Sarah Palin Doubles Down on Race-Baiting, Links to Breitbart.com

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Sarah Palin, clearly upset by the Obama campaign’s advertisement calling her out for her ugly race-baiting comments that Obama wants to “bring us back to the days before the Civil War,” has now doubled down on her attacks against the President in a post on Facebook: Let’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President.

Palin has finally found some allies that are her intellectual equals — the race-baiting creeps at breitbart.com.

This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
 
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.

One of the tenets of Derrick Bell’s “Critical Race Theory,” by the way, is that the white establishment reacts to any signs of African American achievement with racist attacks against the achievers, and that any advances are always met with increased racism, both covert and overt.

There’s no indication whatsoever that Barack Obama sets policy according to Critical Race Theory, but the behavior of the right wing toward his presidency, and the despicable smears and conspiracy theories emanating from Sarah Palin and hate sites like breitbart.com are exactly what Prof. Bell’s theory predicts.

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1 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:56:08am

That Sarah Palin, of all people, is talking about a lack of vetting is a whole new level of chutzpah.

2 Political Atheist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:56:48am

There is a pill for that now Sarah. See your doctor. It reduces racism in bigots. Ask about Propranolol

Oh the great irony of it ending with “LOL”…

3 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:57:23am

re: #1 Targetpractice

That Sarah Palin, of all people, is talking about a lack of vetting is a whole new level of chutzpah.

Hey, speaking of ‘vetting’ - have the Mini-Breits lined up any more ‘bombshells,’ or are they still trying to fix their web sites?

4 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:57:30am

Wait, a link at Breitbart that works? /

5 jaunte  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:57:47am
I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him* on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.

*Not intended to be a factual statement or live debate

6 Iwouldprefernotto  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:58:33am

I think it’s time to take Palin to the vet.

7 Lidane  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:59:30am

re: #1 Targetpractice

That Sarah Palin, of all people, is talking about a lack of vetting is a whole new level of chutzpah.

Heh. That’s what I was just thinking.

8 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:59:33am

Despite what Ms. Palin and the other wing nuts claim this is about power, not freedom.

For centuries whites had the freedom and blacks didn’t. This freedom translated into power. Eventually people from both groups decided freedom should be for everybody.

Since many whites confused freedom and power they acted as all power mongers do; with fear and anger.

Ms. Palin is simply the another example of this.

9 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:59:37am
I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him* on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.

Sounds like Sarah wants to be a candidate, which is odd, since she has decided not to run for her party’s nomination.

10 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:59:40am

I guess Blago and his hair are going to Colorado.

11 jaunte  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 9:59:52am

I wonder who wrote that for her.

12 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:00:46am

re: #9 Bulworth

Sounds like Sarah wants to be a candidate, which is odd, since she has decided not to run for her party’s nomination.

Maybe she still harbors a fantasy that she can be nominated at the convention. By public acclaim.

13 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:01:29am

Yeah, we really need to vet the guy they’ve had under the microscope for the last couple years.

14 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:01:40am

re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist

Maybe she still harbors a fantasy that she can be nominated at the convention. By public acclaim.

But then not actually have to do any work.

How about we just tell Palin that she’s president, and create a Truman Show type reality for her?

15 Shockingly, Pathetically Low  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:02:05am
I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him* on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.

I’d call that popcorn-worthy. (For those of us who don’t drink.)

16 jamesfirecat  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:02:22am

re: #14 Obdicut

But then not actually have to do any work.

How about we just tell Palin that she’s president, and create a Truman Show type reality for her?

I’m sure she’ll do great she’s already had reality show experience before!

(Assuming she doesn’t quit halfway through the season)

17 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:02:33am

I don’t think Palin has a clue. She is famous, making money and is going with the flow. It seems to have worked for the past 4 years.

I just hope she is banking lots of the bucks to get her thru the lean years. I think her ride is coming to an end.

I really hope we don’t have to hear from her for too long.

18 Blue Point  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:03:13am

re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist

Maybe she still harbors a fantasy that she can be nominated at the convention. By public acclaim.

They will all realize her magnitude and elect her Queen.

19 erik_t  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:03:46am

re: #1 Targetpractice

That Sarah Palin, of all people, is talking about a lack of vetting is a whole new level of chutzpah.

Up is down! Black is white! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

20 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:03:54am
I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him* on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.

By “issues” Sarah apparently means “Obama’s making all of us slaves”.

21 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:04:49am

Palin racebaiting? Why she’d never always.

22 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:06:28am

How is this for vetting?

Rick Santorum Prayed with Anti-Gay Pastor Implicated in Cover-up of Child Abuse

Before the Tennessee primary, Rick Santorum visited the Bellevue Baptist Church outside of Memphis where he prayed alongside Pastor Steve Gaines. Gaines said that “God doesn’t come to take sides, God comes to take over and I pray that He will takeover in America.” He asked God to forgive America for “the sins of racism, the sins of abortion and the sins of immorality”:

Gaines has a sordid history, and the website Ethics Daily, a project of the Baptist Center for Ethics, reported back in 2006 that Gaines failed to report to the police a minister in his church, Paul Williams, who molested his own:

details at the link

23 Lidane  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:07:29am

re: #17 ggt

I really hope we don’t have to hear from her for too long.

