CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Sarah Palin is not laughing about the very NSFW Twitter rant Azealia Banks went on Monday in which she said that the former Alaska governor should be sexually assaulted. According to People, Palin is planning to sue. USA TODAY 
 
 Why are Sarah Palin and Azealia Banks fighting? (Photo: Cliff Owen/AP, Cassandra Hannagan, Getty Images) 
 
 This week's NSFW Twitter fight is brought to you by Sarah Palin and Azealia Banks. 
 
 Update: After Palin refused to accept Banks' apology and threatened to sue, the rapper fired back on Twitter with an incestuous trailer park joke about the Alaskan governor-turned-TV personality's family. 
 
 Why are they fighting, you ask? Let's rewind. 
 
 Their Twitter rumble all started with a satirical news article from Newslo.com on March 31 that Banks seems to have believed was real; it jokingly quoted Palin telling an Alaska newspaper that African Americans "enjoyed" being slaves. 
 
 That set Banks, an outspoken reparations advocate for African-Americans, off into a heated tweetstorm. The rapper issued missives that can't be reprinted here, but the implications included that Palin should be raped by a gang of black men. 
 
 Later, likely when Banks realized the original article was fake, she deleted the graphic tweets (Media Research Center captured them and Breitbart has them here), and said simply, "I can't." 
 
 Palin, 52, responded Tuesday morning on Twitter and Facebook. 
 
 "Hey Female Rapper," Palin addressed Banks in a post. "Listen up, little darling. No one has any idea what you're wigging out about in these bizarre, violent rants against me, but you're obviously not exercising enough intelligence to acknowledge you've been sucked into believing some fake interview in which I supposedly offered comments representing the antithesis of my truth." 
 
 Palin went on to encourage Banks to use her platform for social good, while promising to "go through my young daughter's playlist to make sure there hasn't been any inadvertent addition of any anti-woman, pro-rape garbage that you seem to endorse." 
 
 On Tuesday Banks was still tweeting about Palin, including this Saturday Night Live sketch starring Tina Fey. 
 
 Banks' latest rant joins a long list of feuds, fights and controversial statements begun by the young rapper, 24. Last fall she declared gay men are "like the KKK" before deleting the tweet, and was caught on video having a tantrum on a Delta airplane. In December she was arrested outside an NYC nightclub. 
 
 Recently, she declared she's voting for Donald Trump, because "Donald trump is evil like America is evil and in order for America to keep up with itself it needs him." Apparently voting for Trump is the one thing Banks and Palin have in common. 
 
 Update: Banks apologized to Palin – sort of – in an open letter via Tumblr later Tuesday. 
 
 "In my honest defense, i was completely kidding. I happen to have a really crass, New-York-City sense of humor," wrote Banks, in a meandering apology that attempted to define Palin's “je ne sais quoi," aimed for solidarity against "censorship" and clarified that her "joke" tweets referred to group sex "NOT" rape. 
 
 Then, in a kicker to her "sincerest" apology, Banks added: "If Bristol Palin listened to my music she probably wouldn’t have all those (expletive) kids!!!" 
 
 So, feud over? Doubtful. 
 
 The Sarah Palin page in history will be condensed to a footnote in the Azealia Banks chapter. Well behaved women seldom make history. — AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) April 5, 2016 
 
 For one thing, Palin isn't letting it go. She issued a statement to People that she will take legal action against Banks "on behalf of all reasonable women of every age, race and political leaning." 
 
 
 
 She said she's fed up with "unanswered threats and attacks against my family and me." 
 
 "So, for the first time I'm going to enjoy the only retribution some protected 'celebrities' seem to understand – I'm suing Azealia Banks and can't wait to share my winnings with others who have gone defenseless against lies and dangerous attacks far too long." 
 
 She said she was taking a stand against "problems like Azealia's mouth" and the "double standards that result in her actually being rewarded for her divisive tactics and aggressively inciting violence." 
 
 If a white girl had said what Banks said, Palin charged, "the screams for the entire white population's head would be louder than the nonsensical rap that Azealia spews all the way to the bank." 
 
 So no more just accepting lies and threats, Palin stormed. 
 
