Sarah Palin explained comments she posted on Twitter earlier this week reacting to a Supreme Court decision in favor of the hate cult that routinely disrupts military funerals.
Palin is asserting that she was pointing out the Court’s apparent double standard on freedom of speech, not claiming that Phelps’s hate group should not have the right to assemble.
Many anti-Palin figures in politics and the media misinterpreted her disdain for the ruling as indication of her disagreement with the outcome of Synder v. Westboro.
In her clarification to the Daily Caller, Palin said that while she agrees with ruling in support of the Phelps clan, she does not applaud the Court’s hypocrisy on the first amendment. Palin’s clarification statement read:
“Obviously my comment meant that when we’re told we can’t say ‘God bless you’ in graduation speeches or pray before a local football game but these wackos can invoke God’s name in their hate speech while picketing our military funerals, it shows ridiculous inconsistency. I wasn’t calling for any limit on free speech, and it’s a shame some folks tried to twist my comment in that way. I was simply pointing out the irony of an often selective interpretation of free speech rights.”
Palin’s original Twitter post itself read:
“Common sense & decency absent as wacko ‘church’ allowed hate msgs spewed@ soldiers’ funerals but we can’t invoke God’s name in public square.”
The fact that even Palin's 140-character Tweets become news to be dissected and disseminated further shows her unique status as a preeminent cultural flashpoint and political supernova.
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