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Title: The Palin Twitter Backlash
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Published: Aug 20, 2010
Author: John Avlon
Post Date: 2010-08-20 12:34:21 by Brian S
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Views: 10065
Comments: 20
Black Republicans tell John Avlon that Sarah Palin's tweet in defense of Dr. Laura was ridiculous and indefensible—and that she may be "no longer fit to lead." Sarah Palin’s post-VP nominee career has so far benefitted from bomb-throwing. The process follows a tight script—a crude, semi-calculated comment is shot into the middle of a political debate via Facebook or Twitter. It gains national attention. Liberals are outraged. Conservatives rush to her defense. Sarah Palin dominates a news cycle and becomes more beloved by her base. But by unnecessarily rushing to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger—after she dropped the N-bomb 11 times and told the caller “don’t marry outside of your race”—Sarah Palin might finally have gone too far and picked a fight she cannot win. Palin is “trying to shock us each day with more and more outlandish commentary,” said one black conservative. “And at that moment that person is no longer fit to lead.” This is the sound of Sarah Palin jumping the shark in two tweets: • Dr.Laura:don't retreat ... reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair") The few black conservative candidates, columnists, and media figures—who represent the GOP’s only hope for reclaiming the legacy of Lincoln and, with it, long-term demographic relevance—are not amused. They’re now saying what many in the GOP increasingly believe: Sarah Palin is not fit to be a serious leader of the Republican Party. I spoke to Michel Faulkner, the former NFL player and Harlem preacher challenging Charlie Rangel for a House seat, and he was unsparing in his criticism: “Why Sarah Palin feels she needs to join in to Dr. Laura’s personal meltdown is beyond me. She’s sounding like she just likes to hear her own voice—and the voice that she has is no longer credible. It says that a leading voice among conservatives has joined the ranks of the entertainers—trying to shock us each day with more and more outlandish commentary. And at that moment that person is no longer fit to lead.” “The constitutional stuff she’s saying doesn’t even make any sense,” Faulkner said. “She doesn’t know what real shackles are… But ‘don’t retreat, reload?’ Lady, are you kidding me? That is scary language in anyone’s terminology. Sarah Palin scares me.” Nationally syndicated conservative columnist Deroy Murdock took an even stronger line. “Sarah Palin's tweets resemble something scribbled by a ninth-grade cheerleader. Is it asking too much for a reputed American political leader to communicate in complete sentences? Palin's gravitas gap is growing into the Gravitas Canyon,” said the media fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. “Even worse, she deploys her vacuity to defend an acerbic talk-show host who just detonated herself by tossing around the word 'nigger' on the air 11 times, as if it were a volleyball. The American right can do better than this. And it must." Joe Hicks recently launched a first-of-its-kind program called Minority Report on PJTV.com, from the perspective that “conservative blacks and other minority conservatives are routinely vilified by leftists and liberals as well as often marginalized by the right.” But this California-based Marxist-turned-conservative-convert, who’s a Tea Party-favorite, isn’t buying the party line when it comes to Palin’s Dr. Laura defense. “When I first heard this stuff, what came across was an extremely lame white chick trying to school this other woman about the N-word. … So I’m certainly not one to try and defend Dr. Laura. She has a history of being a negative and nasty persona. But Sarah Palin’s comments? Well, this is confusing stuff coming out of a woman who would have been the vice president if McCain had won. … Palin seems to be as equally detached from the real world where people operate and where race is a really volatile topic.” “First Amendment rights? Of course. But [Dr. Laura] wasn’t fired—she decided to drop her show. So I’m not exactly understanding what Sarah Palin’s understanding of the Constitution is here. And it isn’t completely out of character, which is very unfortunate. She keeps dropping this bizarre stuff,” Hicks said. “It says this woman really has no larger vision of what she is trying to do in a political sense—there’s a pretty narrow intellect at work here ... Attempting to defend the indefensible is just kind of insulting.” Earlier in the day, my colleague at The Daily Beast, Samuel P. Jacobs, got in touch with Timothy Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, the organization that helped recruit a record 32 African-American Republican congressional candidates this year—a feat first reported in The Daily Beast. Johnson was clear: “Sarah Palin is not the chair of the Republican Party. … She is a leading Republican, but from what I can tell many black Republicans don’t use Sarah Palin as a