Margaret Carlson: Militant Palin Keeps Crosshairs on Herself

From the former Bush insider, surprisingly enough:

After the requisite expression of mourning and sorrow, Palin took after “journalists and pundits” who “should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.” No viewer could have failed to understand who had been supposedly libeled.

Ponder the narcissism required for Palin to place herself at the center of the narrative, and with such incendiary language. “Blood libel” refers to a centuries-old calumny used to justify the savage persecution of Jews on the fictitious grounds that they murdered Christian children to use their blood in rituals.

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Employing “blood libel” when so much real blood has been spilled, Palin did the one thing she knows how to do: pick a fight. Martial references are the Tea Party’s lingua franca, justifying righteous patriots taking up arms against an illegitimate government, as the colonists did. That’s part of why there is such an effort to make Obama into an illegitimate leader, a closet Kenyan with no more authority over Americans than King George III had.

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But that doesn’t mean “journalists and pundits” can’t wonder out loud about the militancy -- a more accurate word than mere “incivility” to describe politics today -- that’s crept into our debate. After all, Loughner didn’t shoot up a country club or the Safeway supermarket, but a political event in its parking lot where he took point-blank aim at the head of a member of Congress. Forgive us for wincing at the image of crosshairs on Giffords’s district, or the memory of Palin urging her supporters to “reload.”

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a7mrzwzjpSJk

martyred (sp?).

I hate to even think this, but I hope she's on a suicide watch or something.