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Palin: Crack Down On 'Iraq' To Prevent Nuclear Iran
Eric Kleefeld | November 19, 2009, 10:50AM
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During her interview with Sean Hannity that aired last night, Sarah Palin made an interesting declaration: That we need to prevent a nuclear Iran by cracking down on "Iraq."
Hannity asked what can be done to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. In her response, Palin seemed to be confused between Iraq and Iran:
"We have allies who are as concerned about Ahmadinejad's actions as we are. We need to be working closer with France, and with Britain, and start, not just considering, but seriously taking steps towards the sanctions that we hear all about but we never see any actions towards, though.
"Cutting off the imports into Iraq, of their refined petroleum products. They're reliant -- 40 to 45 percent of their energy supply is reliant on those imports. We have some control over there.
"And some of the beneficial international monetary deals that Iraq benefits from -- we can start implementing some sanctions there and start really shaking things up, and telling Ahmadinejad, nobody is going to stand for this."
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CityGuy
November 19, 2009 11:02 AM
Who says that Ms. Pit Bull isn't on the ball!! lol
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jenzinoh
November 19, 2009 4:39 PM in reply to CityGuy
This is the end result of having your foreign policy "expertise" fed to you by people who are always wrong like Bill Kristol as opposed to, you know, actually knowing something about foreign affairs.
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hunter
November 19, 2009 8:47 PM in reply to jenzinoh
Well, no, not really. This is a "57 states" kind of gaffe. She just said "Iraq" when she meant to say "Iran." There's no there there.
We should ignore this kind of junk and focus on the fact that her overall argument is bullshit. Specifically, this line:
They're reliant -- 40 to 45 percent of their energy supply is reliant on those imports. We have some control over there.
The first part is correct; Iran is partially reliant on imported refined petroleum. The second part, that we Americans (who account for basically none of those imports) somehow "have some control" over that, is ridiculous.
The other two paragraphs are nearly as bad. The idea that no sanctions ever happen is downright silly considering Ahmadinejad had to repress his populace to keep his job because of the economic damage sanctions have done already. And of course we've had much more progress getting what we want from Iran since we stopped trying to conduct John Wayne diplomacy. As for the "beneficial international monetary deals," I would have loved to hear her response to the follow up question: "could you describe those deals?"
Anyway, point is, everything she says is either stupid or a lie. We should focus on that rather than obvious word slips that everyone makes.
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Overreach THIS!
November 20, 2009 6:18 AM in reply to hunter
"She just said "Iraq" when she meant to say "Iran." There's no there there."
You are assuming that she really knows the difference. She doesn't know much of anything and I doubt that she has any clear understanding of this at all; just talking points as others have said.
Do you really think she could find Iraq on a map? This is a person who can't name our country's national newspapers. Temper your "fairness" with wariness.
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rynato
November 20, 2009 8:35 AM in reply to Overreach THIS!
She has a kid in the military, I'm pretty sure even Sarah could find Iraq on a map.
This was a simple mistake anybody could make; I will file this article under, 'piling on'.
There's much, MUCH more about which one could criticize Sarah Palin. This is trivial.
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JNagarya
November 20, 2009 10:56 AM in reply to rynato
Apparently her book isn't selling well in Iraq.
Or in Iran?
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porkbarrel
November 20, 2009 12:43 PM in reply to rynato
I'm sure she could find it if IRAQ was printed in big block letters over the country.
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Overreach THIS!
November 22, 2009 2:27 PM in reply to rynato
I agree with your overall point that compared to most everything, this is trivial. You make the same kind of mistakes and need some slack sometime? I sure do. All too often.
But your technical point that she has solid grounding in what is Iran and what is Iraq is speculation on your part. Did you *hear* her answer in the campaign as to what the Vice President does? Veep is in charge of Congress and gets in there and really works with them a lot?
You are *projecting.* It's trivial in part, but I have NO REASON to think she's knows anything about Iran or Iraq. None.
