Re: Jim Geraghty on "Blood Libel"

I suppose if you manufacture outrage you have to maintain it as well.


Mike F.  




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From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Jim Geraghty on "Blood Libel"

>http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/256955/term-blood-libel-more-common-you-might-think
>k

> Andrew Sullivan, October 10, 2008:
> A couple of obvious thoughts. Paladino speaks of “perverts who target our 
>children and seek to destroy their lives.” This is the gay equivalent of the 
>medieval (and Islamist) blood-libel against Jews.

Note the careful qualification there (the "equivalent of", etc.).

> From the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, September 30, 2009:

> He criticized former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah 
>Palin for saying that she was “all for” profiling against Muslims.
> “We’re not painting all Jews as thieves for Madoff’s economic crimes,” said 
>Weinstein, comparing Palin’s comments to a “blood libel.”

Good grief.  Comparing mere profiling -- which everyone does -- to any sort of 
"libel", much less a "blood libel" is simply way over-the-top. This is hardly a 
defense of Palin's own use of the term.

> During the recount in 2000:
> Florida Democrat Peter Deutsch last night on Crossfire:
> Let me just talk a little bit about the whole, I guess, spin from the 
>Republicans about — which has been to me the absolute most — the worst 
>statements I have ever heard probably in my life about anything. I mean, almost 
>a blood libel by the Republicans towards Al Gore, saying that he was trying to 
>stop men and women in uniform that are serving this country from voting. That is 
>the most absurd thing and absolutely has no basis in fact at all.

Yes, this too is way over-the-top -- but what do you expect from a talk show 
with a name like Crossfire?  Again, this is hardly a defense of Palin's use of 
the term -- especially given that she used it in a carefully prepared speech at 
a time when *actual blood* was in the news.

Etc., etc., etc.

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