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Rob Warmowski

Rob Warmowski

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:

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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

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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.

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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.


 

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11:40 PM on 01/14/2011
She's washed up...just a matter of time...gotta get thru the noise/drama first. We as Americans will finally get to laws and what they contain and their effect. We then can effect real change in our country. We will find our way through this maze of drama/entertainment.
06:22 PM on 01/13/2011
I don't think that Palin's actions or rhetoric caused this shooting. I think that Palin, the shooter, and others like them are from the same group and I find this much more disturbing.

They come from the same type of churches, they ascribe to the same style of fundamentalist logic, and the same self centered morality that forms their political beliefs. They are the type of people who are capable of such extreme offenses to their fellow humans and they should be shunned.
10:52 AM on 01/12/2011
You're joking, right? Don't you think it would be a little insensitive to leave it up?
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burrs55
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05:22 PM on 01/12/2011
Most thinking, feeling people would never have put it up in the first place!
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02:20 PM on 01/15/2011
Why not if its realy just geological map symbols as Palin has attempted to backpeddle and she meant no harm by it?

Sure, sybmols of "dry holes", and not even a favorite symbol of dry holes among dry hole enthusiasts.
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06:47 PM on 01/11/2011
You know, Sarah and her staff can protest all they want, but the fact that they IMMEDIATELY removed the graphics after the shooting occurred indicates that they were conscious of some level of responsibility in the shooting.
09:35 AM on 01/12/2011
The only one responsible for the shooting is Jared Lee Loughner.
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burrs55
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05:24 PM on 01/12/2011
Correction - the only one "physically" responsible for the shooting is Jared Lee Loughner.
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02:21 PM on 01/15/2011
AGREE!
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MoscowMoo
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05:20 PM on 01/11/2011
You know, Sarah and her staff can protest all they want and claim it was surveyors' marks (or whatever), but the fact that they IMMEDIATELY removed the graphics after the shooting occurred indicates that they were conscious of some level of responsibility in the shooting.
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10:21 AM on 01/11/2011
and Ms.Palin becomes just a tiny dot in the pages of history
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Ba Gawk!
10:54 PM on 01/11/2011
a molecule, I would argue
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01:08 AM on 01/12/2011
a quark perhaps
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10:49 PM on 01/10/2011
It's 6:49 Alaska time - the site is still gone.
07:01 PM on 01/10/2011
you can run, but you can't hide Sarah.
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Ba Gawk!
10:55 PM on 01/11/2011
actually, it's the opposite. she's hiding but she'll never run from the truth
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06:58 PM on 01/10/2011
It's funny until somebody gets hurt, isn't it, Sarah?
06:57 PM on 01/10/2011
As for the "Surveyor's mark" excuse, SP herself used the word "bullseye" herself when referring to her map. http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/29677744457
09:12 PM on 01/10/2011
Yah, the symbol looks kind of familiar. Oh yah, that's what I see when I look down the scope of my rifle.
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02:24 PM on 01/15/2011
It is a surveyor mark for "dry holes" - sure, common place among main streat dinner time conversations nationwide - NOT.
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02:27 PM on 01/10/2011
palin and her ilk are partially responsible for the tragedy in arizona. america is abundant with people living on the edge, palins little nudge reached the "right person" in this assassination attempt, how many more has palin put over the edge and when will she held accountable for her action......
04:55 PM on 01/10/2011
very well said. I so much agree.
06:53 PM on 01/10/2011
You are exactly correct and the Sarah Palin hate mongering IS very much partly responsible for this incident. She preaches hate and to top it all off she claims to be a Christian... when is she going to start acting like one?
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SouthpawSass
01:57 PM on 01/10/2011
Hey Sarah, how's that "reloady" think working out for ya? Apparently not so well 'cause you're back tracking.

Odd how she claims her crosshairs map had nothing to do with the shooting, yet she took it down? Why bother if it wasn't involved?
10:01 PM on 01/10/2011
Your right and taking it down won't make it go away.
11:56 AM on 01/10/2011
If we as caring Americans sit up and allow this type of thing to go on and on and on, it will prove that very distasteful antics will always exist in our country making the country less desirable to live; no one should live in such destructive society; it proves evil, hate, jealousy will certainly destroy.
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SouthpawSass
02:00 PM on 01/10/2011
What Palin doesn't seem to get is she not only incites violence against her so called "enemies" from the right extremists, she also puts herself and her family in the metaphorical crosshairs from the left extremists. Why upset anyone? Why can't she just say what she believes in without foaming up the crowd? Unless of course it's all she has.
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RockyMissouri
'You must be carefully taught to hate'...
10:19 PM on 01/10/2011
Bingo-bingo-bingo...! You said it right..It is all she has....period.
Thank you.
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burrs55
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05:27 PM on 01/12/2011
True - true - true! I thank you and I fan you!
11:53 AM on 01/10/2011
Violence in any way does not solve problems, it only makes things worse, especially in a case scenarior as this.