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Dadzo
November 19, 2009 11:02 AM
Now, someone from the NEWS side of the Fox NEWS house would've asked here to clarify just WTF she meant, but as Hannity is clearly from the ENTERTAINMENT side of the house, he graciously moves on ...
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jeffgee
November 19, 2009 7:18 PM in reply to Dadzo
It's not entertainment it's propaganda.
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Overreach THIS!
November 20, 2009 5:55 AM in reply to Dadzo
There is no "news" side of the house. There is the newsy propaganda and the provocateur propaganda and that's all.
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jerryfatheart
November 19, 2009 11:02 AM
Lady BlahBlah has quite the poker face when it comes to world affairs!
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CityGuy
November 19, 2009 11:23 AM in reply to jerryfatheart
"Lady BlahBlah"....Good one! And she does love her some Paparazzi too. Well when they are on her side.
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VivaAmerica!
November 19, 2009 2:20 PM in reply to jerryfatheart
lady blah blah!! that is too funny! I am going to steal that for real.
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MikeBoyScout
November 19, 2009 3:09 PM in reply to VivaAmerica!
If you like Lady BlahBlahBlah, then this is a must read:
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2009/11/return-after-reading.html
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jerryfatheart
November 19, 2009 3:36 PM in reply to VivaAmerica!
Feel free. Let's start a meme!
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MKSinSA
November 19, 2009 11:08 AM
Well, she's certainly shaking things up with that policy declaration. Maybe next she'll recommend punishing Switzerland's tax havens by sanctioning Canada. Now I see how Rushbo stays so well informed.
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jvwalt
November 19, 2009 11:12 AM
Well, c'mon, if they don't want us to get their little countries confused, they shouldn'ta oughtn'ta give 'em practically the same name! Eye-rack, Eye-ran -- what do they expect?
Same for all them "stans" over there. If President Palin invades the wrong country in 2013 by mistake, it ain't our fault -- its theirs.
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jerryfatheart
November 19, 2009 11:15 AM in reply to jvwalt
To question her would be sexist, after all.
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TBender
November 19, 2009 11:20 AM
To be fair, Ahmadinejad can see Iraq from his house.
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de TOQUEville
November 19, 2009 11:42 AM in reply to TBender
LOL!!!!!!!11!!1!
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Cool Blue Reason
November 19, 2009 11:25 AM
Wow. Sanctions. Ira[n]. Brilliant idea, really. They must be shaking in their boots now that Ms. Palin has let this cat out of the bag.
Already, I can hear the Security Council swinging into action to consider this idea that for some reason had never been discussed before.
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roxanne
November 19, 2009 11:31 AM
Stupid and crazy! That's Palin and Hannity! I can't wait until Keith Olbermann gets his hands on this one. I smell a Worst Person award!
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Walter Mitty
November 19, 2009 11:38 AM
So did Hannity not catch the ridiculous mistake or did he no sell it?
And you can tell that Hannity gave her the questions before hand because she rushed right into a scripted answer without taking a breath. The fact that she said Iraq instead of Iran shows she's not thinking about what she's saying, she's reciting from memory.
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Matt Jones
November 19, 2009 2:37 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Palin is a doubleplusgood duckspeaker!
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AKHunter
November 19, 2009 11:40 AM
I tried to diagram those sentences and about midway through, my eyes began to bleed.
What's the difference between Sarah Palin and a pit bull? A pit bull uses better grammar.
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JNagarya
November 20, 2009 11:00 AM in reply to AKHunter
And foregoes the sexist lipstick.
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calbearinillinois
November 19, 2009 11:59 AM
Palin's Proposal:
1. Talk to the people she said on the campaign trail don't matter to our policy (and whom Obama is already working with and has been for some time)
2. Threaten the wrong country with sanctions on products we don't ship to them (yes, Iran needs refined gas/petrochemicals, but not from us)
3. Somehow make the sanctions work with no input from the Chinese or Russians, who do sell those products to Iran and have vetoes on the Security Council
If anyone who we think of as a serious candidate said anything this stupid they'd be slaughtered by the media. It is a measure of Palin's irrelevance to anything that it is just more background noise to most people.
