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| Sarah Palin accuses critics of "blood libel" | |
| 2011-01-12 | |
| 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." Palin, the Republican Party's 2008 vice presidential nominee, posted her remarks to her Facebook page in both a video and text.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 Joseph, That is correct. Death threats almost always generate from the left. |
| Posted by: Glusorong Trotsky7204 2011-01-12 23:56 |
| #11 TOPIX/WORLDNEWS > seems SARAH is getting TWITTER-BASED DEATH THREATS in aftermath of Gabrielle Giffords shooting??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-12 23:06 |
| #10 The left has done themselves a lot of damage by trying to politicize this. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-01-12 20:50 |
| #9 Starting against Krugman, is filing a libel law suit winable or a waste of time and money? It's next to impossible, and never worth it. The best thing anyone could do would be to just hit back in a manner that makes them look like the a$$ they are. Which is just what she did. If Krugman and his like actually understand it, it's all the better. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-12 19:14 |
| #8 That the left is trying to do is handle Sarah Palin the way their Dutch branch handled Pim Fortuyn. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-12 15:45 |
| #7 The last thing the left wants to discuss is the possibility that paranoid fixation on a female politician caused the violence. |
| Posted by: Nero 2011-01-12 15:41 |
| #6 ..is she a public figure? So much for equal protection under the law. Remember it's a 'living, breathing' document. /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-12 14:09 |
| #5 Muggsy, The prevailing law on libel is enunciated in New York Times v. Sullivan. I think it's 1964. The standard breaks down on these lines; is she a public figure? and if so, were the statements made knowingly false? This is why most of the anti-Palin statements are couched in specious terms like,"to the casual observer this could be seen as X." Who do we go after, the theoretical strawman? Or the observation that this "could" be seen as X, even if, in other conditions, this would not be seen as a necessary outcome? It creates an innuendo, but not an assertion. Political speech is the most protected speech in America--unlike other nations, think Canada fer example. When listening to speakers who are attempting to create a memetic innuendo, listen carefully and you'll hear the "all/some fallacy" being used over and over again. If x is the case sometimes, then it must be the case in this instance." Only the very reckless would remove all the conditions of ambiguity, equivocation and innuendo in attempting libel Mrs. Palin. That is why it does sound like so much "weasel-speak." They are weasels, and they're working hard not to be eviscerated by their own speech by being too explicit. A dance of weasels. Simply. . |
| Posted by: OregonGuy 2011-01-12 13:44 |
| #4 "Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them," -exactly. Period & end of story. Loughner was a 22yr old man - deal w/him accordingly. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2011-01-12 13:27 |
| #3 Reading the comments, should have bought stock in scare quotes and spell check. Seems many are confused that Palin writes above a 4th grade level. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-01-12 12:59 |
| #2 The lefty hysteria reminds me of the period after Rabin assassination. But, at least, in that case they had the justification of ideologically motivated assassin. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-12 11:47 |
| #1 Starting against Krugman, is filing a libel law suit winable or a waste of time and money? |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2011-01-12 10:49 |