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Palin Interview With Walters: 'There Was So Much Bullcrap'
November 17, 2009, 9:21AM
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Good Morning America aired an interview this morning between former Gov. Sarah Palin and Barbara Walters.
Palin, on a media tour promoting her memoir, which comes out today, spoke about 2012 speculation, President Obama and the negativity of the media.
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Orlando
November 17, 2009 9:36 AM
If she wins the presidency in 2012, I'm going to have to revise my opinion on Mayan prophecies.
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Joe Monster
November 17, 2009 10:30 AM in reply to Orlando
I think 'Pissy premenopausal shrew in glasses shaped to make her face less disturbing' is in there, in that Maya thing. Check it out.
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erica
November 17, 2009 12:37 PM in reply to Joe Monster
Don't forget about the bangs sticking in her eyes and the barely disguised coldsore. For the love of God, woman, get a stylist and some Valtrex.
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Nowukkers
November 17, 2009 10:33 AM in reply to Orlando
Comment of the week. Couldn't have snarked it better.
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Beetlejuice
November 17, 2009 1:48 PM in reply to Orlando
Now is about the right time to start the rumor that a new stone tablet was uncovered in Mexico shedding more light on the prophesy by the Mayan calendar indicating the end of the world as we know it would only occur if a specific event were to come true in the year 2012. The end of the world would be preceded by a woman taking the mantles of power.
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tonigo
November 17, 2009 2:30 PM in reply to Beetlejuice
That would be a plus to most evangelical wingnuts. They are praying the Apocalypse comes during their lifetime.
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tiowally
November 17, 2009 5:14 PM in reply to Beetlejuice
I've seen the tablet. It contains pictograms of a shrieking shrew, a dog with large lips, a vertical cylinder with a tapered top, two circles adjoined horizontally, and what appears to be a hockey stick.
And the weirdest part about the discovery of this tablet? Every expert who has claimed to have successfully interpreted its meaning has committed suicide before revealing its "secret." Conspiracy?
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Dorn76
November 17, 2009 9:38 AM
yawn
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Shrubbit
November 17, 2009 11:06 AM in reply to Dorn76
Agreed.
Is there any reason whatsoever that TPM is now a full-time GOP knee-jerk reaction site? Does anyone really care more about what Glen Beck or Sarah Palin or Lou Dobbs says versus, oh I dunno, Climate Change legislation, Financial Reform, HCR, immigration reform in the hopper, etc etc. This site has really fallen off. Badly. Sad.
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Dekymo
November 17, 2009 11:18 AM in reply to Shrubbit
Yeah..it should be outlawed to talk about any opposing opinions.
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Shrubbit
November 17, 2009 11:28 AM in reply to Dekymo
Yes, because that's exactly what I said.
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:29 AM in reply to Dekymo
Go back to Redstate.
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howie
November 17, 2009 11:20 AM in reply to Shrubbit
Are any of those subjects not being covered when there is news about them?
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Shrubbit
November 17, 2009 11:33 AM in reply to howie
If you're asking me "is there news on important issues that is not being covered at the expense of these other issues?" I would say "clearly, yes."
Maybe it's just me, but I don't like news sources only covering issues when it is controversial. I like fact-based in-depth journalism on key issues. TPM used to do that better than anyone. I have been, frankly, appalled at the coverage the last 6 months or so -- with the occasionally solid story, mind you -- and have said so, including telling Josh. Just my $.02. Flame on nontroversy-lovers.
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Morbo
November 17, 2009 12:10 PM in reply to Shrubbit
This is a political site, and it's a big story when one of the two major parties loses its fucking mind. Palin, Teabaggers, they're all symptoms of the rot.
Put another way, what bigger political story is there than the Republican Party crumbling away before our eyes?
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Shrubbit
November 17, 2009 12:29 PM in reply to Morbo
I'm all with you that it's a "big story." I just think that the issues that confront this country are FAR FAR FAR FAR BIGGER issues than what some idiot said on some pop-TV program (be it Palin, Beck, Dobbs, it's still just ratings-for-cash pop TV even if it is "politically oriented"). I would list any of the pertinent issues -- incl and esp the ones I listed -- as being much much "bigger" than the neo-confederate party's implosion.
