Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
After days of reports about her map of congressional districts marked with gun sights or surveyor's symbols and the deleting on Saturday of a website devoted to them, Sarah Palin talks directly to the American public about what happened in Tucson.
It's a strong response. "There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal," Ms. Palin says. "And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those 'calm days" when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren't designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders' genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure."
The part that you're going to hear most about, though, would seem to be this one: "But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."
You're going to hear a lot about that section because she's pushing back at the media in general, and so this becomes a shoving match. But you're also going to hear more specifically about her accusing the media of "blood libel." As the New York Times carefully puts it, "By using the term 'blood libel' to describe the criticism about political rhetoric after the shootings, Ms. Palin was inventing a new definition for an emotionally laden phrase. Blood libel is typically used to describe the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals, in particular the baking of matzos for Passover."
Full text of Ms. Palin's response on her Facebook page.
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Huh?
Does she even look up what she saying. And this women has children? You got to be kidding me that she would use such words, well maybe not!
Blood libel (also blood accusation[1][2]) refers to a false accusation or claim[3][4][5] that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.[1][2][6] Historically, these claims have–alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration–been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.[4]
The libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically blood libel claims have often been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. A few of these have been even canonized as saints.
In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation in the 16th century of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. Many popes have either directly or indirectly condemned the blood accusation, and no pope has ever sanctioned it.[7] These libels have persisted among some segments of Christians to the present time, and recently Muslims as well.
And this is just the definition, not the pics, wow!
I wonder if someone published Sarah Palin's picture with a so called "Surveyors Symbol" with the crosshairs focused between her eyes, she would still feel it was just a meaningless symbol that carried no intention of violence? I can't believe that she wasn't even mature enough to admit that even if there was no connection with the shootings, here chart was in poor taste.
Palin was parroting the words used in Glenn Reynolds' Wall Street Journal opinion piece from Monday.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071913818696964.html
It is good to hear that Sarah's finally doing some reading.
Especially from something not written on her hand...
Here's the main problem with it. If she truly knows what the words mean together, she should also know not to use them when talking about the shooting of a Jewish woman.
My friend calls Palin, "Hitler in a dress". I totally get it.
Uh...no, Maggie. Just no. Sarah Palin is an idiot, an anti-intellectual, a loud mouth, a dingbat, and any number of other things.
But she's not Hitler. I've been to the Holocaust Museum in DC twice. There is no political figure in American history who compares to the awful, horrific things Hitler did. And comparing somone who is merely a willfully uninformed idiot to someone who plotted the murder of several different races of people is absurd and it minimizes what the actual Holocaust was.
Maybe not...I just happen to be of the mind that Sarah Palin is totally capable of horrific deeds. We never want to see a true test of this by electing her to any office of power.
It was what my friend who said it and I do not believe she meant to minimize the Holocaust nor do I.
And I don't think that's the intention of most people who make the comparisons either, but that is what it leads to.
I don't agree, but we can agree to disagree I guess. I can totally relate to someone calling her that without diminishing the Holocaust one iota. SP is capable of creating another...perhaps involving all humans on the planet.
I agree. Comparisons to a mass murderer are not funny, nor civil in any way. This type of speech is offensive and inappropriate.
pffft
Sorry if it offends you Sybil...but what is offensive and inappropriate here is Sarah Freaking Palin. I wasn't trying to be funny...nor uncivil in any way. She's frightening and I hope unlike the Germans...we do not stand by and just let her politics grow.
I beg to differ! cheney is a close second to hitler - he is perhaps as lethal and responsible for as many deaths - only a little more subtle - he hides behind corporations, but invests in every resource to fill his coffers and kill the poor, dig for black gold and destroy as many nations and innocent civilians (at home and abroad) to achieve his evil desires - cheney is this country's hitler, he's the real mccoy. sarah is just a nut-job - toss in the bucket - last hoorah
Oh, my. Especially when she opens up with the term "Catholic mass." Do we not remember what happened the last time we did not pay attention to the nuance of religion? We got into a war in Iraq and an insurgency we didn't understand.. Sunni, Shiite.. hey, they're all Muslim, right? "Did you know there was a difference?" I think Cheney said on a talk show once. (forgive my reference if not factual or correctly attributed.)
Someone with this veneer of an understanding of culture and history has no place in leadership, government or otherwise.