I kept hoping that she’d STFU and go back to Alaska after McCain lost. Sadly, we’ve been forced to endure Caribou Barbie since 2008.

As long as there are people stupid enough to pay her to open her pie hole, she’ll be around. =/

24 Gus  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:07:43am

Sarah Palin likely spent all of 30 seconds reading up on critical race theory before going back to her snack of Cheese Whiz and crackers while watching “I Love Lucy” reruns.

25 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:07:43am
Gaines said that “God doesn’t come to take sides, God comes to take over and I pray that He will takeover in America.”

This is why we must be viligant against Shariah law taking over Amer—, oh, wait….//

26 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:08:21am

re: #23 Lidane

I kept hoping that she’d STFU and go back to Alaska after McCain lost. Sadly, we’ve been forced to endure Caribou Barbie since 2008.

As long as there are people stupid enough to pay her to open her pie hole, she’ll be around. =/

WEll, after she bought the house in Arizona I think it’s clear the long term plan is to take McCain’s Senate seat when he retires.

I REALLY hope that doesn’t work out.

27 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:09:58am

re: #4 lawhawk

Wait, a link at Breitbart that works? /

It’s the new URL style - I just checked and all links posted on all websites prior to March 2 are still broken.

28 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:10:18am

Sarah belonging to a Dominionist church that exorcises demons and actively talks about flipping the US Constitution to create a Christianist government is not radical. Todd Palin belonging to an Alaskan secessionist party is not radical. The Palin family hanging out with Neo-Confederates and barely-concealed racists is not an indication of dangerous affiliations.

A short speech and a two black guys hugging, two decades ago?

Start the impeachment process.

29 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:10:20am

And of course by “vetting” Palin and the bitty-barts mean that Obama’s political career wasn’t long enough to build up a ready made pile of distortions and shit to fling at him - so they will have to dig deep for it.

30 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:12:05am

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Guess they’re good with that - all down the memory hole.

31 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:18:14am

re: #23 Lidane

I kept hoping that she’d STFU and go back to Alaska after McCain lost. Sadly, we’ve been forced to endure Caribou Barbie since 2008.

As long as there are people stupid enough to pay her to open her pie hole, she’ll be around. =/

If there’s one downside to the new era of social media, it’s that it gives low-IQ grifters like her ready access to thousands of fools, all ready to be parted from their money.

32 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:18:45am

She called bell racist without offering any arguments for it, as if it were an accepted fact. And gets upset if we accept it as a fact that she is a dingbat.

33 SpaceJesus  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:19:46am

Wow, how long until these bumpkins start breaking out the white hoods?

34 Jeff In Ohio  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:20:35am

HAHAHAHA pwned by Obama again.

35 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:20:52am

re: #13 Kragar

Yeah, we really need to vet the guy they’ve had under the microscope for the last couple years.

It persists. “What do we really know about him? We don’t know anything about him.”

36 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:22:11am

She wants to talk about “real issues” yet she’s the one who claims he wants to take us back racially and class wise to pre Civil War days.

37 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:23:34am

re: #36 HappyWarrior

She wants to talk about “real issues” yet she’s the one who claims he wants to take us back racially and class wise to pre Civil War days.

Yeah, that’s SOP these days: Get worked up over a topic, then they get their asses whipped on it, start screaming that the topic’s a “distraction” away from Obama’s “failures.”

38 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:23:39am

re: #35 SanFranciscoZionist

It persists. “What do we really know about him? We don’t know anything about him.”

Other than the name of his parent and grandparents and a great deal about all of them, his family, his wife and her personality, his children, his church, the names of all the schools he attended, his entire job history, his legislative history, and the names of most of his friends.

Oh, and he doesn’t cheat at golf. Or in his marriage, as far as can be ascertained by the National Enquirer.

39 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:25:11am

re: #35 SanFranciscoZionist

It persists. “What do we really know about him? We don’t know anything about him.”

“Does anyone even know if he really went to college…DANG IT!”

40 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:26:12am

Rebekah Brooks and her husband were arrested today on suspicion of attempting to thwart Scotland Yard’s investigation into last year’s phone-hacking scandal.

Brooks and her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, are among six people arrested today on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in connection with Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting, the investigation into the phone hacking that went on at the News of the World and may have occurred at other British tabloids, The Guardian reports. Two noneditorial employees of News International, the Murdoch-owned parent company of News of the World, were also arrested – one of whom is reported to be Mark Hanna, News International’s head of security, the Financial Times reports.

41 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:26:16am

re: #39 Kragar

“Does anyone even know if he really went to college…DANG IT!”

“Give us his college transcripts! We know there’s something damning in there that we can use!”

