Palin Jumps the Shark

There are three things you need to know about the revolting attempted exculpation Sarah Palin posted to her FB page and released to the media this morning.

First of all, after enduring Palin’s comical word salads for going on two-and-a-half years now, I think we can all agree there’s no freaking way on God’s green Earth that the Wasilla snowbilly composed that statement herself. I mean, the thing is rife and writ through with complete sentences, lawyerly prose and contextually correct five-dollar words. Sarah Palin is a woman whose public speaking style is like a journey through the desert and who once (that we know of) wrote crib notes on her hand for a public Q&A session.

Second, the phrase “blood libel,” which Palin uses to slag her critics, has a rich, ugly and very specific history…among anti-Semites, who accused Jews of kidnapping and killing Christian children for the purpose of using their blood in bizarre religious rituals. Again, I think we can all agree there's no way in Hell that an intellectually incurious Arctic con artist like Palin would have the historical awareness to know the origin of the term "blood libel." If she had, she might also have remembered that Congresswoman Giffords, by the way, is Jewish.

And lastly, the irony should not be lost on anyone that, in the very statement in which Palin condemns her critics for having the temerity to suggest her violent rhetoric may have contributed in some small way to the tragic events in Tuscon, AZ, she implies that the criticism directed at her “serves only to incite…violence and hatred…”

That, my friends, is reprehensible.