Krauthammer on debating Palins use of blood libel: Have we completely lost our minds? (Daily Caller)

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...

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 ...

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...

A Tale of Two Times: Re-Electing Obama, Vilifying Palin
For two non-partisan speeches that were remarkably similar yesterday, the coverage of them by the New York Times couldn't have been more partisan. "President Obama offered the nation's condolences on Wednesday to the Victims of the shootings here, calling on Americans to draw a lesson from the lives of the fallen and the actions of the heroes, and to usher in a new era of civility in their honor." "Sarah Palin broke her silence on Wednesday and delivered a forceful denunciation of her critics in...

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...

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...

Obama praised for leadership after U.S. shooting
Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Postmedia News · Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 TUCSON, Arizona — John Jewell did not vote for Barack Obama — and he never voted for Gabrielle Giffords either, for that matter. But as the 59-year-old Tucsonan paid silent tribute to Ms. Giffords on Thursday outside the Hospital where the Arizona congresswoman is recovering from her gunshot wound, he had a message for his president: Well done. On the day after Mr. Obama rallied Americans to beg...

Palin, "blood libel", Krauthammer and the lefthave we completely lost our minds?
What a mess. Watching the political world in the light of the Tucson tragedy has been disheartening and disgusting. While the President’s Speech last night was fine, the venue was awful. And T-shirts? Really? It wasn’t a pep rally, but it seemed like one (I’m primarily talking about crowd reaction). What a more somber Oval Office Speech wasn’t proper enough? And this Sarah Palin thing. Am I ever tired of Sarah Palin. That said, I’m even more tired of the left̵...

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 ̶...

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...

Message from the First Lady to Parents in wake of the attack in Tuscon
Like so many Americans all across the country, Barack and I were shocked and heartbroken by the horrific act of violence committed in Arizona this past weekend. Yesterday, we had the chance to attend a memorial service and meet with some of the families of those who lost their lives, and both of us were deeply moved by their strength and resilience in the face of such unspeakable tragedy. As parents, an event like this hits home especially hard. It makes our hearts ache for those who lost loved ...

Media misses their own mark on Tuscon
The massacre that took 6 American lives last week in Tuscon, Arizona seems to have left more questions than answers.  While media outlets, political pundits, and elected officials attempted to lay blame anywhere but on the shooter himself, the White House was decidedly silent on the subject of motive. While the nation waited with baited breath for a leader to emerge offering signs of hope and stability following a horrendous act of terror, political chatter and talking points lit up the air...

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...

Youngest victim of US shooting buried
The youngest Victim of the Tucson shootings was laid to rest Thursday, a day after President Barack Obama hailed the 9-year-old girl as an inspiration to US politicians to heal their poisonous divisions. Christina Taylor Green, who was among six people killed by a misfit gunman last Saturday, has become the heart-breaking public face of the attacks which unleashed a wave of soul-searching about America's political culture. Hundreds of people lined the streets as her small coffin was borne into t...

Presidential Library Puts JFK Archives Online
The Presidential Library is putting John F. Kennedy's archives online, including hundreds of thousands of personal photographs, documents and doodles. Wyatt Andrews reports. The USDA is proposing a calorie limit for School Lunch, according to age group, in an effort to battle Childhood Obesity. Michelle Miller reports. Despite allegations that the suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was mentally ill, it is still unclear the role it played in the deadly rampage. Katie Couric reports on the la...

Fool For The Ages
From Richard Baehr of American Thinker Paul Krugman is  back to discussing Income Inequality on his blog, following a very negative reaction to his disgraceful column on the Tucson shootings, in which he led a left wing chorus arguing that Gabrielle Giffords was brought down by a gunman undoubtedly influenced by Arizona’s climate of hate, engendered by Talk Radio, Sarah Palin, Fox News, and other assorted villains on the right. Krugman writes for the New York Times, and the paper’...

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...

Video: Krauthammer vs. Limbaugh on Obamas speech
I joked last night on Twitter that liking The One’s Speech could be the new RINO litmus test. (Chris Christie flunked!) From this afternoon’s Rush: “Fox Loved it,” he said. “The Fox All Stars, when this was done, were slobbering over the speech. It was predictable. They were slobbering for the predictable reasons - it as smart, it was articulate…It was everything the educated, ruling class wants their leaders to be and sound like.” Limbaugh parsed the speech

Sarah Palin vs Barack Obama: Their differing reactions to the Arizona shooting according to Politico
  Earlier today I read this article on Politico about the differing reactions between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on the shooting in Arizona. I found the article quite interesting, here is the main crux of the article: In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two forces that could prevent them from retaking the presidency in next year. At sunrise in the East on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest — or capacity —...

Charles Krauthammer on progressive nuts going crazy over Blood Libel Have we completely lost our minds?
Charles Krauthammer on progressive nuts going crazy over “Blood Libel” - ‘Have we completely lost our minds?’ Ok. I admit it. I haven’t even heard of “Blood Libel” before today. I guess progressive liberal nuts are just superior to me (again) in knowing what such a term was. That being said, after getting completely destroyed in their argument that Jared Lee Loughner was somehow a Right Wing Extremist, Left Wing nuts have now latched on the Sarah...

Video: Charles Krauthammer On the Blood Libel Debate Have we completely lost our minds?
G.I. Wood Shop Inc. Mrs. Peel Oh…My Valve! V The K’s Caption This! An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. “[T]he fact is that even the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League in expressing a mild rebuke to Palin for using this admitted itself in its statement that the term ‘blood Libel’ has become part of English parlance to refer to someone falsely accused,” Krauthammer said. “Let’s step back for a second. Here we have a brilli...

Sarah Palin To Be Interviewed on Fox News Monday
Sarah Palin will appear Monday on Fox News in her first interview since accusing critics of committing "blood Libel" for insinuating her Rhetoric may have been somehow connected to last week's shooting rampage in Arizona. A Fox executive told The New York Times that the former Alaska Governor would sit down with host Sean Hannity for an extended segment. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice Presidential Candidate, is on the Fox Payroll, often appearing as a commentator and contributor. On Wednesday, Palin ...

Jared Loughner alleged to use the drug salvia - Did it precipitate Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
A friend says the Arizona shooter used the hallucinogen salvia. Arizona shooter Jared Loughner used salvia, the Hallucinogenic drug, according to a High School friend of his. Obviously, Loughner was troubled. But did salvia have anything to do with it? There’s very little scientific information about the drug’s effects—thanks, in part, to salvia’s relative safety. “So far, the Federal Government has not funded any studies, because it’s not seen as relevant unt...

Limbaugh, Beck, and other conservatives do not approve of how Tucson reacts
In the past 24 hours many prominent Conservatives have questioned the "tone" of the memorial service held last night in Tucson.  The event was held in honor of nineteen Victims, including six dead, of the shooting last Saturday at an event hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).  Most of the reviews from "mainstream" media were positive.  President Obama gave an emotional Speech which called for the country to "live up to the Democracy" that nine-year-old victim Christi...

Glenn Beck Supports Barack Obama. Seriously.
There's just one week for the Bipartisan feeling to stay in the media, as conservative commentators lauded President Barack Obama for his speech at the University of Arizona during a memorial service for the six dead and dozen wounded at a Tucson shooting, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. But for now, media figures like Glenn Beck and Chris Wallace lauded the efforts of Obama, who flew with several other lawmakers to be on the scene as not just the city, but the state of Arizona mourned, notes