{"id":3887,"date":"2011-01-18T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:29:39","slug":"tucson-the-republican-offensive-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/tucson-the-republican-offensive-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson: The Republican Offensive Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The shooting in Tucson has brought calls for civility from both sides of the aisle.\u00a0 Republicans and Democrats are talking about sitting together for the SOTU on the 25th. John McCain called for toning back the violent language, and most of the MSM are talking about the feel good atmosphere in Washington.\u00a0 However, all is not a cheery as it seems.\u00a0 One Democrat threatened a Tea Party leader, and the offensive to blame Democrats from the right continues unabated, especially on Fox.\u00a0 Leading the charge is Sara \u201cBlood Libel\u201d Palin, but Keith Olbermann\u2019s Special Comment details several Republican attempts to distract from their hate speech.\u00a0 Republicans even ginned up a bogus Facebook page for Loughner, making him a liberal.\u00a0 It might have worked better had they spelled his name right.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"crosshairs\"Almost a week after the release of her disastrous Tucson shooting video, Sarah Palin stepped off her usual Twitter and Facebook platform and into the relative comfort of Sean Hannity’s softball field<\/strong>. On the Fox News host’s Sunday night “Hannity” program, the Wasilla Wonder returned to the public stage to once again deny any culpability whatsoever regarding the toxic political discourse in America today and, more so, how her behavior on the video was justified and appropriate.<\/p>\n

In the video, which history will remember as her “I am not a witch<\/em>” moment, she continued to blame the media for her public relations woes and in a very over-simplified way tried to excuse the “blood libel<\/em>” reference she made<\/strong>. She was emotionless and calculated, and extremely defiant as she vociferously defended her timing of the video, her choice of words, and her ability to denounce who or whatever she opposes.<\/p>\n

“I will continue to speak out,” a clearly agitated Palin said. “They’re not going to shut me up. They’re not going to shut you up (Hannity), or Rush or Mark Levin or Tea Party Patriots<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

When Hannity asked her to explain her timing of the video’s release the same day as the Tucson memorial, and then the use of “blood libel,” she came across as a flip 15-year-old who obviously memorized the answer to impress us with her knowledge of the subject matter. It was so contrived and insincere.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how the heck they would know whether I did or didn’t know’ the term blood libel, nobody’s ever asked me. Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case that’s exactly what was going on. And yes, the historical knowledge that people have of the term blood libel goes back to the Jews who were falsely accused back in the medieval European times of using the blood of children and…ya know…(snickers)…The criticism of even the timing of this statement is being used as another diversion<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

She then fell into some lame spin about liberals wanting to sidetrack voters from Congress not doing its job to combat the “trifecta<\/em>” of growing debt, the “looming energy crisis<\/em>” and weak national security policies. Talk about diversion\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now a manufacturing blood libel is more than just a false accusation.\u00a0 It is a false accusation of grotesquely heinous proportions.\u00a0 I can\u2019t, nor would I want to reach into her head, but part of the doctrine common to a large segment of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity is the belief that Jews have lost God\u2019s promises to Israel for their failure to recognize the messiah.\u00a0 It follows that the Supply-side Christians have inherited those promises as part of their reward, so that they, in effect, are the new Jews.\u00a0 Therefore, I suspect that Palin\u2019s accusation was that she is being persecuted for her faith.\u00a0 If so, she knew that many on the extreme right would understand exactly what she meant, but most on the left would not, because we don\u2019t understand the doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Keith:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most of the things he listed are things I didn\u2019t even know.\u00a0 But two things are clear.\u00a0 Before the shooting, almost all the violent rhetoric came from the right.\u00a0 Since the shooting most Republicans refuse to claim that words from the left have consequences and words from the right do not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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