Poor S.P.

In a newly released video, She Who Shall Not Be Named tried to refudiate the criticism aimed at her, specifically for her "map" targeting Rep. Giffords.

I'm going to ignore the unfortunate "blood libel" reference, which just made things worse with its antisemitic reference. Instead, I want to focus on her duplicity. I started to call it hypocrisy, but I think you have to have some consciousness of the disparity for it to be hypocrisy. I think she is just such a non-reflective, self-referential non-thinker that she really doesn't get it.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), third ranked House member, weighted in: "You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think that she's an attractive person, she is articulate. But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what's going on here."

In her video, she extols the belief in pure individual responsibility, with no mitigating circumstances:

Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.

Every man is an island, according to this view. Nobody else bears a smidgen of responsibility.

OK, She Who, then explain how it is that you opposed the plans to build an Islamic Community Center and Mosque in lower Manhattan, built only out of peaceful motives and social responsibility, representing what is best in Islam.

Your objection, as I understand it, is that extremist members of that religion were responsible for 9/11. Therefore, this mosque, representing that religion, near "ground zero" would be a desecration of "sacred space."

But if this act of "monstrous criminality" was the the guilt only of the individuals who committed it, then why are you penalizing those who had no connection with them other than also being Muslims? The Imam and his wife who are planning the center had no more connection with the 9/11 attackers than you do with Jared Loughner.

She's right, when it comes to criminal responsibility. But no one is accusing She Who with criminal responsibility. We're talking about moral responsibility.

This is typical of the way She Who thinks, again and again. She just does not measure her own words and actions by the same yardstick that she uses for others. She can accuse others of doing exactly what she has done. And she -- I really believe it -- doesn't see the incongruity. She just doesn't get it. Really.

Ralph