After being blamed for causing the Tucson shooting, Sarah Palin made a video in which she used the term "blood libel." Liberals then went absolutely insane--as they often do whenever Sarah Palin speaks--and went into a mentally-challenged rage full of the cheerful, hypocritical hatred they are so fond of.
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Oh, I totally called this one. A Jewish congresswoman is shot and this ***** starts screaming that she's being "blood libeled" meaning that she is the real victim as she is an innocent being blamed by liberal Jews.
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She is a goddamn idiot. She draws up a map with crosshairs on democrats, tell her followers to help her prescribe the (final?) solution, and to "reload"...yeah would have been great if the shooter had reloaded, maybe he could have killed a couple more kids. Now we don't know whether he was inspired by her propaganda, but I don't think it matters, I'm with her on quoting Reagan “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”, Sarah Palin should ****ing take responsibility for inciting violence and calling for attacks (however slightly disguised), she should apologize for it and then she should be tried for it, cause it's not legal to tell people to go out and kill people (and yes, she did....SHE DID!).
The blood libel thing just shows her stupidity on top of her maliciousness, using a phrase that originated because of the severe persecution Jews faced by Christians and the fabricated lie that they killed Christian babies (unlike the correct accusation that she told her followers to shoot certain people) is in bad taste at the best of times (and this, a time a Jewish person you wanted gone having been shot, is not one). It's like pissing on someone's face after you just punched them to the ground.
Now, some of that may be hyperbole, but she should take a step back, reflect and realize that her rhetoric can and does cause violence and she should apologize for it and she should stop it in the future. Show some humility, goddammit, unless of course, she is, like I said, on top of stupid, which is a fact, just plain evil.
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See, Cenk on TYT probably gave the best "The Right is responsible" opinion that I have seen so far. I haven't seen anything about this guy's politics specifically, but I think it is fair to say that he hadn't read Anne Coulter's last book, and wasn't a Bill O'Riley fan.
From what we have seen, he reminds me a lot of a friend I had back in Ontario. Lets call him XX. So, XX, like the shooter in question, is anti-government and all that jazz, but also like the shooter (or so it seems), goes WAY further than that.
I actually sort of took offense to hearing people claim that being "against the government" was the same as Republicanist "Small Government", or that it meant you could be labeled a Republican. Several posters in this thread alone challange that idea, and I bet one would be hard pressed to find even a modest correlation between being "anti-state" and political violence.
So, XX is anti-state, but he is anti all parts of the state, in the same way that it seems the shooter was. Not because of politics, but because they think the state is (literally) brainwashing people, or responsible for conspiracies, or that nonsense. These are not Republican or even conservative ideas, they are simply a set of beliefs, that if someone buys into, would almost by default make them against the state in practice, rather than people like the Republicans who claim to be anti-government [sic] in principle.
This also goes a lot further in explaining the possible racist connections too. David Icke, while not being an anti-semite himself imho, does travel in a crowd with anti-semites, and his rhetoric doesn't need much interpretation to be seen as anti-jew. Alex Jones, the theocrat, says many things that border on racism, and again, it would be a very small leap from his rhetoric to anti-semitism. These people are hugely popular in both conspiracy and nazi movements, so I think that is a way better fit than is some Republican-Nazi theory (data for this paragraph from "Them: adventures with extremists" by Jon Ronson, which everyone should read today).
But then, why? Why did this guy shoot a politician and XX not? XX is totally non-violent, though, tbh, one could spin his upbrining in such a way that he would seem the "textbook" case. Further, why is there so much fear and violent paranoia surrounding politics in America? We don't see this in Canada, or anywhere else that I am aware of... Obviously the revolutionary history, but that can't be the only reason.
So what do we make of people like Palin then? I honestly don't know, but I can't imagine she is doing anything to help that violent anger that some crazies might have. Did her idiocy help motivate this shooter directly? I can't say there is any evidence of that... Did her map and crosshairs contribute to a political landscape where violence is not only seen as acceptable, but in fact encouraged? again, this would be hard to prove in any absolute way, but it seems very likely.
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