In an Ugly Racist Fox News Rant Sarah Palin Calls President Obama Lackadaisical

[Tx4obama]

In an Ugly Racist Fox News Rant Sarah Palin Calls President Obama Lackadaisical

Sarah Palin welcomed herself back to Fox News today with an ugly racist rant that culminated with her breaking out Jim Crow stereotypes and calling President Obama lackadaisical.

Palin used a question about the pursuit of Edward Snowden to launch a racist attack against President Obama:

Well, you know the whole issue with Snowden and with the government’s violation of our 4th Amendment rights of our privacy and against searches and seizures of our property and communications. The problem there is that government has lied to us, and they do spy on our communications, and it took Snowden to disclose that, but if he’s violated the law then he needs to get back here and answer to the rule of law, because we are still a nation that respects the rule of law. Right? Even though amnesty bill just sort of thwarted all that.

But with Obama deciding to just oh I guess lead from behind on this issue too, that’s the community organizer in our president. That’s a bit of that lackadaisical eh you know, don’t have to take responsibility. His resume proves he hasn’t had to responsibility for much in all these years. This just another issue, another example that falls in line with a community organizer.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/29/racist-fox-news-rant-sarah-palin-calls-president-obama-lackadaisical.html

Be sure to read the whole thing at the link

[stevenleser]

1. Someday, please, just let me have a debate with her on air.

Please, please, pretty please...

[Skittles]

3. make sure you ask her about her reading habits

[pinboy3niner]

4. In what respect, Charlie?

[Skittles]

7. STOP IT pinboy3niner

[Nanjing to Seoul]

74. Enjoy your very brief stay, two post Charlie.

Jackass trolls don't even try anymore.

[roguevalley]

18. as a former sufferer of her misbegotten rule as a pretend governor

may I say she's a stupid ass cow? There. I feel better.

[bluestate10]

46. The debate would be totally unfair to Sarah if your tongue was not tied first. Or, if you consumed

a case of single malt scotch before the debate, Sarah may score one point out of many chances. Palin is an idiot, who unfortunately is worshiped by ignorant people that want to take the country back to the twenties. Palin and her fans are irrelevant, and deep down inside, they are starting to realize that inescapable fact.

[tallahasseedem]

85. I'd pay to see that!

[bravenak]

2. More bullcrap from my former half term governor!!

I wish she would just shut up. She makes Alaskans look stupid. We do not miss her.

[Rectangle]

80. Maybe she should ask Osama Bin Laden about his laziness...

Oh wait....

[Major Hogwash]

5. I can't believe that Faux Snooze hired her back. You just know that she is going to quit again.

She is incredibly stupid, uninformed, and is the worst public speaker I have ever seen for the Rethuglican party.
I hope she doesn't quit anytime soon because she is the best argument for getting more people to vote for Democrats that we have.

[still_one]

6. That she is even given air time is disgusting, and that the media finds her "newsworthy" says

Everything about them

[jberryhill]

8. "he hasn’t had to responsibility for much in all these years"

What an unbelievably stupid person she is.

[Ken Burch]

11. That, or Borat is writing her speeches now. n/t.

[silvershadow]

9. Governor Half-term calling someone else lazy? Really? nt

[Ken Burch]

10. How does she tie in the idea of Obama as "lackadasiacal" with the "community organizer" thing?

Does she own some really low-priced dictionary that defines "community organizer" as "synonym for lazy slacker"?

Or does she still think she'll eventually undo the 2008 result simply be repeating the WORDS "community organizer" over and over and over again?

[CakeGrrl]

40. I think you hit it with the first option.

The RW keeps repeating these buzzwords that their followers will associate with the negative perception of "liberals". The Palin ignoramus doesn't know any better herself.

[sheshe2]

12. Sarah Palin speaks...

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[treestar]

35. good one she she

[sheshe2]

49. Why thank you treestar!

I so loved the pretty colors in here word salad~ It inspired me.

