Palin Falsely Accuses Obama Administration Of Coddling Ahmadinejad With Birthday Wishes

[RamboLiberal]

Sarah Palin is claiming that an unusual bid by the State Department to secure the release of American prisoners in Iran is the equivalent of President Obama coddling dictators. And it all happened on Twitter.

A bit of back story first: In July, 2009, three Americans were detained by Iranian forces near the northern border with Iraq and held on charges of espionage. One has since been released, but the other two -- Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer -- remain in custody and will face charges on November 6. The U.S. government calls the allegations ludicrous and has pushed for their release.

Today, Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley continued that push on Twitter, in a birthday message of sorts to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In subsequent tweets, Crowley wrote: "Happy birthday President #Ahmadinejad. Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be.... Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open #Iran to a different relationship with the world."

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The woman is an idiot! I have nightmares of the electoral college letting this woman get the presidency ala George W!

[Enrique]

1. if Palin were president, all American prisoners would be doomed n/t

[bigdarryl]

2. Can someone put a muzzle over this bitches mouth

[HipChick]

3. +100..thinking duct tape

[Bitwit1234]

4. I would love for the mothers of these two guys give her a

tweet and tell her what they think of her crap.

[Pirate Smile]

5. Now that would be the truly appropriate response. She treats everything like it is ammo for her

ignorant, hateful rantings without having the sense to recognize what exactly is going on.

[PA Democrat]

6. Reportedly, Bush wouldn't read anything longer than a page or 2 in length.

Palin can't get past the first sentence.

[nmbluesky]

7. Palin can't read their read level

what I do know!!!

[BootinUp]

8. Be varwee varwee afwaaaaaaaaade

edited for sanity.

[classysassy]

9. Sarah

take the money and return home.

[krkaufman]

10. Recommended reading related to this thread, from Media Matters

Media Matters, once again, comes through with the wider perspective, highlighting the workings of the Right Wing echo machine -- and, coincidentally, exactly the type of uncritical media response Stewart/Colbert's Rally for Sanity was targeting.

No, the State Dept. did not wish Ahmadinejad a "happy birthday"
October 29, 2010 12:44 pm ET by Simon Maloy

A lot of Media Matters readers wonder why we spend so much energy tracking and refuting the online scribblings of Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, given that much of what Hoft writes is so stupid as to be self-refuting.

...

Earlier this morning, Hoft wrote a post titled "Idiot Obama State Department Spokesman Wishes Ahmadinejad Happy Birthday." Hoft linked to this tweet from Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley directed at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which is not at all a wish of birthday good tidings, as anyone with an ounce of sense and a modicum of reading comprehension can tell ...

And now, by virtue of Palin's celebrity power, the entire conservative media will be buzzing about the State Department's happy birthday wish to Ahmadinejad, even though it never happened. And it's all because Jim Hoft, the Dumbest Man on the Internet, is an influential voice on the right.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Gateway Pundit is a right wing asshole

He covers MO politics and our local paper is forever linking to him. And he's just a dumbshit with a computer and an agenda.

[krkaufman]

12. Yep. Media Matters seems somewhat fatigued ...

... by the workload associated with his rantings.

[timkainemustgo]

13. RIght wingers simply wish it and it becomes truein their minds.

No doubt.