Palin Abandons Her "Screw Political Correctness" Mantra
Last June, soon-to-be ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Michael Reagan, lauding his propensity to "to call it like he sees it, and to screw political correctness that some would expect him to have to adhere to." As she headed out the door six weeks later, Palin promised to be "less politically correct" after her leaving office. Then after the Ft. Hood shootings in November, Palin said "profile away!" because such political correctness "could be our downfall."
As it turns out, Palin's crusade against political correctness was a bogus one. As her manufactured outrage over Rahm Emanuel's closed-door comments show, Sarah Palin's new mantra is "political correctness for me, not thee."
On Tuesday, Palin took to Facebook to call for Emanuel's resignation following a Wall Street Journal story that the White House chief of staff called liberal activists "f**king retarded" during a meeting last August. But while Emanuel already apologized last week to Special Olympics Chairman and CEO Tim Shriver, Palin demanded his head on behalf of her son and those like him:
"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking."
Of course, in two days Sarah Palin will collect a $115,000 pay day speaking to those who traffic in the "N-word" at the National Tea Party Convention.
For Palin, who called for the merger of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party, the audience will be quite familiar. During the 2008 campaign, attendees at McCain-Palin events displayed toy monkeys to represent her African-American opponent. Self-proclaimed Tea Party "founder" Dale Robertson carried a large sign bearing the N-word at one of the movement's events. Only last week, Robertson distributed a fundraising email which portrayed President Obama as a pimp. It's not hard to imagine that the assembled Tea Baggers would buy "Obama Waffles" and sing along to the words of the "Barack the Magic Negro" song so beloved by Rush Limbaugh and would-be Republican National Committee chairman Chip Saltsman. Still, as Palin wrote in her USA Today op-ed Tuesday:
"They have the courage to stand up and speak out.
Their vision is what drew me to the Tea Party movement. They believe in the same principles that guided my work in public service..."
No doubt, the conservative commentariat will join Sarah Palin's call for Rahm Emanuel's ouster. Sadly, that may be difficult to do.
Daily Caller founder and Fox New contributor Tucker Carlson, for example, called Canada "a retarded cousin" of the United States. Ann Coulter deemed former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan "retarded." As for Nancy Pelosi, Coulter wrote last February:
"But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?"
Her political allies, too, may be in an awkward position. Take Texas Senator John Cornyn. Today, the head of the National Republican Senate Committee agreed with Palin that the GOP must accommodate the Tea Baggers, arguing that it's "important that we try to channel these relative newcomers to the political process through our primaries so that they can have an impact on who's nominated." But back in 2005, Cornyn took to the floor of the Senate to condone threats against judges for, among otherwise, barring the death penalty in a case where "the defendant was mildly mentally retarded."
"And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence."
In most quarters, threatening judges is not politically correct. No doubt, the old Sarah Palin would have had no problem with it.
But the new Sarah Palin has a new mantra: "Politically correct away!"
The image above is from the new Sarah Palin magazine available on store shelves now!
This piece also appears at Perrspectives.
i agree (for completely different reasons), get rid of rahm--he is poison.
Where are the "liberal activists"?
To be called "retarded" by any of the centrist scumbags who supported Bush's moronic and insane Iraq War is a compliment, I know, but still.
I have yet to see one progressive who doesn't completely despise Rahm.
He's a scumbag.
But so is Lady Lipstick, who shamelessly used and continues to use her children as props.
Honestly, you're not going to get any sympathy from me for Rahm. He's a menace and an untalented a**hole.
I don't like Palin, but remember, Rahm called LIBERAL activists fucking retarded. He hates liberals as much as Sarah does. Progressives shouldn't be backing up Rahm because he doesn't give a shit about progressive issues.
I find it interesting that she brought up the "N" word at all. How is that particular word relevant to the issue?
I think this is another of those "dogwhistle" signals to her supporters, reminding them of that uppity so-called president we have.
Why is it okay for people like Palin to be uppity?
True liberals/progressives don't simply critique the elite, we actually fight them and win.
that they would do it, and them actually having done it, are 2 different things, aren't they, Jon? Wait until they've actually done it, and that prose won't be so wussy. YOu probably won't have to wait long.
