Never forget the real victims in the Tucson blood libel holocaust

By Greg Zeman
Special to The Guardsman
Zemanifesto Online

In the latest lamestream media gangbang of public decency, the tragic shooting in Tucson that left 13 people wounded and eight dead is being harnessed for political capital by the loony left.

Even if the shooter had been wearing a “Vote Palin 2012” t-shirt — even if he’d had a tattoo of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan tongue kissing on his bare chest — it would be absurd to link the acts of a crazy killer with an entire group of people.

It would be like protesting the construction of a “mosque” at Ground Zero, just because the people who perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks were Muslims — absurd.

So when Palin preempted a nationally televised memorial for the dead to bravely defend maligned political visionaries like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh — and of course herself — from almost an entire week of media attacks, I admired her for it.

Sure, her Facebook video might have seemed like a crass, opportunistic attempt to present herself as a viable presidential candidate by one upping Obama. But she assured us that she wasn’t trying to co-opt a national tragedy to further her obvious political aspirations. And I believe her.

I believe her because I like her. I like her spunky can-do spirit. I like her no-nonsense “mama grizzly” mentality, and above all else, I liked Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars.

Sarah Palin called the media response to her video a “blood libel.” Then the Washington Times called it part of a “pogrom,” so I’m going to step out on a limb and call it what it is — just one more atrocity in the holocaust of criticism faced by conservative Christians in this country.

Yeah, I said it. Holocaust.

The blood libel against the Jews was used as the justification for nearly a millennium of anti-Semitic violence, leading up to and including the wholesale slaughter of 12 million “enemies” of Nazi fascism (half of them Jews like me), so why split hairs with an analogy so obviously apt and inoffensive?

Professional traitors on the left are suggesting that Palin’s campaign map with a gunsight over Arizona and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords name might have been a tad extreme. Particularly considering that Giffords was later shot through the head at point-blank range with a Glock 19 in an assassination attempt that resulted in the deaths of six people including a nine-year-old girl.
Isn’t that pretty much the same thing as saying Jews drink baby blood on Passover and then proceeding to burn down a Jewish village?

And when tea partyers show up at rallies with signs that say, “We came unarmed, this time,” obviously they mean, “We came unarmed this time, and unless the tree of liberty looks like it needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants or something, we will also come unarmed next time. We’re not crazy.”

But it’s really hard to fit that on a picket sign.

The Washington Times is perfectly justified in calling the possibly misplaced or excessive criticism of a political public figure “the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers.” The only difference between the 1938 Nazi pogrom and the Washington Times one is that stuff and things actually happened and people actually died in the Nazi one.

Otherwise, the political environment in Obama’s America is definitely tantamount to a conservative Kristallnacht. I guess that makes Fox News the Warsaw Ghetto of cable news, Obama Hitler and Keith Olberman Goebbels.

So let’s forget the more than six million and counting Jews dead from real pogroms inspired by the inexplicably persistent influence of the blood libel, the many-times-debunked “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and other slanders against the Jews.

Let’s forget about the people who were actually shot, some of them actually killed in Tucson.
Let’s forget about the “patriots” — at least four or five — who were arrested for threatening Democratic representatives and their supporters. Particularly the one who drove by a group of peaceful demonstrators brandishing a knife and then a cleaver out the window.

And let’s definitely forget about Bryon Williams, the would-be “progressive hunter” who was apprehended — armed to the teeth in full body armor — on the 580 in Oakland. Williams was driving to San Francisco to “start a revolution” by committing an act of mass murder at the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU. An act inspired by the ever-so educational chalkboard of Professor Beck.

But let’s never forget the real victims in this national tragedy: conservative pundits and Sarah Palin.

Greg Zeman is the former editor-in-chief of The Guardsman. He is currently publishing his Zemanifesto column online at Zemanifesto.tumblr.com.