Palin Interview – A Seven Course Salad
The “Good Friday Surprise Guest” on Eddie Burke’s radio show was none other than the governor herself. Eddie Burke has the #1 rated talk show in the Anchorage area on KBYR 700AM, and is the one who called the women who attended the “Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin” rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots” and then gave out their names and home phone numbers on the air, resulting in threatening phone calls. Who could have imagined THAT would happen.
But here is a transcript of most of the interview he had with the governor on Friday. This part came after he pretended to be surprised it was her, and like he had no idea who this “surprise guest” was going to be. I give him a C- for that performance.
The Mutual Word Salad Admiration Society
SP: I’m doing fine, and you’re doing very fine with your ratings and everything else. Congratulations!
EB: Well, thank you so much Governor. It’s an honor to hear from you. I really mean that, you know. I’m a big fan of yours, and I just…I’m not just a fan, I…really, I agree with what you’re doing and it’s been a long time since I’ve ever been this, um, I don’t know, happy about an elected leader like yourself.
SP: I appreciate that very much. Well, lots going on in Juneau so I wanted to call and touch base. But I did want to kick off the conversation congratulating you, Eddie. Your work ethic, and just the way you’re putting everything together on the show that so many Alaskans are appreciating, so congratulations on that, that appreciation being made manifest with your ratings.
EB: Well, thank you so much. It has been, it’s been pretty humble, and I you know I think the listeners out there as you know I know, you thank the voters in a way for our high ratings and being number one in the afternoon, so I appreciate that Governor for recognizing.
Who gets the Word Salad Award on this exchange? Sarah’s the defending champion. She’s proven herself over and over… but Burke’s response, especially that last part was pretty impressive. I think the judges are going to have to give this one a tie.
On the Democrats Rejection of Senate Candidate Joe Nelson
Well, it is quite ridiculous, this rejection because obviously he is highly qualified, experienced. He is a very impressive and dynamic young Native leader and he has lived a very interesting and very impressive life. And what he can bring to the table in this senate is impressive and it’s needed. So quite unfortunate that the senate Democrats would choose not to discuss it in public, not to take a vote in public, and their is a law on the books that says they are to take the vote in public. To choose to ignore that and just dismiss this candidate. Our first candidate too, Mr. Grussendorf. He was fine also. Both these gentlemen, they recognize, Eddie, and this is so important for the state of Alaska. They recognize that down here in southeast, there is opportunity to develop our resources down here too. And if there isn’t participation from this district, from this region, government’s just going to grow to pay more bills for people who could should be put to work developing our resources. Both those candidates were very high on the responsible development that this area has such great potential for. So disappointing that they though they’re not you know, the self acclaimed movers and shakers within the hard core Democrat party down here. They’re Democrats, but they recognize the need to develop and I was impressed with both of them.
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating because when people leave a big steaming pile of spin, somebody has to get a shovel and clean it up. When the governor selected Wes Keller to replace convicted corrupt bastard Vic Kohring, he was chosen from a list provided to the governor, and then the Republicans voted behind closed doors. You can’t change the rules in the middle of the game. Well, you CAN, but then people will call you names and won’t want to play with you anymore because they’ll think you’re manipulative and untrustworthy. And even though the governor’s “Dig, Baby Dig” pro-mining candidates are qualified for something, it’s not being a senator. That’s why the Democrats have presented the governor with five candidates so far, candidates they feel would best replace Senator Kim Elton, the guy that the people of Juneau voted in to do the job in the first place. They have selected five qualified candidates all of whom they feel would do well representing the people of Juneau, not the governor. All of them have been rejected by the governor.
So if we’re keeping score in the big game of rejection, it’s Palin 5 – Senate Democrats 2. And the two that the Dems rejected weren’t really even in the game in the first place.
There’s an attempt there to erode the governor’s office authority to be the appointing authority and then they confirm. What we’re seeing too is that those in the local party who are speaking for what you would assume is all Democrats down here are not necessarily speaking for all Democrats. We have folks calling our offices, and stopping me on the street saying “Please, open it back up. Consider as many folks as you can. Do more interviews. Vet more candidates. Don’t just believe a few in this political party down here, (some would characterize it as an interest group), take their advice. Take their input. But don’t feel beholden to just a few. Make your best pick.” And that’s what we’ve tried twice now, but we’ll keep pluggin’ away because in this area again there’s great development potential as there is all over the state of Alaska. But we can’t have folks serving in the legislature who will only say “no”. If we’re going to become less reliant on the federal government, if we’re going to be the still self-sufficient, pioneering state that we like to talk about ourselves being, we have got to start saying “yes” to responsible development.
Those mavericky Democrats have forgotten that the governor is the “appointing authority and then they confirm.” See, if they’d just do what they’re told, things would run so smoothly. Have I mentioned that every Democrat I know is beaming like a lightbulb at the complete and very cool “spineliness” of the Senate Dems? Well, they are.
And the Senate Democrats may be interested to know that the governor has demoted them to an “interest group” who can’t serve in the legislature if they’ll only say “no”. That’s Alaska through the glasses of the governor – The Republican Party and the Democratic “interest group”. Oh, excuse me… “Democrat interest group” because for some reason Rush Limbaugh has convinced Republicans to think its really cool and insulting to use a noun like an adjective. (eye roll) Maybe we should start saying the “Republic” party. That’ll get ‘em.
On Wayne Anthony Ross’ Appointment as Attorney General
Not just conservatives and moderates, but every Alaskan should appreciate this pick because Wayne Anthony Ross is so committed to our constitution, and he’s going to do what’s right. He’s going to do what’s fair. He is a great pick, and yeah, I was just watching on Gavel to Gavel also, he’s getting grilled by some on the House committee. I just heard Jay Ramras asking him questions about…it sounded like he was asking whether I should have worn my Arctic Cat coat up in Fairbanks at a race or not, and Wayne Anthony Ross, you know, he’s saying, “I think I got better things to do to concentrate on than what the governor’s gonna do or wear or whatever. But yeah, the politics are played in a process like that…..(sigh)….I guess we go through the exercise. I’m very very confident he will be confirmed, though. He loves our state. He will abide by the constitution and he will do what’s right by all Alaskans.
Yes, the Attorney General, who is the governor’s immediate ethics superviser and advisor has MUCH better things to do with his time than worry about…(chuckling)…you know….ethics. Ramras also asked Ross about a potential book deal and book tour during the governor’s term in office, and was brushed off like dandruff. So, if Ross is AG, don’t hold your breath for any ethics issues in the Palin administration to be taken seriously. And then there are all those pain in the ass Natives and gays and women. He’ll have a lot of ignoring to do. It’s going to be tough work being that divisive. But then again, Mr. Ross has had plenty of practice at that.
