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Sarah Palin's Top 5 WTF Moments [VIDEOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsThere were lots of reactions to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week. But Sarah Palin's response may have been one of the most puzzling. On Wednesday, she went on Fox News' "On the Record" to talk to Greta Van Susteren about how the State of the Union was a "WTF" moment. Watch: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com MSNBC's Chris Matthews couldn't resist responding to the response, asking, "Who is writing this garbage for her? Who is putting this stuff in her head?" Of course, this wasn't the first time that Palin left observers from both sides of the ...
Florida's Alan Grayson Says Sarah Palin Instigated Arizona Shootings
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyFormer Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is accusing Sarah Palin of fueling violence preceding the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson Jan. 8. "There has been a stream of violence and threats of violence by the right wing against Democrats," he wrote in an e-mail letter to his supporters titled "Gabby was Right, Palin is Wrong." "Gabby warned against it, and then became a terrible victim of it. Palin has instigated it, and then tried to pretend that it doesn't exist." In Wednesday's message, which also appeard on his Facebook page, Grayson writes: "When I opened my web ...
Tennessee Democrat Accuses Republicans of Nazi 'Big Lie' on Health Care
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe new civility suffered a setback on Capitol Hill Tuesday night when Rep. Steven Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, accused House Republicans of using the Nazi's "big lie" strategy to try to discredit the health care law. "They say it's a big government takeover of health care, a big lie, just like Goebbels," Cohen said in remarks reported by ABC News and The Tennessean. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually people believe it." (Joseph Goebbels, a top aide to Hitler, was the Nazis notorious propaganda chief.) Cohen, who is in his third ...
Opinion: Sarah Palin and the End of American Anti-Semitism
By Matthew Biberman - AOL NewsIn her first interview since the Tucson, Ariz., massacre, Sarah Palin defended her use of the phrase "blood libel" in a video statement she posted last week. She told Sean Hannity that the term "obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. And in this case that's exactly what was going on." The former Alaska governor was responding to critics, including some Jewish groups, who argued that it is inappropriate for Palin -- a self-professed observant Christian -- to use language that evokes an especially dark chapter in the history of world Jewry. The "blood libel" refers ...
Poll: Americans Blame Partisan Commentators, Tea Party for Their Rhetoric
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile most Americans do not believe that the state of political discourse in the country contributed to the shootings in Arizona, a majority say that liberal and conservative commentators have crossed the line in attacking opponents and a plurality feel that the tea party movement and its supporters have also done so, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted Jan. 13-16. Those surveyed split evenly at 49 percent each on the question of whether "the tone of political discourse in this country has created a climate that could encourage violence." When it came to the Arizona ...
Sarah Palin to Be Interviewed on Fox News Monday
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySarah Palin will appear Monday on Fox News in her first interview since accusing critics of committing "blood libel" for insinuating her rhetoric may have been somehow connected to last week's shooting rampage in Arizona. A Fox executive told The New York Times that the former Alaska governor would sit down with host Sean Hannity for an extended segment. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, is on the Fox payroll, often appearing as a commentator and contributor. On Wednesday, Palin released a seven-minute video in which she mourned the massacre in Tucson that took the lives of ...
Sarah Palin Returns to Twitter to Promote 'Blood Libel' Post on Facebook
By Elliot Olshansky - AOL NewsThe wait is over. After keeping her Twitter account silent for several days following Saturday's shooting at a Safeway supermarket in Tuscon, Ariz., that killed six and injured 13 others -- including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- Sarah Palin returned to the popular social networking site on Wednesday. As is often the case with Palin's messages on the microblogging site, her tweet directed her followers over to her Facebook page. .bbpBox25158121525608450 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/140652630/SPTwitter901.jpg) #58709b;padding:20px;} ...
'Blood Libel' and Sarah Palin: Christian Conservatives' Infatuation with Judaism
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWhen Sarah Palin invoked the "blood libel" charge in lashing out against critics, she was destined to spark controversy given the long, fraught history of that myth, which for centuries has been used by Christians to justify anti-Semitism and the brutal persecution of Jews. But the phrase also recalls one side of the double-edged affinity that American conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, have for Judaism and modern Jews. It is an embrace the Jewish community often appreciates, especially when it comes to supporting Israel. On other issues, however, Jewish leaders might prefer ...
'Blood Libel': 5 Reactions to Sarah Palin's Choice of Words
By Elliot Olshansky - AOL NewsWhere Sarah Palin goes, strong opinions tend to follow. As such, it's hardly surprising that the former vice presidential candidate's release today of a video message about Saturday's shooting in Arizona has been met with a wide and varied response, largely focused on her use of the term "blood libel." While that term normally refers to the false accusations that Jews (and sometimes other religious minorities) murder children to use their blood in religious rituals, Palin used it to describe the public comments linking her and other high-profile right-wing figures to the actions of accused ...
Palin Charge of 'Blood Libel' Provokes Controversy
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsIf Sarah Palin's seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the fire by hitting a jarringly off-note: Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible. To critics, Palin was reckless in her choice of words because "blood libel" is fraught with historic connotations. Sarah Palin: "America's ...
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