Mayhem in Tucson VI: Sarah Palin and Bloody Libel
As a relatively literate and informed person, I was initially mystified, and annoyed, at the latest brickbat tossed Sarah Palin’s way, until it all started to make devious, sick sense.
It wasn’t nearly sufficient to continue to accuse the former Alaska governor of the canard of almost singlehandedly causing fruitcake Jared Loughner to go berserk in Tucson. She now is being accused of anti-Semitism because she used the common term “blood libel,” a charge as patently ridiculous and baseless as the allegation that she in any way influenced Loughner or his rampage.
Historically, the term was applied against Jews and related to the ancient myth that they murdered innocents, usually children, for the purpose of ritualistically drinking their blood and making matzohs. However, it’s not unusual today to employ the term to mean a degrading falsehood as Palin used it in saying her detractors “manufactured a blood libel” against her.
A more sane reaction to the “blood libel” insanity came from none other than Jewish activist and arch-liberal attorney, Alan Dershowitz, who asserted Palin used the term correctly.
It’s relevant to quote Dershowitz at some length on the subject: “The term ‘blood libel’ has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse . . . its current use has become part of the English parlance to refer to anyone being falsely accused.” Dershowitz added, “I myself have used it . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3409)
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Mayhem in Tucson IV: Liberal Hypocrisy
Mayhem in Tucson IV: Liberal Hypocrisy
What in part distinguishes human beings from the beasts of the jungle is a certain empathy, the capacity to vicariously, compassionately, experience and relate to the feelings of another human being, particularly to that person’s sadness and grief. What in part distinguishes liberals from empathetic human beings is their mindless fixation on scoring political points in times of mourning and grief.
‘Twas ever thus. Possibly, to be generous, a lack of empathy may be rooted in their genetic makeup.
From Day One of the Tucson tragedy, with no regard for the emotional upheaval of the victims and their families, with no thought extended to a troubled and grieving nation, with few exceptions the leftist-liberal tribe has sought to capitalize–and make some bucks–on the murdered and wounded with distortions, innuendo, and outright lies.
In a word, that tribe has been nothing short of a disgrace. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3387)
What in part distinguishes human beings from the beasts of the jungle is a certain empathy, the capacity to vicariously, compassionately, experience and relate to the feelings of another human being, particularly to that person’s sadness and grief. What in part distinguishes liberals from empathetic human beings is their mindless fixation on scoring political points in times of mourning and grief.
‘Twas ever thus. Possibly, to be generous, a lack of empathy may be rooted in their genetic makeup.
From Day One of the Tucson tragedy, with no regard for the emotional upheaval of the victims and their families, with no thought extended to a troubled and grieving nation, with few exceptions the leftist-liberal tribe has sought to capitalize–and make some bucks–on the murdered and wounded with distortions, innuendo, and outright lies.
In a word, that tribe has been nothing short of a disgrace. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3387)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mayhem in Tucson III: The Truth about Jared Loughner
Mayhem in Tucson III: The Truth about Jared Loughner
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
Those words were not spoken by alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner nor by Sarah Palin nor by Glenn Beck but by presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama at a town hall meeting at Radnor Middle School in Wayne, PA on June 14, 2008: “That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks . . . Because [as Obama said] ‘from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl.’ “
Then, to show he found humor in using guns, Obama added, ”I’ve seen Eagles fans:” http://tiny.cc/34yhm. His comments evoked laughter and applause since, after all, isn’t the use of guns amusing?
If not amused by the massacre at Fort Hood by Nidal Malik Hasan on November 5,2009 then President Obama cautioned the nation not “to jump to conclusions” over that mass murder by a Muslim since, after all, he was a Muslim.
Obama’s mass mainstream media quickly jumped to a slew of conclusions and accusations in the Tucson aftermath blaming everyone from Palin to Beck to Fox News. Virtually all of the MSM conclusions and accusations have been defamatory and premature–and erroneous.
The president’s MSM never lets facts stand in the way of a good smearing interlaced with good lying. That media can be forgetful, though, as with Obama’s gun joke or as with ousted Arizona Democrat Rep. Harry Mitchell’s 2006 campaign ad depicting Republican J.D. Hayworth in the crosshairs of a rifle sight or as with the 2008 display of Sarah Palin hanging on a noose in front of a West Hollywood house.
They can be so very forgetful, so intentionally, demonically forgetful.
Not that the MSM will feature, or even cover, it but the truth about Jared Loughner is beginning to seep out. Why report truth when partisan fiction is so much more productive and satisfying?
Loughner’s fellow students at Pima Community College know that truth well, know well that he was expelled and recommended for a mental examination for causing a variety of disturbances. Classmate Caitie Parker tweeted that he was “left wing, quite liberal” in 2007 and known to be a reclusive “anti-flag pothead” who liked Jimi Hendrix and . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3371)
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
Those words were not spoken by alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner nor by Sarah Palin nor by Glenn Beck but by presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama at a town hall meeting at Radnor Middle School in Wayne, PA on June 14, 2008: “That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks . . . Because [as Obama said] ‘from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl.’ “
Then, to show he found humor in using guns, Obama added, ”I’ve seen Eagles fans:” http://tiny.cc/34yhm. His comments evoked laughter and applause since, after all, isn’t the use of guns amusing?