On the Legislature and the Stimulus
They’re working of course on the budget right now and the stimulus package dollars, and I still do not like the stimulus package. I do not like the stimulus package idea. I hate thinking that Alaska’s going to be part of the problem instead of the solution. The problem to me is growing our national debt, and forcing Alaska to be in deficit spending mode. I do not like that. Having said that, seeing that both bodies, House and Senate have passed resolutions where they have resolved to take the money anyway, then I’ve gotta work with that, and how I want to work with that is backing out of our own budget, then, general funds which can be replaced by the federal stimulus funds. We’re working on that today, and we’ll talk with lawmakers about that tonight and tomorrow and hopefully they’ll see the light and understand that some of these dollars don’t have to be additional dollars to grow government but they can replace the dollars we were going to spend anyway. So that’s the hot issue of the day.
(More on the stimulus below.)
On Parental Consent vs. Parental Notification (for girls 17 and under terminating a pregnancy)
The Bill’s sponsor, Coghill, he has now essentially conceded. He’s being pragmatic about it, saying at least give us parental notification about it. If we can’t get consent, we’ll compromise on notification. And at this point I’m there in saying with him that that involvement of a parent with their child, making a life-changing decision. Notificaation – well that’s better than nothing. So that’s where I’m going to be with that, and I anticipate the Senators would have a heck of a time saying no to parental notification. They would have an easier time, if you will, saying no to parental consent. So, compromise bill coming through.
I have only one question for anyone who thinks Parental Consent OR Parental Notification should be law. What if one of the “parents” mentioned in that “parental consent or notification” is the one who got the girl pregnant? Any girl with a good, healthy relationship with her parents will probably tell them. Anyone who doesn’t, won’t. And it’s not up to the government to tell a girl who has suffered abuse how she needs to handle it with her family. Remember how Republicans are supposed to hate government interfering in their lives?
On Levi
Well, very disappointing and surprising. You know, like the Tyra Banks Show. Bristol didn’t even know he was going on the show, so, you know, quite devastated to find out he was on an airplane heading to New York to do the show. She was quite devastated, but she’s a strong young woman and quite independant, and recognizes too that sometimes folks are enticed with an idea from fame, maybe a hint of fortune attached even, and that clouds a person’s judgement. And that’s what I attribute some of Levi’s actions to. He’s a young kid. Every kid that age, they’ve got a lot of growing up to do, and but forever and ever he’s going to be Tripps father and part of our family and, you know, we will love him and help him through this also, and I anticipate at the end of the day, things are going to be good. Just kind of a rough time right now but I’m thankful that I know the truth through of that also, and by the way I do want to clear up one issue that has really just been a bee in my bonnet over the whole Levi Johnston. Would have been over my dead body that I would have ever given permission for a teenage boy to live with a teenage girl. Other than that though, you know, my prayer is always for wisdom and for strength and part of that wisdom I ask for is to know when to just shut up, keep my mouth shut, and let truth be revealed on its own at some point, and that’s what I’m trying to live right now, through this latest episode.
It’s already been established the Johnstons didn’t get paid for the appearance. And Levi has already stated that he was living at the Palin’s house. So… I guess somebody’s lying. Somebody’s always lying…. Wonder why that is?
Lies About the Stimulus Money
OK, this time it’s easy to tell who it is.
EB: Let’s say we get the funding for some X,Y,Z program for three years, and then after the three years, well who’s going to pay for it? Is that my understanding of your kind of your litmus test is that if there’s not long-term funding for it, then there’s no sense in enacting a program that we’re not going to be able to sustain.
SP: Well, that and the strings that are attached. The federal control of programs and projects here in Alaska that accepting these dollars will neccessitate. Those have been my hesitancies in putting my arms around the stimulus package, but you talk about three years from now, and some of those funds may not be there. It’s a given that two years from now these funds will not be there. So for me, my argument about stimulus dollars has been why would we go out and hire a bunch of new government employees? Why would we grow these programs and grow the roles of beneficiaries if in 18 months, 24 months, we’ve got to chop it off. I don’t understand why that is a good thing for this state. But again, lawmakers resolving they’re going to take the money anyway, I’m dealing in that reality and making the best of that, if you will, and but another thing though, fat strings attached, the fattest string of all with accepting stimulus money is that like I said, we are part of the problem in growing our 11 trillion dollar national debt. That is a problem.
But other more specific strings, if we take some energy funds, then our local communities have to adopt energy building codes. We don’t want that mandated by the feds. We want if you’re going to have a building code in your local community in Alaska for one, at least let that be locally driven, not federally mandated.
I refer you to a memo from Larry Persily, in Rep. Mike Hawker’s office:
The governor was incorrect to suggest or imply at last week’s announcement that Alaska ’s eligibility for home weatherization funds ($28.6 million) and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants ($8.5 million) is dependent on adoption of a statewide building code. The state is fully eligible for both funds, regardless of any energy codes.
Two points:
· The energy-efficiency building standards apply ONLY to State Energy Program Funds ($28.56 million). The stimulus bill requires that within eight years of the act (by February 2017) the state adopt building codes for residential and commercial structures that meet or exceed international energy-efficiency standards. The standards must apply to 90 percent of new or renovated building space; not existing structures. The requirement deals with energy-efficiency standards, not a complete set of building codes.
· The energy-efficiency standards DO NOT apply to the weatherization funds or block grants. I confirmed that point Friday with the supervisor of the weatherization program at the U.S. Department of Energy and an attorney/adviser at the department’s headquarters in Washington , D.C.
You can read the rest of the “factual errors” that they needed to correct HERE.
And onward Alaskans go, on this political ride to nowhere.
Levi deserves FAME! Sarah deserves to be DEFAMED!
HaHa……just spewed my Asian salad everywhere !! You are too funny !!
What on Earth would a state like Alaska need energy efficient buildings for? It’s not like it’s a cold state. Oh, wait…
Honestly, I think when she speaks she must throw up in her mouth a little. Can she really be able to take herslef seriously?
I say we need Team Levi T-Shirts? Vote?
In the January 19, 2009 edition of People Magazine they said that “not only has tiny Tripp moved in with mom Bristol but dad Levi is staying over, too.” If this were not true you know Palin would have been immediately on the phone with them refuting that. She did not. She is a compulsive LIAR. Everything she does these days is in print or on a video…..the proof is all there.
I watched the entire press conference yesterday and noticed the snarkiness, nostrils flaring and also, when pressed on tough questions she always handed them over to her background singers. She is CLUELESS.
Well SP’s idea of keeping your mouth shut is way different than mine! Why in the hell is she still talking about Levi! The woman is an idiot with cunning instincts.
She lied through the whole interview. Alaska watch out I predict an invasion of locusts anytime now.
AKM….are you buying TUMS by the case now? OMG your poor stomach lining after having to listen to this.
