Sarah Palin Should Study History...If She Can Read

[Flatbush Harry]

From Politico.com today:


Palin’s use of the charged phrase “blood libel” — which refers to the anti-Semitic accusation from the Middle Ages that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make matzo for Passover — touched off an immediate backlash.

“The blood libel is something anti-Semites have historically used in Europe as an excuse to murder Jews — the comparison is stupid. Jews and rational people will find it objectionable,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic political consultant and devout Jew. “This will forever link her to the events in Tucson. It deepens the hole she’s already dug for herself. … It’s absolutely inappropriate.”

It’s not certain that Palin even knew the historic context of the phrase, which was used by Glenn Reynolds in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday and has been picked up as a rallying cry by the right in their effort to pushback over the blame-casting by the left over the attemped assassination Saturday of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)

What is clear, though, is that her used of such a loaded phrase has all but overwhelmed the rest of her message.

“By using those words she failed to rise above and focus on the victims,” said former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. “It was a mistaken approach, though I don’t think offensive on religious grounds.”

And it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for conservatives.



Read more: Sarah Palin charges critics with 'blood libel' - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47477.html#ixzz1AsliXg2H)

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FH

[ChasC5]

That is one stupid broad. :yesnod:

:hump: But I can make her smarter. :D

[JustinStrife]

That is one stupid broad. :yesnod:

:hump: But I can make her smarter. :D

I doubt that.

[88Z51]

Harry - in case you didn't notice, there is a PR&C section on this forum :D

But since you've brought it up, there is one thing I've been wondering about.
Why is she even still relevant? Nobody can possibly take her seriously - why doesn't the media just let her fade away? I know I'm not the only one who thinks her 15 minutes have long since past. Does the "liberal media" just keep her in the spotlight to make the right look stupid?

[truckindj]

the problem with her is she so dumb that she is letting her staff write stuff that she has no idea what it means

[theriver]

she is far from dumb or stupid.

Her seldom mis-steps are ridiculously magnified by those who fear her.

Obozo and that daffy bastard, Biden are the kings of gaffes. They often, if not always, act(ed) stupidly.

[Scissors]

At this point, the only way she can one-up herself is to call for a "final solution" to the immigration problem.

[Scissors]

While I get the insinuation you're making, technically, wouldn't the answer to any problem be the "final solution".
To the camps with you!

[Chris Fowler]

We should probably have a PR&C section here...

[Joecooool]

Harry - in case you didn't notice, there is a PR&C section on this forum :D

But since you've brought it up, there is one thing I've been wondering about.
Why is she even still relevant? Nobody can possibly take her seriously - why doesn't the media just let her fade away? I know I'm not the only one who thinks her 15 minutes have long since past. Does the "liberal media" just keep her in the spotlight to make the right look stupid?Because the average IQ is 100. That means half the population has an IQ under 100.

[carlton_fritz]

the problem with her is she so dumb that she is letting her staff write stuff that she has no idea what it means
All politicians do this.

[dwjz06]

she is far from dumb or stupid.

Her seldom mis-steps are ridiculously magnified by those who fear her.

Obozo and that daffy bastard, Biden are the kings of gaffes. They often, if not always, act(ed) stupidly.

And she looks hot holding a rifle.:yesnod::cheers:

[onedef92]

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee286/Renedear/PALIN-1.jpg

[VITE1]

And BHO and all his misinformation on the history of the world is glossed over.
:rofl:

How's that 3000% reduction in your Health insurance looking for you?

[loiq]

At least we know Sarah was born in the good 'ol US of A.

[lander]

What she said was no better or worse than Nobama telling the Republicans that they have to sit in the back.

Double standards and hypocrisy prevails in politics and media.

[Mark C5]

Political rule of thumb; It's generally bad to make reference to Jesus, Hitler or the Holocaust. Just sayin' ............

[loiq]

This is kinda like the time she talked about the death panels! oh wait...

[Poog]

Because the average IQ is 100. That means half the population has an IQ under 100.

Actually, the median IQ would have to be 100 (or whatever) for half to be below, half above.

[Cybercowboy]

OP

:rollseyes:

[themonk]

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/4/9/9/6/ar129459453969941.png

[Cybercowboy]

Every indication is that the shooter was an apolitical Truther douchetard. It's extremely unlikely he ever saw Sarah's map with positional indicators, not crosshairs, which look like this:

Picture of a Crosshair

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qQvUH8jVhKE/S7FK2vlY2iI/AAAAAAAABRQ/PIRgD7_Mvz0/s1600/Crosshairs%255B1%255D.png

Now I'd hate to point out all the mainstream blogs who were pointing out that the left's attempt to say that Palin and a bunch of others like Limbaugh, Levin, Beck, and Hannity had blood on their hands is just a form of blood libel, days before Palin's little video. I'm sure she read those blogs and thought it was a catchy term. That some other meanings can be associated with a rather descriptive term (which literally means lying that a person has blood on their hands) is rather a stretch, no?

