In Palin's case, he's correct. She's not just trash, she's dumb. But in the case of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, FOX News overall, and much of the leadership of the Republican party, these people are anything but stupid. Either they don't care about the consequences of their actions, and how they feed America's culture of violence, or there's some kind of mental block. While being dumb is likely Palin's excuse, the rest of the GOP can't get off so easily.
Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said that Palin had missed the point by releasing a statement this morning blasting the media for "blood libel" for looking to assign blame in part to her rhetoric after the attempted assassination of Giffords last weekend.
"You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think she's an attractive person, she is articulate," Clyburn said on the Bill Press radio show. "But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what's going on here."
