Re: Jim Geraghty on "Blood Libel"
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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Because they hate her. Seems pretty obvious. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:02 PM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Jim Geraghty on "Blood Libel" On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: If you consider the far right an "oppressed minority", I guess. More generic than that, as in the generic definitions of "blood" and "libel". Ah, well, the examples cited here indicate that the "generic" use of the term doesn't have to involve blood at all! (Again I say: recounts??) I might argue that's *too* generic. Which means that you have to use the term *more* carefully, not *less*, when actual blood *is* involved. I don't see it. The fact that blood is involved makes the term more applicable, in my mind, to the situation Palin addressed. So I don't know why she has attracted all this attention for those two words. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot