A Whole Lotta Nuthin’. Palin on the State of the Union
If you’re like me, you sat watching the state of the union, and couldn’t help but think of what that address might have been like if instead of Joe Biden sitting behind the president, it had been Sarah Palin back there. And you couldn’t help but smile a little when the President said “I do not quit.”
But Sarah Palin did manage to insinuate herself into the evening by wearing her brand new Fox News hat, talking with Sean Hannity and telling us what she thought of the President’s speech. And by “talking” I mean speaking a series of English words, one after the other, in no particular order. She didn’t like the speech. That much I got. But why? Pull on your parka and behold the blizzard of words.
If there are any intellectual conservatives left, they have bags on their heads.
Hannity: First of all, your initial reaction.
Palin: Ohhh, I think there was a lot of lecturing going on tonight versus inspiring the American people and independent politicians who were sitting in the audience waiting to hear some acknowledgment that there has been a disconnect between the White House and people who are expecting more from our government – more in terms of empowerment of the people not relying on government to meet all of our challenges, but empowering our families, our small businesses to fix the problems that we’re facing today.
Hannity: What was your reaction to the tone, specifically, of the speech?
Palin: Well again, not as inspiring perhaps as we are used to President Obama coming across as. But I think that that’s an indication still of that disconnect between the people and the White House. He not understanding that no, we don’t want to just chill a li’l bit, and cool a little bit on his health care plan, we want the thing killed because it’s government takeover of about one sixth of our economy. We don’t want to see that go forward, so with an issue like that still with that disconnect, um I think that uh there was no way for him to come across as inspiring when he still is proposing those top-down big government solutions to the challenges that we’re facing when the people want empowerment for our businesses, our families.
Hannity: … is he out of touch in some way, with his policies?
Palin: Well, I believe so, and I think that a lot of the fact checkers tonight are going to be quite busy and as they run down the content of that speech they are going to, they’re going to call him on some of these claims he made tonight, for instance you bring up the lobbyist issue. Yeah, he’s got at least eleven high-powered lobbyists who are par of now his administration helping make some calls and yet he claimed that lobbyists essentially aren’t having a whole lot to do with policy. That’s not entirely true, so fact checkers are going to be pretty busy tonight and tomorrow I think we’re going to see a lot of the details come out.
[Hannity shows clip of Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing "Not true" when the President calls out the Supreme Court for its 5-4 activist ruling in Citizens United v. the FEC.]
Hannity: Did you see that, governor?
Palin: I did, and I tell you that this is why people are disenchanted and becoming more and more disengaged really from what their government is doing because when we see an issue like this, words spoken that may not be true, coming from our president, and embarrassing our supreme court and not respecting the separation of powers we have a problem, and that’s illustrated there by that justice mouthing those words “Not true.” Now one or the other is being disingenuous here – either our president and what he just claimed, or the supreme court justice and I think that this is going to be a huge take-away moment from this speech tonight.
Hannty: What did you think specifically when he brought up the issue of health care, governor? I’d love to get your take on that…
Palin: Ever since about August ore and more (*wink*) Americans have paid more attention to what is in this health care bill, and more and more Americans are becoming more concerned about what we see in there, so it hasn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy, with government takeover and mandation of health care, but Americans understanding what’s in there, not liking it and sending him that message via those three Republican sweeps in Virginia, in New Jersey, Scott Brown’s election too, the Tea Party movement, the town hall events – people sending that message to the president, namely health care being a focus on this. He not understanding that we don’t want to see government takeover of one sixth of our economy.
[snip]
Palin: Well….only about 10% of the speech being dedicated to the war on terror and where we are with national security issues is quite concerning, but yeah, Iran – that was a perfect place for him to start, to press that reset button, if you will, and say OK we are going to stand up for those who are cravin’ democracy and freedom, and we’re going to speak out – the United States of America is going to speak out in support of those who desire this freedom. Now, if he doesn’t fulfill this as he claimed tonight, then more and more people are going to say, “Look, Mr. President, we cannot trust you. You’ve already broken so many promises. Don’t go back on your word on this one.”
Welcome to “Mandation Nation.”
All I have to say is: Ohhhhh…..well, finding it difficult in terms of understanding the meaning and disconnect, and feeling the craving to push that reset button, if you will.
Flipping idiot. I would love to speak with the people of Fox who really work, you know, the behind the scenes folk, they must be aghast at the stupidity.
I just this watched clip on Bree Palin’s site…Palin gives her analysis on what the President was going to say in his speech. The venom from this snake’s mouth is unbelievable. I am so glad that Fox presents balance in its news:
http://breepalin.blogspot.com/2010/01/mrs-palins-guide-to-doing-it-live.html
When is the FEC going to cobber Fox?
This is honestly painful to read. To think that anyone would actually consider this woman, devoid of the intellect necessary to lead the free world, a possible contender for the highest office in the land is astounding. One thing to hear her offer her sentiments in a blizzard of confusion, another to actually read what it is that has escaped her empty noggin.
It is difficult to envision her making a SOTU speech, addressing the UN, conversing with world leaders, choosing SC justices, or having an understanding of the events that swirl around the Commander in Chief. Too, too bizarre.
Yet the cries for her to actually seek the nomination get stronger. It begs credulity to even remotely consider this inventor of words (i.e., mandation for one) to come close to actually assuming power.
I just find this mind boggling. It is a joke.
Tick-tock, Clarisse. I sense a nervous breakdown loomin’.
Babble, babble, babble… It’s like trying to read in a language you don’t know. You cannot tell me the folks at Faux noise haven’t realized what a blundering idiot she is. I bet they sit around the lunch rooms just rolling with laughter discussing her “comentary.” Wow, what an idiot. I do, howver, also, though, think her star is fading, as she doesn’t get much coverage anywhere but on the blogs. Tick, tock, tick, tock, the Palin is gone clock is tickin’ away.
And her new, made up word: “mandation.” (Even though the Oxford Dictionary contains it as an 1867 descriptive word applying to rote sermons–she sure as hell didn’t know that.)
The woman is a total simpleton.
That’s so funny owl, we were both writing tick-tock at the same time!
Great minds think alike.
Anyone who have ever had teen aged kids have “suffered” through the same tortuous sentences when listening to an explanation as to why they came home with a “D” or why they missed curfew. Roundabout sentences with nowhere to go but the piling up of words hoping you buy in, or at least get worn out before the final period.
Listening to Sarah reminds me of that poor teenaged beauty queen from SC who tried to explain the meaning of “maps” to us last year. Pitiful. But that poor kid was only running to win a beauty contest. This idiot wants to be president of the US!
It does seem like her star is fading. Her facebook postings don’t seem to be getting much coverage like they used to.
I do not know what was more appalling: the garish makeup and silly wig or the incomprehensible drivel coming out of her mouth. No, I do not think she will ever get near 1600. The more she speaks, the more ridiculous she sounds. Geez, with all that grifter money she really SHOULD do something about her appearance……
does anybody else here think she sounds like Daffy Duck in this clip?
I’m glad she’s alone there, b/c someone could get sprayed…she can now add lisping to her long list of speech embarrassments.
Sarah’s typical – Word Salad with Nasties.
Once again her existence ‘out there’ on any kind of news, Faux or otherwise,
indicates something really disgusting about her supporters’ view of women.
To read what she actually says, various words from the English language,
strung together with no logic, reason, sense, intentionality related to the
definition of the words, indicates utter nonsense that no one can actually be
attending to the content.
On ‘mute’ or in photos, she is ‘pretty’, sexy, flirtatious, etc. A nice contestant
for a MRS America pageant.
To propose that this vacuous package represents women in politics is such
an insult to any woman or young girl with basic intelligence.
To not be surprized that this package is being sold — and selling herself–
for such large sums is a sign of my continued naivete, I suppose.
I know we haven’t ‘come a long way, baby,’ but I did think we had gotten
somewhere.
[My sentence structure certainly doesn't indicate my level of education,
but I am ;just repulsed all over again.]
Gawd….I watched it last night….but it always amazes me to see transcripts of the word salad. He not knowing, craving, mandation. I am looking forward to any comments from the MSM on the Alito-Not true thing…..and Palin basically sticking up for him. She is a baffoon…..I think EVEN Fox will figure it out pretty quickly.
O/T the republican response was interesting…none of that DULL Bobby Jindal deal, but Bob McDonnell walking in all ‘presidential’ to a huge standing ovation. Looks like the right is positioning someone for a 2012 run. Bet Sarah is seething!!!
She looks like a ventriloquist puppet, the eyebrows wiggling away while the jaw goes up & down.
And she sure does sound like a dummy!
In all honesty, she doesn’t have the intellect to run a hot dog wagon let alone a country. As much as I dislike her, sometimes when I hear her speaking I actually start blushing, I’m so embarrassed for her…..
Why is she continually getting away with her diss on government run healthcare. Isn’t her entire family on government run healthcare because of Todds heritage. I have never heard this in the media. Why is it continually ignored?
What are Her solutions?
This was classic, but the people who watch hannity won’t know or care how dumb she is. I thought her performance on Greta’s show – where they had the A team (Krauthammer, Juan, etc) in the studio and Pallin on the videophone was even better. she was Offul. would have loved to hear what Charles K said after that showing. Cna you post a transcript of her “analysis” of the speech on Greta?
It is ignored as much as Todd’s membership for many years in the secessionist party as well.
Somebody over on Palingates made mention that with those big eyelashes and the strange stare along with the weird hair thing going on that she looked like a Furby. Totally cracked me up !
I’m looking for a better one but this one’s pretty good as far as the expression. Put the Furby pic next to a screen shot of Palin in the video. Very funny. http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/mt/esq-furby-1109-lg.jpg
Add to that the fact that Furby’s start off with their own language and slowly assimilate English, gradually developing a strange mish-mosh of English and Furbish and I think we might have the answer to the enigma that is $P. She’s the end result of a mad scientist’s crazed “humanoid Furby” experiment gone terribly wrong. It’s all making sense now!
In all honesty, I just couldn’t listen to that. I think my ears were on the verge of bleeding.
I tried to read, and then tried a couple more times.
Dang, I am so glad she was not elected.
There are no “solutions”. Everything will be decided by “god’s will”.
jc in co Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 10:41 AM
In all honesty, she doesn’t have the intellect to run a hot dog wagon
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Actually, I think it was a car wash she and Todd couldn’t run, and that didn’t even require a food server certificate. A hot dog wagon? Never.