42 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:26:34am

We wouldn’t have had to vet Hillary! We already know all about how crazy, anti-american, and female that psycho is!

43 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:26:35am
44 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:26:46am

Later all!

Have a great day!

45 Alexzander  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:27:40am
46 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:29:32am

re: #38 To hold my temper, most of the time.

Other than the name of his parent and grandparents and a great deal about all of them, his family, his wife and her personality, his children, his church, the names of all the schools he attended, his entire job history, his legislative history, and the names of most of his friends.

Oh, and he doesn’t cheat at golf. Or in his marriage, as far as can be ascertained by the National Enquirer.

This is the thing. I guess the college transcripts remain the final frontier…a desperate hope that he got a C- in statistics and the country will turn against him.

47 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:30:26am

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy? I’m honestly curious and I admit to not having looked into that history much since the beginning, as I was more focused on the present in regards to her being a potential VP.

48 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:31:16am

re: #37 Targetpractice

Yeah, that’s SOP these days: Get worked up over a topic, then they get their asses whipped on it, start screaming that the topic’s a “distraction” away from Obama’s “failures.”

Obama and The Left made us drag up this Bell video that The Left was hiding and to talk about Critical Race Theory. We’re the real victims here!

49 Shockingly, Pathetically Low  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:31:33am

re: #46 SanFranciscoZionist

This is the thing. I guess the college transcripts remain the final frontier…a desperate hope that he got a C- an A in statistics and the country will turn against him.

FTFY

50 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:33:31am

re: #46 SanFranciscoZionist

This is the thing. I guess the college transcripts remain the final frontier…a desperate hope that he got a C- in statistics and the country will turn against him.

Nah, they remain convinced that within his transcripts is some “proof” that he either A) was never an American citizen or B) threw away his citizenship and applied as a foreign student.

51 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:35:03am

re: #43 ggt

Wonder what Sarah would think of reine’s pages post?

I’m all for it! Why would you think ot- Oh, you meant that other Sarah. Meh, who cares about what she thinks. I’m much more important anyway!

52 SidewaysQuark  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:36:18am

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy?

Katie Couric kicked her ass (the obvious first signs of the “left-wing hate machine” winding up). Then the bucks started rolling in from the far right. The rest is history. Palin’s no genius, but she won’t bite the hand that feeds her.

53 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:36:56am

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue is sick and tired of coddling rape victims. That’s why he supports efforts by lawyers for two Missouri priests accused of sexual abuse to cripple an organization that advocates on behalf of the victims of pedophile priests – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

SNAP is not involved in the Missouri litigation, but the priests’ lawyers are seeking “more than two decades of e-mails that could include correspondence with victims, lawyers, whistle-blowers, witnesses, the police, prosecutors and journalists.” Donohue thinks this effort, which seeks to bankrupt and embarrass the organization, is justified because “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church.”

Donohue went further, telling the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein that the Catholic Church “has been too quick to write a check” and could save money “in the long run if we fought them one by one” – them being rape victims. He also claimed that the bishops are reaching the conclusion that “they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough.” “We don’t need altar boys,” he continued, as only Bill Donohue could.

54 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:37:53am

re: #53 Kragar

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

Donohue is such a creep. He sounds more and more like a Father Coughlin everyday.

55 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:38:05am

re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist

Maybe she still harbors a fantasy that she can be nominated at the convention. By public acclaim.

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit. She strikes me as being a very lazy person, not willing to actually do any work to achieve goals.

56 Blue Point  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:39:11am

re: #53 Kragar

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

Yeah let Bill have a talk with them. He’ll show them what rape really is.

57 SidewaysQuark  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:40:08am

re: #54 HappyWarrior

Donohue is such a creep. He sounds more and more like a Father Coughlin everyday.

Donohue thinks this effort, which seeks to bankrupt and embarrass the organization, is justified because “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church.”

Damn right it is, Bill - a long overdue “menace”.

58 Randall Gross  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:40:19am

To stay in the spotlight & remain a GOP rainmaker, Palin has to toss grenades so this is just her latest “sarahnade”. As is typical for her, then she pretends that she’s the victim ( “The President heavily edited Breitbarted me!” ) when she’s the slanderer.

59 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:40:22am

re: #53 Kragar

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

“He also claimed that the bishops are reaching the conclusion that “they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough.” “We don’t need altar boys,” he continued, as only Bill Donohue could.”

I think the hierarchy has had a surfeit of altar boys.

60 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:40:23am

re: #53 Kragar

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

Ugh. I do wish Mr. Donohue would stop reminding me of his existence. He remains as he always has, more concerned with protecting the institution of the Church than he is with protecting its soul and mission.

61 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:41:31am

re: #57 SidewaysQuark

Damn right it is, Bill - a long overdue “menace”.

A menace to the status quo, yes. And for Donohue, that is worth fighting for, and a few rape victims are acceptable collateral damages

62 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:42:01am

re: #59 Decatur Deb

“He also claimed that the bishops are reaching the conclusion that “they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough.” “We don’t need altar boys,” he continued, as only Bill Donohue could.”

