Palin fights back; uses term ‘blood libel’
January 13, 2011 - 8:28 am
You'll be interested to read Sarah Palin's latest statement on the reaction to the Tucson shooting and her use of the term "blood libel".
NBC News accused Palin of misusing the term.
Harvard Las professor Alan Dershowitz, however, defended Palin.
"There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim," he said.
Read all three links provided above for a good understanding of this asterisk issue swirling around the Tucson shooting. It looks like one more example of how the political left, aided by some in the media, seek to silence Sarah Palin's growing voice nationally.