Bankruptcy in 2 years. I feel certain, ’cause that’s how new money grifters end up. Broke and broken.
@BAustin: She is a baffoon…..I think EVEN Fox will figure it out pretty quickly.
going by how they continually “feed” her the answers, I think Faux already knows.
I can’t stand to listen to the woman so read the transcript and now I need to go take some aspirin.
Palin’s word salad is made with slimy lettuce, mushy tomatoes, moldy cucumbers, and covered in vinegar (no oil). Eat at your own risk.
#20 BuffaloGal, Oh God, that’s funny. I actually have pink & gray one with big “dumb as a cow look” brown eyes on my desk. My daughter outgrew it & I
don’t even think it works anymore, but when it did it spewed wordsalad. My daughter tired of it rather fast, it just kept saying the same stupid stuff over and over. Just like simple sarah keeps spitting out the same talking points over and over.
my ears are bleeding. I forgot how awful she sounds – couldn’t take it any more. Of course I winced painfully and interjected vehemently when Sista’ Quitta’ dissed the health care bill. As a native her husband and children are recipients of Government Run Healthcare. I’ve never heard her complain about that program. sound of head hitting wall. Whatever happened to the MSM? Will they ever ask her Quittiness about this?
To help ease your bleeding eyes:
“In Sarah Palin’s new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, ‘Thank you, God,’ which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.” -Conan O’Brien
“Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she’s going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah.” –David Letterman
“But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.” –David Letterman
“Sarah Palin’s book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.” –David Letterman
“Sarah Palin’s new autobiography doesn’t come out until November, but it is already No. 1 on Amazon. And if you go to the website, it says, ‘People who bought this book also bought no other books in their entire life.’” –Jimmy Fallon
“This week Sarah Palin’s memoir became a bestseller. It’s not even out yet. It’s being translated in English.” –Bill Maher
“Sarah Palin’s 400-page memoir is going to be released on November 17th, and it’s called ‘Going Rogue: An American Life.’ And critics say that it starts out okay, it get’s really exciting and then confusing, and then the last 100 pages are blank.” –Jimmy Fallon
What? No plugging in those common sense conservative values?
OMG – BuffaloGal that’s too scary!! I’m going to have Furby Palin nightmares!! Aighgh!!!
I absolutely cannot find anything about her that does not offend me in some way, if not in several ways. Her presumptional posturation of herself as the intellective equal of Harvard scholarators is only the median of it.
Thank you Paula – those quotes helped!
In watching the clips showing Sarah Palin available on Fox last night , every time she spoke it was in response to the lead-in that Hannity gave her. There was no individual, original thought coming from her. It’s like Fox has this little puppet that they are putting on display and pulling the strings for it to open its (her) mouth to say what Fox wants (even when she does so in her own inimitable way).
someone please define common sense conservative values. Other than war, guns, homophobia, xenophobia, Jesus, abortion, and a wide stance in the mens room WTF are common sense conservative values?
Palin is driving a train that’s just waiting for a bus wreck to happen.
i just cannot fathom how anybody can listen to that and come away with anything but disgust, fear and loathing. i want to curse so badly right now.
jc @26 – Every time I think of $P as a giant Furby I crack up.
While looking for a better Furby/Palin match I came across a link for ” Furby in the microwave”. How could I refuse ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZVUHf8JLzs
The use of her kids as props offended me. Dragging that poor baby out onstage during the campaign under those hot lights and shrieking crowds, while poor Bristol had to stand there, more than likely embarrassed as her situation became fodder for the newscasts and Levi pretending this was all so normal, and all behaving like the “All American Family” just for votes.
No consideration for them outside of what they could accomplish for her to attain her goals. Sickening display.
But in all honesty, she has become more offensive since then as a result of her “fame”.
sjk from the belly of the plane Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 11:05 AM
someone please define common sense conservative values. Other than war, guns, homophobia, xenophobia, Jesus, abortion, and a wide stance in the mens room WTF are common sense conservative values?
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Common sense: Under-educated Commoners who share a lack of Sense, common, or otherwise, but share the same father in the clouds and the same book (which they have yet to read but fully beleive anyway).
What’s not sensible about that?
sjk from the belly of the plane Says:
someone please define common sense conservative values. Other than war, guns, homophobia, xenophobia, Jesus, abortion, and a wide stance in the mens room WTF are common sense conservative values?
“YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN BABY”
I’m sorry, but this Cluck isn’t qualified to comment on anything – period. She kept talking in tangled sentence circles. Thank God she isn’t VP or anywhere near the White House!
ahhhh.
Paula owes me a handiwipe for just spitting my coffee onto the screen!!!!
First, AKM.. Thank you for transcribing that so I didn’t have to listen to her! We all owe you! Second, you are all so eloquent and insightful in your comments. All I can think is.. I can’t stand her! I hate her!! I can’t stand her! She is an embarassment to bright articulate women everywhere! It embarrasses me that a major US “news” station actually pays her to spout such nonsense! It’s sickening that this idiot makes millions and some think she’s God like and tells the truth!” she’s so full of hatred and so unpatriotic, I just don’t get it. She’s bad for our country and I hate her! I know it’s not too eloquent, but honestly, I can’t stand her!!!!
OT but very important!
Tell CBS not to politicize the Super Bowl with an anti-choice Focus on the Family ad!
http://emilyslist.org/news/cbs/cbs_petition_choice2
Here you go PJ, a screen cleaner just for you.
http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf
Furbies are evil. I killed the last few found wandering about my house… those things (like s’error palin) NEVER. SHUT. UP.
Obama had a good speech. McDonnell was just a bunch of hype in front of a hand-picked republican audience. As with s’error palin, there were times when he tripped over himself. But to his credit – and unlike s’error palin – I could understand what he was saying. Might not agree with a whole bunch of his rhetoric but he at least spoke in full sentences and was prepared to sound coherent.
sjk – there’s no such thing; closest is found under the definition of “oxymoron.”
mattie @ 17 – she has no solutions, just a bunch of word salad which gives most people screaming diarrhea.
Palin: Ever since about August more and more (*wink*) Americans have paid more attention to what is in this health care bill, and more and more Americans are becoming more concerned about what we see in there……blablabla
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Sweet Jesus, how could you possibly have the word *more* six times in one sentence?
Paula, that is adorable! I really should be doing some housework here but the comments are too good to leave.
Lisabeth, please do not go near a pro Palin blog. I would then have to be concerned about any sanity you may have left after a dose of their lovebombs.
OMG, I can’t believe she actually called him President Obama – shocking just shocking. I also can’t believe they are still calling her Governor Palin.
Quite frankly anyone that can understand her should get a medal. She rambles on & on and never really says anything. Probably why her worshipers still love her. They can’t understand her & what they hear is I had a Down syndrome baby and am pro-life. That is all they need to hear. Shameful……..
Does any one have a link to a high res photo from Sarah’s Hannity appearance last night? I need to get a close up of those eyebrows! This is the first time that it was REALLY apparent that she’s had work done.
aveiw999: DONE!
The transcript of Palin’s Greta remarks are on palingates. they are as bad as I thought. I hope they keep her…I have no fear that she will ever improve; she is empty and the pressure will only increase. Even the see for pee-iest among the Fox viewers will have to eventually see that she is the worst commentator in the studio. She has never said anything insightful or thoughtful in her life, she ain’t gonna learn how now.
@ debinOH: Yes, they hear “I had a DS baby and I am pro-life…. AND I’m chosen by God.”
Maybe it’s not a facelift. Maybe it’s just a really tight headband holding that hairpiece.
Man… all my furby name posts are in moderation.
I am willing to bet that if Sarah ever heard what she sounds like, she would curl up into a ball and refuse to come out. Reading those run one sentences, misplaced and misused words is pure torture. I remember early in the campaign that an English teacher tried to diagram a Palin sentence. It ran off the page into a jumble.
I can also guess that it is no wonder Sarah went to so many universities. You know how it is in higher education, with all of the lectures and people talking down to you and acting like those professors are smarter than everybody else.
HuffPo is reporting that Bachmann has bowed out of the Teaparty Convention in Tennessee…should be long now that The Quitter will be making her own excuses.
@PJ….Oh my, I really LOL’d with a belly motion. The teenager with the D explanation, yes, that is exactly what Sarah sounds like when she is giving her opinion on a subject.
PJ- I have an excuse, I am waiting for the dryer. Then fold, come back, fold, come back. I’m not online, I’m doing laundry. Toss a load in and unburden the guilt
“Disconnect” seems to be her new favorite word – GAD she annoys me!
how many times can someone say ‘disconnect’ before the listeners disconnect from the word salad?
All I can see is eye makeup! She is looking so fake that I can’t even pay attention to what she’s saying (blessing in disguise!). Her snarky is getting old, just like it did with us Alaskans. It doesn’t take all that long to get tired of Sarah Palin. It does however take a bit more work to get rid of her. She’s kind of like devil’s club in that way. Tally ho – forward and upward for the good of democracy!
Hannity’s obvious WORSHIP of Palin is beyond embarrassing. He MOONS over her. Has since that first interview when she was ‘chosen’ by McGoo.
Paula, I did the laundry yesterday. I am now staring at the vacuum cleaner. The dust motes have taken on a life of their own. Some are standing on the shoulders of another. Too much.
I keep saying I will get off my butt as soon as I finish my coffee but this site keeps “pulling me back in. Too funny!
Am hoping Sarah can find a new invention for the word “procrastinator”. She is so good at plucking them out of thin air!
I know it’s almost impossible to underestimate Fox, but really, I’m amazed that they would be willing to post transcripts of the ex-gov’s ramblings on their website. “Here you go, momumental stupidity in black and white, courtesy of Fox.”
Of course, maybe someone at the station is taking a kind of sick pleasure in putting it out there.
I’m the one that did the transcript!
AKM
well, I just started watching it, is her mouth pulling to the right more than usual? she seems to be speaking, ha, slower than normal, is this to draw out ‘time’, lol, so her mumbo jumbo can mesmerize and confuse even the dumbest of dumb?
HA, she is so full of BS, like she EVER found President Obama’s speeches inspiring, oh I can not stand this woman. She KNEW he was going to come out strong and serious, so she low blows him with ‘it wasn’t as inspiring as we are used to? I found it very inspiring, he kicked butt.
