Sarah Palin scores Blood Libel ascribed to her by the press - The Gabrielle Giffords shooting

Palin: Attacks over shooting are 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of Manufacturing a "blood Libel" by suggesting her Rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings. Four days after an incident which left six people dead and critically injured the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Palin released a video statement condemning the attack. She denied that a now infamous campaign map showing Giffords's electoral district in the cross hairs of a gun had influenced the shooter Jared Lee Loughner. In ...

Palin Has Her Own Rules on Shootings and Politics
WASHINGTON — With her video accusing critics of "blood Libel," Sarah Palin again showed an unprecedented and daring political command of Social Networking to maintain a high profile in speculation about the Republican Party and the 2012 presidential race. The former Alaska Governor regularly gets nationwide attention with her selective use of Facebook and Twitter, choosing provocative words when others testing the presidential waters prefer a lighter touch. Some political pros ...

Tucson Tea Party Leader Being Flooded With Death Threats Following Giffords Shooting
Nice work, Sheriff Dupnik. (TPM)- Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest Tea Party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s Mass Shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally intended to unify Tucson after six people were killed in the tragedy. Humphries says he’s ...

Palin gets an experienced attorney in the rapidly-growing field of blood-libel accusation
A Controversy has arisen over Sarah Palin’s injudicious use of the term “blood Libel” to describe the accusation that her inflammatory Rhetoric inspired the grisly Arizona Murders. Apparently she thought it permissible to utter those words, unaware that they may only be applied to the infamous lie about using Christian blood as a matzo ingredient, and may not be appropriated for any other use without the express written consent of the ADL. Condemnation was immediate. In one LA Times art

Sarah Palin's not interested in real guns, see it's mephatorical, stoopid
The alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner is, his bonkers online postings imply, obsessed with grammar. I think that’s the Chomskyan variety, rather than the Simon Heffer, Telegraph Style Book sort. Anyway, if that’s the case, he’d be delighted to hear the rest of the world struggling to agree on a satisfactory set of labels for him and his supposed actions. Mehdi Hasan, political editor of the New Statesman, has a piece in the Guardian today asking why we’d call a M

Race42012.com Essential Reads January 13th, 2011
“America’s Enduring Strength” - Sarah Palin Massacre, followed by Libel - Charles Krauthammer The Term ‘Blood Libel’: More Common Than You Might Think - The Campaign Spot Lord Help Me, I’m Defending Palin - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic Alan Dershowitz defends Palin’s use of “blood libel” - Big Government Poll: 53% say debate over political Rhetoric is an attempt to use tragedy to make Conservatives look bad - USA Today Friend of Loughner: &#

Sarah Palin Plays By Her Own Rules On Shootings, Politics
WASHINGTON — With her video accusing critics of "blood Libel," Sarah Palin again showed an unprecedented and daring political command of Social Networking to maintain a high profile in speculation about the Republican Party and the 2012 presidential race. The former Alaska Governor regularly gets nationwide attention with her selective use of Facebook and Twitter, choosing provocative words when others testing the presidential waters prefer a lighter touch. Some political pros say her ta...

SARAH PALIN: America's Enduring Strength
Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent Victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy. I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the Victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country. Our exceptional...

Anyone can use 'blood libel' even Sarah Palin | Alan Dershowitz
As a lifelong Liberal Democrat, I am no political supporter of Sarah Palin. I also oppose her use of rifle sight crosshairs as political symbols. Yet, I have no problem with her use of the term "blood Libel" to characterise what she perceives to be false charges that her Rhetoric and symbols were partly responsible for the deaths and mayhem in Tucson. The term blood libel has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins are rooted in theologically ba...

"Blood Libel"
Yes many people have used the phrase "blood Libel" - including yours truly - but I nodded to the term's history when I wrote: Paladino speaks of “perverts who target our Children and seek to destroy their lives.” This is the gay equivalent of the medieval (and Islamist) blood-libel against Jews. Not many people use the anti-Semitic meme of Jews sucking others blood about a Jewish financier - but Fox News put it right up there, thanks to Glenn Beck. Adam Serwer contends that b...

Christie: Palin should have left out "blood libel"
On Good Morning America today, Chris Christie defended Sarah Palin against critics of her Rhetoric, in general, but also suggested she should have been more parsimonious in yesterday's video. STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah Palin, coming into some criticism today, after using that term "blood Libel". Do you think she knew what she was getting into with that? CHRISTIE: I don't know. I have no idea. But what I would say is I think that, you know, I don't think anybody really believes that Governor Palin w...

Palin's "Blood Libel" Fumble
Count me among those not terribly bothered by Sarah Palin's initial use of the historically loaded phrase "blood Libel" in her video message yesterday. My sense is that in our common vernacular the phrase has become divorced from its original meaning and is merely an especially emphatic way to say "libel." (I confess that I didn't make the historical association when I first heard her say it. And I don't think it's unusually patronizing to guess that Palin wasn't aware of its deeper meaning.) Bu...

Left really hates it when people respond to their attack narrative
Image via Wikipedia Lori Ziganto: ... A pitch perfect response, both from the heart and smart. Naturally, that then caused the Left to lose whatever tenuous grip they had left on reality. See, Sarah Palin was bad for being “silent and on the lam” last night. But, today, she is super icky for responding and not remaining silent. After being accused for days of having “blood on her hands” and of being responsible for the acts of a madman. Who, incidentally, apparently did...

