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12 January 2011
Last updated at 09:26 ET
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has attacked as a "blood libel" suggestions that political rhetoric contributed to Saturday's fatal shootings in Arizona.
Ms Palin, tipped as a possible 2012 presidential runner, hit out at "irresponsible statements" apportioning "blame for this terrible event".
Her remarks came as new details emerged about the attack, in which six were killed and a congresswoman wounded.
Jared Loughner, 22, has been jailed pending trial for the attack.
The video statement from the 2008 vice-presidential candidate came hours before President Barack Obama is set to fly to Arizona to attend a service honouring victims of the shooting.
Some commentators have suggested increasingly vitriolic political rhetoric in the US may have contributed in some way to the attack, with some specifically criticising Ms Palin for using an online graphic containing crosshair symbols that marked targeted Democratic districts in the recent US mid term elections.
Among the districts targeted was that of Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was gravely injured in Saturday's attack at a constituency outreach meeting in a Tucson shopping centre.
Six were killed in the attack, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl, and more than a dozen wounded. Ms Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition, though doctors have said she is able to breath on her own and appears slowly to be recovering.
Mr Loughner has been charged with several federal crimes over the shooting, and could face the death penalty. In an initial court appearance on Monday he was remanded in custody pending trial.
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Ms Palin, tipped as a possible 2012 presidential runner, hit out at "irresponsible statements" apportioning "blame for this terrible event".
Her remarks came as new details emerged about the attack, in which six were killed and a congresswoman wounded.
Jared Loughner, 22, has been jailed pending trial for the attack.
The video statement from the 2008 vice-presidential candidate came hours before President Barack Obama is set to fly to Arizona to attend a service honouring victims of the shooting.
Some commentators have suggested increasingly vitriolic political rhetoric in the US may have contributed in some way to the attack, with some specifically criticising Ms Palin for using an online graphic containing crosshair symbols that marked targeted Democratic districts in the recent US mid term elections.
Among the districts targeted was that of Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was gravely injured in Saturday's attack at a constituency outreach meeting in a Tucson shopping centre.
Six were killed in the attack, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl, and more than a dozen wounded. Ms Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition, though doctors have said she is able to breath on her own and appears slowly to be recovering.
Mr Loughner has been charged with several federal crimes over the shooting, and could face the death penalty. In an initial court appearance on Monday he was remanded in custody pending trial.
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