TPM: Palin's Use Of 'Blood Libel' Mirrors That In Right-Wing Media

[RamboLiberal]

Before Sarah Palin posted her Facebook provocation this morning accusing the media of committing "blood libel" for connecting some of her statements to the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), that phrase was being batted around by the conservative media.

Andrew Brietbart used the phrase in a tweet last night (though it's likely Palin's video, posted in the early morning hours Wednesday, was filmed before that tweet).

"Blood libel" popped up in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by professor and Pajamas TV host Glenn Reynolds. "Where is the decency in blood libel?" he wrote on Monday, Jan. 10.

Adam Graham of Renew America was the first to use the phrase in reference to the Tucson shootings, according to a search of Google News.

But the very first reference to "blood libel" in the wake of the Tucson massacre came from political consultant Jon Henke, who used the phrase on Twitter the same day as the shootings, according to Google's realtime search.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/palins_use_of_blood_libel_mirrors_that_in_right-wing_media.php?ref=fpblg

[Junkdrawer]

1. Google Netanyahu "Blood Libel".... 106,000 hits

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=netanyahu+%22Blood+Libel%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[PhillySane]

2. Yea, they got together and agreed

this was the t-point/catchphrase they'd hammer out there. Too bad the dopes picked a phrase that now will generate even more resentment towards them.

[kickysnana]

7. I hope they are now in quicksand. n/t

[City Lights]

3. They're upping the ante.

:dunce:

[emulatorloo]

4. I thought there was nothing that she could do to shock me anymore.

I was wrong.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. The RWingnut meme machine is a thing of awesomeness. It is not unlike The Borg.

For those familiar with Star Trek:Voyager, you will know the power of the Borg Collective...

from Wikipedia:

Borg Collective

Also referred to as the "hive mind" or "collective consciousness" , this is the term used to describe the group mind of the Borg civilization. Each Borg individual, or drone, is linked to the collective by a sophisticated subspace network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance. The collective is broadcast over a subspace domain similar to that utilized by the transporter. Being part of the collective offers significant biomedical advantages to the individual drones. The mental energy of the group consciousness can help an injured or damaged drone heal or regenerate damaged body parts or technology. The collective consciousness not only gives them the ability to "share the same thoughts", but also to adapt with great speed to defensive tactics used against them.<1>

[1776Forever]

6. Thank you for posting! I have been trying to find out how writes Palin/Bachmann speeches! I think

this might help do just that! The MACHINE is hard at work cranking this crap out!

[scarletwoman]

8. Kick - more DUers need to see this.

[The Magistrate]

9. Indeed, Ma'am: She Cannot Even Make A Mistake All On Her Own....

[scarletwoman]

12. She is not a being of creativity, she is a being of destruction.

[EFerrari]

10. It's basically a chain of evidence. n/t

[scarletwoman]

13. Indeed. And it actually goes back even further - Tony Blankley used it in a 2006 Wash. Times piece

lambasting the media for condemning the murders in Haditha. By his accounting, the media was committing "blood libel" against the Marines.

[stanwyck]

11. Does anyone actually believe Palin writes any of her

speeches? I mean, any part of her speeches? Her delivery of the speech was poor. Either she was seeing the speech for the first time - or she didn't prepare. Which isn't surprising. She's careless and lazy. Her "analysis" on Fox has been abysmal. She doesn't have any knowledge - so, she can't analyze. Her speech writer wrote blood libel - Palin has no idea what she said. She just knows she liked the sound of it and it sounded "Mama Grizzly".