I am only commenting on Rufus, as I promised below that I would not pimp up the queen of wasilla; She is using the religion ref. to legitimize her diatribe, without thinking of the consequences; the thinking is just like the rest of her political statements: no rational thought. You should not be surprised or in wonderment, Dogg... it is the usual crap from a person that has become a horrific icon of a person. The John Lennon song ref. would be "how do you sleep at night?"
Yes, and recklessly using religious reference, probably without knowing it (blood=murder; libel=malicious statements; therefore blood libel=malicious statements that lead to murder). It's what happens when your entire vocabulary is a serious of words on refrigerator magnets.
When I read about this, I had to read it several times to make the words connect and to understand that this ignorant woman really did make that incredibly insensitive, stupid, appalling statement.
If she wanted to exculpate herself, she torpedoed her cause instead. Dave Sirota said it best: "silence is complicity; defensiveness is endorsement."
Amen. Defensiveness is admission of guilt. When commentators say "We have to tone down the rhetoric" and the right responds with "You do it too!" then we know who is at fault.
The right responses two ways-
"Two wrongs make a right" i.e. "you do it too so it's okay" and
"Free speech for me, apologies for you." I am sure Republicans are demanding apologies from commentators who criticize right-wing hate speech.
You're very correct in bringing up that expression, especially if you add the follow up to it:
... but three lefts do.
Both in a directional sense and a political one. That the Right is wrong, and the Left is right :-)
This is not worth a comment on her fodder, because it only encourages her, and she gets the free airplay. The way to change her is to make her go away by not paying attention to her. Don't play her game, and she can't control your emotions.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
~Shakespeare~
Good point, Leslie. Even a long-dead Brit knows Palin's an idiot :-)
Leslie; quit insulting Shakespeare with the comparison! lol.......
It is pretty clear that there was absolutely no connection between her or even the right and this lunatic and that was becoming more apparent every day. It was, thus, starting to make those who jumped the gun on it look foolish and those who continued to cling to it to look like intentional liars and partisans. All the moron had to do was make a short statement to that effect and let the other side smash themselves on the rocks. But, being the ill informed and blindly led nitwit that she is, she goes and uses the term "blood libel". Now, I will state for the record that I have seen the term used in more than just the traditional context but one cannot act like there is no traditional context. It is beyond stupid to make a mistake like that when you are in the clear already.
Mentally ill people do not generally get up and shoot people. They live and operate in society just like everyone. Could you connect an individual or party to Loughner? No. It's the climate. And the climate is not created by one person, but that doesn't mean any individuals are off the hook just because they didn't intend for anyone to shoot someone. It's not about accepting blame, but society taking responsibility for it's own.
~Chris Rock~
I'm just posting this quote to agree with the concept that society should be taking some responsibility.
This x1000. Grrrl, I think you just summed up in one sentence the lesson that our society needs to learn above all else.
All this is wrenchingly sad. But, as I read Palin's "speech" and all of the false-notes and historical inaccuracies it offers, I till know that Palin and her cohorts are both ignorant and illiterate
Yeah seriously. I mean, if I were Palin, God forbid!, I would fire my speechwriter ASAP. Is there a single time she's spoken in public or made such a statement where she hasn't screwed it up?
I think Todd is her speechwriter. She can't fire him... ;o)
Maybe the speechwriter should fire Palin. Wouldn't that take care of the problem?
When I stop banging my head against the wall I will be able to come up with a response to this, but probably not because how can anyone respond to such gibberish?. I think the ramblings of the insane make more sense.
So true!
Okay, I tried to watch it...but the overwhelmingly urge to wretch got the better of me.
I blame John McCain for this. He's responsible for inflicting Sarah Palin on this country.
yep... and he has been strangely quiet, hasn't he? Mr. "Bomb-bomb-Iran" doesn't want to stick his neck into any of this... feh.
Don't worry about Grampy McSame....He cut short another publicity jaunt in S.America to rush to where there are more microphones and more cameras. He'll get some air-time and make quotes this afternoon...as if anyone might care what he says. Will the killa-from Wassilla be there at his side? Not likely!
Muggle; that is like blaming Ike for spawning Nixon! ha, even Ike didn't realize that he was letting a python out of the bag. It shows the Maverick didn't, and doesn't have, the character to be president, let alone senator. They knew that she was a Spiro Agnew character, but they did not know she was going to be the lady with blue hair from "are you being served?" Mrs. Slocum! I apologize to Mrs. Slocum in advance.
I agree with that....