Sarah Palin, Mikhail Rybachenko and the origins of 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin probably never heard of Mikhail Rybachenko, but that's more or less who she was referring to when she used the phrase "blood Libel" to describe the easy slander of certain Conservatives for the shootings in Tucson. Rybanchenko was a 14-year-old who was found murdered outside the city of Kishinev, now in Moldova. Word quickly spread that he had been killed by Jews and his blood drained for the preparation of Passover matzo. Indeed, it was said that the boy's main arteries had been pre...

Palin getting death threats after libs attack
ABC News: An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor's team has been talking to security professionals. Since the shooting in Tucson, Palin has taken much heat for her "crosshairs" map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturday's attack. Friends say Palin, a po...

The Politics of Insinuation
David Warren: While it did not quite rise to a blood Libel, the headline in Monday's Guardian (U. K.) did not fail for want of trying: "Gabrielle Giffords shooting reignites row over right-wing Rhetoric in U.S." Elsewhere in the Guardian, the distance was bridged. Consider this heading (over a piece by Michael Tomasky): "In the U.S., where hate rules at the Ballot Box, this tragedy has been coming for a long time: The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords may lead to the temporary hibernation of right...

Rand Paul: Democrats Trying To 'Manufacture' Controversy From Shooting In Arizona
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused Democrats Wednesday of attempting to "manufacture" the Controversy that has arisen over "vitriol" and political Rhetoric in the wake of the shooting in Tucson over the weekend. "Well, these are the kind of things that I think some on the left decided to manufacture even before the events occur. I mean, this is part of the playbook of Rahm Emanuel where they say any crisis should be used to their advantage to further their agenda," Paul said Wednesday on the FOX B...

Gohmert Says FBI Stonewalled On Shooter Profile To Avoid Embarrassing Obamas Constituents
Yesterday morning, FBI representatives briefed House Republicans on the tragic shooting in Tucson. Unsatisfied with the level of detail provided by the FBI, the ever-hyperbolic Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took the divisive fingerpointing to an absurd level. Believing the FBI was “stonewalling” him on its profile of gunman Jared Lee Loughner, Gohmert suggested the FBI was playing politics to avoid admitting Loughner’s “a liberal” and “embarrassing” Presid...

Filner Tries to Tie Popaditch Supporters to the Giffords Shooting
One of my favorite Candidates of this past cycle is Nick Popaditch; see more about him here, here, and here. He’s been dragged, unwillingly, into the Arizona shooting Controversy; the member of Congress he sought to defeat, California Democrat Bob Filner, has explicitly suggested that Tea Party Rhetoric influenced the Tucson shooter, despite the lack of evidence: “I will tell you that in a society we are not isolated, none of us is isolated. Yes, that guy may have acted alone but h...

Liberals Trying To Force the Palin's Into Witness Protection
I came across this video, which I will not embed due to the fact that I don't think it deserves to be spread, which was a compilation of death wishes posted on Twitter against not only Sarah Palin, but her family as well. I know linking to it isn't much different from posting it, but the fewer places it is visible the less chance that unhinged people like Lougher can stumble across it. Remember the same people expressing these vile thoughts are the same ones who decry the Rhetoric heard on talk ...

God Never Apologizes. ... But Don't You Think It's About Time He Did?
BEYOND WESTBORO The instance of Jared Lee Laughner's horrendous Assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has prompted the MSM to analyze just how much politicians and pundits exacerbate violence with their Speech and actions. Notice, however, that not one commentator mentioned anyone within the Religious Right communities: Giffords has weighed in as a pro-choice, pro- ENDA and pro-Health Care Reform. There are over 500 churches in the Tucson metropolitan area, with Baptist (approx. 80...

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 vs. Barack Obama
MEDIA: Sarah Palin directly and knowingly caused the Murders of six innocent human beings. MEDIA: Sarah Palin directly and knowingly caused the Murders of six innocent human beings. MEDIA: Why are you so defensive? MEDIA: Sarah Palin directly and knowingly caused the Murders of six innocent human beings.  She is suspiciously silent.  Will she ever address this? MEDIA: Too soon. Meanwhile, the media is eating up Obama’s Speech. Why, he remained above the partisan fray! He showed t...

The President's speech as consolation: Is that what is needed?
The president along with many others, like Daniel Hernandez, gave a beautiful, graceful Speech last night. It was a eulogy for those who died like the lovely 9 year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, we all would have wanted as our own. He eloquently evoked the child who skipped in puddles and yearned to be someone to make the world a better place like the woman she admired and came to see, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, whom we all hope is valiantly beginning a recovery. Make the world a b...

Palin's Arizona defence fuels 2012 talk
Sarah Palin has fanned speculation about her presidential ambitions as she cast herself as chief defender of arch-conservatives accused of inspiring a horrific act of violence with their fiery political Rhetoric. Palin accused those linking bellicose politicking by the right-wing Tea Party movement to the attempted Assassination of a US congresswoman of spreading a "blood Libel" in a slickly produced video released on Wednesday. "Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and e...