And make your feelings known to the following:
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE – meets for confirmation April 10
Jane Pierson, Committee Aide
jane_pierson AT legis.state.ak.us
907.465.4990
Reps Ramras, Dahlstrom, Coghill, Gatto, Lynn, Gruenberg, and Holmes
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE – met for confirmation April 8
Cindy Smith, Committee Aide
cindy_smith AT legis.state.ak.us
907.465.3717
Senators French, Wielechowski, McGuire and Therriault
I went to the APOC site to see who donated to Ramras, and I saw that Jane Pierson donated both monetarily and non monitarily. She must work for him.
No bias there.
This is a perfect example of why she doesn’t do media interviews. By the time she gets through her first sentence, people are lost in amazement. How could she possible have a degree in journalism with such ignorance in sentence structure? This is proof that she doesn’t write anything in print that is supposedly from her. I think Meg is shaking her head when she hears or reads these words.
Maybe she doesn’t know she’s lying. It’s possible she’s been spinning for so long, she actually believes her own spin.
Did anyone else notice that GINO was wearing a US flag pin for the Press Availability. I wonder if that had anything to do with the speculation about a secessionist leaning. I don’t recall seeing that pin for quite a while.
“Other than that though, you know, my prayer is always for wisdom and for strength and part of that wisdom I ask for is to know when to just shut up, keep my mouth shut.”
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Amen.
AKM that was so funny…..but I wish you hadn’t mentioned salad.
We had a discussion on this in the forum…..it started about tea parties, then it degenerated a little.
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6964.msg66711.html#msg66711
Holy Cow I need an aspirin. I am a special educator and work with children with language impairments. If I had an elementary student who spoke like that he/she would be getting language services pronto!
Boo Boo Bear,
There is also a line in that article that says ” By day they tend to Tripp and by night they share diaper duties”
In reference to building codes – after listening in detail to the first press conference about the stimulus package – I did some research and blogged a big about some “International’ codes that are already in effect in Alaska. They are actually national codes – just happens that the name includes the word “international’ which seemed to make Palin and one of her cabinet think they were developed by foreign countries.
“Over my dead body!”
Speaking of Levi, here’s a poll posted (very appropriately) by honestyinGov
(that appreciation of Palin’s honesty being made manifest with the poll).
http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_317.html
My Grandmama said ‘there’s a reason we have two ears and one mouth’. Sarah, bless her heart, needs to hush already. Can’t wait to hear the repercussions from this p.r. nightmare of an interview.
I just don’t understand why she can’t see it – that hole she’s in that is getting deeper.
I didn’t mean to imply that the issues weren’t serious.
Yes, I remember that “by night they share diaper duty.” Palin, ever lying and spinning. But that’s what black widows do, isn’t it, spin nasty webs stuck full of lies -and those she runs over, wound in spider silk.
State building codes for NEW construction are a really good idea. Especially for energy savings. Especially for Alaska.
Of course, the construction industry would be against them because of added costs, so ….so would Palin. Pennywise…pound foolish. No foresight.
As to the rest, the old joke “how can you tell if Palin is lying”…..watch her lips.
Poor Levi. He needs a really good lawyer. And he’ll also need to relocate to the lower 48. At least until Palin is out of public office and reasonably harmless.
I find the beginning of the interview very interesting. Sarah congratulating the host on his ratings. Because we know it’s *all* about ratings….and polls.
I’ll add to what another poster said comparing Palin to my Governor, Schwarzenegger.
I’m not an Arnold fan, but my governor would never call a radio host to score polling points or to set the record straight or anything else. My Governor was first to sign up for the stimulus and several billion are going to schools. If you want to compare a GOP governor getting the job done with Palin, use Schwarzenegger. I don’t agree with everything he’s done and he can be uncouth, but for professionalism he’s still so far above Palin you could get nosebleeds.
He’ll never be president. That’s a good thing. But perhaps because he’ll never be president, he is a bit more effective in his office and his focus is not on campaigning but on solving some of the state’s problems. Palin would pee her pants if she had to do his job. And the voters of California would eat her alive. As would the press.
PS Thank you AKM for your diligence in sharing the greens with us, you do a great job of adding just the right amount of dressing, in our favorite flavors.
It occurs to me that whoever can corner the Alaskan market in Dramamine will have it MADE….
no @#$@ comment.
GINO needs an exorcism, but, her demons come from such a diverse religious denominations, so far……… maybe a Mormom could do it?.
I’m not usually this crude but it’s amazing how he got through the program with that erection he had going on there for the ole’ governor. Geesh gush much!!!!
God Bless You AKM.
I could never stomach the Eddie Burke show. What’s with her postering on and on about his high ratings? A not so subtle message to media outlets with lower ratings? “You can get me as a scoop interview, but only if you have ratings higher than everyone else.”
I loved the TIME poll. 85% of people believe Levi is telling the truth. Wow. When the quote from People magazine is reprinted, Sarah will back track. Her stand will be that she doesn’t condone teenagers living together, but that this was a completely different scenario. Levi was only there to change diapers at night. She’ll have him camping in the back yard, only to be called in when Tripp needed a new diaper. Just you wait!
With this new relevation, coming from her Favorite Go-To source for press releases, I fear that People magazine will no longer feel the love from the Palin Camp.
Once again we can refer to the urban dictionary :
5. palin
To lie pointlessly and repeatedly. Also: to knowingly claim you were on the side of the issue you weren’t.
“I said, ‘Thanks but no thanks,’ to Congress for the Bridge to Nowhere,” Gov. Palin palined.
This is a very interesting VERY RECENT post and relates to GINO’s views on rape and also WAR’s views of same:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/11/719033/-Sarah-Palins-Rape-Fetish-Rears-its-Head-Again
I have a question. Why isn’t our press eating her alive?
She is so obviously incompetent and inept. I just don’t understand why she isn’t crucified on a daily basis.
Posted on an earlier thread was the comment about outside media sources calling the Palin Administration the Tabloid Administration.
How very appropriate.
So she’s going to take the stimulus money, but punish certain legislators and constituents by cutting other projects out of the state budget?
After that salad, is it okay if I skip the main meal?
Muckraker,
Thank you ever so much for transcribing and posting this drivel from Governor Palin.
I tried, but I couldn’t listen to the interview. Reading her babble is bad enough, listening to her makes my ears bleed. Her voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
BooBooBear–I was just reading that and came her to comment, you beat me to it. The problem I think is, at the time he moved in, they were getting married so it was OK. Now their not getting married so its viewed as immoral by her followers, so she has to lie about what she said 3 mos. ago—She’s driving me crazy, can’t imagine what it like to be in that house!!!!
She doesn’t agree with the stimulus package because she has no understanding of economics. If you are in a recession you should increase public sector spending to stimulate the economy and pull it out of the recessionary period. If you just keep the spending the same you are not doing anything to help. Here is where we always mess up: when the economy is in an expansion the government should run a surplus and that can be used to pay off the debt. GWB wasted the last surplus with tax breaks. Maybe I should send GINO a copy of Keynes General Theory although I doubt seriously she could understand it.