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KingElvis
November 17, 2009 12:39 PM in reply to Shrubbit
I just feel lucky we don't have to see the Oprah story of the women whose face was torn off by a chimp.
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big jonny
November 17, 2009 12:47 PM in reply to Shrubbit
Yeah, but, still, Palin is most likely going to run, in 2012, for the President of the United States. Her book tour has relevance.
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Johnny2Bad
November 17, 2009 12:51 PM in reply to Shrubbit
You're sooooovery concerned.
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Shrubbit
November 17, 2009 12:55 PM in reply to Johnny2Bad
Yes. I am soooooo very concerned about the issues before us.
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Johnny2Bad
November 17, 2009 3:56 PM in reply to Shrubbit
Uh huh. "...us."
Look, I'm sure you can find other websites that will accommodate your superior intellect.
Go. Be free.
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Gerard
November 17, 2009 5:47 PM in reply to Johnny2Bad
I'm 100 percent in agreement with Shrubbit's actual initial comment. More substance / less gleeful and gossipy reporting on how stupid the other side is.
Some of the comments he received, including your's J2B, did not add to the conversation.
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Johnny2Bad
November 17, 2009 8:50 PM in reply to Gerard
Paleeze. He wrote this:
"Maybe it's just me, but I don't like news sources only covering issues when it is controversial. I like fact-based in-depth journalism on key issues. TPM used to do that better than anyone. I have been, frankly, appalled at the coverage the last 6 months or so"...."This site has really fallen off. Badly. Sad.
"Appalled"? "Sad" ?? Come on. It TPM not TMZ. Idiotic. So...All I said was: Great, go find a website that does that to your taste.
And come on now. It wasn't really a "conversation" at all. It was 'Shrubbit' complaining about the site. Fine. But his comment was not only OT but ridiculous on its face. Concern trolls abound.
TPM has always been "fact-based in-depth journalism on key issues." If TPM is not what he likes...Move on. Change the channel. Turn off the computer.
Add that to the "conversation".
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twirling fartknocker
November 17, 2009 1:11 PM in reply to Dorn76
yup. I'll pass on watching the video. Thanks, TPM, for cutting and pasting it and slapping your logo on it but not actually reporting on it. Churn, churn, churn, goes the multi-million dollar media machine, gotta get somethin' out there even if they don't matter...
I don't need my head filled with trivial nonsense.
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Uncle Chad
November 17, 2009 9:40 AM
"Maybe someday there will be some deserved event in issues that he tackles that will allow that presentation of Nobel Peace Prize and I'll be the first to applaud that. But premature."
Where's Tina Fey!?
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jeffgee
November 17, 2009 10:08 AM in reply to Uncle Chad
No she won't.
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slb
November 18, 2009 2:14 AM in reply to Uncle Chad
Sara Palin has some nerve calling anyone else's plaudits premature.
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arias
November 17, 2009 9:40 AM
Hah! She would rather write than talk? In what lifetime? Considering she didn't write one word of her ghost written book that she dictated to her ghostwriter who exactly does she think she's kidding?
Can't even begin to bring up the whole 'runner's week magazine' hypocrisy without hurling.
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Headlight
November 17, 2009 10:32 AM in reply to arias
Of course she'd rather write than talk. She can't get a ghost writer to do her job for her on a talk show.
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Richardxx
November 17, 2009 10:48 AM in reply to Headlight
It took someone besotted by the "christian" right to write her book for her. Let's not forget that the evangelicals have inflicted the rapidly aging failed beauty queen on first the Republican Party and then on the rest of us.
Anyone know if Pat Robertson is pushing her book on his TV show?
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Dekymo
November 17, 2009 11:06 AM in reply to Headlight
Maybe she need a teleprompter like Obama.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 11:48 AM in reply to Dekymo
Yeah, that Obama. The first President in history to use a teleprompter! If he had any sense of proprotion, he would spend his time memorizing speeches instead of working. Then he could tell us about putting food on our families and OB/GYNs practicing their love with women and stuff. That would be great.
