Words That Dont Heal

Palin cops flak for term offensive to Jews
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. Sarah Palin on Wednesday defended her fiery campaign Rhetoric and took issue with critics for indirectly linking her to a deadly Arizona Shooting Spree. Los Angeles: In saying her critics ''manufactured a blood Libel'', Sarah Palin used a phrase linked to the false accusations made for centuri...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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

Why Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' was a poor choice of words
Sarah Palin feels victimized by critics who accuse her of helping to create an angry political climate that led to the Tucson shootings, and she has a point. She chose a truly unfortunate way to make it, using the phrase "blood Libel." Here's the context, from Palin's eight-minute video statement on the shooting: "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to con...

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

Snake bit: Palin and Conservatives await apology
For the past several days, Conservatives have had to endure the bilious vitriol of Leftist pundits like Olbermann, Matthews, and Krugman, not just accusing, but convicting them, and Sarah Palin in particular, of complicity in the Murders in Tucson last Saturday.  Yesterday, Sarah Palin delivered a scathing and well deserved smack upside the head to these slanderers, naming them guilty of “Blood Libel,” the Hebrew term describing those who falsely accuse others of spilling innoce...

Obama's Tucson moment
Obama's performance at the memorial in Tucson yesterday was so powerful that some Conservatives have pivoted to attacking the crowd for not mourning the way they would have liked -- a decision that further emphasizes the president's talent for making his detractors seem petty. Other Conservatives praised the president's Speech, particularly the clarity with which he seemed to rebuke right and left for the political maneuvering immediately following the shooting. The president said, "if, as has...

Former Judge to AZ Sheriff: Shut Up Before You Do Any More Damage to the Prosecutions Case
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Nicholas Ballasy Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Louis Gohmert (R.-Texas), a former prosecutor and judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee, is offering some advice to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has gained national attention since Saturday for his suggestions that radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for the shooting attack in Tucson that took the lives of 6 people and wounded 14 ot

Death Threats Against Sarah Palin at 'Unprecedented Level,' Aides Say
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. 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 possible 2012 contender, was ga...

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 ...

Palin Seeks to Evoke Presidential Aura in Video Message
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin released a lengthy video statement on Wednesday morning in which she discussed her reaction to the tragic Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday and the political discourse that has developed in its aftermath. Released on the day when President Obama is scheduled to travel to Arizona to pay his respects to the Shooting Victims and deliver remarks near the scene of the carnage, Palin's video message appeared designed to present a measured tone and to conjure up a st...

A Few Words on Blood Libel
On Twitter yesterday I ticked off quite a few vehement leftists for supporting Sarah Palin's decision to use the phrase "blood Libel" in describing how blatantly biased media branded Conservatives in general, the Tea Party in specific, and a handful of political figures in particular as somehow being responsible for inciting Jared Lee Loughner to go on his Shooting Spree in Tucson. I can only ascribe their anger to the effectiveness of the comparison, which portrayed those pushing this dishone...

Bill Maher slanders NRA, gun owners
“The NRA should just change its name to the assassin’s lobby, because that’s what they are” TV personality Bill Maher told Tonight Show host Jay Leno on Tuesday when asked about his take on the Tucson shootings (watch segment in sidebar media player). “I’m so tired of hearing about the Second Amendment and the Constitution,” he continued. If you love guns, just admit it -- like it's a vice. It's like Alcohol or drugs or Sex Addiction or gambling... It's ...

Politicizing the Tucson Tragedy Not Without Precedent
Within minutes of the revelation that Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona had been shot while attending a public event in Tucson, political partisans and their media counterparts began to assign blame for the tragedy to the supposedly dangerous Rhetoric fomented by Tea Party groups and their ideological brethren. Although without facts in hand, partisans were unable to restrain themselves from leaping to conclusions that ostensibly validated their preconceived notions of cause and eff...

Carl Paladino: Right (Including Me) Not Responsible For Actions Of Arizona Gunman
Former GOP Gubernatorial Candidate (which is why I'm blogging about him, guys) Carl Paladino not only went off on the Buffalo Board of Ed this week, but he's also speaking out on the tragedy in Arizona: Specifically, he says "progressive pointyheads" are misguided (and dopey) for blaming the Tucson shootings on right-wing Rhetoric. (The BN, in an editorial about overheated Beck-Limbaugh-Coulter rhetoric sending American political discourse over the edge of Incivility, wrote: &...

Sen. Paul: Dems trying to 'manufacture' controversy over rhetoric
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused liberals of wanting to "manufacture" a political Controversy over Conservatives' Rhetoric even before the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Paul, in dismissing the notion that alleged shooter Jared Loughner was motivated by political ideology, accused some Democrats of trying to exploit the attack as a way of boxing in Republicans. "Well, these are the kind of things that I think some on the left decided to manufacture even before the events occur. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Flashback: Unabomber had underlined, marked and well worn copy of Al Gores book Earth In The Balance
The establishment MSM has been feeding its own derangement over Sarah Palin and the loss of control of Congress this last November. They're using the Arizona shooting as an excuse to try and silence opposition to Obama's radical agenda while at the same time trying to sabotage the agenda of the new GOP majority. They're pointed at everyone on the right for inciting a lunatic - Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party, yada, yada. However, the shooter ‘Did Not Watch TV. He Disliked the Ne...

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 ...

NICK GILLESPIE: Palins Not Complicit in Loughner Shooting, but She Sure Aint Presidential, Either
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 problems in that department, too, and unlike Palin, he’s had the benefit of a despe...