TPM: You know it's a bad sign when Jonah Goldberg thinks your rhetorical flourish crossed the line

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01.12.11

ABOUT 'BLOOD LIBEL'

You know it's a bad sign when Jonah Goldberg thinks your has crossed the line.

--David Kurtz

“Blood Libel”

January 12, 2011 8:28 A.M.
By Jonah Goldberg

I should have said this a few days ago, when my friend Glenn Reynolds introduced the term to this debate. But I think that the use of this particular term in this context isn’t ideal. Historically, the term is almost invariably used to describe anti-Semitic myths about how Jews use blood — usually from children — in their rituals. I agree entirely with Glenn’s, and now Palin’s, larger point. But I’m not sure either of them intended to redefine the phrase, or that they should have.