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23

Another day, another projection: Palin doesn’t believe in labeling


At about 6:04, Brian Williams asks Alaska Gov. and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin if she thinks she’s a feminist. She told Katie Couric last month that she did. She tells Williams something a little different.

Hmm, so what would be the explanation for labeling others with terms like, “socialist” or “terrorist” or “elitist” or “pro-America” or “anti-America”?

These are the problems a person will run into if they speak only in labels – which are, you know I’m going to say this, conclusory. They pull them out all the time to use in rhetorical speeches repeated over and over and over. But if someone seeks to apply one to them, not so much.

NB: I interpret Palin’s use of “innocent” Americans as a way to make sure that, should abortion be banned and criminalized, people who perform the medical procedure of abortion – as well as the women who have the procedure performed on them – would not be innocent Americans. They would be criminals.

H/t Oliver Willis.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:55 pm October 23rd, 2008 in Abortion, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Elections, Gender, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, WH2008, Women 

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One Response to “Another day, another projection: Palin doesn’t believe in labeling”

  1. 1 oengus on October 24th, 2008 11:36 am

    Nobody has time to wait for Palin to figure out how to be represented in the media as a good person. She should have said not the kind that has short hair and drives a pick-up, I am more the type that takes the job at the Playboy Club.

    Weird weird weird, twist and turns.

    The empire get more trivial by the minute as we drag the world behind us.

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