Sarah Palin’s tour d’America continues this week, and it just gets more and more retarded. (And note, we don’t mean that in a sophomoric, taking-away-someone’s-dignity sort of way; we mean retarded like her son Trig.)
We’re a couple of days behind the news on this one (DEAL WITH IT), but during her recent swing through Wisconsin, Palin got all angry about…yes, the design of U.S. currency. Sure, the speech was to a right-to-life group, but she was just so mad she had to spout off and tell everyone what she and her girlfriends had been talking about.
Here’s the story from our friends at Politico:
In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.
Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.
“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”
She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”
Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.
Of course, the Democratic White House wasn’t behind the move, and anybody with half a brain would know that — in other words, maybe Palin deserves a pass here. See, one can’t just change currency in this country, regardless of how big a socialist Nazi Kenyan the president is. It was a point Politico made in its reporting:
But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.
In other words, the most cursory examination of the statement — the simplest fact-checking using tools like GOOGLE — revealed the truth. How egregious was the error? It was so bad, so stupid, so just absolutely lazy with the facts that Fox News even called out Palin.
Of course, we can make fun of Palin and point out that she’s lazy, stupid and possibly retarded all we want, but that doesn’t seem to affect her standing in the Republican Party — where she’s inexplicably still viewed as a viable presidential contender. Ugh.