@Lori in LA…Thanks for that link to KOS. It was a good read.
Standard media depends on business advertising. Corporations heavily fund standard media. Big money is solidly in the Republican camp in order to hoard and expand more than their fair share from the worker bees. Therefore, for investigative reporting and intelligent commentary, we now, gratefully, have Mudflats.
Lori in LA: Great Kos article.
Lori…very interesting Kos article.
Here’s the link to the People article quoting that Levi was living with the Palins.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259679,00.html
Moose Pucky Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Standard media depends on business advertising. Corporations heavily fund standard media. Big money is solidly in the Republican camp in order to hoard and expand more than their fair share from the worker bees. Therefore, for investigative reporting and intelligent commentary, we now, gratefully, have Mudflats.
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This site was just put up and UPS has dropped Fox.
http://foxnewsboycott.com/
I just feel bad for Levi. I can’t even begin to fathom how my sons would ever deal with this crazy woman, I for sure would have gone on the war path. Queen Taliban Gino drives me nuts every time she opens her “Yapper,” if she was in one of my sons lives, I personally would have Duct Taped her to the floor by now.
Lori – thanks for the link.
@Paula, yes to the TEAM LEVI shirts idea. Someone else wrote on another blog that the Johnston-Palin feud is going to wider & wider, in terms of coverage, as it clearly extends into issues of “fathers’ rights.”
AKM, another brilliant post. Fantastic!
(Luckily I’d already had my lunch.)
I can also recommend Halcro’s new post, taking down C4Pee purty darn well…
Now off to the DailyKos article linked above..
I’ll make this short and sweet….She is a A#&HOLE
I’m off to read Halcro’s new post!!
Is it just my ears or is she constantly referring to herself as “We”?
I thought only monarchs got to do that.
Also, what doesn’t she understand about using the stimulus to maybe build a new school or fix one or fix up a library or a road or something? What’s wrong with a capital project that can be bid out to private contractors and completed in two years?
Sorry ,that wasn’t very nice,but damn she makes me so mad.
Here’s a link to the Halcro Post against C4Pee:
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/do_nothing_lawmakers_or_say_nothing_governor
A big chunk of the stimulus funds assigned to Dep of Justice oversight has to do with crimes against women and children. My county just applied for two grants to acquire legal staff for two different programs. WAR and SP are against these programs.
If AK approves WAR they can count on huge legal bills from their (WAR and SP) machinations. Alaska will get two years of insanity and if they approve him, then they deserve it. It isn’t as if this isn’t glaringly obvious.
Nationally Repugs are biting the dust for this craziness. The question now is whether AK will tolerate to their detriment. It’s sort of like “I love my gun so much, I’m gona eat it. Yum #@%^&”
That first part of Eb and Sp throwing bouquets at each other is embarrassing. The, (oh,oh, you’re so wonderful love-on they were doing) on air is enough to make one puke.
She starts out by saying she’s doing fine. She has a meltdown every day and she considers that doing fine? Delusional as always I see.
On the issue of Levi…
I was browsing some other sites linked to Immoral minority this morning and there were some very well thought out views and opinions on “Oz Mudflats.”
http://ozmud.wordpress.com/
He also has a ‘ dumb-O- meter ‘ with one of his stories from 2 days ago.
His earlier story “Sarah Palin Early Warning System. Or simply S.P.E.W.S.” has been renamed to “GINO S.P.E.W.S”
It’s worth checking out…. before the next GINO Press Statements & radio interviews. ha!
Maybe the Gov should have a chat with Rep Hawker who seems to have finally gotten a bigger and less republican clouded picture.
Note his pain, lol.
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http://www.adn.com/akhouse/story/756100.html
” Their 40-0 vote came hours after Gov. Sarah Palin again asserted that the federal money would be a burden on the state.
House Finance Committee Co-chairman Mike Hawker, an Anchorage Republican, said he had similar concerns when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was enacted by Congress in February. He arrived at a different conclusion after studying the measure.
Hawker said the benefits of investing the money into the Alaska economy, “doing it this year, doing it quickly and doing it soon,” outweighed any residual concerns.
“Over that time, I’ve sometimes begrudgingly and sometimes, quite frankly, slowly and reluctantly, acknowledged that the facts as they bore out did not support those earlier anxieties,” he said.”
So she doesn’t want to take the money for programs that will not have that funding in 3 years. In a perfect world, she’d be in prison in 3 years and not have to worry about it.
Palin doesn’t even know she’s is lying, which is sad. I tried to listen to the interview, but egad, that voice of hers is worse than hearing fingernails on a chalk board. (Cringe)
” Would have been over my dead body that I would have ever given permission for a teenage boy to live with a teenage girl.”
She’s either a zombie, doesn’t consider Levi or Bristol to be teenagers, or she’s a sack of lying sh!t.
Also too.
I wish she would stop saying there is a law that the Democrats have to vote in public. There is no such thing. There is only a dusty old suggestion by a lawyer, that served its purpose 22 years ago and should have stayed at the back of the drawer. Even she – stupid, ignorant and blind as she is – knows that.
AKM!
Great work! Thanks for transcribing this, AND ALSO! How did you get through all that?
Too bad Eddie is such a spineless Palinista Palinbot…
BTW, I can’t wait to stop her in the street and tell her how I feel…As if people have been able to do that…
Comments from Huffpo -
“Sarah, one of these days you’re gonna tell the truth, and have to lie your way out of it.
“The Wasilla Sarah is going to have a future in running this country ‘over MY dead body!’”
I tried to listen to this on immoral minority, but, just as I was unable to listen to the sound of Bush’s voice for 8 looooong years(practically made me catatonic), I can’t listen to her either. I try to follow along, but it begins to give me a headache (and all those “alsos” and “thoughs”). And when push comes to the shove, you know she’s lying anyway, so what’s the use?
15 BigPete Says: April 11th, 2009 at 12:03 PM posted this link:
http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_317.html
I checked out that poll result, funny how Levi came across pretty consistently as credible, even world-wide. Around 3/4 to 4/5ths of viewers believed Levi over Sarah.
I’m curious: What’s up with Tennessee? Is there a meaTharaS hive there or something? Anybody wanna chip in for the Orkin Man or sumpin’?
If someones home energy costs can drop 36% in electricity and drop 25% in heating fuel from previous years how can Palin say energy improvements are a waste of time and resources?
Obviously shes wrong. And I would dare say it’s worth spending on federal buildings also too!
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http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10161849
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Back in November, Channel 2 News tagged along with Anchorage School District Superintendent Carol Comeau as she gave her home an energy audit and made upgrades to make the home more energy efficient.
After making the upgrades, four months later we took a look at the gas and electric bills to see how the effort paid off.
Energy consultant Andy Baker gathered the Comeaus’ energy bills since 2005 and compared them with the bills after the improvements.”
