Albright slams Palin for misquote RAW STORY

Published: Sunday October 5, 2008





Print This Email This Alaska Governor and vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin is the recipient of harsh criticism from former Secretary of State and UN Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright after Albright was misquoted at a Saturday rally in Carson, California.



"What advice do you have for women who want respect from their male colleagues?" Dana Philbin of Chicago asked Albright for a January piece in Time Magazine.



"Women have to be active listeners and interrupters," she responded, "but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't."



"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women," Palin said on Saturday, rewording a version of the same quote on another source: a Starbucks coffee cup.



"Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom," Albright told the Huffington Post, "what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden."



A clip of Palin's speech appears below.







