Assange: Palin An "Idiot Trying to Make a Name"

[Joanne98]

Some of the rhetoric against Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization has taken on an extreme tone since they began leaking the first of hundreds of thousands of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables.

Among the prominent critics of Assange's and WikiLeaks' actions are former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who described the leaks as terrorism and treason, respectively.

In a recent interview with MSNBC, Assange dismissed the charges that he is a digital terrorist, and called what he interpreted as cries for his head from people like Huckabee and Palin as nothing more than "another idiot trying to make a name for himself."

"If we are to have a civil society, you cannot have senior people making calls on national TV to go around the judiciary and illegally murder people," he said. "That is incitement to commit murder."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20026492-503543.html

[old mark]

1. K&R...but how about "Idiot getting rich off other idiots..."?....nt

[BrklynLiberal]

2. That is an insult to idiots.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Ya got your useful idiots, and then there are your useless idiots

Ya know what I mean?

[treestar]

4. Um, those two have an awful lot in common

Boy the brilliant and trenchant observations from Julian are really adding up today! Fox news is bad. sarah palin is an idiot! So impressive. I had not thought of either of those two things before!

[liberal N proud]

5. He is just saying that to bolster his credibility

Telling us things we already knew, to build our trust in him.



:sarcasm:

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Sarah Palin loves the spot light

Even if she appears as a silly fool. She reminds me of some of those wacky greedy people you used to see on THE PRICE IS RIGHT. (Another reason I got rid of my TV.)

[Rainbowreflect]

7. I am starting to really like this guy!

[anamandujano]

8. He is actually inflicting terror on the criminals so

in a sense she's right.