Sarah Palin to Dr. Laura: “Don’t Retreat…Reload!”
Posted by Media Outrage on August 19th, 2010
Sarah Palin is offering her support to Dr. Laura:
Sarah Palin has used Twitter to share some advice with Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes.
Palin’s advice: “don’t retreat…reload!”
It’s a breathtakingly tone-deaf bit of provocation — even by Palin’s standards.
Dr. Laura, as she’s known on her radio program, quickly came under fire for her remarks of a week ago. She immediately acknowledged the mistake and soon announced that she would end the show once her contract expires later this year. She currently commands the largest audience of any woman in syndicated talk radio and overall her ratings are among the top five hosts in the nation.
Palin, once the governor of Alaska and Republican nominee for vice president in 2008, has been using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to push her messages in recent months. She fired out two messages about Dr. Laura on Wednesday night, the first reading:
Dr.Laura:don’t retreat…reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence”isn’t American,not fair”)
That was quickly followed by:
Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!
The response was immediate and furious.
Joan Walsh, writing on Salon, pointed out that Palin was tweeting about feminists just hours before “embracing the anti-feminist traditional-values preacher Dr. Laura.” (Incidentally, Dr. Laura was never a big fan of Palin.) Walsh then went after the sentiment and historical context of Palin’s latest comments:
It’s scary to think we just had a vice presidential nominee who doesn’t understand the Constitution, who thinks Schlessinger’s First Amendment rights “ceased 2exist” because she was criticized for haranguing a black woman who called for advice, using the word “nigger” 11 times. Again, Gov. Palin, the First Amendment protects us from government infringing on our speech rights; it doesn’t take away other Americans’ right to criticize.
This isn’t the first time a Palin tweet related to the First Amendment has generated controversy. Last month, she called on Muslims to “refudiate” Park 51′s construction of Cordoba House, the so-called ”Ground Zero Mosque.”
That was followed by a series of tweets directed toward President Barack Obama, acknowledging that the Muslim group has the right to build … “but should they?”
Palin acknowledged Park 51′s rights. She acknowledged Dr. Laura’s rights. She questioned Park 51′s wisdom. So far, she hasn’t questioned Dr. Laura’s wisdom.
Dr. Laura’s actions — ending her show — may have said more than Palin’s words. And maybe even “refudiated” them.
Mediaoutrage- SMH @ Sarah Palin. Your thoughts are??
August 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
This shit needs to stop, there was no reason for Dr. Stupid to use that word except to release what she was holdin in for years and wanted to let go and say it loud and proud and without damn shame. She is a racist and don’t like black folks period! Until they got her ass…but just like the rest she will have her show back and the dance will go on. Someone needs to kick the shit out of palin’ ass; all mouth but no action and muscle. Typical white folks bx.
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August 19th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Palin is an idiot 24/7, 365 days a year.
Y’all let’s pray. White folks is scared!!!
Really. They should realize that we don’t care about them and these ‘outbursts of guilt’ they’re having (showing their arseholes) might be cathartic for the, but only affirms what we knew (have known) in the first place: Racism is alive and well and probably won’t ever go away.
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August 19th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
If she could use the word nigger then people should be allowed to call her a bitch and a slut. Hey, freedom of speeech right?
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August 19th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
And that ‘s why this pathetic excuse for a human will never be President….dumb as fuck
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August 20th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
i wonder how long it took her to process those thoughts on to her hand
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September 13th, 2010 at 3:06 am
is there a “goto” variety internet site for fb graphics?
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