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Chris Christie: Palin Should Have Left “Blood Libel” Out Of Speech

Doug Mataconis · Thursday, January 13, 2011 · 2 comments

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t going to make any friends among the Palinistas:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah Palin, coming into some criticism today, after using that term “blood libel”. Do you think she knew what she was getting into with that?

CHRISTIE: I don’t know. I have no idea.

But what I would say is I think that, you know, I don’t think anybody really believes that Governor Palin was trying to make someone get hurt or bring violence on, and I think she should have just said that and left it at that.

Here’s the full interview, where Christie also talks about President Obama’s speech last night:

FILED UNDER: US Politics, Chris Christie, Libel, New Jersey, Sarah Palin

About Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed far too young in July 2021.

Comments

narciso says:

Thursday, 13 January 2011 at 11:35

Easy for him to say, he wasn’t the one being libeled,
PJ says:

Thursday, 13 January 2011 at 12:32

Funny, I’ve been arguing yesterday with people here that said that the ones being libeled was not only Sarah Palin, but all on the right, or the swing states map, or whatever. And now here’s another one arguing that Palin was the only one being libeled.