Shakespearean Comedy
This weekend Sarah Palin managed to hit the trifecta of dumb, showing her religious intolerance, her mangled English and her arrogance all within a few hours. Palin sent some tweets stepping in a controversy ginned up by the right wing about building an Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero in New York City.
Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a series of incendiary Tweets about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center
She pulled down one of them after concocting the word “refudiate” and then used the word “refute” incorrectly.
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
She then pulled the second attempt down and took a third swipe at it.
Peace-seeking Muslims pls understand. Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing
In the course of 3 tweets she managed to make up a new word, use a word incorrectly, blame all Muslims for 9/11 and imply the people wanting to build an Islamic Center are not peaceful and must repudiate something. Way to show your intolerance, Sarah. She’s just proving to me why she should never, ever be near the presidency. She’s dangerously ignorant.
Obviously Palin got a lot of feedback, because here’s the last tweet she sent, comparing herself and George W. Bush to Shakespeare:
‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!’
I really don’t feel like celebrating her aggressive ignorance. The fact that she’s a media darling really depresses me.
Tags: Ground Zero, Religious Fanatics, Sarah Palin
Steve Benen, stop holding back. Tell us how you really feel.
Well done, UI. It’s comforting to know there is someone out there that’s willing to dedicate the time and effort to spell and grammar checking Palin’s tweets. I feel informed, and safer now.
Please, carry on.
Well done, Miscreant. It’s comforting to know there is someone out there’s WHO’s willing to dedicate the time and effort to pointing out that the people who post at Delaware Liberal are, y’know, liberal. I feel informed and safer now.
What a total freak! Her candidacy for VP sums up the Republican attitude to governance. They simply believe there shouldn’t be any. At least none that is competent.
The 40 character twitter limit heart stabs refudiation. Palin’s stupidity is the sort that needs to meander.
why does anyone still give this pig any attention?
Dear mosque opponents:
Please tell me your rules.
How close to ground zero can mosques be built? 10 blocks? 20?
Does this number change with each passing year?
Are all Muslims forbidden from building structures within that range or is it limited to Sunni’s or Shi’a?
Are there any places in the world that a Christian church should be forbidden?
Also,
Give your reasoning for telling the people of New York City where things should be built after the city has reviewed and approved it?
Wouldn’t we all have been safer if we had placed a mosque INSIDE one of the towers?
Not really. Remember, Dr. Tiller was killed by a Christian in a church. The fanatics only consider it collateral damage.
In the months after 9/11 I recall somebody floating the idea of rebuilding the towers with a mosque at the top. I’m not sure that would really be a deterrent though. The terrorists would just consider them a different kind of infidel.
Yeah, you guys are probably right — logic has no place in their thinking. I’m actually mind-boggled that the anti-mosque argument boils down to, “It hurts our feelings!” This from the supposed tough-guy faction of the GOP.
Turn on your heart stab! Let it whine wherever you go, let it make a pissy moan for all the world to hear!!
This is way too much fun, and not entirely off topic:
The Shakespearean Insulter
She was using the Dan Quayle/George W thesaurus.
“It’s comforting to know there is someone out there’s WHO’s willing to dedicate the time and effort to pointing out that the people who post at Delaware Liberal are, y’know, liberal. I feel informed and safer now.”
Thanks for correcting my grammar, Geezer. I feel informed. I really thought the fact that there are Liberals here is obvious, so there was no need to point that out. It just amuses me that the attention paid to Palin seems a bit obsessive.
“Are there any places in the world that a Christian church should be forbidden?”
Perhaps here, Geek:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66G18D20100717
Mis – Do you think that Christian groups are going to decide that this sort of violence means that they should just bail? I have spent enough time with evangelicals to know that they see incidents like this as an indication that there are a number of people that need to be saved.
“Mis – Do you think that Christian groups are going to decide that this sort of violence means that they should just bail?”
Absolutely not. History has proved that for centuries. That, and I dated a couple of *Jesus Freaks* back in the 70’s (sisters!), both of whom went to extreme measures to get me “saved”. Talk about embarking on a lost cause, against impossible odds.
Good times, though.
Good times, indeed.
So my question stands. Seriously, where has Christianity decided that it is inappropriate to place a church? (the answer is nowhere)
But Allah forbid that a Muslim, a Sikh, a Mormon, a Jew, a Hare Krishna or a Buddhist ask for the same rights.
And when the hell did Alaska qualify as “The Heartland”? It is more like the nether-regions.
lg, those nether-regions would be the cold jumbly-bits, wouldn’t they?
Edgar Allan Poe liked to make up words, and, like Shakespeare, was brilliant. I don’t think I would have wanted him to be President, either.
@MJ, that was a great comment.
I’m not sure what amazes me more, that people actually read Sarah Palin’s tweets in the first place, or that people actually analyze them. They must have the same analysis each time: What are we reading and what is she thinking?
I think Sarah Palin represents a block of people in this country that know very little more than what the talking points of the day are. In that way, skewering her is like skewering the people that are emphatically wrong most of the time.
It has morphed into a #ShakesPalin hash tag, where people are quoting Shakespeare with a Palin spin, as well as a satirical @ShakesPalin account sharing the efforts to make her look silly.
I love it.