January 12, 201115 yr By now, everyone is aware of Sarah Palin's supposed gaffe for using the phrase "blood libel" to describe the awful false accusation that she had somehow inspired the monstrous shooting in Arizona. Apparently there are liberal Jewish voices screaming foul over Palin’s usage of the term in a non-Jewish context. This will be interesting as it plays out. What is getting no coverage at all is the petition signed by thousands of Colectomy recipients over Palin’s flagrant usage of semi-colons in her written release.
January 12, 201115 yr By now, everyone is aware of Sarah Palin's supposed gaffe for using the phrase "blood libel" to describe the awful false accusation that she had somehow inspired the monstrous shooting in Arizona. Apparently there are liberal Jewish voices screaming foul over Palin’s usage of the term in a non-Jewish context. This will be interesting as it plays out. What is getting no coverage at all is the petition signed by thousands of Colectomy recipients over Palin’s flagrant usage of semi-colons in her written release. :lol:
January 12, 201115 yr What is wrong with the use of the phrase? Just another example of PC. It was reported that the lawyer Alan Dershowitz (sp) came out in support of Palin.
January 13, 201115 yr Author What is wrong with the use of the phrase? Just another example of PC.It was reported that the lawyer Alan Dershowitz (sp) came out in support of Palin. You are absolutely correct IMO. What's funny (in an ironic sense) is the fact that Palin used the phrase in absolutely the correct context. Like the Jews who were falsely accused of murdering children to use their blood in religious rituals as an excuse for persecuting them. Palin was falsely accused of inciting the AZ shooter with her rhetoric and map graphics, without one wisp of evidence to support the claim, as an all too ready excuse to persecute Palin for political gain. There's nothing anti-Semitic in anything she said. What happened to the pioneers and the rugged individuals that built this nation? PA governor Ed Rendell is right… we’re witnessing the wussification of America right before our eyes. Grown adults are waaaaay too sensitive about things our forefathers wouldn’t have thought twice about.
January 13, 201115 yr Author Never heard the term before. What does it refer to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
January 13, 201115 yr Two other people, without any fanfare, used it this week before Palin. Someone in a NY Times/WSJ oped and some group named Human Events.
January 13, 201115 yr Two other people, without any fanfare, used it this week before Palin. Someone in a NY Times/WSJ oped and some group named Human Events. You do have to wonder if she just heard them using it and decided to use it herself, without understanding context.
January 13, 201115 yr Thanks, learn something every day. Right there with you. Had to look it up when I heard about this today.
January 13, 201115 yr You do have to wonder if she just heard them using it and decided to use it herself, without understanding context. Until someone refudiates it......
January 13, 201115 yr Author You do have to wonder if she just heard them using it and decided to use it herself, without understanding context. I seriously doubt she is that reckless. I'm sure she has internet access too... :lol:
January 13, 201115 yr I seriously doubt she is that reckless.Wasn't the "death panels" statement more than just a little reckless?
January 13, 201115 yr Until someone refudiates it...... Guility until proven innocent, how totalitarian of you.
January 13, 201115 yr Guility until proven innocent, how totalitarian of you. Even better when the point is missed!
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