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  Following Giffords Shooting, Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Website Quickly Scrubbed From Internet
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Last EditedHomegrown Democrat  Jan 08, 2011 05:06pm
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AuthorRob Warmowski
MediaWebsite - Huffington Post
News DateSaturday, January 8, 2011 09:45:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionIn 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:



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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