 "I think this time I don't just sit back and swallow it, but put the fear of God in her by holding her accountable. As many of you have for years implored me to do, I'm finally going to sue." 
 
 Details about how and when and where are still up in the air. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1MQvd4b ||||| Azealia Banks, the rapper known for calling paparazzi “f**gots” and demanding $100 trillion in slavery reparations, is calling for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be raped by a group of black men. 
 
 In a series of now-deleted tweets, Banks stated Palin “needs” to be gang raped and forced to perform oral sex on men [Warning: Graphic content]: 
 
 Banks wrote the rape should be filmed and uploaded to the website WorldStarHipHop, known for its graphic depictions of violence. 
 
 Within minutes after posting the tweets, Banks deleted them and stated she simply “can’t.” 
 
 Banks presumably fell for the satire article circulating that asserts Palin said African-Americans willingly accepted slavery. 
 
 Banks has not issued an apology for saying Palin “needs” to be raped. 
 
 Banks’ remarks on Palin come days after she reiterated her support for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump (who is also endorsed by Palin) and stated “minorities” have “nothing to show” for voting Democrat. 
 
 Banks’ new album, “Slay-Z,” was released on March 24. ||||| Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (2nd L) talks with her daughter Bristol Palin (2nd R) as she arrives at the embassy of Italy for an MSNBC after-party following the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington May 1, 2011. 
 
 LOS ANGELES A man who heckled Bristol Palin in a Los Angeles bar and insulted her conservative politician mother, Sarah Palin, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the single mom of defamation. 
 
 Talent manager Stephen Hanks also sued cable channel Lifetime, which includes film of the 2011 incident in Bristol Palin's upcoming reality TV show, claiming he had not given the program's makers his permission to be filmed. 
 
 The lawsuit, filed in U.S. federal court in Los Angeles, stems from a widely publicized September 2011 incident at a bar and restaurant on the famous Sunset Strip. 
 
 The amount of damages is not specified but Hank's lawyer, Los Angeles-based Michael Gulden, told Reuters the suit had been filed in federal court because the plaintiff was seeking more than $75,000. 
 
 Representatives for Palin and Lifetime did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 
 
 Palin, who rose to fame because of a teen pregnancy when her mother was running for U.S. vice president in 2008 as a Republican, had just ridden a mechanical bull at the bar when Hanks, who was a customer there, shouted out that her mother was "a whore" and said she was "evil". 
 
 Video of the exchange that was widely posted on the Internet shows Palin, 21, confronting Hanks, asking him if he was gay, and getting into a heated exchange with the man who heckled her. 
 
 Palin later told celebrity magazine In Touch that the incident was one of the reasons she had decided to leave Los Angeles and return to her home in Wasilla, Alaska. 
 
 Hanks claims in his lawsuit, however, that Palin had bought a new house in Alaska in July 2011, and that she had defamed him by publicly blaming their encounter for her decision to leave Los Angeles. 
 
 Hanks also says he suffered emotional distress and invasion of privacy over Palin's questions about his sexuality, and the use of the incident in publicity for the TV reality show. 
 
 "Bristol Palin's conduct was outrageous", states the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. 
 
 "Bristol Palin first accused Plaintiff off 'being a homosexual' in a degrading manner in front of others ... she then in a magazine article blamed Plaintiff for her decision to leave Los Angeles for Alaska even though she had purchased her home in Alaska ... more than two months before the encounter," the lawsuit adds. 
 
 Palin's reality show "Life's a Tripp", which chronicles her stay in Los Angeles with her now 3-year-old son Tripp and her return to Alaska, is scheduled to premiere on the Lifetime cable channel on June 19. 
 
 Gulden said Hanks had tried without success to solve the matter outside the courts with Lifetime and its parent company A&E; Television Networks, which is owned by NBCUniversal, Disney-ABC Television, and the Hearst Corporation. 
 
 "He has communicated with A&E; regarding use of the footage, and they were non-responsive. He felt (filing the lawsuit) was all he could do to protects his rights," Gulden told Reuters. 
 
 NBCUniversal is controlled by Comcast Corp. and Disney-ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.. 
 
