Look, I know Sarah Palin is already a national Joke at this point, but whatever sympathy I might have had for her (I feel she has been "used" by the GOP) is gone after she clearly refused to call abortion clinic bombers and doctor killers "terrorists". Jed L pretty much summed up it up well here.
However, I feel an obligation to the families of those who died as a result of these attacks, including some doctors who were shot in their home right in front of their own wife and kids, to point out why Sarah Palin, should ABSOLUTELY be finished because of these statements. So I want to provide some links to stories about the awful attacks perpetrated by anti-abortion extremists, of which Palin said "I don’t know if you’re going to use the word ‘terrorist’ there."
So I give you these stories below the fold.....
First we see this appropriate headline from 1998:
Murder of New York abortion doctor denounced as 'terrorism'
A doctor who performed abortions was shot to death by a sniper in his western New York home Friday night in an attack denounced as "terrorism" by the state's governor.
"It's beyond a tragedy. It's really an act of terrorism and, in my mind, a cold-blooded assassination," Gov. George Pataki said of the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian......
Slepian, 51, who has been the target of anti-abortion protesters since the 1980s, was killed by a single bullet fired through his kitchen window at about 10 p.m. EDT, as he and his family returned from synagogue to their home in Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo.
Your right Sarah, I don't see any "terrorism" there. Just a guy getting shot in front of his wife and kids @ 10pm at night. I'm sure his family was only slightly startled. Not "terrorized at all".
What about the Jon Salvi killings? Here's an obviously biased headline from those "elites" at the NY Times:
Defendant in Clinic Shootings Portrayed as 'Terrorist' and 'Sick Man'
Recalling the testimony of a witness, Mr. Kivlan said that as Mr. Salvi shot Ms. Nichols 10 times at point blank range, Mr. Salvi said to her, "That's what you get. You should pray the rosary."
Oh I see Sarah. Jon Salvi wasn't a terrorist who simply killed two receptionists at a clinic, two woman simply making a living working at a women's health clinic. No, he was simply giving them spiritual guidance ("You should pray the rosary"). Yeah I guess I wouldn't really "use the word terrorist there" either. However, you'll have to excuse me. I don't know what the hell else to call it then.
There really are only three possibilities here.
#1. Sarah Palin is a sick person
#2. She is beyond stupid and mentally was incapable of properly responding to Brian Williams question, even with her boss sitting next to her providing moral support.
#3. BOTH 1 and 2.
PLEASE make this woman pay. It's the least you can do for Dr. Slepian, his family, and the families of the two woman slaughtered in Brookline, and the other victims of these "terrorists". Barack Obama denounced the actions of William Ayers. Sarah Palin however showed she had some sympathy for these anti-abortion nutcases.