roachboy

blood libel was a poor rhetorical choice for a lot of reasons, but the tactical motivation behind its use is pretty obvious---getting palin some traction, making her appear to be responding, making her appear to be "fighting back" by whining loudly about what a victim she is blah blah blah. that's all it's about---getting traction, keeping the brand intact after a very bad news cycle period during which the neo-fascist "tea party" set got called out for their cheesy stupid violent backwater everyman with a gun rhetoric.

i dont see the phrase as "toxic" tho.
it simply refers to an old and quite ugly tendency within anti-semitism.
but if its going to be invoked, it should be done with circumspection.
the tea party types dont seem to be big on cicumspect. i mean, it's kind of hard to believe that these people would actually "be fighters" by arguing, in effect, that behind the shallow and superficial tragedy of people who got shot and killed or maimed or wounded tucson, the real victim of the real crime is sarah palin whose martyrdom is that of conservatives in general.

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