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Sarah Palin accuses critics of "blood libel"
Sarah Palin accuses critics of blood libel | Reuters
Prominent Republican Sarah Palin on Wednesday accused critics of "blood libel" by blaming her rhetoric for contributing to the shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them," the conservative Tea Party favorite and former Alaska governor said in her first major response to critics.
"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 they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."
I just want to see a golem, I hear those things are bad ass!
I really wish our political discourse was mature enough to allow people on both sides of the isle to have a reasonable discussion about how unhelpful some of the rhetoric has been on both sides. I absolutely don't think that Palin putting a target on a map made this kid go crazy or that it had anything to do with this incident at all even, but that doesn't mean that our discourse doesn't need reevaluating.
I really wish our political discourse was mature enough to allow people on both sides of the isle to have a reasonable discussion about how unhelpful some of the rhetoric has been on both sides. I absolutely don't think that Palin putting a target on a map made this kid go crazy or that it had anything to do with this incident at all even, but that doesn't mean that our discourse doesn't need reevaluating.
Who here is refudiating her claim?
Who here is refudiating her claim?
I agree with her, all her critics are sacrificing children for Jewish rituals.
I agree with her, all her critics are sacrificing children for Jewish rituals.
I agree.... but blaming this tragedy on anyone but the shooter as folks have falsey, aint helping.
Absolutely, and I have heard people on the left say stupid **** and go full on retard, I'll even admit that when I first picked up the paper in the morning without hearing anything about this story and read that a dem congress woman had been shot I immediately thought there's a good chance it was some crazy tea partier or Republican. I guess that's just what I expected after seeing the huge pissing matches on both sides of who can yell the most obnoxious ****. Know that the facts are out, anyone that said that this guy did it because of something Palin or Limbaugh said should apologize. It's sad that there are probably meetings going on right now for both parties on how to treat this situation and what would best way to capitalize off of this shooting, i guess that's the sad state we are in.
Thank you. Both sides should just admit that they have been too hateful and shake hands and be done with it.I really wish our political discourse was mature enough to allow people on both sides of the isle to have a reasonable discussion about how unhelpful some of the rhetoric has been on both sides. I absolutely don't think that Palin putting a target on a map made this kid go crazy or that it had anything to do with this incident at all even, but that doesn't mean that our discourse doesn't need reevaluating.
First of all, the ad is inappropriate because of what happened. Did Sarah Palin create it to incite violence? No, she obviously didn't. She also obviously realized it was inappropriate because she took it down. And now she is accusing her critics, whom admittedly were playing bull**** partisan politics, of blood libel? Does she understand the meaning of the term? People on both sides really need to tone down the rhetoric. It's getting downright ridiculous.
I don't think she took it down because it was "innapropriate" she loves using gun and weapon metaphors ad nauseum. I do think she took it down after the incident because simply it was the right thing to do.
Can anyone here tell me the definition of simile? I mean, seriously people, are you so stupid as to not know the difference between the literal use and comparative use?
I only meant that it was inappropriate considering what happened.
I don't think she took it down because it was "innapropriate" she loves using gun and weapon metaphors ad nauseum. I do think she took it down after the incident because simply it was the right thing to do.
Just wondering Doc, and the same question posed for the Good Rev. whom I agree with a great deal of the time, Should speech be limited?
j-mac
Agreed. Leaving up that map with her name on it would have been in bad taste. She did the right thing. Though I don't love all the gun metaphors being brandied about they are so common in our society that it would be hard for politicos to avoid them entirely and it definately can't be said that Palin started this kind of thing or is the only one doing it.
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