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toney
November 19, 2009 12:16 PM in reply to calbearinillinois
is BAR-BEE-DONT HAVE A CLUE BARBEE SERIOUS?i dont take her serious at all, i will say this though..when i need a good snark-snark..she provides it
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mageduley
November 19, 2009 12:25 PM
at 0:46 "...international monetary dills that Iraq benefits from...."
um - What exactly are monetary "dills"? LOL
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SqueakyRat
November 19, 2009 7:51 PM in reply to mageduley
I hope it's the new dills. They're the tasty.
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TheraP
November 19, 2009 12:46 PM
Keep her talking! She's digging a huge grave here!
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Colorado Thistle
November 19, 2009 3:23 PM in reply to TheraP
Proving once again that she doesn't know Iraq from a hole it the ground.
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Overreach THIS!
November 20, 2009 6:32 AM in reply to TheraP
Not as far the caucus/primary voters of Iowa and South Carolina are concerned, and they can take her a long way toward the nomination.
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Gregory H
November 19, 2009 12:49 PM
In Palin's defense, it's pretty clear that she did mean "Iran" when she meant "Iraq", since Iran does import about 40% of its gasoline, primarily due to refinery underproduction. That said, Gasoline isn't energy supply, it's one facet of the Iranian energy supply, and one which can be easily corrected were it suddenly become more expensive to import Gasoline than it is to ship it out for refining.
Nor is her sudden discovery of these sanctions all that impressive - seeing how she probably learned of htem when they were mentioned by then Candidate Obama when he was wiping the floor with McCain during the October presidential debate:
“If we can prevent them from importing the gasoline that they need, and the refined petroleum products, that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis,” Mr. Obama said at the time. “That starts putting the squeeze on them.”
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midnight rambler
November 19, 2009 1:59 PM in reply to Gregory H
Except that, unlike McCain's "Pakistan-Iraq border" slip last year, she said it multiple times, with emphasis, right after Hannity had talked about "Iran". It sounded like she was correcting a mistake she thought he made.
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NealnNYC
November 19, 2009 1:20 PM
The problem is that lots of folks think she is a serious presidential candidate.
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bracken
November 19, 2009 4:23 PM in reply to NealnNYC
I declare, it's some Lifetime thing or spunky-female movie that exists in the brains of some of these Palinites like a tumor. The more batty and cutesy and goggle-eyed Palin gets, the more she makes those little click noises and winks, the more they see "lookit her gettin' right up there and sayin' that! Ain't she fulla sass!"
They've got some plot line in their heads where the seemingly stupid ('cause she's hot, see?) heroine tricks all the old dogs with her out-of-the-box thinking and spunky female spunkiness. And wins some big victory, after which everyone dances ecstatically to disco music while balloons fall from the ceiling. I mean, I've seen lots of movies end that way--who says it can't happen in real life? Isn't TV real life, anyway?
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bluestatedon
November 19, 2009 1:24 PM
Iraq, Iran, what's the difference? To Palin, they're just faraway countries full of filthy brown people who want to murder all of us God-fearing Christians.
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Schmed- ley
November 19, 2009 2:38 PM in reply to bluestatedon
Plus, they're sittin' on all our oil!
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RobertSeattle
November 19, 2009 1:28 PM
But you can SEE Iran from Iraq!
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twoviragos
November 19, 2009 1:37 PM
I wonder how long it took her to memorize those talking points and, now that she doesn't have Nichole Wallace to kick around, who wrote them for her in the first place?
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Kubrick
November 19, 2009 1:40 PM
I am convinced now that she will run in 2012. I hope she wins the Nomination. Make our lives easier and help ensure re-election.
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WaitWut?
November 19, 2009 2:06 PM in reply to Kubrick
Y'know, up until the past few days I would've disagreed with you. She couldn't run as a Republican. Not only has she burned too many bridges, but the majority doesn't like her. She can't run as an Independent for obvious reasons (although her Facebookies think that's a great idea). Her only option would be Conservative. No matter what she may run as, it will be a sure win for the Democrats. She could run alongside Abraham Lincoln and screw it up.