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jpaese
November 17, 2009 11:56 AM in reply to jenesq
Sweet burn! LOL
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elle a
November 17, 2009 2:22 PM in reply to jenesq
well done!
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big jonny
November 17, 2009 12:57 PM in reply to Dekymo
Wow. The telepromter line. Again.
Started like this: us-president.suite101.com
And then there is the reality: joyfulpublicspeaking.blogspot.com
Bottom line: A lot of folks use this devise. It works. And, it in no way implies a lack of knowledge or preparation. This story is weaker than weak.
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Prof Wagstaff
November 17, 2009 4:52 PM in reply to Dekymo
Don't forget the Dijon mustard!
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fsudirectory
November 17, 2009 9:55 AM
So she doesn't know funny, whats a lie, or whats reality, not to mention English. Great.
This woman knows how to play the game but is so dumb I dont know how she stays in it.
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Joe Monster
November 17, 2009 10:20 AM in reply to fsudirectory
1) David Letterman is funny. See, he's not saying it's actually more fun to drive into a tree than read Palin's alleged book. He's making an extreme comparison to lampoon the topic, which is funny because of all the hullaballoo over an almost nobody doing almost nothing and then quitting her public service job to go do less. Letterman is a professional. He and his staff look out for those things.
2) Alaska doesn't get bad press. This twit is the only thing we know about Alaska. We wouldn't know the rest of Alaska politicians are made of the residue left after applying ant bait to your base molding without her Fox-y talking head.
3) Had she known she was going to be a media whore, she may have restricted photographers?
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Joe Monster
November 17, 2009 10:23 AM in reply to fsudirectory
The 'dumb' thing is precisely how she stays in it. We have dumb people too, but the evil they lack prevents them from rising in the Republican ranks, and the Democrats simply don't accept such abyssmal speakers.
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Dekymo
November 17, 2009 11:17 AM in reply to Joe Monster
Yeah, "Hope"...."Change"....uhhh where's my teleprompter.
That's a lot more intelligent.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 11:50 AM in reply to Dekymo
Wow, you worked the teleprompter meme in twice just in this thread alone! Genius! Have you ever considered working for FOX? They need people of your limited scope and intellectual dishonesty.
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jpaese
November 17, 2009 12:01 PM in reply to jenesq
jenesq is on fire! jenesq has your number Dekymo! LMAO Oh, and the fact that you make fun of someone in that kind of a position making sure of every word they say, instead of "winging it" like our last president and making a fool of himself, reveals a lot about you.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 12:19 PM in reply to jpaese
In all seriousness, the kind of people who talk about Obama and his teleprompter are the kind of people who are fundamentally uncomfortable (to the point of outright denial) with the idea that someone like Obama (you can use your imagination to fill in what that means) is incredibly intelligent and articulate.
Sadly for these folks, Obama is indeed incredibly intelligent and has the (no affirmative action necessary) record to prove it. A wingnut commentator (someone I know personally) who succeeded him as President of Harvard Law Review has even acknowledged this. And no amount of pretending (wishing) that he's an empty suit with a teleprompter will change that.
"He’s intelligent. Clearly, his achievements reveal that Barack Obama possesses intellectual credentials that would impress even the snootiest resume snob. But (perhaps more importantly) he also possesses street smarts. As Hillary Clinton can testify, he knows how to throw a punch as well as how to take one. He is able to size up people accurately. What’s more, he respects "real world" intelligence, a quality that’s all-too-rare among those with stellar academic records – but one that’s vital to someone in public life who must rely on the assistance of an extensive staff." [The author then goes on to describe Obama as "colorblind." I'm sure she wishes she could take back her 2007 honesty in order to better serve the desires of her readers, but there it is.]
http://townhall.com/Columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2007/03/05/the_barack_i_knew?page=full
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Joe Monster
November 17, 2009 10:27 AM in reply to fsudirectory
Oh yeah, there was bullcrap alright. And we know she only says 'crap' among people she knows she can't trust, like people from the city, circus people, papists and those coloreds.
1) David Letterman is funny. See, he's not saying it's actually more fun to drive into a tree than read Palin's alleged book. He's making an extreme comparison to lampoon the topic, which is funny because of all the hullaballoo over an almost nobody doing almost nothing and then quitting her public service job to go do less. Letterman is a professional. He and his staff look out for those things.
