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Palin goes too far, again
CNN ^ | May 1, 2014 | Professor David M. Perry, Dominican University

Posted on 05/01/2014 1:56:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Last Sunday, Sarah Palin stood before the huge crowd at the 2014 National Rifle Association annual meeting and condemned liberals for coddling terrorists. She loaded her speech with religious metaphors, claiming that true leaders would put "the fear of God in our enemies." She said, "They obviously have information on plots to carry out jihad. Oh, but you can't offend them, can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."

Palin's invocation of forced baptism shocked both conservatives and liberals, inspiring few defenders. Christian commentators, in particular, focused on her link between torture and baptism.

On Wednesday, the National Religious Campaign against Torture released a powerful condemnation of the speech. To Palin, the organization's executive director wrote, "Your statements play into a false narrative conveying that somehow, the conflict between the United States and the terrorist cells is a conflict between Christianity and Islam, or Islam and 'the West.'"(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; islam; muslims; nra; palin; sarahpalin; terrorism; waterboarding; wot
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If it's a "false narrative" why do so many Islamists say it is so? And you're right, professor, it won't end well, but not in the way you think.
1 posted on 05/01/2014 1:56:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I love it when she goes too far! Sort of like the smell of napalm in the morning!

Go, Sarah, go!


2 posted on 05/01/2014 1:58:03 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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Christian commentators, in particular, focused on her link between torture and baptism.

Who? "Christians" such as Jeremiah Wright? Also, waterboarding ain't torture.

3 posted on 05/01/2014 1:58:24 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Liberals refuse to call these Muslim terrorists as such. They won’t admit that they do their acts in the name of Islam.

On the other hand, luminaries such as Whoopi Goldberg call Timothy McVeigh a Christian terrorist, though he never claimed to have done his acts in the name of religion.


4 posted on 05/01/2014 1:58:53 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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we’ve become such a nation of pussies...(oops, there I’ve “gone too far” again...)


5 posted on 05/01/2014 2:00:30 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Grievance mongers strike again.


6 posted on 05/01/2014 2:01:56 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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David M. Perry, Associate Professor, Dominican University

Hmm...looks very smug and rather "dainty" to me, if you get my drift. Governor Sarah Palin would land a knockout blow on this mewing, puking leftist within seconds.

7 posted on 05/01/2014 2:01:58 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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It looks like the liberal media finally found something from Governor Palin, that annoyed them.

This must mean that the honeymoon is over.


8 posted on 05/01/2014 2:02:00 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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Just for some background. Dominican University was called Rosary College until a name change. Even in the mid-80s it was a hotbed of radical dissidents.

It was at a protest of feminazi/general anti-Catholic dissident Sr. Teresa Kane’s talk that I met some fine people who persuaded me to consider transferring from U of Chicago to one of the handful of serious Catholic colleges in the country.

Rich Freeman infiltrated the audience, and asked Sr. Kane if she would affirm the Catholic Church’s teaching that a direct procured abortion was the same as killing Christ Himself. She stated that she “could not answer that question”. I asked about some organization taking Playboy Foundation money, and she begged off on that as well.


9 posted on 05/01/2014 2:02:43 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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Three cheers for Sarah Palin, and none for those givung her hell.


10 posted on 05/01/2014 2:05:20 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (Looking forward to November elections.)
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Yup. Major Fruit-Alert. Suddenly all these non-religious types are worried about the misuse of the word “baptism.” Sadly, some people right here on FR fall for this silly stuff.


11 posted on 05/01/2014 2:06:00 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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inspiring few defenders.

they obviously didn't check with my support group..........

12 posted on 05/01/2014 2:06:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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What difference does it make?


13 posted on 05/01/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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He looks gay.


14 posted on 05/01/2014 2:08:52 PM PDT by RginTN
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National Religious Campaign against Torture ????

Given that the islamist claim that Islam is a religion and beting that they hold a “comfortable” number of :seats on this “campaign” I can see how the “National Religious Campaign against Torture” might say that.

Time for a New Crusade!


15 posted on 05/01/2014 2:09:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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Sarah “lives in their (msm) heads”....! I LOVE IT...!


16 posted on 05/01/2014 2:09:20 PM PDT by swampfox101 (l)
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This guy can go back to 1349 to dump on Palin. I doubt he can go back 7 days to dump on Obama. Look at the evidence he actually did some research. Think he does any research on the kid from Kenya?


17 posted on 05/01/2014 2:12:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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CNN - IOW, coddle those people who tried to kill you or have killed innocents.


18 posted on 05/01/2014 2:15:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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This leftist freak needs to baptized with a water balloon and then a cream pie, in that order.


19 posted on 05/01/2014 2:17:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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Sarah Palin... isn't she the has-been Governor of Alaska that only appears at State Fairs, B-list political events, and has no influence?

Why should this guy care what she says??

/s

20 posted on 05/01/2014 2:21:41 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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