At any rate, the OP's article is easily dismissed as more douchebaggery from the left in their desperate attempt to make political points out of a tragedy.

[VITE1]

And maybe those on the left shoud complain when the term was used in the recent past.



Term 'Blood Libel' Used on MSNBC in 2000 in Reference to Bush, In 2006 to Kerry Without Objection by Network Hosts
By Ken Shepherd | January 13, 2011 | 18:52


While the liberal media, particularly Obama acolytes at MSNBC, immediately jumped down former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's throat for her use of the term "blood libel" in a video statement yesterday, it appears the network has not always thundered with righteous indignation at the use of the term.

Tthere was no reaction from MSNBC's Chris Matthews in 2000 when Jack Kemp used the term to describe a harsh radio ad the NAACP had used against then-Gov. George W. Bush (R-Texas) nor in 2006 when Mike Barnicle used the term in reference to Sen. John Kerry having been criticized by a group of Vietnam War swift boat veterans.

Kemp used the term on the December 19, 2000 edition of "Hardball," while he and Matthews were discussing why so few black Americans actually voted for Bush. In that exchange, Kemp lamented as "blood libel" a harsh ad the NAACP National Voter Fund ran that suggested Bush had blood on his hands for failing to support a hate crimes bill.

Here's the relevant portion (emphasis mine):

KEMP: ...I think racial reconciliation in America is a key issue, a very important issue, and I've got to say this as a Republican, and the party of Lincoln cannot lose 92 percent of the African-American vote any more in this century.



MATTHEWS: Right. Why, you know, I looked at the stats yesterday, Jack. Apparently the number for Republican voting in the party is lower than it was. You have to go back to the Goldwater campaign in '64, and he opposed for, I think constitutional reasons, the Civil Rights Act in '64, to get as low a black vote for Republicans. Why is it getting worse for your party?



KEMP: Oh, that pains me. Having played professional football for 13 years, having been Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, I've been talking with J.C. Watts and a lot of African-Americans throughout the country, no one thinks it's good for America to have such a split between black and white. It isn't good for Democrats to take the black vote for granted. It isn't good for the Republican Party to write it off and I don't, I'm not accusing anybody of writing it off, including Bob Dole and Jack Kemp.



But it isn't good for our democracy. My hope is that we make this a very high priority in the early part of this decade and century. I think George Bush, again, meeting with black pastors. He should meet with the Congressional Black Caucus. He ought to talk about things that are important to this country. That doesn't mean he has to kiss anybody's ring, but this country really has to deal with racial reconciliation and I believe George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell can be a redeeming presidency here in these first four or hopefully eight years.



MATTHEWS: Do you think the way, do you think that the Democrats exploited this? I mean the NAACP ran an ad this year...



KEMP: Oh, that was sad.



MATTHEWS: ... basically blaming Bush for the James Byrd horror story because they said he wouldn't back a hate crime, even though he actually, he, you know, he -- they're executing those people.



KEMP: Oh, I served in the Congress with Kweisi Mfume. He, I want to say, is a friend of mine. I talked to him before George W. Bush spoke at the NAACP during the campaign and Kweisi is a man of integrity.



I really can't believe, and I just say this without any knowledge ahead of time, I don't believe that Kweisi Mfume, in my opinion, would have allowed, could have allowed, would have funded such a brutal, brutal ad hominem blood libel ad against George W. Bush.

Six years later, on the October 31, 2006 "Scarborough Country," MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle lamented that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had not effectively handled the Swift Boat Veterans attack on his credibility two years prior (emphasis mine) and thus had a lack of credibility in his ongoing critique of the war in Iraq:

The problem for Kerry here is that two years ago, Joe, he did not talk like that when he was undergoing a blood libel by the Swift Boat people. If he had stood up two years ago, in July of 2004, and looked into the cameras with the same intensity he showed today on this issue and said, Hey, I didn`t see Dick Cheney on the bow of my boat in the Mekong Delta, we might have a different president today. That didn`t happen then, and so he`s playing catch-up in terms of his reputation now.


Read more: Term 'Blood Libel' Used on MSNBC in 2000 in Reference to Bush, In 2006 to Kerry Without Objection by Network Hosts | NewsBusters.org (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/01/13/2000-dem-congressman-used-blood-libel-reference-gop-attack-gore-hardba#ixzz1AyRmasXp)

[carlton_fritz]

Hypocrisy by the democrats? Say it isn't so.

[ZipZap]

Hypocrisy by politicians? Say it isn't so.

Fixt.

[Joecooool]

Stop trying to defend that moron. You are better than that.

[VITE1]

Stop trying to defend that moron. You are better than that.

I love how the left uses derogatory words to describe their opposition then call us racists when we say the same things about thier Dear Leader, BHO.

[VITE1]

I love how the left uses derogatory words to describe their opposition then call us racists when we say the same things about thier Dear Leader, BHO.


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