Palin tells critics: “I am not going to shut up” – PLUS: Scarborough strikes again

Nice Deb has the video of Sarah Palin’s interview from Sean Hannity’s show last night in which she addressed critics of her “blood libel” accusation in the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, and AmSpec’s Quin Hillyer has the best recap/description of it I’ve seen. A snippet:

I continue to believe that Sarah Palin is not yet qualified to be president, but my admiration for her continues to grow. Her interview with Sean Hannity, just aired, was almost pitch-perfect. It was dignified. It was well-modulated. It was strong. And it was thoughtful.

Read the rest here. I only have a few words to add: GO SARAH GO!

Related to all this, I must say, I continue to be amused but not surprised by Politico’s token “conservative” Joe Scarborough (also MSDNC’s token “conservative”), continuing to trash Palin in spite of his own calls in the last few weeks for a “new tone.” Check out this piece he wrote in which he has the audacity to chide the former Alaska governor for daring to respond to the slanderous accusations made by shamelessly opportunistic Democrats that she was in some way responsible for the murders of 6 and the injury of 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (via):

We get it, Sarah Palin. You’re not morally culpable for the tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz. All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree, even if we were stunned that you would whine about yourself on Facebook as a shattered family prepared to bury their 9-year-old girl.

I guess we could turn Joe’s “logic” around on him and suggest that we’re “stunned” that he’s still taking a hypocritical harsh tone by whining about Sarah Palin’s justifiable response as some of 9-year-old-Christina Green’s organs were being donated to help other children live better lives, but why stoop to the “old tone” level he supposedly decries?

Maybe one day when Joe steps outside of his Beltway bubble and decides he’s no longer comfortable with being willingly used by left wing “mainstream” media outlets as the “voice” for conservatism, he’ll understand that when you’re publicly accused of being the inspiration for the horrific murders of 6 people, and the injury of 14 others as part of an assassination attempt on an elected official, the last thing you need to do is step back and allow venomous people who are accusing you of such to go unanswered. In other words, you’re not going to sit back and “take it.” You’re going to respond, and respond forcefully.

Perhaps Joe has forgotten what this means, since the only “forceful” responses he knows how to give these days are ones in which he – while chummily rubbing elbows with the liberal establishment on his Morning Joe program and then later on in the evening on the DC cocktail circuit – slams decent conservatives on a daily basis, both for legitimately criticizing the Obama agenda and for defending themselves against bogus accusations and baseless insinuations that come from the Obama administration and many of the other hard-core Democrats he and his liberal co-host Mika routinely defend. It’s a tough life, eh Joe?

14 Responses to "Palin tells critics: “I am not going to shut up” – PLUS: Scarborough strikes again"

Paul says:

January 18, 2011 at 9:56 am

Palin needs to get out of attack mode. Some people on the Right are beginning to question her actions. She was in no way responsible for the tragedy in Arizona. That being said, she is responsible for words that come out of her own mouth and from her own camp.
DavidL says:

January 18, 2011 at 10:57 am

If Sarah were but a liberal, the MSM would be lounly cheering her assertiveness.

IfJoescar wants the pick a fight, he sbould take on the Cowward-in-Chief for trying to use a dead nine year old girl to advance his political agenda. I don’t know what Chritiana Green’s political philosopy was, or eve if she had one, and I bet that Obama does not know either.
Mary says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:27 am

She has every right to defend herself and she speaks plainly and distinctly. The left had hoped their relentless attacks would stop her, and the tea party for that matter. What they don’t get is that the more they criticize both the more essential it is to defend and keep speaking out to stop these fascists from destroying our way of life.
Phineas says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:31 am

“Attack mode,” Paul? Sarah Palin was subjected to a non-stop nuking from literally minutes after the shootings occurred. Defending yourself and others on your side from accusations of fomenting mass-murder is hardly being an attacker. Heck, the attacks didn’t stop even after the perpetrators were shown to be shameless liars. The real attack dogs are in the MSM and their allies in the Democratic caucus. I’m glad she’s not letting them get away with it; I wish more on the Right had her clarity on this issue and would quit treating it like just another day on the politics farm, something to “rise above.” (Krauthammer and Rubin, for example.)

Bear in mind that Sarah Palin was not just defending herself, but everyone on the Center-Right who’s dared to criticize the Progressive agenda and found themselves tarred as racists, haters, etc., for their trouble. I sure as heck didn’t see Tim Pawlenty or Mitt Romney rushing to condemn the Left’s political acid-throwing. No, she shouldn’t be quiet; she should keep right at it. As Lincoln said about Grant, “We can’t spare this woman. She fights.”
AnonymousDrivel says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:34 am

Joe Scarborough:

All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree, even if we were stunned…

Ahh. Exhibit A of a character assassination by a now character assassin.

All of us not watching the “Morning Joe” table agree that the brightest and most honest thing on your set is the furniture.