“So 2005 through 2008, their electric use per month, you see that each year is pretty similar so they have a pretty tight band of usages here and 2009 we see has dropped down here 36 percent,” Baker said.
The Comeaus have had 36 percent savings in electricity and 25 percent savings in natural gas.
“The first thing I noticed truly was how warmer the house was with all the insulation in the crawl space and also up in the bedroom with the attic,” Carol said.”
Palin is still so very full of it. ‘Believes her own lies and thinks everyone is stupid enough to believe them too. I really do hope that people of sense and conscience continue to stand up to her machinations.
Is there such a thing as an impulsive obsessive liar? ‘Cause I think Alaska has one.
I had a suite mate in college who lied about everything, pretty much. One of the things that set her aside from most liars was that she remembered her lies and so all her stories etc. were consistent with all her lies.
But she didn’t hold a candle to Sarah.
Memo to Governor: the stimulus funds may NOT be used to substitute the funding of existing programs.
Can this woman get NOTHING right?
(as per the post on #50)
House Finance Committee Co-chairman Mike Hawker, an Anchorage Republican, said he had similar concerns when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was enacted by Congress in February. He arrived at a different conclusion after studying the measure.
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For the people who live in AK I would recommend that everyone send Mike Hawker a quick email thanking him for his insight and thoughtful conclusions.
(wouldn’t hurt saying you read it on Mudflats?)
Then ask him to come to the same conclusion with this WAR nomination. A little ‘sweetness’…. before you give him the message. ‘Tastes’ better that way…. when you ask Him to swallow this pill. Doesn’t seem as bitter.
OT – This is a good thing for AK. Natives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/us/politics/11brfs-NOMINEENAMED_BRF.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
did ya notice that Palin says Brisol is a strong young independent “woman” but Levi is a young kid whose judgment is questionable. good grief
Levi is ya read this, do not have any conversations with the Palins without recording them! do not make any unwritten agreements without consulting an attorney! And, you might just want to see about having those visits with your son in a less hostile one sided environment. Something more neutral.
Also too Levi, expect your own conversations to be recorded, they will be on a fact finding mission for dirt on you to use in court. Watch your step, clean up your act and get on with showing yourself and the Palins you can be a responsible dad, which you can!
Remember Todd followed and stalked Wooten looking for chances to use against him. Also be very careful of any dirty setups.
And find out who took your computers!
As usual, I am speechless reading Gov Palins words. She is SO incredibly inarticulate! It is embarrassing that a government official can’t speak English properly! She is just awful on so many levels I don’t know how anyone can support her!! I just hope she does not run for your gov in 2010 , because she will be kicked to the curb in 2012 and then maybe, just maybe, she will be OUT of politics. UGH, I can’t stand her!
Lori in Los Angeles Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:11 PM
This is a very interesting VERY RECENT post and relates to GINO’s views on rape and also WAR’s views of same:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/11/719033/-Sarah-Palins-Rape-Fetish-Rears-its-Head-Again
Holey Moley!
I don’t disagree with the article, but it makes me more than a little sick to my stomach.
If the Johnstons didn’t get paid for their appearance, then how did they afford to get down to New York and back, and stay in whatever hotel they stayed in? (I doubt it was Motel 6.) And who’s paying for Sherry Johnston’s defense attorney on drug charges, and Levi’s brand new truck?
Now THAT is a very good question, with many possible answers. But until some evidence presents itself, I won’t speculate. As far as travel expenses go, I’m not sure that’s enough to entice too many people to do this and get the blowback they’re going to get in Wasilla. Just my 2 cents. AKM
In Washington State, our Gov has set up a website where you can go and see where all our stimulus money is going, is GINO going to do that.
AKM…thank you for listening & reporting back, I am one who can not take the sound of her voice, i think sometimes she forgets her Alaska accent…
FUNNY Gino says that her daughter is “A Strong Young Woman”
STRANGE GiNO calls Levi “A Young Kid”
#3… YES Team Levi tees! Where?
AUSSI BLUE……guess GiNOs gonna have to back out of backing out of replacing those budget $$’s with stimu $$’s
70 winkwinkWA…your question is a joke…right…
No way! she only used the website for her personal & emotional attacks on Alaska Citizens not for all that fuddie-duddie, info on stimu spending.
PLEASE, you’re asking a lot of one who understands so little…
Professor Geezer Says:
it clearly extends into issues of “fathers’ rights.”
Uh Oh
What are the gun rights, wolf killing Alaska guys going to to with that conundrum?
The way Palin refers to herself and decisions that she makes as “The door to OUR office is always open” “WE’ve tried twice now” “OUR first candidate” So who is this OUR?? it’s the QUEEN!!!
Oh and we were down town at the start of the Iditarod and the Queen’s security was clearing the way on the sidewalk for her. Who gets to tap her on the arm and say anything to her. You could probably yell it out though.
Sssshhhhhh …. quiet. (talking in a soft voice now)
Since the SP article/story is on the HuffPo front page I just went to their “Submit a story Idea” link and told them Saruh was on the local radio show in Alaska last night and talking her head off… on… and on… and on.. Said the transcripts of the show could be found in this article on Mudflats.
Pssssstttt… don’t anyone else here do the same thing.;-) ( like 20 more people )
They might quote her on the front page….. Again.
45 delnorteco Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Sorry ,that wasn’t very nice,but damn she makes me so mad.
No need to apologize.
where is Neice Nass when we need her…someone needs to pull a Clean House on the GiNO & her mess, [it's way pass old]…
I don’t suppose she understands in her little pea-brain that, if you take the funds for education, after it expires you must commit to maintaining the funded education items at the 2006 level.
But no, that would assume she knows how to download the stimulus plan (now know as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – ARRA) and actually read it, or go to one of the many government sites that break it down into easily digestible sections and, again, read.
Lori in Los Angeles Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:11 PM
This is a very interesting VERY RECENT post and relates to GINO’s views on rape and also WAR’s views of same:
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I hate to keep bugging you guys about this book but ever since I saw WAR sig on the PDF I know something not right!
The author of this book has GINO’s and Joe B. sig analyzed.
http://michelledresbold.com/handwriting_biden_palin.html
I have written to her and given the pdf of WAR. I realize she might not be able to respond to me (for security reasons) but to pass on her findings to the FBI or US AG, etc.
Ok I have pointed out his “W” and “Y”s resembling “breasts”. The author notes in her book that “When you see writing with a dominant lower zone, its a sign of a writer with a oversized need for material (Big Red Hummer), physical or sexual gratification”
With his Misogynist views of woman, rape, etc.————> Houston we have a problem!
I pray she will forward any findings to appropriate people b/c otherwise I see nothing but problems for Alaska from this appointment.
honestyinGov – Oh Noes! – I went and did it, did you not want me to?
Aussie Blue Sky Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Memo to Governor: the stimulus funds may NOT be used to substitute the funding of existing programs.
