The real death panels are the anti-abortionists.
They are forcing pregnant women to resort of out of clinic procedures.
So
The fetus is going to die either in a clinical setting or a non clinical probably non medical non sterile setting,
And
the mother may be rendered incapable of another pregnancy that is wanted,
Or
the mother may also die making her incapable of another pregancy so that any future people that she may have produced will never have that chance.
Those are real death panels. Two deaths for the price of one political talking point.
Regargless of our individual points of view on the issue, abortions are going to happen. The real issue is how many deaths and how much suffering are being forced onto women.
I’m doin’ the Happy dance!! John McCain may never get past the Republican primary in Arizona!
The guy threatening his seat lost his seat in the House to Harry Mitchell (Dem) in 2006. J.D Hayworth has since been spending his time rabble rousing the tea baggers as a wingnut radio host. Here is where it gets fun. Quittypants has a book signing scheduled next week in Tempe, part of Hayworth’s former District.
Anybody want to bet on who she will endorse for McCain’s seat?
Happy Birthday, Bubbles!! Make sure to come to the Tree House tonight so we can break out the grub, the “bubbly” and the Birthday cake in your honor. Remember, no calories in cyber edibles!!
My disdain for this poseur knows no bounds. Are you aware that she had dinner w/Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, her mother & aunt at Montreat, NC this weekend? She’s supposed to sign books at Ft. Bragg, which decided to let the press in. Recently, F. Graham came under intense criticism for taking a huge salary (collecting both from the ministry and Samaritan’s Purse, and allegedly cut the one from the ministry. Although he’ll probably get it through the back door somehow.
I’m wondering if they all discussed money. B. Graham said something about “hedging”, after all. Three of a kind. I’m from Graham’s hometown, Charlotte, and I know from the mountain natives around Montreat that they despise him, seeing he’s never done anything but preach at them and collect money while they are always in a state of poverty (unemployment is in the 20s in some mountain counties now). BTW, I was also a protestor at a Graham/Nixon rally in the early 70s, a lovefest between the 2 and had my anti-Nixon sign seized by the Secret Service. They wouldn’t even let injured Vietnam vets into the Coliseum. Imagine that.
You really are known by the company you keep–hypocrites seek each other out, don’t they?
People, we need to turn this “Death Panel” thing around right now. The reality now is that there is truely is a “Death Panel”. Sarah and the Republicans truely did see the future. That future is now. That “Death Panel” is now the United States Senate. Every Republican and Democrat that votes against this Bill will be sending thousands to die without health care, without insurance. Sarah thought she was so smart to start the “Death Panel” meme. It is time to turn this thing around and really show them just who is on this “Death Panel” now.
This needs to start now. Let’s call it like we see it. Calls and emails need to be made/sent to ALL the Senators. Let them know that they are on the “Death Panel”.
Back with the presidential election. My Sis from Phoenix and Brother from Colorado were traveling up here to Seattle. They left after she physically voted, so I was keeping print sheets as to how their states voted. Granted, Sis(D) has been ticked about the state paying McCain’s salary GIVING NO VOTES, NOTHING FOR THEIR STATE, while he had campaigned eternally, this was the 3rd time, I believe.
Sis was stunned when she saw the county by county print outs! She said that areas which had normally been Red, were barely (or not at all) voting for McCain. I don’t think he’s got a “shoe in” this time. If they get a decent Democrat to run this time, gosh wouldn’t that be the last embarrassment?
Just a little chuckle this morning from ginandtacos.com -
Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.
It’s official…McCain continues to defend Palin and throws his former campaign staff and friends under the Palin Express by saying that her criticism and lies about them “Is No Big Deal”.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs! It’s a bday two-fer in Mudflats! Hope you both enjoy a day that’s perfect to you.
Have been practicing a bit of discipline , trying to balance Palin news with my regular ol’ work piles that are collecting on my desk. I’ve been appreciating everyone’s input during the time I do pop in to catch up on threads and comments. So many clever people we’ve got here.
Also caught Shannyn’s show on YouTube. This is a project that absolutely has the potential to go somewhere. (really loved the intro montage. kudos to the person responsible)
Off to be responsible. (blek) Happy Monday to All !
Say what you will about Republicans, there’s nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the Democratic Party! So the DNC will NOT have a good candidate up for McCain’s seat. Instead, they will sit and stare at shiny objects (after the latest health care collection plate went round, they all have much bling to wave) while the candidate for the new Conservative Party gets those extra ten votes. The platform, of course, will include the statement that the Constitution is just for white folks, and sometimes good Amurricans can see what it says ain’t always what it aughta mean, but God gave us the bible to get us past the sticky stuff.
And our democratic representatives will continue to chortle over the extra pockets they need in their silk jammies while we figure out how to live in a stone age theocracy.
Article by Andrew Sullivan – ” Beware the powerful fantasy world of Sarah Palin, Warrior Princess”
This is a Must Read for today.
****It is a religious book, full of myths and parables. And Sarah is fast becoming a religious icon of sorts for what is now the Republican base. On the first day of her tour, she dragged her infant with Down’s syndrome everywhere she went, even waving his hand to the crowds at one point as his little head swung back and forth. Here is the Madonna with child and a child that is an emblem of everything those who oppose abortion believe in. ***
***It is also some kind of manifesto — but not in the usual sense of a collection of policy proposals. It is a manifesto for a certain identity — the heartland religious fundamentalist who is bewildered and angry at the world America no longer controls, at the debt and government that now dominate and at the liberal elites they hold responsible (even though the Republicans have been in power for a generation). This image is not, of course, made up out of whole cloth. Palin is indeed a feisty Alaskan and a genuine triumph of red-state feminism. But her narrative is embellished and embroidered to such an extent, it resembles not so much a memoir as a work of magical realism. ***
And Fly – once again – love that cover! I hope you’re going to pull off of your graphics together in one place one of these days.
In my opinion, a true public servant (Governor) works at progressing their state after their term(s). It demonstrates the authenticity of their service. Governor Hammond and Governor Hickel were involved in our politics, long after their terms. After their terms, some have just retired and go to Palm Springs for golf and sun, don’t hear from them again.
maybe palin can be the next joel osteen, and leave politics (our White House) behind…then again, you have powerful religious leaders (wacko’s) that influence some Presidents and lots and lots of Congressmen…yikes! There ought to be a movement to keep religion out of politics (again).
Had a terrible thought last night…let’s say there is a god in heaven and Crazy Lady fades away w/o ever holding another public office (that’s not the terrible part). But fast forward 20 years and look who it is…Piper Palin, carrying on her mother’s legacy. The way she drags that kid everywhere, the awful things that poor child is learning from her mother, I’d say she’s being groomed to be Scarah part deux.
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GA Peach a/k/a Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramblesays:
If any other mud puppies are opera freaks http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/15847
is a spoof on the villigers based on Turandot, one of my absolute favorites.
It includes key arias.
As in all tragic opera all the good guys and good girl die and the and idiot tenor marries the evil queen.
In fact every but them pretty much ends up under the bus.
Austin Tex~ thanks for the headszup!!!
Happy Brthday Bubbles..Hope you have many more…
No speech from queen esther at fort bragg..he he …nuff said about that..
Regardless of your feelings about $P, wouldn’t anyone get sick of reading page after page of complaints and snotty, snarky remarks? And then to realize you paid money for that garbage? (I know, her devotees probably won’t even read it, just make into a shrine). I think she really “outed” herself as the nasty, vindictive, small person that she is. And the funny part is, she’d sue anyone else who wrote a book making her look this bad!
Y’know, is there any way the Photoshop geniuses here could produce a “bookmark” – something suitable as a handout to those waiting in lines to sign $P’s book – that features some 300 lb. T-shirt clad torso and $P’s face, with yellow teeth. Caption:
“If she looked like this, would you be here?”
Now regretting I haven’t devoted the years to honing mad Photoshop skills…
E-mail from Media Matters that I found in my mailbox this morning.
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
It was all too predictable.
From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she’s been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she’s been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part in scuttling McCain’s already foundering campaign, she added to her list of personal persecutors the same McCain staffers who made her a household name in the first place. The conservative media have cheered on her personal pity party every step of the way, adamantly refusing to acknowledge that Sarah Palin — perfect Sarah Palin, conservatism’s hockey-mom messiah — has done anything wrong.
So it was inevitable that when Palin and her ghostwriter teamed up to produce her newly release memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, it would be anything but a tedious exercise in self-martyrdom. The second half of the book, which recounts her time with McCain and the aftermath of the presidential campaign, is a litany of complaints peppered with absolutions of any errors on her part. Palin’s account of her disastrous interviews with CBS anchor Katie Couric consists mainly of attacks on Couric for “badgering” her, “edit[ing] out substantive answers,” and trying to “frame a ‘gotcha’ moment.” She chastises McCain campaign staffers for having “no script to begin with,” for not following her advice and talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and for nurturing the “wardrobe fairy tale” so they could throw her “under the media bus” after the campaign ended.
When not complaining about how ill-treated she was, Palin wildly revised her own history, showcasing her penchant for falsehoods both big and small. She claims that the media were reporting “lies” about the Bridge to Nowhere, when it was she who, from the very start, lied about her own position on the bridge. She claims that she immediately liked the idea of going on Saturday Night Live, even though internal campaign emails show that she was initially reluctant because of the show’s “gross” treatment of her family, going so far as to call the SNL crew “whack.” She claims that there is no aerial hunting in Alaska, even though she proposed legislation supporting that very practice. The list goes on and on.
But remember, this is Sarah Palin we’re dealing with here, and no matter how self-discrediting and ridiculous her book was, the conservative media would leap to her defense, claiming (once again) that she was the victim of a vicious liberal onslaught. Palin herself got the ball rolling before the book was even released, chastising the Associated Press (which got its hands on a copy prior to the release date) for assigning 11 reporters to fact-check it, saying that their time would be better spent fact-checking “what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial.” Palin made no attempt to respond to the several factual errors and distortions the AP found, and neither did Fox News, which picked up where Palin left off and ran a breathless segment wondering why, exactly, the AP had assigned so many reporters to the book.
Then there’s Rush Limbaugh, Palin’s staunchest defender and perhaps the conservative media personality most disconnected from reality — two traits that are in no way mutually exclusive. On November 13, Rush proclaimed that Going Rogue is “one of the most substantive policy books I’ve read.” He must have received a special unabridged edition, because to every other observer — even Fox News campaign reporter/operative Carl Cameron — the book’s policy prescriptions are few and far between, and rarely more detailed than “Ronald Reagan was right.” In the conservative blogosphere, the adoration was even more comical: John Ziegler, the devoted Palinista who is — and forgive the indelicate bluntness, but there is no better word — an idiot, called the book the “greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime.”
