WASHINGTON — Within minutes of the first reports Saturday that Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and a score of people with her had been shot in Tucson, pages began disappearing from the Web. One was Sarah Palin’s infamous “cross hairs†map from last year, which showed a series of contested Congressional districts, including Ms. Giffords’s, with gun targets trained on them. Another was from Daily Kos, the liberal blog, where one of the congresswoman’s apparently liberal constituents declared her “dead to me†after Ms. Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi in House leadership elections last week.
-- Fucking Matt Bai, "A Turning Point in the Discourse, but in Which Direction?," New York Times, January 8, 2011.