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Clyburn: Palin intellectually unable 'to understand what's going on here'
The Hill ^ | 1/12/2010 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 01/12/2011 8:21:06 AM PST by Qbert

A House Democratic leader on Wednesday lashed out at Sarah Palin, accusing the former Alaska governor of being intellectually incapable of understanding why she's faced criticism related to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) said that Palin had missed the point by releasing a statement Wednesday morning blasting the media for "blood libel" for looking to assign blame in part to her rhetoric after the attempted assassination of Giffords last weekend.

"You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think she's an attractive person, she is articulate," Clyburn said on the Bill Press radio show. "But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what's going on here."

Palin broke her relative silence since the shooting, which some Democrats have attributed to an environment that allowed such an attack on a member of Congress. Democrats have homed in on the map Palin's political action committee had released, depicting targeted lawmakers in the election with crosshairs over their districts.

"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own," Palin wrote. "They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election."

Clyburn said that Palin didn't grasp why such rhetoric was so troubling, regardless of the motivations of the alleged shooter. The No. 3 House Democrat referenced the civil rights era, and said that some of the shrill rhetoric in modern politics is reminiscent of that time.

"I have some experiences that maybe she does not have," he said. "When I see and hear things today that are reminiscent of that period of time, I am very, very concerned about it, because I know what it led to back then, and I know what it can lead to again."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska; US: Arkansas; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alaska; arizona; clyburn; freepressforpalin; gabriellegiffords; jamesclyburn; palin; sarahpalin; sc; southcarolina
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To: Freddd

“I’m not speechless. I called his Washington number...”

Well done- that’s the much better response, actually.

(I’m a bit down that I wussed out like that for a moment. They wanted to silence us, and I was silent.)


121 posted on 01/12/2011 9:48:37 AM PST by Qbert
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To: MarDav

You and I both know the General Election folks are like the people that go to Church on Christmas and Easter.

Don’t pay attention, don’t get involved. Just follow the Lead Sheep to the polls.


122 posted on 01/12/2011 9:49:27 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: MissEdie

Figures.


123 posted on 01/12/2011 9:52:51 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: ScottinVA

“I despise people like that race pimp Clyburn. I absolutely detest everything about them.”

Exactly. I was going to say it earlier, but I’ll say it now: Clyburn is deliberately trying to flame a race war.

Nothing Palin said has any remote connection whatsoever to racial issues. The Left started slandering her within an hour of the shooting, and she defended herself from the accusations, as anyone would. Then, the Left (and a-holes like David Frum) kept hammering her for supposedly “not responding” to the tragic events. Then, she releases a moving, heartfelt statement about bringing the country together, and this guy injects race into the issue.

Not that Clyburn’s methods are surprising, actually. He’s projecting his racist views onto everybody else...


124 posted on 01/12/2011 10:01:08 AM PST by Qbert
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To: Pollster1

Racist commie craptard.

LLS


125 posted on 01/12/2011 10:02:30 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: central_va

I thought you meant Sarah has a size 12 shoe,but heck shoo the mainstream media into oblivion.


126 posted on 01/12/2011 10:02:42 AM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: listenhillary

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127 posted on 01/12/2011 10:04:40 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: dfwgator

Van Cliburn............a gay pianist...........


128 posted on 01/12/2011 10:08:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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To: Qbert
He's in 24/7 campaign mode. Think carefully about what people are voting him into office...OK, got a picture of his constituency? His intellect, qualifications, ability, etc. mean absolutely nothing to his voters. He is preaching to them, and likely does not care one whit about what anybody thinks except the people who will vote for him, over and over, every single time for absolutely one reason only.
129 posted on 01/12/2011 10:08:46 AM PST by majormaturity
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To: Qbert
What's this joker doing, running for the Alan Grayson dumbass award? How can Sara Palin be "articulate" and at the same time not be intelligent(?)

What a moron!

130 posted on 01/12/2011 10:09:41 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Qbert

Clyburn: Cognitively unable to consider alternative arguments.


131 posted on 01/12/2011 10:10:27 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Qbert

Rep. Clyburn has miraculously found the hidden link between this incident and the civil rights movement.

Wait, Clyburn ALWAYS finds a link between whatever he happens to be talking about and the civil rights movement.

He’s got that hammer and EVERY thing he comments on is a nail.


132 posted on 01/12/2011 10:13:26 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: majormaturity

133 posted on 01/12/2011 10:22:50 AM PST by Qbert
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To: Brett66
Clyburn: Palin intellectually unable 'to understand what's going on here'

The finger point of idiocy; did he notice those three fingers pointing back at him?

Nope, apparently Sarah Palin took a trip on her private spaceship over the weekend and landed on the Planet of The Apes.

Oh, wait...she's here with us ON the Planet of The Apes!

Charlton Heston, God bless his soul, must be in one of his famous exploding-head screams!

Everything is upside down thanks to the Communist Media!

134 posted on 01/12/2011 10:24:44 AM PST by melancholy (It ain't Camelot, it's Scam-a-lot!)
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To: Qbert

If stupidity was an earthquake, clyburn would easily be a 7.5 magnitude.


135 posted on 01/12/2011 10:28:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Qbert

It’s just routine Rat rhetoric.

First they say you are evil.

If that doesn’t stick then they say you are stupid.

If that doesn’t work, eventually they fume when the DC airport is named after you.

I lived through the Reagan years, so it’s all deja vu.

Clyburn is an unusually slimy and disgraceful character. If Boehner and Cantor had any backbone they’d refuse to deal with the creep at all. Just tell Nancy Pelosi to pick a new attack dog. The old one has worn out his welcome.


136 posted on 01/12/2011 10:38:47 AM PST by devere
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To: melancholy

The leftists and sell-out RINOs are Evil. Yes, Evil with a capital E. And they are rushing into the Evil abyss faster and faster. Any RINOs that don’t want to be Evil better change their views asap.


137 posted on 01/12/2011 12:22:10 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Qbert
"You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think she's an attractive person, she is articulate," Clyburn said on the Bill Press radio show. "But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what's going on here."

Woo hoo! About 18 months after someone said that about The Won, he became POTUS!

138 posted on 01/13/2011 2:08:39 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Qbert

No, that’s truth....


139 posted on 01/13/2011 3:32:58 PM PST by majormaturity
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To: majormaturity

I’m just kidding with ya.


140 posted on 01/13/2011 3:52:06 PM PST by Qbert
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