OMG, the ‘way’ she ‘does’ the ‘chill a little bit’ is so rude! I don’t know if I can watch all of this.
can anybody see what pics she has on the wall behind her, I can make out Toad in one, and what page does she have pulled up on her computer screen. With Scarah all these things are staged, wish I could see the details better.
PJ, it’s dust until you write or draw in it. Then it’s art or literature.
“…chill a lil bit and cool a lil bit…”
Excuse me.
Where is John McCain? Would someone please drag him out into the open and force him to do his duty and beg the American public for forgiveness for imposing this woman on the Republic?
Here’s the video of Heidi Montag discussing why she cannot move her face. Looks like Palin is having the same problem…
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Entertainment/heidi-montag-speaks-plastic-surgery-good-morning-america/story?id=9596781
I like this President’s speeches and I usually don’t listen to the commentary afterward. I did like Rachel Maddow’s retrospective on Obama’s impulse toward unity and bipartisanship, though.
Oh no Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 11:41 AM
“…chill a lil bit and cool a lil bit…”
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I took those comment to be racist, as though she was trying to immitate that black dude, yeah, what’s his name, Obama. She’s such a white trash skank.
Sarah better watch out or she could easily morph into Helen Gurley Brown whose mouth ended up where her forehead used to be.
Look at this picture, her eyebrows used to be way lower, like in a normal location.
http://macleans.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palinfamily_outside_v01.jpg
Crap, this woman is sick. She’s trying to come off as more mature than Obama, the adult in the room? because she’s a mamma and knows lecturing when she hears it? give me a break.
note too how she zero’s in on the ‘independent’ politicians who she apparently ‘knows’ didn’t hear what they wanted and weren’t inspired. How the h*ll can she pretend to speak for them? speak for yourself Scarah, k? get real for once.
Does FAUX pay her “per word” on commentary?
Botox injections will make your brows shoot up your face. Wanna bet she had some done for this telecast?
@On No #67 -“…chill a lil bit and cool a lil bit…”
And she gets paid for this?
Sarah’s use of the word mandation is perfectly cromulent, and embiggens her role as a conservative analyst.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent
PJ -
As far as morphing , I’m thinking more like Joycelyn Wildenstein. She’s got that trout mouth workin’ good.
http://www.galleryoftheabsurd.com/2005/08/jocelyn_wildens.html
Ha ha. Don’t know if this has ever been posted but this guy is definitely the male version of Sarah Palin when it comes to word salad. I think he has got her beat! NSFW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjCX8ude04&feature=related
h/t to moon at palingates for reminding me of this
Yep, Bachmann bailed! LOL This is more entertaining than the afternoon soaps!
Joan Rivers is another example of taking it a wee bit too far when it comes to facial Home Improvements. And Nancy Pelosi has not had any feeling in her face since Amy Winehouse was sober.
Why can’t they just be themselves for once? Authenticity can go a long way.
FOX is keeping her far away in Wasilla……guess even they won’t let her sit at the big table with the “adults”. Talk about being disconnected, can a person look and sound more disconnected than Sarah Palin?
redwood: Hilarious! Life imitating art.
Paula – yes! She IS such a “white trash skank” and thank you for saying it straight out!
EVERYTHING she said he didn’t do, he did. He DID connect with people and he DID tell the Iranians that we support their dreams (the reformers there want us to butt out or the government will blame it all on us) and IF ONLY he WAS taking over the healthcare system!!
She is disgusting.
She lies and then lies some more.
yep both blackburn & batsh*t crazy bachmann bowed out. Furby (love it BuffGal!) is caught between a rock and a hard place. PO the teabaggers & go & collect the check or quit (again) and lose the $$$$.
I refuse to watch it, sorry, Palin makes me want to stab myself in the eye.
I did manage to (just barely) read the transcript of the “interview”. And really? No substance as usual. And apparently, if you don’t spend your days saying “terra, terra, terra” and running around screaming “they’re coming to get us! don’t let them in!” – then you are not serious about national security.
Her comments on the healthcare portions were as usual, incoherent. Healthcare costs are high! But government shouldn’t try to help! The system is working just fine! Healthcare comprises 1/6th of the economy! But let’s kill any attempt at reform! Everything is fine, the fact checkers will tell you tomorrow!
A lecture? Hmmm….I think Palin meant to say “well that was darn uppity of him” – Newsflash to Palin, he is THE President and this is the State of the Union ADDRESS. He is supposed to ADDRESS Congress, Senate and the American people and outline his plans to govern. Which in effect means, he speaks, we listen.
He didn’t empower small business? Really? I suppose all the tax cuts and breaks for small businesses that he outlined were just for laughs. Hey wait, wasn’t Palin all about tax cuts before?
She then goes on to assume that Alito was correct in saying the President’s remarks were “not true” (Alito was NOT correct) but then ends up saying well, SOMEONE is being disingenuous here. Geez – can she even keep more than half a thought in her head at the same time? MUST everything she say contradict itself in the same sentence? This woman is an idiot.
It was NOT ok for Alito to react in that way. It was highly inappropriate plus Obama is not the first president to dissent on a SCOTUS ruling. Palin should give it up, it’s obvious she has no idea what Obama was even referring to let alone have an informed opinion about it.
Palin slams Obama on the lobbyist issue but then says that it was ok for Alito to “call him out” on his “disingenuous” comment on the SCOTUS decision. What? Did Palin just say it was OK for the well moneyed special interests to influence American elections? That it’s ok for foreign corporations to influence American elections? Thanks for the soundbite, Palin, this will come in handy in 2012.
What a waste of space she is.
Palin talking about “trust” and “breaking promises” is like a drug dealer talking about virtue and honesty. It doesn’t go together.
I saw the computer monitor on on the back desk there during the interview.
This is her New House tax deduction ( Fux studio ) obviously.
Can anyone blow up that picture though to make it clearer….?
Patrick at PG says that is his website on the monitor screen. He must have noticed the picture posted and the position of it.
And she would be browsing that website right before she goes on Nat’l TV..?
But…. she didn’t watch 60 Minutes….Friends warned her. Yeah right.
I hope the pic can be enhanced without too much distortion.
True Blue: It was called the straight talk express, wasn’t it?
I totally heard the “chillin” bit as racist. It is only a matter of time before she says something truly appalling about race on camera.
Note to Palin – The President was NOT telling congress and senate to “chill” a little on healthcare, he was telling them to CALM DOWN and get things DONE. You know – like a real governing President would do. You have some experience with that, right? In governi….never mind.
Her home looks as tacky as her clothes. Next we’ll see her her new landscaping, which will surely include a peeing unicorn fountain in all the shades of the rainbow or something equally tacky, trashy and low class.
You have some experience with that, right? In governi….never mind.
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never mind… LOL!
I didn’t watch but I am told that McDonell pulled a Palin and brought out his kids last nigth. Did anyone see this?
21 BuffaloGal,
Is this anything like Palin looked? (LOL!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4lHaN0obw (16 seconds)
Great word, AKM.
I haven’t read a better parody of Palinspeak in a long time!
Oh.
Wait.
I just watched the video… it wasn’t parody, it was verbatim!
*sigh*
Nevermind.
I wonder if she thinks that Indian Health Service is a “top down big government solution” that all should oppose.
Granny Furby’s peepee’s are saying one of the pictures behind her is Madonna and Child. Figures!!
Paula – she drives me absolutely bonkers!
hahahahaha!!
Someone commented earlier that when she speaks, they get embarrased for her. You know what? I do too! As a woman, it is so awful to see someone like Palin just acting so completely phony AND idiotic at the same time! She really does set women back hundreds of years.
Oh I get it! It’s ‘dis” night! in more ways than one!
Rupert Murdochs talking points for the speech…….
Words she used…… “disengaged”, “disenchanted”, “disconnected” dis-empowering, “not respecting”, (disrespecting), “disingenuous”, “can’t trust”, (distrustful).
There are probably more dis-words, I couldn’t listen to all of it.
And if she thinks Alito’s mouthing words are an illustration of anything but an unqualified and unfit Supreme Court Justice, she nuts. For her to spin what he so unprofessionally did, away from his act, is awful. For her to say before the American people, that either Alito or our President is lying. wow, just wow, new low for her. lol, and we know how she really feels about Judges don’t we.
‘dissing’ our President for what he’s well known, giving inspiring speeches, by declaring this one uninspiring, embarrassing and she called him a liar.
This woman is despicable, there, that’s my ‘dis’ word for her.
“Look, Mr. President, we cannot trust you. You’ve already broken so many promises……”
She really DID wink. OMG
She really DID wink. OMG
She really DID wink. OMG
oops
word salad: incoherent speech consisting of both real and imaginary words, lacking comprehensive meaning, and occurring in advanced schizophrenic states.
One doesn’t have to be schizophrenic to have a schizoid episode (or 73, in Palins case).
That’s okay Johnny, it was actually fun to read that way. I was picturing you jumping up and down while writing it.
I don’t like to comment on anyone’s appearance in general because it seems really petty to me… but that being said, what is up with Palin’s eyes? They look strange to me. False eyelashes? I can’t put my finger on it.
I don’t think she is “winking” on purpose. I think it is a nerve reaction. Watching her…..that left wonky eye floats towards her nose quite often, making her look cross eyed and then it settles back to center after the wink/blink.
Thanks AKM for transcribing Sarah’s comments for us. What a job! Although I think you slipped a couple of times. There were some sentences that actually made sense! Maybe your brain just couldn’t handle what she actually said.
Amazing!
You know the “speech” app on MACs? I wish there was one I could set to “Palin” for a laugh.
You know, maybe it is a good thing that Palin is on Fox news… after all, after avoiding the media and media questions since the election in November 2008, people have been allowed to create whatever picture in their head of what they think Sarah is.
Her word choices are horrible and her rambling incoherence will not convince anyone but the teabaggers that she is qualified for high office.
Let her be subsidized by Murdock. Being paid to do the bidding of others makes her only one thing.
And although the SCOTUS ruling last week in Citizen’s United is disturbing, there isn’t enough money in the world to make the majority of the American people vote for this woman for high office.
Irishgirl @ 49
In the midnight hour she cried- “more, more, more”
With a rebel yell she cried- “more, more, more”
In the midnight hour babe- “more, more, more”
With a rebel yell- “more, more, more”
More, more, more.
– Billy Idol
honestyinGov@90 Says:
I saw the computer monitor on on the back desk there during the interview.
This is her New House tax deduction ( Fux studio ) obviously.