The best part? Her campaign rallies. Movie worthy mayhem. Sadly, I think it's all a pipe dream. She's making too much money being a civilian idiot, why would she jeopardize that to become a Presidential idiot? I also can't believe that even she is too dumb to not realize she would ensure another 4 years for Pres. Obama.
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Schmed- ley
November 19, 2009 2:40 PM in reply to WaitWut?
Yeah, she has just about as much chance as George W. Bush who she's much smarter than (not much of a stretch).
Be careful of what you wish....
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WaitWut?
November 19, 2009 3:20 PM in reply to Schmed- ley
I don't believe she's smarter than Georgie, she just talks more.
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JamHandy
November 19, 2009 1:47 PM
Monet, Manet, tippy day day
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cletus
November 19, 2009 2:13 PM
Jeez, she's been studying her flash cards and still can't get it straight.
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threegoal
November 19, 2009 2:15 PM
Let's be fair. She got "I", "r", and "a" right, which is three out of four, or 75%. Since she probably was a "C" student in her odyssey to her bachelor's degree across many obscure schools, she's right in the ballpark or her performance level.
After all, the last "C" student in high office did pretty well, right? ;-)
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loria
November 19, 2009 2:51 PM in reply to threegoal
In my child's school a 75% is a D. A slip of the tongue does happen, as we have seen with so many politicians. Often it is clear what is meant, and Palin probably did mean Iran. Still, every time she opens her mouth she has a "slip of the tongue". Occasional is one thing. Nearly all of the time is another.
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JNagarya
November 20, 2009 11:05 AM in reply to threegoal
Oh yeah!? Well, she attended five colleges! How many did YOU attend!
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NuttyProf
November 19, 2009 2:15 PM
OMG why doesn't he correct her? Why? WHY?
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BeeClone
November 19, 2009 7:08 PM in reply to NuttyProf
Because she said it right in rehearsal and he wasn’t listing.
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Willa Standing
November 19, 2009 2:17 PM
Having just read the above, and the article about the paranoia gripping the republican base, the Max Blumenthal book, Republican Gomorrah, and The Family, by Jeff Sharlet, I think we are fiddling while Rome burns. The inmates are making moves to take over the asylum, and they have big business, and as always, Fox News behind them. They don't care that she's an idiot. They like that she's an idiot. They think, She's just like me! I think she'd be a GREAT president, because she LOVES THE LORD, just like me!!! I hate these ELITES with their educations and their abortions, and their gays that think their as good as everybody else! Palin for President. Cut my taxes!!!
I think it would be devastating to this country to let it continue to slide into the right wing christian abyss, but that's where SP, and others are marching as fast as they can. And they're going to drag the rest of us right along with them if we don't stop them. They're not sane and they're not nice people.
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stayyoungmyfriends
November 19, 2009 2:25 PM in reply to Willa Standing
Oh no, someone forgot to carry her cheat cards on foreign policy. Reminds me of what John Cleese said about her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g
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slb
November 19, 2009 6:23 PM in reply to Willa Standing
And that's just about exactly what they were saying in some crowd interviews NPR aired this morning with people lining up for one of her book signings in Michigan.
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Willa Standing
November 19, 2009 6:54 PM in reply to slb
I went online and listened to that NPR thing. Unreal.
This is what you get from a crumbling education system. People like her and people like her.
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Backseatdriving
November 19, 2009 2:21 PM
Be advised that wingnuts are making a lot of noise about Gore saying geothermal temperatures in the "millions of degrees" is a form of renewable energy. Gore misspoke, and so did Palin. Neither statement is worth a post by either side.
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whitenoise100
November 19, 2009 2:22 PM
She's so taken with herself for being able to successfully pronounce "Ahmadinejad" (twice!) that she apparently didn't realize the effort would crowd out all coherent thought from her pea-brain.
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MichiganMark
November 19, 2009 2:51 PM
I would love to see if she actually knows the meaning of the word "rogue" in my dictionary it reads:
1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
5. Biology. a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.
That DOES describe her.
