Palin breaks silence, steps on own dick

This is pretty fresh. Salon's War Room:

This is why Palin '12 just won't work

Thank you, Lord.

It has been widely assumed that Sarah Palin's response to Gabrielle Giffords' shooting would be a pivotal moment for her viability as a 2012 presidential candidate. Now Palin has finally broken her silence*, with a seven-minute videotaped message released this morning -- one that, more than anything, will probably give Republicans yet another reason to look elsewhere for a '12 candidate.

*Click this one for lots of instant reactions to her statement. It probably should been my main link.

As is the case just about every time Palin sounds off on a major topic, the result has been instant and bitter polarization. Palin pretty much guaranteed this would be the case by employing the emotionally- and historically charged term "blood libel" and by claiming that journalists and pundits who focused on her inflamed rhetoric in the hours and days after the shooting are guilty of inciting "the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn."

Wow! Blaming the media by using an anti-semitic slur in the wake of the attempted assassination of a Jewish congresswoman! That woman is even dumber and less sensitive than we thought. Amazing.

This deal is spreading faster than the munchies at Fixer's parties!

Gotta go. Lotsa readin' up on this one to do.

Update:

Josh Marshall

Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she's one of them.

Note to Sarah: Victim my big hairy white hind end. You did this to yourself. What went around came around, not as quickly as I would have liked but better late than never. Hear that dripping noise? That's my ass bleedin' for ya.

Update II:

National Jewish Democratic Council via YubaNet

Instead of dialing down the rhetoric at this difficult moment, Sarah Palin chose to accuse others trying to sort out the meaning of this tragedy of somehow engaging in a "blood libel" against her and others. This is of course a particularly heinous term for American Jews, given that the repeated fiction of blood libels are directly responsible for the murder of so many Jews across centuries -- and given that blood libels are so directly intertwined with deeply ingrained anti-Semitism around the globe, even today.

Perhaps Sarah Palin honestly does not know what a blood libel is, or does not know of their horrific history; that is perhaps the most charitable explanation we can arrive at in explaining her rhetoric today.

She knows now. Heh.

Update III:

I'm starting to hear conjecture that her use of 'blood libel' is a 'dog whistle' word for her fringie anti-semite supporters. I wouldn't put it past her, but personally I think she's was just being her usual ignorant self. I've been wrong before, however.