2) Alaska doesn't get bad press. This twit is the only thing we know about Alaska. We wouldn't know the rest of Alaska politicians are made of the residue left after applying ant bait to your base molding without her vapid Fox-y talking head.
3) Had she known she was going to be a media whore, she may have restricted photographers?
Wasn't she supposed to be the foxy mama? Shouldn't she have embraced the shorts thing?
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AnswerFrog
November 17, 2009 11:35 AM in reply to Joe Monster
Alaska now does get bad press -- it's called Sarah Palin.
I had NO opinion of the state before her, now my view is fairly negative. Looks like a little rightwing banana republic up there if this corrupt liar can get elected, in addition to Uncle Ted.
Palin is a total stain on the image of Alaska.
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alaskabeads
November 17, 2009 11:50 AM in reply to AnswerFrog
This is very true. I live in Alaska and this year I traveled quite a bit. Usually when people hear I am from Alaska they go on about the beauty of the state, the weather, etc. Now, the common response is "hey, you got that crazy lady up there!". The worst thing is that they assume that the population here all likes her, and that we are all a bunch of hillbillies. Neither could be further from the truth.
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Bixby
November 17, 2009 2:27 PM in reply to AnswerFrog
So sad, how she's become the icon of our state. In our defense, I do want to point out that only 114,000 people voted for her for governor, fewer than 50 percent. Her original popularity ratings were so high mostly because she wasn't Frank Murkowski, an incumbent so disliked that he couldn't even win his party's primary. Oh, and she did give us each an extra $1,200 that one time.
But her favorability ratings were just starting to drop, mostly because she was revealing her true nature in Troopergate, when McCain swooped in and whisked her away. The national campaign was actually very revealing for most Alaskans, especially because the national press corps started digging up things we didn't know, such as her claiming per diem, etc. (We've only got about three real reporters left. Maybe two.) Once people saw her lying, exaggerating her accomplishments here, becoming hyperpartisan, etc., she really started losing supporters here.
These days we just sit around, rehash the lies, and talk about how glad we are that she's gone. I like to think of her as America's rightwing nutcase now, not Alaska's. So you kids have fun with her!
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ondioline
November 17, 2009 10:02 AM
As a lifelong Democrat, Palin is my one fear on the GOP side of the ledger. If she wins the nomination, I'm not sure that Obama will be able to defeat her unless things have really, really turned around. I fear that Palin, with her charisma and intellect, would be unstoppable. We saw the energy and enthusiasm she brought to the ticket in '08. It's possible that she got all the jitters and the growing pains out of the way and will be a media dynamo in 2012. I'm not sure that Obama could compete with that...
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ondioline
November 17, 2009 10:02 AM in reply to ondioline
(And if you're wondering, yes, I WAS born in a briar patch! How did you know?)
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jeffgee
November 17, 2009 10:13 AM in reply to ondioline
Charisma, with her fanatic followers, yes. Intellect, no. And a large part of her appeal is her appearance, which was displayed on Runners' World and Newsweek covers. She's got a hot bod and great teeth. What else does a woman need to be President?
How many of her male followers are thinking with their little heads?
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Richardxx
November 17, 2009 11:01 AM in reply to ondioline
If Palin is your one fear out of the Republican Party, then perhaps you should go back and look at Pat Robertson and Alabama's Judge Roy Brown of 10 commandments in stone fame. Then there is The Family and the idiots at C-Street, including Rep Bart Stupak, Sen. Ensign and SC Governor Mark Sandford of Argentina instead of the Appalachian Trail fame. They are all parts of the same Dominionist evangelical effort to make America subordinate to the Bible as the basic document of Law.
They live in another world and want to inflict it on the rest of us. Palin is just one little cog in their machine. They'll use her while she remains hot in the media. That's only been a year now, but it's not likely to last much longer.
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Heraldblog
November 17, 2009 11:11 AM in reply to ondioline
Absolutely. Please Republicans, I'm begging, don't nominate Sarah Palin in 2012!