Correctomundo. Highly illegal. That’s what Gov. Sanford tried. Twice. And got very publicly slapped down for it.
I wish I could just read this without my head trying to put her voice to her words. ACK
It’s bad enough as is…
Firecracker Says@32
“She doesn’t agree with the stimulus package because she has no understanding of economics”.
Republican politicians don’t need to understand economic principles-although they shouldn’t repeat McCain’s mistake of admitting as much-because of their blind faith in ‘the self-regulating free market’. The Government should have no role in the economy-except for giving huge tax cuts to the very wealthy.
The Keynesian principle of stimulus spending to avoid a catastrophe, can only lead (once the economy is back on track) to one result-increased taxes for the rich. It’s best then, to show some tough love-”stop whining about being unemployed, suck it up, and we’ll muddle through, somehow”.
Ironically, Palin’s “Government intervention” of 500 million dollars on the gas pipeline is a direct contradiction of free market orthodoxy!
UK Lady Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 2:23 PM
honestyinGov – Oh Noes! – I went and did it, did you not want me to?
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Aww… shucks… I thought I was whispering…..
How did you hear me…?
Nobody else better do ‘ THAT ‘ though… we could get in trouble ;o)
those kids over at HuffPost are funny
In response to: Levi/Bristol Would Shack Up “Over My Dead Body” someone wrote: Over your dead body? Really? Promise?
She is rambling along………
Must be kind of hard on GINO not having Todd by her side calling the shots. I truly feel sorry for poor GINO. She is confused, out of place, under educated, over ambitious, miss guided, psychopathic, wrongly medicated, and believing her own lies.
When are the men with the white strait jackets going to subdue this poser with her insane madness? I wonder if she will be able to see Russia from her padded cell?
Good for Juneau!
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10168367
“Juneau will use federal stimulus money to help the police department address the problem of domestic violence.”
After reading THAT, and believing that you tell it as you see it……………and read it………I am on the floor barfing …..at the thought that this woman was so close to being our Vice President….. WHAT THE SUCK IT THAT ?
and how I want to work with that is backing out of our own budget, then, general funds which can be replaced by the federal stimulus funds. We’re working on that today, and we’ll talk with lawmakers about that tonight and tomorrow and hopefully they’ll see the light and understand that some of these dollars don’t have to be additional dollars to grow government but they can replace the dollars we were going to spend anyway. So that’s the hot issue of the day.
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Nice try, it does NOT work that way!!!! I would sat that she’s posturing, but we all know Palins’ intellect is incapable of that. Moron, is the only word that comes to mind. That and Palins’ insistence on having her own way come hell or high water.
Good luck pitching WAR (should he be nominated) against the Obama Whitehouse and the legal minds there.
Palin has most defiantly, yes defiantly, bitten off more than she can chew. Palin and WAR will present themselves, as the incompetent boobs that they are, to the entire nation.
This is no different than Mark Sanford trying to use the stimulus to pay down the debt in South Carolina. Even Stanford and Jindal have stopped posturing, but they ARE looking for a way to save THEIR credibility.
Palin just assumes her BS will fly in the lower 48, like she thinks it does in Alaska.
Palin has jumped the shark the last 2 weeks. Alaskans will have to decide if they want this incompetence in the governors seat and constant national/international embarrassment, or invoke a recall.
My heart goes out to the thinking Alaskans on this blog and elsewhere in the state.
The following is a national perception of the 3 Stooges, Palin, Jindal and Stanford
Governors pressured to produce
April 10: Countdown guest host David Shuster talks with MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe about why state legislatures are demanding governors use the stimulus money or else
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/30159522#30159522
Boy am I full! Thanks for the great salad AKM. Just like some people still believe there is a connection between 9/11 and Iraq because Bush implied it was so, many will believe there is a connection between the stimulus money for weatherization and strings because Palin is saying it is so. Sigh.
Salad — I’m so glad I don’t like rabbit food!!!
I think she thought she could use the stimulus for her own pet projects and found out thats a no no. I don’t think she knows what it is suppose to be used for. DUMB , JUST DUMB, Maybe she thought she;s suppose to stimulate something and and there’s nothing around to stimulate. Seems Todd’s not even around to stimulate…….I’M BAD
Can Levi charge “per diem” while living at the Palin’s?
[huffPost...LOL]
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ATF Says: thank you I knew I had read that somewhere, but couldn’t find it: The below statement was from Bristol herself, how does Gino deny this statement:
((But like many babies, Tripp – who was born Dec. 27 – can be a handful. Often, he’s up half the night, Bristol, 18, told FOX, and like millions of babies across America, HE KEEPS HIS PARENTS AWAKE.))
The Gino herself knows she is out of her element admitting on air last night ” you know, my prayer is always for wisdom and for strength and part of that wisdom I ask for is to know when to just shut up, keep my mouth shut, and let truth be revealed on its own at some point, and that’s what I’m trying to live right now, through this latest episode.”
That’s the first thing I’ve ever heard her say that makes any sense. Now if she could only take her own advice. May God, grant her that prayer! Shut her up!
The problem with a stupid person like the Gino trying to stick to the GOP party line is that they have to understand the party line and she just can’t get her head around it, so it comes out like “word salad” every time. Even the respectable Repubs are begging her to keep that month shut. It’s getting harder and harder to CYA her little fire side chats, and quick spins.
So much the better for those of us that don’t forget and will keep on keeping track. I have say though, that the dumbest thing she may have ever done is try to push this W.A.R. guy off on the women of AK. This will set American women back 50 years and I don’t think we are ready for that one, nor are the men that support us.
I never listen to her speak since I consider that cruel and unusual, however, I can’t even read full paragraphs from her any more, either. I read a few sentences, and then my eyes glaze over and I start foaming at the mouth. She makes W. look like a genius.
It surprised me than KY believe Levi over Palin just because i have see people from there make death threats online to others Tenn No surprise as i think some of the people their have the same mind set as Palin.Jees I put my mudflats.com sticker on my van and my kids are down their in Tenn right now.Hope it does not bring the crazies here..I did not know they were that red.All the other states went way more for Levi.I scanned over all.Even LA and AZ believe Levi over Palin.What does that say?
AKM…have you thought about selling, “Free Levi” Tee shirts? I would so order one and wear one with pride! Just a thought here. I think it would be a hot selling item and worthy of a Mudflats logo as well.
The “Free Levi” tee shirts are a good idea AND if you’re going to consider it you may put “Free Alaska” tees on the list too..
All I can respond to regarding SP is -CooKoo. Cookoo, Cookoo…all the clocks in Austria are going off all together…just amazing… Meg Stapleton is really earning her pay these days keeping Sarah up those extra hours working on her next day dribble….
LOLOLOLOL…”asking for wisdom to know when to keep her mouth shut”…THAT is something she should have asked for back in September. Specifically when asked “do you want to be the VP candidate?” Should have blinked AND kept your mouth shut.