I think the hierarchy has had a surfeit of altar boys.

Wait…I don’t get it. Is he saying that until now the church has been too soft on the victims?

Too soft? Shuffling priests around and denying that anything happened was too soft?

63 zora  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:42:51am

this is just lovely. the obama team set sarah up as the voice of the party and she responded in kind. i wonder who is less popular palin or rush.

64 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:42:59am

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy? I’m honestly curious and I admit to not having looked into that history much since the beginning, as I was more focused on the present in regards to her being a potential VP.

She is one of the few people who I have really grown to hate as I’ve gotten to know her better.

65 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:43:33am

re: #62 To hold my temper, most of the time.

Wait…I don’t get it. Is he saying that until now the church has been too soft on the victims?

Too soft? Shuffling priests around and denying that anything happened was too soft?

Saying they rolled over too easily on compensation. Except those diocese who fought it to the death and went bankrupt to limit it.

66 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:44:05am
I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama.

Bin Laden: dead. Al Qaeda: crippled. Next!

67 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:44:19am

re: #64 wrenchwench

She is one of the few people who I have really grown to hate as I’ve gotten to know her better.

Same. Sometimes the opposite happens where you dislike someone but grow to like them. Palin went from someone I defended at least on the insane allegation that Trig really wasn’t her kid to someone who disgusts me.

68 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:45:20am

re: #66 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks

Bin Laden: dead. Al Qaeda: crippled. Next!

Yeah seriously what does the guy have to do to prove he cares about the country though honestly I think it was obvious to anyone that he cares about the country in 2008.

69 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:46:08am

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Same. Sometimes the opposite happens where you dislike someone but grow to like them. Palin went from someone I defended at least on the insane allegation that Trig really wasn’t her kid to someone who disgusts me.

I would still defend her on the Trig allegation. Using a Down’s syndrome kid for political reasons is disgusting.

70 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:47:05am

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Same. Sometimes the opposite happens where you dislike someone but grow to like them. Palin went from someone I defended at least on the insane allegation that Trig really wasn’t her kid to someone who disgusts me.

I can’t stand her, but I’ll still completely defend even her from disgusting attacks like those involving Trig or the simple fact that she is a mother. There are plenty of valid reasons to go after her without allowing that sort of nonsense.

71 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:47:40am

re: #69 To hold my temper, most of the time.

I would still defend her on the Trig allegation. Using a Down’s syndrome kid for political reasons is disgusting.

Oh I will too if it’s brought up though no one here or in my social circle believes that. Her kids don’t deserve to get shit on at all especially the little ones.

72 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:47:48am

re: #69 To hold my temper, most of the time.

I would still defend her on the Trig allegation. Using a Down’s syndrome kid for political reasons is disgusting.

And so is using unfounded allegations. (Vince Foster wanders the earth with the MBF.)

73 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:48:34am

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy? I’m honestly curious and I admit to not having looked into that history much since the beginning, as I was more focused on the present in regards to her being a potential VP.

I really can’t assess Palin’s early career as governor from this distance…physical and chronological…but she took office in December of 2006, and was tapped by McCain’s campaign seven months later. So, seven months in a (demographically) small state where she knew people, had local credibility, and didn’t have to deal with the vast range of national and international issues she didn’t know anything about.

From Newsweek’s article about “Game Change”, it sounds as though the early days on the McCain campaign were very difficult. Her huge competency gaps became apparent, they tried to coach her, and she shut down.

I honestly don’t know if it was they, or she, or a combination of the two that came up with the explicit articulation of the culture-wars, authentic-America, I’m-a-frontier-mama schtick she eventually came to embody, but it clearly resonated for her. She could reason that she wasn’t caught out because she was unprepared, but because THEY were elitists, mean, sneering, people whose kids didn’t play hockey and thought she was a hick, not realizing that she was AMERICA.

One of the many books that came out on her (an attack, not a hagiography) reports that after the election results came in, she yelled at one of the kids that “We weren’t good enough for America. We’ll never be good enough for America.” I don’t like the woman, but for some reason that just breaks my heart. Jesus, it was a VIP run with a doomed candidate, a once-in-lifetime chance that just happened to happen…who takes something like that so to heart?

74 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:49:01am

re: #71 HappyWarrior

Oh I will too if it’s brought up though no one here or in my social circle believes that. Her kids don’t deserve to get shit on at all especially the little ones.

She doesn’t deserve that kind of attack either, regardless of her other faults.

75 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:49:05am

re: #70 Simply Sarah

I can’t stand her, but I’ll still completely defend even her from disgusting attacks like those involving Trig or the simple fact that she is a mother. There are plenty of valid reasons to go after her without allowing that sort of nonsense.

Yeah, I thought Sullivan was an asshole for going after her on that. Her positions on the issues and her personal nastiness are valid enough. So, why go conspiracy nonsense on her and make yourself look like an ass which he does when he spouts that.

