On Saturday, Sarah Palin delivered the keynote address at the NRA’s annual gathering. During her speech, Palin said this:
“They obviously have information on plots to carry out Jihad,” she said at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting on Saturday evening, referring to prisoners. “Oh, but you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
As you might have expected, that remark caused some heads to explode.
Today, Palin wasn’t about to back away from her comments:
Actions to stop terrorists who’d utterly annihilate America and delight in massacring our innocent children? Darn… http://t.co/3ObszsPufm
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) April 28, 2014
On her Facebook page, Palin referred to those offended by her comments as “overly sensitive wusses”:
Actions to stop terrorists who’d utterly annihilate America and delight in massacring our innocent children? Darn right I’d do whatever it takes to foil their murderous jihadist plots – including waterboarding. Whatever one thinks of my one-liner at the NRA rally about treating evil terrorists the way they deserve to be treated to prevent the death of innocent people, it’s utterly absurd for MSNBC to suggest that I could put our beloved troops in harm’s way, but we’ve come to expect the absurd from that failing network. If you want to talk about what really harms our troops, let’s talk about politicians who gut our military’s budgets, or a president whose skewed budgetary priorities slash military benefits, or an administration that puts our vets on endless waiting lists for care that comes too late to help those who’ve paid the price for our freedom, or those who break bread with those who think it makes no difference how our military heroes died in Benghazi or anywhere else trying to protect America. Those actions are a heck of a lot more harmful than declaring an appropriate message our enemies should receive. If some overly sensitive wusses took offense, remember the First Amendment doesn’t give you a right not to be offended.
Recommended
Palin’s full remarks are posted here.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member