crash blossom: "accuses critics of blood libel"

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN reports that she apparently picked up the phrase from a Wall Street
Journal editorial Monday or Tuesday, where it was used as she used it.

The governor's spokesperson did not respond to a CNN inquiry about the term
and its significance.

JL

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Time to call in Mossad ... oops, I hope Palin is not currently and
> never has been a ... Federal official.
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> Joel
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> 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.
> >>>
> >>>  the article
> >>>  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B3W320110112
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