And “wanting to get thru this episode”? Good news (for us, anyway), your series “Wasilla Hillbillies” has been RENEWED. Because each “episode” is getting “seen” by more and more people —-thanks in part to YOU never getting that wisdom and because of that pesky little thing, also, ya know, and, the Internet, you betcha, also…and…yeah.
OK, so here’s the pattern; GINO says something which proves to be untrue, she is called on it, is shown to be incorrect, inaccurate, or lying, and continues undeterred in telling the original version of her untruths.
I believe that she believes that whatever SHE says IS the truth, and all the little people should just stop questioning her.
The Queen hath spoken…….and it looks like she’s either naked (the emperor who had no clothes), or dead (over my dead body would I allow some kid to live/stay over ((“whatever” says Levi, to the terminology)) with my dear precious chaste daughter), and, as Gryphen said, she better check her pulse ’cause we’re tendin’ to believe the “kid” at this point)
A couple of things;
Let’s not forget to give the Senat President Gary Stevens a big “Thank You” for holding to the process and not caving into SP’s interpretation of how things should go so she can get her way with the Juneau appointment. He’s running a good and fair ship and everyone should show their appreciation.
Next, the stimulus….from what I know, the stimulus money ISN’T for building big government, it’s for putting people to work. While there may be some bump needed to accommodate inspectors and persons processing applications for weatherization (as they should), the money is going to contractors and individuals improving their living conditions, reducing their cost of living, reducing power needs, and improving their long-term commitment to stay in Alaska. I see this as a good thing.
Last, does she think that the stimulus money going to capital projects are free? Once we build something, don’t we have to operate it an maintain it? Roads don’t repave themselves (or clear their own snow), buildings don’t repaint themselves, and bridges have to be replaced on occasion. I know the State builds new things on occassion but much of the money requested from communities annually is to pay for deferred maintenance (fixing school roofs, replacing heaters, etc….) As the Gov, you’d think she’d know this. Paying attention to what’s going on isn’t what she does best unless its…….IS THAT A CAMERA? AM I ON? (Bumper sticker- SP; what’s your next job in 2010?)
Eddie Burke is number 1?? ARE YOU SERIOUS?? Just goes to show the mentality of the Palininistas. He makes my skin crawl not to mention he needs some English lessons. Goes to show the caliber of her fans.
I couldn’t get much past the mutual bum-kissing at the start. Both have such a flurry of words to nowhere going on it is no wonder they have a dedicated base of brainless wonders. Wow, talk about standing knee deep in her own b.s.!
Slightly OT:
Although I feel a little sorry for the guy, I’m not ready to join Team Levi. He deserves a fair opportunity to be a father to his son, and he’s in a tough position re. the whack-o Palin clan, but I’m remembering his remarks on his MySpace account, and I’m not thinking he’s such a prize.
Just sayin’…
I can’t believe she even brought up the Levi situation. (Looking for back issues of People Magazine; ah, here we go – )
January 1, 2009
“Not only has tiny Tripp moved in with mom Bristol, but dad Levi Johnston has been staying over too.”
March 2, 2009
“Since Tripp’s Dec. 27th birth, dad Levi Johnston has been living with the Palins.”
March 30, 2009
“Once a part of the mix, living in the Palin’s five bedroom Wasilla home, Levi has now moved out.”
So this is three issues of People Magazine that GINO never saw fit to correct. And NOW, she is saying “over my dead body”?
I feel badly for her children. In years to come, they will be saying sadly, “Yes, my Mama was a crazy lady.”
…the governor’s office authority to be the appointing authority and then they confirm…
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So does that make Palin the Deciderer?
Ok, so the Gino said last night that “for me, my argument about stimulus dollars has been why would we go out and hire a bunch of new government employees? Why would we grow these programs and grow the roles of beneficiaries if in 18 months, 24 months, we’ve got to chop it off. I don’t understand why that is a good thing for this state.”
Hello, what part of the highest unemployment rate in 30 years doesn’t she understand? Isn’t being employed for 18 – 24 months better than not being employed for 18-24 months? I get it that she doesn’t like the federal government telling AK which programs they can hire people for and how much federal funds can be returned to the state for which programs. So is it the skating ring that should not be paid for from Fed Funding? So, then why when she was Mayor did she hire a grantwriter to ask for Fed Funding for the rink? Or is it pipeline funding that she is going to be turn down now that AK is making so much on oil these days? Or maybe it’s just special ed funding that will only teach special needs kids for two years, so it would be better not to teach them anything at all? Or Nurses training that would only pay for their education for two years, so why train them at all either, I suppose no nurses training is better than two years training. Shall I go on?
For me, this is what’s frightening: I believe this woman is a textbook pathological liar. I believe her ego is so immense, she creates her own reality and then could pass a lie detector test because she honestly believes it’s the truth. What is essentially terrifying is that she is the Governor of Alaska. And that she thinks (remember: pathological ego here) that she can be President of the United States. God help us all.
Ross is so committed to our constitution… which constitution is “our” constitution? The US constitution, the state constitution or the constitution as interpreted by AIP?
Good lord… she piles things so high and deep at times that I think the only shovel which will work is the one attached to the front of a bucket loader. Manure by any other name would smell no worse.
re: Stimulus
Way back, when she first said she was going to reject some of the funds because they would ‘grow government,’ I thought back to the days when I worked for the state (not Alaska) in a budgeting position.
When we learned of a new grant available, we’d look for items in our general budget that might fit into the grant, and reduce the general budget accordingly. Of course, you wouldn’t do this for most staff positions (but could take a portion of them), but we took advantage of it for travel, training, special projects and many day-to-day purchases.
From day one when she announced her objection, I thought “duh, just re-work your budget, silly.” NOW, after all of this back-and-forth grandstanding, she finally figures out that this just might work? Doesn’t she have any decent budget advisors?
Speechless.
OMG, this is just too funny. It’s as funny as the first time I read Mudflats on the old forum last year before it exploded with fame. I LOVE the way you write, and I seldom read your pages without laughing at something.
“…well, you CAN, but then people will call you names and won’t want to play with you anymore….”
I’m still laughing. Amen Sistah!
Sandra – God help us all. And Karin – Speechless. I hear ya! How did this happen? I feel like I’m having a nightmare. I don’t know what it is going to take for GINO to go away. I hope after it’s all over, we will have learned something very important. We can’t let the wackos take over this state or this country. We must be VIGILANT!
FYI–this is an article posted at http://www.peoplecom
Bristol Palin’s Baby Proves a Handful for Young Parents
Originally posted Wednesday February 18, 2009 09:30 AM EST http://www.people.com
Little Tripp Johnston has been described as a “bundle of joy” by his grandmother, Sarah Palin, while his mother, Bristol Palin, told FOX News this week that she loves “just seeing him smile and stuff. It’s awesome.”