But to even appear to fire this worthless ********** because of this dumb b***h would be horrific capitulation.
But then, when conservatives start to complain, Obama goes into full panic mode and starts throwing people under the bus (ask Van Jones).
When liberals complain, Obama ignores them and mocks them. Then they don't vote and Republicans end up winning formerly safe Senate seats in Massachusetts.
A conservative is complaining. I wonder if Obama will do his usual panic and fire Rahm to appease the right. Probably not, but it's just a thought.
BO does have a tendency to reward his enemies and punish his friends. Maybe this will break the spell!
...for the gratuitous use of the term "b***h"? please define the term as you see it if it actually something other than a generic put down of all women. this is no better than someone calling obama a ****** just because they don't like him.
after you've taught math and science to dirt poor tanzanians for a couple of years and built schools in nicaragua supporting the sandinistas, come talk to me about "how good a liberal you are"
i'm also the kind of progressive who's proud enough to use their real name when they post, whether it be general comments or comments i will get flamed for by people who can't take even the smallest criticism without going ballistic.
Ralph Nader once said that the reason the liberals of the 60's ended up failing in most of their aspirations is because they never got their own houses in order.
imo, it starts here at home where we talk to each other and how we talk to each other, and how we present ourselves to the rest of the world.
...done more in those victimized Nations. Besides what you've done has nothing to do with the fact that you have zero influence over what I think and say.
This thread is about the menace Palin...not concerning how mean you feel I am to her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vecw539MjWM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
i'm assuming you aren't saying that newt is who we ought look to for how to conduct ourselves... :)
when fox news prints your post with words that are widely demeaning on this "liberal" site as fodder for their propoganda, it hurts our shared cause. that's all i'm saying.
If they can't find anything they'll just make something up
Unless you actually believe Obama really is a Communist Fascist Socialist Nazi sissy with a ring in his nose.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
true enough.
That's kinda stretching it a bit.
In the last few years I have read and put up with what seems to me an endless amount of subtle and insensitive comments regarding Obama constantly forcing his race to be the issue over his ability to govern. From proclamations that he's not black(as if being black is a terrible thing) to he's naturally racially biased, on and on. Just the other day I got into a nasty confrontation with a couple of posters here who somehow believed that I had no right to be offended by Chris Matthews clumsy(not racist, but subject to racial misinterpretation by fragile minded bigots)statements post the President's SOTU speech. If my comment offended you get in line...I'm already there, well ahead of you.
I have to agree with ya Bruce. There's no need to use a term that is derogatory to ALL women when it should suffice to refer to her generically as a worthless hypocritical piece of crap
all it takes is all of us
nice flourish, there!
"Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking."
She continued: "My own little retarded one cried all day. When I finally put his shoes on in the afternoon in 32 degree weather he finally stopped."
Heartbreaking indeed.
good one.
I thought her own daughter or not son in law outed her on her own use of the R word?
..outed her. Is he reliable? Who's to say? I would bet money that palin wouldn't tell you the truth one way or the other. That is unless you paid her to tell you and even then, there would be a story where she exploits one of her other children.
I used to think you had to have at least a little intelligence to be a politician. Then we are introduced to palin and bachmann and boehner and mcconnell, et. al.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Palin is a tome of stoopid.
The queen of nonsense.
I'd rather have Rahm as COS than Palin as VP any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I do want her to be more outspoken...as does every comedy writer in America.
for Rahm, why is this even an issue brought up in the news. Just because Sara said it in facebook it's news now? He said this shit 6 months ago.
With all the Obama news she was feeling left out.
A tardy response to Rahm
remember the last time someone said something nasty to you, and the perfect comeback didn't come to you until the middle of the night? well, it just takes a little longer for sarah to process these sorts of things. but boy, was it worth the wait! LOL
Some of us are still waiting.
...only have the power which we give them. Also, rationally speaking, intent matters.
Rahm is a.......
more news:
So is palin
Cue the Kabuki....
