Palin defends use of 'blood libel'

Sarah Palin defends use of "blood libel" term
"Blood Libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on," Palin told Fox News in her first interview since the Controversy erupted over her remarks. "Just two days before, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal had that term in its title. And that term has been used for eons," said Palin, a potential 2012 Presidential Candidate. Palin's reference last week to "blood libel," a false, centuries-old allegation that Jews were kil...

Sarah Palin defends use of "blood libel" term
WASHINGTON | Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:27pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prominent U.S. Republican Sarah Palin on Monday defended her reference to "blood Libel" that aroused Controversy last week when she used the term to condemn criticism linking her fiery Rhetoric to the Arizona shootings. "Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on," Palin told Fox News in her first interview since the Controversy erupted over her...

Sarah Palin defends use of "blood libel" term
WASHINGTON | Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:40pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prominent Republican Sarah Palin on Monday defended her reference to "blood Libel" that aroused Controversy last week when she used the term to condemn criticism linking her fiery Rhetoric to the Arizona shootings. "Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on," Palin told Fox News in her first interview since the Controversy erupted over her rema...

Sarah Palin's Ignorance.
Over the weekend, Sarah Palin defended her use of the term "blood Libel" last week in an online statement about the Arizona shooting. She spent several minutes arguing that she'd been unfairly accused by her favorite bogeyman, the media, of having had something to do with the shooting because she put out a map before the Elections with gunsights surveyor's marks over several Congressional Districts before the election, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and wounded along ...

Sarah Palin Defends use of Blood Libel
In her first interview since the Arizona shooting, Sarah Palin defended her use of the term “blood Libel” and said she understands its meaning. “Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands, and in this case that’s exactly what was going on,” Palin told Sean Hannity in an interview Monday on Fox. Palin is a Fox guest contributor. Historically the term refers to accusations that began in the Middle Ages that Jews used the blood of murdered Ch

Palin on Blowback From 'Blood Libel' Comment: They Can't Make Us Shut Up
A defiant Sarah Palin said Monday night that she used the term "blood Libel" to describe false claims made against outspoken Conservatives like herself who were accused of having blood on their hands in the aftermath of the deadly shootings in Arizona. Palin was criticized by some Jewish groups for employing the highly charged words that historically have referred to a false rationalization for Anti-Semitism -- that Jews used Christian blood in some rituals. Fox News Channel's "Hannity" show. "Y...

Palin defends use of 'blood libel' after US attack
US conservative celebrity Sarah Palin has defended her use of the term "blood Libel" to accuse the media of blaming her supporters after the Arizona Shooting Spree. The use of the term in a video statement last week has drawn criticism from some Jewish leaders because it refers to an anti-Semitic slander that spawned deadly Pogroms going back to the Middle Ages. In her first public interview since the video, Palin told Fox News defended her use of the Controversial phrase, saying it was meant ...

Sarah Palin Defends 'Blood Libel,' Says Loughner Was 'Perhaps Even Left-Leaning' (VIDEO)
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday night provided the nation with her definition of "blood Libel" and defended her initial response to criticism of her map that featured the district of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in crosshairs. The map was released almost a year before the shooting that nearly took Giffords's life earlier this month. "Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused, or having blood on your hands," Palin said. Unlike her aide, Palin admitted that the map was meant t...

Palin explains 'blood libel' comment (AP)
WASHINGTON – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defending herself against criticism following the Tucson, Ariz., shootings, said Monday that she used the term "blood Libel" to describe comments made by those who falsely tried to link Conservatives to the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Speaking out for the first time since she used the term in a video, Palin said on Fox's Sean Hannity show that the term referred to those "falsely accused of having blood on their hands...

Gingrich: Palin Needs To 'Think Through What She's Saying' (VIDEO)
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is chiming in on the recent controversies involving a fellow potential Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin, with some mild (but still quite clear) criticism -- that while he does respect her, she should watch what she says. In an appearance on Good Morning America, Gingrich was asked by George Stephanopoulos about Palin's low Approval Ratings in recent Opinion Polls, and how she might turn it around. The recent "blood Libel" flap involving Palin's response t...

Conservatives Are the New Social Justice Crusaders
After appropriating Jewish victimization via "blood Libel" and "Pogrom" last week, this week it appears they've moved on to appropriating language associated with Black Civil Rights in the US. Yesterday, Pat Buchanan, signaling his disinterest in cooling the incendiary Rhetoric, described President Obama's Speech last week as "a fairly stern admonition, especially to the Far Left in this country, which has been quite frankly conducting something of a lynch mob against Glenn Beck, against Sarah P...

Sarah Palin: 'Blood Libel' 'Exactly What Was Going On'
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defending herself against criticism following the Tucson, Ariz., shootings, said Monday that she used the term "blood Libel" to describe comments made by those who falsely tried to link Conservatives to the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Speaking out for the first time since she used the term in a video, Palin said on Fox's Sean Hannity show that the term referred to those "falsely accused of having blood on their hands." Some Jewish grou...

