Bad Irony Alert: The Blood Libel on Palin Resulted Has Resulted in an Unprecedented Increase of Death Threats Against Palin

Liberals’ “Civil Discourse” Calls for Palin’s Assassination
As we pointed out earlier today, liberals/Democrats/whatEVER have totally ignored THEIR president's call for "Civil Discourse" in politics.   Some pretty vicious anti-Palin posters were put up in San Francisco  even before he finished his Speech in Tucson.   Fox News reports it is getting much worse. There is a campaign on Twitter calling for Sarah Palin's Assassination. Is the FBI involved yet?  Critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have turned to Twitter ...

Why Sarah Palin Used the Term Blood Libel
Many people were shocked and appalled yesterday when Sarah Palin used the term "blood Libel" to defend herself in her Fox "News" tee vee studio in Wasilla. From reading many comment threads all over the Blogosphere, it would appear that the comments could be placed in one of two categories: 1). "America's Professional Victim" didn't really know how deeply offensive the term is. Let's call them the "Sarah is dumb" crowd; 2). The "Sarah is too smart for her own good" group seems to think she knew...

Palin's 10 Red Herrings (Politico)
Sarah Palin has continued and intensified the rhetorical strategy introduced by her supporters and surrogates in the wake of the Tucson tragedy. She’s offering a series of red herrings — distracting with concepts that are truthful, but irrelevant, to deflect from other issues or vulnerabilities. (The term originates with the practice of using cured fish to put Hunting Dogs off the track. 1) Free Speech: “Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to...

Sarah Palin and the "blood libel"
Posted by Paul at 8:30 PM Sarah Palin is coming in for criticism for using the term "blood Libel" to describe accusations that she and other outspoken Conservatives somehow have blood on their hands in connection with the Tucson shootings. Palin's remarks on the shootings are also being compared unfavorably to President Obama's Speech at the University of Arizona. Obama's Speech was healing and uplifting, while Palin's, some say, was divisive and defensive. I find both criticisms of Palin unfai...

Bill OReilly While Discussing Sarah Palin: There Isnt Anybody More Vilified Than Beck
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly-who delivered what he describes as a “devastating” indictment of those who linked the shootings in Arizona to politicians like Sarah Palin-does not see the former Alaska Governor as the ultimate Victim of hypercharged political Rhetoric. It’s Glenn Beck. In a discussion with Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson and Fox contributor Margaret Hoover , O’Reilly dismissed suggestions that there’s a gender bias in politi...

Hannity to free Palin from liberal muzzle on Monday
Thank God almighty, she's free at last! (And she's getting paid for it too.) Palin to Do TV Interview Monday Sarah Palin is scheduled to sit for her first extended interview since the Tucson shooting rampage on Monday night, on the Fox News Channel. An executive at Fox News Channel said that Ms. Palin would appear on the program of the conservative host Sean Hannity, and that the interview was scheduled to run through several commercial breaks. The announcement came on Thursday, another day wh...

Here is a video of Sarah Palin breathing and making that one face
Here, this is a weird video of Sarah Palin's "blood Libel" Speech from yesterday, edited to include only the instances of her breathing. No words. Just breathing. Weird, creepy breathing. I will say only that this video will probably not do anything to change the minds of people who have a visceral dislike of the former Alaska Governor. And the sound of lips smacking reproduced with such high fidelity is unsettling no matter whose lips they are. Thanks, Internet! ...

Liberals Preach Civility and Call for Sarah Palins Death
As we pointed out earlier today, liberals/Democrats/whatEVER totally ignored THEIR president’s call for Civil Discourse with vicious Palin posters in San Francisco put up even before he finished his Speech in Tucson. Fox News reports it is getting much worse. There is an organized social network push calling for Sarah Palin’s Assassination. Is the FBI involved yet? Critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have turned to Twitter to post hate “tweets” suggesting that ̶...

