Wash Times: Criticism Of Palin's 'Blood Libel' Part Of 'Ongoing Pogrom' Against Conservatives

[RamboLiberal]

A Washington Times editorial defends Sarah Palin's use of the phrase "blood libel" in the wake of the Tucson shootings, by calling media criticism of Palin "the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers."

Palin had been criticized for using the term "blood libel" to characterize media attacks against her, because of associations between "blood libel" and persecution of Jews in Europe. The term has its roots in the false charge that Jews would murder children and use their blood in religious rituals.

The choice by the Times to describe media attacks as "pogroms" is even more unfortunate since the term usually refers to destructive riots that targeted Jews during the time of the Russian Empire, and often resulted in massacres.

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This is simply the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers. The last two years have seen a proliferation of similar baseless charges of racism, sexism, bigotry, Islamophobia and inciting violence against those on the right who have presented ideas at odds with the establishment's liberal orthodoxy.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/wash_times_criticism_of_palins_blood_libel_part_of.php?ref=fpb

[PSPS]

1. I see we've progressed beyond gunsights on to pogroms.

This is all very troubling to me. Just what is the audience this inflammatory language is directed at? Having already incited multiple murders against individuals and small groups, is this right-wing organ and its criers like Palin now signaling their "lone wolves" to go on mass killing sprees through neighborhoods at night?

[notadmblnd]

2. Baseless my ass. Where the hell are all those pictures

of teabaggers holding their racists signs? Yeah, they were getting too much attention so only approved signs began showing up at their events. But there plenty of them here in Du archives if the repubs think that we have forgotten, we can dig em up and show em.

[Quantess]

3. How can anyone possibly defend ANYTHING about Sarah Palin's speech?

Worse, how can anyone seriously refer to Palin as a "conservative thinker"?

[MurrayDelph]

4. So what they seem to be saying is:

"You want your anti-Jew references, I got your anti-Jew references right here."

[Madam Mossfern]

5. So...

Conservatives want to be identified as Jews?

[MurrayDelph]

6. No, they typically want to be thought of as "Judeo"

as in "Judeo-Christian," so they can pretend it's not just them.

Of course, there are some of us who think their use of the term "Judeo" is like Ovaltine calling itself "Chocolatey"

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Aye, it's a veritable Kristallnacht for right wing thugs everywhere.

:eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

8. Mooselini's Macaca Moment...

If you have to keep "explaining", then there must be something really screwed up in either your definition or the comprehension of your audience.

These dogwhistles are surely understood by the fundies and end-of-timers...the "Identity Christians" that Bible Spice hopes will swoop her to a big win in Iowa and onto the White House...which she and her ilk believe she not only deserves but is entitled to. This is a shot at the "librul media" and academics that are surely mostly Jewish (or owned by jews) and not only plays to Grifterlla's persecution complex but also as a rally cry for those whose worldviews are as screwed up as hers.

The phrase "blood libel" is Mama Grizley's "macaca" moment as it jared many in that corporate media that was fixated with her and try to explain it away it's gonna stick on her for a while. She can attempt to play victim and get some sympathy from the fringe that she thinks will win her a nomination but it just made her political poison beyond...

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I see two possible intentions.

1) this is a "subliminal" or "dog whistle" call to right-wing fundies, playing to religious anti-Semitism, in some fashion.

2) this is a way to "relate" to Jewish voters, akin to saying "conservatives are the new Jews."

It could possibly be a combination of the two, the big problem is the second possibility is more likely to upset Jewish voters than sway them in any way to look to conservatives. Of course, it also could simply be what I see in a variety of cases, co-opting another's experiences to suit one's needs, in this case, the hate enacted against Jews in the past and today.

[malletgirl02]

10. This really is a real headline?

This almost seems like an Onion headline, it is surreal. Doesn't the editor of the Washington times know that the charge of blood libel was behind the pogroms against Jews in Russia?

[Mr Generic Other]

14. the Moonie Times is not a real paper

any more than fox is a real news channel.
their mission has much more to do with propaganda than information.

[MrModerate]

11. They unironically used the phrase "conservative thinkers" . . .

So they probably don't realize that the term pogrom used by them is as offensive as "let's lynch a nigger."

At what point does stupidity verge into evil? I think we have lots of examples to select from. This is just one.

[EFerrari]

12. Let's Review: Jesse Kelly Supported by Groups Tied to White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis

Oct 18, 2010

Apparently no longer satisfied to simply spew out-of-touch rhetoric about eliminating Social Security and imposing a 23 percent tax on southern Arizonans, now Jesse Kelly has doggedly pursued the support of a group with known white supremacist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ties. Kelly accepted the endorsement of Americans for Legal Immigration or ALIPAC - the same group that Senator John McCain’s spokesman condemned earlier this year as “backed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.” McCain’s office went further, characterizing ALIPAC as an “extreme groups that condone racism.”

The neo-Nazi backers of ALIPAC include Stormfront, Vinlanders Social Club, European Americans United and David Duke, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

ALIPAC has also come under heavy criticism for “bigotry” and “extreme rhetoric” and an agenda that “goes beyond the enforcement of immigration laws,” all the way to “demoniz immigrants as drunk drivers, gang members, invaders, murderers, and disease-carriers.”

Given ALIPAC's record with the White Supremacist movement, McCain's spokesman Brian Rogers demanded in February that JD Hayworth, “immediately disavow this group’s support.”

Yet Jesse Kelly shows no signs of discomfort with ALIPAC’s “extremist rhetoric.” In his questionnaire seeking ALIPAC’s endorsement this year, Kelly signed a pledge that he would use “the full power of my office, including impeachment if necessary” to force the President to bow to the group’s radical demands.

http://dccc.org/newsroom/entry/jesse_kelly_supported_by_groups_tied_to_white_supremacists_neo-nazis/

[jmowreader]

13. Apparently the GOP doesn't want any Jews left in it

I am sorry, but I simply do not recall anyone using cattle cars to haul Republicans to death camps, destroying Republicans' businesses with armed mobs of thugs or anything else that happened in the REAL pogroms. The Jews don't remember that happening to the Republicans either.

[rbrnmw]

15. This is even low for these snakes

What is with all the Holocaust references This is very intentional they know exactly what they are doing :banghead:

[Volaris]

16. ohh they're just Projecting again....

trying to deflect legitimate charges against them by unjustly demonizing those leveling the criticisms, and trying to turn them into the Enemy (In this case, the Media ((and some of their own who may have touched the beginnings of actual Enlightenment regarding Gov. 1/2Term))) who saw Palin's statement for what it really was; the sorry attempt of the Harpy Narcissist, Dirty, Degenerate-Grifter to purge herself of wrongdoing AFTER getting caught, and then panicking.
I guess I feel that they have been doing this kind of thing for so long, I've learned to ignore it, like when the dog digs in the yard, or when the cat scratches things....its the nature of the Beast that the Right-wingers have become, and nothing to get worked up over....

[Scruffy1]

17. No one gives a rats ass about the Times

[spanone]

18. so sarah is now a persecuted Jew? who knew?