Meanwhile, the mainstream press ties itself into knots with their obsessive Palin coverage, trying to explain how it is that a riotously unpopular and ill-informed ex-governor speaks for legions of Americans. Newsweek undercut whatever merit its critical analysis of Palin’s role in the political world had by festooning it with sexist Palin imagery. David Brooks continues to vacillate in his opinion of Palin, at various times calling her “smart,” “a joke,” “courageous and likeable,” and a “cancer.” PBS’ Gwen Ifill said women “will be drawn to her story,” even though Palin’s popularity among women is in the toilet.
None of this is to say that Palin isn’t shrewd. She’s figured out that she can say whatever she pleases, lie freely, quit elected office to become a professional Facebook bomb-thrower, cash in on a ridiculous book she didn’t even write, and still enjoy the adoration of her conservative fan base, as well as the attentions of the mainstream press.
@27 pantsonfire- thank you so much for posting Chopra article. For weeks now, I have been wondering what he thought of the mess S’error had created. I needed Chopra’s wisdom.
Speaking of Billy Graham, I recently sent Billy Graham a note. My Evangelical family members sent me a Billy Graham prayer for our nation.
I thought it was disgusting. In it, he said, “we call it welfare, but it’s an excuse for being lazy”! (paraphrased).
Lazy? I’m sorry, I let him have it. Most on welfare are not lazy. Especially in this economic downturn. Many are single women with children who have been left (with no support) by the fathers. He wants to deny women from choice and they call them lazy if they need help raising children?
What has happened to Christian charity… helping the weak, the poor, the hard-struck?
Today’s Christian’s call people in need……lazy?
Wonder what they would call the disciples who could leave everything and follow Jesus? Lazy, unemployed liberals?
“The former Republican vice presidential candidate planned to sign copies of her new memoir at a post store Monday. Army officials say Palin will not make a speech, pose for photos, or personalize notes in the books she signs.”
It seems to me that the only thing different is that Palin “will not make a speech.” From what we’ve read elsewhere, she’s already not “personalizing” notes in the signing, she’s only posed for photos for the hated media and none at all with her “legions of fans.”
In Indiana, some folks were still waiting for her to speak when she took off in that tour bus, leaving so many high and dry.
So it really seems to me there’s only that one thing that’ll be different at Ft Bragg. (I wonder if they’ll get the Indiana treatment too.)
“And the funny part is, she’d sue anyone else who wrote a book making her look this bad!”
Good heavens, she’ll have to bring suit against herself! But there is precedence for that already – when she filed an ethics complaint against herself.
Great piece in Media Matters, the author expressed many of our sentiments brilliantly.
Since I know what people think about Palin in the UK (which is to say that they think she is a joke), I read The Economists review (thinking that it would mirror others like the review in Media Matters). Alas, they treated her like a serious candidate, one that the American people might just support. How embarrassing for the country is that?
It’s official…McCain continues to defend Palin and throws his former campaign staff and friends under the Palin Express by saying that her criticism and lies about them “Is No Big Deal”.
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Maybe Johnny Mac tried to unravel that towel SP was sportin in the hotel room, and she told him “Don’t worry, I’ll never tell anyone”
“She’s figured out that she can say whatever she pleases, lie freely, quit elected office to become a professional Facebook bomb-thrower, cash in on a ridiculous book she didn’t even write, and still enjoy the adoration of her conservative fan base, as well as the attentions of the mainstream press.”
Reminds of another crazy lady in politics, Australia’s very own (shame): Pauline Hanson.
- nativist views
- heavy racial overtones
- stupidity
- cause of increased animosity against immigrants after public debut
- volumes of idiotic, partisan and racist quotes
- lack of real and substantive solutions
- infamous TV interview moment much mocked by the nation
- seems to pop up everywhere in conversations
- wrote a book on herself
- wrote a book on stuff she has no clue about
- shrill and generally nasty person
- supporters also shrill and generally nasty
- blames media for everything, if not blaming media for failures then blaming others who have worked with her or just whoever is standing nearby at the time and
- just won’t go away….
35 Trisha, I’m starting to hear more and more of the “lazy” meme. Most Reganites really believe that there is a huge number of “lazy” people who only want the government to support them and it is the Dem’s who are so willing to go along and support the “lazy”. The traditional Repug’s have built their brand on this whole concept.
If you point out that welfare payments are historically higher under Repug’s they look puzzled or just out right deny it. It goes hand in hand with the fact that our economy has more growth (measured by stock price and GDP growth) under Democrats. I wish that the Dem’s would do more to “brand” themselves as the party of Prosperity for All. I’m hoping that the job summit is the kick off for a new, strong dialog by the Dem’s.
In these tough times for so many, it’s important for the general, voting public to understand the historical facts regarding the philosophical differences between the liberals and conservative running the economy. Glass half full or glass half empty. A world of plenty for all or a world of scarcity and paucity with struggle.
And most importantly, “Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
Note under the pic – Copyright SarahPAC – New business venture??? LOL
Now the PAC is copyrighting pictures. Give me a break.
Should we expect to see SarahPAC selling pics they’ve been taking after the tour. Much like the email sent out for signed books:
After you have taken a day off work, lost pay, paid to buy the book, spend money for food and drink to spend hours in line, you can ‘For $100 donation, now get a picture of yourself with the Bumpit Queen’
Heard a song on the radio this morning… at first I thought it was Englebert whathisfunnyname but then I realized the words were a bit off. Still… for these types of lyrics to be played on radio in the heart of pennysltucky’s conservitard country is something…
I really love this FlyInUrEye masterpiece. Thank you!
Are any of these available as, oh, say, postcards on Zazzle? [They were the ones 'way quicker off the dime than CafePress to get rid of that vile psalm 109 crap]
I can not believe that the first of the 12 points (for the tea party participants) is Honesty?! Glen Beck lies. Sarah Palin lies. Rush Limbaugh lies. Michelle Bachmann lies. They lie and they get caught lying time and again and yet they are honest?
I’ve come to the conclusion that if it were found that Palin lied about being Trig’s mother, she would be held up by her fans as the noble person who took him in and cared for him (even if she does use him as a prop). If she was caught holding a smoking gun with blood on the hand that was holding a signed confession, her followers would be incapable of believing their own eyes.
What is needed is a scandal of FBI proportions. Levi?
I could be wrong, but I still believe that Billy Graham’s son Franklin (?) was the person who got the Republican party to choose Sarah Palin to be Mccain’s running mate on the ticket. I don’t think Mccain knew anything about her or did any research . This Graham was working in Alaska and is an extreme right winger. I will see if I can find this info I read during the campaign. She was scary from the get-go.
OT. Please take a look at the website that my nephew and his friends maintain. It is really quite funny, but also, they are very dedicated to the idea of promoting the concept of “community” in society.
Hmm, maybe it was Al Qaeda who are behind Palin’s rise to celebrity and creating political malfunction? Maybe that assumption is too far out, but I bet they are laughing at us.
Lila… if photographs of public figures are taken in public places by members of the public, then there’s no copyright attached. Nor can they charge fees for taking photographs. Fact is, you can walk right up to them and snap a picture. If they don’t like that, tell them to get back on the bus and get the he!ll out of town!
I don’t think John McCain is scared of SP. I think he’d do what he wanted to if he wanted to do it. But politically it would look bad for him to bad-mouth her – even if what he was saying was the God’s honest truth.
No, I think SP is going to be in the cat-bird seat here. Who will she endorse for the AZ seat? Rush and Co. already find him to be too RINO-y for their tastes. That was exactly their complaint about NY-23.
So does she a) endorse the Conservative candidate who seems to hold views actually more in line with the views she spouts, or does she b) endorse John McCain out of ‘sense of loyalty’? Or does she c) quit, i.e., refuse to make a choice?.
None of those choices is ideal and none are without ramifications and consequences to her future.
Welcome to the real world of American politics, Sarah! It’s a lot bigger pond than Alaska, and you are in it deep.
at #23November 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 AM laprofesora Says:
“”"…fast forward 20 years and look who it is…Piper Palin, carrying on her mother’s legacy. … I’d say she’s being groomed to be Scarah part deux.”"”
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I’ve thought that, too, especially during the 2008 campaign when Piper would wave and watch the crowds exactly like her mother. Just what we need, another uneducated politician.
It is not unheard of for organizations to inflate the popularity of books that they want to become best sellers by purchasing huge quantities for use by their organization. After they own them they can use them for promotions, membership drives etc. just as Newsmax has been doing for weeks. With Palin’s book topping the best sellers lists so early, I assumed that this was how those numbers were achieved.
What I don’t know is if the 300,000 sold during the first day of her tour are the total number sold which would have included the pre-ordered books that have already been publicized. My guess is that that is the case. If you consider that 1000 people buy books at her designated stops, then getting to the 300,000 level at this early stage would be impossible even for the GOP’s wonder girl.
It is too bad that the MSM that has made her a millionaire because they hate her so much (you’d think that she would say thanks) can not seem to stop fawning over her long enough to tell their viewers the real scoop behind her incredible (fraudulent) sales numbers.
I must say…the woman is indeed a phenomena…she lies, she resigns, she whines, she lies (I know I just said that but it bears repeating). I don’t think that I have ever seen anything like her (nor do I want to ever again). How can so many people do exactly what she wants them to do. Biden played the gentleman during the debate, the MSM are bending over to be “fair” and thereby not challenging any of her lies and reporting everything she writes on FB or twitter without even demanding that if she wants to say something she needs to grant an interview, and now McCain is groveling at her feet while turning his back on his long time supporters.
Please somebody wake me up from this bizarre nightmare!
The helicopter on the book cover is a Robinson R-44. Loud, but despite the noise underpowered. Hmmm . . . reminds me of a certain former vice presidential candidate.
OMG: your last paragraph……….I agree 100%. Either the media is afraid of “attacking” a woman, which is reverse sexim, or they are afraid to be the next “Couric” on Palin’s hit list. For whatever reason, they all seem to tiptoe around her. If she were a man, she would have been laughed off the national stage when “he” winked his way through a national VP debate.
