Also, I think it's likely that Palin had no idea what it meant, just that adding the word "blood" to a word as awful as "libel" would make it some kind of super awful, using that lovely violent style of rhetoric she's so fond of.
I know that Alaska is not the same as where I grew up in the midwest, but on a number of fronts they're similar in terms of voting trends, population and education, and I know that no one else in my family would know that "blood libel" carried such a connotation.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:29 am (UTC)I know that Alaska is not the same as where I grew up in the midwest, but on a number of fronts they're similar in terms of voting trends, population and education, and I know that no one else in my family would know that "blood libel" carried such a connotation.