McCain is Arizonan. What goes around, comes around.
Whoa...
The most insidious part of this kind of communication is that it allows the person who uses it to respond "who, me?" when they are held accountable for their actions. Yes, it is true that there is no direct connection causal link between this act and Sarah Palin's "remarks." However, the "remarks" provide cultural sanction or approval to the act.
Do we believer that free speech means the the speaker cannot be held responsible for what they say? This seems to be the assumption.
On another seed one NVer made an interesting note. I don't totally agree with it, but this is sorta like the case with Charles Manson. He didn't actually do the killings, his followers did. The obvious difference being that, of course, he ordered his followers to do it, and Palin "only" provided an atmosphere where such an action was kinda, sorta OK. But in both cases it is a matter of brainwashed followers acting out in ways they think they're "masters" want them to and would approve of...
Honestly, how many of us were waiting to hear what she had to say? I admit I was and if I wasn't over her before I am so over her now. She brings nothing to every debate and it's time to ignore her.
I can't stand watching the crap spew from her mouth...I could not watch the video, but I read what she said....uggh...
Every time I hear anything from Sarah Palin I am shocked and horrified by the depth of her ignorance. She uses terms and phrases she has no understanding of, and she needs to have someone in her entourage that can look these things up for her. I am constantly surprised that there is anyone in the United States who sees her as any more than a politcal Paris Hilton. Her combination of willful ignorance and assigned influence make her a very dangerous person. Those who have assigned her level of influence need to reassign it to a more worthy candidate.
LOL... Nice analogy. Though it still seems like an insult to Hilton's intelligence... :-)
If Ms Palin were ignorant of the term, how could she use it? I think she knew exactly what she was saying and to whom she was speaking.
Stupidity comes to mind first.
Rachel - you have to read this. It's a blogger who followed Palin's facebook page as comments came in and were deleted with amazing efficiency - but surprisingly, not all fo them...
com/2011/01/inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html
try that link again
com/2011/01/inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html
Figure I'd put this here for anybody else who, like me, wanted to read this:
I read it. The comment that was NOT deleted on sight was horrendous. It made me feel physically ill and if that does not show how Sarah incites people - nothing does.
So you came out and blamed Sarah Palin. Have you retracted your statement and apologized to her for the hate speech you spewed?
first of all, Facebook is one person's website. If people are saying things you don't like you should have all the right to delete posts. If someone writes on my facebook and I don't think it is appropriate, I will delete it.
Second, it is apparent that this nut job was not a follower of any conservatie person, yet I don't hear any apologies to all the hate i have heard. all I hear from the left is flat out lies and smears about the right. In our country you have the right to say that. However the truth should be told. Anyone with an open mind would know that analogies and metaphores are used on both sides.
The left screamed for Sarah to say something. they said she was hiding out in her cave. When she did speak they tried to hang her out on her words. MSNBC even had a Rabbi that said she was ok to use the term "blood libel". What do you want from her? I know you want her to go away, but she has the right the conduct her life the way she wants to. I get it. You hate her.
If you think that Sarah should not be able to delete posts on her facebook, I would suggest you go to your settings and allow everyone to post to your facebook and pledge not to delete anything.
Found this on another site
Why is it legal to take a weapon,with 33 rounds in the magazine, to a supermarket yet an elk hunter can have only 5 while in the field. Please explain the logic of the public being allowed to pack semi-automatic pistols with that many rounds in the magazine. That kind of firepower is offensive in nature.
The best thing to do about Sarah Palin is completely ignore her. She is, pardon my language, a media whore.
She wants Keith and Rachel and Chris to talk about her....talk about her incessantly. If the center and center left want to maginalize her, STOP talking about her. Who cares what she thinks?
I wanted to say media whore in my post above, but was afraid of being deleted; I will say it now... Sarah Palin is a media whore for five dollars Alex.......
No,only conservative comments get deleted on this blog! I called Clinton a liar (which he was about Monica Lewenski) and it got deleted! But, guess it is ok for you guys to call this mother a whore!
The fact is that you guys want her to be part of the conversation. I love what she said! She was right!
Katy, most of us here will disagree with you. It's important to know that polite civil discourse is acceptable and posts with opposing views do NOT get deleted on that basis alone. Typically it's the name calling and trolling around off the thread that gets deleted.
If you are a lover of Sarah Palin it may be more fun for you to go to a cite where she is loved and admired. That ain't here.