 (Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and M.D. Golan) ||||| A GOP staffer will resign after launching a verbal assault on Malia and Sasha Obama in the wake of their appearance at the president’s annual turkey pardoning ceremony last week at the White House. 
 
 Elizabeth Lauten, who served as a communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), criticized the two girls in a Facebook rant which eventually went viral. “Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly don’t make faces during televised, public events,” wrote Lauten. 
 
 She also said that the Obama daughters, who largely stay out of the limelight, should show “a little class.” 
 
 Many have argued Malia and Sasha were behaving like typical teenagers at the event. They appeared unamused by their father’s corny jokes and at one point Malia declined to pet the Thanksgiving turkey by simply saying, “Nah.” 
 
 RELATED: Obama family goes book shopping 
 
 Lauten has since apologized for her post, admitting, “When I first posted on Facebook I reacted to an article and I quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that I would never have wanted to be judged myself as a teenager.” Lauten’s name became a trending topic amid the controversy, with over 22,000 mentions in 24 hours. She had previously been responsible for a gaffe this summer when she accidentally tweeted about “shagging” on Fincher’s official Twitter account. Now, her resignation is “in the works.” 
 
 This is far from the first time the president’s daughters have been singled out for ridicule on the right. 
 
 In 2010, during the BP oil spill crisis, Glenn Beck mocked Malia for reportedly asking President Obama about the clean-up. 
 
 
 
 “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?” said Beck, imitating the president’s daughter. “Ask ‘Daddy’ why he ‘hates black people so much.’ ” The conservative radio host also mocked Malia’s intelligence, saying: “That’s the level of their education, that they’re coming to — they’re coming to Daddy and saying, ‘Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?’ “ 
 
 In 2012, when the president cited Malia and Sasha as influential in his decision to embrace gay marriage, Bristol Palin, the daughter of ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, attacked them in a widely criticized blog post. 
 
 “I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox,” Palin wrote. 
 
 That same year right wing firebrand Ann Coulter declared: “Maybe it’s time to start imitating liberals in another way and go after the Obama children.” 
 
 Last year, following President Obama‘s statement that he would support the selling of Plan B, a birth control product, to girls as young as 15, Fox News host Andrea Tantaros speculated about the sex life of Malia, who was 14 years old at the time. 
 
 “Are they gonna put her on birth control? Because he’s very concerned with contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of everybody else’s 15-year-old daughter,” Tantaros said, according to Media Matters. 
 
 And that same year the NRA had the audacity to reference the secret service protection of Malia and Sasha in a controversial ad suggesting the president was a “hypocrite” on gun control. When Obama was running for president in 2008, he stated emphatically that politicians’ families should be “off limits.” But that hasn’t stopped some of his political enemies from occasionally taking potshots at his children. 
 
 If there’s any consolation, it’s nothing new. Rush Limbaugh famously compared Chelsea Clinton to a dog and said Amy Carter was the “most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of the country.” 
 
 This piece has been updated since its original publication.
– Sarah Palin is feuding with notoriously outspoken rapper Azealia Banks—and even some of the Alaskan's detractors say this time, she appears to be in the right. Palin has threatened to sue Banks over an NSFW Twitter rant—which was deleted but can be seen here—in which Banks suggests Palin should be gang-raped by black men. Palin tells People that she is suing "on behalf of all reasonable women of every age, race and political leaning." "I've had enough of the unanswered threats and attacks against my family and me," says Palin, who, in an earlier Facebook post, said she would go through her "young daughter's playlist to make sure there hasn't been any inadvertent addition of any anti-woman, pro-rape garbage." Banks appears to have gone on the attack after reading a satirical news article with a fake Palin quote about black people enjoying slavery, USA Today reports. The rapper later "apologized" in a rambling open letter posted on Tumblr. "I want to start this letter off by telling you that I actually, really like you," she said, going on to claim that she had only been kidding, and the language she used referred to group sex, not rape. "Woman to Woman, I hope you will accept my sincerest apology," she concluded, adding: "If Bristol Palin listened to my music she probably wouldn't have all those cotdamn kids!"