Promoted from Diaries – Moe Lane.
Great stuff (you can get to the video on her Facebook page). I don’t think I’ve seen this better said.
Naturally, the Left has started targeting Palin (and targeting is the right word) for her use of the phrase “blood libel”, although the phrase is quite appropriate.
Politico was the first to mention it, using the phrase in their headline. The Hill was next. In their piece, they quote Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who naturally, decides to go into the gutter [emphasis mine]:
“You know, Sarah Palin just can’t seem to get it, on any front. I think she’s an attractive person, she is articulate. But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what’s going on here.“
It’s quite obvious Palin, intellectually, gets it. I’m sure that Clyburn, intellectually, gets it. But Clyburn is so hung up on exploiting this tragedy for his and his party’s political advantage that he is compelled and reduced to fling insults at Palin.
This will be added to the Left’s “narrative”, as was done by Taegan Goddard, just wait and see.
President Obama is set to speak later today in Tuscon. I hope he summons up enough good sense to leave the politics completely out of his speech. Unlike Palin, nobody has accused him of being even partly responsible for the recent tragedy.
Caleb Howe
Jeff Emanuel
Moe Lane
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Palin, for the first time to me, came across as presidential material.
spainishirish (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 9:23AM EDT (link)I seriously doubt, but hope to be proved wrong, Obama will have the same class tonight. As for Clyburn—typical Democrat trash, period.
I agree spainishirish...
conservativemusician Wednesday, January 12th at 10:43AM EDT (link)And no, Obama will not have the same class in his speech tonight. He will go down as one of the most partisan and divisive presidents ever, so don’t hold your breath tomorrow or for the next two years waiting for any statesmanship from him.
It is troubling to hear Obama's appearance called "a presidential speech"
proudmarinemom (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:50AM EDT (link)Obama has been invited, presumably, or perhaps he invited himself, to attend a MEMORIAL SERVICE which is being held in honor of little Christina and all the other victims who lost their lives.
Congresswoman Giffords is not, and should not be, the focus of this evening.
Obama is not, and should not be, the focus of this evening.
The victims who lost their lives should be foremost on everyone’s minds. I find it appalling that pundits in the news media are pre-analyzing “Obama’s Speech”
Disgusting!
555 proudmarinemom.
conservativemusician Wednesday, January 12th at 10:59AM EDT (link)It is totally disgusting that the media is still looking at this through a political lens instead of showing any type of compassion for the victims. It’s all a game to them – political sport. The words of Rahm Emmanuel – who once said that they would not let a crisis go to waste – are still alive and well on the left.
Let's focus on this:
proudmarinemom (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:10AM EDT (link)This Psalm was sung at the Mass yesterday for those who lost their lives:
Shepherd me, O God,
beyond my wants,
beyond my fears,
From Death into Life.
Here is the link (if it works — if not, tech help is welcome)
Great video proudmarinemom...
conservativemusician Wednesday, January 12th at 11:25AM EDT (link)And a poignant reminder of what is really important in this life…and may the families of the victims also find comfort and peace in Him in the days ahead.
No real analysis attempted yet
steve010 (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 9:44AM EDT (link)by anyone on the left or the right for that matter:
If they really want to blame the media in some fashion, First, blame Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro for the film Taxi Driver.
This Giffords assassination attempt is eerily like the scenes in this movie. Travis Bickle could be classified as mentally ill, but he is just enough off the radar to stay out of the way of the law. He is a loner and drives a taxi at night because he can’t sleep. He begins to fixate on a politician. He buys guns and learns how to shoot. He shaves his head. He goes to a political gathering to assassinate the politician, but there is security present and the security scares him off. The only difference here is that with Ms. Giffords there wasn’t any security present.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the FBI finds a copy of Taxi Driver on Loughner’s computer. Now, Taxi Driver has been involved in two political assassination attempts, Ronald Reagan and Gabrielle Giffords.
You also want to blame George Noory and Art Bell for their talk radio show, Coast to Coast. This show has had many segments of the two reported fixations that the shooter has. The issue of lucid or conscience dreaming and the issue of government mind control. These topics have been covered in length over the last several years on this radio program. Again, it wouldn’t surprise me if the FBI found links to Coast to Coast in his internet browser or cache.