[Azathoth]

13. Palin talks the way a high-school kid writes answers on a test he hasn't studied for

It's just a jumble of half-memorized phrases and slogans that she read off a Google search she did on her phone 30 seconds before the TV cameras turned on.

[iemitsu]

16. I have read many of those high-school kid answers in my life and can

verify that you are correct in your above statement, Azathoth. But, Sarah does not sound like a "smart" or clever kid trying to pull a fast one on a single, unprepared for, test. She sounds like a chronically ill-informed dolt, who says stuff just to fill dead air space.

[tblue37]

66. She sounds like Miss Utah this year or

Miss Teen South Carolina a couple of years ago.

[iemitsu]

87. Some of the pageant girls certainly demonstrate both

intellect and depth of character.
Sarah is right there among the greats.

[pinboy3niner]

14. We're gonna need...

...a bigger bottle of word salad dressing.

[Cass]

38. LOL!!!

[otohara]

15. She Reads DU

And Glenn Greenwald

[11 Bravo]

36. Who helps her with the words consisting of more than two syllables?

[Turbineguy]

17. She may have called him that

but she needed somebody else to spell it for her.

[fleur-de-lisa]

27. And tell her what it means! - n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

19. I didn't know this

Author Mariann S. Regan explained that lackadaisical is part of the South’s history racist terminology used to describe African-Americans, “In the light of my family memoir Into the Briar Patch, I can see how this stereotype was born during slavery and Jim Crow. Growing up, I learned that the South’s rich vocabulary for laziness was often applied to African-Americans: shiftless, no-account, trifling, good-for-nothing, lackadaisical, half-hearted, slow as molasses. In the South, slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown. Yet somehow the blacks were the ones who got called lazy.”

The parts in bold. The non bold ones yes - but bold - no.

I also recently learned at DU that when my black, Talladega born father would tell us to: Get to fetchin and steppin - normally said to us when we weren't jumping up and doing something our mother told us to do . . . That it was a reference to being an Uncle Tom.


I wonder how many people Sister Sarah Alaskstan counted on NOT knowing that when she said it?

[Delphinus]

23. I didn't know this either ...

thanks for educating me (us).

[GreenEyedLefty]

25. "Lackadaisical" when used to describe a black person is a racist dog whistle, for sure.

[Skittles]

51. it's redmeat code for shifty and lazy

[1-Old-Man]

55. I was born and raised in the south and I have never heard the word used that way

And I am well familiar with the word, it meaing unimpressive performance from a thing or a person or an attitude that was inattentive. Never once have I heard it used in any derogatory way.

[Hekate]

67. Thanks. Sometimes I wonder how much ground has shifted under my feet

I was NOT raised in the south; my parents were Coloradans who moved to California, all 4 of us were Baby Boomers in So Cal; then raised in Hawai'i.

Lackadaisical is a word. Not an everyday word, but just a word with no racist connotations in my life.

Eh, my mother thought my school performance was lackadaisical.

I can't keep up.

Edited to add: With the Wasilla Barbie, it could all be context. Her word-salad contains so many dog-whistles you can hardly get through it. It's the nature of word-salad to have mixed metaphors, btw.

[1-Old-Man]

72. You've got a good point there, with her meaning is meaningless

That's a good example of the proper use of the word, my mother thought my performance in school was lackadaisical as well and my father thought even less of it.

But with Palin, and in fact I've noticed with many Republicans, words seem to take on new meanings. I don't mean so much the dog whistles, but just plain language is often horribly distorted by them. It goes hand in hand with their style of argumentation, one in which facts do not matter and words have only the meaning the speaker wishes to imply. So with Palin we could both be both right about the word and wrong about how she, and only she, is using it.