benchmark. I hope Chairman Steele comes out in relationship to this issue. … You can support the sinner and not the sin. We need to separate respecting the doctor versus respecting what she says. … If she chooses to run for president in 2012, she is going to have to answer to black Republicans.” By mid-afternoon yesterday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s office was still offering no comment on this controversy. It is a silence he will not be able to keep indefinitely. Calling health-care plans “death panels” proved devastatingly effective for Sarah Palin and helped set the tone and terms of debate for many of her fellow conservatives. But Palin’s amen-corner echo-chamber may be too well insulated. The essential diversity of American life seems to escape her. And whether she’s become addicted to controversy or reflexively rallying what she calls "real America" to the defense of the indefensible, she is on the wrong side of history. And those are odds you can’t wink your way out of. As Michel Faulkner explained: “As a conservative running in Harlem, it is very difficult to get our message of responsible government out if all our spokespeople are wingnuts. We need people that understand how to bring our culture together and not divide us… [Sarah Palin] made it even more difficult for those of us who view ourselves as true conservatives in an age of political correctness, because racism can never be one of those things that we can accept without consequence.”
• Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
She was never fit to lead.
Democrats vs Republicans: The false paradigm of American politics People continue to believe in fallacies like the left-right paradigm because they are inclined for some reason- to make decisions based on their feelings, rather than objective logic or rational thought unfortunately.
LMAO!! Yeah, you're right, she is honest and sincere, has a lot of common sense and the guts to tell the truth. I can only guess that is in direct contrast to idea of a "leader".
And you can find her on both sides on most issues. LOL And she believes that the elites shouldn't take flack for their screwups and believes that their sanctity from any repercussion is covered under the 1st Amendment.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
Where did you get that nonsense?
What nonsense? She has quotes all over the political map for anyone with the ability to search to find. Why just a few months ago you can find quotes galore of her deriding those who used the N word. Now it's evidently OK. LOLOL Her ethics have sure become situational and usually infavor of some elite getting a pass.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
What crap! Picked a fight with whom? Schlessinger gave her honest opinion. What's wrong with that? Nigger is just a stupid word that evolved a long time ago when some of the Nigerian tribes sold other tribes into slavery. These people were called Nigers from the Niger delta region. Any offense at hearing this word is just contrived political bullsh!t.
That's a pretty good description of Mama Grizzly.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
Step away from the bong, bubba...
Democrats vs Republicans: The false paradigm of American politics People continue to believe in fallacies like the left-right paradigm because they are inclined for some reason- to make decisions based on their feelings, rather than objective logic or rational thought unfortunately.
That's a pretty good description of Mama Grizzly. Somebody told me, "she's the Lady Gaga of politics." LMAO.
Democrats vs Republicans: The false paradigm of American politics People continue to believe in fallacies like the left-right paradigm because they are inclined for some reason- to make decisions based on their feelings, rather than objective logic or rational thought unfortunately.
LOL! Clildish reply.
??? She's so supremely unqualified to do anything (except, of course, squirt out babies), that it boggles my mind how anybody could actually support this bimbo... You want common sense, patriotism, understanding of what's really going on, and an unimpeachable record for integrity? If the answer is "yes," then Ron Paul is your candidate. When palin accepted the offer to run with mcStain, she threw any cred she had in the toilet. Her continued support of "Immigration Reform," just punctuates that. That she supports continued foreign wars, throwing our kids into the meat-grinder, to keep the M.E. unstable (and not a direct threat to Israel) is inexcusable. An old rule: "NEVER fall in love with a politician; they'll stab you in the back every time."
Democrats vs Republicans: The false paradigm of American politics People continue to believe in fallacies like the left-right paradigm because they are inclined for some reason- to make decisions based on their feelings, rather than objective logic or rational thought unfortunately.
So would a first grade level crossword puzzle. No big fookin deal, erica. Aren't you the loudmouth who claims to have accomplished more than Palin, but has never posted one fookin thing you've done besides spew horseshit?
