Sick and sicker.

[captainsblog]

For at least two of the past three days, Eleanor has been stationed at a Wegmans aisle containing this in the rack of childrens lit next to her:



As I was shooting that, one of her customers asked, "What's so funny?"

We showed her.

She winced.

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Speaking of wincing: 

Caribou Barbie's gone and done it again.

The sense of victimhood of the Tea Party and its fellow travellers should now be well known. It was Glenn Beck, after all – the man who accused America's first African American president of being "racist" – who last year told a rally of his followers in Washington that they had taken on the mantle of the civil rights movement.

Now Sarah Palin, former vice presidential candidate, has repeated this same repellent inversion, accusing those who criticised her for her violent political rhetoric against Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman shot in Arizona on Saturday, of perpetrating a "blood libel" against her. In using that expression, Palin has appropriated a phrase with a specific meaning in the long history of hate crime against the Jewish people.

First mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew to refer to the supposed Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus, over the centuries it came to mean something even more pernicious: the fraudulent claim that Jews used the blood of murdered children in their rituals. More awful still, perhaps, is the context in which Palin has adopted the language: to recast herself as the victim in defending herself from claims that her language and behaviour may have helped create the context for the attempted murder of a congresswoman who, in fact, is Jewish.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph" doesn't quite say what needs to be said, so I'll go with "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Who, she probably thinks, is a cabal of conspirators at Media Matters or something.

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I would say that the people responsible for that Spongebob thing need an education in double entendre and unintentional hilarity, but I'm pretty sure they knew EXACTLY what they were saying.

Which is more than one can say about Palin. Oy.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Great, more fodder for the "Sponge Bob is gay" nuts.

An unfortunate choice of words for Palin, to be sure, but she still hasn't got the power to inspire murder. Let's not give her that much credit.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Love the Spongebob. Does Patrick know about this?

@headbanger: The "we are all responsible / nothing happens in a vacuum / you must moderate your tone but my personal rage is perfectly justifiable" brigade will beg to differ, but yes, Palin is just a dope and a dupe, not a bloodthirsty anti-Semite.

[shinuhana.livejournal.com]

Wow, these guys might be able to outdo Disney for depravity.