Katy... get beyond the conspiracy theories about republican bloggers being deleted. I was deleted for saying something stupid once; I commented lol about a blogger being deleted, and I probably deserved it. It is for definite hate speech, including cussing, bigotry, dangerous threats, etc. I would love to hear a solid one from you on the other side, so please craft one. She is a media whore, not a personal whore... come on, lighten up. You have to have a good argument to discourse, and I have not seen one from you yet. Your theory is plain wrong. Clinton did lie, but one lie does not a liar make, and you know it.
One of mine was deleted above for making a non-friendly-to-Palin innuendo/joke involving yodeling. Fine with me, as it wasn't totally on topic anyway. Goes to show RM isn't going through deleting only conservative comments. So, Katy, don't bring in your conspiracy theories of some kind of a censorship campaign against conservatives. RM's pretty even handed in what gets deleted...
Oh, and btw, sorry Ms. Conaway. I didn't see your byline below the Blog title, and assumed it was RM's article...
The word "whore" is a deragotory and sexist term! Think about it...
But some here on this blog feel free to use it. You try to justify it by saying you are using it in a new way, man-whore, media whore, etc. But the negative feminine sexual connotation is always there.
Sarah Palin's choice of words are no differnent. She is using an old term in a new context.
I understand what she meant and don't think it was bad. Just another case of others taking a metaphor literally.
Which metaphor of hers are you defending? That she's being persecuted like Jew for "blood libel"? Or that they weren't gunsights on her map, but "surveyor's symbols"? Or that "Don't retreat - reload" has nothing to do with guns?
When a public figure like this sticks her foot in her mouth so many times as she has with awful metaphors, she might as well have surgery to attach her head to her ankles or attach a leg to her shoulder...
Just the fact that she is being falsely accused. If you can't understand the metaphors then something is wrong with you guys. Here are some of Obama's quotes. So is he to blame?
** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
Thank you Newsvine for providing an ignore button! There's a lot to be said for the ability to not be subjected to especially inflamatory posts. I'm not so sure the comments sections don't also share a certain amount of the blame for the anger and the hatred that's so a part of our society today.
I don't think the metaphors are the problem so much as delegitimizing the government. It's calling the government tyrannical and saying the President isn't rightfully the President. It's the threats to secede or referencing the Revolution.
I wholeheartedly agree with Palin on this:
I do think the system of government we have in which we the people have the power to change policy democratically was intended to render bloody revolution unnecessary.
But the established Tea Party is talking out of both sides of their mouths since their party is wrapped in American Revolution imagery. The Revolution was not a call to go vote, but to pick up arms against a tyrannical government.
The Founding Fathers were not designing a political system for women at all, perfect or imperfect. It would be decades after the adoption of the constitution that women were involved in the political process at all, and decades after that until women finally secured the right to vote and decades after that until they became a meaningful presence in politics.
I was an adult before there was more than one woman in the United States Senate, or more than one woman governor at any given time. BTW, I am not that old. I am in my early fifties.
I think it was Chris Rock who said blacks made it in baseball not when Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays played, but when there were really bad black baseball players in the major leagues. I think the presence of Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle and Michelle Bachmann means women have made it in politics. It is not just herorines like Margaret Chase Smith or Ella Grasso any more.
I agree with you 100% GrrrlRomeo.
Threats against politicians have gone up in recent years. I haven't done the research but I would guess they started to rise when Democrats were labeled as terrorists for voting against the Irag War.
Threats against judges have increased dramatically in the last 10-15 years. Maybe if we could all agree that judges are applying the law as they interpret it instead of calling them activists trying to take over the county.
I do not believe that Sarah Palin and the others who spoke of violence are directly responsible for saturday's shootings but when politicians dehumanize their opponents and we stand by and allow that dehumanization then the violence is that much easier to inflict.
Still no replys to Obama's Comments? Nobody thinks their good or bad?
Funny, I didn't hear him say anything about "Second Amendment remedies", a la Sharron Angle, or fantasizing about killing Nancy Pelosi with poisoned wine, a la Glenn Beck. I didn't hear him talk about killing all but two of the opposition party, keeping them as museum pieces like Rush Limbaugh, nor did he advocate killing a member of the opposition as a means of intimidating them, as Ann Coulter did. If you honestly see some kind of equivalence between those statements and those that Obama said, you truly are clueless, Mark.
Mark-1679748, your "quotes" are TOTALLY BOGUS. Obama never said "They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun" or anything close to it. That was Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather". Did Palin use that line in one of her speeches?