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I don’t doubt that for a minute. But the computer itself isn’t going to offset the $1.25 mil book money she herself disclosed she got before her last working day as governor, and you may take “working” with a grain of salt if you like.
So, we’ve got potential Business Use of Home and all kinds of other deductions in the works no doubt, if they don’t want to fork over their fair share to the US Government that they appear to hate so much.
But puh-leeze! If the Palin’s 2009 tax return is not flagged for an audit, there is no justice in this country.
In the midnight hour she cried -discharge discord discard discourage,
With a rebel yell she cried -distaste distrust distort disarray
In the midnight hour babe -dispassionate dissipate dispute disestablish
With a rebel yell -disturbance disorderly distortion.
And mandatiooooonnnnnnnnnnn.
I hate to be mean, but if you are all wondering about her lips and stuff, Gryphen has a great post up.
Plastic surgery gone wrong.
clean up, produce aisle
I think she tried to wink, but with all of her plastic surgery she wasn’t able to pull it off.
Yep, her chin/lower face wrinkle/creases are gone, her lower lip is crooked and she has a very hard time moving her face at all (heidi Montag said it is actually painful).
nerve damage? That will get worse in time. LIke Greta Van Susterans lopsided mouth?
I also noticed that as with many older people her lower teeth are showing more, that along with the right side of her lower lip being pulled down ..well we all noticed it first thing.
Does Sarah clearly know what the people want? She talks about disconnect, and how the administration is disconnected to what the people want. She’s the disconnected one. Doesn’t seem to have a clue as to the public’s pressing concerns right now.
What does she mean when she says, “I think that there was no way for him to come across as inspiring when he still is proposing those top-down big government solutions to the challenges that we’re facing when the people want empowerment for our businesses, our families”? Could she explain in detail what empowering businesses and families means? If families and businesses are broken and need intervention, how can they empower themselves?
When people find out they’re sick, or lost their jobs, or their health premiums are not paying for certain expensive procedures, how can these people empower themselves? Please, Sarah, answer the people……people’s lives are in the balance, they are waiting for your solutions. If government shouldn’t involve itself, then Sarah needs to share this new empowerment technique.
Okay, this does not sound like Palin at all. I think have her read is a huge mistake Fox. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001270068
All the comments are great. Palin does look like she had some work done. The eyebrows are higher and her mouth is crooked when she speaks. Also, the jowls she was beginning to grow seem to be disappearing. There are some procedures done with “wires” that do not take a long recovery. That and botox could be what she is doing. She did have “laugh” lines around her mouth and was developing a line between her lower lip and chin. Pretty is as pretty does, so all the face work in the world will not make her a pretty person. She’s awful on all fronts, and is a perfect match for Hannity.
nobody’s touched on her lisping…I definitely heard it…I guess until she gets used to how her new face works, this could be a problem…I’m hoping this will be a turn-off to her perfection-loving ‘friends’ / followers.
This is from (Media Matters for America) http://mediamatters.org/
Palin and teleprompter (maybe????)-
“I think tonight, Bret, you are going to hear the president attempt to mollify and rationalize what is perceived as a more lackadaisical approach to dealing with the war on terror and our handling of terrorists, and on the economic front, I think what we’re going to hear is his justification of what some perceive as attacks on our free enterprise system as he seeks to fulfill his commitment to, quote, fundamentally transform this country. I think he’s going to forge ahead very boldly with his policy agenda, but surely there will be an acknowledgement in there that the public is not enamored with his policies.”
thanks AKM for transcribing mrs. palins measured and thoughtful analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night.
I was unable to watch her performance as i was busy thinking about what I heard the President actually say.
I find i can make up my own mind so i always turn off the pundits and their sound bites.
President Obama speaks so clearly and kindly that even a child can understand and be inspired.
mrs palin is a tool and an ignorant, dangerous, woman. Murdoch and McCain must be held responsible for whatever harm this monstrous human does to this nation.
Why does he keep calling her “governor”? She’s not the governor of anything.
paid.to.lie
I just watched the media matters video, full screen, sound off, her face is stuck like glue, she cannot move it. Yepper, some nasty surgery she had done there. Wonder how many of her followers can afford a face lift? She’s the new Tammy Faye -yep, that’s who she looks like.
she read “lacksadaisical”
Poor Sarah, trying with all her mite (sic) to be relevant. She has an awful small playbook of remarks and salad sentences. Even though she organizes them in various orders, her list of words seems terribly limited and they all come out the same, meaning nuttin.
She is trying so hard to be “one of us” with her dropping g’s and being colloquial, but it ends up doing the opposite of her intention. Of course.
The FOX guys all hand-feed her these pre-agreed-upon questions and she never fails to foul it up…there also.
Her sizzle is rapidly fading after the book fizzle was revealed for what it was. She is going to have to come up with a big barn burner soon to regain the spot-light, after all, going after Levi as p*** king fell flat also too. Wasn’t that a righteous comeuppance when Scott Brown out-p***ed Levi’s picture and won an election? oooops
There really is a web site called “really bad plastic surgery.” Maybe that can be her next appearance. She’ll have to check with them & see if they paid Mickey Rourke or the “cat lady” to have their pictures posted. I doubt if they’ll pay her the standard speaking fee, but every little bit counts. Especially now that we’re in the count down mode regarding her dropping out of the tea bag thingy & having to return the $50,000 & she won’t be getting the other $65,000.
I just have to share this quote by JD Salinger, who died today, that sums Mrs. Palin and her followers perfectly, “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” I could never have said it better!
I am a woman of a certain age, an Alaskan, a mom, a full-time professional…… I am as appalled as any at the antics, rantings, spewings of SP. However, I am also appalled at all the mean-spirited attacks on her looks and taste in clothing or interior decorating (although I do find myself chuckling at some). Attack the substance or lack thereof of her commentaries, but not her makeup or clothing. Those types of comments make it seem that the commenters have nothing of substance to say. Let’s not stoop to petty, “mean-girl” insults when there are so many legitimate targets presented by SP.
signed,
wears mom & sis’s hand-me downs, has no discernible hairstyle, cannot afford ‘nice’ furniture, owns yard art of dubious taste, you get the idea here!
Crazy Woman… Yes… she is ” a Whole Lotta Nuthin ” and if she can make up words… so can we.
She likes to Twitter
She is an Idiot.
She is a TWITIDIOT.
Where is my Urban Dictionary now.
#66 CGinWI Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 11:37 AM
I know it’s almost impossible to underestimate Fox, but really, I’m amazed that they would be willing to post transcripts of the ex-gov’s ramblings on their website. “Here you go, momumental stupidity in black and white, courtesy of Fox.”
Of course, maybe someone at the station is taking a kind of sick pleasure in putting it out there.
I’m the one that did the transcript!
AKM
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(AKM, THANK YOU! I couldn’t listen to that BS)
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And all the rest of you on the topic of the makeup:
It looks like Carrie Prejean’s helping her with her make up–go look at one of her pageant photos in the evening dress. Scary.
On the topic of the plastic surgery:
She’s headed to the “cat lady” look of Joyce Wildenstein. One of my NYC co-workers was walking with her 9 year old son when she was on the cover of a magazine. He started crying when he saw the pic at a news stand. $P/Grifter Granny’s plasticizing always has reminded me of Wildenstein.
Anyone with HD TV should shield their young children.
# 134 Kim Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 1:39 PM
I am a woman of a certain age, an Alaskan, a mom, a full-time professional…… I am as appalled as any at the antics, rantings, spewings of SP. However, I am also appalled at all the mean-spirited attacks on her looks and taste in clothing or interior decorating (although I do find myself chuckling at some). Attack the substance or lack thereof of her commentaries, but not her makeup or clothing. Those types of comments make it seem that the commenters have nothing of substance to say. Let’s not stoop to petty, “mean-girl” insults when there are so many legitimate targets presented by SP.
signed,
wears mom & sis’s hand-me downs, has no discernible hairstyle, cannot afford ‘nice’ furniture, owns yard art of dubious taste, you get the idea here!
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If she had anything of substance to say, in English, no one would focus on her looks. Her looks are her entire shtick.
It is a very good thing that there is a disconnect between Obama and Fox News viewers!
As a reminder…Shannyn Moore just reminded everyone that AKM will be coming up on the radio as Her Guest.
http://www.kudo1080.com/
Hey Kim, ever since she said that “Barack Obama is not one of us”, and ever since the secret service had to increase their protection of him and his family as a result…..there is nothing left to respect, regarding that woman. All of you up there in Alaska know what she looked like before, and what she looks like now, it’s just a funny aside to her transformation, hard not to comment on, as it would be if I underwent plastic surgery and then returned to my home town and talked funny and wore a lot of makeup. You should have seen what they said about Greta, and about Beth Holloway Twitty when they went overboard with the er, amendments.
I couldn’t force myself to watch any video of Palin’s (or any other conservative’s) reaction to the president’s SOTUA, and neither could I read Palin’s ramblings word for word, so I skimmed over it. It makes my head ache to try to decipher her particular brand of word mix salad. None of us needed to listen to any of the conservatives’ reactions because we already knew what they were going to say. No matter what President Obama does/says, to them, it’s always going to be either a lie or wrong.
Inhofe is already calling the president a liar. He gave an interview to an OK radio station, claiming that the troops in Iraq are not on schedule to withdraw from the country, saying it won’t happen. Politifact says the president told the truth. Palin and some of the other conservatives see nothing wrong with lying to Americans. If these folks are fine examples of Christianity, it’s no wonder that more people are leaving established religious groups. These folks are more aligned with Mephistopheles than they are with Jesus.
jc in co -
Here ya go.
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/
I think it all matters. She is a tasteless, beauty queen walking, undereducated, word salad speakin, blundering fool, in tacky clothes, ho shoes, with nothing to sell except thighs in nylons and a wink -she’s an offence to the female race. Her tackiness, all around, is part of her sales pitch that she’s “just like you.” But most “yous” have to dress professionally or get sexually harassed, fired or more likely treated like an all around dumbass. Most “yous” don’t build a 2nd house right next door so you can have a princess touret (or whatever it’s called) and a home studio to spew hate on Faux Noise. Most “yous” don’t have health insurance, or if you do, can’t afford to use it anyway. Most “yous” certainly can’t afford a facelift. And most “yous” surely don’t make 115k to show up anywhere or for anything. Finally, this tacky, fake, brainless twit hopes to be MY (and “yous”) president and/or impact MY (and “yous”) life with her evangelical insanity. Yeah, she’s fair game in every way shape and form.
