Do you recall the media kerfuffle about Sarah Palin’s “crossshairs” and how they blamed her (and the Tea Party) for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords (which was actually done by an extreme leftist).
Here is a screenshot of the Yahoo homepage:
Do you recall the media kerfuffle about Sarah Palin’s “crossshairs” and how they blamed her (and the Tea Party) for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords (which was actually done by an extreme leftist).
Here is a screenshot of the Yahoo homepage:
Sad but true
The Main Stream Media requires skepticism and critical thinking more than ever. However, the written phrase, “in the crosshairs” is a common idiom simply meaning “targeting,” which is often used figuratively. The controversy with the Palin ad was that it actually used crosshairs visually, which are associated with firearm sights and thus violence, when put in the same frame as human beings.
In many people, the visualization brought more to mind Ted Nugent-style b.s. than literary eloquence.