Sarah Palin vowed Monday night "they're not going to shut me up" as she berated liberals and the media for portraying her as the catalyst for the Tucson shooting spree.
Palin told Fox News' Sean Hannity that she and other conservatives were vilified as "accessories to murder" because "those on the left hate my message."
Borrowing a quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Palin said, "A lie cannot live."
"I will continue to speak out. They're not going to shut me up," she said, adding that she and her children have received death threats.
After the Jan. 8 attempted assassination on Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Palin's foes condemned an online map her political action committee had posted using cross hairs to target congressional districts in the midterm election. Giffords' district was one of those targeted.
The Tea Party darling said it was "ridiculous" to think the map instigated the attack by a "crazed, evil gunman" that left six people dead, although she had finally admitted the graphics on the map were actually cross hairs, something many in her camp have denied for months.
"The graphic that was used was cross hairs," she said, adding that this kind of imagery has been used in politics for years and that it was "ridiculous" to suggest they had anything to do with the Tucson shootings.
She also defended her use of the term "blood libel" in a video she released online to deflect charges her political rhetoric inadvertently fueled the bloodshed.
"Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands, and in this case," Palin said, "that's exactly what was going on."
Some Jewish groups criticized her use of a term that historically has been used to describe an anti-Semitic myth about Jewish rituals.
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