Renee @122 & 125 – That sure doesn’t sound like $P , one little bit. So, before the speech she can weave the word “mollify” into a flowing and grammatically correct statement and yet a mere 2 hours later she’s reduced to “mandation” and an inability to use the the word ” he ” correctly ??
h/t to everyone today for great comments. I miss da Flats!
Earlier I said Palin looked like Tina Faye- who I meant was Tammy Faye Baker (remember her?):
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tammy+faye+baker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=0gtiS-6MK8eXtgfNv4DZDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQsAQwAA
austintx: thanks for that horrifying link. Did you see “Michaela Rominini” eek! I wonder who is egging Palin on to put on more and more makeup. She’s a beautiful woman, without makeup, at least as she was when she lived in Juneau. The way she is now……….distraction from her message. The poster who mentioned Tammy Faye is not too far wrong……
The eyes look exactly the same- huge arched brows, all that dark racoon makeup. OMG- has Tammy been reincarnated via Palin? It’s that danged Muthy, I know it…
Thanks HIG for the head’s up that AKM is on Shannyn’s show. I would’ve missed it.
They sound better every time they get together. I really think it should be a regular thing.
Kim,
I agree. I don’t have issue if Palin gets Plastic surgery. I am actually starting to feel for her a bit. I think that Fox is pulling a fast one. I disagree with her views and her message. However, I think the bashing of her looks is silly. I am a 40 year old mom who is aging. If I was paid a ton of money to look good, I might consider it. And she is probably being pressured to do it. Just saying…
Buffalo Gal- I think it is beyond odd.
I, too, am 40 something and can usually be found roaming around in what my husband and I refer to as my “crazy lady outfits” (pajama pants w/ socks, flip flops, flannel shirt, baseball hat…) but I can get dolled up. Though I prefer to dress my age, look my age and act my age. Nor do I get dolled up and try to use my T&A to force Americans to become born again or take away your reproductive rights.
Let’s face it, truthfully, would she have gotten anywhere if she wasn’t good looking? Did anyone, anyone at all, vote for her great intellect? Or was it a wink and a mini skirt?
It would be interesting to compare a “word cloud” of her “analysis” with the word cloud of the SOTU.
I agree with those who think her “chill a lil and cool a little” along with head and shoulder side to side swag was meant as a racial snark from Scarah. Even using “lil” reminds me of southern ‘lil chile’, slang talk.
Also too!
If you can stand to, stop and look @ the 3:34 mark, blow it up, is that a cat picture above Toad? a white kitty cat? yeah right, I’m gonna believe Scarah likes cats, ha.
AND, I do believe that is a MIRROR behind her monitor, lol, she’s so vain, and stupid. In the mirror reflection you can see make up lights on the other side of the room, awe, how cute, Scarah has her very own in home studio, with make up area. Just like real media folks.
Now, why did she quit??? and immediately begin building a new house with studio? get plastic surgery? rush her book to market? line up big speaking gigs?
oh I see, it wasn’t just about the big bucks, she justifies in her pea brain ‘this’ is how she helps our nation and Alaska, by influencing political course via media. Of course she should QUIT in order to do this, lol. What a piece of work.
Rupert must have told her his plan was ready, so the next day she quits her ‘other’ job, because hey, she’s got people to see, places to go, money to be made, surgery to be had and look out fun, her comes the new, revised Scarah. After all, how can one turn down a much better deal like this? Especially one dripping with oodles and OODLES of money. (we believe you Levi)
Thank you AKM for transcribing Scarah’s word salad. You deserve a drink!
lol, I wonder if Mr. Bill is her camera man.
Kim, I agree with you about the snarky remarks about Ms. Palin’s appearance. I think, in part, it is because she DOES appear to have altered her appearance drastically. It’s obvious and people comment about obvious things. I think it’s unfortunate that we are so obsessed with the way people look.
I’m now 60 and I don’t look like I did when I was 25. I’m not dying my hair, getting face lifts, etc. There are a lot of things I don’t like, but at least my skin is finally better after all these years. But no one cares because I’m not a public figure. I’m not criticized for aging. And no one else should be either. But until people who are over 40 stop doing things to try to look 25, that mentality won’t go away. We’ve brought it on ourselves.
But I also have to agree with nswfm – if she had anything of substance to say, no one would focus on her appearance.
Thanks, AKM, for the transcript. I could only listen to the first four minutes. Part of my problem was that I couldn’t stand to hear Hannity blather on either. The two of them together are such a waste of time. But I did watch the rest of it after I turned the sound off. What I noticed was her body language. She seemed so uncomfortable while he was asking a question or making a comment. It was almost as if she was about to panic – her breathing changed, her head was more rigid than when she was talking, she blinked differntly than when she was speaking. I don’t think she’s very comfortable with this whole pundit role they’ve put her in. I wonder how long she will last. We can all hope that they just quit asking her and she fades away. I do think, though, that it’s good to have more video of her in case she does decide to make another run at some public office. I had to laugh at her comment about the fact checkers – she should know all about how they fact check speeches, since they didn’t find many of her “facts” to be true.
When she did finally talk, she just threw in all the old things she has always said about Obama, sometimes in a little bit different order, none of which made much sense. And please, someone give the woman a book on grammar and proper sentence structure! She drives me nuts. Either she has no subject or no predicate, not even implied. She rarely ever utters a complete sentence that could be diagrammed. I think the thing that has amazed me the most (and it’s more obvious in reading a transcript) is how she manages to jump from one subject to another that is unrelated, and it’s all in the same sentence. Maybe that’s her talent – seeming to speak English while speaking no real language at all.
What got me was her expression–the hard eyes, the flared nostrils. She is so angry and dying to “get” President Obama. Just like the other Fox News anchors, experts, talking heads, etc.
Ok, I made myself listen to part of the media matters statement that she purportedly gave and watched the video while she did it … that one had to be a written-for-her paragraph that she read.
Sorry, I couldn’t watch it for more than a minute. I felt like I’d fallen into a septic tank.
“……and embarrassing our supreme court (activists) and not respecting the separation of powers..”
Alito’s Face
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/01/alitos-face.html
Just want to weigh in on the “snarky” comments about her hair, make-up, etc. I too try to refrain from commenting on those and feel that they are so not the issue and there are plenty of issues with Sarah Palin, but in some of these last interviews I do think that her appearance is a telling factor … there is obviously something going on. I too think she had a facelift (or some plastic surgery) and that explains the absence right after resigning. That, in and of itself, is not relevant, but drug usage would be, if she continues to be allowed to put forth her views on policies in this country. And her changed face, and her manner of speech, seem to be significantly altered and indicative of something going on. And yes, we age, and change, etc. but we are talking about the period of just a little over a year? And the most telling to me are the interviews with her and Bristol, where Brisol is obviously being controlled, subdued, and publically humiliated. It is unconscionable.
“Mandation” should be a line of high-end spas for guys.
Pat, Washington state,
The numerous comments as to Palin’s appearance are directed more at the fact she has done everything she can to use her looks/sexuality to further herself. When you listen to her followers, men in particular, she has succeeded. Beyond her looks, they have nothing else to say but “she’s just like us”. No policity, no experience, no knowledge of what she has truly done, no nothing.
An example, when you see someone in the Office of Governor who shows up at an event to pay respect to fallen soldiers, you dress appropriately. You don’t show up to sit on stage as the Governor in flaming red highheels with your mini skirt that looked like it was from her daughter’s wardrobe. Her wardrobe in a professional position, other than the ‘RNC wardrobe’ on the Presidential campaign, has reflected that of a casual wardrobe worn for instance by a pool of typists in the basement of a corporation. (I’ve been there)
She draws the attention to herself by selling her sexuality at the same time as attempting to sell her politicial spin – the sexuality getting the more attention as no one understands what she is saying.
Therefore, if you step out trying to sell it as she does, it leaves you open for all the commentary on it.
Uh……..what the f*ck did she say?
http://cbr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/6/17
“Health Care: is Mandation the answer?”
a 1989 article that appears to be SP’s talking point source? I didn’t pay for the PDF download of the article, but it seems to fit. Or maybe she googled “health care” and found a new word she could throw out there to get press….. couldn’t find much else in search where the word was used, other than within constitutional lingo, and it didn’t seem to fit the use.
Gryphen has some great stuff over there exposing the “work” Palin has had done on her face, what looks like nerve damage and all. Sad, isn’t it? She’s starting to look a bit like Greta…
On another blog it was pointed out that the left side of her mouth appears to be sagging. Speculation that nerve damage from plastic surgery may be the cause. If you watch the video without sound it is readily apparent.
I have no problem with snarky remarks about Palin’s appearance since all she really has is her appearance. Maybe I’m wrong to feel that way, but the only reason she “is who she is” today, is because of her appearance….nothing else. She is an empty headed knuckle brain who has no business holding any kind of public office or critcizing the President of the United States.
But, Holy Cow, I watched the video with the sound down just to look at her face again. What the heck is going on there? Something funky happened….even since her book tour. Too much Botox? Was she drugged out? More cosmetic surgery?
She looks like a freak and her eyes look like they are being pulled to the side of her head. I’m sorry if that’s mean and snarky, but she just pulls the snark out of me.
trisha Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:14 PM
She looks like a freak and her eyes look like they are being pulled to the side of her head. I’m sorry if that’s mean and snarky, but she just pulls the snark out of me.
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snark is good trisha… snark away darlin’.
I’ve had it with this woman, she is an a**hole! She is never challenged on her claim that the government wants to take over health care! It is this type of lie, when repeated often enough, that makes people fear their government (but not their insurance company).
As a side note…as my mother says, “May I make a suggestion? With all due respect and thanks to the other posters here who see right through her BS, the snarky comments about her appearance really just reflect poorly on the commentator and only fuel the “oh, you’re just jealous” nutjobs who support her. Rise above the snark! There is plenty more about her be concerned about.
161 wallflower – GREAT one!!
Regarding all the talk about plastic surgery, odd eyes, cutesy hair, I just saw an article about that other Crazy woman Orly Taitz…and you know, I think Sarah’s lookin’ more like her all the time.
Just keep her talking. The more ol’ droopy lip talks the more people will see that her mental vacuity is a permanent state and not something she can “study” her self out of.
Is it just me or is she beginning to be a self-parody?
