Clyburn: Palin 'Intellectually' Incapable Of Understanding Arizona Shootings

From the Huffington Post:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's first spoken words on the shootings in Tucson, Ariz. -- a lengthy denunciation of both violence and pundits who are "manufacturing a blood libel" -- was more an effort in media critique than post-tragedy reconciliation.

And in the immediate aftermath, the reaction to it was a bit of incredulity, shock or simple confusion. Assistant House Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) became one of the first lawmakers to weigh in Wednesday morning.

"You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think that she's an attractive person, she is articulate," Clyburn said on Bill Press' radio show. "But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what's going on here."

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I'm actually trying to avoid posting too much on the Arizona shootings because I see them as being yet another example in a long line of interplay between the violent right-wing rhetoric uttered by prominent conservative figures, and the crazy right-wingers who pick up guns or bombs to make that rhetoric come to life. That is, this is an ongoing story that we've been watching unfold for some years now. The ongoing story is more important than any of the individual events of which it is comprised. So while the tragic shootings are worth commentary, there's no need to dwell on it.

But this comment about Sarah Palin is just too funny to pass up.

Indeed, it's even funnier that Clyburn tempers his assertion by stating that Palin, the woman who created the clumsy term "refudiate," is "articulate." Maybe he was being dry. I mean, Palin can barely string a sentence together. "Articulate" doesn't even come close to describing her. I've known concussion headed football players who are more articulate than Sarah Palin.

But Clyburn is spot on when he flatly states that Palin is intellectually incapable of understanding the public and media reaction to the Arizona tragedy. I mean, she's intellectually incapable of grasping pretty much anything in the way of culture, politics, or economics, and honest observers already believe as much. But what's interesting with her latest round of drooling bullshit is that the entire media and political establishment in the wake of the tragedy has decided that violent right-wing rhetoric does, indeed, influence crazy people with guns to go on killing sprees. Palin, true to form, sees this as being just the same old unfounded media attacks against her, like when everybody went off on her for refusing to talk about what she reads in that 60 Minutes interview back in '08. So she's doing what's served her well in the past, making a martyr of herself. That plays well at Tea Party rallies, I guess, but even the Tea Partiers are watching their mouths now that a Democratic Congresswoman has taken a bullet in the head.

Bottom line here: Sarah Palin is as fucking stupid as she has always appeared to be, and her statement on the shootings, like so many other statements she's made, only verifies her stupidity. Oh yeah, she hates Jews, too.

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