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Palin Calls Criticism ‘Blood Libel’
New York Times ^ | January 12, 2011 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accuracyaboutmsm; azshooting; bloodlibel; enemedia; freepressforpalin; giffords; leftchosis; libel; loughner; noaccountability; obama; palin; pds; sarahpalin; spotonanalysis; waronsarah
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To: Melas
You're just babbling now, moron. Get lost. Some of us are fighting off the MSM/liberal attacks instead of deciding at this moment to attack someone like Palin who is trying to fight this battle as well. It's telling that you cannot restrain your baseless hatred towards Palin for just a few days, but instead bash her as she is trying to take on this MSM/liberal full assault. Makes one wonder just whose side you are really on here.

Maybe you're still swooning because Rudy is thinking of running again.

521 posted on 01/12/2011 12:48:35 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Mr. Silverback

Here ya go, the linky:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/01/obama-phones-sheriff-dupnik-families-of-the-victims-the-heroes-and-giffords-rabbi.html


522 posted on 01/12/2011 12:49:59 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ('We are coming out of our trance, we are coming out of our nightmare...' <3Michele Bachmann)
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To: Melas
I can always tell when someone doesn’t have a genuine rebuttal when they shift the conversation to me, personally, rather than the issue at hand.

Like your comment to me?

"...you’re certifiably nuts"
To quote you, " Now that my friend, is truly telling."
523 posted on 01/12/2011 12:50:12 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Wolfstar

I agree with most of what you’ve said. However, I think the explanation is a simple one. She just didn’t realize how potentially incendiary “Blood Libel” was. To use your analogy about throwing red meat, I don’t think she has any idea what she’s throwing, she’s just tossing it out there.


524 posted on 01/12/2011 12:52:48 PM PST by Melas
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

As despicab;e as Dupnik is, I can’t see where thanking him for helping the FBI is a bad thing.


525 posted on 01/12/2011 12:53:11 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Melas
Your wit is dim.

Facts is facts.

Deal with it.

You are fighting on the side of the leftists.

Period.

The goals of FR are 180 from yours, as shown from your posts.

If you need to feel superior, OK you are superior. No problem. Hope that helps.

526 posted on 01/12/2011 12:54:39 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Melas
Insanity at it's finest. Palin can't hold her own against the Jindals, Bachmans, DeMints, and Pences in the party. She's pretty, she's charismatic, but that's about it. She's a supremely qualified weather girl, and little more. The pity is that the voting public is so dim that she's taken seriously. Luckily, I have faith that she's not taken seriously by nearly enough to actually win, because God himself only knows the damage that someone chock full of ideas but low on intellect could do in a few short years.

Balderdash!

Sarah Palin is pretty and charismatic--and she is also principled, intelligent, and wise.

Why do you fear her? Is it because of the threat she poses to the Rockefeller/Bush/McCain/Romney establishment that has dominated the GOP for the past two decades?

527 posted on 01/12/2011 12:54:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Melas
Palin can't hold her own against the Jindals, Bachmans, DeMints, and Pences in the party>/i>

Palin was the youngest and first woman ever elected Governor of Alaska. You might want to back track before you look like more of a pinhead. We all might not agree with everything she says and does but your remarks are over the top, IMHO of course.

528 posted on 01/12/2011 12:55:03 PM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Melas

You’re just trolling now, like the precious little Rudybot you are.


529 posted on 01/12/2011 12:55:28 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
Makes one wonder just whose side you are really on here.

Not Palins. See, all you had to do was ask.

530 posted on 01/12/2011 12:55:59 PM PST by Melas
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To: Wolfstar
I had no idea whatsoever that "blood libel" is yet another term scratched off polite society's permissible phrases list, because it is deemed offensive to a group or class of people.

That's because it's a common figure of speech for falsely accusing someone of murder. It has been for centuries.

When did that happen?

Political correctness, narrow world views and poor educations aren't really new either.

531 posted on 01/12/2011 12:56:16 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Melas

Glenn Reynolds posted the same use of the term at the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, as did Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post. Nobody really took offense to it until Palin repeated it in her statement.

