Blood Libel
Jan. 12th, 2011 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomSarah Palin's phrase that pays. (A different write-up at dKos, with different links.)
The other day, I swore to not get into any violent rhetoric, not that I ever got into much besides wanting to smack a few people in the heads. And I shall continue that. But I think a few choice insults are applicable here.
To wit: Sarah Palin is a grotesque, offensive, attention-grabbing fool with delusions of competence. I would not trust her to handle any more responsibility than that of a diner waitress, and not a senior one. She is shallow and fatuous on her best days, violence-prone and violent-minded on her worst. Yet now that she's being called on her unique contributions to our national discourse she's doing her best to not only scrub the evidence but to make herself out to somehow be a victim.
The victims were the people shot and killed Saturday. The victims are the dead and wounded and their families.
And to invoke "blood libel" in the attempted murder of a Jew is obscene.
Andy Warhol was, unfortunately, wrong. Sarah Palin's fifteen minutes were up long ago. But, as the saying goes, "How can I miss you if you won't go away?"
The other day, I swore to not get into any violent rhetoric, not that I ever got into much besides wanting to smack a few people in the heads. And I shall continue that. But I think a few choice insults are applicable here.
To wit: Sarah Palin is a grotesque, offensive, attention-grabbing fool with delusions of competence. I would not trust her to handle any more responsibility than that of a diner waitress, and not a senior one. She is shallow and fatuous on her best days, violence-prone and violent-minded on her worst. Yet now that she's being called on her unique contributions to our national discourse she's doing her best to not only scrub the evidence but to make herself out to somehow be a victim.
The victims were the people shot and killed Saturday. The victims are the dead and wounded and their families.
And to invoke "blood libel" in the attempted murder of a Jew is obscene.
Andy Warhol was, unfortunately, wrong. Sarah Palin's fifteen minutes were up long ago. But, as the saying goes, "How can I miss you if you won't go away?"
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(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:07 pm (UTC)Someone also said, "For all intensive purposes [sic] that's exactly what this was."
I give up.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:19 pm (UTC)Do what.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:30 pm (UTC)(Actually, don't. We don't want you here either. Just go away.)
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:33 pm (UTC)Her ignorance of history (and many others too) is staggering. How anybody could imagine her in charge of anything, let alone the entire country is beyond my imagination.
I don't know whether the political rhetoric played any role in Saturday's tragic events. At best it didn't help.
A theory
Date: 2011-01-12 07:39 pm (UTC)If we ignore her, she's just going to say more outrageous things until we do respond. Worse, there haven't been too many conservative talking heads that went so far over the edge that no one paid attention to them. I think the only way end her 15 minutes is to get her to say something against conservatives that will give them a brain hemorrhage and I doubt that will ever happen.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:40 pm (UTC)In the American Taliban, those things are considered POSITIVE qualities. In fact, any evidence of brains, compassion and/or grace is used as evidence against you by your Republican opponent, and in a Republican primary, will disqualify you from the nomination.
They LOVE this shit. The fact that it pisses off people outside their echo chamber is just bonus points to them.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:43 pm (UTC)This from the woman who told America that Democrats were secretly planning FEMA re-education camps, and that Obamacare was a plot to have Death panels murder their grandparents.
My first reaction upon hearing the phrase "blood libel" was that she must be in favor of it.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 07:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:05 pm (UTC)I mean, ignorance might serve to explain all this just as readily as malice. Or, what is more likely, the two in filthy congress all over the kitchen table of American politics.
*Spits with rage.*
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:14 pm (UTC)I find it somewhat ironic that the recent violence occurred in John McCain's state. Perhaps that's part of his divine retribution for inflicting Palin on us in the first place. not that I believe in divine retribution or anything.
My sincere wishes for a speedy and complete recovery for all those injured in the attack, and for an improved mental health care system that might serve to cut down the number of such incidents.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:23 pm (UTC)That's why he gets paid for his words, and I get paid to make others' words look pretty.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-12 08:54 pm (UTC)sarah the mouth
Date: 2011-01-12 09:01 pm (UTC)