Palin asks on Facebook - Does anyone seriously believe that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a racist?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: Palin asks on Facebook - Does anyone seriously believe that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a racist?

Defending the Fight to Cast off a Conservative’s “Shackles”
by Sarah Palin on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 2:17pm

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/defending-the-fight-to-cast-off-a-conservatives-shackles/420627348434

Does anyone seriously believe that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a racist? Anyone, I mean, who isn’t already accusing all conservatives, Republicans, Tea Party Americans, etc., etc., etc. of being racists?

Adversaries who have been trying to silence Dr. Laura for years seized on her recent use of the n-word on her show as she subsequently suggested that rap “artists” and other creative types like those producing HBO shows who regularly use the n-word could be questioned for doing so. Her intention in discussing the issue with a caller seeking advice was not to be hateful or bigoted. Though she did not mean to insult the caller, she did, and she apologized for it. Still, those who oppose her seized upon her mistake in using the word (though she didn’t call anyone the derogatory term) to paint her as something that she’s not. I can understand how she could feel “shackled” by those who would parse a single word out of decades of on-air commentary. I understand what she meant when she declared that she was “taking back my First Amendment rights” by turning to a new venue that will not allow others the ability to silence her by going after her stations, sponsors, and supporters.

I, and obviously many others, have been “shackled” too by people who play games with false accusations, threats, frivolous lawsuits, misreporting, etc., in an effort to silence those with whom they disagree. That’s why I tend to defend people who call it like they see it while others stop at nothing to shut them up. I learned this valuable lesson when the partisan obstructionists in my state tried to shackle, bankrupt, and destroy my family and supporters, and my record, with endless frivolous litigation when I returned from the Vice Presidential campaign trail. In order to shake off the shackles they wanted to paralyze us with, I handed the reins to another, much like Dr. Laura is doing, so that these obstructionists who hated a Commonsense Conservative agenda wouldn’t win. I didn’t retreat; I reloaded in order to fight for what is right on a fairer battlefield. So, more power to someone with good intentions who refuses to be shackled by their detractors when they are falsely accused of being racist.

Dr. Laura did not call anyone or any group of people the n-word. Curiously, the same criers over this issue didn’t utter a word when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel called a group protesting the Obama Administration’s actions, “f***ing retards.” When this presidential spokesman uttered this term I commented that the President would be better off not including Emmanuel in his circle of advisers, and my opinion was based not just on the crude and disrespectful term Emmanuel used to label people, but because he too often gives the President very poor advice. I was called intolerant and narrow-minded by many on the Left for commenting on that issue. Many of these same Leftists are now spinning the Dr. Laura issue into something it is not. As usual, their hypocrisy and double standard applications are glaring.

- Sarah Palin

[louis-t]

1. You can definitely tell when Sarah's ghostwriter

is at the helm. Not one made up word, punctuation is correct, no 'you betchas'.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Excellent point...

...I hadn't thought about that, but yes...in this post she is "shackled" but not by "cackles."

:rofl:

:toast:

[Raschel]

7. Shackle, cackle, Palin's a jackal!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Interesting use of the word "shackled"; the manipulation never stops. (n/t)

[Forkboy]

3. Does mouse shit roll?

[vixengrl]

5. "shackled", my ass. She's as free to speak, Tweet, use smoke signals,

wave a flag, or go soak her head as anyone.

And if we want to talk about whether use of the word is calling anyone the word--if that word isn't being used as a label for someone or some thing, what exactly is it about? What good is the word without it being a referent? And why would it bother Dr. Laura not to be "able" to use it? Does she have a special use she wants to put it towards that isn't about some group of people? Maybe name a cookie after it? "Here's some fresh pecan 'n-words' I just baked!"

The focus might be on that word because it's taboo, but the rest of what she said wasn't much better. Saying someone is hypersensitive on the basis of as little as she let the caller say was jumping to a conclusion and making a generalization about someone--and what she did have to go on was the caller's race. Her tangent revealed attitudes that she might not identify as racist because she doesn't think of herself that way, but she needs to listen to people to understand better why what was said was taken that way before trying to defend it.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Is she incinerating about us again?

[tularetom]

8. Well we've all seen pictures of "Dr" Laura flashing her vuvuzela

So, racist or not, it's hard to take anything she says very seriously.

Personally, I think she is not necessarily just a racist, she is more of an all purpose bigot.

And she doesn't practice good grooming.

[johnaries]

9. She's like my aunt. A "...but I'm not a racist" racist.

I never thought my aunt was a racist until I started dating a girl from the Bahamas. I'm sure Dr. Laura has several black "friends" and doesn't have anything against other races because they can't help how they were born. :eyes: Yep, I've all kinds of racist comments followed by "but I'm not a racist".

I wonder how Dr. Laura feels about interracial marriage?