Establishment/RINO types here just as well as liberals in the media jump on anything Palin does and claim to see stupidity in her remarks when she really is very sharp and apt in her commentary. It is why he opposition in and outside feel compelled to criticize her. Rote followers of that criticism then tend to post here as well.


532 posted on 01/12/2011 12:56:50 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Melas
Not Palins.

And not the Tea Party and conservatism, either, apparently.

So tell me, did you get a tingle up your leg when Rudy said he was thinking of running again?

533 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:25 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Melas
Oh and BTW, I don't do cohorts.

I have been attacked by hateful gangs here in the past and have never teamed up with anyone to fight my battles.

If someone else gets your panties in a bunch, it should show you that you are way off base.

I don't see anyone supporting your posts except Palin hating Rudybots.

Go cohort go, whoever you are!

534 posted on 01/12/2011 12:58:52 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: La Enchiladita
She should have stayed quiet at this time, but she just could not. It always has to be about her.

OMG! That is one of the dumbest things stated on this thread. I'm sure she jumped up in front of the Pima Co. Sheriff and asked him to blame her for the massacre 10 minutes after it happened. Sheesh. Thinking maybe her telephone had been ringing off the hook since Saturday from people wanting a response. So she gave them one.

535 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:51 PM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Melas; La Enchiladita
I’ve decided that I don’t care if my posts are popular. I normally keep my comments about Palin to myself, or heavily self-edit.

Don't ever relinquish your freedom of speech in pursuit of false popularity on some website. In fact, don't ever relinquish it at all. You are not alone. Please see my post #518 on this thread.

FreeRepublic desperately -- and I do mean DESPERATELY -- needs more posters who do not just simply go along with the popular flow here. It's ironic that the Left has been attacking conservatives for exercising their freedom of speech, while on FR anyone who does not agree wholeheartedly with the prevailing popular point of view here is subjected to swarming nastiness intended precisely to shut them up.

536 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:58 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 9YearLurker

The Left and their FR flunkies:

Sarah Palin could have struck a more inclusive, moderate tone simply by confessing to Left’s charges against her and Tea Party Americans, and admitting we were accomplices to mass-murder.


537 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:11 PM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Now, perhaps you could tell me exactly what it is that separates us from this particular government taking over the most worthwhile aspects of American life and the justification they would use to do it?

You are attempting to deflect my comment by bringing up a completely unrelated strawman argument.

In response, there are a great many things that prevent that. If you think that the 2nd amendment is the first solution to that possibility that should be considered, I would suggest psychiatric help.


Our ideological enemies have already begun the process of seizing our property through their plans to redistribute wealth. What's next on the agenda, and what lie will they use to perpetrate it?

I don't know, but until we start being massacred and buried in anonymous graves, let's not compare the difficulties of being a conservative in America with thousands of years of religious persecution suffered by the Jews.
538 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:11 PM PST by Domalais
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Natufian; xzins; P-Marlowe; 1000 silverlings; Christian Conservative; metmom; ...
I think it's an appropriate phrase.

When you manufacture stories and try to sell the idea that someone who has done nothing wrong has "blood on her hands", is there a more appropriate term than "blood libel"?

Dozens of Pundits have named Sarah Palin by name and accused her of being complicit in this crime. She should sue the pants off them. And those who claim that her use of this term is inappropriate need to tell us what term would have been more apropos.

How many liberals toss around the term "Holocaust" referring to everything from oil spills to McDonalds Hamburgers to global warming? But any time these liberals think they can turn a phrase into evidence of racism, they will do it. They can't help themselves. It is a disease.

539 posted on 01/12/2011 1:03:34 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Melas
She just didn’t realize how potentially incendiary “Blood Libel” was.

You are probably right, but as a potential presidential candidate, she MUST know these things in advance. It's why candidates assemble teams of advisers and a campaign staff, so research can be done and statements can be thoughtfully prepared. I won't excuse her poor timing and lack of public relations savvy for any reason.

540 posted on 01/12/2011 1:04:21 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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