Ethics

Palin's Albright Quote

By Ed Brayton

This is hilarious. Sarah Palin pointlessly misquoted former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a campaign rally after reading the quote on a Starbucks cup, then managed to strike a "that goshdarn media is picking on me" pose based on how that misquote would be portrayed in the press:

At a rally on Saturday in California, Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women," the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The statement came after Palin had recounted a "providential" moment she experienced on Saturday: "I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).