She looks more like a cartoon figure every time I see her these days — like Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton or…
Gack.
(And I’ve got me a cravin’ for freedom AND liberty…)
The reason for the snark of the CW’s looks is that she’s already blown our minds with the stupidity, and she’s still getting face time on the tee vee. What’s left?
Just my op!
That studio in her new home’s turret is a Belfry.
She is the Bat in the Belfry.
I have personally never been interested enough in SP’s looks, clothing etc. to make comments on such things (except for my one pithy and scientifically based observation that her red shoes function anthropologically similar to the red butt on baboons. True dat.). However, I also realize that the interesting, dynamic character of a blog comes from the many diverse people who post their thoughts….and, consequently, I have a respect for the wide variety of comments, regardless of their point of view. If I’m not interested in a comment, I don’t finish reading it and move on to the next. (Furthermore, this particular blog has a very competent moderation system in place to handle inappropriate comments.)
With all that in mind…..what really irritates me (and more so lately) are posters who preach, scold, or otherwise try to “set the tone” of the conversation to their own comfort level. Nothing makes a blog more boring or conversation stagnate faster than when posters monitor the “appropriateness” and tone of other posters’ comments.
The biggest tip off is when these posters anchor their criticisms with a phrase such as “we are better than such and such blog (or group), so we must conduct ourselves in such and such fashion.” Really?? We must conduct ourselves in a certain fashion so that a particular poster is personally comfortable?
If you think about it, the number of “comfort levels” is no doubt as substantial as the number of individual posters…..I’m sure these comfort levels fit a nice bell curve where most people are comfortable in a certain range and the outliers eventually move on or get moderated out.
Let the moderators do their jobs. Everyone else…..keep on being your own beautiful, intelligent, snarky, funny selves. It’s why I keep coming back. Thank you.
167 bubbles Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:26 PM
trisha Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:14 PM
She looks like a freak and her eyes look like they are being pulled to the side of her head. I’m sorry if that’s mean and snarky, but she just pulls the snark out of me.
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snark is good trisha… snark away darlin’.
Nobody forced her to get a face lift, or to wear call girl outfits.
Those were her choices and she wants us to see her that way.
I’m just waiting till she turns orange, then we’ll know she has reached the upper eschelons of the Republican Party. ‘Cause they are letting her share their makeup.
Thinking a bit more about ‘the look’. It seems to me there’s a real commonality among conservative talking gals…Gretchen Carlson, Carrie Prejean, Michelles Bachman and Malkin, our own Lynn Jenkins, and of course, SP. It’s a wide eyed always a little surprised look, like they think they’re being serious and intense, but they come off like deer in the headlights. There’s a highschool cheerleader quality to it. Their mouths are moving, but their eyes are saying “does he like me? am I looking really cute? Should I have worn the siren red instead of this pretty southern-belle-born-again-virgin-pink?”
173 Lee323
Well put. I agree.
When things get a little too too, I go elsewhere.
Sometimes the too too is me and I need to back off, some times it others.
We can do this together and Mudpups are better than most other blogs becasue the heavy duty snark and arguments are kept to a minimun.
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Lee323 Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:36 PM
I have personally never been interested enough in SP’s looks, clothing etc. to make comments on such things (except for my one pithy and scientifically based observation that her red shoes function anthropologically similar to the red butt on baboons. True dat.).
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did i ever tell you that i love you? well i do.
Hey Palin, how about YOU stop making stuff up?!?! Like words. Mandation indeed!
I don’t for a minute think that she actually watched the entire SOTU address. It was over an hour long.
She just doesn’t have that kind of attention span or intellectual curiosity.
171 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:35 PM
The reason for the snark of the CW’s looks is that she’s already blown our minds with the stupidity, and she’s still getting face time on the tee vee. What’s left?
Just my op!
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Just when I think my tee vee couldn’t get any stupider, there she is…..
K, as a European , Mrs Palin comes across as a f**king idiot. Mandating and rememberin’. Holy sh*t.
America, don’t allow yourself to be defined by this absolute retard.
I have to take to take the rubbish out now.
176 Marnie Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:42 PM
173 Lee323
Well put. I agree.
When things get a little too too, I go elsewhere.
Sometimes the too too is me and I need to back off, some times it others.
We can do this together and Mudpups are better than most other blogs becasue the heavy duty snark and arguments are kept to a minimun.
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By all means, put your feet up, loosen your belts, make yourselves comfortables!
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Irishgirl Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:52 PM
I have to take to take the rubbish out now.
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we got to take the rubbish out now also. too.
I think mandation is another John Wooden Legs moment.
A mandation is something mandated. Nobody really uses the word except in writing laws and statutes. The kind that nobody reads.
She apparently was thinking mandatory, tried to Google a synonym and used a word she doesn’t understand.
Again.
@ 177 bubbles
Ditto
You’re our very own “bubbles”……we’re so lucky!
Everyones’ favorite ex-GINO (joke) has come out with guns blazing. She has, or her ghost-writer, posted her opinion of the STOTU on Facebook. Reallllllllyyyyyyy mean and nasty. Take a peek if you can stand the thought.
I am starting to feel sorry for Sarah, although I am still flaming angry over her treatment of her children. Is there no one in Alaska that can teach someone how to dress and present oneself as a professional? I am a retired professional woman and would have never showed up at work dressed like her. Admittedly, in my job theatrical make-up would not have been appropriate. Is there no-one in Alaska who could have directed her to a good cosmetic surgeon? Done well, cosmetic surgery can enhance; hers makes her look older. And can’t someone in her inner circle force her to get off the drugs. (look at her pupils under the theatrical lights–they are huge!) We are watching someone be slowly destroyed. She thinks she is getting rich, and probably famous, but she will be paying a huge price.
jeez, she always has a Blackberry glued to her palm…you’d think she’d use it to look up facts once in a while!
And speaking of Oily, er, Orly, Taitz…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/orly-taitz-files-another_n_441101.html
Orly Taitz Files Another Birther Lawsuit, Considers Run For Office
I made myself listen to the video. Mandation is a pronoun, it is a thing that has been mandated. But I don’t think it refers to the type of mandate that she is referring to as mandated health care.
She tried to use it as a verb, “The mandation of health care.”
Sarah, dear, the best way to improve your vocabulary is to read literature,
or
if you can’t handle that, Mudflats. Or any of numerous left wing blogs that use the English language correctly and use “big” word properly.
Also, just a hint, it is impossible to talk folksy and intellectually at the same time. There is a time and place for each, but they don’t co-mingle very well, it comes out silly.
Somebody needs to ask Sarah why she is against people having healthcare that they can afford.
And how can she do that in view of her claimed Christianity. The Good Samaritan give free health care to a poor man. How can she deny that when it is a very specific teaching of Christ?
Lee323 Says:
I have personally never been interested enough in SP’s looks, clothing etc. to make comments on such things (except for my one pithy and scientifically based observation that her red shoes function anthropologically similar to the red butt on baboons. True dat.)
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And again I shall provide the picture to go with your observation.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Baboon_in_estrus.jpg
I can ignore Palin’s looks, or lack thereof, but not the overuse of “disconnect”… Aargh! I think there is a disconnect between her mouth and the intelligence lodged somewhere in her brain. Run-on sentences have become her signature feature, not her hairstyle.
oh , and yeah , we loves our bubbles.
Nite…sometimes I get mad.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, and so Palin managed to get one thing right in her word-salad spew — “Now one or the other is being disingenuous here – either our president and what he just claimed, or the supreme court justice and I think that this is going to be a huge take-away moment from this speech tonight.”
Unfortunately, it’s already clear who is being disingenuous, and it’s not Obama.
I love this quote by Ackerman from Andrew Sullivan today – ESPECIALLY the part describing Palin as an “unbalanced ignoramous.”
“We have learned so much about McCain these past few years: a man whose cynicism allowed him to acquiesce to the CIA using the exact same torture methods once used on him; whose recklessness goaded him to foist an unbalanced ignoramus as a potential president in a time of great crisis at home and abroad; whose bitterness is exceeded only by Joe Lieberman’s; and who sickeningly exploited his own years as a POW to gin up votes. He’s as hollow a man as you’re likely to find in Washington – and that’s a very high bar.”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
A plastic “Barbie Doll” have intellect? Get real folks!
Think about all her “mouth” pieces…media, religious conservative
folks, redneck, uneducated yahoos – they don’t recognize
intellect, only a sexy looking babe to parade before the cameras.
A plastic “Barbie Doll” have intellect? Get real folks!
Think about all her “mouth” pieces…media, religious conservative
folks, redneck, uneducated yahoos – they don’t recognize
intellect, only a sexy looking babe to parade before the cameras.
SEX sells newspapers, magazines and television programs.
$arah is all for the money.
Stop giving this “cheap” piece of trash print.
Wow, the first sentence was only 83 words!
None of you will believe this (well of course, this is if you haven’t come across this yet)…
I was wondering about the picture in Mrs. Palin’s background during her mandation. The one with the person holding an infant. First I thought it was Tahd. Then I just read a post on another Palin blog and some savvy commenter found what it was.
Mother Theresa. She has Mother Theresa on her wall. Cradling an armless baby.
Oh, the Mandation of it all…I might hurl.
http://tinyurl.com/ya6ujkb
Marnie, interesting you should use the Christian example of the Good Samaritan to make a point. . .may I expand upon it further? At the heart of this story it is not so much a ‘good’ person helping out a ‘poor’ man but that it was a Samaritan helping a Jew, a Jew who despised him specifically because he was a Samaritan. It is a story of politics AND mercy.
A modern day version might go like this: Sarah Palin, lying a ditch, injured. . .a whole bunch of self-righteous Right Wingers pass by her, not wishing to be bothered by a bloody, dirty mess, even one of their own. Then who should come along, pull her up from the ditch, bind her wounds and take her into his own home. . .an ACORN representative, perhaps????
Yeah, I know. Not in Palin’s universe. Only those whose ‘heart is right with God’ need apply.
Just had a scary thought.
The VP is often sent to the funerals of foreign dignitaries and VIP, and the POTUS goes to funerals of foreign leaders, other Pres. kings etc.
They, of course are asked to make appropriately sorryful and toughtful, and lauditory comments to US and foreign press.
Can you imaging what harm Sarah could cause?
Did you see that the judge of the 24 year old RepoPimp O’Keefe has mandationed him to go home to mom and dad and stay in their home till his next hearing.
Could we do that to Sarah if she ever gets elected again or appointed to anything important?
