Seriously, move on already. You’ve already proven it to yourself in your own mind, and isn’t that what’s most important anyway?

There’s nothing to prove to anyone else, especially me, since I’m not changing my mind on this subject.

I continue to believe it was insensitive and demonstrated a stunning lack of insight into the fact that she has done the exact same thing with her death panels accusations. Or maybe she doesn’t care, or doesn’t think it is a problem when she does it.

I doubt that Sarah Palin really believes critics of her gun map imagery are accusing her of the ritual murder of children. I’m also sure she did not mean to stir up anti-Semitic tensions. I think she’s just again showing that she doesn’t know much about either history or the English language.

What made the blood libel so powerful was the involvement of children. As with the day school panic of the 80s, lack of evidence became proof of guilt. I don’t think the death panel lie works in quite the same way because it doesn’t involve children. Which is not to say that it hasn’t proved potent. But there’s nothing that gets people quite so deranged as telling them that a particular group is coming after their children.

In light of the currently toxic public square, evangelicals and social conservatives should just speak in plain and descriptive language rather than invent defamatory terms to describe ideological opponents.

Hear! Hear!

“People are attacking ME. What about ME. The lamestream media is attacking ME. Yes this is a tragedy, but equally important is how tragically I’M being affected.”