Sort of was annoyed in reading this article in today’s “Willamette Week”… A Brief History of Beefs involving a popular twitter troll artist… and we get this…

This was technically caused by a miscommunication when Banks reacted, shall we say, passionately to a fake online article that quoted Palin as saying slavery wasn’t forced on African-Americans—which, to be fair, doesn’t sound like too much of a stretch for Palin.

Um.  I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin to say the least, but… it kind of is a stretch for Palin.  To say that in particular.  This is different from, say, Tina Fey and “I can see Russia from my house”, and there’s plenty that she might say that she didn’t that you can throw in that “not too much a stretch” category, and probably some in the way of racial coding, but… to say this is just to provide your liberal bonafides of the problem with Palin while missing some nuances in creating a caricature of of this caricature.

And understand a chronology from Palin to Trump, starting with Pat Buchanan.  Pat Buchanan you ask “Did he really write a syndicated editorial entitled ‘Did Hitler Want War’?”  Palin:  “Did she really just quote Westbrook Pegler?”  And then Trump… “Did he just steal a Star of David image around Hillary Clinton from white supremacists?  Well…

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