'Blood libel': The two words that spelled trouble for Sarah Palin - Americas, World - The Independent

'Blood libel': The two words that spelled trouble for Sarah Palin - Americas, World - The Independent: "Sarah Palin was straining to look presidential. With the Stars and Stripes at her side, the former Governor of Alaska read a scripted address in an effort to rebut persistent claims that she was guilty by association over the deaths of six people and the wounding of a further 13, including the Democratic Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, at an Arizona supermarket. The charges against her – which arose because the unashamedly gun-toting Palin had placed a rifle target over Arizona during the 2010 election to designate that Giffords was a politician she wanted out of the way – were not only unjust and reprehensible, she intoned soberly, but were 'a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they [journalists and pundits] purport to condemn'."