Sarah Palin has unleashed what very well may be her most unhinged, fact-less, conservative bubble rant in years.
Thursday afternoon Sarah Palin went berserk.
The woman who might have been the Vice President of the United States posted to Facebook, of course, an attack so ugly, so raw, so unbecoming of someone who considers herself a national leader, it’s shocking.
Here’s how it begins:
“HEY LENA, WHY NOT LAUGH OFF EVERYONE’S SEXUAL ‘EXPERIMENTS’ AS YOU HAUGHTILY ENJOY REWARDS FOR YOUR OWN PERVERSION? YOU PEDOPHILE, YOU”
Palin is referring to Josh Duggar’s sexual molestation of five girls, including four of his sisters and a babysitter, when he was 15.
What Palin is referring to also is a controversial section from Lena Dunham‘s book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”.Â
In that passage, which you can read at VOX, Dunham writes that when she was seven she looked inside her younger sister’s vagina.
Certainly an uncomfortable issue for many, if not most people, but she was seven, and thus not a “pedophile,” as Palin charges.
Palin’s unhinged and illogical rant continues.
“Radical liberals in media who have total control over public narratives are disgusting hypocrites, so says my daughter. Go get ’em, Bristol!,” she writes, pointing to a column by her daughter.
“The intolerant left’s destructive personal intrusions and narrow-mindedness applied to their chosen targets are bad enough, but their double standards are beyond the pale,” Sarah writes.
She also says she’s “sickened that the media gives their chosen ones a pass for any behavior as long as they share their leftwing politics. Case in point, they suggest Lena Dunham’s sexual assault on her sibling is cute, and she’s rewarded for it with fame and fortune. Meanwhile, they crucify another, along with an entire family.”
If anyone can compare equally Dunham’s act when she was seven, which, as VOX notes, experts say “is clearly not a case of abuse,” and “an innocent type of thing,” to Josh Duggar’s repeated molestation of five girls, feel free to try.
Palin then attacks what she wrongly describes as the “shocking, unethical leak of a private, legally protected counseling document by a politically motivated law enforcement official. Media – time to go after her or him for illegalities and for destroying the public’s trust in law enforcement.”
Actually, as NCRM reported earlier today, law enforcement and legal experts agree the release of the police reports detailing Josh Duggar’s actions was legal under the Freedom of Information Act, and not “legally protected” nor were their release “illegalities.”
Sorry, Sarah.
She also wonders why the media is “giving a total pass to perverted actions of someone like Lena Dunham” and ignoring “reports of the pedophile billionaire our former democrat president has been friends with and hung out with on the pedophile’s ‘orgy island’ full of underage girls.”
Palin is referring to tabloid reports like this Page Six piece that claim, according to a young woman, that Bill Clinton was a guest of a convicted sex offender at a “Virgin Islands estate — where group sex was a ‘regular occurrence.'” That woman also accused British Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz of having sex with her, which they deny.
There don’t seem to be any police reports, or other substantiation, from those tabloid attacks, and a judge tossed those claims out of court in April.
Palin calls these “equally relevant stories.”
We disagree.
One final observation: the comments on Palin’s Facebook rant don’t seem to be especially supportive of her position, overall.
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