Or, she’s most likely expanding on defenses of her by people such as Glenn Reynold’s in the WSJ who’ve called the attacks against her “blood libel”.
The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071913818696964.html
Followed up by Ed Driscoll of Pajamas Media, in The Politics of Blood Libel
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/01/10/the-politics-of-blood-libel/
I would hope she was a little more knowledgeable about the real meaning of “Blood libel” and not just copy the phrase from Glenn Reynolds. In retrospect, after reading this thread, I just assumed that most FReepers had the background to understand what “blood libel” really meant...it appears that few if any were actually familiar with it...magritte