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loria
November 19, 2009 2:55 PM in reply to MichiganMark
That's hillarious! Which of the five would she choose? Did she know the meaning of rogue before including it in the name of her book?
I'm voting for #1 and #5. Both are good descriptions of Palin.
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henk
November 19, 2009 3:04 PM
And none of this makes a bit of difference to her supporters. The Main stream media doesn't give a shit either. She could sail right on through the nomination process, confusing facts, lying, confusing this dictator with that ally right through to the Presidential Debates and the Main Stream Media wouldn't bat an eye. Obama could crush her in a debate, but the media would focus on his demeanor, Oh my god he treated her disrespectfully and they'd declare her the winner. It doesn't matter at all what she says, she fits some perverse storyline that they want to pursue and that's it. We will be hearing about her until well after the 2012 elections.
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WaitWut?
November 19, 2009 3:18 PM in reply to henk
We will be hearing about her until well after the 2012 elections.
Not if we send her hunting with Cheney.
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BeeClone
November 19, 2009 7:18 PM in reply to WaitWut?
She's to smart for that, lol.
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lousgirl84
November 19, 2009 4:19 PM in reply to henk
I am afraid you are right -pathetic isn't it?
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William Holt
November 19, 2009 3:15 PM
George W. Bush with lipstick.
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11A7E
November 19, 2009 3:18 PM
Did Hannity notice the difference?
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mickey g
November 19, 2009 3:27 PM
Ford
Reagan
Quayle
"W"
Palin......
It's like that Neanderthal chart in reverse. When do they hit bottom ?
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Turnaround
November 19, 2009 4:08 PM in reply to mickey g
Dude! Coffee>nose>keyboard!
But thanks. That one was worth it.
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blaneyboy
November 20, 2009 2:22 AM in reply to mickey g
Oh my God. From Ford to Palin -- damned near a straight line.
A 10 for substance; a 10 for style; and a 10 (plus extra credit) for hitting the nail right on the head.
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Megan97401
November 20, 2009 6:16 AM in reply to mickey g
Nice!
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AnswerFrog
November 19, 2009 3:32 PM
Too funny this happening with a typical FoxNews softball interview.
Whjat, did Hannity fluster her?
Oh, mean old Hannity, I'm sure she'll badmouth you in her next book. Why did you make her have a gaffe?
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stayyoungmyfriends
November 19, 2009 3:35 PM
Ok, now you can add Sean Hannity to her enemy's list ;)
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hologram5
November 19, 2009 4:10 PM
Kind of sounds like when she opened her mouth to say she could see Russia from Alaska. Just another lie by a big mouth that has nothing to say. I have spent 6 years up there, I have seen Russia, but it was from the St. Paul islands. Google them, they are in the middle of the Bering sea. You can't see the mainland from these islands.
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runfastandwin
November 19, 2009 4:15 PM
The Idiocracy Nation of America now has their queen. In their world there is no difference between Iraq and Iran, as far as they are concerned it's one and the same. That's a direct result of their idiocy. I get the feeling she really isn't all that smart either. Although she did write a book...
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lousgirl84
November 19, 2009 4:33 PM
I was listening to Randi Rhodes today on a quick trip and she played the tape of Nora O'Donnell interviewing the people in line at the Grand Rapids Michigan bookstore. They don't want to know any truth about her. In their mind she is "a breath of fresh aire and tells it like it is and one guy said she was more qualified than all three candidates, Obama, McCain and Clinton. So there you have it.
We can shake our heads all we want but qualified or not, this is all we will hear between now and 2012.
BITE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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kevbo
November 19, 2009 5:33 PM
Hey now, don't you be a tellin' me about Iran there! I know all about Iran: Iran for Mayor of Wasilla and won. Iran for Govorner of Alaska, and I won that there too, then I quit youbetcha. Iran for VP even, didn't win that one, but Iran a good race and if it wasn't for Acorn there I'd have one that too there.
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Publishermike
November 19, 2009 5:54 PM
I actually heard one woman on Limbaugh's show describe Palin as "wise."
