# This is a University Professor? (Another g.d. Palin thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213 "2008-09-12T02:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/21 "2008-09-13T01:28:49Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Wow, you _finally_ found an over-the-top response to Palin by someone on the left of greater note than a Kos diarist. > > Congratulations, you can now play the victim card at last. > > Christ was getting lonely up on that cross, now you can pretend to keep him company. Not that that’ll do Him any good, but it’ll make you feel all righteous in the face of persecution and all. (Help, help, I’m being repressed…) > > BTW, I said some things to you in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482207) about the implications of Palin-love for your alleged faith. I’d still be curious as to how you might respond. Well, first, thanks for an admission that her article was over-the-top. I’m still pondering if I even care to respond to your comments in the other thread. My gut-reaction to the “Canaanite” part was “Hey, at least my party doesn’t enshrine offering salted/dismembered babies to Moloch in its platform… Mammon-worship, maybe, but not Moloch-worship!:D” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/22 "2008-09-13T19:25:53Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Well, first, thanks for an admission that her article was over-the-top. > > I’m still pondering if I even care to respond to your comments in the other thread. > My gut-reaction to the “Canaanite” part was “Hey, at least my party doesn’t enshrine offering salted/dismembered babies to Moloch in its platform… > Mammon-worship, maybe, but not Moloch-worship!:D” Ah, the true philosophy of a Christian - “we claim we’re not as bad as the other guys, so we can lie, cheat, steal, kill, and redefine words to make the other guys look worse than we are.” I missed that verse of the Bible in my readings. Can you tell me what book and chapter that one’s in? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/23 "2008-09-14T11:48:04Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Ah, the true philosophy of a Christian - “we claim we’re not as bad as the other guys, so we can lie, cheat, steal, kill, and redefine words to make the other guys look worse than we are.” > > I missed that verse of the Bible in my readings. Can you tell me what book and chapter that one’s in? Thanks for the reminder as to why I didn’t have any interest in responding to you. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/24 "2008-09-14T23:17:47Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Looks like just an akwardly-worded way of saying she doesn’t speak for all women. I expect a “Distinguished Professor” at the U. of Chicago Divinity School to be able to express herself concisely and precisely, especially when she’s writing for a national audience. Where, additionally, she can read and edit before she posts. I guess standards for professors have dropped considerably since my day. She can spout any nonsense she wants and people will just brush it off. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Ah, the true philosophy of a Christian - “we claim we’re not as bad as the other guys, so we can lie, cheat, steal, kill, and redefine words to make the other guys look worse than we are.” > > I missed that verse of the Bible in my readings. Can you tell me what book and chapter that one’s in? Why don’t you ask Doniger? Like, how she’s redefined “woman”? She’s actually a “Distinguished Professor” at a divinity school! I’m sure she’d be the one to know. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/25 "2008-09-15T00:03:04Z")
[http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/COL01/809140385/1009/NEWS07](http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/COL01/809140385/1009/NEWS07) Heres a nice level commentary on Palin by Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press. His claim is she presents a very thin background and almost no information on real world problems. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/26 "2008-09-15T00:58:48Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Thanks for the reminder as to why I didn’t have any interest in responding to you. IOW, your brand of Christianism is indefensible as Christianity. One thing I was wondering earlier: you evangelicals are in love with Palin, and are fervently embracing her as One Of You. But you also have to know that she lies like a rug - about the Bridge to Nowhere, about earmarks generally, about selling the state plane on eBay, about visiting Iraq, just for starters. That’s who you guys have embraced and blessed. Now, my question: if we can’t trust you evangelicals with respect to things of **this** world, _why in God’s name would you expect anyone to trust you about things that **aren’t** of this world?_ Just wondering, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/27 "2008-09-15T23:32:37Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I don’t think that was our side. I always thought that came from the radical fringes of the black left-wing who also saw him as too conservative. > > Cite if it was Pubbies. Well, it was Limbaugh who came up with the phrase “Halfrican-American.” [http://mediamatters.org/items/200701240010](http://mediamatters.org/items/200701240010) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/28 "2008-09-16T00:19:45Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Well, it was Limbaugh who came up with the phrase “Halfrican-American.” > > [http://mediamatters.org/items/200701240010](http://mediamatters.org/items/200701240010) Which is one Limbaughism I’ve thought was in poor taste, though it’s not quite the same thing and has a “level of deniability” (it could easily be explained as saying he’s not American enough). If one insists on the racial angle, it could also be explained as a comment spoofing the “he’s not black enough” complaint. I’m not defending this one. Just saying that it’s a seperate thing. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/29 "2008-09-16T11:18:03Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Which is one Limbaughism I’ve thought was in poor taste, though it’s not quite the same thing and has a “level of deniability” (it could easily be explained as saying he’s not American enough). If one insists on the racial angle, it could also be explained as a comment spoofing the “he’s not black enough” complaint. > > I’m not defending this one. Just saying that it’s a seperate thing. You asked for a cite that a Republican said he wasn’t black enough. I gave you one. Two, actually, if you read the entire link. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/30 "2008-09-16T11:29:55Z")
Must we have threads about every trival piece of crap about Palin or the ellection in general. I echo the words of my chosen candidate. ENOUGH!!! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/31 "2008-09-16T14:36:55Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > Must we have threads about every trival piece of crap about Palin or the ellection in general. I echo the words of my chosen candidate. > > ENOUGH!!! Did Ed Zotti hold a gun to your head and make you open the threads in question? I’m hardly Ed’s biggest fan, but somehow I doubt it. Right now, there’s only 3 threads on the front page of this forum with ‘Palin’ in the title. I see a fourth one that’s about her, but without her name in the title. There’s 6 Palin threads on the front page of GD. Yeah, that’s a lot, but it’s not like there aren’t still plenty of other threads. The number of threads about the election altogether is a bit larger, but what would you expect? We’re in the homestretch. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/32 "2008-09-16T15:38:07Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > You want to talk about weird? [This guy](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102842.html?hpid=opinionsbox1) wrote here that Sarah Palin is practically Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And it got published. In a _real_ newspaper. No he didn’t, he got it published in the Washington Post. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213/33 "2008-09-17T13:41:08Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Did Ed Zotti hold a gun to your head and make you open the threads in question? I’m hardly Ed’s biggest fan, but somehow I doubt it. > > Right now, there’s only 3 threads on the front page of this forum with ‘Palin’ in the title. I see a fourth one that’s about her, but without her name in the title. There’s 6 Palin threads on the front page of GD. > > Yeah, that’s a lot, but it’s not like there aren’t still plenty of other threads. > > The number of threads about the election altogether is a bit larger, but what would you expect? We’re in the homestretch. I think you missed the thrust of my post. You’re correct that I don’t have to waste anymore time in this thread. Have fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-university-professor-another-g-d-palin-thread/463213.md?page=1)