Palin Called Obama "Sambo" And Hillary The "Bitch"

[stewert]

"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, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

"It was kind of disgusting," Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the "lower 48" about life near the North Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, "But that’s just Alaska."

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N'-Fetch-It, "darkie musical" swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as "Arctic Arabs" -- how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description -- as well as the more colourful "mukluks" along with the totally unimaginative "fucking Eskimo’s," according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin -- especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

"The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here," an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. "It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to."

"Once Palin became mayor," he continued, "She became part of that inner circle."

Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from "the authorities."

As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union:

See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

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[elocs]

2. The simple, but sad truth is that unless somebody says something into a mic or on camera

and there is video on uTube, then most people will not believe it was ever said. There is so much lying that people want to hear it from the horse's mouth, or whatever other animal it may be.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Here we go again...

:popcorn:

[krawhitham]

4. does anyone search before posting?

what is this the 100th thread on this subject?

[regnaD kciN]

9. No...

...it's the Brazillionth.

[99th_Monkey]

5. oh boy! Palin's a real piece of work. Too bad it's not on tape. ~nt~

[emilyg]

7. Dupe. Dupe.. unsubstantiated rumor.

[kestrel91316]

8. This appears on a journalist's website, that much is true.

However the tale lacks independent corroboration by a second eyewitness and without that it's not gonna fly.

I'm willing to believe it, personally, because I believe her to be a very bad person. But that's my opinion of her andthat's all.

We need a second witness.

[Paladin]

10. Haven't You Heard Yet?

Unless there are a dozen creditable witnesses, a few Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists taking notes, and no less than 3 videotapes, stories like this one are no good whatsoever.....

[Waiting For Everyman]

11. Well then forget getting the truth on Palin b/c these people are scared of her

and for good reason. She fires anybody who isn't a "Palin-bot" as her cronies are called there. Get real.

That was a very good article, it tied a lot of stands together in one piece. At the end of it:

“Sambo Beat the Bitch”

“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.

“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.

“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”

“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.

And the Backstory on Lucille the Waitress:
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-palin-and-me/

I have no problem believing this, the reporter talked to Lucille directly, and he's a reputable writer. "Deep Throat" and others in the Watergate story were unattribbed, and for the same reason.

We need to stop thinking we're a court of law.