Can you image what the media would have done to a man who is as clueless as Sarah, winked during a debate, and then quit halfway through their first term? The media would destroy them.
Trisha, we had a president who was almost as clueless as Sarah, and then we went and re-elected him again in 2004. He couldn’t speak; he didn’t read, and he only took advice from the Lord.
By the way, the AP has a story about SC governor Mark Sanford, who is being accused of over 30 ethics violations. The next time that Sarah whines about how she was singled out, it might be good to remind her that she has company in that abuse of office thing.
The MSM is perpetuating sexism by treating Palin differently. They do tip toe around her BS and has yet to seriously call her on it. If she were a man, it would have been over a long time ago.
Palin herself plays to sexist views – dressing and acting like a cupcake then crying sexism when someone treats her like she is dressed, telling people to take personal responsibility then blaming everyone and their dog for her professional failures.
I don’t know when they will wake up and do their jobs. Don’t they see that no matter what they print about her, she will blame them and throw them under the bus whenever it is convenient? Better just to write the truth, pursue accountability, do their jobs and sleep well at night AND be thrown under the bus than sacrificing what integrity they have left for the scoop.
You know, it seems like they begin the War on Christmas earlier every year. I swear, I went down to the mall for some back-to-school sale to get sneakers for kids, and they had War on Christmas decorations all up already. I hadn’t even brought in the garden hose yet! They’re playing their War on Christmas music everywhere, and they’ve got all their War on Christmas tinsel and ornaments dangling from the atrium and the food court, and they’ve got all their War on Christmas trees and merchandise in the windows and their little War on Christmas fliers with coupons already. I can’t keep up. Before you know it it’ll be War on Presidents’ Day.
You know, if we can sneak a few more of these other-religion holiday greetings into various ads, soon the freepers will have so many boycotts going that they will all be shivering naked in their bare-walled hovels.
All I can say is, as a Christian, I don’t rely on the Mall, Banana Republic/Old Navy’Gap for an expression of faith. I also don’t go to the mall to find Jesus. So I really couldn’t care less whether ads say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas. My faith is stronger than seasonal advertising. My faith is also not in Banana Republic to lead a Christian revival in a secular country thru the creative use of tinsel and merchandise.
Don’t know if this is the puppy that scofflaw Willow snuck in to mom’s office, but as of last fall this is where Agia was:
“Menard and his wife, Republican State Senate candidate Linda Menard–the former director of the Miss Wasilla pageant–have known Palin since she was in third grade. She was a classmate and close friend of their late son, who, before he died in a 2001 plane crash, was the godfather of Palin’s son Track. Their families attend the same church–Wasilla Bible Church, which Palin joined in 2002–and the Menards are caring for Palin’s dog, Agia, named after Palin’s proudest legislative accomplishment, the Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act, while she is on the campaign trail. They clearly adore Palin, and when Curt Menard describes her connections to the religious right, he doesn’t intend to be critical.”
from http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/goldberg
Linda Menard is on the board of the MSRMedical Center where Trig was “born”, BTW. It’s a tight circle…
LOL. I couldn’t agree more. And as someone who daily strives to be a good person through the example of the Dalai Lama and Buddha, I find the commercialism of the season sickening, but that’s just my personal perspective.
Still, I found the comment extremely funny in the context of the post.
Franklin Graham is the one who got McCain to choose Sarah. McCain needed the religious rights’ votes & Franklin hand picked Sarah. Apparently Fort Bragg would not let Sarah speak & she is heading to Food Hood, TX at some point. Here’s an email address for those who would like to send in email in an effort to curtail her speaking while there. bruce.zielfdorf@us.army.mil. Her “book tour” is making me madder & madder. It would appear Murdoch’s money & Beck’s ideas are behind it.
Somehow, it all looks more like a visit to Santa in your local mall. Indifferent workers hanging around, present your wish list, someone takes a picture your parents can buy for a ridiculous sum. Except the “kids” with their books don’t look happy. Nobody’s looking in their book, nobody’s smiling; her rhetoric just reinforces that the world is an unhappy, scary place. I couldn’t go for her just because what she preaches is just so darned depressing. We’re much better off laughing at her than believing her.
“There is one American health statistic that is strikingly above average: [in the world] life expectancy for Americans who have already reached the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the average in industrialized countries. That’s because Americans above age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare.”
So much for the death panel offing grandmaw. And it doesn’t change under universal, single payer, it just expands.
Except we aren’t universal or single payer, we getting “com beyened”, as in harvested, thrashed, bailing wired and dumped out in the back forty, by big insurance.
Just heard on the news that At her stops at Military bases she is being told she cannot speak… NO pictures…and NO personal additions to autograph.. in others words sign your name and move the line!!! and the lone at Ft Bragg did not look very long!!!! LOL
“I find the commercialism of the season sickening, but that’s just my personal perspective. ”
Absolutely. It’s pretty moronic for Christians to declare that Christmas only means what it should mean when we see “Christmas” in glitzy ads and sparkling lights. Ridiculous. I don’t remember reading in the Bible that after the angels sang a herald to Jesus’ birth, the Gap store down the road gave away palm branches with “Merry Christmas” on them. Plus Dec 25 is not in the bible either.
Watch this amazing clip from Andrew Sullivan’s site:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/why-they-love-her.html
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Great video. Don’t know how the interviewer kept a straight face or kept from exploding.
Nobody in that video is reading or looking at the book. They’re all just holding it. I’m not talking about the people he’s interviewing, though their books don’t look like they’ve been opened. Look in the background. No one’s reading. They’re not even looking at the pictures. When I go to a bookstore, everyone is reading. They’ve all got something open, looking through it, or even sitting down, reading page after page. Not these people. Next “boots on the ground” person, look to see how many are actually looking at the book–and are they reading or looking at the pictures?!
They probably don’t want to break the spine on those books because they are planning on selling them on Ebay. No matter what, they sure as heck are not going to be reading them. I could just about guarantee that one.
Not surprised that the military is enforcing some stringent rules on her – GOOD!
Daughter was in local Wal-Mart today and checked the book rack and talked with a clerk. They allotted space for 12 Going Rogue, 2 have been sold. Maybe the locals are just waiting for Palin’s stopover down in Nashville. More likely, those who could afford to have already ordered on-line. This region is in dire straits with the economy (as so many are), so I hope people are paying utility bills and feeding their families, rather than lining Palin’s pockets further………one can only hope!
Too bad that Chuck Heath didn’t get the message to keep his mouth hushed up if he couldn’t say anything nice. If only the Fort Hood commander would decide her appearance there is a no-go.
Sad that a retired vet would go on post wearing his Impeach Obama shirt. If Bush was still President and someone showed up on a military installation with a negative slogan, he would probably be sitting behind bars.
Gray area my arse. She does it from FB, all about Ft. Bragg, and her Father says things for her on base. And what about her trip to Kuwait, she was a political figure then.
I think everyone should complain and share concerns about this. What this woman represents is a political figure, who bashes and campaigns against our sitting President almost daily and every time she opens her mouth. That’s more than gray. It’s pretty black and white.
Does the military have or do gray areas?
Shame on this decision. She promotes hate, devisivness, undermines our President and is dangerous. Her book is political. Why the H should she be allowed this platform?
Call people, she’s testing the waters, she’ll do this more if she can. Their are plenty of other places she can spew her crap talk, keep her off our military bases.
“Palin’s appearance tested Department of Defense regulations, which prohibit politicians from using installations as a platform. Palin didn’t give a speech and individually thanked soldiers, and a base spokesman said she was not campaigning.
But the bus parked nearby encouraged donations to her political action committee and supporters made clear that she should run for president.
Army officials initially barred media from the event, fearing coverage would lead Palin’s backers to lob negative comments at President Barack Obama. The military later relented and allowed media access.
Col. Billy Buckner, a spokesman for Fort Bragg, said the Army agreed to let Palin on post because she fell into a gray area.
“She’s not a political figure per se, but she certainly carries a tremendous amount of interest and influence across the country,” he said.
Palin’s father, who greeted supporters as his daughter signed copies of the book, said in an interview that Obama’s handling of the military was “scary.”
“I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”
The former Alaska governor began a nationwide tour last week to promote a new memoir, “Going Rogue.” She also has a planned visit to Fort Hood, Texas, on Dec. 4 — just a month after 12 people were killed there in a shooting rampage.”
dear mudpuppy friends,
thank you for your warm good wishes on the occasion of my birthday. a little more than a year ago i signed up and became a member of a small, young relatively unknown blog written by a person whose gender and and identity were unknown to any except her closest confidants. this entity, known as AKM, became for me not only as source of news concerning Alaskan politics and the politics of a nation on the verge of profound change. it became a place where a small group of activist people, who began to call themselves ‘Mudpuppies’, began to write; to call and donate money to help a young democrat named Begich become a senator. we worked to elect a decent man and we saw him raise his hand and become our president. we fed the hungry and warmed people who were freezing. we did so many good things but most of all we became a community of lovely people from all over the world. many of you have become dear personal friends so i say “thank you mudpeeps” and a Happy Birthday to Love my Dogs and to all you Sagitarians on the flats….love bubbles
“I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”
The man must suffer from memory loss. That’s what happened when Bush held office. How quickly they forget.
From looking at the pictures of people standing in line for the book signing, I’ve come to the conclusion that that only people who have read–or skimmed– P’s book are those librul Alassssssssssssssskan bloggers in they’re pijamus. The RR is listening to Rush’s version of the book. Only he hasn’t read it, ether. This’ll be the largest printing of books to never have the spines cracked since my college world history course! And that book was written my my professor, who also had a hat size problem due to over inflated ego.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBLES. My son’s birthday is this week too … this year it is on Thanksgiving Day! Yeah. He’s always been my Thanksgiving baby (course he is 35 this year).
@AKaurora #76- Thanks for posting that clip. I watched it and it’s amazing how uninformed her fans are about everything. One even said that she wants a “healthy country” yet Sarah is opposed to health care reform. I really don’t think she meant it as in “healthy people”, anyway it sounds like they get their news from Fox and just repeat all of Sarah’s talking points. It really is scary!
Last week, while in New York City, Palin dined at Serendipity 3, a restaurant in one of Manhattan’s swankier sections. [...] It’s famous for the “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” a sundae composed of edible gold and 28 different cocoas from across the globe. This treat, which costs $25,000, holds the Guinness world record for most expensive dessert. [...]
