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And it just so happened that a nutjob did decide to 'help prescribe a solution' and opened fire at a "Congress On The Corner" event organised by Representative Gabrielle Gifford and her staff, killing 6 and injuring 14. Go figure..
Sarah Palin quickly withdrew these posters from her website and made a public statement offering condolences to the families..yada yada yada.. and, clearly feeling a bit self-conscious being implicated, bit back at finger pointers;
"If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re free to propose better ideas. But, 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."
Critics of Palin are certainly not drawing a long bow to see a clear connection between her hair-brained, hateful rhetoric [ she urged her supporters with the rhetoric "Reload, not retreat" ] and the heinous event , so to accuse journalists of "manufacturing a blood libel" is a clear continuation of the same kind of inflammatory, idiotic vitriol.
A blood libel, if you aren't already aware, is a slur and accusation against Jewish people by Christians who believed that Jews used human blood, especially that of children, in sacrifices and as an essential ingredient for matzos bread made at Passover..This belief has been behind the long history of persecution of the Jewish people, and for Palin to use it so glibly to illustrate her victimhood is cultural insensitivity and ignorance in the extreme.
But never missing the opportunity to capitalize on a crisis, No Labels lobbyists [particularly speaker of the house John Boehner, and the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi ] are utilizing the situation to call for people to rise above partisanship [ and ..erm.. support their parties agenda to do away with the 'lunatic fringe' a.k.a. any voices of dissent. ]
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/370861/january-12-2011/the-word---life--liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-angriness
