Palin Misquotes Albright: “Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don’t Support Other Women”

October 6th, 2008

At a rally on Saturday in California, Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The statement came after Palin had recounted a “providential” moment she experienced on Saturday: “I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day… It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. … Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, ‘There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.’”

Actually, Albright didn’t say that. The accurate quote is, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.”

I am confused by the crowd’s reaction to Ms. Albright’s name. She was highly respected Secretary of State. She’s also the first woman to hold that position. So they’re cheering Palin’s saying all women should “support” other women (meaning that even we liberal women should all support her quest to attain a powerful government position because of her gender) and booing the mention of a woman who attained a very powerful position in government?

Conservatives confuse the logical part of my brain. No wonder they refuse to think, they’d give themselves headaches trying to sort out their own reasoning.