I mean find some experienced ethical politicians and mandationate them to be her foster politcoparents.
Austin is messing with AKM’s google result search again!
I enjoyed Keith Olbermann tonight on MSNBC talking about Sarah being at the crux of the crash of the teaparty convention.
Alaskan @ 127 ~ I believe once you have a rank/title, you’ve got it for life.
For example, when he’s addressed *to his face* by ‘normal’ folks (i.e. not his family, close friends, and/or those he’s told/asked otherwise), former president Jimmie Carter isn’t “Jimmie” or “Mr. Carter,” he is “President Carter” or “Mr. President.”
In print, he’d be referred to as/called: “former [US/American] president Carter” and/or “former [US/American] president Jimmie Carter.” If his name is brought up again and again (in a single print article), after it has been *first* established that the “Carter” being mentioned is, indeed, the one and only former president [Carter], he’d simply be “Carter”.
In a discussion of him (when he is *not* present), the same deal applies as it does for when his name in print. If it [his name] comes up again and again in a single discussion, he’d simply be “Carter” … after it had *first* been established which “Carter” said discussion was about [i.e. former president Carter -- as opposed to: Nell Carter or the Carter of "Carter's Little Liver Pills.]
…course, unlike Ms “I-won’t-be-a-lame-duck-for-the-rest-of-my-unfinished-FIRST-term” Quitty Pants, Carter actually *completed* his terms of elected office (both as governor of GA and as President of the United States of America.) Just sayin’. beth.
201 MicMac Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Yes to all you said.
And just another reason to want to scream at the image of Sarah taking cookies to remote Eskimo villagers who were facing the possibility of freezing to death.
Had the situation been reversed, her car broke down on a remote road to their village and one snowmobiled by. You know they would have picked her up and taken her into their home and fed her until she could safely leave.
That cookie thing still makes me want to get in her face and say all the opprobrious epithets I can think of. One of the few I can put here is stone-cold-heartless.
Kim: You are right, however, in our/my defense, she has no substance and uses her looks as her calling card. Look at her fans, they rhapsodize over how pretty she is. It IS part of what she is very obviously selling.
Also, there are standards of professional attire and grooming and it reflects badly on her professionalism or lack of, that she has not gotten a look together and moved on! When she shows up at book signings in Chairman Mao hats and purple suede boots like she is Britany Spears, well, it shows she is not together enough to run the Free World! And those who suspect some kind of mental illness, well, her odd changes of personality in her outfits could speak to that.
And thirdly (!) gossiping here is just silly girl fun and there is a place for that, in fact, humans are hard-wired to gossip!
Just got an e-mail from the NRA (forwarded to me from a friend). Now look who is giving away free books.
“Join NRA as a fully paid, annual member for only $25 and get a copy of Sarah Palin’s new bestseller,
Going Rogue–a $29.95 value–FREE. In this eye-opening first-hand account, NRA Life Member Sarah Palin calls on all Americans to embrace faith and family, and fight for the freedoms we cherish.
Join for three years
and get a signed copy of Going Rogue”
He not understanding that no we don’t want to just chill a little bit and cool a little bit on his health care plan we want the thing killed because it is government take over of about 1/6 of our economy. We don’t want to see that go forward so with an issue like that still with that disconnect.
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Hey sarah !! President Obama has a special “chill” message just for you.
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/5/128703940277501305.jpg
Well I haven’t watched any republican pukits discuss SOTU.
I did watch the SOTU live…!!!!!
It totally rocked.
My dad, who is a AK Territorial Guard member, told me that Palin is a bimbo. I guess he watched her on Hannity.
I did read the transcript above. Once. She’s got no kick, nothing new. Basically boring. Being a bimbo might get her somewhere or something or help her keep that Fox job for a few more months.
sjk, you missed one: tax cuts for the wealthy (whether corporate or individual). Health and peace to all.
she is going to do the tea party thing- and states that she will donate back the money- via Greta of Fox show. I like to watch the spin cycle.
..the money will be divied out at the same percentage as the $ from SarahPac…the rest for Consulting fees to Bristol’s little company…
Friend at work is dissappointed Palin’s a female, but grateful she’s not a blonde!
she gives blondes a good name
Beyond the possible plastic surgery and her typical plastic responses, has anyone noticed that she doesn’t seem to be using any hand gestures? Is someone sitting on her hands? Has there been a mandation against her hand gestures?
On another note, does anyone remember the actress Karen Valentine? Palin looks just like her in this segment.
Gryphen suggests turning the sound off and watching Palin’s mouth.
He was clued in by an e-mail from a surgeon.
Looks like Palin has some nerve damage. From plastic surgery perhaps.
It will either get better or get worse.
I think she already looks worse. That’s what happens to vain women that have unnecessary surgery. And at her age looking as she did, she certainly didn’t need surgery. Now she’ll pay and keep paying. She’ll have surgery after surgery, trying to correct the previous surgeries.
I was curious about how this might stand up to translation, so…. took one of those responses, went to babelfish.yahoo.com and did a translation to Greek and back. (Greek seemed like the appropriate choice, somehow.)
“From then roughly August always more (*wink*) Americans has given more attention in what is in this account of sanitary care, and always more Americans becomes more [untranslatable] for what we see there, thus they are not his subject that is not in position explaining his policy, with the governmental undertaking and mandation the sanitary care, but Americans that they understand what there, him does not like and not sending him that message via those three democratic sweeps in the Virginia, in the New-Jersey, coffee Scott election also, the locomotion his Party of tea, the facts of Town halls – persons that send that message in Chairman , that is to say sanitary care that is a focus in this. The one that does not understand that we do not want to see in his governmental undertaking of one our sixth economy.”
Will leave you to draw your own conclusions…
I know Alaskans have great hearts and have sent aid to their own Natives in rural villages and to Haiti. Just in case you haven’t seen this report on HuffPo on its Impact page, I thought there might be someone in Alaska or elsewhere (mudflatters all) who might be wiling and able to help Native Americans in the Midwest suffering because of a severe ice storm. The story was first posted on the 27th. I bet few of us saw it. I do not have an author’s name, but go to HuffPo Impact tab to verify.
Here’s the info from the article:
“Last week’s ice storm in South Dakota left thousands without power and water. While many Red Cross resources are being diverted to relief efforts in Haiti, there is still the need for money and supplies in the upper midwest, specifically for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which has a full list of needed medical and general supplies.
“Power outages forced 35 kidney dialysis patients from the tribe to temporary relocate to Rapid City, and the reservation requires glucose strips, first aid kits and even children’s medicine.
“The local Wal-mart has sent food and supplies, but in-kind contributions are being accepted. A full list of what the Tribe requests:”
•Non-perishable food
•Cots
•Heat sources (heaters & fuel)
•Camp stoves & fuel
•Lithium 1, 2 and 3 batteries for law enforcement
•Lamps/Batteries/Lamp Oil
•Toilet paper
•Paper products for the shelters
•Pampers/formula
•Hand/baby wipes/Hand sanitizer
Ship in-kind donations to:
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman’s Office
Attn: Ice Storm Emergency Supplies
PO Box 590
2001 Main Street (Tribal Offices)
Eagle Butte, SD 57625
“You can also contribute money to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s emergency relief fund, which has been depleted in the past months. Online donations are currently unavailable.”
Mail checks to:
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe/2010 Disaster Account
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman’s Office
Attn: Ice Storm Emergency Fund
PO Box 590
2001 Main Street (Tribal Offices)
Eagle Butte, SD 57625
Interesting off topic in the Huff Po RE: Kevalina, AK (a barrier reef island) files suit against oil companies claiming rising ocean caused by climate change is forcing residents to move.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/kivalina-appeals-eroding-_n_441420.html
Catch the Obama inpressionist on Jay Leno tonight. It’s priceless. He does a good Palin dis.
@mlaiuppa: Looks like Palin has some nerve damage. From plastic surgery perhaps.
just thinking out loud…is this God’s will? …is this punishment for all her many sins? isn’t this what her head-twisting, demon-ridding, exorcising, extreme religious beliefs are?…it would be if it was someone else.
“He not understanding that we don’t want to see government takeover of one sixth of our economy.” ~ SP commenting on POTUSs “lecture.”
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She not understanding no one wants “to see government takeover of one sixth of our economy” ~ nor is anyone even suggesting it!
She not understanding, also, too, the “one sixth of our economy” talking point is red-herring bogus and that its having a “mandation” is utter tommyrot.
She not understanding what is included in that “one sixth” figuring her so vacuously repeats. Aspirin and bc pills; physical therapy exercise bands; gasoline to deliver splints and sutures to patient-delivery points (and driver’s salary and van insurance and van license fees, also, too), etc., are included. Health insurance co employee salaries (and CEO pay and bonuses!); hospital, clinic, dr. office staff salaries; needles, tubes, and bags to collect donated blood; hosp meal trays; disposal boxes for used needles, etc., are included. Scrubs, gauze, bunion pads — also part of ‘the industry’… in other words EVERYTHING connected with/to “healthcare” –no matter how remotely– is *included* in that (%) figure.
All of that, together, makes up +/- one sixth of our economy (with the majority of it, if me not mistaken, going towards the cost –to the patient/consumer– of health ins premiums, and ‘administrative costs’ of the health ins cos.) Her obviously (obliviously?) doesn’t know that.
For she (and other GOPers stuck on the one-note: “NobamaCare!” bandwagon) to keep repeating the “one sixth” figure *as if* it reflects *direct* patient care, solely, is completely disingenuous. But it’s a grand scare tactic!
No one is suggesting POTUS (or anyone {with half a brain}) wishes to see ‘the government take over one sixth of the economy’; what sensible people *are* demanding is: 1) affordable health care regardless of any other consideration, 2) excellent health care regardless of any other consideration; and, 3) doctor-patient *only* health care. (Some are even asking, begging!, our nation to adopt universal health care so every one can get, be, and stay healthy as a human right! [How silly of them to ask that...])
When her (and the GOP) figure how much the car industry is (% wise) of our economy, do they figure in the costs of resurfacing roads? Of manufacturing road signage? Of grates to prevent debris from going into rain carry-off pipes? Do they take all those costs, *together*, and then tell people that *that* (resultant %-wise figure) is how much it will cost Americans *to purchase cars*? I think not – it would be an utterly false accounting of the actuality/reality.
But her do it when talking about health care reform; her repeats the crock-full “one sixth” meme.
