crash blossom: "accuses critics of blood libel"

[Joel S. Berson]

Time to call in Mossad ... oops, I hope Palin is not currently and
never has been a ... Federal official.

Joel

At 1/12/2011 02:35 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 2:14 PM -0500 1/12/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>If "blood libel" were in OED, perhaps the irenic and usually well-informed
>>Gov. Palin would have chosen other words.
>>
>>JL
>
>So wikipedia is too abstruse for her?  Cf.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
>--not yet updated to include this occurrence among the "Notable Instances".
>
>LH
>
>>
>>On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Michael Covarrubias
>><mcovarru at purdue.edu>wrote:
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>>>  "Sarah Palin accuses critics of 'blood libel'"
>>>
>>>  i first read this headline as claiming that palin had accused those people
>>>  who were critical of her use of the phrase "blood libel."
>>>
>>>  tho my first reading would be a use of "accuse" with only one object, that
>>>  i see, but not as often.
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>>>  the article
>>>  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B3W320110112
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