Not only was she in one of the more expensive corners of the Big Apple (a city she promised ‘true’ Americans she would not visit during her book tour, on account of its elites); she was dining at a restaurant where just one item costs more than what many of her supporters will make in a year. Maybe more than twice what some of them will make.
There now. That should appeal to all those regular folk who Barbie claims to adore pallin’ around with, except when she abandons them.
My husband was telling me tonight that queen esther’s speech in Redding Ca. in Dec. is $75.00 a head..Sheesh people are nutz…Also, too wording was that they can’t wait to see her…Yuk..Redneck country!!
S. Carolina Sanford gets called on the carpet (37 ethics violations) for purchasing the wrong kind of airline ticket…not in trouble for disappearing to Argentina. WTF! …and palin gets a new house, abuses power against trooper, and gets “away with murder” (sort of speak)…I DON’T GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Birthday greetings to Bubbles and Lovemydogs!! (and to anyone else out there who may be celebrating a B-day!)
Going Rouge arrived on my doorstep this afternoon. Amid all the insanity it was a welcome sight. I’m looking forward to reading it over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Hah! I just saw a clip where Martha Stewart totally bashes Ms. Palin. It’s funny to hear Miss Prim & Proper “go rogue” on THE Rogue.
There are already 100 autographed “Going Rogue” books on eBay.
Some are leather bound signed and numbered. Those came from the publisher. Others are from dumb schmucks who stood in line figuring they’d make a profit for their time. From $3.25 to $67. Some are including extras like list of rules, wristbands and photographs.
One just sold for $121 but there was also a copy of Mike Huckabee’s autographed book paired with it. Hard to tell which book brought out the big bucks.
Wonder if she’s bringing the big, spiffy “governor’s” chair with her from event to event.
How funny! I lived on the same street as Serendipity. There was Dylan’s Candy Bar on the corner, so she could have gotten all those carbs Schmidt thought her brain needed.
Nah, it wouldn’t have helped!
If I remember correctly, some Southern gay men helped make Serendipity famous. Like Truman Capote. Wonder what her fan base would have to say about that!?
I still have some connections within the NY publishers scene, and am attempting to get real live numbers about who bought the book in bulk & how much was bought.
The way it was described to me over the weekend was that Murdoch himself, thru other business entities was the prime buyer: when he saw poor pre-sale numbers thru the Friday before the release (yes, Friday the 13th!) he ordered each of his businesses to order mega-amounts to boost the opening day sales numbers.
This person did not know the numbers angle, only that the word came down from Murdoch himself to ‘buy, buy, buy!’ (thinking about Trading Places where, at the end of the movie, the now poor Duke boys pleaded with their trader to ‘sell, sell, sell!’).
If I ever get any definitive info…I’ll certainly pass it along. Should be good for a major guffaw.
isn’t that something!?! I saw that! those people could be your neighbors!!!yikes (well, I don’t think they’re MY neighbors, but…)
how can one support a candidate they no nothing about except the fact that they’re attracted to their color and their cosmetics.?..yep, she’s a qual eee feyed! …ain’t nobody else I’m a likin’
Wow, , Aussiegal77, I have posted here a few times about Pauline Hanson.
The parallel is uncanny.
Who just about destroyed her, no other than Rupert Murdoch.
He told his paper The Australian to go get her.
Google
Her name and his for the story.
Hope you have a lovely trip back here Aussiegal.
What state do you come from? I am in QLD.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
I thought I read that she pulled her children out of school and was home schooling them now!!!!
Mr Heath it is you and your daughter that scare the heck out of this country.No one wants a civil war or a third world war but those who think like her!!!!!!!!
Couldn’t believe Sarah had Trig in her lap while being interviewed for Channel 2. What professional person brings their child to sit on their lap for an interview. This even proves more than she is using that precious child as a prop and it makes me sick. Wonder how much time she really spends with him…..again she is soooo obvisously phony.
The funniest thing was the man who said he did not know much about palin and did not need to now what her policies were he would vote for her anyway.
My Gosh I hope some of those people see themselves and how they appear to others LOL Hopefully after they read this book they will realize this woman has nothing to give to people but a mean, vindictive book.Has anyone noticed how palin puts words in her childrens mouth.I notice in one interview where
Piper.poor little thing,said it was hard missing school and she missed her friends,them palin had to break in and call her sis and get her to say she would do it again.Think the work sis meant Piper should watch what she said and agree with her mother.I have watched Pipers face and that girl is going to need help,the look on her face when they left Todd behind was like filled with hate.
to get to the “treehouse” (Chat) just click on the Forum (it’s over there on the right). Then up at the top you will see Chat. Click on that. Put in your user name (instead of the midbit #) and click and you will be there! Hope that helps.
Last night David Letterman had Robin Williams on…. and they talked about Sarah some.
Robin had some funny zingers. He mocked her about those ‘ Gotcha questions ‘ she had with Katie.
Paraphrasing, he said… Sure they are gotcha questions… If you don’t read!
He also said in her High School Yearbook she was voted as the person MOST likely to burn some books… not write one.
He had some other funnies about her as well. The clip can probably be found in the Letterman archives.
Redding CA is a very depressed area. No work. Winter coming. No food. High unemployement. If these people fork over 75 bucks a head,instead of buying food and paying rent, they get what they deserve, and don’t ask me for help.
I’m not vindictive, mudbug, or maybe I am just stupid… but if people need food, I’m one of the first in line in trying to get some to them. Hunger knows not politics.
Bless you for enduring the swirling read. I love your reportage, very original . This is a great site.
The book is a try-out for an insulter-in-chief at some media outlet…and a good “talking point guard” willing to “pass that buck” & “make that point” quickly, as directed.
Those pointy fingers of her’s mean things come “quickly off the tongue” and apparently – quickly through the typist and through the Editor and into the book stores. She must make haste to get to the signings during the weeks before everybody has read said book and then…THUD.
Interesting to hear that the acknowledgments were short on last names, don’t want to give anyone a bump up…unless they paid sumpin sumpin?
There has to be a sequel, why would she quit now?
Her enemies list grows exponentially so there will be plenty of fodder to exercise her developing Ms Nastyself. She’ll hobble us with her so original new insults, we’ll be laid waste.
There is a strange poet inside her begging to be let spout…and if she understood this gift, she could actually become likable, like a clown, redeeming herself…while she sits in the slammer and re-aligns her life for a few years.
Now she has moola to pay for a defense lawyer, who knows, she may walk.
Government death panels. Love it.
97 Listings on ebay already. And one states clearly, once they sell the first one the second one goes up on e-bay.
Enterprising Americans or Fans? Focusing on the money calling. Hihihi. Good Picture, again.
Ex picture, goes well with the weekend joke about her killing the New Moon wolf. Her fans are delusional!
Morning ‘pups. Today is a special day. It’s bubbles B-Day !!
Love ya bubbles !!
Morning ‘pups. Today is a special day. It’s bubbles B-Day !!
Love ya bubbles !!
The real death panels are the anti-abortionists.
They are forcing pregnant women to resort of out of clinic procedures.
So
The fetus is going to die either in a clinical setting or a non clinical probably non medical non sterile setting,
And
the mother may be rendered incapable of another pregnancy that is wanted,
Or
the mother may also die making her incapable of another pregancy so that any future people that she may have produced will never have that chance.
Those are real death panels. Two deaths for the price of one political talking point.
Regargless of our individual points of view on the issue, abortions are going to happen. The real issue is how many deaths and how much suffering are being forced onto women.
I’m doin’ the Happy dance!! John McCain may never get past the Republican primary in Arizona!
The guy threatening his seat lost his seat in the House to Harry Mitchell (Dem) in 2006. J.D Hayworth has since been spending his time rabble rousing the tea baggers as a wingnut radio host. Here is where it gets fun. Quittypants has a book signing scheduled next week in Tempe, part of Hayworth’s former District.
Anybody want to bet on who she will endorse for McCain’s seat?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/john-mccain-could-lose-se_b_365364.html
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Happy Birthday, Bubbles!! Make sure to come to the Tree House tonight so we can break out the grub, the “bubbly” and the Birthday cake in your honor. Remember, no calories in cyber edibles!!
My disdain for this poseur knows no bounds. Are you aware that she had dinner w/Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, her mother & aunt at Montreat, NC this weekend? She’s supposed to sign books at Ft. Bragg, which decided to let the press in. Recently, F. Graham came under intense criticism for taking a huge salary (collecting both from the ministry and Samaritan’s Purse, and allegedly cut the one from the ministry. Although he’ll probably get it through the back door somehow.
I’m wondering if they all discussed money. B. Graham said something about “hedging”, after all. Three of a kind. I’m from Graham’s hometown, Charlotte, and I know from the mountain natives around Montreat that they despise him, seeing he’s never done anything but preach at them and collect money while they are always in a state of poverty (unemployment is in the 20s in some mountain counties now). BTW, I was also a protestor at a Graham/Nixon rally in the early 70s, a lovefest between the 2 and had my anti-Nixon sign seized by the Secret Service. They wouldn’t even let injured Vietnam vets into the Coliseum. Imagine that.
You really are known by the company you keep–hypocrites seek each other out, don’t they?
People, we need to turn this “Death Panel” thing around right now. The reality now is that there is truely is a “Death Panel”. Sarah and the Republicans truely did see the future. That future is now. That “Death Panel” is now the United States Senate. Every Republican and Democrat that votes against this Bill will be sending thousands to die without health care, without insurance. Sarah thought she was so smart to start the “Death Panel” meme. It is time to turn this thing around and really show them just who is on this “Death Panel” now.
This needs to start now. Let’s call it like we see it. Calls and emails need to be made/sent to ALL the Senators. Let them know that they are on the “Death Panel”.
@ 7 Gramiam Says
Back with the presidential election. My Sis from Phoenix and Brother from Colorado were traveling up here to Seattle. They left after she physically voted, so I was keeping print sheets as to how their states voted. Granted, Sis(D) has been ticked about the state paying McCain’s salary GIVING NO VOTES, NOTHING FOR THEIR STATE, while he had campaigned eternally, this was the 3rd time, I believe.
Sis was stunned when she saw the county by county print outs! She said that areas which had normally been Red, were barely (or not at all) voting for McCain. I don’t think he’s got a “shoe in” this time. If they get a decent Democrat to run this time, gosh wouldn’t that be the last embarrassment?
Just a little chuckle this morning from ginandtacos.com -
Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.
