{"id":5057,"date":"2011-01-14T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:22:06","slug":"sarah-palin-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/sarah-palin-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin, round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now that I\u2019ve cooled off, numerous conservative tweeters apologized and deleted their tweets, <a href=\"http:\/\/mikecanex.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/12\/they-have-no-brain-but-they-must-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Cane<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2011\/01\/12\/bad-irony-alert-the-blood-libel-on-palin-resulted-has-resulted-in-an-%E2%80%9Cunprecedented%E2%80%9D-increase-of-death-threats-against-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aaron Worthing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2011\/01\/13\/people-falsely-accused-of-wishing-for-sarah-palins-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patterico<\/a> came to my defense, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111118090743\/https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/01\/13\/palin-targeted-tweets-following-arizona-shooting-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News didn\u2019t completely trash me<\/a>, I feel like I can stand down.<\/p>\n<p>[Added 2025-07-22 for reference]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16098 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20110113_tweet1.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from @MoriahJovan on January 8, 2011: \u201cSo\u2026will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assassinated? You know she\u2019s next.\u201d\" width=\"492\" height=\"178\"><\/p>\n<p>What I should\u2019ve said<sup class='footnote' id='fnref-5057-1'><a href='#fn-5057-1' rel='footnote'>1<\/a><\/sup> was:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16099 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20110113_tweet2.jpg\" alt=\"Fake revised tweet from @MoriahJovan on January 14, 2011: \u201cSo\u2026will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assassinated? What if she\u2019s next?\u201d\" width=\"528\" height=\"198\"><\/p>\n<p>or some variant thereof that was still sarcastic enough to get the point across.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><strong>(The \u201cWhat if she\u2019s next?\u201d part is me displaying my mad Pshop skillz.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> think conservatism is dead? I don&#8217;t know. I struggle with it on a daily basis, and have for several years. However, the many tweeters who sent me nastytweets (save one, who apparently wanted me to sign away my citizenship), who then <em>listened<\/em> to me, then apologized, retracted\/deleted their tweets with my name, and were willing to spread the word made me rethink it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my tagline, I really don\u2019t often talk politics here on the blog. I leave that to my characters to do for me. But now that you know who I am and where you can find me, maybe you\u2019ll stick around a while.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m pretty sure y\u2019all can find my Twitter name \u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><span class='footnote' id='fn-5057-1'><a href='#fnref-5057-1'>1<\/a>.<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s now July 2025 and I\u2019m cleaning up my blog, fixing links, putting images back, and so forth. I haven\u2019t made many notes on the actual posts, but this one I will because I have regretted walking this back for years. <a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/never-apologize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Never apologize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now that I\u2019ve cooled off, numerous conservative tweeters apologized and deleted their tweets, Mike Cane and Aaron Worthing and Patterico came to my defense, and Fox News didn\u2019t completely trash me, I feel like I can stand down. [Added 2025-07-22 for reference] What I should\u2019ve said1 was: or some variant thereof that was still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16694,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}