Sarah Palin backpedals on her "Shuck and Jive" comment directed at the President, and throws out Piper as a human shield. Classy! Update!

Courtesy of the Lunatic from Lake Lucille's Facebook page:

For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase "shuck and jive" – a phrase which many people have used, including Chris Matthews, Andrew Cuomo, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary. I would have used the exact same expression if I had been writing about President Carter, whose foreign policy rivaled Obama’s in its ineptitude, or about the Nixon administration, which was also famously rocked by a cover-up.

I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework. As she is part Yup’ik Eskimo, I’m not sure if this term would be deemed offensive when it’s directed at her or if it would be considered benign as in the case of Chris Matthews’ use of it in reference to Rachel Maddow. Just to be careful, from now on I’ll avoid using it with Piper, and I would appreciate it if the media refrained from using words and phrases like igloo, Eskimo Pie, and “when hell freezes over,” as they might be considered offensive by my extended Alaska Native family. 

The outrageously outraged reaction to this expression from perennial hypocrites like Chris Matthews has only made me laugh. Mr. Matthews, let me share with you my favorite Irish toast: “May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it.”

 - Sarah Palin

Clearly this idiot did not take into account just how much of a backlash her  provocative words would attract. Sure she wanted to get attention, she lives for attention, but much like her "blood libel" comments after the Gabby Giffords shooting, she was unable to recognize just how ugly they would seem when the media shone its light on them for the world to see.

The idea that Palin did not realize that her words were tinged with racism is of course ridiculous, she absolutely did. However the idea that she would get a pass for saying them is completely believable. After all just think of the numerous things she has said that have NOT resulted in the kind of backlash that one might expect if somebody else had said them.

However what Palin seems unable to recognize is that the person who could flash a little leg (accompanied by a flash of panties) and get away with saying truly horrible things, like the woman pictured below....

,,, is no longer the person that we all see.

We now see this nasty bitch...

..and THIS nasty bitch has worn out her welcome and needs to keep her big stupid mouth closed.

Update: For those wondering if that is really Palin in the gif above, I have to say that I am not  exactly positive, though it DOES look quite a lot like her.

It was sent to me by our friend Alaska Dave Down Unda, though he did not identify where he discovered it.

However he also sent along this picture from 2008 for comparison.

I guess you can decide for yourselves. (Update: NOT her, though she undoubtedly wishes it were.)