But, the media that shouldn’t be blamed are Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Sarah Palin or any other conservative talk show host because this guy wouldn’t have spent 5 minutes listening to any of these people.
Promoted before I could rec'md
texasgalt (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 9:58AM EDT (link)Sarah rising . . .
I know why she is doing it
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:13AM EDT (link)but I think its a mistake to address it, the media will think she fell for the artifical trap they set.
and so as not to be vague
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:21AM EDT (link)here is why I think its a mistake….This story was slowly starting to fade away, but now its back front page and center with Palin being the headline along with the “blood libel” charge. It will get her base excited and what not, but to most of the independants its going to look like she is fighting agaisnt the media again and calling them names. I think it will further alienate her from the undecideds she is trying to court.
With BO set to ply his skills at a teleprompter close to home,
Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:31AM EDT (link)I see it as the perfectly timed, perfectly aimed shot across the bow.
Pun … whatever.
No GM, GE, or any GSE for me.
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?
Matthew 20:15 NIV
maybe
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:35AM EDT (link)but most of america isnt going to hear her whole video statement on facebook, they are going to hear the parsed words that the media decides to run with and how do you think they are going to make it look?
and "Blood Libel"
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:39AM EDT (link)I know what she means when she says it and for what she means she is right, but what the term has come to mean and how she used it are very curious. This will also backfire
Just as I speculate it, politico already did it
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:56AM EDT (link)here we go:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47477.html
“The blood libel is something anti-Semites have historically used in Europe as an excuse to murder Jews – the comparison is stupid. Jews and rational people will find it objectionable,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic political consultant and devout Jew. “This will forever link her to the events in Tucson. It deepens the hole she’s already dug for herself… It’s absolutely inappropriate.”
Now I think this is very unfair, but this is now going to be the story and now she is going to have to answer questions about blood libel and anit-semitism. The truth is the media set a made up trap for her, and she just steped right into it.
crap
streiff (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:57AM EDT (link)this will “backfire” in the same way that “death panels” backfired. The left will run from “blood libel” like vampires from Holy Water. They already are.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Man ... you have got to be the most consistent advocate of milquetoast timidity on RS.
Martin Knight (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:28AM EDT (link)Are you really so risk-averse and cowardly in real life?
The woman gets slandered and you’re thinking she should just lay back and let it happen?
It seems like the only advice you know how to give is some variant of “Don’t … or they’ll get mad!”
no, not at all
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:40AM EDT (link)I said in my diary two days ago http://www.redstate.com/goldwater_conservative/2011/01/10/ok-its-time-for-me-to-defend-sarah-palin/
that they were trying to sucker her into this created story. The smartest thing she could have done, and the one thing that would have driven the MSM mad, is if she completly ignored them and the entire made up premise. Now though, she has steped into the trap and they will eat her alive for it. The more she remained silent, the more most people would have viewed her as the underserved scapegoat, but now she throws the mud back at the MSM (and yes it was deserved) but its not going to play well with most americans.
silliness
streiff (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:47AM EDT (link)just silliness. First, they were already accusing her of going “on the lam” because she hadn’t commented. Second, you can’t ignore what they are trying to do. If we had followed your advice they wouldn’t be backpedaling now from asserting that some bs bullseyes on a Facebook page caused the shooting.
If you want to recommend unilateral disarmament, please do it some other place. Your through the looking glass views are beginning to annoy.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
So you think
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:52AM EDT (link)this statement she made is going to shut them up and put them on the defensive?
we are goning to make them EAT this story..
speciallist (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 11:57AM EDT (link)she is doing exactly the right thing
screw ‘them’
Pardon the interruption
redneck_hippie (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:04PM EDT (link)but I have just one thought to interject. Maybe it would help you if you could think of it in this way: Palin is standing up for our cause. Contrast the tatters of conservatism left while we were trying to elect conservatives in ’06 and ’08. Please consider what you are arguing about. The vacuum left due to silence from the top was deafening and it took the election of a Chavez wannabe to wake up America.
