Booman Tribune Blood Libels Pamela Geller

I had to stop. I had to stop blogging for a minute to wait for my stomach to calm down, and for the sinking feeling in my heart to go away. I write about evil a lot. I tell my readers that not only is leftist ideology collectivist and destructive, it is also evil, in the most reprehensible way fathomable. I'm not sure who takes my comments seriously, outside of my regular readership and a number of other prominent bloggers and writers with whom I communicate. (Obviously, leftists dismiss their own frequent cases of diabolical hatred as aberrations.) It's just something that I know inside my heart, and it strengthens me — thank God — to have a strong sense of righteousness. I know progressivism is the Devil's work. As an ideology perhaps at one point there was some utility in it, say, in Theodore Roosevelt's brand of progressivism. Yeah, maybe at one time real social progress was the goal. But over these last few decades, at least since the 1960s — but especially in the last 9 years since September 11 — a fundamental metastasis has occurred, and its roots are in human evil.

In any case, I'm just writing my feelings upon reading Booman Tribune's post on Pamela Geller, "Casual Suggestion." Screencaps are below. Here's the full quote from the main body of the post, by BooMan:

Apparently, Pam Geller wrote a book and someone actually reviewed it. I'm not sure which is more disturbing. Here's an idea. I promise to write a book about how right-wing lunatics are destroying the fabric of our country. I can do this with facts and citations or, if you prefer, I can just accuse them all of committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies. It's really up to the publisher. Whatever they want, I can supply. Making stuff up is easier though, so if you want the manuscript in time for a Christmas roll out, I advise we go with some bestiality. Just let me know and I'll get right to work.

The reference to the book review is for Elon Green at the communist webzine AlterNet, "Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Conspiracy Theories of an Unhinged Islamophobic Blogger?" Check the link. Nowhere does Elon Green actually engage the arguments in Pamela Geller's book. The "review" is frankly nothing more than a diatribe against the right-wing. What BooMan does is take it to the next step in leftist demonology, anti-Semitic blood libel. Sure, the post is formed as a hypothetical. BooMan suggests that he "can just accuse them all of committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies."

Plausible deniability then? Perhaps. Except that BooMan's first commenter picks up on the dog whistle:

Did they use ink, or the dripping blood of the Muslim babies she was eating at the time?

The blog post and comment were posted earlier this evening, and there's a new post at top (excoriating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio). No one seems to object to this blood libel. In fact, looking at post after post after post of Booman Tribune, it's practically one long hit list against conservatives and Republicans. There is a lot of hatred there, and these are people who are already in power.

Blood libel accusations are a central manifestation of historical anti-Semitism. BooMan's deliberately vague remarks about how he "could accuse" people like Pamela Geller of "committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies" are drawn right out the ancient books of eliminationist Jew-hatred. Just to imply such abominations among conservatives is pretty sick. To make them in the context of attacking a prominent Jewish conservative woman and self-proclaimed anti-jihad blogger leaves little room for evasion. And the comments at the post simply seal the deal.

It was sickening reading this entry. And BooMan is not just a 9th tier blogger, unread and insignificant. RealClearPolitics links frequently to BooMan Tribune and the blog appears well respected around the left-wing 'sphere. That's because this is just how these folks roll. Meanwhile, the conservative-right is constantly defending itself against bogus allegations of racism. This reminds me of two key points raised about the progressive-left in Melanie Phillips' new book, The World Turned Upside Down, both of which are illustrated by BooMan: (1) anti-intellectualism and (2) Jew-hatred. And again, while this is just one case, such episodes are quite frequent and regularly renounced among conservative blogs such as NewsReal. But hopefully this kind of leftist blood libel and hatred will start getting more attention among MSM outlets. Even there it's possible to cross the red line. And BooMan's achieved that.