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alaskabeads
November 17, 2009 11:45 AM in reply to ondioline
Her intellect? I must have missed something.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 11:54 AM in reply to ondioline
I assume this is snark. Because otherwise it's hilariously ridiculous. I WANT Palin to run in 2012. She can't wink her way out of a head-to-head contest with Obama, and there are far fewer wingnut teabagging crazies out there than the media and the internet would have people believe. Plus, some of those wingnut teabagging crazies think that their wimminfolk shouldn't be so uppity, so she couldn't even get all of them.
Hell, I'd contribute to her campaign, because I figure every dollar I give to her is like giving five bucks to Obama.
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polkaparty
November 17, 2009 10:04 AM
Barbara: "wunner's world" magazine... LOL
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 10:41 AM in reply to polkaparty
"A wed wose. How womantic."
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Nowukkers
November 17, 2009 12:07 PM in reply to commie atheist
Has Babwa had her schnitzengruben today?
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Schmed
November 17, 2009 11:16 AM in reply to polkaparty
Considering that Barbara Walters has managed to make herself a multimillionaire by overcoming that speech impediment, I think that she's LOL all the way to the bank.
Anything about her intellect make you LOL?
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Prof Wagstaff
November 17, 2009 10:05 AM
I never thought that any voice could be more painful to listen than GW Bush, but half way through the video my ears began to bleed and I had to turn it off.
Wah-Wah and Waa-Waa, it was just too much to bear.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 10:47 AM in reply to Prof Wagstaff
Her vocal inflections are truly annoying, with all the constant rising to a high-pitched whine, and then dropping down again. That, combined with the blame-everyone-but-me victim's mentality and the lack of substance, is what will guarantee that she never gets elected to national office. I'm convinced that the only reason she's so popular right now is because everyone likes to slow down and get a good look at a car crash.
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jeffgee
November 17, 2009 10:07 AM
Sniping from Facebook and Twitter is not "writing".
If she can't stand up to Katie Couric's softball questions, how can she stand up to Putin (or, plug in another hostile national leader here) when he rears his head?
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blairza
November 17, 2009 10:13 AM
watched both Oprah and Waters let this idiot have her book pimp and I have to say that my respect for Katie Couric has elevated again. It's funny to see the snarl that she put's on speaking about Obama.
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Dorn76
November 17, 2009 10:15 AM
I might buy Newsweek for the first time in years.
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Dekymo
November 17, 2009 10:25 AM
I don't understand why a woman of strong values and Christian faith should be so hated in a time when people bend over backwards to defend the rights of terrorists, child molesters, and the trans gendered. Why is this woman so threatning that people attack everything she says and does? Have we as a nation changed that much?
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Joe Monster
November 17, 2009 10:32 AM in reply to Dekymo
You're kidding, right? She's one of those people who's posing as 'angry at everything', and the achievement of her dreams would make the world worse. She's a bad parent, a bad governor, a bad candidate, and didn't make it as a news anchor.
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lousgirl84
November 17, 2009 10:39 AM in reply to Dekymo
Surely you are kidding? Right?
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Dorn76
November 17, 2009 10:43 AM in reply to Dekymo
Terrorists, Child molesters.....and the trans-gendered??!!
If you're not kidding, screw you for that equivocation.
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:31 AM in reply to Dorn76
The writer isn't kidding--got lost on the way to Redstate.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 10:48 AM in reply to Dekymo
We hate her because she's beautiful.
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cwnidog
November 17, 2009 11:09 AM in reply to commie atheist
I though that was Rula Lenska. Gee, it's so hard to stay up to date on things.
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:32 AM in reply to Dekymo
OMG!!! Rich "Starbursts" Lowry? Is that you??
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 11:56 AM in reply to Dekymo
Because she's stupid. And her "values" are a sham....all for show, no substance whatsoever. Is that clear enough for you?
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PushMe-PullYou
November 17, 2009 12:18 PM in reply to Dekymo
We hate her fredomsssss.
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labradog
November 17, 2009 2:15 PM in reply to Dekymo
Idiot.
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Richardxx
November 17, 2009 10:41 AM
Palin is an overage beauty queen with an aversion to work that does not allow her to hog the limelight. Her grasp on reality is, to be polite about it, quite weak.
