Posted on 01/12/2011 5:42:46 AM PST by reaganaut1
did you even watch the damn speech ?
She's the ONLY one with the cajones to say what needs to be said...and do what needs to be done.
downtownconservative is a cross-dressing alcoholic...prove me wrong. If you can't then what I wrote must be true.
It’s clear that unprincipled Palin bashers, like the MSM and you, will attack Palin no matter what she writes. And maybe that is the point here. You and the MSM just want to shout down Palin and others like her. So you will twist the meaning of what she is saying to attack her where none is warranted. Because, after all, blaming the Tea Party for the murders in Tucson is clearly blood libel, we are getting blamed for murders where the only blame lies with the nutcase who shot those people.
Can someone else put it on youtube or does it have to come from her?
Bullcrap. Do a simple Google search, and the first two items mention blood libel as usually applying to Jews, but not always.
The term more recently has gained much broader use, exactly because of incidents like this.
Disagree. Brilliance on the part of Sarah Palin.
You are examining a gnat on the elephants back. It demonstrates that Sarah owned you with her speech.
She appears to have borrowed the “blood libel” term from law professor Glenn Reynolds, whose Jan 9 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is titled “The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel”
- JP
I think they have a rule that the Person responsible for the vid must upload it.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This one is going to resonate more than "death panels," and you think *someone else* doesn't see it?
Get your head out of your ass...
For some reason the video wouldn't play on my PC, but I read her statement and that's my impression exactly.....In fact she has proven herself more presidential than any politician, democrat or republican. This country needs her in the White House!
THIS is what presidential sounds like, not that crap of ‘if they bring a gun, we’ll bring a knife’ from Obama! How refreshing to see the Governor actually ‘looking’ at the audience instead of that constant head-swinging, teleprompter-reading we get from O!
Perfect timing to ‘steal’ Obama’s thunder—everyone will be comparing these two speeches today, and unless Obama suddenly becomes ‘Reaganesque’ the game/set/match goes to Palin!
It is a great speech video by Sarah Palin. You can see it here.She is looking distinctly presidential, I might add.
Another interesting thing that came across to me in the video is how her voice came across as calm and less high pitched than it did on her show. I think this could be a preview of her addresses in office (if she gets there) and possibly on the campaign trail.
As will I. I stand with patriots and Sarah is a patriot.
My point is that her use of Blood Libel is stupid. Rather than making a statement that clearly (and justly) faults the media for its partisan excess Palin has used (mis-used) an inflammatory arcane phrase that is historically anti-semitic and, in the process, given that very same media a point upon which to pivot the argument back against her.
The fact that this thread exists proves that point.
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.
Brings to mind what Lincoln told some Congressman who were complaining about Grant's:
"If it makes fighting men like Grant, then find out what he drinks and have a case sent to each of my other commanders!"Same goes for using language in ways frowned upon by the liberal elites. She is speaking to Conservatives about the "blood libel" against Conservatives and they understand and concur.
More tone deaf stupidity.I assume that your attack also imputes "tone deaf stupidity" to the Instapundit, who used precisely that same phrase in a Wall Street Journal editorial two days ago:
Glenn Reynolds: The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel
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