It’s official…McCain continues to defend Palin and throws his former campaign staff and friends under the Palin Express by saying that her criticism and lies about them “Is No Big Deal”.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs! It’s a bday two-fer in Mudflats! Hope you both enjoy a day that’s perfect to you.
Have been practicing a bit of discipline , trying to balance Palin news with my regular ol’ work piles that are collecting on my desk. I’ve been appreciating everyone’s input during the time I do pop in to catch up on threads and comments. So many clever people we’ve got here.
Also caught Shannyn’s show on YouTube. This is a project that absolutely has the potential to go somewhere. (really loved the intro montage. kudos to the person responsible)
Off to be responsible. (blek) Happy Monday to All !
Say what you will about Republicans, there’s nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the Democratic Party! So the DNC will NOT have a good candidate up for McCain’s seat. Instead, they will sit and stare at shiny objects (after the latest health care collection plate went round, they all have much bling to wave) while the candidate for the new Conservative Party gets those extra ten votes. The platform, of course, will include the statement that the Constitution is just for white folks, and sometimes good Amurricans can see what it says ain’t always what it aughta mean, but God gave us the bible to get us past the sticky stuff.
And our democratic representatives will continue to chortle over the extra pockets they need in their silk jammies while we figure out how to live in a stone age theocracy.
Ok – off to be responsible RIGHT after this :
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article6926728.ece
Article by Andrew Sullivan – ” Beware the powerful fantasy world of Sarah Palin, Warrior Princess”
This is a Must Read for today.
****It is a religious book, full of myths and parables. And Sarah is fast becoming a religious icon of sorts for what is now the Republican base. On the first day of her tour, she dragged her infant with Down’s syndrome everywhere she went, even waving his hand to the crowds at one point as his little head swung back and forth. Here is the Madonna with child and a child that is an emblem of everything those who oppose abortion believe in. ***
***It is also some kind of manifesto — but not in the usual sense of a collection of policy proposals. It is a manifesto for a certain identity — the heartland religious fundamentalist who is bewildered and angry at the world America no longer controls, at the debt and government that now dominate and at the liberal elites they hold responsible (even though the Republicans have been in power for a generation). This image is not, of course, made up out of whole cloth. Palin is indeed a feisty Alaskan and a genuine triumph of red-state feminism. But her narrative is embellished and embroidered to such an extent, it resembles not so much a memoir as a work of magical realism. ***
And Fly – once again – love that cover! I hope you’re going to pull off of your graphics together in one place one of these days.
sounds like palin isn’t the only gov who left AK behind…who was your best governor? …anyone?
In my opinion, a true public servant (Governor) works at progressing their state after their term(s). It demonstrates the authenticity of their service. Governor Hammond and Governor Hickel were involved in our politics, long after their terms. After their terms, some have just retired and go to Palm Springs for golf and sun, don’t hear from them again.
Palin has been asked not to speak at Fort Bragg….hahahahaha!!!! Do you get it now, Sarah? Do you get it???
maybe palin can be the next joel osteen, and leave politics (our White House) behind…then again, you have powerful religious leaders (wacko’s) that influence some Presidents and lots and lots of Congressmen…yikes! There ought to be a movement to keep religion out of politics (again).
Had a terrible thought last night…let’s say there is a god in heaven and Crazy Lady fades away w/o ever holding another public office (that’s not the terrible part). But fast forward 20 years and look who it is…Piper Palin, carrying on her mother’s legacy. The way she drags that kid everywhere, the awful things that poor child is learning from her mother, I’d say she’s being groomed to be Scarah part deux.
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lilyf Says:
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Palin has been asked not to speak at Fort Bragg….hahahahaha!!!! Do you get it now, Sarah? Do you get it???
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link, please?
From the AP
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_FORT_BRAGG?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
If any other mud puppies are opera freaks
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/15847
is a spoof on the villigers based on Turandot, one of my absolute favorites.
It includes key arias.
As in all tragic opera all the good guys and good girl die and the and idiot tenor marries the evil queen.
In fact every but them pretty much ends up under the bus.
Even Deepak Chopra has something to say about Sarah the dark shadow!
Sarah Palin: Fooling None of the People All of the Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/sarah-palin-fooling-none_b_367364.html
Austin Tex~ thanks for the headszup!!!
Happy Brthday Bubbles..Hope you have many more…
No speech from queen esther at fort bragg..he he …nuff said about that..
Regardless of your feelings about $P, wouldn’t anyone get sick of reading page after page of complaints and snotty, snarky remarks? And then to realize you paid money for that garbage? (I know, her devotees probably won’t even read it, just make into a shrine). I think she really “outed” herself as the nasty, vindictive, small person that she is. And the funny part is, she’d sue anyone else who wrote a book making her look this bad!
Y’know, is there any way the Photoshop geniuses here could produce a “bookmark” – something suitable as a handout to those waiting in lines to sign $P’s book – that features some 300 lb. T-shirt clad torso and $P’s face, with yellow teeth. Caption:
“If she looked like this, would you be here?”
Now regretting I haven’t devoted the years to honing mad Photoshop skills…
E-mail from Media Matters that I found in my mailbox this morning.
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
It was all too predictable.
From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she’s been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she’s been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part in scuttling McCain’s already foundering campaign, she added to her list of personal persecutors the same McCain staffers who made her a household name in the first place. The conservative media have cheered on her personal pity party every step of the way, adamantly refusing to acknowledge that Sarah Palin — perfect Sarah Palin, conservatism’s hockey-mom messiah — has done anything wrong.
So it was inevitable that when Palin and her ghostwriter teamed up to produce her newly release memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, it would be anything but a tedious exercise in self-martyrdom. The second half of the book, which recounts her time with McCain and the aftermath of the presidential campaign, is a litany of complaints peppered with absolutions of any errors on her part. Palin’s account of her disastrous interviews with CBS anchor Katie Couric consists mainly of attacks on Couric for “badgering” her, “edit[ing] out substantive answers,” and trying to “frame a ‘gotcha’ moment.” She chastises McCain campaign staffers for having “no script to begin with,” for not following her advice and talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and for nurturing the “wardrobe fairy tale” so they could throw her “under the media bus” after the campaign ended.
When not complaining about how ill-treated she was, Palin wildly revised her own history, showcasing her penchant for falsehoods both big and small. She claims that the media were reporting “lies” about the Bridge to Nowhere, when it was she who, from the very start, lied about her own position on the bridge. She claims that she immediately liked the idea of going on Saturday Night Live, even though internal campaign emails show that she was initially reluctant because of the show’s “gross” treatment of her family, going so far as to call the SNL crew “whack.” She claims that there is no aerial hunting in Alaska, even though she proposed legislation supporting that very practice. The list goes on and on.
But remember, this is Sarah Palin we’re dealing with here, and no matter how self-discrediting and ridiculous her book was, the conservative media would leap to her defense, claiming (once again) that she was the victim of a vicious liberal onslaught. Palin herself got the ball rolling before the book was even released, chastising the Associated Press (which got its hands on a copy prior to the release date) for assigning 11 reporters to fact-check it, saying that their time would be better spent fact-checking “what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial.” Palin made no attempt to respond to the several factual errors and distortions the AP found, and neither did Fox News, which picked up where Palin left off and ran a breathless segment wondering why, exactly, the AP had assigned so many reporters to the book.
Then there’s Rush Limbaugh, Palin’s staunchest defender and perhaps the conservative media personality most disconnected from reality — two traits that are in no way mutually exclusive. On November 13, Rush proclaimed that Going Rogue is “one of the most substantive policy books I’ve read.” He must have received a special unabridged edition, because to every other observer — even Fox News campaign reporter/operative Carl Cameron — the book’s policy prescriptions are few and far between, and rarely more detailed than “Ronald Reagan was right.” In the conservative blogosphere, the adoration was even more comical: John Ziegler, the devoted Palinista who is — and forgive the indelicate bluntness, but there is no better word — an idiot, called the book the “greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime.”
Meanwhile, the mainstream press ties itself into knots with their obsessive Palin coverage, trying to explain how it is that a riotously unpopular and ill-informed ex-governor speaks for legions of Americans. Newsweek undercut whatever merit its critical analysis of Palin’s role in the political world had by festooning it with sexist Palin imagery. David Brooks continues to vacillate in his opinion of Palin, at various times calling her “smart,” “a joke,” “courageous and likeable,” and a “cancer.” PBS’ Gwen Ifill said women “will be drawn to her story,” even though Palin’s popularity among women is in the toilet.
None of this is to say that Palin isn’t shrewd. She’s figured out that she can say whatever she pleases, lie freely, quit elected office to become a professional Facebook bomb-thrower, cash in on a ridiculous book she didn’t even write, and still enjoy the adoration of her conservative fan base, as well as the attentions of the mainstream press.
Did everyone catch Martha Stewart’s recent comments about Palin?
In a nutshell, “I find her boring and dangerous”. On huffpo.
I think we should all chip in and get AKM a spa weekend when she finally finishes reading that thing. Can’t think of anyone who deserves it more!
@27 pantsonfire- thank you so much for posting Chopra article. For weeks now, I have been wondering what he thought of the mess S’error had created. I needed Chopra’s wisdom.
Speaking of Billy Graham, I recently sent Billy Graham a note. My Evangelical family members sent me a Billy Graham prayer for our nation.
I thought it was disgusting. In it, he said, “we call it welfare, but it’s an excuse for being lazy”! (paraphrased).
Lazy? I’m sorry, I let him have it. Most on welfare are not lazy. Especially in this economic downturn. Many are single women with children who have been left (with no support) by the fathers. He wants to deny women from choice and they call them lazy if they need help raising children?
What has happened to Christian charity… helping the weak, the poor, the hard-struck?
Today’s Christian’s call people in need……lazy?
Wonder what they would call the disciples who could leave everything and follow Jesus? Lazy, unemployed liberals?
Now, he meets with Palin? God help us all.
This was a nice last liner:
Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum tells WTVD-TV that sales of Palin’s book at the post store have been weak so far.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_FORT_BRAGG?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
About that Ft Bragg thing:
“The former Republican vice presidential candidate planned to sign copies of her new memoir at a post store Monday. Army officials say Palin will not make a speech, pose for photos, or personalize notes in the books she signs.”
That was from the Huffington Post article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/palin-fort-bragg-book-sig_n_367441.html
It seems to me that the only thing different is that Palin “will not make a speech.” From what we’ve read elsewhere, she’s already not “personalizing” notes in the signing, she’s only posed for photos for the hated media and none at all with her “legions of fans.”