Muggleborn : ( and I LOVE your name ! ) Mark does seem to like quoting out of context. Here are some quotes IN context :
"Don't retreat. Instead — reload!" Sarah Palin, Tweet, March 23.
"I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out." Sharron Angle January 2010
“If ballots don’t work, bullets will.” conservative Florida radio host Joyce Kaufman, Tea Party rally on July 4, 2010
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,'
Michele Bachmann told WWTC 1280 AM March 2009
Mark... you missed the point; Obama was reacting to a quote of what the Republicants were going to do! You know that is a fact. I would have said the same thing for emphasis, that we will not be intimidated by your second amendment talk. You know this is true. The rest of it is aggressive campaign language. I am sure you would be offended if (hypothetical people, keep your powder dry!) I said there may be second amendment remedies if you don't don't go back to blogging on Newsmax; they miss you Mark. You really could be Rush Limbaugh blogging under an assumed name. I'll tell you my full name, if you tell me yours, Rush.
Come'on folks. You can't attack the right and their comments just because they are on the other side. Either you are OK with the rhetoric or not. Doesn't work if you are only ok when you agree with them!!!
Get some principles!!
Er...well...sure we can...as long as it's civil.
Katy; who said that we were doing that? assumptions that don't know intent, or are without basis. Please come up with good arguements......
Mark,
Ah, the good ol' "False Equivalency Game", courtesy of Mark... So because Obama (according to you, though refuted by others - why not provide some proof of your quotes?) says a few things, most of which are about "fighting" in general, it somehow justifies Republican after Tea Partier after Republican bringing up gun-imagery, "daydreaming" on air about killing people, holding M16 rallies, etc.?
In any case, care to to tell me something, please? How many of your Obama "quotes" have resulted in any actual violent action? On the other hand, Beck had one pretty directly-related devotee, and Loughner's political ideas, not to mention his choice of target, seem awfully reminiscent of Palin.
I don't think she's as directly responsible as Beck was for his fan, but why can't she just acknowledge (without whining about herself as the "true" victim) that she contributed to the atmosphere, but that it is not what she wanted and that she will strive to not exacerbate the situation anymore with violent imagery?
Show us the evidence that this madman was influenced by Sarah Palin? One shred of real evidence has not appeared. Even the President said this was not connected.
You guys are grabbing at straws. Check out the report on Media Research Centers website of all the liberal violent comments about conservatives. Disgusting!
Katy,
Hooked on Phonics might help in learning to read thoroughly what I already wrote:
It's not direct influence, but indirect. Beck's case is much more direct. But thankfully with Beck's case, the guy was able to be stopped before he carried out his plot.
But the point of all this is not necessarily whether she was the only one contributing (she was not the only one), but rather, is she willing to stopcontributing negativity to this overly-charged political atmosphere we live in. Clearly from this video of hers, she is unwilling, and as later articles have pointed out, the reason is likely to be that she is a one-note pundit: she's really got nothing else on her "platform" except negativity and ego, so she's desperately clinging to both as she floats out to political-sea...
I did read your post, but what am saying is that you are implying is that the political atmostphere had something to do with this. There is no evidence that he was even engaged in the current political debates and from what we have heard from his friends, is that he really didn't follow current politics on TV or the Internet. He had his own beef with authority that doesn't appear to align with left or right views!
I agree that the current atmosphere is unhealthy for our country, but don't understand why the left keeps making it about Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, when clearly we see some outrageous and violent language from the liberal left media as well.
IMO she had to defend herself from premature attacks from the left. Perhaps THEY should have waited for some shred of evidence that connected her to this event. There hasn't been any.....and the President agreed!
Shouldn't the left sweep its own house first?
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36445/
Right katy.
Okay Katy, we get it. You think Palin is Jesus, that she can do no wrong, and that the political atmosphere with all it's gun analogies, in a culture where everyone and his brother own a gun and can make those analogies more than analogies, is perfectly acceptable.
We also understand that no amount of reasonable logic will sway you on your stance. You've made you point. You can shut up about this now.
I think Sarah Palin is a fool. It boggles my mind whenever the word "president" and her name are uttered in the same sentence. I keep hoping the media will ignore her, but I know that's naïve. Why does she get so much coverage? When I watched TV last night, I lost count of the number of times someone asked why she hadn't responded to questions about her crosshairs map. And this morning, she posts her latest manifesto on Facebook and the media go wild again. I think I'll leave my TV off today.
