Sarah Palin wants peaceful Muslims to "refudiate" the controversial ground zero mosque in New York. After launching a series of tweets about the proposed mosque on Sunday with the fake word, she has succeeded in introducing "refudiate" into the national lexicon. In a series of Sarah Palin tweets, Muslims were urged to join the Tea Party in opposition to a project intended to promote harmony and understanding between cultures.



With English, Palin uses refudiate



By focusing on refudiate, the media may have played right into Palin's Tea Party opportunism. Now the entire nation has heard about her series of tweets that would have otherwise done nothing more than give her "Tea Party Americans" more of what they want to hear. The ground zero mosque in Manhattan has been used most recently for attention by the Tea Party so Palin, of course, had to put in her opinion.



Attention wanted by Palin with ground zero mosque comments



Palin wants "peaceful" Muslims, she says, to "refudiate" the proposed 13-story project a few blocks away from ground zero that will house a mosque, a gym and a community center for several groups, such as the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, which promotes cross-cultural understanding between Islam and the West. CBS News reports that New York politicians are going both ways on the scale of the issue. State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg think the project is a great idea; nevertheless, the financing on the project should be investigated if you ask Peter King, the previous Republican congressmen and congressman Rick Lazio, who's a Republican running for governor.



'Peaceful' Muslims talked about by Palin



Palin began her foray to the issue of the mosque by tweeting:



"Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you within the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate"



Liberal bloggers pounced on Sarah Palin's tweet. Most made fun of her well-documented inability to speak or write intelligently. But CBS News reports that Jon Henke attacked Palin's sentiment instead of her words: "We want peaceful Muslims to distinguish themselves from radical Muslims, but we can't distinguish between a peaceful Mosque and terrorists?"



Sarah Palin equates herself with Shakespeare



All the attention she was receiving stimulated more Sarah Palin tweets on the subject. Bloggers continued to skewer Palin for her language choices. Palin joked with these last words after deleting all of the other tweets being debated on the Tea Party and Muslims joining them: "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!"



Palin tweet anatomy



The Wall Street Journal reports that Palin just wanted to be on the exact same playing field as Obama, Bush, and Shakespeare. " Misunderestimate" was a word Bush used on many different occasions. Obama used "wee-wee'd up" last August. Robert Gibbs defined the term with: "I think 'wee-wee'd up' is when people get nervous for no specific reason," he said



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CBS News

cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010892-503544.html

Wall Street Journal

blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/07/19/sarah-palin-wont-refudiate-mosque-comments/