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Palin: Criticizing Rush over his Fluke comments is the definition of hypocrisy
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) got caught by CNNs caucus cam in Wasilla and the whole CNN team to the opportunity to quiz her about the the GOP primary, her potential candidacy and, of course, her opinion on the Sandra Fluke affair. Unsurprisingly, Palin used the opportunity to call the liberal media hypocrites. I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, force to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights, she said, and never is the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, the defenseless.
Palin was not ready to tell the cameras her choice for the GOP nomination, telling CNN, I want to see the process continue, more debate about who it is that can bust through the Orwellian Obama rhetoric and pandering that we see in the incumbent, who can bust through that with facts, with history, with logic, with common sense in order for American voters to understand we have a choice, indicating that she likely didnt cast a ballot for former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-AK).
When asked, as she inevitably is, about her potential candidacy in 2016, she said, Anything in this life, in this world is possible. Anything is possible for an American, and declined to say that she wasnt interested. I would seriously consider whatever I can do to help our country, she added.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/palin-criticizing-rush-over-his-fluke-comments-is-the-definition-of-hypocrisy/
I need a drink...... after that word salad
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Hypocrisy is demanding David Letterman apologize for his single crude monologue joke and not demanding Limbaugh apologize for his 3 day verbal assault on Ms Fluke. Palin is a feeble-brained professional victim.
gaura purnima
(3 posts)denverbill
(11,489 posts)Definition of BIMBO
1
slang : man, woman <telling a thickheaded pitcher that the bimbo at the plate hasn't hit a curve in three seasons Jay Stuller> used as a generalized term of disapproval especially for an attractive but vacuous person <we didn't want a blond bimbo in that role
we wanted her to be smart Hugh Wilson>
It's not specific to women. Why you could be a bimbo too.
On edit: I guess you being a bimbo would imply you being attractive as well. So I apologize for saying you could be a bimbo. Hope you enjoyed your brief stay.
frylock
(34,825 posts)run along now.
Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)about certain RW women that are considered by some to be offensive, but I wonder which "leftist radicals" she is referring to who say horrible things about the handicapped and defenseless. Can she provide any instances where this has happened?
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)(not on the radio- or repeatedly by the way)
Palin also used her platform to continue a call for the president to rid himself of his closest advisers. On Attorney General Eric Holder, she labeled his handling of captured terrorists -- "allowing them our U.S. constitutional protections when they do not deserve them" -- a firing offense. On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.
But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.
"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html
I think she's looking to become the queen of hyprocricy.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)(thank you Charlie Pierce for that one) assumes we care what she "thinks." Wrong, Grifterella!
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Too bad that everything that's ever been said about her is in fact true.
dynasaw
(998 posts)Keep ignoring her and whatever nonsense she's spitting. Listening to her and giving her space just gives her legitimacy.
qb
(5,924 posts)PSPS
(13,608 posts)The Fluke fiasco has no more to do with the first amendment than the controversy has anything to do with "taxpayers paying for birth control." Limbaugh can still say anything he wants to say. But, as you put very succinctly, any company can freely decide how they want to advertise.
Bake
(21,977 posts)If people don't like it, they reject it. That's how it works. No one is above criticism.
Get a clue, Palin, you freakin' idiot. And oh, PLEASE PLEASE step in at the Thug convention and try to "save" your party! We're begging you!
Bake
Botany
(70,556 posts)Does she even know what the first amendment says?
Rush is free to empty his pie hole w/ his idiotic and hate filled bile
but that does not mean if he says something which a person or group
of persons finds offensive that he can not be held accountable for
his statements by the free market.
When will this bag of stupid called Sarah Palin just go away? Why does "legit media" even
ask her about anything? My black labrador has 15 IQ points over Palin.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Are you familiar with Dunning-Kruger Effect?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101618122
JohnWxy
(6,506 posts)Palin saying of Obama: "Orwellian Obama rhetoric" (as if she knows who George Orwell is, or has ever read anything by him). Of course, this makes one think "Have I been misconstruing Reality? "
In the real world that most of us live in ..all the apolyptic rhetoric has been coming from fulminating Republicans: "Obama the bolschevic", "the Goverments gonna kill your grandma", and "take away your howitzers", "force you to get health-insurance" (something every rational person wants but defers only because they can't afford it).
The conservative mind consistently sees in others the intentions which they are the very [font size="3"]personification[/font] of.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)There's a storm brewing and its not in the Atlantic.
I willing to bet the building will implode when they all get together.
ATTENTION HOMELAND SECURITY THAT LINE
IS A METAPHOR AND AN ANLOGY MEANT IN HUMOR AND IRONY.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)"I don't know any moose prostitutes, gay or straight", was her reply.
JHB
(37,161 posts)He went on a three-day harangue, said lots of things, then "apologized" for using two words.