76 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:49:36am

re: #69 To hold my temper, most of the time.

I agree, but I feel like she used Trig more than anyone else. She’s not a woman who’s above using her childern for financial gain.
She’s aweful.

77 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:49:44am

re: #66 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks

Bin Laden: dead. Al Qaeda: crippled. Next!

The American military did those things! Not the commander in chief Usurper.

78 erik_t  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:50:05am

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy? I’m honestly curious and I admit to not having looked into that history much since the beginning, as I was more focused on the present in regards to her being a potential VP.

She was only, what, a year into her governorship? Less?

I assume smoke was blown, combined with Alaska being Alaska.

79 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:50:32am

re: #73 SanFranciscoZionist

I really can’t assess Palin’s early career as governor from this distance…physical and chronological…but she took office in December of 2006, and was tapped by McCain’s campaign seven months later. So, seven months in a (demographically) small state where she knew people, had local credibility, and didn’t have to deal with the vast range of national and international issues she didn’t know anything about.

From Newsweek’s article about “Game Change”, it sounds as though the early days on the McCain campaign were very difficult. Her huge competency gaps became apparent, they tried to coach her, and she shut down.

I honestly don’t know if it was they, or she, or a combination of the two that came up with the explicit articulation of the culture-wars, authentic-America, I’m-a-frontier-mama schtick she eventually came to embody, but it clearly resonated for her. She could reason that she wasn’t caught out because she was unprepared, but because THEY were elitists, mean, sneering, people whose kids didn’t play hockey and thought she was a hick, not realizing that she was AMERICA.

One of the many books that came out on her (an attack, not a hagiography) reports that after the election results came in, she yelled at one of the kids that “We weren’t good enough for America. We’ll never be good enough for America.” I don’t like the woman, but for some reason that just breaks my heart. Jesus, it was a VIP run with a doomed candidate, a once-in-lifetime chance that just happened to happen…who takes something like that so to heart?

She wasn’t good enough for America.

80 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:51:00am

re: #74 Simply Sarah

She doesn’t deserve that kind of attack either, regardless of her other faults.

Absolutely. I actually was kind of intrigued when McCain made the pick but then she started showing how not ready for the job she was and how nasty a person she is. I didn’t mean to imply I won’t defend her for the Trig thing but I did defend her in late summer 08 much more willingly than I would now.

81 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:53:02am

I think she just was just way unprepared for “prime time.” Maybe she could have been a cabinet member eventually with some prepping and seasoning but VP to the man who would be the oldest ever in the WH? No, she wasn’t and isn’t ready for that. And I think she’s way too thin-skinned to any criticism for the national stage.

82 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:53:11am

re: #53 Kragar

And the evil fuck of the day award goes to…

Bill Donohue Gets Tough on Rape Victims, Wants to Fight Them “One by One”

“We don’t need altar boys”? Well, true, the priest can hold the candles up with his teeth while he reads the Gospel, it will look a little weird at first, but it can be done.

But being an altar server has traditionally been a way for young people to experience an important and responsible role within the Church, and also commonly the first step toward the priesthood for boys who have a vocation.

Saying ‘we don’t need altar boys’ is like saying ‘we don’t need the faithful at all. We can keep the Church in a box, and not let anything like the needs of our parishioners or the vocations crisis bother us. Last one left alive, turn out the lights at the Vatican before you croak.’

Not smart.

83 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:53:48am

re: #77 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter

Though that may be technically true, the CiC still has to be the one to give the orders or set the tone. AQ’s life has certainly been much made rougher under this POTUS than it had been under the last two.

84 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:54:04am

Gun safety in Gaza
news.daylife.com

85 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:54:33am

re: #81 HappyWarrior

I think she just was just way unprepared for “prime time.” Maybe she could have been a cabinet member eventually with some prepping and seasoning but VP to the man who would be the oldest ever in the WH? No, she wasn’t and isn’t ready for that.

Not ready? She couldn’t be be the entree at a cannibal feast with enough prepping and seasoning.

86 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:55:32am
One of the tenets of Derrick Bell’s “Critical Race Theory,” by the way, is that the white establishment reacts to any signs of African American achievement with racist attacks against the achievers, that any advances are always met with increased racism, both covert and overt.

CRT possesses the capacity for ridiculousness, much like post-modernism, if one liberates the concept from the its origin in critique and instead try and sculpt an entire worldview. But when people make a blanket declaration that it’s all rotten, it indicates they’re either ignorant of the contents or just plain uncomfortable with the basic premise.

The current Dr Bell outrage mimics the scaremongering about postmodernism two decades ago: the dumbest extrapolations of a concept are cited as the whole body of an idea, and then it’s suggested that anybody exposed to this thinking is either dangerously deluded or under false consciousness. With both postmodernism and CRT, the demagogues inevitably ignore that there’s a body of academic criticism that is well reasoned, as well as a broader mass of specific responses to individual papers/scholars applying those ideas.

