Posted on 09/16/2008 7:04:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine):
Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious "rural radicals" of our time.
It has been years since groups such as the Montana Militia, the Posse Comitatus and the Sagebrush Rebels, and individuals such as Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski have made us wonder why so many "angry white men" populated our rural regions. Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention to foreign terrorists. But we should never forget that in the late 20th century, ultra-Christian, antistatist and white-supremacist groups flourished in the states of the Pacific Northwest - called by many the "Great White Northwest" - the very region that Sarah Palin and her family call home.
Got that not so subtle connection between Sarah Palin and the Unabomber? And all because of Sarah Palin's choice of a region to call home. Stock then presents us her theory for all this supposed hate in the Pacific Northwest...lack of diversity:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Which candidate is associated with a known hater rev wright which candidate is associated with a known domestic terrorist...
Does this history professor even know that Todd Palin is Eskimo?
>>Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by domestic terrorists and...<<
Two words: WILLIAM AYERS.
(you know? Barry’s buddy.)
Chair of the History Department? History has now become an exercise in deconstructing history. Left-leaning historians see ghosts in every closet, but they can’t see the obvious.
How many historical tomes are there about the fall of the Soviet Union, one of the most important and consequential events in recent history?
So what we have here is another radical for Zero.
Obama must have wanted to say they “cling to guns, religion and racism...”
She’s got man hands!
C. U. Next Tuesday.
“Saul Alinsky may be dead but he’s not gone.”
Communism is dead, but it’s alive and well in the humanities departments of our universities.
Good lord.... History Professors in Connecticut really must not be required to know geography. Alaska is not “the Pacific Northwest” (which is essentially Washington, Oregon, and sometimes Idaho) ... and as it turns out, Montana is closer to Connecticut than it is to Wasilla.
So this leftist buffoon thinks it is somehow more appropriate to babble about NON-EXISTENT supposed ties between Palin and “rural radicals” than to examine the actual, indisputable ties between Obama and specific “urban radicals” like Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, et al?
What does this say about her “objectivity” and competence as an academic historian?
She really needs to get her eyebrows waxed and throw on some makeup. BLECH!!
I hate Satan and evil and wickedness.
I hate Communism, Marxisim/Leninism, Socialism, Liberalism, Collectivism, Elitism and Paganism.
Perhaps, I need to become enlightened and more 'progressive'. I'm way to simple-minded and ignorant I guess...in other words: a stupid 'flyover American'.
Another Yale-educated history professor who sees America as full of racists and Nazi sympathizers? Yawn. The Ivy League cranks out these cranks like Starbucks makes cappuccino and both are highly overvalued.
Sarah's husband is part Eskimo.
So, if you’re from Upper Michigan, then...?
It is Ward Churchill redux, another history professor.
Yup, History Dept Chair. Such intellect, such scholarship. Sorry, folks, lib arts faculty do not count as scholars. (Camille Paglia excepted)
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