<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I think the point is that it has a history that Palin was ignorant about.<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Wayne Price <<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Since when did the usage of the term "blood libel" , or any other term, become the exclusive domain of one particular religious group?<div>It would be like saying that the killing of the Poles by the Russians in 1941, the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks, and the various genocides in Africa aren't holocausts.<br><div><br></div><div>Wayne Price<div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:19 PM, the lockshop wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">"<font face="Times New Roman">A person who does not know what she is saying and until two years ago did not know why the two Koreas are divided has no business speaking for the Republican party. She continually embarrasses her party and spoils our national image in the world</font>."</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">When you've got a democrat representative currently sitting in congress who worrys that sending a few extra Marines to Guam might cause the island to capsize, it'll be a while before Ms. Palin's misconstrued comments are Americas biggest embarrassment.</font></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"></font></font> </div><div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">g</font></font></div><font face="Arial"><div><br></div><font size="2"></font></font><div><font face="Arial" size="2">----- Original Message -----</font><div><font face="Arial" size="2">From: <</font><a href="mailto:nickgier@roadrunner.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">nickgier@roadrunner.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">To: "Tom Hansen" <</font><a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">thansen@moscow.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">>; "lfalen" <</font><a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">lfalen@turbonet.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cc: <</font><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">vision2020@moscow.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:34 AM</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Subject: Re: [Vision2020] America's Jews Respond to Palin's Use of the Phrase "Blood Libel"</font></div></div><div><font face="Arial"><br><font size="2"></font></font></div><font face="Arial" size="2">> Roger,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> These are national Jewish leaders responding, not me. Sarah Palin is a major GOP leader and former VP candidate. She is completely responsible for her language and she should apologize for using this horrid phrase. She should also apologize for using a symbol that she herself called a "bull's eye."<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> A person who does not know what she is saying and until two years ago did not know why the two Koreas are divided has no business speaking for the Republican party. She continually embarrasses her party and spoils our national image in the world.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The violent rhetoric evidence is clear and overwhelming and I will not stop presenting it because it is not "balanced." The right has a serious problem and you and Gary will not face up to the facts.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> What do you say to four state GOP leaders resigning because of violent threats (one image in the shape of a gun) from Tea Party activists? When will you and the GOP condemn this? It seems that you will not until we come up with an equal number of crazies on the so-called "left." That is absurd, dishonest, and totally evasive.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Nick<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> --- Tom Hansen <</font><a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">thansen@moscow.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>>> Roger Falen reflects:<br>>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>>> "Sometimes she may not use the best choice of words . . . 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