listening to the media focusing on exactly one moment from the new sarah palin self-defense video: her use of the phrase "blood libel." now i think she or her writer probably vaguely recalled this phrase from somewhere and used it in the sense of 'libeling me and people like me as murderers,' saying essentially that she has blood on her hands. i don't know, it's sort of a gaffe, or unfortunate moment of some ignorance, though i doubt that most americans could elucidate the concept of 'blood-libel' in anti-semitic history very clearly. but it's hard to read it as anti-semitic, as it appears to identify palin herself as the jew (libeled for having within him the blood of the murderers of jesus). anyway, get over it and deal with the substance of the statement, which is irreproachable, more or less. one pundit said "you won't hear a gaffe like that from obama tonight." well, he's got more and better staff, for one thing; anyone can use the wrong phrase without understanding all the connotations.