And when you dig and look at who initiated the public outrage, it’s not disinterested parties—it’s not the academics who have criticisms rooted in theory or structure. When PoMo questioned the objectivity of the observations of the privileged, it was the privileged who decried the idea as the end of truth. CRT points out that bigoted societies build legal structures that implicitly encode discrimination—like sentences for crack versus powder cocaine—and it’s white people who benefit from those kinds of distinction who are screaming murder.

Big (fill in the blank) and Palin discriminate: not just in the racial/religious/etc sense, but in the global sense that their worldview incorporates a basic ontological distinction. They have a “worldview for their in-group” and a “worldview for their out-group” wherein concepts like “truth,” “ethics” and “morality,” have entirely different definitions.

That distinction is so basic to their thinking that they’re uncomfortable viewing it as a distinction: to them it’s the “truth” that they’re side never lies (even when objectively they do) and that the other side always lies (even when they objectively don’t). And when you point out that difference, they flip the fuck out. And they do so because their worldview is unsustainable without continuous denial of how arbitrary and weak the divisions they believe in are.

If you want to understand why they’re fear-mongering on CRT and Dr Bell so intensely, I’d suggest it goes beyond racism and crosses into a more basic fear of their ontology being pierced.

87 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:55:58am

re: #82 SanFranciscoZionist

Donohue meant the bishops should not act like altar boys—you know, decorous and decent.

88 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:56:54am

re: #85 Decatur Deb

Not ready? She couldn’t be be the entree at a cannibal feast with enough prepping and seasoning.

Heh true enough. But yeah it’s clear that the McCain team wanted a spark with the base rather than someone actually competent for the job. The Obama team got some flack for choosing a huge insider in Biden but they were actually looking ahead to running the country rather than the former. People think Joe Biden is this dumb guy because he says stupid crap from time to time but Biden’s not a dummy, he knows and understands American politics and foreign policy quite well.

89 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:56:59am

re: #82 SanFranciscoZionist

“We don’t need altar boys”? Well, true, the priest can hold the candles up with his teeth while he reads the Gospel, it will look a little weird at first, but it can be done.

But being an altar server has traditionally been a way for young people to experience an important and responsible role within the Church, and also commonly the first step toward the priesthood for boys who have a vocation.

Saying ‘we don’t need altar boys’ is like saying ‘we don’t need the faithful at all. We can keep the Church in a box, and not let anything like the needs of our parishioners or the vocations crisis bother us. Last one left alive, turn out the lights at the Vatican before you croak.’

Not smart.

Maybe I read it too fast, but I think he’s referring to not having ‘altar boys’ defending the church - he wants those defending the church to be tougher on their opponents.

90 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:57:35am

Honestly if I were a RCC bishop, I’d want Donohue to shut up. He makes the RCC look worse not better when he says the shit he does.

91 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:57:58am

re: #89 makeitstop

He wants them to be tougher about invading the privacy of sexual abuse victims.

The fucker.

92 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:58:39am

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy?

I think it became painfully clear in a few weeks after that 2008 announcement that Palin was a dumb, ignorant, mean, lying political extremist absolutely unfit to be VP. I also think nothing has changed since that moment except for a few dropped scales.

93 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:58:41am

re: #90 HappyWarrior

Honestly if I were a RCC bishop, I’d want Donohue to shut up.

He’s talking shit, but it’s the lawyers for two priests who are actually trying to push back against the victims’ group. Which the Catholic Church hierarchy could put a stop to if they wanted to.

94 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 10:59:24am

re: #90 HappyWarrior

Honestly if I were a RCC bishop, I’d want Donohue to shut up.

Over the years he’s been the house pit bull of the NYC diocese. He has no real position within the RCC, but has been supported by the former Archbishops there.

95 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:00:58am

re: #89 makeitstop

Maybe I read it too fast, but I think he’s referring to not having ‘altar boys’ defending the church - he wants those defending the church to be tougher on their opponents.

the victims

96 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:01:44am

I know a priest who literally works twelve hours a day doing things like adult literacy programs, outreach for prisoners, grief counseling. He is an excellent man, a great human being. He’s never gotten anywhere in the hierarchy, of course.

He’s in despair about what’s happening in the church, and has recently had his parish taken away, which he thinks is in direct retaliation for him actually talking with abuse victims.

97 erik_t  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:01:44am

re: #81 HappyWarrior

I think she just was just way unprepared for “prime time.” Maybe she could have been a cabinet member eventually with some prepping and seasoning but VP to the man who would be the oldest ever in the WH? No, she wasn’t and isn’t ready for that. And I think she’s way too thin-skinned to any criticism for the national stage.

The woman is, at best, an uncurious and unthinking shit-for-brains. Any cabinet-level agency that could survive under her leadership ought to be folded into something else.

98 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:02:33am

re: #91 Obdicut

He wants them to be tougher about invading the privacy of sexual abuse victims.

The fucker.

It’s not simply about invading the privacy, it’s about making the victims scared to come forward. Anonymity is something that allows them to deal with the realities of what they were subject to, and Donahue wants to strip that away. It’s something you’d expect from the mafia, not a church.