I understand “Joe” buggers farm animals; naturally we’ll be stunned if he tries to deny it since the corpses of the murdered have barely cooled.
Video: Hannity Interviews Sarah Palin « Nice Deb says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:49 am

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Eric Eikenberry says:

January 18, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Sarah Palin was attacked twice. First, she was initially accused of actively encouraging this crazy shooter to go after Giffords. Then, second, when she responded to that outrageous (and since proven false) accusation, she was met with false indignation from the left that, somehow, her comments were inappropriate by timing. Essentially, they were saying “how dare she respond when she’s the cause of a 9-year-old girl being murdered!”.

Folks, this kid used to walk down the street shouting at himself and others to the point where he made people nervous! He’s insane, period.

Never forget that what the Left fears the most is We, the People. They fear a popular uprising against their failed policies of deficit-spending, special-interests, and corruption/waste. Sarah Palin is the political figurehead at the forefront of the uprising. Right-wing talk radio and TV pundits are the mouthpieces which spread the news. As such, all represent fat, juicy targets of opportunity for the mainstream media, which, as evidenced by the Journalist scandal, has proven once more to merely be an arm of the Democratic Party.
Cassy Fiano says:

January 18, 2011 at 12:24 pm

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Carlos says:

January 18, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Well, if the left wants an outrageous attack, here it is: They are responsible for the criminal attack that left 6 dead, 13 wounded and a congressional representative hanging on to life!

How can that be, you ask?

They are the ones who created this whole “victim” society and glorified it to the point being a “victim” is not only popular but virtually necessary to exist in our society today, and without that “victim” mentality we would not necessarily have had this incident, let alone a whole string of deaths in the past years performed because the perps were “victims.”

And that theory has a lot more basis in traditional psychology than their wild accusations that big-name conservatives are responsible for these deaths.

That said, I still blame the shooter, and maybe those aware of his mental state (like the Pima County sheriff) and didn’t try to do anything about it.
Sefton says:

January 18, 2011 at 1:14 pm

The thing that grates on the Left and their sycophant cohorts in the media is the simple fact that they haven’t destroyed Palin. She continually gets the upper hand on them when all she’s doing is defending herself or her family. And this, from some “small town, community college, hunting and fishing, hick from the sticks” (as they see her); ‘how dare she try to compete with the higher educated elites of politics and journalism…who the hell does she think she is anyway?’
The irony of it is that if the Left/MSM would just leave her alone, her exposure (of which they denounce) would be limited. In affect, they are the ones who keep Palin’s fire going – they’re just too self absorbed, insulted and consumed with hate to see it. They can’t accept or understand that so many Americans stand by and respect this woman.
And, honestly, if she were to run for president, I’d not only vote for her because I believe she would make a better president, by far, than the alternative (our present failure)… I’d also vote for her because the image of President Palin taking the oath of office would have the Left fuming to the point of spontaneous combustion…the fits of rage and acts of self immolation would be a must see.
Lorica says:

January 18, 2011 at 2:35 pm

All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree

Who really cares to what you like minded, bb brained individuals think. As if you opinion matters one wit to anyone except the 20K people who watch your utterly idiotic show.

As far as Paul’s comment, I don’t see where Sarah is attacking anyone. I see where she is defending herself against these idiots. She didn’t insert herself into the conversation, she was pushed into it by the same buffoons who are now shocked that she would respond to them. I for one applaud her for standing up for herself. God knows the fools who presently run the RNC won’t do it. I have not heard John McCain, speak up to defend her, where are all of her allies??

My hope and prayer is that Sarah will run for President in 2012 and win. Then maybe we can get rid of this kiss-a** RNC leadership. – Lorica
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January 18, 2011 at 4:18 pm

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Steve Skubinna says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:26 pm

Awful big of you, Paul, to concede that Palin was not responsible for the AZ atrocity. Do you speak for the rest of the scumsucking bottom dwelling leftist slander machine? Or, like them, are you “stunned” that the uppity ignorant snowbilly had to inject herself into the national debate about her culpability for mass murder?

Go to hell.
Kate says:

January 19, 2011 at 9:57 am

Of course the left wants Palin to shut up….then they can go about their business defaming her at will. And even now they continue…without a shred of real evidence. Their case would not hold water in a court of law. The court of public opinion is the only one they are concerned about and I believe they are on the losing side of that argument also.

She has not taken what I would call an offensive, but she has just been out there countering their allegations. Her tone is much more concilliatory and forgiving than the lefts….might I save civil?

Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with and this is the only way the left has to try to slow her popularity at best. In short, they are not doing a very good job.

A more thoughtful approach to this tragedy would have been the most course…but the left is not long on thoughtfulness and more reactive and shortsighted. Always looking for a political connection to evil leads you to a dangerous predicament…which they find themselves in now.

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