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Mud Libel
by Ann Coulter
01/19/2011
The same people who had blamed Sarah Palin for the massacre at the
Tucson Safeway and then taunted her for her “silence” were enraged when
she responded.
Last Tuesday, the night before Palin responded, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann
mocked Palin’s silence throughout his show:
-- “And why is the ever self-promoting Miss Palin so quiet?”
-- “And it’s quiet, isn’t it?”
-- “It’s too quiet.”
-- “The silence is deafening from the great Northwest.”
It was deemed an admission of guilt that she hadn’t spoken about the
Tucson shooting or denied the accusations that she had inspired the
shooter.
The next day, Palin posted a video response, and Keith immediately
attacked her for “the worst timed political statement ever.” It’s
almost as if liberals would attack Palin whatever she did.
Olbermann sneered about Palin’s use of the phrase “blood libel,”
scoffing, “This, to Sarah Palin, is analogous to what is happening to
her.” No, not only happening to her, but to all right-wingers, tea
partiers, Republican politicians, and conservative radio and TV hosts
-- all of whom have been accused of complicity in murder.
On the day of the Arizona massacre, Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva blamed
the “Palin express.” The father of Gabrielle Giffords, one of the
victims, blamed “the whole Tea Party.” The sheriff of Pima County,
Clarence Dupnik, who had failed to lock Loughner up despite repeated
arrests and other contacts, blamed “the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear
day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in
the TV business.” (Dumbnik also said: “We’re not convinced that he
acted alone.”)
A comment on Gawker the day of the attack said: “Palin ... you now have
more than just elk blood on your hands.”
The next day, New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly wrote, with
stunning originality: “Palin may have the blood of more than some poor
caribou on her hands.” (See -- he changed “elk” to “caribou.”)
In an especially prissy “Special Comment” the night of the shooting,
Olbermann said that if Sarah Palin “does not repudiate her own part in
amplifying violence and violent imagery in politics, she must be
dismissed from politics.” Ditto for Rep. Allen West, ex-candidate
Sharron Angle, Rep. Giffords’ opponent Jesse Kelly and “the Tea Party
leaders.”
In response to the Arizona shooting, the governor of Rhode Island,
Lincoln Chafee, banned state employees from going on talk radio,
telling reporters he had been a victim of rhetorical violence himself,
citing the title of one of my columns from four years ago: “They Shot
the Wrong Lincoln.”
In that four-year-old column, I supported Chafee’s opponent in the
Republican primary by pointing out that “the only person who hasn’t
figured out that Lincoln Chafee is a Democrat is Lincoln Chafee. As the
expression goes, if Chafee switched parties, the average IQ on both
sides of the aisle would go up.”
My column got results: Chafee is no longer a Republican.
But the column did not produce my secret goal, which the governor has
now exposed: That John Wilkes Booth return from the dead to stalk
people named “Lincoln.”
Yes, the governor of Rhode Island is afraid of 19th-century assassins.
Whatever you do, Lincoln, don’t look under the bed!
After it came out that the Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, was a
liberal pothead who hated Christianity, laughed about aborted babies,
never listened to talk radio, hated George Bush and cited “Mein Kampf”
as one of his favorite books to annoy his Jewish mother, liberals
suspended blaming “political rhetoric” for about two days. Then they
went right back to blaming conservatives for the shooting.
The media continue to avoid giving any details and simply announce that
Loughner was “anti-government,” implying that he’s your standard George
Will conservative who believes Congress has offended the principles of
federalism by encroaching on the states’ authority under the
Constitution.
In fact, Loughner’s “anti-government” beliefs consist of: burning the
American flag on video; denouncing our currency with the exclamation,
“No! I won’t trust in God!”; and wanting to kill cops.
His other big anti-government position is that he believes the
government was behind 9/11 -- just like well-known tea partiers Rosie
O’Donnell, Obama’s “green jobs” czar Van Jones, Rehab habitue Charlie
Sheen and left-wing historian Howard Zinn.
If we’re looking for a rationale other than “Loughner was nuts,” I
think the more relevant facts about him are that he was an atheist who
detested religion and religious people, made lots of references to
satanic New Age “conscience dreaming” (sic) and was involved in the
occult.
When a fellow participant on a UFO website wrote a lengthy response to
Loughner’s question about “what is wrong or right with the current
date?” which included the subordinate clause, “a day in Christ is as a
thousand years,” Loughner fixated on that one line, railing, “I won’t
listen to that fictitious crap without the author. This is laughable to
notice a gospel or writing related to Christ.”
Shouldn’t we at least bring Bill Maher in for questioning?
Read more at Human Events
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