Sarah Palin brands media's attacks over Arizona shooting as 'blood libel'

[Turborama]

Sarah Palin brands media's attacks over Arizona shooting as 'blood libel'
Politician breaks silence on Giffords shooting and lambasts opponents with controversial choice of language



Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of manufacturing a "blood libel" by suggesting her rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings.

Four days after an incident which left six people dead and critically injured the congresswoman Gabriel Giffords, Palin released a video statement condemning the attack. She denied that a now infamous campaign map showing Giffords' electoral district in the cross hairs of a gun had influenced the shooter Jared Lee Loughner.

In an attack on her accusers, she said: "Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."

Palin's bizarre use of language is sure to provoke further controversy – a blood libel refers to the false claim that Jews murder children to use in religious rituals. Giffords is Jewish.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/12/sarah-palin-response-arizona-shooting

Rather an odd choice of emoticon too, when discussing such serious matters as mass murder and attempted assassination.

[Zoeisright]

1. What an appropriate description for your actions, you quitter: blood libel.

It perfectly describes what you should be charged with.

[secondwind]

2. This woman is an idiot. Nothing else to add.

[niyad]

3. once again, tone deaf and completely stupid. but, did we really expect anything else from her

[liberal N proud]

4. The media sure is plastering her face everywhere

Every site I open there she is staring me in the face.

Are they trying to protect her or make her look that much more un-intelligent, I can't tell.

[knowbody0]

5. who ever wrote that stupid speech for her

best get out of Alaska before she wakes up today.

[sarge43]

14. Yeah, that's the puzzle.

Now granted she's an idiot, but that's never been a problem to political advancement.

I'm wondering what the hell are her handlers thinking.

First, don't bite the hand that feeds you. The media made her. Essentially, that's all she has is the media which gives her an outlet and, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, lets her get away with her outrageous words and behavior.

Second, isn't there anyone on her staff who doesn't know and understand what an explosive vile phrase "blood libel" is, its history? Jebus on a tow trailer, the Nazis used it.

[Whisp]

23. whoever wrote it wasn't a friend.

It was a last chance to stick it to the Mooseter.

[peace13]

6. Sarah it is funny how others should be accountable for their words...

but you...well you are not accountable to anyone or anything. Stuff those dollars in your pockets and hit the road.

[SpiralHawk]

7. At last - she gave an appropriate name to her SIN & Crime

Blood Libel

[Democat]

8. Is she sending code words to her anti-Jewish followers?

"Liberal media" has always had two meanings to the far right.

[randr]

9. As someone who refudiates her own responsibility

it is hard to take her seriously.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. I knew there was a certain connotation to the term,

I had forgotten that it referred to the murder of kids.

Palin is truly in her own universe.

[fascisthunter]

11. Barbara WUh-Wuh? Whatcha Think?

or what do your bosses tell you to think?

[DTinAZ]

12. surely from her speech writer(s), and she probably didn't ask them what it meant

An extremely loose and ill-advised application of the term, IMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

Her "for God's sake, don't let her look like an idiot" coaches were a little sloppy on a few other little items in this video. She mispronounced basic terms such as "pundints" for "pundits," "proport" for "purport" and other slips that demonstrate that these aren't her words, but just something that they wrote for her.

[Turborama]

17. Thank you for taking one for the team and watching the video so the rest of us don't have to

It's so obvious she doesn't have the intellect to write anything for herself.

Apart from the tweets, of course...

[DTinAZ]

21. you're welcome...and I now find that she's been saying "pundints" for a long time

This 'pundint' is appalled by Palin's 'verbage'
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2008/09/this_pundint_is_appalled_by_pa.html

[immoderate]

24. A pundint is something that hangs from your neck.

--imm

[marmar]

13. Open mouth, insert both feet

nt

[progressivebydesign]

15. WTF? This is what happens when you refuse to listen to other people.

She is a national embarrassment. And she is dangerous.

[w8liftinglady]

16. from 2008...blood libel

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/10/13/sarah-palin-abused-her-power-incites-racism-and-her-husband-was-a-radical-anti-us-separatist-still-the-right-choice-for-vp/

[felix_numinous]

18. There is way too much money behind Palin

than there should be. She is riding on her appeal to NRA supporters and religious conservatives, who have had a tendency to shunt their privately raised church money toward people with the right code talk--but the big money most likely comes from oil. Drill baby drill, remember? These companies are known for their ruthlessness. Oil money is endless and this to me explains why this woman does not disappear from public view, no matter what social transgression she commits.

This is how destructive oil money is. They make most of their money off of war, they are behind nearly every divisive force globally. They are the financial backers of countless loose cannons, and Sarah has played her part well.


http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/08/the-money-behind-palin-1.html

[Turborama]

20. Interesting link, thanks

We're all going to need refreshers like that if she's really going to run. I personally think she's doomed to failure, but forewarned is forearmed etc etc.

And you're 100% right about the 'Big Oil'/'Big Coal'/MIC ownership of the whole deal.

[Tatiana]

19. I honestly cannot tell if this is sheer ignorance or coded language being used.

At this point, I don't know why any of the word salad that comes out of her mouth shocks me.

She needs to be thoroughly denounced.

[chat_noir]

22. They’re Predictable, At Least by John Cole of Balloon Juice

Saw this one coming, too:



As soon as I saw the phrase uttered in the WSJ by the Instapundit and then immediately tweeted by Republican operative Jon Henke, I knew this was the new “beclowned” or “liberal fascism.” Remember, words mean what ever wingnuts want them to mean- that is how it works when you are creating your own reality.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/01/12/theyre-predictable-at-least/#comments