Glenn Reynolds Explains the Lamestream Medias Palin Obsession
Glenn Reynolds attempted to explain the lamestream media’s Palin obsession today. Nick Gillespie: Palin’s Not Complicit in Loughner Shooting, but She Sure Ain’t Presidential, Either. Has any other public figure ever had to try to act “Presidential,” though, while being accused of complicity in mass Murder? On the other hand, if (as isn’t clear to me) she actually wants to be President, she’ll have to learn to be Presidential. Barack Obama has had his pr...

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Mecca): Palin Should Have Said Sorry For Overblown Rhetoric
You heard Farrakhan’s Jew-hating buddy, you’re all done, Sarah. (Huff Po) - Sarah Palin took a lot of heat on Wednesday for her seven-minute-long statement on the shootings in Arizona, in which she mourned the tragedy and accused her critics of “blood Libel.” And it appears that the president’s Speech last night — in which he adopted a far more civil, reconciliatory, and emotional tone — has made matters only worse. “I think that the presiden...

Good Luck Talking Down Shrill, "Blood Libel' Victims Armed to the Teeth
Words don't matter, only "blood Libel"? As Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC remarked, how is it okay for Palin to claim words don't matter and individual actors are solely responsible for their crimes while going apoplectic when others opine violent Rhetoric fuels a context for violence. Or that her outrage might push the "disturbed" to obey her "don't retreat, reload"? Crosshairs, anyone? Certainly any such talk won't make us safer, nor will good intentions or happy hopes from politicians, nor minute...

The GOP Needs Solidarity
From True North GOP Men and Selling out Sarah by Sheila Kihne What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! I was just talking the other day about Conservatives who are foolish enough to let the media use them and lo and behold, one of my favorites, NJ Governor Chris Christie did just that this morning on Good Morning America and in the New York Times when he sold out Sarah Palin.  He wants to give her speaking ad...

Get ready, America, for The Hermanator Experience
By RightKlik It looks like Herman Cain is dead serious about running for president. The progs at The Atlantic have written up a pretty good piece introducing the uninitiated to "The Hermanator Experience." They called him crazy (without citing any evidence) and then proceeded to slather him with praise: Although often outrageous, he has a shrewd sense of his appeal. At a GOP confab in New Orleans last year, Cain railed against liberals, who, he said, slander Conservatives as “Racist, re...

From Palin to Pawlenty, GOP Presidential Prospects Grapple With Arizona Massacre
President Obama isn't the only leader being put to the test by last weekend's shooting rampage in Arizona. The tragedy is also serving as a proving ground for Republicans considering 2012 presidential runs. At least eight have weighed in, and the results are revealing. What does a hurting nation look for in a president? "Americans expect their presidents to be more than just the head of a political party or a political leader," says GOP Strategist Todd Harris, the spokesman for John McCain's 200...

Palin Targeted in Violence-Tinged Tweets
(FOXNews.com) - Critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have turned to Twitter to post hate tweets suggesting that "she should be shot" and "assassinated," FOXNews.com reported Thursday. A four-minute video montage of the tweets -- apparently sent after Saturday's massacre in Arizona that left six people dead and 14 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- was posted to YouTube on Tuesday. "My hatred for Sarah Palin continues to grow... I think this woman should be assassinated. Sorry abo...

So, How Acute Is The MSM Manipulation?
I just read the below excerpt to my husband, who is not a news junkie and tells me to "text him" (he's busy working two jobs) if/when the world is on the verge of ending and he'll leave work early to make it home. Anyhow, when I read the excerpt to him his response was, "WTF?!?" ... Yeah, WTF is what all Americans should be demanding after the last near week of MSM malpractice on display. In the most bald-faced lie I have ever read in The New York Times -- which is saying something -- that paper...

Gabrielle Giffords wrote of her passion for Judaism and Israel
My grandfather, Akiba Hornstein, was the son of a Lithuanian rabbi. My grandfather changed his name to Giff Giffords for reasons of Anti-Semitism and moved to Southern Arizona from New York more than a half century ago. In the 1940s, he founded my family’s tire and automotive business, El Campo Tire, which grew into a successful and thriving business for 50 years, which I ran for several years before serving in the Arizona Legislature. Growing up, my family’s Jewish roots and tradit...