[bike man]

31. More info re 'lackadaisical'

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/using-the-adjective-lackadaisical/

The adjective lackadaisical derives ultimately from the word lack in the Middle English sense of “loss, failure, reproach, shame.” When people were overcome by the sadness, unfairness, or futility of life, they would put the back of their hands to their foreheads and exclaim “Ah, lack!”

“Ah, lack” became the word alack. Then came the expression “Alack the day!”

more at link

[Jamastiene]

60. I had no clue that was considered racist.

And mostly when I have heard any of those additional terms you just posted in your quote, it was usually white women talking about their white husbands or ex-husbands. Ironically, the first person I ever heard using the term lackadaisical was an English teacher who gave it to us as a vocabulary word for the week. She as AA. She never mentioned it was racist.

Then again, pretty much every single word we use in the south has a racist history to it, according to DU. I am slowly learning that the only acceptable posting policy for southerners on DU is selective mutism.

[Jamaal510]

61. I didn't even know that word even existed.

This thread was the first place I heard it, and knowing Sarah, I originally thought it was something she came up with out of her ass.

[marshall]

70. And that in itself is the essence of lackadaisical

I agree, and accusations of racism lose their power when they are done in a lackadaisical way.

[tanyev]

20. The woman who quits everything she starts is calling Obama lackadaisical?

I don't think that word means what she thinks it means.

[WhataKnight]

21. I'm so tired of her

When will she just go away. I guess we can thank McCain for brining her name into our lives.

[RBInMaine]

22. Who cares about ANYTHING this dim-witted goofball says. I could piss more brains than what she has.

[ananda]

24. I wish we could take Palin and Perry and Jindal and Haley ..

.. and Barbour and, well, all red state governors and just put them
on an island in work clothes and have them live on minimum wage
only for two years.

[liberal N proud]

26. Just another word salad from Palin

[KharmaTrain]

28. Highly Caffeinated Grifterella Screams For Attention...

...nothing worse than a 7th day wonder on the 8th day. Mooselini desperately wants to become "relevant" again...return to her former status of "celebrity politician". She dreams of the bus tours and attention and is gonna do what she can to become the center of said attention.

Of course, it's classic Palin word salad...somehow standing up for the 4th amendment when there's a Democrat in the White House but surely feels justified when the dubya regime conducted illegal wiretaps. Hypocrisy is who she is...and what makes her amusing to watch. The sad thing is there's a lot of unhinged out there who relish that racist laden red meat...

[Brigid]

52. "Grifterella!"

[MattSh]

29. Lackadaisical

That's 5 syllables. From Sarah Palin? I call bullshit on that.

[Hugabear]

59. Are you kidding? I bet she has a list of racist buzzwords

She whips it out whenever she needs it

[chelsea0011]

30. She is on auto word control......

same shit over and over and over. "Leading from behind"? Honestly, all these years later and that is all she still has.

[obliviously]

32. People are going to get completly desensitized to the phrase racist

Why can't something someone says just be labeled fucking stupid once in awhile instead of the constant moronic application of the charge of racism.

[oldhippie]

41. Because charges of racism get much more response here .....

.. and for good reason. Just Fucking Stupid doesn't trigger the same emotions. People know that.

[CakeGrrl]

42. When it's there, it's there. She using the "lazy Negro" dogwhistle to a receptive crowd.

If you don't see it, you just don't see it.

But don't cry foul just because it gets called out.

[yellowcanine]

79. Exactly. Spot on. I do think she does it in ignorance but that is no excuse.

In some ways it is worse, imo.

[yellowcanine]

78. Sorry, but the term "lackadaisical" isn't far from "lazy, shiftless" etc.

Whether Sarah is aware of it or not, it is racist language. And yeah it is stupid also and I get it that in her case it is probably ignorance on her part. But ignorance is no excuse because historically tagging African Americans as "lazy" and "shiftless" has been part of the standard white supremacist M.O. and anyone who is so clueless that they don't realize that should be called on it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

33. DUers tell me there's no more racism, and certainly none aimed at Evil Spy Obama

That's what DUers say.

