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.