The Seven Times Sarah Palin Said Sorry Last Year

Death threats against Sarah Palin spike after Tucson shooting
It's not just the criticism of Sarah Palin that's increasing in the wake of the Tucson shooting -- death threats against her are too. according to the former Alaska Governor's aides. "There has been an incredible increase in death threats against Gov. Palin since the tragedy in Arizona, since she's been accused of having the blood of those Victims on her hands," Palin aide Rebecca Mansour told USA Today.  "When you start to accuse people of having the blood of innocent people on their hands, ...

Romancing The Golem: The Blood Libel and Sarah Palin
It takes courage to admit that you're wrong about something. I think we all agree on that. We all think that guarded, half-apologies or distracting, sugar-coated sentiments are just as spineless. And defending spineless sentiments with totally inappropriate terminology is obscenely insulting, unless, of course we take into account that the person perpetrating such an insult did so without having a clue as to what the term meant in the first place. "Blood Libel" certainly sounds like something...

Sarah Palin hired to give speech at gun convention
Palin had a map on her website that featured Rep. Giffords named as a target. Giffords state of Arizona was depicted under the crosshairs of a gun sight. Palin was also recently criticized for killing a moose with a rifle on her television show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Sarah Palin blamed for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting Dead birds, Oil Spills, Climate Change and Corruption: Prophesy or coincidence? Examiner.com is looking for writers, photographers, and videographers to join the fastest ...

Is Sarah Palin Ready for Prime Time?
Forgive me, father, for I have sinned by saying nasty things about Sarah Palin. My excuse is the same as Flip Wilson’s favorite character, Geraldine, who said The Devil made her do it. On Monday, Palin will be interviewed and asked to explain herself for her latest social network tidbit that tweaked a few liberals the wrong way. Something about blood letting: hers by libelous political pundits. Sean Hannity will conduct the interview after winning a bidding war with his fellow anchor per...

WHY THEYD RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONTD): Munis Crashing For Third Straight Day, And This
WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT Sarah Palin (CONT’D): Munis Crashing For Third Straight Day, And This Is The Worst Yet. ...

Reflections on Sarah Palin's Statement About the Tucson Tragedy
For this reason, I would say that the media commentators over-reacted and unfairly singled Palin out for sharp criticism. I hope that I have demonstrated that there is a reasonable way for Palin to criticize her critics. In her January 12th statement titled "America's Enduring Strength," Palin characterizes her critics as using Loughner's bloody Shooting Spree to "manufacture a blood Libel" against her. I guess that the expression "blood Libel" means that her critics are libeling her by sugges...

American Way: Which Republican will move to take down wounded Sarah Palin?
What was Sarah Palin thinking? The American national obsession with the former Alaska Governor went has gone into overdrive in recent days after her ill-judged and contribution to the sometimes ugly debate over the Tucson massacre. From her home television studio in Wasilla, Alaska - an addition that came with her new job as a Fox News commentator - Palin delivered a video address that was stage managed to be presidential. In fact, it may have ended her White House ambitions. There...

Is Bill O'Reilly upset with Sarah Palin for not interviewing with him (Video)
Sarah Palin will do her first interview since the Arizona shootings interview next Monday on Fox News.  Palin has been engrossed in the debate about "heated political Rhetoric" in the year before Congresswoman Giffords (D-AZ) and 18 others were shot.  Palin's "crosshairs map" has been cited as an example of this kind of "toxic Rhetoric", though Palin vehemently denied any connection in her recent statement released through Facebook.  Palin has chosen Sean Hannity to be her intervi...

Leftovers - January 14, 2011
Classy: Maine's Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage tells the NAACP to "kiss my butt." Sen. Mike Lee says Child Labor laws are Unconstitutional. The Washington Times claims "blood Libel" outrage is evidence of a "Pogrom" against the right. The argument against mixed-party seating at the State of the Union. Tim Heffernan rounds up all of Sarah Palin's 'sorries' in the past year. ...

John Gross, 75, Dies
John Gross. The Jewish Republic of Letters lost a prominent and valued citizen earlier this week with the death of John Gross, 75. He edited London’s Times Literary Supplement in the 1970s before moving stateside and working as an editor and critic at the other Times; he also contributed frequently (and frequently on Jewish topics) to the New York Review of Books. He wrote one book about James Joyce, one about Shylock, and one about “Growing Up English and Jewish in London.” &...

Cathie Black Just Can't Catch a Break (Video)
​Cathie Black is the new Joe Biden. A Birth Control joke by the new Schools Chancellor at a parent-school official meeting, followed in quick succession by a Sophie's Choice allusion, have pissed people off royally. Oh come on! The first one's funny, at least. At a meeting at Sheldon Silver's office, a parent was talking about overcrowding in schools and Cathie Black was all, "Could we just have some Birth Control for once?" Which has definitely, definitely crossed the mind of anyone sta...

