{"id":186132,"date":"2014-04-28T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/28\/why-is-this-woman-still-a-part-of-our-political-discourse\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T04:49:00","slug":"why-is-this-woman-still-a-part-of-our-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/28\/why-is-this-woman-still-a-part-of-our-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is this Woman Still a Part of Our Political Discourse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin just said that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/04\/palin-waterboarding-how-we-baptize-terrorists-nra-video.html\">Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, I am not paraphrasing, this was a direct quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">With her legitimate political career all but unsalvageable, Sarah Palin has embraced her new role as a carnival barker. Speaking over the weekend at the National Rifle Association &#8220;Stand And Fight&#8221; rally at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Palin attempted an Ann Coulter routine meant to offend anyone not white and at least a little racist. \u201cNot all intolerant, anti-freedom leftist liberals are hypocrites,\u201d she offered before endorsing torture. \u201cI\u2019m kidding \u2014 yes, they are!\u201d Zing \u2014 plus 1,000 patriot points.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And then her centerpiece joke, which really had very little to do with the gun nuts directly. \u201cIf I were in charge \u2026\u201d \u2014 wistful pause \u2014 \u201cthey would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.\u201d The crowd erupted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How I long for the day that she is relegated to the ash heap of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin just said that, &#8220;Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists.&#8221; No, I am not paraphrasing, this was a direct quote: With her legitimate political career all but unsalvageable, Sarah Palin has embraced her new role as a carnival barker. Speaking over the weekend at the National Rifle Association &#8220;Stand And Fight&#8221; rally at Lucas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,982,1168,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-stupid","category-torture","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}