In Indiana, some folks were still waiting for her to speak when she took off in that tour bus, leaving so many high and dry.
So it really seems to me there’s only that one thing that’ll be different at Ft Bragg. (I wonder if they’ll get the Indiana treatment too.)
laprofesora (29)
“And the funny part is, she’d sue anyone else who wrote a book making her look this bad!”
Good heavens, she’ll have to bring suit against herself! But there is precedence for that already – when she filed an ethics complaint against herself.
humpf.
Great piece in Media Matters, the author expressed many of our sentiments brilliantly.
Since I know what people think about Palin in the UK (which is to say that they think she is a joke), I read The Economists review (thinking that it would mirror others like the review in Media Matters). Alas, they treated her like a serious candidate, one that the American people might just support. How embarrassing for the country is that?
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14895196
“Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
Many happy returns Birthday Mudpups!
Another day, another Palin idiocy. What else is new?? =)
OMG Says:
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 AM
It’s official…McCain continues to defend Palin and throws his former campaign staff and friends under the Palin Express by saying that her criticism and lies about them “Is No Big Deal”.
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Maybe Johnny Mac tried to unravel that towel SP was sportin in the hotel room, and she told him “Don’t worry, I’ll never tell anyone”
“She’s figured out that she can say whatever she pleases, lie freely, quit elected office to become a professional Facebook bomb-thrower, cash in on a ridiculous book she didn’t even write, and still enjoy the adoration of her conservative fan base, as well as the attentions of the mainstream press.”
Reminds of another crazy lady in politics, Australia’s very own (shame): Pauline Hanson.
Wikipedia entry below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson
You will find the following parallel with Palin:
- nativist views
- heavy racial overtones
- stupidity
- cause of increased animosity against immigrants after public debut
- volumes of idiotic, partisan and racist quotes
- lack of real and substantive solutions
- infamous TV interview moment much mocked by the nation
- seems to pop up everywhere in conversations
- wrote a book on herself
- wrote a book on stuff she has no clue about
- shrill and generally nasty person
- supporters also shrill and generally nasty
- blames media for everything, if not blaming media for failures then blaming others who have worked with her or just whoever is standing nearby at the time and
- just won’t go away….
35 Trisha, I’m starting to hear more and more of the “lazy” meme. Most Reganites really believe that there is a huge number of “lazy” people who only want the government to support them and it is the Dem’s who are so willing to go along and support the “lazy”. The traditional Repug’s have built their brand on this whole concept.
If you point out that welfare payments are historically higher under Repug’s they look puzzled or just out right deny it. It goes hand in hand with the fact that our economy has more growth (measured by stock price and GDP growth) under Democrats. I wish that the Dem’s would do more to “brand” themselves as the party of Prosperity for All. I’m hoping that the job summit is the kick off for a new, strong dialog by the Dem’s.
In these tough times for so many, it’s important for the general, voting public to understand the historical facts regarding the philosophical differences between the liberals and conservative running the economy. Glass half full or glass half empty. A world of plenty for all or a world of scarcity and paucity with struggle.
And most importantly, “Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
Mcain has NO CHOICE but to defend her or she will throw support to the teabagger in McCain’s primary.
Not sure McCain has even had a primary challenger for decades.
She has this over him right now.
Funny pictures of Palin and Beck at Progressive Alaska-
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
Fort Bragg does not allow Palin to speak, just sign books and leave.
Also they are saying book sales there are weak.
Finally someone with brains shuts up the evil wench….
Letter writing to Fort Bragg worked, now on to emailing Fort Hood.
Maybe someone should fact-check, and send Washington Speakers Bureau some insights on the write-up they have on Sarah.
http://www.nationalteapartyconvention.com/about-sarah.aspx
Someone else hoping to get their 15 minutes of fame???
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/sarah-palin-meets-her-dou_n_367586.html
Note under the pic – Copyright SarahPAC – New business venture??? LOL
Now the PAC is copyrighting pictures. Give me a break.
Should we expect to see SarahPAC selling pics they’ve been taking after the tour. Much like the email sent out for signed books:
After you have taken a day off work, lost pay, paid to buy the book, spend money for food and drink to spend hours in line, you can ‘For $100 donation, now get a picture of yourself with the Bumpit Queen’
Heard a song on the radio this morning… at first I thought it was Englebert whathisfunnyname but then I realized the words were a bit off. Still… for these types of lyrics to be played on radio in the heart of pennysltucky’s conservitard country is something…
Ode to Sarah Palin
♫ oh, oh, oh
Sarah Palin
she’s a genious♫
Sarah Palin
Oh, no, no
she’s a p**is
♫whoa oh oh
Sarah Palin?
Yo ho ho
Sarah Palin. … ♫
I really love this FlyInUrEye masterpiece. Thank you!
Are any of these available as, oh, say, postcards on Zazzle? [They were the ones 'way quicker off the dime than CafePress to get rid of that vile psalm 109 crap]
@44 lilybart, I agree. I think McCain is playing it cool and trying NOT to make the Ice Queen angry. LOL
Kind of funny that the monster is controlling it’s maker. Oh well. Karma can be a b*&#@.
I can not believe that the first of the 12 points (for the tea party participants) is Honesty?! Glen Beck lies. Sarah Palin lies. Rush Limbaugh lies. Michelle Bachmann lies. They lie and they get caught lying time and again and yet they are honest?
I’ve come to the conclusion that if it were found that Palin lied about being Trig’s mother, she would be held up by her fans as the noble person who took him in and cared for him (even if she does use him as a prop). If she was caught holding a smoking gun with blood on the hand that was holding a signed confession, her followers would be incapable of believing their own eyes.
What is needed is a scandal of FBI proportions. Levi?
I could be wrong, but I still believe that Billy Graham’s son Franklin (?) was the person who got the Republican party to choose Sarah Palin to be Mccain’s running mate on the ticket. I don’t think Mccain knew anything about her or did any research . This Graham was working in Alaska and is an extreme right winger. I will see if I can find this info I read during the campaign. She was scary from the get-go.
OT. Please take a look at the website that my nephew and his friends maintain. It is really quite funny, but also, they are very dedicated to the idea of promoting the concept of “community” in society.
http://dailygumboot.ca
Hmm, maybe it was Al Qaeda who are behind Palin’s rise to celebrity and creating political malfunction? Maybe that assumption is too far out, but I bet they are laughing at us.
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Has John McCain asked Sarah Palin to campaign for him in AZ? That would be absolutely delicious!
@#48 meede
Information on copyrights:
http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.copyright.html#automatic
http://www.copyright.gov/forms/
I am thinking SarahPAC wants to cover their heinies for charging for photos and to possibly sue anybody who tries to use any of the “iconic” photos.
Is there any way to determine how many of those pre-release sales of Palin’s book were bought by Newsmax (Rupert Murdock) so they can give them away?
I keep hearing that her book is not doing well in stores, but I also hear the media keep saying, “best selling author, Palin…bla, bla, bla.
For example does Borders, Walmart, Target, etc. ever release sales numbers?
I’m just guessing that from the lack of sales in stores, that Newsmax (and maybe the Christian right) are the biggest buyer of her book.
Lila… if photographs of public figures are taken in public places by members of the public, then there’s no copyright attached. Nor can they charge fees for taking photographs. Fact is, you can walk right up to them and snap a picture. If they don’t like that, tell them to get back on the bus and get the he!ll out of town!
I don’t think John McCain is scared of SP. I think he’d do what he wanted to if he wanted to do it. But politically it would look bad for him to bad-mouth her – even if what he was saying was the God’s honest truth.
No, I think SP is going to be in the cat-bird seat here. Who will she endorse for the AZ seat? Rush and Co. already find him to be too RINO-y for their tastes. That was exactly their complaint about NY-23.
So does she a) endorse the Conservative candidate who seems to hold views actually more in line with the views she spouts, or does she b) endorse John McCain out of ‘sense of loyalty’? Or does she c) quit, i.e., refuse to make a choice?.
None of those choices is ideal and none are without ramifications and consequences to her future.
Welcome to the real world of American politics, Sarah! It’s a lot bigger pond than Alaska, and you are in it deep.
at #23November 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 AM laprofesora Says:
“”"…fast forward 20 years and look who it is…Piper Palin, carrying on her mother’s legacy. … I’d say she’s being groomed to be Scarah part deux.”"”
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I’ve thought that, too, especially during the 2008 campaign when Piper would wave and watch the crowds exactly like her mother. Just what we need, another uneducated politician.
It is not unheard of for organizations to inflate the popularity of books that they want to become best sellers by purchasing huge quantities for use by their organization. After they own them they can use them for promotions, membership drives etc. just as Newsmax has been doing for weeks. With Palin’s book topping the best sellers lists so early, I assumed that this was how those numbers were achieved.
What I don’t know is if the 300,000 sold during the first day of her tour are the total number sold which would have included the pre-ordered books that have already been publicized. My guess is that that is the case. If you consider that 1000 people buy books at her designated stops, then getting to the 300,000 level at this early stage would be impossible even for the GOP’s wonder girl.
It is too bad that the MSM that has made her a millionaire because they hate her so much (you’d think that she would say thanks) can not seem to stop fawning over her long enough to tell their viewers the real scoop behind her incredible (fraudulent) sales numbers.
I must say…the woman is indeed a phenomena…she lies, she resigns, she whines, she lies (I know I just said that but it bears repeating). I don’t think that I have ever seen anything like her (nor do I want to ever again). How can so many people do exactly what she wants them to do. Biden played the gentleman during the debate, the MSM are bending over to be “fair” and thereby not challenging any of her lies and reporting everything she writes on FB or twitter without even demanding that if she wants to say something she needs to grant an interview, and now McCain is groveling at her feet while turning his back on his long time supporters.
Please somebody wake me up from this bizarre nightmare!
The helicopter on the book cover is a Robinson R-44. Loud, but despite the noise underpowered. Hmmm . . . reminds me of a certain former vice presidential candidate.
OMG: your last paragraph……….I agree 100%. Either the media is afraid of “attacking” a woman, which is reverse sexim, or they are afraid to be the next “Couric” on Palin’s hit list. For whatever reason, they all seem to tiptoe around her. If she were a man, she would have been laughed off the national stage when “he” winked his way through a national VP debate.
Can you image what the media would have done to a man who is as clueless as Sarah, winked during a debate, and then quit halfway through their first term? The media would destroy them.
