Here's the quote going around from Palin spokeswoman Rebecca Mansour.
"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights. It was simply cross-hairs like you'd see on maps," said Rebecca Mansour on the Tammy Bruce radio show. Moreover, there was "nothing irresponsible" about the image, and to draw a line connecting Palin and Saturday's shooting is "obscene" and "appalling."
Follow me over the jump to see why this is incredibly disingenous, and why the PAC knew exactly what imagery they were using as a dog whistle to the right wing.
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