Run, Sarah, Run....I'd switch my party affiliation just to help her become the nominee.
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stayyoungmyfriends
November 19, 2009 6:30 PM
Please Tina Fey, come back for one more show!
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glennla
November 19, 2009 6:33 PM
Come on she can see Russia from her front porch (as long as it is at least 1500 miles long), so if she mistakes one country for another, she can be forgiven, unless she was one of Levi's mother's customers
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JadeZ
November 19, 2009 6:37 PM
worse then usual from palin considering that hannity and his types all give her the questions in advance.
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smskater
November 19, 2009 6:42 PM
She is like a happy idiot.
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jcbeeno
November 19, 2009 6:53 PM
Dude tht is way cool dude!
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Kuyleh
November 19, 2009 7:04 PM
.../head-desk
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Winston Smith
November 19, 2009 7:40 PM
It's like she's been skimming International Politics for Dummies during commercials.
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Nancy Irving
November 19, 2009 10:16 PM
This might have been a slip of the tongue had she not repeated "Iraq" several times over.
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Backseatdriving
November 19, 2009 11:03 PM in reply to Nancy Irving
No, she only said Iraq once in the excerpt. Like Obama saying "57 states" or mispronouncing a constellation, or Gore saying geothermal energy comes from "millions of degrees" of warmth, this stuff is trivial. The fact that she's generally uninformed is important, her idiocy about Israeli settlements is important, but this slip of the tongue is irrelevant.
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Dorn76
November 20, 2009 11:10 AM in reply to Backseatdriving
She says "Iraq" twice in the bit provided above.
It's just more evidence that she has no natural comfort level talking about anything that doesn't involve lipstick or animals.
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Backseatdriving
November 20, 2009 11:23 AM in reply to Dorn76
You're right, twice. I still think it's a slip of the tongue.
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JJNelson
November 19, 2009 11:59 PM
As much as I can't stand her, I'm giving her a pass on this one. Simple mistake that anyone could make, and I'm sure she knows the difference (at least, I hope).
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JadeZ
November 20, 2009 11:23 AM in reply to JJNelson
very gracious of you to decide her mistakes are everyones mistakes.
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roschelle
November 20, 2009 1:12 AM
She's an idiot gone ROGUE!
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RHERSH12
November 20, 2009 1:52 AM
Didn't Jenna make the same error on 30 Rock? Another Tina Fey connection. Hmmm...
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RHERSH12
November 20, 2009 1:58 AM
Personally I love that this airhead is soaking up all of the media attention. This keeps real conservative politicians off the air and interferes with their ability to lie about HCR and scuttle it, among other mischief. She's useless as a future candidate and a significant obstacle to the GOP in getting their message out. I wish she, the teabaggers, the birthers and the rest of the crazies would blanket the airwaves, effectively shutting down the GOP's public relations efforts altogether. Dead ends that waste resources.
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blaneyboy
November 20, 2009 2:25 AM
God help me I loathe her, but I can't stop reading about the twerp.
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kfreed
November 20, 2009 4:46 AM in reply to blaneyboy
Who can pass up good comedy?
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Megan97401
November 20, 2009 6:14 AM
"Shakin' things up." Wow, that there's some straight-shootin' Alaska folksiness. Tellin' 'em nobody's gonna stand for this.
Wow, she's really reinvented herself!
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RHERSH12
November 20, 2009 10:10 AM
Reminds me of something a reviewer once said about Madonna: "She's made a little talent go a long way. Like a piece of chewing gum stretched from here to the moon."
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Beagle
November 20, 2009 12:40 PM
Has anyone ever heard her mention any other world figure by name other than Ahmadinejad's? Even that name, I'm sure, she learned while being prepped for the VP debate last year- I remember her using his name.
The bright side for her is that her geographical knowledge has improved; last year she mistook a continent for a country, this time its one country for another. With this pace, she'll hopefully learn all the continents names and geographical position by 2012.
The fact that this woman could have gotten the chance to be the commander in chief of the greatest military in the history of mankind just scares me to death.
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