Palin: 'I don't know' if abortion clinic bombers are terrorists | Election 2008 | AlterNet
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The buffoonish nature of Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy has mostly been a disaster for the McCain-Palin campaign, but it is has delivered at least one benefit: her foibles have helped obscure the true nature of her right-wing extremism.
But now, Sarah Palin's self-destructive behavior is threatening to expose even that. In an interview broadcast yesterday on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams asked Palin whether she felt abortion clinic bombers were terrorists.
Amazingly, she said that she didn't know. MSNBC reports (emphasis added):
Palin resisted the suggestion that if Ayers was a "domestic terrorist" -- a standard line in her campaign addresses -- then so were conservative religious activists who bombed abortion clinics.
"I don't know if you're going to use the word 'terrorist' there," she said.
Palin's answer is perhaps the single most incredible thing I've heard from any candidate during this entire general election campaign, and I don't make that statement lightly.
What makes it so incredible is that Sarah Palin was responding to one of the easiest questions that has been posed during this entire campaign. Her answer should have been simple: of course they are terrorists.
Instead, Palin balked, saying that while bombings were unacceptable, she didn't know if they were acts of terrorism. As Meteor Blades put it, Palin's answer was an obvious wink and a nod to right wing extremists, with whom she shares radical views, including opposition to reproductive freedom even in cases of rape or incest and advovacy of protests designed to disrupt access to abortion clinics.
This was not a question to which "I don't know" was an acceptable answer. There is no excuse for it, and it puts Sarah Palin well on the margins of this nation's political spectrum.
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maha_aba
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there is a lot Palin doesn't know...
Questions are her Kryptonite! - 3 years ago
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maha_aba
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Hookshire
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@ joekangiser: Maybe if you want to post a video in a reply, you could not hijack the thread by making it auto play.
You probably just kept alot of folks from viewing this as they closed the window unable to figure out where the un-related audio was coming from.
Just a thought.
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Hookshire
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Adumbration
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This interview was a bad idea to begin with. Neither of them look like they want to be near the other. And they talk one at a time. When Obama and Biden did their joint interview, on the other hand, they interjected each other and generally got along. McCain and Palin may as well have done separate interviews.
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Adumbration
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SDLN
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Adumbration:
"Neither of them look like they want to be near the other."
Yeah, I've noticed that too. Excellent observation. They certainly seem to have some degree of disdain for one another.
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SDLN
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SDLN
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In regards to defining "terrorist", Palin seems to make a distinction between an attack against the government and an attack against civilians, where one can only be a "terrorist" if he attacks the government. Wow.
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SDLN
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Saladin
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"Of course clinic bombers aren't terrorists!
Only liberals can be terrorists!
Silly Brian Williams! *wink*"
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Saladin
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huntre
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That's our Sarah! You bet-cha! *wink*
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huntre
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yahtzee
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And can we studder hum some more??
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yahtzee
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GRIPEABOUTSTRIPES
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I don't think they are a """TERROIST""" what the hell is going on? I hope the republican party can see what is happening. I am a Democrat and damn proud of it. """""BOMBING""""" anything is a very sick admorality.
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GRIPEABOUTSTRIPES
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satanskidney
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Let me answer your question by not answering your question and just pointing to Bill Ayers.
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satanskidney
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SuncatcherEyes
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I think I'll be struck by lightning before I hear a republican give a straight answer.
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Barbelith
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I would think that bombing ANY building would induce terror into SOMEONE'S heart. Theorectically making this person a terrorist.
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Barbelith
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DeliaTheArtist
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Scary.
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DeliaTheArtist
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Pericles_Lewnes
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I swear that this answer has been so overlooked, that I thought I was the only one that heard it.
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Pericles_Lewnes
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chivideoguy
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Although this looks like she is siding with right wing extremists, this leads to another question. From the way she's carried herself in the past months does she's imaged herself as not qualified for the job at all.This begs the question does she even understand what the definition of a "terrorist" really means in a literal sense?
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bamboodizzard
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This really is the American Dream.... ANYBODY can grow up to be President!
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bamboodizzard
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bamboodizzard
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Holy Shit!
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bamboodizzard
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TrikyNiki
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people are never terrorists if they are on your side.
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TrikyNiki
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VoyagerFilms
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FUNNY Saturday Night Live skit!
Any politician who does not support woman's rights - does not support the Constitution of the United States. You must ask yourself; what other rights will they decide I don't have? And, to what extent will that politician go in forcing you to comply with their belief?
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joekangiser
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Well at least she knows what a vice president is...
For anyone who didn't see the SNL thursday weekend update
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joekangiser
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telekinesis
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joekangiser:
there's a mute button there for those of u annoyed at this video playing automatically.
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telekinesis
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donkeyfly69
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joekangiser:
or get a flash blocker like normal people
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donkeyfly69
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deldigno
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From the moose's mouth herself! She's has become very adept at talking out of both sides of it too!
Bombing a medical facility is certainly domestic terrorism Palin! Sheeesh!
She has such an obvious room temperature IQ. What WERE you thinking McCain?
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deldigno
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lukewarmenthusiasm
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again...
"There's only one reason Christian girls come down to the Planned Parenthood."
"She's planting a pipe bomb?"
"Okay, two reasons."
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lukewarmenthusiasm
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realfran
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when i hear something like this, even though im disgusted i cant stop from be grateful for hearing some sincere answer, someone being brutally honest and showing their true colors.
but is that the case here?
is she being truthful or she just doesnt want to be VP? - 3 years ago
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realfran
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emarston
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give her a show so i can still hear the crazy things she says after the 4th
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emarston
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morgan_lh
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& Palin's list of stupidity rolls on...
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morgan_lh
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daboz
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Are Tree Spikers Terrorists? They have killed more lumbermen that Clinic Bombers.
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daboz
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Saladin
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daboz:
Yes. They are.
lol, do you think liberals are going to be hypocritical about this subject?
By the way, most liberals aren't hippy idiots. We don't all cry when a tree gets chopped down.
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Saladin
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uroborus8
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Was the weatherman group a terrorist organization or a revolutionary one? I think the latter.
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uroborus8
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harry3864
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The answer is in the non-answer..."NO".
Because the war on abortion is different than the farcical Vietnam War and the radicals fighting against them are different....can't you see that stupid!
So Sarah it's wrong but not terrorist to murder Abortion doctors in protest but it's terrorism period to protest a horrific senseless war by bombing a government building? Sounds like exactly the same thing. Sin is sin right Christian lady?
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harry3864
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pokesmot
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One thing that we have learned from Alaska Barbie is she don't know.
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pokesmot
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bedeboop
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I thought this article I found on Current might interest you. I hope so anyway.
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bedeboop
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pokesmot
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bedeboop:
i don't see it?
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pokesmot
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bedeboop
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bedeboop:
You can't see the video? (Sorry, not sure) :)
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bedeboop
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pokesmot
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bedeboop:
I mean did u post a vid?
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pokesmot
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bedeboop
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I LOVE IT!!!!! Kudos to Brian Williams for asking the question.
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bedeboop
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