Blood Libel - Yet Another Palin Masterstroke!

I was tired of hearing about the politics behind AZ shooter before I heard about it. But just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in! Palin says the left is committing 'blood libel' on her. Kinda iffy language, claiming the mantle of Jewish victimhood.

Freepers, though, rally to the defence of Their Sarah, and how awesome her latest quote is:

Travis McGee goes with the 'all publicity is good publicity' idea:

She has a way of crystallizing a meme.
Death panels and blood libel are perfect, like cut diamonds, in the war of words.
Impossible to ignore, hard to refute.
She just slapped the MSM across the face, in public. She knows they must react, and defend their “blood libel.”

She knows how to shape the ideological battlefield to force the libs to fight on her ground. It’s brilliant.

"like cut diamonds."

TexasFreeper2009 has some kind of Palingasm:

I .... wow... I am literally shaking! WOW That just blew my mind!
We are witnessing history!
Palin stands alone against the liberal horde... and WINS!
Well... she wont stand alone anymore! Because I will stand with her to the end!
GOD BLESS SARAH PALIN!

She WINS?

bushpilot1 thinks Palin was defending her family, due to a new definition of "blood libel."

Blood=Kindred=family. A libel against her family..a family of Christians..a family of Christian Conservatives...

gogogodzilla thinks this was a brilliant way to make the media stop talking about the AZ shooter:

But if you notice, the media story is no longer a ‘TEA party and Palin caused the shootings’.
It’s all about whether ‘blood libel’ is appropriate for what they’ve done. Of course, the media thinks it’s unhinged, but now they’re writing a different story.
She’s knocked them off-message in just one speech.

mvpel sees this as Jewish outreach:

the term will resonate in the ears of the 80% of Jews who voted Democrat, and make them stop and think seriously about what their Democrat leaders and lapdog media are really engaged in here.

downtownconservative has proof it's a metaphor:

The book "Blood Sport", about the Clintoons, was a take-off on the term. No expression has ever been sacrosanct to the point that it simply could have other metaphorical uses.

Mad Dawgg thinks this is the start of something awesome:

I have the feeling I just witnessed history upclose and personal.
I believe I just saw the first female President of the United States take her first major step towards 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

EternalHope posts an opus, here are some choice quotes:

We are under all assault.
Make no mistake. Our freedom of speech is under all out attack, as are we and everything we hold dear. The purpose of this assault is to silence our spokesmen and destroy the person the left most fears: Sarah Palin.
We have been fighting back, but the attackers have not wavered. The attack continues unabated, and future attacks are certain. The stakes could not be higher.
Sarah Palin has now delivered the DEFINING RESPONSE.

The Anointed One sent his congratulations to Sheriff Dupnik in advance of his speech in Arizona today. It does not matter what the congratulations were for. The REAL message was that the sheriff’s outrageous comments meet with the approval of the “President” of the United States.
Regardless of what the Anointed One intended to say today, he knows his words will be compared with what Sarah Palin said this morning.

Anyone who actually watches Sarah Palin’s video will conclude that her words and the way they were delivered were Presidential. (Even those who complain about the pitch of her voice will be silenced.)
This may very well be the defining moment that historians of the future say gave us President Palin.

agere_contra knows the left all want Sarah Palin raped to death:

‘Blood Libel’ is a brilliantly accurate definition of the Left’s inflammatory and hate-filled rhetoric over the Tucson murders.
Also: the Left really, truly does want Palin dead: political assassination and even mass murder have been the hallmarks of the Left since Robespierre. Whenever the Left can kill or imprison their political opponents then they do so. That’s what the Left is: raw immoral power with a acceptable facade.
They don’t just want her murdered of course: some of the Left have openly called for Palin to be raped by black people. This is because the Left are unhinged sociopaths who worship power and license.
Have you been living in a cave that you do not know these things?

fluffdaddy knows who has the high ground:

Sarah has seized the high ground here and a simple “thank you” would be appropriate.