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."
“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.)
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.
Figures.
“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...
Racist commie craptard.
LLS
I thought you meant Sarah has a size 12 shoe,but heck shoo the mainstream media into oblivion.
Van Cliburn............a gay pianist...........
What a moron!
Clyburn: Cognitively unable to consider alternative arguments.
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.
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!
If stupidity was an earthquake, clyburn would easily be a 7.5 magnitude.
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.
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.
Woo hoo! About 18 months after someone said that about The Won, he became POTUS!
No, that’s truth....
I’m just kidding with ya.
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