Re: oh please.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Johne Cook wrote:
> <looks up 'cannard.'>

He means "canard", i.e. the French word for "duck".

As it happens, there is no "canard" here, even by the English definition 
of "a false or unfounded report or story".  Palin really *did* say the 
words "blood libel", and the words really *are* historically associated 
with medieval European anti-Semitism (you might recall that the phrase 
came up a lot when pundits discussed Mel Gibson's Passion).

It may or may not be the case that the term has a broader meaning now and 
is therefore more acceptable in everyday political usage, but that is a 
difference of opinion, not one of fact, and can therefore not be easily 
labelled "false or unfounded" in the sense that the word means.

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