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

[XanaDUer]

More offensive, inappropriate wording from the conservatives re the persecution of Palin and other conservatives in the US:

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


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...

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."

[treestar]

1. Poor conservatives!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[jemelanson]

23. Those Poor Conservatives just love to play the victim card. Poor

Poor souls.



NOT!!!

[livetohike]

2. Palin is a "conservative thinker"?

:rofl: The only thing she thinks about is who to get revenge against next.

[XanaDUer]

4. Okay, it's an oxymoron

:)

[livetohike]

33. Xanaduer

You mean Oxymoran :-).

[goforit]

10. She is far more a terrorist than Osama. Target Dems and Jews.

[emulatorloo]

18. She's not targeting Jews. She is claiming she is being persecuted as the Jews were.

This author is claiming the liberals are going to massacre conservatives, as the Jews were massacred by Christian bigots.

That is what makes this so unpleasant and offensive, the way they are presenting themselves as victims.

[toddaa]

29. I'm afraid it's worse than that

The apostolic movement she belongs to believes that they have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people. All the lip service she pays to supporting Israel and Jews cannot cover up her religious belief that the Jews will put the Antichrist in power before Christ's return.

Sarah Palin is not stupid. I don't think people on the left grasp how truly dangerous she is. It's fun to joke about her verbal gaffes, much like we laughed at GW, but look where that got us.

[Raschel]

25. One for sure she's not is a Jew. Where do she and the Times get off?

They're sick.

[denem]

3. Just ask Prescott. The GOP has a proud history

and can speak some authority. on the subject.

[hatrack]

5. Wow, look - the Washington Times! It STILL EXISTS!!!!!

:rofl:

[DCKit]

6. They're just stirring the pot to sell more papers and recapture some relevance.

Presstitution.

[Richard D]

7. Bucket . . .

. . . meet scraper.

[somone]

8. Keep going

[otohara]

9. Tea Pity Party

they dominate the media in terms of the sheer number of right-wing stations vs progressive and still they whine

[goforit]

11. LOL!!!

[XanaDUer]

12. It's the same shtick as

Christians being persecuted in the US.

[PSPS]

13. Dup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x205208

[Cerridwen]

14. Yep, they're going there. Watch that word start 'leaking' out from

our corporate media aka "mainstream" media.

It will continue to be associated with "conservatives" and republicans to the detriment of the left.

[madrchsod]

15. what does one expect from the moonbeams?

[tabasco]

16. Fucking assholes diminish the meaning of the word.

Republicans don't know shit about history. Dumb fucks.

[Raschel]

20. Pogroms? Kish m'in toukhes

[emulatorloo]

21. that is the awful part. Palin gets a little bad press. And they compare to the massacre of

a religious group.

[emulatorloo]

17. Another opinion maker doubles down on the vitriolic rhetoric

Thanks for the link

[Richard Steele]

19. The Nazis painted themselves as victims, and history is repeating itself. K&R

[Vickers]

22. Well if the venerable Moonie Times says it...

:eyes:

[Raschel]

24. REAL pogrom:

For three whole days, June 1 to 3, 1906, Czarist murderers ravaged the people and property of the defenseless Jewish community in Bialystok.

On Thursday and Friday nights the shooting increased. The town went deathly still whenever steps were heard outside on the sidewalks. This meant the marauders were near and might, to the horror of Jews concealed in their homes, enter. In fact, on both these nights soldiers, police and hooligans did break into many Jewish homes, committing brutal murders. Either they shot people on the spot or forced a whole group out into the street and killed them there. Worst of all was when these vicious criminals gouged people’s eyes out with their nails or stuffed their cut-open abdomens with feathers. Some of the victims included small children, whose heads and other organs were removed.

A particularly grim scene unfolded at the Bialystok railroad station, where hooligans helped by the railroad personnel killed many Jewish passengers arriving on the train. The stationmaster laughed at this tragic scene.

Real Pogrom victims:

[UpInArms]

26. have these idiots ever even researched by using a dictionary?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/sp/article.php?ModuleId=10005366

Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries. The first such incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821. As a descriptive term, “pogrom” came into common usage with extensive anti-Jewish riots that swept Ukraine and southern Russia in 1881-1884, following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. In Germany and eastern Europe during the era of the Holocaust, as in Tsarist Russia, economic, social, and political resentment of Jews reinforced traditional religious antisemitism. This served as a pretext for pogroms.

The perpetrators of pogroms organized locally, sometimes with government and police encouragement. They raped and murdered their Jewish victims and looted their property. During the civil war that followed the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Ukrainian nationalists, Polish officials, and Red Army soldiers all engaged in pogrom-like violence in western Belorussia (Belarus) and Poland's Galicia province (now West Ukraine), killing tens of thousands of Jews between 1918 and 1920.

After the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler publicly discouraged "disorder" and acts of violence. In practice, though, street violence against Jews was tolerated and even encouraged at certain periods when Nazi leaders calculated that the violence would “prepare” the German population for harsh antisemitic legal and administrative measures implemented ostensibly “to restore order.” For example, the orchestrated nationwide campaign of street violence known as Kristallnacht of November 9-10, 1938, was the culmination of a longer period of more sporadic street violence against Jews. This street violence had begun with riots in Vienna after the Anschluss of Austria in March. Kristallnacht was followed by a dramatic surge in anti-Jewish legislation during the autumn and winter of 1938-1939. Another period of street violence had covered the first two months of the Nazi regime and culminated in a law dismissing Jews and Communists from the civil service on April 7, 1933. The summer before the announcement of the Nuremberg Race Laws in September 1935 saw frequent violence against Jews in various German cities. Such street violence involved burning down synagogues, destroying Jewish-owned homes and businesses, and physical assaults on individuals. Kristallnacht was by far the largest, most destructive, and most clearly orchestrated of these “pogroms.”

http://grossmanproject.net/pogroms.htm

Trapped between Central Europe and Russia, unwanted by neighboring countries, deprived of their rights and subjected to countless depredations, the Jews fared poorly in the Pale. Many eked a living at subsistence level, worrying about whether the next crop would yield enough to avert hunger for another season. Although a certain number among them managed to accumulate some wealth, czarist policy prevented the vast majority of them from improving their lot. Deplored and rejected by gentile society, Jews naturally insulated themselves within their communities and around their synagogues, always in fear of the czar’s next decree. They especially dreaded forced military conscription, which often saw thousands of young men carried off to distant wars with little or no warning.

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since when did these talking-hate freaks "eke out a living at a subsistence level"?

[cascadiance]

27. They criticize us for criticizing them for using violent language and then they do it themselves!

AS if to prove our f'ing point without realizing it!

It's almost like they are trying to goad liberals in to responding with violence in kind. I wonder if that's the objective here. Then they can start clamping down on us liberals as they do with other "targeted" ethnicities now in their desired evolution of the U.S. to a police state serving them!

[Arkana]

28. "ME! ME! ME! I'M THE VICTIM! OVER HERE! ME ME ME ME ME!"

It's all about them, all the time. Disgusting and shameful.

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Not conservative thinkers, just conservatives.

"Conservative thinker" is an oxymoran.

[deacon]

31. Palin's reckless rhetoric makes her partially responsible for what happened in AZ. She

ain't sliding away from the tragedy as some poor misunderstood thing. She's an asshole that needs to shape up and stop rabble rousing. Stop using the approach of wink and nod to commit acts of violence. Limbaugh, beck, all of fox news share the blame.

[calimary]

32. So?

Hey, taste of their own medicine much?