“Rather than making a statement that clearly (and justly) faults the media for its partisan excess Palin has used (mis-used) an inflammatory arcane phrase that is historically anti-semitic and, in the process, given that very same media a point upon which to pivot the argument back against her.”
Has it ever occurred to you that many of us had NEVER heard the phrase before applied to Jews? Until I did an Internet search, I didn’t know the term had any connection to Jews. I had always heard it used as a libel so awful that it would require a bloody nose or more to satisfy the accused. Think of a blood feud from the south...
This was my email to Jonah at NRO:
“It WAS a blood libel - a libel that we seek the blood of liberals, just as Jews were said to seek the blood of Christians. And the libel has the same purpose - to incite anger and revulsion about those being libeled.
Let’s be clear - there are many liberals who would do a happy dance if Sarah Palin was murdered. The folks carrying signs calling for GWB’s death may have lacked the guts to try to kill him, but they would have rejoiced if someone else had done so.
And if not killed, then at a minimum, many liberals like the President and others want Palin or Rush CRUSHED. Liberals don’t think, they emote - so they attack conservatives, not with ideas, but with emotions.
I was one of those who stood in protest outside her office in Tucson, demanding that she hold town halls - something she was refusing to do. When she broke down and agreed to do some, I attended the closest and booed when she claimed she wanted limited government and that Obamacare would help us. And had I been at the Safeway on Oracle & Ina, I would have cheerfully pulled my S&W out of my pocket - to shoot the gunman!
To accuse me and others like me of inciting the attack IS blood libel - libel about blood, libel that we seek blood, libel intended to turn us into demons.
Sarah Palin is right, and you are wrong.”
Well said! Thanks!