Joan Walsh-Sarah Palin will never be president

[malaise]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/index.html
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I don't know what's worse: That Sarah Palin knew the term "blood libel" has historically been a cornerstone of anti-Semitism (it specifically refers to the gruesome lie that Jews murdered Christian babies to use their blood in matzoh) or that she's so ignorant she didn't know what "blood libel" meant.

I am honestly not sure which is true, but I know one thing, having watched her atrocious, tone-deaf, all-about-me video: Sarah Palin will never be president of the United States.

The narcissism required, on a day the nation is commemorating the Arizona shooting victims, to put her own sense of victimhood front and center, is stunning. The "blood libel" idiocy may be the worst of it, especially given that Giffords herself is Jewish. But that's not the only thing wrong with her performance. Hilariously, after all the times she's mocked President Obama for using a teleprompter, you can see a teleprompter screen reflected in her eyeglasses throughout much of her Facebook chat. Seeing the flickering teleprompter in her eyes is eerie; it's where some flicker of her soul should be, but you don't see any. Looking into Palin's eyes, you see a blazing, self-pitying anger that's shocking, even for the self-described "pit bull in lipstick."

Palin delights in shocking us; this rant is worse than most of what she's done, but it's all of a piece. She'll rally her friends to her side and further alienate those who already hate her, but she may add new people to the latter group. Her friends are already circling the wagons: On Twitter this morning, the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez defended Palin and said "'blood libel in purest sense of the phrase' is how one political insider approvingly spoke of palin's use of the phrase to me this morning." In the purest sense of the phrase? Really? "Blood libel" in the purest sense can't possibly have anything to do with the criticism Palin has experienced since the Tucson shooting. National Review founder William F. Buckley must be in despair over the folks who've inherited his project. Buckley kept John Birch anti-Semites out of his magazine, and in 1999, Buckley devoted a whole issue to his 40,000 word essay (which became a book) "In Search of Anti-Semitism," examining examples of right-wing animus against Jews in modern-day conservatism. Buckley sadly concluded that his friend Pat Buchanan's attacks on Jewish neocons (while ignoring the movement's non-Jews) amounted to more than "mischievous generalizations"; they were anti-Semitic.

Predictably, Pat Buchanan defended Palin on MSNBC today. "Frankly, I thought it was an excellent statement with regard to the phrase 'blood libel'," Buchanan said. "That, of course, refers to the libel that was used in the Middle Ages, charges against Jews that were utterly unsupportable slanders and I think she's using it in that context." That statement makes absolutely no sense, of course.

Buchanan went on to say that Palin "is not a dispen

[Iris]

1. telepromter flicker in eye glasses - priceless!

And she thought the glasses made her look smarter!

[lame54]

3. I caught that too...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x191678

[malaise]

5. That was hilarious

Joan writes beautifully.

sp.

[lame54]

2. I believe...

that she - or whoever wrote her reply - was thinking "libel" as in libel/slander and "blood" as in blood on her hands.
That people are slandering her by saying she has their blood on her hands.

Sarah Palin = professional victim

[malaise]

6. She's been a victim most of her life

and a loser.

[DearAbby]

4. No Speech writer worth their salt

would ever write that reference, it would have been "libel" and she jazzed it up, without realizing what it mean, "Blood libel" sounded more, you know...

So either she wrote it, or she embellished a written speech for her. OR..the speech writer has orders to sink her campaign chances before they launch..by...???

[malaise]

7. What if the speech writer was of the view

that it was time to end this nightmare?

[Gregorian]

8. How low must a society be if they are worried that someone like Palin could be elected president?

I find this far more alarming than Palin herself. There are Palin's on every street corner. But how we find a way to allow them into positions of authority and power is very frightening.

This crazy person could have been president. Could have been VP breaking important ties in Congress. Can you imagine Palin in office after McCain had a stroke, and now she is nominating Supreme Court justices?

To me this is not about Palin. This is about our media, and a large enough population of idiots who don't see through the fog of lies and omissions.

[Crankie Avalon]

9. Pat Buchanan of all people giving the "blood libel" reference his seal of approval?

:hide:

[malaise]

10. Pat Buchanan is a first rate

scumbag - he's been promoting hate for decades.

[Andy823]

11. Joan is right!

Palin is never going to be president, and she will never get the republican nomination either. The majority of republicans don't want her to run, that should pretty much end her ambitions. Sure she may run as an independent, but that would only help President Obama with pretty much a "landslide" victory!

She is being hyped up by the media for on reason and one reason only, RATINGS! Her big mouth always gets her in trouble, and then the media has to try and paint her as a "clever", or "calculating", saying she knows what she is doing and it's all calculated to get her the nomination in the republican primaries! It's all BS! She is not clever, or calculating, she is a dimwit who has gotten where she is because of all the gullible "dimwits" that like her, and buy her books, come to her "speeches" and are simply dumb enough to keep on making her rich!

[progressoid]

12. Ordinary Average Guy?

Oh, JOAN Walsh. Not Joe Walsh.

[Skidmore]

13. To which Mark Tapscott responded to Chris Jansing:

Sarah Palin is the victim here.

[malaise]

14. I saw that and couldn't believe my ears

That is one sick fugg.

[32571]

15. Got that right!

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