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RandySF

(58,755 posts)
Wed Dec 25, 2013, 09:51 PM Dec 2013

Sarah Palin: I didn’t read ‘Duck Dynasty’ interview

Turns out Sarah Palin, who has been one of Duck Dynasty’s biggest defenders, hasn’t actually read the GQ interview that includes cast member Phil Robertson’s controversial comments on homosexuality and other subjects.

When pressed by Fox News host Greta Van Susteren whether the language Robertson used when talking about his opposition to homosexuality was graphic and offensive, Palin admitted she didn’t know what Robertson had said.

“I haven’t read the article. I don’t know exactly how he said it,” Palin said Monday on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”

After the GQ interview was published, Palin immediately came to Robertson’s defense by posting a statement on Facebook saying it was an issue of free speech and defended his comments in a TV appearance with Sean Hannity.


http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/sarah-palin-duck-dynasty-interview-101500.html#ixzz2oXe3j53C

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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
2. she has pulled that stunt before
Wed Dec 25, 2013, 09:57 PM
Dec 2013

This isn't the first time she has claimed no knowledge of someone's statement (the pope?) and then been only too happy to flap her lips about whatever that person said (that she didn't hear or read).

It's just a ploy.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. She continues to try to stay in the public eye. As far as Duck Dynasty and the Palin show are
Wed Dec 25, 2013, 10:06 PM
Dec 2013

about the same. I watched a couple of shows of DD, it is more than I can handle for a while. I am familiar with the area from which they hail but it is still over the top. I am amazed about the "religious" Phil giving anyone an interview and to give the quote as he did. Again over the top. Does he used the same terms when he is speaking in the churches? If he is I would not want to be listening to him.

Warpy

(111,243 posts)
5. That's the problem with all right wing morons, they don't read anything but Astroturf emails
Wed Dec 25, 2013, 10:27 PM
Dec 2013

They listen to the radio and read their emails to find out how high and how hard to jerk their knees, to the point it now looks like they're all goose stepping in time.

They're all fully controlled by a very small group of propagandists but will be the first to tell you what independent thinkers they all are.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect sums them all up quite nicely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
7. Sarah, sweetie? You bought it, and now you own it; but this is a good start at 'splainin' it
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 12:23 AM
Dec 2013

all away.

Still, thanks a brazillion, for putting your outspoken personal support as a former Republican Party VP candidate, behind these ugly, tragically racist, homophobic, bigoted comments, and further discrediting the Republican Party.

We Democrats salute your efforts on our behalf!

Gothmog

(145,126 posts)
9. Juanita Jean had fun mocking Palin on this story
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 03:47 PM
Dec 2013
http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/12/26/yo-sarah/

Y’all, anytime I get to talk about Sarah Palin is a good time.

She finally admitted that she had not actually read the interview with the Duck Dynasty dude before she defended it.

Really? Sarah Palin not read? Add that to my Shocked, Shocked I Tell You list.

dregstudios

(48 posts)
11. Dumb as a Box of Rocks
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 04:18 PM
Dec 2013

Since she quit her post in Alaska, Palin hasn’t run for public office but still plays the part of politician who calls her constituents “fans.” What exactly does she do other than essentially proposition her self and image to the highest bidder? Sounds like Sarah is America’s highest paid escort! See how down and dirty she’ll get for the money at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecstasy-of-sarah-palin_15.html

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