One word she could have used, rather than “blood libel”, is defamation. The idiot liberals are guilty of both slander (spoken defamation) and libel (written defamation) against her and all conservatives.
She must have thought long and hard about using “blood libel”, given how she had to have known that it was going to stir up another hornet’s nest of idiot liberals in the media and the Demonrat party.
So she used “blood libel” intentionally, in order to get the exact reaction that ensued.
I think the words defamation, libel and slander have lost most of their power and effect (because the left inhabits these concepts every day, just about everything they say and do defames someone who disagrees with them), and therefore would have been mostly ignored had she just used one of those. She needed something much stronger to vividly illustrate the nature of the left’s sickness and mental illness.
Once again, Sarah Palin drives the debate.
That is too broad. It doesn't make that point that what they were accusing her of was "having blood on her hands". Those words were used by Commentators in the MSM including the New York Times. That was BLOOD LIBEL and nothing less.
You defame someone when you claim that they lied when they didn't. That is defamation. When you accuse someone of being complicit in a massacre of innocent people, you are committing nothing less than BLOOD LIBEL. That term is not uniquely owned by the Jews any more than the word HOLOCAUST, which is used by Liberals to speak about Kentucky Fried Chicken. Liberals have diluted the whole meaning of the word Holocaust.
Palin has done nothing more than educate the public. People not only know that Palin was the target of liberal Blood Libel, but that Jews historically have been the target and still are the target of Islamic Blood Libel.
Once again, Sarah Palin drives the debate.
As always.
You’re correct. The simple words defamation, libel and slander were too impotent to actually define what happened. The media was reveling in the fresh blood of innocents, deliberately trying to pin mass-murder on Palin and the Tea Party. “Blood Libel” is a gravely serious accusation, but in this case is was spot-on accurate.