Missing Context

by digby

I’m beginning to think that Palin is making a hash out of every answer just to give the media the opportunity to “correct” her with conservative propaganda.

On the Supreme Court business, the gasbag conventional wisdom is that Palin failed to promote the allegedly bedrock view that the courts shouldn’t “make laws from the bench” or feature “activist judges.” But that’s conservative propaganda. They are happy to have the courts make law from the bench as long as it’s a law they want and they certainly have no problem with activist judges as long as they are conservatives.

Their rhetoric stems from backlash against the Warren Court, and is now just an identifying tribal signal. It has no literal meaning. Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman criticizing Palin for being uninformed or politically inept is perfectly legitimate, but to criticize her for failing to properly parrot rightwing cant without mentioning that the cant is complete nonsense doesn’t help us in the long run.

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