99 Lidane  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:02:44am

re: #60 Simply Sarah

Ugh. I do wish Mr. Donohue would stop reminding me of his existence. He remains as he always has, more concerned with protecting the institution of the Church than he is with protecting its soul and mission.

So do most of the bishops and cardinals in charge. Why else would they cover up and try to downplay abuse, or shuffle priests around to different parishes instead of confronting the problem head on?

100 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:03:20am

Barrett Brown get hacked.
Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them

As if things couldn’t get any worse for the hacktivists of Anonymous, the self-described patriotic hacker who calls himself The Jester has struck another blow.
He claims to have broken into many smartphones belonging to Anonymous leaders and copied incriminating text messages, emails, address books and other data — data that he may have already passed on to the authorities.
….

“I’m inclined to believe he’s done what he says he’s done,” Barrett Brown, a journalist and unofficial Anonymous spokesman whose own phone was one of the targets of The Jester’s hack, told SecurityNewsDaily. “This is someone who has spent a great deal of time engaging in ‘opposition research’ on Anonymous and associated individuals, and he has a wide network of very talented contacts, so one would imagine that he’d eventually pull off something effective.”

101 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:03:49am

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Over the years he’s been the house pit bull of the NYC diocese. He has no real position within the RCC, but has been supported by the former Archbishops there.

Right, I guess my point would be I wouldn’t want to have a guy like that as a pit bull but then again I am not part of the hierarchy.

102 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:04:18am

re: #98 Targetpractice

It’s one of the reasons I talk openly about having been sexually abused. I know it probably makes some people uncomfortable, but the sad truth is there are far more victims that don’t speak up than who do. The problem is far more wide-spread than anyone is willing to really face up to. I’m not just talking about the church, but in general.

Anyone trying to silence victims is enabling the abuse of children. That’s all. That’s why every settlement that includes a gag order— while I don’t blame the victims for taking it— is another immoral choice on the part of the Catholic Church.

103 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:05:01am

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Right, I guess my point would be I wouldn’t want to have a guy like that as a pit bull but then again I am not part of the hierarchy.

Yeah—I’ve been waiting for Dolan to evict him, so I guess he serves someone’s purpose.

104 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:05:48am

re: #103 Decatur Deb

Yeah—I’ve been waiting for Dolan to evict him, so I guess he serves someone’s purpose.

He’s probably someone’s friend or something. I got a kick out of the South Park depiction of him. The Pope thought he was going too far.

105 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:06:42am
Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It’s not a secret, OK? And I’m not afraid to say it. That’s why they hate this movie. It’s about Jesus Christ, and it’s about truth. It’s about the Messiah.

— Donohue

Pattern, anyone?

106 Decatur Deb  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:08:43am

re: #105 Lenin’s Mummy

— Donohue

Pattern, anyone?

Almost an archetype. Growing up, every Irish dive in Pittsburgh had one but they usually stayed at the far end of the bar.

107 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:12:47am

addictinginfo.org
Heh strange comments about someone who is “just” an entertainer.

108 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:14:22am

re: #102 Obdicut

It’s one of the reasons I talk openly about having been sexually abused. I know it probably makes some people uncomfortable, but the sad truth is there are far more victims that don’t speak up than who do. The problem is far more wide-spread than anyone is willing to really face up to. I’m not just talking about the church, but in general.

Anyone trying to silence victims is enabling the abuse of children. That’s all. That’s why every settlement that includes a gag order— while I don’t blame the victims for taking it— is another immoral choice on the part of the Catholic Church.

I’ve noticed it a common theme amongst abusers and their apologists, the demands to strip away anonymity on the basis of “facing their accusers.” And I’d argue it’s not something limited solely to sexual abuse, as Sheriff Joe demonstrated awhile back by demanding the DoJ give him the names of those who were blowing the whistle on him so that he could “discuss with them” their accusations against him.

109 carlaschluge  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:14:27am

Limbaugh still experiencing aftershocks.

perezhilton.com

110 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:14:53am

re: #109 carlaschluge

Ugh. Perez Hilton creeps me the hell out.

111 Kragar  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:16:00am

re: #110 Obdicut

Ugh. Perez Hilton creeps me the hell out.

Yup, right there with you.

112 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:17:34am

re: #107 HappyWarrior

Why doesn’t Rick just come out and say that he doesn’t care about the women’s vote cause we probably shouldn’t be voting anyway?

113 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:18:20am

re: #110 Obdicut

Ugh. Perez Hilton creeps me the hell out.

Yeah, me too.

Having said that, the statement by Limbaugh’s spox (about Premiere suspending national ads for two weeks) seems to be at direct odds with reality as we know it:

“Premiere Networks announcement does not involve the cancellation of any advertising, local or national, purchased within The Rush Limbaugh Show. The advertisers using this contractual relationship are not buying program sponsorships, but rather a fixed number of audience impressions on those radio stations. Premiere’s announcement today temporarily stops placing these spots on Premiere affiliated local news-talk radio stations for the next two weeks. It does not affect national advertising in The Rush Limbaugh Show.”