Annoying, that LF cookies don't stay in my computer. I keep seeing your drivel... Oh, and BTW, I do the NYT crosswords. In ink. The ones at the end the week are what challenge me the most- I finish them about 1/3 of the time. Typical stupidity for you, yukko, you flaccid little rump-ranger. You wouldn't know a "big fookin deal" if it fell out of the sky, landed on your face, and started to wiggle. Dismissed, Bi-ATCH.
Dumbfuck. There hasn't been a Times X-word puzzle to stump me in...geez...15 years.
That's all you post, pissant. You are a fookin braggart and loser! You've accomplished nothing in life and you'll never attain the level of success Palin, a woman and mother of 5, has. It must eat at your incompetent ass everyday!
Yackoff.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
If the answer is "yes," then Ron Paul is your candidate. That was a good reply. I had to know if you were just another liberal with an irrational hatred for Palin. If Ron Paul runs, he will be the best in the race.
How do you define irrational? I consider her zealot worshippers who ignore half of what she says, as irrational. My definition of worshipper. Those who try to disallow any other discussion of her other than on emotional terms.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
I must have missed that. I admit I do not pay much attention to her now. When she was Governor here, she seemed truthful and honest and usually showed common sense. You can not get an approval rating like she had then in this state unless that is true.
I know liberal types who have an irrational fear of Palin becoming more politically viable than any of the political parasites they would have as "leader". It seems she is being used as a political distraction by the Dem/GOP political consortium in an effort to maintain the illusion of a working two party system.
Black Republicans tell John Avlon that Sarah Palin's tweet in defense of Dr. Laura was ridiculous and indefensible—and that she may be "no longer fit to lead."
What paradigm? That is the type of response one would receive from the average voter in the United States today. It reflects the clandestine ignorance of the majority of the populace today. So the question becomes, why does the population continue to believe in the so called, left-right paradigm?
#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
She was never fit to lead.
#3. To: eskimo (#2)
#4. To: mininggold (#3)
#5. To: eskimo (#4)
(Edited)
Where did you get that nonsense?
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
But by unnecessarily rushing to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger—after she dropped the N-bomb 11 times and told the caller “don’t marry outside of your race”—Sarah Palin might finally have gone too far and picked a fight she cannot win.
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
As Michel Faulkner explained: “As a conservative running in Harlem, it is very difficult to get our message of responsible government out if all our spokespeople are wingnuts.
#8. To: eskimo (#2)
she is honest and sincere, has a lot of common sense and the guts to tell the truth.
What paradigm? That is the type of response one would receive from the average voter in the United States today. It reflects the clandestine ignorance of the majority of the populace today. So the question becomes, why does the population continue to believe in the so called, left-right paradigm?
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#7)
wingnuts...
What paradigm? That is the type of response one would receive from the average voter in the United States today. It reflects the clandestine ignorance of the majority of the populace today. So the question becomes, why does the population continue to believe in the so called, left-right paradigm?
#10. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
#11. To: eskimo (#10)
Clildish reply.
What paradigm? That is the type of response one would receive from the average voter in the United States today. It reflects the clandestine ignorance of the majority of the populace today. So the question becomes, why does the population continue to believe in the so called, left-right paradigm?
#12. To: Capitalist Eric (#11)
it boggles my mind
#13. To: Ibluafartsky (#12)
So would a first grade level crossword puzzle.
#14. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
The ones at the end the week are what challenge me the most- I finish them about 1/3 of the time.
#15. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
Typical stupidity
#16. To: Ibluafartsky (#15)
#17. To: Capitalist Eric (#11)
You want common sense, patriotism, understanding of what's really going on, and an unimpeachable record for integrity?
#18. To: eskimo (#17)
That was a good reply. I had to know if you were just another liberal with an irrational hatred for Palin. If Ron Paul runs, he will be the best in the race.
#19. To: mininggold (#5)
Why just a few months ago you can find quotes galore of her deriding those who used the N word.
#20. To: mininggold (#18)
How do you define irrational?
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