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Saturday punditry. WaPo: In the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, which prompted a national outpouring of criticism of the harsh tone of the nation's political discourse, the GOP confronts a political environment that has changed dramatically since the party's big victory in November. Obama, who appeared weakened and on the defensive in the days after the Midterm Elections, has emerged as a stronger and more resilient adversary than Republicans anticipated just 10 weeks ago. FactCheck.org: ...

Metaphors Don't Kill People; People Kill People
metaphor: a figure of Speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Sticks and stones might break my bones but words will never hurt me. ~Nursery rhyme The recent tragedy in Arizona managed to unleash the pundits on both sides of the aisle. In this world where there must be a root cause for every wrinkle in the landscape and every calamity that befalls us, eve...

tidbits...a week later
joe scarborough says palin's Political Career is over. and this is coming from a man who had a dead intern found in his office...

Bozell Column: No Tucson Lectures for 'Artists'
Within minutes of the news breaking that Jared Lee Loughner had killed six and wounded 12 in a rampage outside a Tucson safeway store, including a critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the news media immediately leapt to the conclusion that the harsh tone of our political discourse – led by conservative Talk Radio -- surely must be to blame. That narrative turned out to be hogwash, but another one has emerged during the investigation into Loughner’s psyche, yet virtually no one...

New Palin Map
Palin has played the Victim card too many times. And if her response to the Tucson shootings wasn’t tone deaf enough, her next public appearance is at a gun and hunting convention in Nevada. What will humor sites do without Palin?...

Jared Loughner's "Genocide in America" video
Who bears the guilt of the Tucson shootings? A teachable moment (or - civility, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing…) « Who bears the guilt of the Tucson shootings? What follows gives us a glimpse into a killer's mindset. It's disturbing to say the least and indicative of a mental state screaming for help. Interestingly enough, there are no references to Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or the Tea Party... either in the video or the pictures taken (for if there were, you...

"BHTV has had 100 DV (or it seems that way) on Palin and only one BHTV head has ever mounted a real defense of her."
"Althouse did it once. And only because no one else was available. I realize BHTV is a left-wing site, but damn - it gets boring." An apt comment over at Bloggingheads. ...

Nation drenched in blood expresses surprise at violence
What has been amazing is the outcry of surprise and disgust that the USA has come to this—once again. Of course we hear these expressions every time, and the times seem to get closer together all the time, that some person decides to solve his problems by killing everyone he can. This time, it included the Murder of a nine-year-old girl, who surely had done nothing whatsoever to merit being the Victim of yet another jerk with a grudge and a bullet-packed gun. How can this happen, people ha...

Views on the News 1/15/2011
The leftist predisposition towards irresponsibly blaming every act of violence with political connotations on the “climate of Bigotry” created by right-wingers speaks volumes about the ideology of Liberalism. After the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder and injury of several others, the liberal media commenced their annual “Let’s Silence Conservatives” campaign. The deranged gunman, Jared Loughner, was deeply disturbed, not politically astu...

January 15: The Week in Viral Videos
From Heidi the cross-eyed opossum to Sarah Palin's "blood Libel" Controversy, Winona Ryder's technophobia to Jim Carrey's Black Swan spoof, watch the buzziest Viral Videos of the week....

What Obama didnt say in Tucson
President Obama received much praise for his Speech this week in Tucson. I don’t know. He seemed to perpetuate the lie that somehow heated political debate caused this. The shooter was apolitical and did not vote in 2010. For all we know he was a disappointed Obama supporter. Once again, President Obama tried to look Bipartisan — to make a very partisan point. Here is what he should have said. First, he should have admonished those who jeered Governor Jan Brewer. Then he should hav...

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Next Media Animation is a Taiwan-based animation studio that churns out news clips on politics and celebrity gossip for Chinese speaking audiences. Since the animators and writers clearly tend to swallow whole and then regurgitate the inherent talking points of U.S. coverage, albeit in a more animated and iconographic way, their "reports" provide a - sometimes hilarious - window into the American mass media's political biases. Here's an NMA news/analysis piece called ">Is Sarah Palin gunning f...

NYT Film Critic Accidentally Writes Column About Politics
As I was reading Friday’s movie reviews in the NYT, the headline “Defy the Elite! Wait, Which Elite?” jumped out at me.  Since I’ve always been fascinated by the right’s success in appropriating that term, I clicked over to read A.O. Scott’s essay.  Looks like movie and entertainment critics are in the same boat we are: [Neal] Gabler begins with the assertion that, “as anyone who has ever wiggled in his seat at a classical music concert or stared in disb

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