http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/12/and-now-a-word-from-sarah-palin/In the wake of the unspeakable acts of the past week, I feel it important to our great nation that I speak out and reassure all the wonderful people who have supported me throughout this tragedy that Mamma Grizzly is still the fighter you have always known and loved.
I think we can all agree that the worst thing to happen in the past week was not the indiscriminate shooting of 20 people at a Tucson supermarket, or the death of a 9 year-old girl and a federal judge — it was the fact that people opportunistically used the event to score political points on me, Sarah Palin. Imagine. Our founders would be shuddering in those big white wigs at the very thought.
We must condemn this outrage if our Republic is to endure.
You might not be familiar with the term “blood libel.” I was going to spring it on Katie Couric because I was pretty sure she wouldn’t know what it meant either, and then who’d have the last laugh. “Gotcha,” Katie. But now seems like the right time to bring it up.
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