Palin Called Obama "Sambo"
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| Tue, 10-14-2008 - 4:25pm |
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

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You are the only one who seems to be debating this and think she was using slang.
If those things were being shouted at Obama rallies, you would think there would be video and/or audio tape of it, too. And certainly - if FOX News were there - at least they could be counted upon to provide their loyal viewers with evidence of the fact that "everyone does it," right? I mean, surely the ENTIRE media can't all be in cahoots with not only each other, but the Obama campaign, too....or, wait....I guess that IS what you're suggesting, because it's the only thing that allows you to make the argument that you're making.
It's nonsense, of course, but hey - if it allows you to keep your illusions, by all means, have at.
"My baby's daddy" and "my babies' daddy" are pronounced exactly the same way.
Not really - you didn't even know Dana Milbank's gender when this discussion began, so you clearly didn't have any deep opinion of the man's writing, his honesty, accuracy or political leanings. Not so with O'Reilly. I'm quite well-versed in his history of half-truths, bluster and outright fabrication on occasion, in the service of making his point. I told you in a previous post, that even having someone as biased as Rush Limbaugh saying it - and being the ONLY person who claims to have witnessed it - doesn't make it IMPOSSIBLE for it to be true...only that the more conditions and caveats that exist, the harder it is to believe.
Milbank is a lifelong journalist; he has a reputation to protect. While it's certainly within the realm of possibility both that he might have mis-heard and that he might be "in the tank for Obama," he has a professional lifetime of understanding that his reputation rests in large measure on the truth and accuracy of what he prints. O'Reilly has a professional history of understanding that the more outrageous and swagger-y he sounds, the higher his opinion-show's ratings go. You do the math.
I don't want to get bogged down in the details here, because I've got more important things to do than re-re-re-discuss Bill O'Reilly's basic truthfulness, especially when this doesn't even concern him. So let me just leave it with this: if you'd said "a reporter from the Post" or something like that, I might have said "yes, I'd believe it but want to verify it." The main point that I originally made - that the amount of my skepticism increases situationally depending upon who's saying it, how many people can verify it, etc - still stands. I don't take Milbank's words as gospel truth....but he's been a journalist long enough that it means more to me than some guy in line at the grocery store...or than Bill O'Reilly. Especially when you factor in the stuff that IS on tape from last week at Palin rallies, such as "terrorist," "Bomb Obama" etc.
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