Palin is a strong conservative voice. She is not the only one, but I would argue she is the most effective one. If she is somehow sacrificing her popularity among the undecided vote, maybe that was inevitable anyway. What is possibly lost by Palin being Palin?
Or maybe I was right not to wish to be a political consultant.
That's right, contrast vacuum and resolve. Plastering this with 5's.
Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:33PM EDT (link)nt
No GM, GE, or any GSE for me.
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?
Matthew 20:15 NIV
no and yes
streiff (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:23PM EDT (link)they aren’t going to shut up and they are already on the defensive.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
I think you miss the point about responding.
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:04PM EDT (link)If Palin fails to respond her silence will be seen as complicity or cowardice by many. The “high road” of not responding does not really work in politics because of basic human nature. Eventually she has to respond or people who don’t look at things through the same prism will assume the one sided messages attacking her are either valid or she is to timid to trusted to anything important.
A lie repeated often enough without effective opposition becomes the truth to many and that is what the MSM counts on happening.
Razz Etc!
“Best Poker book written ever!!!” – Author’s unbiased opinion…
thats the best argument
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:13PM EDT (link)I have heard yet against my thinking. Your logic is sound and I cant dispute what you said. But the blood libel use is going to be what this speech will be labled as, and I don’t see this as doing her any good with anyone other than those that liked her in the first place.
in fact
Goldwater_Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:21PM EDT (link)case in point, “blood libel” is shooting up as one of the most googled words today, and when people look it up I dont see them reading that and saying “yeah Sarah, thats just like what happend to you”
Look at it this way Gold_Con.
conservativemusician Wednesday, January 12th at 12:43PM EDT (link)If it wasn’t “blood libel” they took issue with, it would certainly be something else. No matter what she says, they are going to try and tear her apart, so in my view, she has nothing to lose and everything to gain by speaking her mind. She is speaking the truth and the truth will eventually win out.
She is a very effective spokesman for conservative principle (maybe the most effective right now), so naturally she is going to be a target. She is showing class and far more guts than the majority of the male leadership on the GOP side, so I say more power to her for speaking out and calling out the hypocrisy on the left. For someone who supposedly has no chance to win the presidency, they sure seem stirred up about her all the time, don’t you think?
P.S. I’m not on Facebook, but I was able to hear her entire unedited speech just fine…and so will millions of others just like me.
It won't fade away until after The Messiah
inthisdimension Wednesday, January 12th at 1:15PM EDT (link)reads from his teleprompter today.
Sarah was right-on: on-target, on tone, saying what any real leader of Americans would have said. Seems she’s the only one that nowadays can fit that description.
Nothing of note came from any of the other midgets in the 2012 GOP race, and nothing even close will come from The One.
I didn't want her to respond.
azaeroprof (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 3:36PM EDT (link)I cringed when I saw the link come through on facebook this morning. But when I watched it, I was overwhelmed by how…dare I say it…presidential it was. And the timing is spot-on, clearly pre-empting and setting an exceedingly difficult bar for Obama to clear. (I probably would have advised against the “blood-libel” phrase, not because it’s wrong but just to avoid creating an easy target for the media loons.)
As a Palinista, I expect better things out of Palin than you and some others. But frankly, she blew my expectations away with this. It might be an exaggeration to say, as someone here at RS did, that this is “Palin’s Gettysburg Address”, but not much of one.
Nope, too much fertile ground for the manchild.
Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 10:23AM EDT (link)It may be subtle, it may not be verbal, but BO will certainly throw a jab (maybe a hook, probably no huge haymakers) at someone or something, be it his Republican opposition, 2A freedoms, or whatever currently sticks in his craw.
BTW, if blame belongs to anybody besides Loughner, what about the best-known voice in the land, the one with the incendiary rhetoric about the gun, the fight, getting in their faces?
No GM, GE, or any GSE for me.
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?
Matthew 20:15 NIV
Great speech
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 2:26PM EDT (link)I understand why some are upset about her use of the “Blood Libel” term since it has a specific meaning which does not apply here, but the entire speech is outstanding in regards to America and personal responsibility.
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