Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin went a little over board when she released a statement on her Facebook page referencing President Obama and last month’s attack in Benghazi, Libya. Click “more” below for the full story.
“Why the lies? Why the cover up? Why the dissembling about the cause of the murder of our ambassador on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil? We deserve answers to this. President Obama’s shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end,” Palin wrote.
The phrase, “shuck and jive” is a racially-tinged expression that once referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would use in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power.
Several years ago, Andrew Cuomo used the expression while campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton. “You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference,” Cuomo said. “All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.”
Cuomo was blasted by CNN’s Roland Martin, who wrote: “‘Shucking and jiving’ have long been words used as a negative assessment of African Americans, along the lines of a ‘foot shufflin’ Negro.’ In fact, I don’t recall ever hearing the phrase used in reference to anyone white.”
Source: Yahoo!