But like many babies, Tripp – who was born Dec. 27 – can be a handful. Often, he’s up half the night, Bristol, 18, told FOX, and like millions of babies across America, he keeps his parents awake.
“Tripp’s a little fussy,” a Palin family friend tells PEOPLE.
Bristol – now living at her parents’ house in Wasilla, Alaska – has plenty of help. Sister Piper Palin, 7, pitches in, fetching diapers and making bottles. Bristol said her parents and aunts also assist, and Bristol’s maternal grandmother, Sally Heath, lives nearby and baby-sits.
But the new mom’s biggest assist comes from her “hands-on” fiancé, Levi Johnston, 18, the former high school hockey player now working as an apprentice electrician.
“He has been staying at [the Palins' home] a lot with Bristol and helping her out,” a pal of Levi’s tells PEOPLE. “He really likes being a father.”
Levi Lives with Palins
Last year, when Bristol was pregnant, she and Levi would go out on dinner and movie dates, and Levi would bring her flowers, according to Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin, by PEOPLE assistant editor Lorenzo Benet.
Then, in the first week after Tripp’s birth, Levi moved in with the Palins, Levi’s mother, Sherry Johnston, told PEOPLE in January. He immersed himself in childcare duties and bought his son a miniature hockey stick.
I have such a hard time following SP’s reasoning. Isn’t the stimulus money intended to be spent as well as state money? She complains of the state having to step in in a couple of years to fund these programs. Well, if she withholds state money for these projects and uses the stim money instead, isn’t this a selffulling prophecy? So, in 2 years when the state has to start using it’s own money again, she can claim an “I told you so”. She makes my head hurt.
Where are the new jobs, the new projects? She’ll just be spending federal dollars and banking AK’s money. I don’t see any potential for growth in that concept.
But maybe along with the legislature, I, too, will see the light.
Sarah Palin, the human centrifuge.
Every time SP opens her mouth, she just confirms what we all suspected last fall. The woman is not capable of putting together a coherent sentence, not capable of reasonable logical thought, and she’s nuts. In the first part of the interview, I was struck by the word salad from both sides – and while it’s confusing to the rest of us, they seemed to understand each other perfectly. Takes one to know one.
Thanks, AKM, for keeping us up to date. And thanks to those who included the references to the articles that back up Levi’s claim. I’m sure that SP doesn’t want to admit that she allowed any such thing, because her solid right wingnut base really would not approve. But she would have done better to just keep her mouth shut – it would have died down on its own. Oh wait – keeping her mouth shut is something with which she needs help. Please, somebody, step forward and help her achieve at least one of her goals – the only one that makes sense.
How on god’s green earth did you guys elect this mentally challenged borderline personality disorder as the CEO of your state?
On W.A.R.:
If he’s so great, why didn’t Palin appoint him instead of Colberg when she first entered office? W.A.R. is too divisive and opinionated in his beliefs. I don’t care if he says he’ll be impartial; it’s just lip service to get the job. I don’t like the way he spoke down to Donny Olson; it was disrespectful and rude.
On Levi: I believe this kid, before I’ll believe what Palin has said in response to his interviews. What does he have to gain by going on Tyra Banks and CBS to tell his side? Wasn’t paid; just wanted to set the record straight. When the news broke about Bristol’s pregnancy and the ‘engagement,’ I strongly suspected it was all damage control and a ‘shot-gun engagement.’ Since he’s spoken out, I’m sure he knows he will now face Palin’s wrath and vengeance–and we all know what that’s like: i.e. Wooten and Troopergate.
It’s embarrassing that we have a governor who has People Magazine on speed dial to respond to bad press. What other governor in the other 49 States has been in People magazine as many times as ours to refute things said about them or their family? And she complains about the media raking her and her family over the coals? If she’d take the high road and not knee-jerk respond thru this magazine, she’d garner more respect.
On Juneau Senate Seat:
Juneau voters re-elected Beth Kerttula with over 80% of the votes. That speaks volumes for Juneau voters; why her name was the only name initially submitted. We want WHO WE WANT. Nobody from Juneau was able to vote to select/reject Grussendorf or Nelson–WE DON’T HAVE A SENATOR! Juneau voters e-mailed the 9 Democrat Senators and asked that they reject Palin’s appointment. I thank the Democrat Senators for not capitulating and appointing either one. It would have set a dangerous precedent.
Everything Palin does is to stay in the national news, to keep her name out there for 2012. I don’t know who the heck is advising her; but theyre not doing a good job. I guess they/she figures even bad press is still Press. Everything she’s done since losing the Presidential/VP election has only accomplished digging a deeper grave–all the way to China. Guess pretty soon she can say she sees China from her doorway.
The beginning of the interview reminds me of this exchange in DOCTOR STRANGELOVE:
“Hello? Hello, Dimitri? ……. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I’m coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we’re both coming through fine. Good. Well it’s good that you’re fine and I’m fine. I agree with you. It’s great to be fine. “
If two kids already have a baby together why does anyone care if they are living together to take care of the baby?? Does anyone who has sex just stop because mama says so? Not in human history really.
Does Palin think this is the worst thing in her sorry record?
Amazingly, Palin is still oblivious to the fact that her statements can be immediately tracked via previous media interviews – as in her comments about Levi living at her home. It will interesting to see her try and spin that one ….
Palin is clearly becoming more paranoid and hostile as she is confronted with her own words. It is almost painful to watch.
I fear for our great state with Palin at the ‘helm.’ Her petty vindictiveness knows no bounds.
“Other than that though, you know, my prayer is always for wisdom and for strength and part of that wisdom I ask for is to know when to just shut up, keep my mouth shut….”
This is laughable, since she obviously didn’t even know when to shut up during this interview!
I just read in the ADN that Palin says she can accept the stimulus pkg if she can cut the state budget education allocation and replace that with Federal money. Hmmm — sounds a tad socialistic, doesn’t it? Taking money from the “whole” to support the “one.” If I remember correctly from my college days, that’s socialism. Uh-oh Sarah….there’s that pesky political flip-flopping you seem to think we-the-people are too ignorant to notice.
I watched the entire press conference yesterday and noticed the snarkiness, nostrils flaring and also, when pressed on tough questions she always handed them over to her background singers.
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LOL Boo Boo bear! Late to the game her but as to the Levi living with them timeline at least my impression, based on his statements, was that he was “living with Bristol” pre-pregnancy as he implied: SP must have known they were having sex. I can understand his living with them post-birth of Tripp ( despite politics) so he can help out with his baby. JMO
Here’s a little tidbit on Joe Nelson. Yes, Joe Nelson, husband of Mary Nelson, Manager, Community Development & Sustainability, DONLIN CREEK LLC…A BARRICK/NOVAGOLD COMPANY!!!!!
Any conflict of interest there?
She is an idiot….and a liar.
Should a grown woman, who is the Governor of Alaska, continue to verbally attack (in the media) a teenage boy..who is the father of her grandchild. Shameful.