If not amused by the massacre at Fort Hood by Nidal Malik Hasan on November 5,2009 then President Obama cautioned the nation not “to jump to conclusions” over that mass murder by a Muslim since, after all, he was a Muslim.
Obama’s mass mainstream media quickly jumped to a slew of conclusions and accusations in the Tucson aftermath blaming everyone from Palin to Beck to Fox News. Virtually all of the MSM conclusions and accusations have been defamatory and premature–and erroneous.
The president’s MSM never lets facts stand in the way of a good smearing interlaced with good lying. That media can be forgetful, though, as with Obama’s gun joke or as with ousted Arizona Democrat Rep. Harry Mitchell’s 2006 campaign ad depicting Republican J.D. Hayworth in the crosshairs of a rifle sight or as with the 2008 display of Sarah Palin hanging on a noose in front of a West Hollywood house.
They can be so very forgetful, so intentionally, demonically forgetful.
Not that the MSM will feature, or even cover, it but the truth about Jared Loughner is beginning to seep out. Why report truth when partisan fiction is so much more productive and satisfying?
Loughner’s fellow students at Pima Community College know that truth well, know well that he was expelled and recommended for a mental examination for causing a variety of disturbances. Classmate Caitie Parker tweeted that he was “left wing, quite liberal” in 2007 and known to be a reclusive “anti-flag pothead” who liked Jimi Hendrix and . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3371)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Mayhem in Tucson I: Liberals Attack, Conservatives Pray
Mayhem in Tucson I: Liberals Attack, Conservatives Pray
Before the dust had settled in the Tucson, Arizona parking lot, the professional leftists were hard at work trying to pin responsibility for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on everyone from the Tea Party to Sarah Palan to defenders of the Second Amendment to anyone who even vaguely supported conservative principles.
Giffords was severely wounded by a pistol shot through the brain. U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and five others, including a 9 year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, were senselessly murdered and 12 others were injured in the mayhem, allegedly by 22 year old Jared Loughner.
Americans’ prayers should go out to the families of the dead and for the prompt recovery of the wounded, including Rep. Giffords who initially was believed to have died in the shootings and now seems to have a fighting chance to survive.
Leftists aren’t much into prayer or anything else positive and, as in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which they ignorantly blamed on Rush Limbaugh, all but literally fell all over themselves to get, not to their knees but to their keyboards to launch anticipated but nevertheless despicable attacks.
An Arizona blogger on DailyKos.com had perhaps presciently commented on that notoriously liberal website two days earlier that his congresswoman, Giffords, was “dead to me.” Her crime? He had worked tirelessly for his “Gabby” in the past but she died to him because he discovered she must be a conservative Democrat since she had voted against Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader.
DailyKos quickly took down “BoyBlue’s” death notice following the shootings: http://tiny.cc/votv2
Leftists may not be into prayer but they’re expert at blind recrimination.
Highly acclaimed economist, Paul Krugman, long deceived, like Al Gore, into believing that if he gets a Nobel Prize he’s not still a nitwit, is the left wing’s star when it comes to cockeyed societal observations. He lived up to that rep even as the Tucson scene was still being cleaned up because, of course, he had it all figured out. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3359)
Before the dust had settled in the Tucson, Arizona parking lot, the professional leftists were hard at work trying to pin responsibility for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on everyone from the Tea Party to Sarah Palan to defenders of the Second Amendment to anyone who even vaguely supported conservative principles.
Giffords was severely wounded by a pistol shot through the brain. U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and five others, including a 9 year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, were senselessly murdered and 12 others were injured in the mayhem, allegedly by 22 year old Jared Loughner.
Americans’ prayers should go out to the families of the dead and for the prompt recovery of the wounded, including Rep. Giffords who initially was believed to have died in the shootings and now seems to have a fighting chance to survive.
Leftists aren’t much into prayer or anything else positive and, as in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which they ignorantly blamed on Rush Limbaugh, all but literally fell all over themselves to get, not to their knees but to their keyboards to launch anticipated but nevertheless despicable attacks.
An Arizona blogger on DailyKos.com had perhaps presciently commented on that notoriously liberal website two days earlier that his congresswoman, Giffords, was “dead to me.” Her crime? He had worked tirelessly for his “Gabby” in the past but she died to him because he discovered she must be a conservative Democrat since she had voted against Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader.
DailyKos quickly took down “BoyBlue’s” death notice following the shootings: http://tiny.cc/votv2
Leftists may not be into prayer but they’re expert at blind recrimination.
Highly acclaimed economist, Paul Krugman, long deceived, like Al Gore, into believing that if he gets a Nobel Prize he’s not still a nitwit, is the left wing’s star when it comes to cockeyed societal observations. He lived up to that rep even as the Tucson scene was still being cleaned up because, of course, he had it all figured out. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3359)
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