Who’s the spokesman, Baghdad Bob?

114 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:18:45am

re: #112 OhNoZombies!

Why doesn’t Rick just come out and say that he doesn’t care about the women’s vote cause we probably shouldn’t be voting anyway?

Because he’s a coward? And from what I’ve seen among Republican voters, he’s actually done better amongst women than men. Speaking of which, is there anything likable at all about Rush Limbaugh?

115 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:19:56am

re: #102 Obdicut

We appreciate you fighting the good fight. I agree abuse is more widespread than believed. I have a harder time naming friends who haven’t been abused than those who have and I have a diverse group of friends. Even my wife was abused. It’s terrible.

116 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:20:50am

Well, look what happened with the Belgian Mosque:

Azzedine Laghmich, an official at the mosque, told AFP the attacker was “a Salafist,” who sprayed petrol inside the mosque before setting it alight and shouting Sunni slogans on his way out — cries related to the conflict in Syria.

“All the eyewitness accounts said so,” Laghmich added.
Isabelle Praile, another senior official in Belgium’s organized Muslim community, said the Rida mosque “had already been placed under police protection several years ago,” citing direct threats from members of the ultra-conservative Salafist movement.

117 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:21:31am

re: #116 ProGunLiberal

Just like the last time in 1989.

118 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:21:59am

re: #117 Lenin’s Mummy

Must suck to be a moderate Muslim in Europe. Stuck between Salafists and fascists.

119 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:22:22am

re: #116 ProGunLiberal

Well, look what happened with the Belgian Mosque:

Yeah, not surprising. Thanks for the update.

120 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:23:32am

re: #118 Obdicut

Of course this increases my hate of the Salafists. By the end of the year, I expect my anger against them to surpass the anger I felt after the 7/22 Attacks in Norway.

Of course, I see hatred of Salafists as a good thing

121 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:23:55am

re: #117 Lenin’s Mummy

This happened earlier?

I would like to see the story.

122 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:31:53am

re: #73 SanFranciscoZionist

I think the idea was that Sarah was just supposed to look pretty, keep quiet and simply be a blank canvas onto which GOP voters could project their ideal image of what a candidate should be.

She just could not cope with that role, and really let us know what they were trying to sell us.

123 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:49:19am

re: #73 SanFranciscoZionist

Until I saw Game Change, I had no idea that she really believed her being VP was G-d’s plan or she wouldn’t have been asked. And she thought that was enough - that she didn’t need to do anything else. Nobody was more surprised than I was that I walked away from that movie feeling sorry for her. She had no clue whatsoever.

124 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 12:17:43pm

re: #114 HappyWarrior

Because he’s a coward? And from what I’ve seen among Republican voters, he’s actually done better amongst women than men. Speaking of which, is there anything likable at all about Rush Limbaugh?

Isn’t that like asking whether there is an appropriate prayer for the Czar?

125 Ming  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 1:08:48pm

re: #47 Simply Sarah

I have to say that I’m still puzzled. Remember when Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate and, once everyone got past the “Who the heck is Sarah Palin?” phase, we learned that she was a pretty well regarded, well liked, and popular governor supposedly known for being able to reach across the aisle? What happened to all that? Was that all an act in the past? A misreading? Or did the national spotlight just make her go crazy? I’m honestly curious and I admit to not having looked into that history much since the beginning, as I was more focused on the present in regards to her being a potential VP.

There’s lots of detail in The Rogue, the book by Joseph McGinniss. Far from being “well-liked” and “reaching across the aisle”, Palin made enemies throughout her half-term as Governor. It may be that she resigned in 2009 to avoid further investigations about “Troopergate”, which is an incredible story of using the Governor’s office for personal payback. Much of the book is story after miserable story about personal animosities, grudges, lies and unpleasantness. Sarah’s world. (Meaning Sarah Palin, not yourself!)

126 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 1:43:56pm

re: #89 makeitstop

Maybe I read it too fast, but I think he’s referring to not having ‘altar boys’ defending the church - he wants those defending the church to be tougher on their opponents.

Well in that case, simply, fuck him.

127 Stephen T.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 2:36:25pm

re: #14 Obdicut

But then not actually have to do any work.

How about we just tell Palin that she’s president, and create a Truman Show type reality for her?

That is probably the only reality show I could find myself watching.

128 Stephen T.  Tue, Mar 13, 2012 2:58:42pm

re: #99 Lidane

So do most of the bishops and cardinals in charge. Why else would they cover up and try to downplay abuse, or shuffle priests around to different parishes instead of confronting the problem head on?

I’ve seen the reasoning for covering up and downplaying the abuse because the bishops and cardinals don’t see the abuse as anything more than a minor sin. A sin for which the guilty has already been forgiven. I know of at least one bishop who was surprised to find out that the act committed against a minor was actually a crime.


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