Okay, how many times in your life have you made a mistake, and then had to back track over it? Well, if you are human, there are probably one or two times that you can think of when you did something like that. Okay, you were little and you really didn't know any better. Whatever. I have had to admit plenty of things in my life and also defend myself too.
Sarah Palin could not damage her image by apologizing for the use of 'blood libel'. She found other ways to continue to damage her image. She insisted instead that she actually knew what it meant. Does that strike anyone else as funny? Can you imagine yourself telling the world that you really did know what that word meant that you used.....I would say it would be a no brainer that you knew what it meant if you had dared use it. I would think you might apologize if you 'misunderstood' what it meant and wanted to clarify what you really meant, or just let it go. By insisting you knew what it meant, it makes you look like a child caught in the act of a lie, and trying to explain your way out of it.
Her fascinating interview with Sean Hannity is worth watching. I could not embed it here, and the media outlet it is on appears to be conservative. I am not sure. However, the Alternet link below has the jist of the article and one of the video clips. You can click on that and click on Mediate for the right article and videos. I have never seen Sara look quiet so scared and intimidated in her disclaimer....some of you might have before, but this is the first time she didn't look to smug and all up with her self to me. Be sure and listen to the idiotic banter for an interesting take on her lack of leadership abilities. She would not make a good poker player. That is what I think of when I think of nuclear war challenges, the girl just would not be able to bluff anyone, if they called her on something.
"Yesterday, being interviewed by her Fox coworker Sean Hannity, Palin expressed some cursory condolences before launching into her defense of her PAC's crosshairs map that targeted several congresspeople, including Gabrielle Giffords. Cockles up, she accused the left of being afraid of her “message” that America is on “the wrong track.” After Hannity asked her whether the political fallout from the map affected her political future, she quoted Dr. Martin Luther King and compared his struggle to her own... on MLK Day. Then, she defended herself from accusations that she was responsible for Tuscon -- thus far there is no connection between Jared Lee Loughner and Palin or the Tea Party -- but then does exactly what she lambastes the media of doing, and lies about his “left-wing” beliefs."
"But the worst part was on 'blood libel.' Hannity asks Palin her opinion of her critics in the 'Jewish community.' Palin's response: “I think the critics, again, were using anything that they could gather out of that statement... you can spin up anything out of any statements that are released and use them against the person who is making the statement.... that term has been used for eons, Sean.”Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | Sourced from AlterNet
Well, well, Ms. Palin, since you are the Queen of Spin, I guess you know that using 'blood libel'; would post its own ugly little spin on your words, now you are saying you are as persecuted as millions of Jews have been over hundreds of years. How do you show your pretty little head in public? Shouldn't you be running for cover, or, er, from those cross hairs on you? Oops, no, there are none on you right? Just on everyone you think needs to be eliminated.
Really Sarah, the term 'blood libel' "has been used for eons"? Do you even know what an eon is???????
And now for something just a bit more frightening. A little night music. As Vasyl Markus ( who does political research and policy analysis) pointed out in a discussion of the below video, " One of the many subtle ironies about this little video is that they are (apparently) southerners who extoll states' rights (based on accent and tea party references), yet they choose the Battle Hymn of the Republic -- you know, the song sung by soldiers fighting for the Union against states who didn't want to listen to the federal government."
How is that for an extra layer of irony? Enjoy!
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I do that occasionally and it works wonders..:)
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I cannot even imagine what it must be like, living in the mainland and listening to this day in day out. I sat there wondering too if she knew what eons were, and gosh darn! English is my second language.
Linda: Thanks, yes, she needs to give herself a break, she just keeps layering it on, thicker and thicker, until I think she will just be in a pile of her own muck.
jane: Yes, I had actually heard that too. I corrected here and on FB frequently that this is a republic. Well, if it is, then perhaps we should sort all that out too..... I am also worried about Obama. He is really caving on a number of things. It makes me think there is some supernatural hellish thing that goes on when they get into that oval office that prevents them from understanding how they got there in the first place. I do not like to criticize him at all, and technically I won't, however I am thinking that there is some book of magical secrets that the right or business holds over the innocent leader who lands in the office. What could be the explanation for all this support that business gets to the absolute detriment of the American people. AND I own a business.....apparently it does not trickle down to the small business, which coincidently was considered the back bone of America. They have all but eliminated us.
scanner: 'blood libel' is one of those terms that was buried and no one was using. It has a terrible connotation. Most people don't concern themselves with the plight of the jews of the middle ages and that term. It just was not on people's radar screen. Then a couple people used it from her side of the political aisle and all of sudden she herself uses it. However, I can tell you, she did not really understand the baggage the word/expression carries with it, unless she just does not understand the clout of the Jewish vote, even from her far right point of view. Sadly, it has been said that the Tea Party is racist and made of ordinary people, the KKK, Skinheads and a number of people who really view America differently that most moderates or left wing Americans do. The song is disgusting. It is disrespectful to God I think. If you go to the you tube directly and look at some of the comments made there about it, you will freak, at least I did. I considered putting some of them up, but I decided I did not want to go there. Thank you for stopping by!
Doesn't that mean she won't get there until he'll freezes over?
Hopefully.
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Steve: Yeah, unbelievable.
Dr. Spudman: Oh, I do agree. She is all about the limelight, not about the real work of a politician, the knowledge it takes, the skill.
Catherine: Yeah, the most important thing you can do to improve credibility is to admit mistakes, and apologize if necessary. Then you move on. No one has told her how to be an adult yet.
Scarlett:: When she said it I was thinking of the billion year definition. That just made me think she was even more ignorant.
The comments on You Tube about the video were quite hilarious in most cases....Thanks for stopping.
Then I see a debacle like this one, and I worry that people do vote.
Brie: Thank you, glad you could stop by.
Fay: I am voting for crazier than they used to be. Although they might just be crazy the same, with all the new and improved communication out there they just get a bigger podium to slur their words from??? Not sure.
Linnn: I am in the same loop.
Razzle: Yes, did you notice how the American flag was not in her last interview, someone on my fb said she forgot to rent it....