Palin Says Finger Pointing Following Tucson Shooting Amounts To "Blood Libel"

Those in the media attempting to link the Tucson shooting with heated rhetoric are “reprehensible,” former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said in a Facebook entry Wednesday.

“Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn,” Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate in the 2008 election said.

Palin noted that any impulse to put a cap on free speech in the aftermath of the attack must be resisted.

“We will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.