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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:48:31 -0500, "H the K (I post with a Mac)"
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...perfect for the GOP:



Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe


There have been so many lies and distortions pointed out in Sarah
Palin's Going Rogue since it was released last week that her memoir has
already become something of a gag line.

But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed
quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden.

As the epigram to Chapter Three, "Drill, Baby, Drill," Palin assigns the
following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:

Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things
we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with
their lives.

Only the quote wasn't by John Wooden. It was written by a Native
American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled "Back on
the War Ponies," which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the
People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by
Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.

Here's the full quote:

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world
where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only
place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you
one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers
paid for it--with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General
Custer at the Little Big Horn.

Oops! That's not quite the sentiment that Sister Sarah was trying to
convey as she guzzled down sugar-free Red Bull and cranked up Toby
Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now?" while jumping on her patriotic high
horse at the opening of the third chapter.

There's also no small amount of irony in the quote, given Palin's
abysmal record on Alaska Native issues during her truncated term as
governor.

I was a huge UCLA basketball fan as a kid. Whenever the Bruins came to
the Bay Area, I did whatever I could do to snag a ticket. I loved to
watch Wooden coach. But I never figured the Wizard of Westwood as an
advocate for radical land distribution.

Obviously this one slipped by Sister Sarah and her crack team of
investigative journalists Lynn Vincent, Meg Stapleton and Ivy Frye, as
well as all those dutiful fact checkers at HarperCollins. Obviously,
they didn't get the quote from anything Wooden ever wrote, but from a
cute little web site called The Quote Garden. Isn't that sweet?

Okay, I was a little leery reading Palin's book and wondering if she
really had read Aristotle and Plato. Somehow I didn't think so. But I
thought, maybe, just maybe, she might have read Sir John. Apparently not.

But just because we're all good sports here at HuffPo, I thought I'd
save the former Governor (can you imagine what Wooden thought about her
quitting?!) a little bit of time, and here are five actual Wooden
quotes, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor, that she might want
to take to heart:

1. It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big
things happen.


2. Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

3. What you are as a person is far more important than what you are
as a basketball player.

4. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is
merely what others think you are.

5. Never mistake activity for achievement.

We'll see if the second printing carries a correction.


Swiped from Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffr..._b_373453.html



Yep, Sister Sarah...she's just perfect for the GOP.

It's a little bit like not quite knowing who Democritus was, isn't it
now?


I dunno. I know who he was. You are the one who said he wasn't a
scientist because the term did not come into use until centuries later.
That certainly was lame. There are any number of classical world
scientists who would be accepted as scientists today no matter what they
were called in their day. Archimedes of Syracuse, for example, a
full-fledged mathematician, physicist, astronomer.

In fact, your comment made you look even more like a ninny.