Posted on 01/12/2011 5:42:46 AM PST by reaganaut1
Sarah Palin, who had been silent for days, on Wednesday issued a forceful denunciation of her critics in a video statement that accused pundits and journalists of “blood libel” in their rush to blame heated political rhetoric for the shootings in Arizona.
“Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said in a video posted to her Facebook page. “Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.”
Ms. Palin’s use last year of a map with crosshairs hovering over a number of swing districts, including that of Gabrielle Giffords, had increasingly become the symbol of that overheated rhetoric. In and interview with The Caucus on Monday, potential 2012 rival Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, said he would not have produced such a map.
But in the video, Ms. Palin rejected criticism of the map, casting it as a broader indictment of the basic political rights of free speech exercised by people of all political persuasions.
She said that acts like the shootings in Arizona “begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state.”
“Not with those who listen to talk radio,” she added. “Not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle. Not with law abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their first amendment rights at campaign rallies. Not with those who proudly voted in the last election.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
That is by far the best she has ever done in my opinion.
This is all going to backfire on the lib’s.
Yeah, let's just shut up and do things your way. That worked so well in the past.
I am in favor of calm debate. But I also ain't gonna condemn those who are angry. My condemnations are reserved for those attacking the right over this, you might think about re-directing your fire here instead of parroting the MSM talking points.
Absolutely. It was inexcusable. And Sarah Palin was right to respond.
But she could not have come up with a worse way of responding. "Blood libel" is a very stupid choice of words.
It was meant to create a literal lynch mob. They want Palin dead. That is why it is a blood libel.
No, they don't want her "dead." They certainly want to destroy her politically. But they don't want her "dead."
Hyperventilation makes people say silly things.
For example, with your accusation, you're now guilty of "blood libel," too.
Sarah Palin Should be President!
This is the last day you will ever post on this site
happy trails
Honestly, I think you'll be eating those words. He's been around these boards a lot longer than you have.
I assume that is where she picked it up, or else from Glenn Beck who may also have used it.
Although the details have changed over the last millenium, the blood libel retains core elements of sadistic fantasy, psychological projection, and crass opportunism."
How is it not libel what they are doing to her ? how ?
They don’t want her dead?
Right...
It’s every liberal’s wet dream to be able to use the power of the state to punish and kill their political opponents. History is my witness.
“Today’s public discussion will not be Palin’s measured and cutting response but her use of one phrase within it...the rest, all three pages of it, will be lost.
Please explain the wisdom in that.”
It’s not only wisdom, it’s brilliance. The media CANNOT ignore her use of those words, and the simple truth conveyed there will resonate with people. Very much like her use of the phrase “death panels” last year.
“Blood Libel” (2011)
“Death Panels” (2010)
I concur that Sarah Palin gets a lot accomplished with very few words.
Unlike Obama who never tires reading the words being fed via his teleprompter.
The American public fully understands that leftist media and politicians are libeling talk radio, the tea party, and Sarah Palin.
Since the libel emanates from a lunatic’s rampage, it is very appropriate to summarily call the leftist mantra “Blood Libel”.
“That normally applies to an ethnic group.”
Seems to me that “democrat” IS an ethnic group...
Palin hating trolls that hate her just to hate her are not welcomed on Free Republican ? correct ?
The Tea Party's public image is that they're a bunch of hicks who march around and shout about what and who they don't like; and don't have any ideas worth speaking of.
That's just the fact.
I'd think you might want to change that, rather than whining to me about how mean the MSM is to the Tea Party. It's damned unmanly.
i mean Free Republic..im exhausted...I thought Sarah had put out the fire..and now she is attacked by people on our side..
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