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Sarah Palin Horns In On The Hillary Clinton 'Brain Damage' Spotlight

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on May 21, 2014 · Flag

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Leave it to Sarah Palin to look at all the sympathetic attention Hillary Clinton has gotten from Karl Rove’s bogus suggestion that she might have suffered brain damage – and find a way to make it about herself. Given that the two situations could not be more different, Palin may well have come up with the Worst Excuse To Play The Conservative Victim evah.

Palin first made her ridiculous comparison in a rambling Facebook lecture. This, less than a week after she attacked the Obama administration as “lazy, ineffectual, naïve, and insulting” – plus “embarrassing” – for using social media in its #BringBackOurGirls hashtag campaign. Ironically, that limelight-grabbing scolding came from her Facebook page – and Twitter feed – too.

Palin’s latest screed attempts to equate those who have complained about Rove’s tactics with Trig Truthers, those who have suspected that she never gave birth to her youngest son but adopted him from one of her children – or someone:

America, you deserve fair and consistent coverage of relevant issues before deciding a Presidential/Vice Presidential ticket, so have faith the agenda-less media will refuse to push whispers and wildly inaccurate information about a partisan politician’s body part. Goodness, no one credible would print lies, continually harass a candidate’s doctor, disrupt local hospital staff, or even offer to pay locals to give “quotes” about her health records to be included in a “research book” by a public university professor (your tax dollars at work?) which the candidate’s attorney will need to respond to.

Palin seems to be suggesting that Hillary should suffer because of what she, herself, has supposedly suffered at the hands of the “lamestream media.” And/or that she, Palin, is the bigger - but unsung - victim. But there’s a huge difference. Nobody like Karl Rove went on television and said that the issue was vital to Palin’s candidacy – as happened with Clinton. And nobody asked questions about Trig's birth on television talk shows for days on end.

However, Sean Hannity could not have cared less about any distinction. He was more than happy to turn the spotlight on Palin for six minutes of anti-Obama, anti-liberal invective.

Here’s my highly edited, highly subjective transcript:

HANNITY: Blah, blah, blah “double standard”… “abortion”… “sharia.”

PALIN: Blah, blah “double standard that raging liberals are known for.” Blah, blah, blah, “It’s a war on women if you were to question a liberal women.” Blah, blah, “race also.” Blah, blah, “Heaven forbid, you’re going to be called a racist if you were to question Barack Obama’s policies.”

HANNITY: Blah, blah MSNBC… Sandra Fluke… she thinks that the public ought to pay for her birth control. I have a hard time understanding that mindset.

Maybe that’s because it’s not her mindset. Fluke wants insurance to cover contraception.

PALIN: …The left will grasp anything that you say that can be taken out of context blah, blah. The issues that are so important to Americans have to do with the failed policies of the far left. They can’t win on arguing their policies. So they have to go on the semantics…. The Commander In Chief… just spews more rhetoric.

Because we all know what a substance-driven policy maven Palin is!

You can watch poor, pitiful Palin below.

Graphic above via screen grab.

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doors17 commented 2014-05-22 14:18:09 -0400 · Flag
Sarah knows she’ll never be President and has simply reinvented herself as an Ann Coulter type bomb thrower to keep relevant with the conservative base to make money from speaking engagements, books and anyplace that will accommodate her celebrity stature with those who will treat her like royalty for the right price.

Obviously her return to Fox shows that each side needed each other. One for ratings, and Sarah to return to the mothership where she’ll never be challenged, and it works.
Jane S commented 2014-05-22 13:18:43 -0400 · Flag
Thx4 Fish— nah. Too many contenders. Fox is almost 24/7 victim card playing.

Bemused— thanks, that’s how I feel about it anyway.
Thx4 Fish commented 2014-05-22 12:54:23 -0400 · Flag
Maybe we need a weekly contest for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Conservative Victim Card?
Janet Tuhey commented 2014-05-22 10:50:06 -0400 · Flag
Whether she and Trig were attacked is completely irrelevant. The fact that she had to pop up from her hole and whine to pull the attention towards her is just another pathetic attempt to keep her in the spotlight.
truman commented 2014-05-22 09:13:59 -0400 · Flag
The Whore of Babble-On Sarah is the early leader in this week’s outrageous quote contest.
Bemused commented 2014-05-22 05:37:28 -0400 · Flag
I tend to agree with Jane S. The fact that the rabid anythings will go after every little personal detail should not authorise us to do the same. I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin by any definition but certain subjects are off-limits for me.

Only wish she felt the same way.
Jane S commented 2014-05-22 02:37:19 -0400 · Flag
Joe, I really don’t care. If they’re regulars, they know where I stand.
Joe Marsh commented 2014-05-22 02:28:04 -0400 · Flag
Be careful Jane…

There are a few regulars on NH who will accuse you of being a troll! Honest thoughts are not always welcome here.
Jane S commented 2014-05-22 02:21:25 -0400 · Flag
John T. Brown, unless I’m losing it completely, I believe I said that the nasty stuff about Palin wasn’t as public. Or am I imagining what I typed? Also, you cannot seriously compare the commenters on Greta’s wretched blog with the obsession of at least one very high-profile and widely read blogger like Andrew Sullivan. (Seriously, nobody but a nutjob reads Greta’s commenters.)

And I’m not “accusing” anybody of anything, I’m simply talking about what actually happened. I’m also not making any moral equivalence here. I’m simply pointing out that Palin was hideously and very personally and intrusively trashed about her special needs baby and obviously still resents it deeply, and probably always will.

Are you proud of that very widespread speculation on leftish blogs that went on for months? I’m sure not. I thought it was shameful, particularly because it had zero relationship to her fitness for office. God knows there were and are vastly more important reasons to more than question that.

The point is, as far as I’m concerned, the hands of the “left” are hardly clean on this kind of stuff, and we ought to be honest and acknowledge that fact.
Jane S commented 2014-05-22 01:27:42 -0400 · Flag
Well, truth be told, Palin’s almost right on this, and she does have a genuine grudge. The speculation on her was much less public, true, but it was also far more intrusive, far more personal, far more insulting, and I think is the origin of Palin’s now quite extreme hatred and resentment of anybody anywhere near “the left”— never mind that it was conservative Andrew Sullivan who was the most grotesquely fascinated with the details of this issue and most offensively personal in his nearly endless pursuit of it.

So frankly, I cut Palin a bit of a break — just a bit — on her irrationality about this.

It’s worth remembering that although Palin has always been conservative, she was notoriously bipartisan as governor in her term prior to joining the McCain ticket, and allied primarily with the Democrats in the Alaska lege against the Republicans.
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In Palin's mind, she's the real victim of the Hillary "brain damage" smear.








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