See what happens when she speaks without a teleprompter? (See here, here and here for more on Palin’s teleprompter addiction.)
As we’ve often said: George Bush in a skirt.
Fox cleaned up the transcript, of course:
HANNITY: You know, Governor, you have been one of the strongest, most outspoken members in support of the Tea Party Movement. I’ve met a lot of members, organizers in the Tea Party Movement. I’ve been at some of their rallies. I’ve witnessed it up close and personal.
Members of the NAACP are going to vote tomorrow on a resolution that condemns what the group calls — the NAACP — explicitly racist behavior by supporters of the Tea Party Movement.
Wanted to get your reaction to that.
PALIN: Yes. This is some typical divisive politics that is so absolutely unnecessary, especially at this time of turmoil within our country. Turmoil when you consider the state of the economy and so many other challenges that we are facing. This is just so unnecessary.
No, the Tea Party Movement is a beautiful movement, full of diverse people, diverse backgrounds. Folks of all walks of life who, for the most part, happen to oppose President Obama’s policies. Not the color of his skin. They don’t care that he’s half white or half black. It has nothing to do with the person’s skin tone —
HANNITY: All right.
PALIN: What their politics or their policies are about.
HANNITY: And look, Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for anybody that can produce a video showing that members of Congress, that there were racial epithets that were hurled at them, and nobody was able to collect $100,000.
It seems to me, if we go back in the history there was a 1998 Democratic Party Missouri radio ad that said if you elect Republicans, black churches will burn. The NAACP ran that controversial James Byrd ad.
Do you think this has to do with the fact Democrats are down, 113 days out of the election? Is this to help energize the base of the Democratic Party?
PALIN: Well, it’s very unfortunate that they are taking this tactic because it’s a false accusation that Tea Party Americans are racist. Any good American hates racism. We don’t stand for it. It is unacceptable.
So to be called a racist, yes, those over there on the left who are opposing that good message of Tea Party Americans are using this racism accusation in order to keep people away from not only the movement, but keeping them — keeping a wall built between what the message actually is and the American public that is today receiving that message very well.
False accusation, very unfortunate and again very, very unnecessary. And the president and his wife — you know, the first lady spoke at NAACP so recently, they have power in their words. They could refudiate [corrected to “repudiate” in transcript] what it is that this group is saying and they could set the record straight.
And they could — they could correct what this false accusation is that the Tea Party America, that movement, is racist.
HANNITY: And the first lady spoke there today in the lead up to the resolution tomorrow.
PALIN: Right.
IIRC, FL Michelle Obama spoke about obesity in her speech. And besides, why would Palin think that the Obamas have any control over what the NAACP does? I know that some “conservatives” imbue the president with the powers of a dictator, but I’ve seen no evidence of it since in order for any legislation to reach his desk, it has to clear both houses of Congress first.
I’ve also noticed a tendency of some “conservatives” to push the fallacy that all African Americans are members of the NAACP, and they all support the NBPP, Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve never been a member of the NAACP, had never heard of the NBPP until Fuchs Noose and Adams began misconstruing the facts in the case against them, and I don’t know what Jackson or Sharpton are up to until they do something that makes the news cycle.
IMHO, one of the biggest problems that some “conservatives” have is a tendency to think that all members of a particular group share the same thoughts and characteristics. This has been made increasingly plain to me in their actions in the NBPP case and in their reaction to the proposed construction of the Islamic Cultural Center in NYC near Ground Zero. They really need to stop being so close-minded, and they need to make a conscious effort to stop classifying all members of a group as being exactly the same. We’re not.
The IOWA Tea Party put up a billboard that described Obama like Hitler and Lenin, some of the worse mass murderers in the history of the world. And that is not racist.
Maybe Ms. Palin and Mr. Hannity should define what is the definition of racist. In that way maybe the rest of us can understand why this is not racist.
I’ll be the first to agree that Palin is a nutjob, an idiot and I would be the first to gouge out my eyes out with a fork before seeing her in office. But don’t you think you’re over reacting just a wee bit to the mispronunciation of a single word?
Cletus, your refudiation of my pettiness is duly noted.
Why in the hell would the President refute a resolution that is fact? All you have to do is look at the videos of the Tea Bugger klan meetings and you can see the racist remarks and pics carried by these brainless humans. The Caribou Bimbo is just a brainless as the rest of the Tea Buggers. She is just a quitter, and loser. Time Magazine just released a new poll where they asked if the Presidential election was today who would you vote for Palin or Obama. Guess what 53% picked Obama, 36% picked the Caribou Bimbo. So much for her credability. The Caribou Bimbo needs to just go home and quit dividing this country, it does more harm than good!!!!
Cletus, It’s not that she mispronounced “repudiate”, it’s that she clearly doesn’t know what she is talking about, otherwise she wouldn’t have said “refudiate.” If you know the word “repudiate” how often do you pronounce it with an “F”?