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Rahmtardo!
we could lose Sarah like a pair of cheap sunglasses on a drunken weekend. She is as irksome to us as Obama is to them. He's the Whole Black, she's a Black Hole.
Faith - (Christian only)
Family - (mine only - especially when I can push them in front of the camera for my own political and financial gains)
Freedom - (For white teabaggers only. Everyone else scrap and claw for the freedoms you can before wingnuts like myself try to take them away from you.)
Sarah Palin can be the president of a pancake house, as long as she gets her exorcisms on a regular basis.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Hasn't she already told it and in her own words? It was a pack of self-serving lies and it's a pack of self-serving lies now. When will that loathsome creature's 15 minutes be up?
Thanks again John McCain!
... if Obama and the Compromise Twins don't grow spines and figure out bipartisanship is a sucker bet, we're gonna have 4 years and 15 minutes of the God awful creature.
Provided she doesn't quit at halftime.
and she shoots it out of season.
New joke. A moose walks into a bar,...Sarah shot it.
*crash*
She'd never make it to halftime.
It McCain was here right now, I'm sure he'd tell you that "it was the mavericky thing to do at the time".
"at the time, it seemed like the logical thing to do" when Spock asked him why he married an Earth Woman.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
word salad dressing.
thank gawd she isn't undressing.
Whatta sight.
... cheap photo ops for political points.
Piper: Trotted out on the ice at the Flyers game.
Bristol: "We Chose Life!" magazine cover.
Trig: Emmanuel's comment is an insult to the child she otherwise carries around like a football. (And let's not forget that she pooh-poohed 'research into fruit flies,' even though that particular study was about the genetics behind developmental disabilities.)
..we CHOOSE life. See, she's pitching for Pro-Choice! I wonder what the right wing tea-baggers have to say about that?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
IOKIYAR. Rahm should go but there are thousands of legitimate reasons to get rid of him starting with Asshattery and ending with Zealously blaming the left for all Democratic failure. But a broken clock is likewise right twice a day for the wrong reason and is only slightly smarter than Sarah Palin.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
every American who can see Russia from their house....
Quite a feat....
signing a lucrative contract with LensCrafters.
Her feigned anger is as fake as well, she is.
She is always in the market to get her name in the media no matter the cause or reason. Not much mavericky about that in the world of politics.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So totally in character for Sarah to be the biggest hypocrite in the history of history . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
that's the money quote. Along with her convention speech shout out to moms of special needs kids and how she's gonna be our best friend.
thanks. but no thanks.
..the report that she bought up so many of her books with her unused campaign money (donated campaign money) so she could offer them up for a donation to her PAC AND she collects a "Seller's Fee" from the publisher. Oh yeah, she's the perfect right-winger.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Would you have a link or a lead handy? Don't bother searching, just if it's easy.
I'd like to send it around. It fits perfectly.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Sarah Palin Used PAC to Buy Her Own Book
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Gee, I wonder if she'd be onto this one if it weren't for her personal situation?
I bet she's called people retarded a thousand times. (Hey, maybe that's why she resigned, out of disgust with herself.)
But ain't it always the way with 'conservatives'. Homosexuality? Disgusting? Oh, your daughter turns out to be a lesbian? Road to Damascus time.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
media savy, Sarah! She never misses a trick at being the defender of all those "real" Americans out there.
She is a media creation who will ride that wave as close to, if not into, the White House as she can take it.
Now, excuse me, while I get back to those 100 must see photos in her untold story.
still around?
Be as you wish to seem
As a professional in the field of intellectual and other developmental disabilities....and as one with many friends who have disabilities I am offended by the "R" word and have been for years.
This also goes for those of you on this site that think the word is funny or appropriate in name-calling.....please consider NOT using the word any more then you would refer to a person of color with the "N" word. Thank you.
But what troubles me WAAAAY more then even Rahm using the word is the fact that, as Governor of Alaska, Ms. Palin slashed the Special Olympics budget. Deeds are stronger then words Ms. Palin you worthless hypocritical POS
{I apologize for not catching that sooner. We in no way condone the use of the R word. Trust me, If it continues, I'll act to stop it. We can't be everywhere all the time. So, Please flag the comments when you see that. Thank You.SiteMonitor]
all it takes is all of us
...this site. You and Bruce Sears clearly have attended the Sara Palin school of fake and hypocritical outrage.