[Bluenorthwest]

44. Can you prove your assertion by showing more than one DUer saying there is no

more racism? You claim 'that's what DUers say' as if all but you are saying this. I have never seen anyone here say this.
I hate these 'let's make up a vicious allegation and spew it at tons of unnamed people' games. But I'm sure you can offer many examples. Please do so.

[treestar]

34. She's stuck on the community organizer issue

in her world, it seems like that is just a "bad" thing.

Oh and she's against surveillance? That's hilarious! Right wing Republicans against taking out the terrorists by any means possible?

She knows Snowden is the latest topic and that's the only reason she mentioned him. Then on to the usual word salad.

[Jamaal510]

62. "Community organizer" and "socialism" are both bad,

according to SP.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

71. However, she doesn't know what a community organizer does or what socialism is

[bluestate10]

37. Palin speaks to a declining audience. We must respond to her attack by continuing to

vote in every election. People of her ilk can only win when our side becomes distracted.

[Jamaal510]

64. Or when they change the laws so less Democrats can vote.

[nyquil_man]

39. Aww. Sarah bought a thesaurus!

[lpbk2713]

43. Better than *refudiate*

I wonder how long she had to stand in front of the mirror practicing 'lackadaisical ' ?

[Nanjing to Seoul]

75. She can see Russia from Wasilla, so she knows foreign policy.

[Bluenorthwest]

45. Thanks John McCain. She is his fault.

His and the Republican Party's.

[tavernier]

47. Sorry, I couldn't read it...

the same way I can't make myself read email letters from the prince of Nairobi asking me for assistance with his newly acquired fortune.

The first time is oddly amusing and mildly entertaining, but any more than that and you feel your skin becoming squirmy and itchy.

[Tx4obama]

48. That's a shame. The last eight paragraphs are pretty good. n/t

And the background history in the article regarding the word 'lackadaisical' was pretty interesting too.

[Apophis]

50. Did she get coached by Paula Deen before the interview?

[rdharma]

53. Did you say "ugly" rant?

Sarah Palin without makeup and big hair!

[inagaddadavidamf]

54. Please, I'm brand new, I require some assistance...

How do I comment on a thing like this, she's a major shithead. I'm bright, I'm empathetic, but honestly she's a fucking moron, worse than stupid.

I'm new to this site, may I please get a heads up?

X

[Rhiannon12866]

58. You just did...

And welcome to DU!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

63. I think you replied just fine.

Welcome to DU!

[Raine]

56. she's so jealous of Obama's community organizing

skills especially since he used them to get to be president! Palin is like some kid the way she's so "green-eyed" and keeps on and on about a skill someone else has that she doesn't. I find it amazing that someone her age has such an immaturity and gives themself away time after time.

[KinMd]

57. At least she gives fresh matierial

to Letterman, Kimmel and leno

[MNBrewer]

65. Ignore her and she'll go away

Sarah who?

[LeftishBrit]

68. 'Lackadaisical'? Not 'taking responsibility'?

This from someone who got bored with being governor and quit halfway through her term?

[Tom Ripley]

69. I do believe Shiftless Sarah is engaging in quite a bit of projection

[malaise]

76. Fuck that semi-literate racist

ReTHUG

[yellowcanine]

77. Did she mention his "shiftless shuffle" when he walks?

[Nye Bevan]

81. OK, where can I find the definitive list of racist words? (nt)

[CreekDog]

82. it's not words per se, it's you saying an immigrant American should speak the "Queen's English"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3110740

[Nye Bevan]

83. Yes, I know that bothered you, but that doesn't really answer my question.

Until today I had no idea that the word "lackadaisical" could be considered racist. So if there is a list of all such words somewhere, that would be very handy.

[CreekDog]

84. it's too bad Obama isn't Palin, you might actually defend him

[Nye Bevan]

86. Or Thatcher, of course. (nt)