Yes we have to tolerate Sharron Angle and Rush Limbaugh or go the way of Canada

"It's not benign speech that is at risk of censorship. No one tries to censor weather predictions or recipe books. It's the spicy stuff that needs to be safeguarded...

If the choice is between individuals using their freedom of speech hurtfully and an all-seeing Big Brother watching our words and thoughts, I know which society I'd rather live in. You can always ignore a racist. You can't escape from the government." Ezral Levant

There is much finger pointing and blame going around as politico's and talking heads attempt to find some currency for their favorite or most hated issue since the tragic January 8th, 2010 shooting's at a political event for Representative Gabrielle Gifford  in Tuscon, Arizona.  

Jared Lee Loughner  is being charged with the shootings that killed 6 people and wounded 14 others including Gabrielle Gifford who was shot in the head.

Despite the fact, that as of this writing all indications appear to indicate that Jared Loughner was mentally impaired at the time of the shootings, the left and the right have gone to war over the role availability of weapons and the "national political dialogue", i.e. right wing/Tea party rhetoric  played in the shootings.

Sharron Angle and Sarah Palin have been catching most of the flack.  Sarah Palin for the map she had up on her website with cross hairs over opponents and Sharon Angle because of her comments regarding "second amendment remedies" in regards to political opponents.

We addressed Ms. Palins response in our previous post: Did Palin get it right re: Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford shootings?

Did Palin get it right re: Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford shootings?

We are not a fan of Sarah Palin or "Tea Parties," as anyone who has visited our little corner of the blogosphere is aware. So it was our initial inclination to "not" watch the video of her response to the  Gabrielle Gifford tragedy posted by CBS news this morning.  However, hoping maybe for a little more ammunition to back up our already admittedly biased opinion of Ms. Palin, we did watch it.  Imagine the cognitive dissonance we experienced when we found ourselves thinking, "the lady gets it!"

From CBS News:

Palin said that attacks on free speech and the democratic political system remind us how much we cherish and need to protect them.

"It is in the hour when our values are challenged that we must remain resolved to protect those values. Recall how the events of 9/11 challenged our values and we had to fight the tendency to trade our freedoms for perceived security," she said. "We will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults."