Geoffrey DunnAward-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian
Posted: July 18, 2010 07:21 PM
Palin's Bigoted Twitter Calls on Muslims to "Refudiate" Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a series of incendiary Tweets about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center
She pulled down one of them after concocting the word "refudiate" and then used the word "refute" incorrectly.
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
She then pulled the second attempt down and took a third swipe at it.
Peace-seeking Muslims pls understand. Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing
"Peaceful," "peace-seeking"? Why the qualifier? How about "peaceful Christians"? And as if Sarah Palin knows anything about "healing." Perhaps that's the biggest joke of all.
Well, not quite. The Thrilla from Wasilla then compared herself to none other than the Immortal Bard himself (and with indirect reference to her primary obsession, Barack Obama).
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
As Billy Boy so wisely noted in The Tempest:
You cram these words into mine ears against
The stomach of my sense.
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn's book The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power will be published by St. Martin's Press.
(Thanks to palingates for the screen saves.)