Marist Poll - POTUS Out in Front
Posted by JM Ashby A new McClatchy/Marist Poll released today, which pre-dates both Palin's and the President's speeches last night, shows President Obama with massive leads over all of the current supposed GOP frontrunners including Huckabee, Romney, and Palin. Today Obama would beat Republican Mitt Romney by 51 to 38 percent, the poll showed. In a December McClatchy-Marist poll, he trailed the former Massachusetts Governor by 46-44 percent. Obama would defeat Republican Mike Huckabee by a s...

AlaskaDispatch.com: Guns culturally separate Alaskans from rest of U.S.
One thing most Alaskans know is that guns are tools. Many in the 49th state still live close to the land. They use guns to feed themselves by killing animals for food, and they use guns to defend themselves against Grizzly Bears that would like to make them food. Confession here: I once used a Handgun to shoot a grizzly bear off my leg after making the unfortunate discovery that not all grizzly charges are bluffs. Whether the gun saved my life or simply prevented the bear from ripping me up ev...

Aide: Uptick in Death Threats Against Palin
Source: CBS News An aide to Sarah Palin tells CBS News that there has been an increase in death threats against the former Alaska Governor in the wake of the shootings in Tucson. The aide did not provide details concerning the volume of threats, how much have they increased or whether they are being referred to the authorities. A different Palin aide, Rebecca Mansour, told USA Today that the increase in threats since Saturday has been "incredible." "There has been an incredible increase in dea...

Sarah Palin haters turn to Twitter to post hate 'tweets'
Plenty of people have plenty to say about Sarah Palin , on both sides of the political aisle, but a video on YouTube is likely to get universal condemnation from both the left and the right. On YouTube, someone posted a four-minute video montage of "hate tweets" directed at Sarah Palin --vile, ugly messages hoping that she gets shot, gets Cancer and dies and so on, and often in graphic NSFW language. This, in the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, the heated Rhetoric that followed and the presiden...

The Hatin' Palin Chorus
Image via Wikipedia Rush Limbaugh: So there's Obama being praised to the heavens, Obama being exalted and held up as only Obama can be, The Messiah, the one, being praised for this wonderful healing Speech last night by the same people who are exhibiting and announcing and proclaiming a vicious hate against Sarah Palin, who gave a perfectly fine Speech that morning. In fact, they're even trying to say that Palin tried to mislead her viewers at Facebook because she was using a Teleprompter and ...

Fasten Your Seatbelts
by Distributorcap Because as always, it is Funny business, a narcissist's personality - the things I have said on my way up the ladder so I could move faster. I often forget that people who are not entranced by my beauty might really listening to me. That's one trait all self-absorbed quitters like me have in common, whether we like it or not: the complete inability to feel anything except how it affects me. Sooner or later, someone is going to catch on, no matter how many careers I have ruin...

Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem
When Sarah Palin shot back at critics who proposed that her severe -- and perhaps violence-suggesting -- Rhetoric and campaigning helped inspire Jared Lee Loughner's massacre in Tuscon, she accused those critics of blood Libel -- and started an entirely new firestorm in the process. Palin's invoking of Blood libel, which in its proper use refers to a centuries old lie that was used to justify mass Anti-Semitism and Jewish persecution, immediately drew angry responses from politicians and Jewis...

Cafferty: Palin Can't Be President Due to 'Inflammatory' Reply to Critics
Jack Cafferty's Palin Derangement Syndrome reached a new level on Thursday's Situation Room on CNN, as he attacked the Republican for her reply to those who tried to tie her to the Arizona shootings: "It was just awful, defiant, [and] inflammatory." Cafferty also ripped Palin for using the "blood Libel" phrase and stated that the reply would "effectively end her chance of ever being elected president." The commentator devoted his 5 pm Eastern hour Cafferty F...