Sarah Palin Explains Blood Libel And Death Threats She And Her Children Have Received
Sarah Palin gave her first interview tonight with the politically friendly Sean Hannity and addressed many outstanding issues that have surfaced since the Arizona shooting tragedy of nine days ago. In a live satellite link from her home studio in Wasilla, Alaska, the seemingly defiant and at times angry Palin candidly shared the open wound in her psyche, injured from the media maelstrom that followed the tragedy in Tuscon. Palin was neither transcendent nor reflective in the discussion, though i...

Palin: Liberals can't tell me to 'sit down and shut up'
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...

Obama's response to Arizona shooting rated higher than Palin's, poll says
An overwhelming majority of the public approves of President Obama's handling of the Arizona shooting rampage compared to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R), of which only three in ten approve. Seventy-eight percent -- including 71 percent of Republicans -- said in an ABC News/Washington Post poll that Obama responded well to the shooting that resulted in the killing of six people and the wounding of 13, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D). By comparison, 30 percent disapproved of ...

Palin explains "blood libel" comment
WASHINGTON — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defending herself against criticism after the Tucson shootings, said Monday that she used the term "blood Libel" to describe comments made by those who tried to link Conservatives to the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Speaking out for the first time since she used the term in a video, Palin said on Fox's Sean Hannity show that the term referred to those "falsely accused of having blood on their hands." Some Jewish groups ...

Palin explains 'blood libel' comment
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defending herself against criticism following the Tucson, Ariz., shootings, said Monday that she used the term "blood Libel" to describe comments made by those who falsely tried to link Conservatives to the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Speaking out for the first time since she used the term in a video, Palin said on Fox's Sean Hannity show that the term referred to those "falsely accused of having blood on their hands."...

Palin Says She is Being Falsely Accused
(NewsCore) - Sarah Palin said Monday she had been "falsely accused of being an accessory to Murder" in the wake of the Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona that left six people dead and 14 injured. In her first television appearance since the shooting -- an Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D.-Ariz.), who remains in Hospital -- Palin said any suggestion a "crosshairs" map produced by her political action committee had inspired the gunman was "ridiculous." In the aftermath of the sho...

Palin answers critics
Published: Jan. 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says it's ridiculous to think the Tucson shooter was inspired by a political map her political action committee put up. UPI WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says it's ridiculous to think the Tucson shooter was inspired by a political map her political action committee put up. The map featured crosshairs over Congressional Districts including the one represented by Gabrielle Giffords who was shot i...

Truth and Tucson
I was traveling over the weekend of 8-9 January, and listening to a book-on-CD instead of the radio, so I missed out on much of the big news from those days. I was confident that just about anything newsworthy I might be interested in (and a lot of what I wouldn't) would be waiting in my email inbox once I got home, and I wasn't disappointed. That Sunday evening I found a friend had forwarded me (at 2:49 PM Eastern on Saturday) an email alert from Fox News (he'd received at 1:21 PM Eastern). Sub...

Palin: 'I Won't Shut Up'
Though she insisted she's all for civility, Sarah Palin said Monday that she and other Conservatives will not allow debate to be "stifled" by last week's tragedy in Arizona. In her first interview since the shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., gravely wounded and the former GOP vice Presidential Candidate on the defensive, Palin told her Fox News colleague Sean Hannity that she will not be cowed by "lame-stream media" critics who have suggested that macho campaign Rhetoric from ...

Sarah Palin defends use of 'blood libel'
Palin, who is considering running for president in 2012, charged last week that her critics -- especially those in the News Media -- had committed "blood Libel" as they suggested that she and other conservative critics were to blame for the Jan. 8 Shooting Spree in Arizona because of their political Rhetoric. "Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands and in this case...that's exactly what was going on," said Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomi...

Palin on Hannity: My Crosshairs Weren't Original [VIDEO]
Sarah Palin appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox show yesterday responding to criticism over her use of a crosshairs map targeting different democratic districts including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The former Alaskan Governor said she was baffled that commentators made a connection between her and the shooting because of her political action committee's graphic. "I was puzzled at first as to why before facts were even gathered why it would be that the Mainstream Media would start accusing and...

Palin: They Are Not Going to Shut Me Up
Sarah Palin defended her response to the Tuscon shootings last night, arguing that her use of the term ‘blood Libel’ was appropriate and that she had been unfairly targeted by the Mainstream Media for her use of a crosshairs map. “This isn’t about me,” Palin told Sean Hannity in an interview last night, expressing her dismay that the Mainstream Media had “start[ed] accusing and using such a tragedy for what appeared to be, right off the bat, some political gai...

Palin's unfair critics
Image via Wikipedia Ed Koch: ... Why do I defend Palin in this case? I don't agree with her political philosophy: She is an arch conservative. I am a liberal with sanity. I know that I am setting myself up for attack when I ask, why did Emile Zola defend Dreyfus? Palin is no Dreyfus and I am certainly no Zola. But all of us have an obligation, particularly those in politics and public office, to denounce, when we can, the perpetrators of horrendous Libels and stand up for those falsely charged...