Fortunately for her, the media she is working so hard to exploit has no significant connection to any form of reality recognize by sane human beings.
She does seem to have a talent for expanding her 15 minutes of fame. But I think this is a symptom more of the weakness of the media than of her strengths. She is working hard to build a long-term career as a celebrity based on her current media celebrity status. Her models are Gingrich and Giuliani, both of whom remain on the producer's phone lists because they were already there.
We as the public will have to suffer as she continues her inane, out-of-touch comments on TV as desperate talk show hosts fill otherwise dead time. Her future, though, is to hope to be the same kind of arcane footnote that Goldwater's Vice President achieved. Anyone remember him?
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RuperttheBear
November 17, 2009 10:55 AM
Yeah, there was a lot of bull crap. Unintentional irony, much?
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hologram5
November 17, 2009 10:55 AM
She's a moron. Plain and simple. Simply said, she is a simpleton and needs to stay in AK where she can keep watch on Russia for us. "What a joke".
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barnacle
November 17, 2009 11:09 AM
Most of the bull crap came out of her mouth, what with "thanks but no thanks to that bridge from nowhere," "drill baby drill,"
"palling around with terrorists," "pro-America areas of this great nation," "Putin rears his head," "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," "in what respect, Charlie?," "you can’t blink" and all the rest of it.
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Heraldblog
November 17, 2009 11:13 AM
"How was I to know Runner's World would take a photo of me in shorts?"
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Colin Laney
November 17, 2009 11:13 AM
It doesn't matter that Palin doesn't have a realistic shot at the nomination; running for president is a lucrative gig in and of itself. Pat Buchanan ran for president. Jesse Jackson ran for President. George Wallace ran for president for years and years. Running for president will get Palin a generous expense account, TV time, book sales, and the opportunity to be adored. She can even pay herself a salary out of campaign funds.
And it doesn't matter if she doesn't have big money backers. The teabagger mailing list will provide.
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traitorjoe
November 17, 2009 11:20 AM
She's the living embodiment of the book, "Idiot America" where ignorance, lack of education and "just knowin' stuff" is prized above judgment and intelligence.
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Lulu Strauss
November 17, 2009 11:26 AM
MSM's motto, and business plan, is: "We sling it, you watch". Their following of Palin is a meld of stand-up comedy and ridiculous reality shows. They don't care if we believe as long as we watch. I'm getting Teevo so I can watch only the commercials, they have better writers,and hot women who, at the least, usually pretend to have brains.
The true test of TV political coverage is, When you turn it on, does it return the favor". That's from the Bible, I think.
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Walter Mitty
November 17, 2009 11:30 AM
She will never run for President because she's get blown out in the republican primary and that would kill her marketability and the MSM would realize that she's nothing.
She watches Fox news and believes they are fair and balanced. Rush and Bill-o do what they do almost with a wink, she believes what she's spewing.
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Dreamscribe
November 17, 2009 11:40 AM
Wait.
What?
Somehow it's degrading for Newsweek to show a photo that Palin posed for whilst fully clothed because now after the fact it goes against what she wants her public persona to suggest? Come on, Sarah. If you want to play in politics, you have to learn how to not consenting to stupid photo shoots with Runners Magazine.
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erica
November 17, 2009 12:33 PM in reply to Dreamscribe
This response indicates to me that Palin really is considering a presidential run. The old Palin would have said "So I'm in shorts--I'm an ordinary person. That photo was for Runner's World, and I think it was a dumb choice for the cover of Newsweek. But that's Newsweek's problem, not mine." Which, actually, would have been a way better answer. This uncomfortable attempt at dignification says she is pushing her image in a more "presidential" direction.
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pbres
November 17, 2009 11:40 AM
WOW. 'Dik' Cheney must have taught Sarah a new word...dithering...WOW her first three syllable word. And...It is good to see that Sarah has expanded her reading list to include Newsweek. Sarha Palin's popularity: an indication of how many morons inhabit America.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 12:00 PM in reply to pbres
But is Sarah really that popular? Or is it mostly an attraction to the deliciously horrible, sort of like the national fascination with Jon and Kate Gosselin? Polls consistently show that she is not nearly as popular as the media narrative indicates. I think people simply like to watch figurative trainwrecks, and she's definitely all that.
