Tonight: Sarah Palin adds a footnote to her comment about "blood libel." The term "blood libel" refers to slurs that are racial, as opposed to factual. Accusations by the Nazis against German Jews, for instance, count as "blood libels." Ms. Palin's "blood libel" comment attempts to chastize those who link the Tea Party's blood-thirsty rhetoric to the shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrille Giffords. "Let's be real," Ms. Palin wants to say. "This is a madman." True ... but. You and your kind swung open the door. "Madmen, enter here. We will denounce you, finally. Ultimately, you only deliver one vote. But secretly we applaud you. Because you have removed an enemy." The lesson from Nazi Germany is not that "Obama is Hitler." The lesson from Nazi Germany is this: (1) words matter; and (2) control of the media matters. The lesson from Nazi Germany is this: murderers have crowns, murderers have followings, murderers have TV shows.
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