Sarah and the Clinic Bombers

(Sounds like a band name.)

Quick hit: Sarah Palin refuses to characterize abortion clinic bombers as terrorists in an interview.

This is the same sort of thing that I talked about at the end of my post on the "pro-America" meme. The obvious response would be "yes, of course they're terrorists." But the bombers are her base. They, and people who support clinic bombing, are actually an important enough part of her safe constituency that she can't repudiate terrorism against doctors and women.

(There is, of course, the alternative that she actually doesn't think they're terrorists. That says enough on its own.)

Via Feministe.

(Another quick hit: Two white supremacists planned an assassination attempt on Barack Obama (+87 others) the other day. Unsurprisingly, they're not getting labeled terrorists either, because we know someone's only a terrorist when they're not white or when they're liberal.)

Unrelated: John McCain called Barack Obama "Barack the Redistributor." There is also now a "Tito the Builder." This has caught on a little too much.