Sarah Palin accuses critics of "blood libel"
Prominent Republican Sarah Palin on Wednesday accused critics of "blood libel" by blaming her rhetoric for contributing to the shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them," the conservative Tea Party favorite and former Alaska governor said in her first major response to critics.
"Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."
Palin, the Republican Party's 2008 vice presidential nominee, posted her remarks to her Facebook page in both a video and text.
Here is the text on her Facebook page. It's superbly well written -- one of Sarah's trademarks, as it turns out. Parenthetically, it's interesting how someone without an Ivy League education writes so well. Reminds me of another master, a guy with red hair, went to some little college, oh, Eureka-something... |
Posted by: tipper 2011-01-12 |