>>> Doug Henwood quoted:
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> According to Lucille
<http://gawker.com/5046884/sarah-palin-conspiracy-theories-the-ultimate-guide
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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."
^^^^^^^ CB: Yea, only _some_ gossip is good gossip. Some is "conspiracy theory". How do we know which is the good gossip and which is conspiracy theory ? If it comes from _The Enquirer_ its good gossip ?
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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??
^^^^ CB: Not all the time, but especially when there is a Black candidate for President or there is some Eskimos land they want to drill on.
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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.
^^^^ CB: This is the politically correct approach: The presumption should be that right-wingers like Palin are racist , with the burden of proof on her to prove she is not.
P.S. Use of "politically-correct" as a form of criticism is falling into one of the many forms of right-wing propaganda from the last 25 years. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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