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KingElvis
November 17, 2009 3:24 PM in reply to jenesq
Words of wisdom, Jenesq
I actually feel better having read what you wrote.
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Waltz
November 17, 2009 12:29 PM
She's so dumb, she doesn't know how dumb she is.
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newpantaloons
November 17, 2009 1:15 PM in reply to Waltz
"She's so dumb, she doesn't know how dumb she is".
She's the beauty pageant version of 'Joe the Plumber'.
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again
November 17, 2009 12:32 PM
First, she has nothing to say.
She has no interest in discussing with how SHE would handle the economy differently than Obama.
Then again, maybe we should be grateful for that, given her previous pearls of "wisdom."
And as someone who found her, despite her odious politics, at least pleasant looking during the 08 campaign, she now looks, by comparison, haggard and unhappy.
What happened?
Then again, who cares?
Who cares????? (Echo chamber.)
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CharlesSmith
November 17, 2009 12:46 PM
Sarah Palin says she'll have a political role ....latest details on this case: http://www.35energy.com/news/sarah-palin-interviews.html
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RectoNoVerso
November 17, 2009 2:46 PM
She sure was more entertaining walking around in front of a crowd in a swimsuit
http://rectonoverso.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/palin-swimsuit/
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lousgirl84
November 17, 2009 2:58 PM
What really blows me away is listening to the news readers at MSNBC actually havING conversations about her actually being a viable candidate. I can't believe mY ears. In any other country, this woman would be the laughing stock -- and we have supposed journalists talking about her viability as a candidate!
HELLLLLLLLPPPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEE PLEEEZEEEEE.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 3:28 PM in reply to lousgirl84
No, no--embrace the idea of Palin as a candidate! Despite the media narrative about her popularity (which I hope she listens to), actual polling data demostrates that even Republicans are uncomfortable with the idea of her in the White House. "Run, baby, run!" is what I say. It's the best thing that could happen to Obama/Biden '12, and it will sure save OFA campaign volunteers a lot of time and effort.
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lousgirl84
November 17, 2009 3:00 PM
I could barely watch that tape but BW asking her to rate Obama on a scale from 1 to 10 and Palin burst out 4 without even thinking. Who cares what number she throws out there 0 she is hardly qualified to pass judgment on his performance especially after quitting as Governor. Fuck this woman.
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gonzone
November 17, 2009 3:08 PM
Baba Wawa: "In Awaska, if you weah a twee, what kind of a twee would you be?"
SarahP: "A 'cuda!?" "Did I get it right?" "How much did I win?"
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tmdf
November 17, 2009 3:12 PM
Let's face it, what we are ALL waiting for are the nude pics of her once soon to be son-in-law and what he might say should she peave him off. He stated he had "dirt" which could really hurt her. Let's hope he becomes the idiols of millions and spills the beans on the wench, once and for all. Then she can be gone before someone drops a house on her, too!
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again
November 17, 2009 3:41 PM
I'm sorry, but the real point here is this:
For someone who has nothing to say, but he used to seem passably bangable to a percentage of the male population, Palin now looks haggard. Tired.
I can hear her in some frontier outposts singing "I'm so tired, tired of playing zee game." But she's not clever enough to be Lily Von Schtupp.
Her power, such as it was, was always in her heat. Heat now dissipated. Vixenish charm no more. Watch the favorability polls drop.
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Tosh
May 21, 2010 4:41 AM
If Palin is your one fear out of the Republican Party, then perhaps you should go back and look at Pat Robertson and Alabama's Judge Roy Brown of 10 commandments in stone fame. Then there is The Family and the idiots at C-Street, including Rep Bart Stupak, Sen. Ensign and SC Governor Mark Sandford of Argentina instead of the Appalachian Trail fame. They are all parts of the same Dominionist evangelical effort to make America subordinate to the Bible as the basic document of Law.
They live in another world and want to inflict it on the rest of us. Palin is just one little cog in their machine. They'll use her while she remains hot in the media. That's only been a year now, but it's not likely to last much longer.
cialis lovegra
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