Posted on 01/12/2011 5:42:46 AM PST by reaganaut1
Sarah Palin, who had been silent for days, on Wednesday issued a forceful denunciation of her critics in a video statement that accused pundits and journalists of “blood libel” in their rush to blame heated political rhetoric for the shootings in Arizona.
“Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said in a video posted to her Facebook page. “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 that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.”
Ms. Palin’s use last year of a map with crosshairs hovering over a number of swing districts, including that of Gabrielle Giffords, had increasingly become the symbol of that overheated rhetoric. In and interview with The Caucus on Monday, potential 2012 rival Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, said he would not have produced such a map.
But in the video, Ms. Palin rejected criticism of the map, casting it as a broader indictment of the basic political rights of free speech exercised by people of all political persuasions.
She said that acts like the shootings in Arizona “begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state.”
“Not with those who listen to talk radio,” she added. “Not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle. Not with law abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their first amendment rights at campaign rallies. Not with those who proudly voted in the last election.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Yep!
She is ready...
I have the feeling I just witnessed history upclose and personal.
I believe I just saw the first female President of the United States take her first major step towards 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
When was ‘blood libel’ ever used against Christians? Please be specific.
And how would you, oh wise one, have responded? I can hardly contain myself in anticipation of your greatness./s
What’s far more odd is the use of “Ms.” Palin.
I’d heard it many times in my life - not applied to Jews, before I ever knew it was mostly anti-Semitic.
She has class, something Obama will never have.
Now you know why the left fears her more than any other conservative in history...bar none.
Absolutely brilliant analogy!
I think blood libel is a quite proper metaphor and creatively apropos.
I contend that it is stupid to use the phrase specifically because it opens Palin up to even more obvious and predictable attacks. If it is her intention to escalate then she has succeeded but one would ask why?
Let the PDS liberals and RINOs howl!
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't known where it came from. Seems a completely appropriate term.
what about the words “blood” people being killed...and “libel”.. people calling her a murderer
combined with some common sense.
Of course, the libs being as predictable as the sun rising in the morning, they'll probably latch onto her "blood libel" comment and say it's insensitive to the Jewish community, and thus, Sarah is anti-Semitic.
Palin’s use of a notoriously anti-semetic term as a way of describing herself as a victim of the media, especially given that the real victim here is Jewish, is either grossly ill-informed or intentionally belligerent. Either one is stupid. Not my fault if you don’t see it.
He did?
Unreal.. I didn’t think he was that stupid.
He did?
Unreal.. I didn’t think he was that stupid.
get rid of this guy.
this guy is trying to say that Governor Palin is anti semetic.
That wasn't Sarah on that video.
That was President Palin - the 45 President of the United States of America speaking.
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