Surprise: CNN’s Blitzer Challenges Hamas Spokesman on His Blood Libel Against Jews
A popular blood libel Palestinian leaders and parents tell their people and children goes as follows: “Jews used to slaughter Christians in order to mix their blood in their holy matzos.”
In the video (HT Twitchy) which follows the jump, Blitzer asks Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan to confirm that the quoted words just cited are what he recently said and meant. Over nearly seven agonizing minutes, Hamdan never admitted to anything, but certainly conducted himself as if he had done uttered those words. To his credit, Blitzer noted that the end of the segment that his question had not been answered, leaving reasonable viewers to believe Hamdan did previously say them, and that the bare outlines of his attempted excuse, which was essentially a claim that “I was just repeating something someone else said,” doesn’t fly.