In an exclusive statement, famed attorney and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz defended Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” from multiple detractors. As the Media Matters/MSM/Democrat narrative on the Tucson tragedy unravels, they are getting a lot more desperate in their attacks on Palin. Fortunately, there are still plenty of honest liberals around:
The term “blood libel” has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People,its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. 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. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Memorial for Tucson Victims
The President gave an excellent speech last night, honoring the dead and wounded in Tucson. Unfortunately, the tone of the speech was not in line with the tone of largely student crowd who cheered inappropriately throughout. Did they not know they were at a memorial event?… As Dennis predicted, the Left zoned in on Sarah Palin’s “blood libel” phrase in her remarks regarding the Tucson tragedy. Their criticisms make very little sense at best and are despicable at worst.
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Blood Libel
Dennis wonders why the Left so despises Sarah Palin. He has theories and so do callers, but ultimately, it’s emotional and irrational… The Left has no compunction about lying if it thinks those lies will damage Conservatives. Never has this been clearer than this week… Dennis plays a few clips from the President’s speech last night.
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Maher Libel
Bill Maher, like most on the Left, has no trouble assigning blame to the Right for the Tucson murders even as he admits there’s no “direct” connection and that the murderer is a “a nut.”… Dennis talks to Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and senior historian at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. His latest book is New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America.
New Deal or Raw Deal?
Dennis talks to Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and senior historian at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. His latest book is New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America. 