Trisha, we had a president who was almost as clueless as Sarah, and then we went and re-elected him again in 2004. He couldn’t speak; he didn’t read, and he only took advice from the Lord.
By the way, the AP has a story about SC governor Mark Sanford, who is being accused of over 30 ethics violations. The next time that Sarah whines about how she was singled out, it might be good to remind her that she has company in that abuse of office thing.
I forgot, can you imagine what the media would have done to a man if he came out with a book like Palin’s? Full of lies, bitter remarks and blame?
trisha…or a very unattractive woman.
Watch this amazing clip from Andrew Sullivan’s site:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/why-they-love-her.html
It is as funny as it is scary. Would any of these people have lined up to support her if her smile looked like Hoffman’s, her figure was like Limbaugh’s and her face resembled Betty Davis’ in “Whatever happened to Baby Jane” http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/05/bette_davis_and_joan_crawford_in_whatever_happened_to_baby_jane_trailer.jpg?
Anyone know what Palin’s approval ratings were around the time she quit?
OMG, regarding her looks……I agree with you….yes!!!!!!
OMG and trisha:
The MSM is perpetuating sexism by treating Palin differently. They do tip toe around her BS and has yet to seriously call her on it. If she were a man, it would have been over a long time ago.
Palin herself plays to sexist views – dressing and acting like a cupcake then crying sexism when someone treats her like she is dressed, telling people to take personal responsibility then blaming everyone and their dog for her professional failures.
I don’t know when they will wake up and do their jobs. Don’t they see that no matter what they print about her, she will blame them and throw them under the bus whenever it is convenient? Better just to write the truth, pursue accountability, do their jobs and sleep well at night AND be thrown under the bus than sacrificing what integrity they have left for the scoop.
aussiegal77, so true.
Do NOT have any liquids within proximity of your PC when you read this. I shall not be held responsible for the results. You have been warned!
I LOVE Wonkette. The comments are gold (even if a little bit “off” and “twisted”).
http://wonkette.com/412367/freepers-are-going-to-protest-existence-of-muslims-by-boycotting-best-buy#more-412367
From the comments:
You know, it seems like they begin the War on Christmas earlier every year. I swear, I went down to the mall for some back-to-school sale to get sneakers for kids, and they had War on Christmas decorations all up already. I hadn’t even brought in the garden hose yet! They’re playing their War on Christmas music everywhere, and they’ve got all their War on Christmas tinsel and ornaments dangling from the atrium and the food court, and they’ve got all their War on Christmas trees and merchandise in the windows and their little War on Christmas fliers with coupons already. I can’t keep up. Before you know it it’ll be War on Presidents’ Day.
You know, if we can sneak a few more of these other-religion holiday greetings into various ads, soon the freepers will have so many boycotts going that they will all be shivering naked in their bare-walled hovels.
President Palin: Anti-intellectual commonsense non-elitist American values based on resolute hard work and private sector free enterprise principles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTz5vEQoQaI&feature=player_embedded
LiladyNY:
All I can say is, as a Christian, I don’t rely on the Mall, Banana Republic/Old Navy’Gap for an expression of faith. I also don’t go to the mall to find Jesus. So I really couldn’t care less whether ads say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas. My faith is stronger than seasonal advertising. My faith is also not in Banana Republic to lead a Christian revival in a secular country thru the creative use of tinsel and merchandise.
=)
Haven’t had time to catch up, but in case the following interview of Sarah’s clueless supporters hasn’t been posted, this is a must see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk
Re: the puppies thrown under the bus
Don’t know if this is the puppy that scofflaw Willow snuck in to mom’s office, but as of last fall this is where Agia was:
“Menard and his wife, Republican State Senate candidate Linda Menard–the former director of the Miss Wasilla pageant–have known Palin since she was in third grade. She was a classmate and close friend of their late son, who, before he died in a 2001 plane crash, was the godfather of Palin’s son Track. Their families attend the same church–Wasilla Bible Church, which Palin joined in 2002–and the Menards are caring for Palin’s dog, Agia, named after Palin’s proudest legislative accomplishment, the Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act, while she is on the campaign trail. They clearly adore Palin, and when Curt Menard describes her connections to the religious right, he doesn’t intend to be critical.”
from http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/goldberg
Linda Menard is on the board of the MSRMedical Center where Trig was “born”, BTW. It’s a tight circle…
@73 aussiegal77
LOL. I couldn’t agree more. And as someone who daily strives to be a good person through the example of the Dalai Lama and Buddha, I find the commercialism of the season sickening, but that’s just my personal perspective.
Still, I found the comment extremely funny in the context of the post.
Franklin Graham is the one who got McCain to choose Sarah. McCain needed the religious rights’ votes & Franklin hand picked Sarah. Apparently Fort Bragg would not let Sarah speak & she is heading to Food Hood, TX at some point. Here’s an email address for those who would like to send in email in an effort to curtail her speaking while there. bruce.zielfdorf@us.army.mil. Her “book tour” is making me madder & madder. It would appear Murdoch’s money & Beck’s ideas are behind it.
Somehow, it all looks more like a visit to Santa in your local mall. Indifferent workers hanging around, present your wish list, someone takes a picture your parents can buy for a ridiculous sum. Except the “kids” with their books don’t look happy. Nobody’s looking in their book, nobody’s smiling; her rhetoric just reinforces that the world is an unhappy, scary place. I couldn’t go for her just because what she preaches is just so darned depressing. We’re much better off laughing at her than believing her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05kristof.html
Unhealthy America
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
informative good article but heres the doozey
“There is one American health statistic that is strikingly above average: [in the world] life expectancy for Americans who have already reached the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the average in industrialized countries. That’s because Americans above age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare.”
So much for the death panel offing grandmaw. And it doesn’t change under universal, single payer, it just expands.
Except we aren’t universal or single payer, we getting “com beyened”, as in harvested, thrashed, bailing wired and dumped out in the back forty, by big insurance.
Just heard on the news that At her stops at Military bases she is being told she cannot speak… NO pictures…and NO personal additions to autograph.. in others words sign your name and move the line!!! and the lone at Ft Bragg did not look very long!!!! LOL
LiladyNY @75
“I find the commercialism of the season sickening, but that’s just my personal perspective. ”
Absolutely. It’s pretty moronic for Christians to declare that Christmas only means what it should mean when we see “Christmas” in glitzy ads and sparkling lights. Ridiculous. I don’t remember reading in the Bible that after the angels sang a herald to Jesus’ birth, the Gap store down the road gave away palm branches with “Merry Christmas” on them. Plus Dec 25 is not in the bible either.
Seriously…..!
RE:
Watch this amazing clip from Andrew Sullivan’s site:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/why-they-love-her.html
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Great video. Don’t know how the interviewer kept a straight face or kept from exploding.
Nobody in that video is reading or looking at the book. They’re all just holding it. I’m not talking about the people he’s interviewing, though their books don’t look like they’ve been opened. Look in the background. No one’s reading. They’re not even looking at the pictures. When I go to a bookstore, everyone is reading. They’ve all got something open, looking through it, or even sitting down, reading page after page. Not these people. Next “boots on the ground” person, look to see how many are actually looking at the book–and are they reading or looking at the pictures?!
Happy Birthday bubbles and lovemydogs!
Gramiam – I hope there’s a good Dem ready to run against the Repub primary winner. I’d hate to see AZ go farther to the right of McCain.
I really appreciate this piece from Andrew Sullivan about Obama’s decision-making process re Afghanistan. It’s titled, ‘We Have a President’.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/a-step-in-the-right-direction.html
They probably don’t want to break the spine on those books because they are planning on selling them on Ebay. No matter what, they sure as heck are not going to be reading them. I could just about guarantee that one.
In response to Trisha, do they even know what breaking the pine of a book means?
Sorry, that’s spine of a book.
A ha-pup-py birthday to lovemydogs and bubbles!
Did I miss AKM telling us about this somehow? I know we’ve had lot of new posts lately but don’t recall seeing this before.
Congrats AKM! You deserve it!
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-are-strider-and-i-celebrating.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34110893/ns/politics-more_politics/
Chuck Heath opens his big fat mouth again. This time to bash our President at Ft. Bragg… Un-freaking-believable.
Not surprised that the military is enforcing some stringent rules on her – GOOD!
Daughter was in local Wal-Mart today and checked the book rack and talked with a clerk. They allotted space for 12 Going Rogue, 2 have been sold. Maybe the locals are just waiting for Palin’s stopover down in Nashville. More likely, those who could afford to have already ordered on-line. This region is in dire straits with the economy (as so many are), so I hope people are paying utility bills and feeding their families, rather than lining Palin’s pockets further………one can only hope!
Too bad that Chuck Heath didn’t get the message to keep his mouth hushed up if he couldn’t say anything nice. If only the Fort Hood commander would decide her appearance there is a no-go.
Sad that a retired vet would go on post wearing his Impeach Obama shirt. If Bush was still President and someone showed up on a military installation with a negative slogan, he would probably be sitting behind bars.
Gray area my arse. She does it from FB, all about Ft. Bragg, and her Father says things for her on base. And what about her trip to Kuwait, she was a political figure then.
I think everyone should complain and share concerns about this. What this woman represents is a political figure, who bashes and campaigns against our sitting President almost daily and every time she opens her mouth. That’s more than gray. It’s pretty black and white.
Does the military have or do gray areas?
Shame on this decision. She promotes hate, devisivness, undermines our President and is dangerous. Her book is political. Why the H should she be allowed this platform?
Call people, she’s testing the waters, she’ll do this more if she can. Their are plenty of other places she can spew her crap talk, keep her off our military bases.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/Some-camp-for-chance-to-meet-Palin-at-NC-base–71599282.html
“Palin’s appearance tested Department of Defense regulations, which prohibit politicians from using installations as a platform. Palin didn’t give a speech and individually thanked soldiers, and a base spokesman said she was not campaigning.
But the bus parked nearby encouraged donations to her political action committee and supporters made clear that she should run for president.
Army officials initially barred media from the event, fearing coverage would lead Palin’s backers to lob negative comments at President Barack Obama. The military later relented and allowed media access.
Col. Billy Buckner, a spokesman for Fort Bragg, said the Army agreed to let Palin on post because she fell into a gray area.
“She’s not a political figure per se, but she certainly carries a tremendous amount of interest and influence across the country,” he said.
Palin’s father, who greeted supporters as his daughter signed copies of the book, said in an interview that Obama’s handling of the military was “scary.”
