...would be dumb enough to be accidentally racist and anti-semitic. At least, I assume it's an accident. I assume that no one told her the origins of the phrase "blood libel," before she used it in a video where she attempted to bullshit America into a false sense that no one is responsible for the words they use, and that moreover, those words don't pack the power you think they do, anyway. That's why she won't care when I refer to her as a brainless fucking moron from this point on. I think that I would rather believe that she is a brainless fucking moron than believe that she's mad at Mel Gibson's Hollywood Jews for not picking up her stupid show for another season and is trying to get back at them by using a phrase fraught with Jewish pain and historical significance. Maybe she thought it would sneak past everyone. Secretly, I suspect she drinks blood for power.
"Blood libel" is the classical phrase used to describe the guilt that's supposedly on ALL Jews for the death of Christ. It's okay to slander and slur Jews (including the Christian baby blood drinking thing), you see, which ultimately leads to their death, destruction, diaspora, horror & holocaust, because, according to somewhere in Matthew, I think, they're all to blame for that whole Jesus mess. Yeah, here you go.
This whole video is highly suspect, anyway. While talking about how great the country is, she mourns for the innocent victims - the dead innocent, backhandedly implying that the living victims might not be so innocent. Sarah's been reflecting and praying (without thinking) and doesn't think she should have any blame for lowering the tone of argument in this country. She then goes on to say that no one "should manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn." After that, she makes Jared the Gunman into someone served by neither side of the aisle, and then I stopped listening, because my tolerance for being lied to is right up there with my tolerance for being lectured, and I hear both going on here, and it was like being back at school.
Sarah Palin's such a hot mess of personality issues at this point, I have to make a list of qualities that the GOP mad scientists left out when she was vat grown a few years back:
Tact: She doesn't seem to realize that if she wants to be taken seriously on a global level, she has to choose her words and actions accordingly, and stop engaging in the pointless hyperbole that bloggers like me so enjoy. I appropriate words like "holocaust" and "long knives" on a regular basis, and nobody gives a shit, because the world's not listening to me.
Irony: She doesn't seem to realize that picking out an inflammatory phrase that has been used (to great effect) to incite and justify violence against an entire people for 2000 years to prove your point that language of any kind is "just a part of the debate, you betcha" might not be the best way to go. We all realized that irony was a difficult concept to grasp when Alanis Morissette fucked it all up, but come on, Sarah. Where are your handlers? Don't these people have handlers?
Self-Awareness: Not caring what people think should be an adaptable and finite asset, and is a great quality to have in certain situations, especially when you're a rogue maverick. However, there is a vast difference between genuinely not caring, and not being intellectually on board enough to have the ability to care.
Brains: She's not Lenny from Of Mice and Men, but she's not an intellectual, either, and she's kind of proud of that. She works from her guts, without overthinking things, and she's often pretty mixed up about what things and people mean and how they work. I don't think the capacity is there.
Good work, Sarah - the way to defuse an argument is almost certainly to bring in a longer fuse. Thanks.