Sorry folks, the First Amendment is still intact.
I saw that when it happened. Sarah's slashing of the spec ed budget that is. What a friend! /s
She's so obvious about her agenda (it's all about sarah). When she said she was going to be a "friend" to parents of special needs kids, I knew before the words were outta her mouth she was lying.
I'm editing my comment now.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2007/...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You mean Rahm?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
When is she gonna stop using "her" kid as some kind of political prop?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
How dare you bring her kids into this discussion!
... but it's ok because he apologized to the "r******"? That is his word not mine. It's ok because, of course, mentally disabled people were the only ones insulted by the comment. I suppose it is pretty insulting in Rahm's book to be compared with "progressives."
But that's the New Democrats for ya. Not only are they perfectly willing to openly insult progressives, they then throw in the bogeyman (this time "Palin") just to remind us that the alternative is just so scary we don't have a choice.
It's almost become a taunt. They are so confident that people must vote for them because the only alternative is a teabagger, that a rhetorical spit in the face to progressives need not even be addressed.
[on edit: aargho was right. modified the R word to match what I would have done with the N word]
{ Thank You. SM}
Corruption favors the wealthy.
To this guy:
But not to liberal activists? Lol, too funny. Asshat.
The only shot Sarah Stupid has at the White House, is if Obama KEEPS DLC Rahm and all of his other buedog advisors.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
"They believe in the same principles that guided my work in public service..." S.Palin Does this mean we can expect them to quit if the weather isn't nice enough (one of her many colleges) or if the job gets a little onerous?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Not that he is a very reliable source, but didn't Levi Johnson say that Palin called her son, Trig, "retarded" on a regular basis?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
see upthread...
Who the fuck is Sarah Palin anyway? She is no more or less important than you or me. She is just an ordinary person. She holds no office. She has no real expertise in much of anything. All she has is a big mouth that spouts bullshit. Fuck her and her idotic opinions.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Although I'm inclined more or less to agree with you, repeating the same phrase over and over again could be a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder, which is a mental disorder.
:)
If I called Rahm an f'ing moron, would I have to apologize to the RNC?
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.”
- John Stuart Mill
Just saw over on "The Mudflats" web site that the Palins are tax cheats. They haven't had their property assessed since having improvements done years ago. Shitheads.
Lie, cheat, steal, bare false wittness, Greed, ruthlessness, stupidity, arrogance, ignorance.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
right Sarah? oh you dont have to agree, its true. you remember that pesky little job, the governor of Alaska thingy, you were elected to for a 4 year term (maybe more) back in 06? oh yeah that one. the one you surprisingly quit from, even amazing many supporters and voters of yours, last summer. just so you could go and make money before your fame dried up. gotta 'write' that book, and make them speeches before the well runs dry. and to do that, well that job you had just would have to go. and you betcha ya, it did.
that a real magazine cover?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/s...
Sickening. Mostly pix and big type text (24 point and up). Pap and crap.
me-oww!
"LIMBAUGH: Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...."
h/t to Think Progress, which has a vid clip....
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/03/limbaugh-...
Not that I really care the slightest bit about Palin's drama on this, but there is absolutely no way Emmanuel can truly apologize over this. It wasn't an actual gaffe, like the use of the word "negro." It was an insult. It's how Emmanuel feels about a lot of us who made up Obama's base. There's simply no respect for us and, no matter who he apologizes to, the lack of respect for us is not going to change.
is a walking contradiction.
She is one of the most inconsistent--okay for me, but not you--narcissists I have ever seen.
Hardly surprising she varies on any topic depending on what is good for her, or perceived to be so. She is about as 'just like me' in personality as the moon is.
She is not just out of touch on political issues, she appears to be paranoid to the max.
The day we elect someone this bad to the office of president is the day I move, temporarily, out of the country. Her stupidity scares the pants off me.
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