On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Rudy Fichtenbaum wrote:
> “So Sambo beat the bitch!”
>
> This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin
> described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political
> colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the
> Democratic Party presidential nomination.
>
> According to Lucille
<http://gawker.com/5046884/sarah-palin-conspiracy-theories-the-ultimate-guide
>
Sarah Palin is racist! She said "Sambo beat the bitch!" when Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton.
True? The source on this is a supposed Aboriginal Alaskan waitress named "Lucille" interviewed by the LA Progressive, which also asserted Palin refers to Aboriginal people as "Arctic Arabs" and "fucking Eskimos."
Notable: No one else has interviewed this "Lucille."
Why someone would make this up: The vast majority of Americans have never met or even SEEN an Alaskan up close. They only know these strange pseudo-Americans live in a remote, desolate land and make their money fishing, working with oil and collecting checks from the federal government. In other words, they're rednecks. So what else are they going to do, as far as the elite lower 48 states are concerned, but sit around and be racist all the time?? We're READY to believe Sarah Palin is a big secret racist. So this might seem like an effective and cheap way to smear her. But many of her supporters might also be wary of politically-correct super-elites from the coasts falsely throwing around accusations of racism.