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The more I think of it, the more I believe it was calculated. Her whole video response was a production---a performance---and well thought out. (Not to mention it being released after her being silent for days.) You don't pull such a term as blood libel out of your ass when you're putting something like that together. I don't think she got it from American action films or from Alaskan hunting parlance.
She wanted to make herself out as a victim, and what better way than to borrow some of the Jewish victimhood loaded in such a term as blood libel and at the same time incur more liberal "wrath"?
Poor, poor Mrs. Palin.
It was calculated. The question is whether to consider it cold.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 01-17-2011 at 03:21 PM..
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