It was always called BLOOD LIBEL

The pure malice emanating without stop from certain places pointing at those to their right as the cause of, either the proximate motivation of the bald smirking killer, or the ‘Limbaugh’s’ being the basis for the entire milieu of Loughner’s existence, and that of others about to strike, is only a modest improvement of the outlets this kind of bigoted malice used to take.

I’ve had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008 campaign. I remembered the upsurge in political hatred after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 — an upsurge that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. And you could see, just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies, that it was ready to happen again

Yes, you ‘knew’.

“Beware Russian parents. Keep watch over your children before the coming of April 2008, the Jewish holiday of Passover. These disgusting people still engage in ritual practice to their gods. They kidnap small children and remove some of their blood and use it to prepare their holy food (matza). They throw the bodies (of the children) out in garbage dumps,” the announcements read.

We had better beware of certain groups !

Media Matters CEO David Brock asked Rupert Murdoch to rein in or possibly even fire Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

in April 2009 an internal report warned that right-wing extremism was on the rise, with a growing potential for violence.

An ancient rite, by those seeking only the public protection, you see, as Krugman and Clyburn do. After all, the US Gov’t. says of former Soviet republic govt’s today (they are just SO, SO backwards, they need commenting from the morally advanced USA, you see)

“Contemporary anti-Semitism appears openly and in disguised forms in place where there are Jewish communities just like in places where there are few Jewish people.”, the report stated.

“We hope and we are sure that the Russian government will find those who distributed (the announcements) and work to stamp out the phenomenon.”

Yes, we hope that those responsible will work to stamp out blood libels at work even today.

We hope James Clyburn, Chris Matthews, Paul Krugman, and others whose malice and inner sickness impels them to cast such libels as frank prejudice are themselves the ‘target’ of moral indignation which places them, like all whose inner compulsions demand sick actions, outside the realm of acceptable discourse.

The fact that their inner compulsions find a more intellectualized outlet, and a more abstract outcome of govt power, and social censorship does not excuse them any more than it excused Justinas Pranaitis.

Those whose blood libels find headlines and followers today need a large mirror with a large time dilation.