Sarah Palin mistakenly attributes quote to UCLA basketball coaching legend John Wooden

[sabra]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/12/sarah-palin-john-wooden-fact-quote-going-rogue-error-inaccurate.html

In her new book, "Going Rogue," former vice presidential nominee attributes a quote to UCLA basketball coaching legend John Wooden.

The only problem is that he didn't say it.

"Our land is everything to us...I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it -- with their lives."

It's a nice quote, but it really doesn't sound like something that Wooden would say. It was actually written by Native American activist John Wooden Legs in his essay "Back on the War Ponies."

Even though the names are similar, it looks as if Palin sort of airballed on this one. Well, I suppose everyone should just forgive and forget as long as the rest of the book is accurate...

[HughMoran]

1. whoron n/t

[Taverner]

2. WHORON! I FUGGING LOVE IT!!!

And that's exactly what she is - a moron whore. Not a whore in the CSW definition, but more whore as in Whore of Babylon...

[HughMoran]

6. Sometimes I chuckle at my own posts

This was one of those times. Not sure if concatenated words are bad, but it struck me as funny.

[lapfog_1]

8. An insult to both morons AND prostitutes. - n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I don't know whether to condemn Palin, her ghostwriter, her editor, or all of them.

Doesn't anyone Google anymore????

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Pretty funny

It won't deter her supporters, I suppose.

[Flying Dream Blues]

7. Not many of them read...but it makes a nice decoration for the

coffee table. :)

[Zoeisright]

5. That could be the headline every day. "Sarah Palin mistakenly...."

On and on and on and on.

[Ocracoker16]

9. Now that has my entire family laughing hysterically

Thanks

[DrDan]

10. surely there are better indiscretions . . . this is pretty minor

[tanyev]

11. Did Sarah pull her quotes from The Quote Garden?

This is how the quote is displayed on that site:

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our
land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden
Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from
the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis
(Thanks, Jamie)

http://www.quotegarden.com/grandparents.html



How much you want to bet all of her other quotes (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) can be found there? Ten to one she's never read anything by Plato or Aristotle.

[IcyPeas]

12. Nevertheless her book has gone Platinum

people who read that book will never know the facts..... they don't ever read alternate views. Blind leading the blind. (no offense meant to blind people)