Palin Called Obama "Sambo"

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Registered: 10-13-2008
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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Registered: 10-14-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:40pm
It isn't the plural, it's the use of the possessive - that'd be the apostrophe-s.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:43pm
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:43pm

I shouldn't have to explain it.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:46pm
Please follow context.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:46pm

There's a distinction to be made between who is doing the reporting. If it is someone faceless on the Internet, who either won't even reveal their actual name, or does, but has no history as a journalist, then I take it with a much, MUCH larger grain of salt than I do a published, edited column in the Washington Post by a lifelong professional journalist like Dana Milbank (who, by the way, is a dude).

Same thing with your hypothetical of someone at an Obama rally yelling "murder Palin." I'd ask: did anyone else hear it? If not, who is doing the reporting? Does it fit in with the general tone of what others have observed (and or there is videotape of) at other contemporaneous Obama rallies? In short - does it fit in with a pattern? Even if it doesn't, it wouldn't mean it DIDN'T happen....only that the more caveats there are to a story, the more difficult it becomes to lend it full credence. A story reported by only one person.....who is a person that's never been a paid or professional journalist and has nothing to lose if they get caught telling a lie.....who tells a story about something which sounds distinctly out of place, given other similar events/happenings we CAN verify....tends to be a lot less credible than two or three independent reports which jibe with some of the already-verified things which have happened.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:50pm

1.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:53pm

Ok, let's say that Bill OReilly is standing at a Obama rally listening to what Obama has to say.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:53pm

And if you are talking about the plural possessive, it would be -ies'.


 

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:59pm

See at this point I wouldn't discount her article, but unless I hear it then there is nothing.


You are very confusing.

 

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 10:02pm
Good grief.

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