Ok, I'm back. I think politically Sarah Palin is done for at least I hope so. I am saying this not to be cruel but she is the worst kind of political prostitute EVER. She would sell her family, her country, religion, God, her very soul, say and do about anything to get ahead. Normally I have a shred of respect for even the worst of politicians if they are sincere and believe what they are doing is right. For Sarah, I have NONE. I detect no sincerity or dignity in anything she says.
Also, I resent her calling Mr. Laughlin evil. The man is mentally ill. What he did is horrible beyond words, but if one believes in God then Mr. Laughlin is equally one of God's creatures. And she can take her "each person is an individual" crap and shove it because we are all dependent on each other. We are our brother's keepers. It is our responsibility to enhance our society not tear it apart as she has done. Furthermore, exercising 2nd amendment rights comes with responsibility, and an sense of common sense. When guns are used to intimidate and stoke anxiety (like bringing guns to a presidential rally) then our beloved democracy starts to fall apart.
Ugggg, I could go on and on and I thank you for allowing me to vent. I am just so depressed by all the hatred, fear, and anger that this woman and others have triggered against our society and our country.
sorry, I misspelled his name, but you know who I mean
Sarah Palin blaming the media. Yawn. We've been here before. I recognize that tree. This is not a new story or even a particularly interesting one. And I can't even begin to express how much I don't care.
Sarah Palin using words incorrectly or incoherently. Hey, I recognize that rock. We've also been here before. This is nothing new, and I don't care. The only thing that will make me care about anything Sarah Palin does is if she stops playing coy and definitively says whether she's running for president or not. If she's not, I still don't care. If she is, I will start to care a great deal, because having this dingbat in charge of the country would be worse than Bush. Palin makes Bush look like a professor.
sorry folks, being technically computer illiterate, I'm having trouble adding the link to the blog of Palin's editing of her facebook page. Please google
"inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html"
and it should be the top result.
I'll try it and see if I can get it to work :
try this
http://obamalondon.blogspot.com/2011/01/inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html
Thanks ! I had it and then it disappeared !
maybe the level of traffic will shut down her diatribe of a face book page.... yea!
This woman is genuinely sick. Throughout her strange political history, she's always tried to interject herself as the "True Victim" into every tragedy where most people would express sympathy or regret or sadness or even compassion. Sarah Palin is simply unable to access those emotions and can only hijack them from others, twisting them to suit her selfish ends.
She's a toxic and diseased human being who thinks that so long as people see her as a victim, they will be nicer to her.
I think it has to stop. I think it's damn time people confront her and call her on this selfish, opportunistic nonsense of hers. After all, America is sickened at the thought of the odious Phelps clan picketing the funerals of the victims of this tragedy to bring attention to themselves and further their own ends. Why are we not equally sickened when Palin does pretty much the exact same damn thing by hijacking people's sympathies in attempt to add one more victim to this tragedy?
Well said Noodlehead. Toxic and diseased and if there is evil it is she.
This was exactly my thought. Palin has a special knack for turning things her way.
She criticized Hillary Clinton for claiming a gender bias, at least until she got into the race. Then she whined about being picked on for being a girl.
She and her family are victimized anytime someone publicly uses the 'R' word. But she is equally victimized by the 'lamestream' media when her daughter uses a gay slur.
And now six people are dead another thirteen injured and she is again victimized because some believe the political rhetoric has gotten too ugly.
This further proves just how clueless Sarah Palin is. She has no idea how to properly respond to something like this and to think about her choice of words. She's just further digging herself into a hole every time she opens her mouth. She truly is an idiot. I really think (hope) this is the final nail in her political coffin. I truly think even people on the right are starting to shift away from her now. Again, at least I hope.
Why is Palin able to spout very appropriate advice to us all, but unable to see it applies most of all to herself?
Sarah, if you're going to bother to quote the Gipper, you might as well listen to him on it first... Admit your culpability in this whole affair, and some of us might gain a sliver of respect for you. Instead of whining about how you're the victim, remember that this tragedy had several real victims - and Sarah Palin sure as hell ain't one of them!
She can say all she wants that her little "surveyor markings" map had nothing to do with this. But then how in the world can she take credit for any wins by TP candidates among those 20 "surveyor" spots?
this is actually an angle that has not been mentioned before...thanks.
hmmm....well CoraH, good thing I don't take my marching orders from you!