The password is REFUDIATE

As always, the Left is ever ready to pounce on Sarah Palin, no matter how silly it gets.  Charles Johnson, the infamous blogger at the equally infamous Little Green Footballs, was among those pouncers yesterday, with this post on Governor Palin's recent tweets calling for Muslims to oppose the building of the Ground Zero mosque.  What makes the pounce silly is Johnson's follow up post on Sarah's tweets, in which he highlights her use of the word refudiate.

Johnson says it's a made-up word, and Sarah certainly showed her sense of humor with her latest tweet, but according to Josh Painter at Texas for Sarah Palin, it is an actual word.  Well, at least I haven't wasted my day today (as Charlie Chaplin warned).  I'd wait to see Johnson's response (if he hasn't responded yet), but I show no interest in checking his comments

Silliness aside, the serious part of this latest pounce is the attempt to make Sarah sound like she's calling for Muslims to oppose their religion (the title of Johnson's post being Sarah Palin Calls on 'Peaceful Muslims' to 'Refudiate' Their Own Religion; defamatory, to say the least).  In addition to insulting Sarah's intelligence (noting she "probably" wrote her own tweets since she used the same "non-word" already), Johnson attempts to categorize the idea of the Ground Zero mosque as a “ridiculous paranoid fantasy”, noting a mosque is not the only thing being constructed as part of what he calls a “community center”.  Sure sounds tame, doesn't it?

Johnson concludes his post by asking how far away this “community center” could be from Ground Zero for construction to be okay, and “If you want a special exception to America’s religious tolerance, where are you going to draw the line?”

Too bad nobody's told him the point of the opposition to the construction is not because of its location per se, but it's close proximity to the very place where radical Muslims flew planes into what had been once a shining symbol of a metropolis, or the fact the Islamic cleric behind this construction, Feisel Abdul Rauf, is himself a radical with connections to CAIR (with its own connection to terrorist groups), or the fact the majority of New York City voters oppose the construction of this mosque.

There's also the fact of what building this “community center” really means.

Bravo to Sarah Palin for expressing opposition to this “community center”, and nice try to Charles Johnson on his latest pouncing.  Good luck with the “non-words”.