“I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”
The former Alaska governor began a nationwide tour last week to promote a new memoir, “Going Rogue.” She also has a planned visit to Fort Hood, Texas, on Dec. 4 — just a month after 12 people were killed there in a shooting rampage.”
dear mudpuppy friends,
thank you for your warm good wishes on the occasion of my birthday. a little more than a year ago i signed up and became a member of a small, young relatively unknown blog written by a person whose gender and and identity were unknown to any except her closest confidants. this entity, known as AKM, became for me not only as source of news concerning Alaskan politics and the politics of a nation on the verge of profound change. it became a place where a small group of activist people, who began to call themselves ‘Mudpuppies’, began to write; to call and donate money to help a young democrat named Begich become a senator. we worked to elect a decent man and we saw him raise his hand and become our president. we fed the hungry and warmed people who were freezing. we did so many good things but most of all we became a community of lovely people from all over the world. many of you have become dear personal friends so i say “thank you mudpeeps” and a Happy Birthday to Love my Dogs and to all you Sagitarians on the flats….love bubbles
“I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”
The man must suffer from memory loss. That’s what happened when Bush held office. How quickly they forget.
From looking at the pictures of people standing in line for the book signing, I’ve come to the conclusion that that only people who have read–or skimmed– P’s book are those librul Alassssssssssssssskan bloggers in they’re pijamus. The RR is listening to Rush’s version of the book. Only he hasn’t read it, ether. This’ll be the largest printing of books to never have the spines cracked since my college world history course! And that book was written my my professor, who also had a hat size problem due to over inflated ego.
Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone is the Commander at Ft. Hood. I can’t find any contact info for him but here’s info for the Public Affairs Office:
PA On Call Representative:
PAO – Col. Benton Danner
Email: benton.danner@us.army.mil
Phone: 254-287-0103
Phone: 254-291-2591
http://www.hood.army.mil/paos.aspx?2
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBLES. My son’s birthday is this week too … this year it is on Thanksgiving Day! Yeah. He’s always been my Thanksgiving baby (course he is 35 this year).
@AKaurora #76- Thanks for posting that clip. I watched it and it’s amazing how uninformed her fans are about everything. One even said that she wants a “healthy country” yet Sarah is opposed to health care reform. I really don’t think she meant it as in “healthy people”, anyway it sounds like they get their news from Fox and just repeat all of Sarah’s talking points. It really is scary!
got my palin’s just plain nutz today!
Got my copy of “Going Rouge…Nightmare” today – can hardly wait to start on it as soon as TRMS is over and everyone gives me peace and quiet.
In honor of her birthday…..my cyber-impression of Bubbles from her many posts over the last year:
champagne bubbles moving effortlessly upward;
not earthbound although grounded;
giggling, laughing JOY;
peaceful.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and Lovemydogs!
This was from an artical on Political Carnival
The way she misrepresents herself: So daily…
Last week, while in New York City, Palin dined at Serendipity 3, a restaurant in one of Manhattan’s swankier sections. [...] It’s famous for the “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” a sundae composed of edible gold and 28 different cocoas from across the globe. This treat, which costs $25,000, holds the Guinness world record for most expensive dessert. [...]
Not only was she in one of the more expensive corners of the Big Apple (a city she promised ‘true’ Americans she would not visit during her book tour, on account of its elites); she was dining at a restaurant where just one item costs more than what many of her supporters will make in a year. Maybe more than twice what some of them will make.
There now. That should appeal to all those regular folk who Barbie claims to adore pallin’ around with, except when she abandons them.
My husband was telling me tonight that queen esther’s speech in Redding Ca. in Dec. is $75.00 a head..Sheesh people are nutz…Also, too wording was that they can’t wait to see her…Yuk..Redneck country!!
S. Carolina Sanford gets called on the carpet (37 ethics violations) for purchasing the wrong kind of airline ticket…not in trouble for disappearing to Argentina. WTF! …and palin gets a new house, abuses power against trooper, and gets “away with murder” (sort of speak)…I DON’T GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Bubbles I hope you had a glass of wine for.
Sarah got a “D”.
Birthday greetings to Bubbles and Lovemydogs!! (and to anyone else out there who may be celebrating a B-day!)
Going Rouge arrived on my doorstep this afternoon. Amid all the insanity it was a welcome sight. I’m looking forward to reading it over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Hah! I just saw a clip where Martha Stewart totally bashes Ms. Palin. It’s funny to hear Miss Prim & Proper “go rogue” on THE Rogue.
There are already 100 autographed “Going Rogue” books on eBay.
Some are leather bound signed and numbered. Those came from the publisher. Others are from dumb schmucks who stood in line figuring they’d make a profit for their time. From $3.25 to $67. Some are including extras like list of rules, wristbands and photographs.
One just sold for $121 but there was also a copy of Mike Huckabee’s autographed book paired with it. Hard to tell which book brought out the big bucks.
Wonder if she’s bringing the big, spiffy “governor’s” chair with her from event to event.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Going-Rogue-by-Sarah-Palin-AUTOGRAPHED-see-photos_W0QQitemZ110461622441QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b80698a9
How funny! I lived on the same street as Serendipity. There was Dylan’s Candy Bar on the corner, so she could have gotten all those carbs Schmidt thought her brain needed.
Nah, it wouldn’t have helped!
If I remember correctly, some Southern gay men helped make Serendipity famous. Like Truman Capote. Wonder what her fan base would have to say about that!?
Happy birthday, also, too!
Re: book sales
I still have some connections within the NY publishers scene, and am attempting to get real live numbers about who bought the book in bulk & how much was bought.
The way it was described to me over the weekend was that Murdoch himself, thru other business entities was the prime buyer: when he saw poor pre-sale numbers thru the Friday before the release (yes, Friday the 13th!) he ordered each of his businesses to order mega-amounts to boost the opening day sales numbers.
This person did not know the numbers angle, only that the word came down from Murdoch himself to ‘buy, buy, buy!’ (thinking about Trading Places where, at the end of the movie, the now poor Duke boys pleaded with their trader to ‘sell, sell, sell!’).
If I ever get any definitive info…I’ll certainly pass it along. Should be good for a major guffaw.
I’m late to the Birthday party – but best wishes to bubbles & lovemydogs!!
#111…….sounds EXACTLY like something they would do…nothing is EVER honest with palin or fox or the right….:D
Not kidding,
See SP’s clueless followers. This is no joke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/palin-supporters-struggle_n_367800.html
Bubbles and LoveMyDogs: A very, very happy birthday and many happy returns! Hope to see you in the treehouse, where you’ll be toasted and celebrated.
#114
isn’t that something!?! I saw that! those people could be your neighbors!!!yikes (well, I don’t think they’re MY neighbors, but…)
how can one support a candidate they no nothing about except the fact that they’re attracted to their color and their cosmetics.?..yep, she’s a qual eee feyed! …ain’t nobody else I’m a likin’
Wow, , Aussiegal77, I have posted here a few times about Pauline Hanson.
The parallel is uncanny.
Who just about destroyed her, no other than Rupert Murdoch.
He told his paper The Australian to go get her.
Google
Her name and his for the story.
Hope you have a lovely trip back here Aussiegal.
What state do you come from? I am in QLD.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
I thought I read that she pulled her children out of school and was home schooling them now!!!!
Mr Heath it is you and your daughter that scare the heck out of this country.No one wants a civil war or a third world war but those who think like her!!!!!!!!
Couldn’t believe Sarah had Trig in her lap while being interviewed for Channel 2. What professional person brings their child to sit on their lap for an interview. This even proves more than she is using that precious child as a prop and it makes me sick. Wonder how much time she really spends with him…..again she is soooo obvisously phony.
Thank you soooooo much for all of the birthday wishes. You guys are awesome! Don’t know how to get to the treehouse.
The funniest thing was the man who said he did not know much about palin and did not need to now what her policies were he would vote for her anyway.
My Gosh I hope some of those people see themselves and how they appear to others LOL Hopefully after they read this book they will realize this woman has nothing to give to people but a mean, vindictive book.Has anyone noticed how palin puts words in her childrens mouth.I notice in one interview where
Piper.poor little thing,said it was hard missing school and she missed her friends,them palin had to break in and call her sis and get her to say she would do it again.Think the work sis meant Piper should watch what she said and agree with her mother.I have watched Pipers face and that girl is going to need help,the look on her face when they left Todd behind was like filled with hate.
@ lovemydogs: treehouse=Chat
to get to the “treehouse” (Chat) just click on the Forum (it’s over there on the right). Then up at the top you will see Chat. Click on that. Put in your user name (instead of the midbit #) and click and you will be there! Hope that helps.
Last night David Letterman had Robin Williams on…. and they talked about Sarah some.
Robin had some funny zingers. He mocked her about those ‘ Gotcha questions ‘ she had with Katie.
Paraphrasing, he said… Sure they are gotcha questions… If you don’t read!
He also said in her High School Yearbook she was voted as the person MOST likely to burn some books… not write one.
He had some other funnies about her as well. The clip can probably be found in the Letterman archives.
most of the attention given to palin is equal to that of the OJ trial
Redding CA is a very depressed area. No work. Winter coming. No food. High unemployement. If these people fork over 75 bucks a head,instead of buying food and paying rent, they get what they deserve, and don’t ask me for help.
I’m not vindictive, mudbug, or maybe I am just stupid… but if people need food, I’m one of the first in line in trying to get some to them. Hunger knows not politics.
Bless you for enduring the swirling read. I love your reportage, very original . This is a great site.
The book is a try-out for an insulter-in-chief at some media outlet…and a good “talking point guard” willing to “pass that buck” & “make that point” quickly, as directed.
Those pointy fingers of her’s mean things come “quickly off the tongue” and apparently – quickly through the typist and through the Editor and into the book stores. She must make haste to get to the signings during the weeks before everybody has read said book and then…THUD.
Interesting to hear that the acknowledgments were short on last names, don’t want to give anyone a bump up…unless they paid sumpin sumpin?
There has to be a sequel, why would she quit now?
Her enemies list grows exponentially so there will be plenty of fodder to exercise her developing Ms Nastyself. She’ll hobble us with her so original new insults, we’ll be laid waste.
There is a strange poet inside her begging to be let spout…and if she understood this gift, she could actually become likable, like a clown, redeeming herself…while she sits in the slammer and re-aligns her life for a few years.
Now she has moola to pay for a defense lawyer, who knows, she may walk.