from Palin's site, but from what I gather to be an Arizona GOP site of some sort.

[AspenRose]

29. Jesse Kelly is the asshole who ran against Gabrielle Giffords

And now he's trying to get all religious and repentant, asking for prayers and crap.

These people nauseate me.

[Doremus]

21. I was trying to see it earlier with the waybackmachine.

Whatever they did to it, it even erased waybackmachine images of it.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

22. The victims and families should sue Sarah Palin

and any other TV or radio personalities who advocated violence or targeting.

[Monk06]

32. Yes the should. Her ass should be in front of a judge for incitement to violence.

And making threats against a public official. Her and
her buddy Kelly should be prosecuted because of this.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

24. in other words, she knows its wrong.

but too damn late.

[Shandris]

26. IOW, it is LITERALLY down the Memory Hole (n/t)

[TwilightGardener]

27. But why? It's just cute, funny, and harmless.

[Imagevision]

28. Palin 10-$50,000 in book sales daily nationwide you would pull the website down also

[Blue_In_AK]

30. There's a good update at The Mudflats

with some exclusive photos and some good research.

http://www.themudflats.net/2011/01/08/more-on-the-shooting-in-arizona/

[Turborama]

34. Thanks for the link

Mudflats is a great blog that I should visit more often.

[Rex]

31. I wonder when the time will come that responsible adults in the Dem

party are going to stand up and say 'enough!' to the GOP or will it take more political assassinations of their ranks? How many more of us have to die before someone stops the rightwing hate machine?

[Penguin31]

33. Try Palin as an accomplice for the murders. n/t