Sarah Palin - An Ignorant and Self Centered Ass

In the aftermath of the Tucson mass shooting over the weekend, Sarah "It's All About Me" Palin has again proven that she's an utter ignorant ass and unfit for any public office. Having started a wave of anti-government and anti-immigrant/minority hatred during the 2008 campaign, Palin has continued to use violent rhetoric and images of guns and "taking out" those who are not "real Americans," Palin uses the disingenuous claim that she was only talking about "votes" as the weapons of her lobotomized followers. I guess I was hallucinating when I saw all those photos of her with guns and heard the statements of "lock and load." Worse yet, she now has tried to paint herself as a victim of unfair attack and equated her critics as akin to anti-Semites that spread lies against Jews. The woman deserves a severe public horse whipping. If anyone is consistently irresponsible, it is Palin herself. Moreover, if Palin represents the face of the GOP, then that party has become something horrible indeed. The Washington Post looks at Palin's untethered lunacy. Here are some highlights:
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[A]fter four days of near silence, the timing guaranteed that Palin would be written into the story line of President Obama's visit to comfort grief-stricken Tucson after a massacre there. But if the statement that Palin put out Wednesday was designed to tamp down the criticism of her incendiary style of politics, it turned out to have the opposite effect.
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Within minutes of the video and its accompanying Facebook post going viral on the Internet, all of that was subsumed by a new furor over Palin's choice of two words to describe her critics in the media: "blood libel."
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Her statement Wednesday brought yet another visceral response, though this time, it was one Palin did not necessarily intend or expect. "Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn," Palin said in the video. "That is reprehensible."
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Blood libel is the centuries-old anti-Semitic myth that Jews use the blood of Christian children for rituals such as baking unleavened bread during Passover. It was used to justify persecution of Jews.
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Although Palin has often been at the center of political storms over the two-and-a-half years since she emerged on the national scene, her allies say the onslaught she has faced since the Tucson shootings has shaken her like none before. Palin officials confirmed a report by ABC News that Palin has received an unprecedented number of death threats since Saturday's shootings and has been in conversations with security officials about the matter. They declined to provide further details.
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"Whatever explanation she could give to use such a loaded term, the truth is she shouldn't have," Neusner said. "She doesn't have to turn the other cheek; she was, in fact, maligned in a gross and unfair way. But she could have said everything she said without that phrase. "When people are trying to be leaders," he added, "they need to attract supporters, not repel them."