Then again, no one has ever accused she of *not* being calculating, manipulating, scheming, and devious. [Madly and frantically checking the latest updates of all legal rulings, briefs, and journals...] Nope, no mandation that her be truthful and honest, either. beth.
–Gads, it’s difficult to write pronouns the way her spokes they; me sure I’m missed some in writing the above. To be sure, she manglationing of English jars the senses! Jangles also nerves, too. b.–
O.K…..I will bang my head against the wall one last time. It is all about the government take over of health care. Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, now that I have all of your attention, what doesn’t everyone understand about the government,be it federal, state, city, county, or borough that already controls health care. Where in the Sam Hill do you think all the public employees in this country get their health insurance? Yeah that is right, from the private health insurance companies. All of those tax dollars, try an add them up, for every public employee in this country, that go right into the pockets of the Blue Cross Blue Shields of this country. Don’t you get it? The only money that the private health insurance companies are really afraid of losing is the public tax money. Why can’t all federal employees be put in the Medicare system for like half the cost of the private sector? Why can’t the state employees be in Medicaid for half the cost of the private sector insurance? And indeed why do any public employees have to get their health insurance from the private sector? The only difference between a single payer system and the one the public sector has right now is that we single pay right to a private system that does not provide one lick of health care, but only pays the bills. And then they pay only the bills they can’t get out of paying. When are you people gonna get it? The only way we are gonna get real health insurance reform in America is to take the public money away from the private providers. It was great to see Mr. Obama stand up to the Supreme Court, but when is he gonna stand up to the private health insurance companies and say no more public money for you. Sorta like the soup Nazi. In the end the only way we can help all the people in this country to get single payer, universal health care is to quit propping up these crooks with public money. That is right Sarah, let’s get the government money out of the private health insurance system…..
Cathy in Texas @ 215: “Beyond the possible plastic surgery and her typical plastic responses, has anyone noticed that she doesn’t seem to be using any hand gestures? Is someone sitting on her hands? Has there been a mandation against her hand gestures?” and mlaiuppa via Lainey @ 220: “Looks like Palin has some nerve damage. From plastic surgery perhaps.”
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I’ve been wondering: stroke?
Looks just like my father did after his first mini-stroke ~ still functioning, but: speech/sound formation not quite right/ ‘off’ to the listener’s ear; mouth and face muscles’ control not working up to par/ ‘off’ on one side; and right arm weaker than a newborn kitten…moveable, but painful and pretty much useless for independent/’extraneous’ gestures. Yeah, I’m wondering if she’s had a mini-stroke (or two). beth.
This may have already been posted here but it’s a fun read, hey and she’s living her dream – the article reports she will be getting $115,000 for giving a speach:
Mother Jones
“Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Dinner Disaster”
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/sarah-palins-tea-party-dinner-disaster
Oh and then there’s this too (Thanks KT). It seems that some on the far far right are starting to hate each other:
“Paul Streitz Backstabs Governor Palin; Updated”
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/01/paul-streitz-backstabs-governor-palin.html
Disclaimer (Sarah Palin does it, why can’t I?) – I haven’t read all of the comments by any means since I’ve been gone all evening busy meeting Southeast Alaska Mudpups. The last comment I checked in on was one who was chewing us out for being picky about Granny Palin’s looks and upgrades and god knows what else.
I normally would agree 100 percent – but there is a weird phenomena going on here that I can’t get over myself. Did anyone watch the first season of CSI New York? There was that actress with the puffed out lips. I can’t remember her real name, or her CSI NY name. All I can remember is those lips. I am not a catty person. I am live and let live when it comes to looks. Alaskans are pretty darn casual in that regard – most of us would rather see who you are made of rather than who made you up. But I had to stop watching that stupid show due to that woman’s lips. They were so fake, so huge, so unlike real people’s lips that I just couldn’t hear a word she was saying. I was completely distracted from the show and saw nothing but LIPS.
So, season three – someone tells me CSI NY got better because they changed the cast and got the coroner out from sleeping under a bare light bulb in some gloomy room in the basement. I think no way, I can’t watch it because of PUFFY LIP WOMAN. Then someone says “She’s gone”.
“No way – PUFFY LIP WOMAN is gone? Hallelujah!” I watched a few episodes and sure enough, she’s gone! Turns out they killed her off. She didn’t just quit the team, a bad guy did her in and she was gone forever. Thank god – now I can watch the show again because PUFFY LIP WOMAN is dead!
Turns out, it’s bad acting and plots all the way around so I quit watching shortly after she was toast anyway. So my glee about the demise of Puffy Lip Woman was short lived – but oh so ecstatic while it lasted!
Long story short – sometimes something is so dreadful that it just captures your attention even though it shouldn’t. Sarah Palin’s face, especially her gremlin looking eyes from too much makeup and who knows what else she did to them, completely prevents me from being able to watch her. Sorry, just can’t do it. She looks like Frankenstein. There, now that I’ve said it I’ll just go off and burn in you know where because I’m such a rotten person.
The biggest thing I notice is that she is boring. She has nothing new to add to the conversation. All she does is repeat her “phrase of the moment”….over and over and over. Like, common sense, etc. All she ever adds is a laundry list of GOP talking points. She has no depth. Boring.
I like the way Greta is asking her “what would you do”? Then a flood of word salad with “common sense solutions”, the government should get out of the way, more and more stupid words, stupid order, nonsense opinions that don’t even answer what Greta asked. Off camera Greta must be rolling her eyes. I wonder if they draw straws at Fox to see who has to interview Palin.
Also too, I think she is heavily medicated. Xanax? Valium? Oxy?
I think her puppet masters are trying to keep her “even” so she doesn’t go nuts on them during a live broadcast. I keep looking at the way she is blinking. It’s almost as if she is trying to stay focused or she has to keep blinking to really concentrate…..it’s what happens when you are spaced out on valium or a benzodiazapine.
I’ve worked with physicians for years with patients who abuse/divert these meds. While I couldn’t say for sure, she sure has the look of someone who is on some kind of central nervous system depressant.
That, and it does look like she has had even more work done since her book tour. Too much botox?
You know what seems so obvious? She isn’t happy. She doesn’t need to put herself through this. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Sarah is that she’s got a very limited comfort level. I’d be the first person to say she has an ego the size of a planet, but at some point, you’d think that ego would be telling her to stop doing what doesn’t make her happy.
I really pity her. It’s like she’s got a tiger by the tail, and she can’t–or someone won’t let her–let go. Anyone else get the feeling someone else is driving her bus?
I’m having baked mandations for dinner tonight with mandation gravy.
I would just like to point out that there is a reason that we discuss Sarah’s looks, be it her clothing, make-up, hair or whatever it is.
The reason is that she uses it to sell herself. She does a disservice to women everywhere by doing so, and cheapens and demeans all women in the process.
Women have worked very hard to be taken seriously in the workplace, to have looks mean nothing, instead have your knowledge and abilities take the lead over how you look, and Sarah has thrown us all back light years in this area.
How seriously would this woman be taken if she was ugly or even just plain looking? She wouldn’t be. She would have never been picked for VP, she would not have the voice she does now. She is using her looks to gain power and it is obvious by those who constantly claim that others are “just jealous of her looks”. I’m not jealous of her looks, quite the contrary. I am just average looking, but I like me just fine the way I am. I would never wish to look like her, and I am thankful I have more brain cells than she obviously does and I am proud to admit that I don’t know everything, but I am willing to learn, willing to acknowledge when I don’t know something, but am also willing to learn about it. I work hard to support myself and my children. I don’t ask for handouts or beg others to pay my bills for me.
She talks of “empowering women” with her pro-life message, but she isn’t doing that at all. She is proving to people, especially young women out there that if you don’t have a brain, if you don’t have knowledge, or a grasp of the issues, you can still get ahead by using your looks, employing others to do the work for you and pass it off as your own. That sickens me.
Sarah exemplifies the worst in women and holds it out there like it is some banner or trophy to be proud of, and all it does is hurt women everywhere.
There has been much speculation as to the cause of Sarah’s lisping and odd movements of her lips and jaw. One of the proposed reasons is nerve damage from facelift surgery. I think this is the most probable cause.
In the last few years, I’ve had 5 surgeries in the neck and upper chest areas to remove cancerous tumors. Each surgery has resulted in more and more nerve damage, which was anticipated and cannot be repaired or reversed. The damage has caused a drooping on one side of my face, my mouth pulls to the side when I talk or attempt to smile, frequent muscle spasms result in furthering tightening on one side, and my speech becomes garbled because the nerves and muscles do not work as they should. The similarities to Palin’s lead me to believe she has had some nerve damage.
That being said, I don’t wish illness, discomfort, disfigurement, etc. on anyone………….but on the other hand, I feel ZERO sympathy for anyone who willingly opts for elective surgery in the name of vanity.
If in future an Alaskan elected Governor decides to quit due to medical, personal, psychological, family reasons; immediately a new vote should be triggered. It should be clarified and re-written that the Lieutenant Governor should be there for the purpose of receiving delegated, temporary delegations of authority when the elected Governor is away. You know, a businesslike delegation of authority so the business of Alaska can be legally conducted. If a sitting Governor abandons his/her duties either with a written notice or not when explicably AWOL; the state governing body should remove such Governor. Our oil is attracting those who would interfere with our policies up to and including criminalizing Alaskans in order to efficiently accommodate their goals. Outsiders who have no interest in Alaskan concerns, priorities or sensitivities or goals will overwhelm by any means a weak, though popular personality if the power needs to be within their ruthless control. Tell your legislators to re-write that law immediately. Number one priority. Let’s keep our governmental control within Alaska. Do more thinking; less television watching. Thanks.
There is a lot of emptiness in her words. Ohhhh, Yeah, “wink”. Where did she learn to speak ignorlish?
There are plenty of beautiful women in this world. And women who are far more beautiful, and actually have brains.
All Palin adds to her pretty face is an outsized ego, and a bunch of idiots backing her.( Murdoch, Ayles, Hannity, Limbaugh etc. I don’t think O’Reilly or Beck are. And I think Greta is over her crush.)
Isn’t it time that Faux news pulled the plug. She has nothing, nothing to say.
#241Man_from_Unk, I think ignorlish is the native language of Dumbf*ckistan.
jc in co -
Funny !!
@239 LisaB “I really pity her. It’s like she’s got a tiger by the tail, and she can’t–or someone won’t let her–let go. Anyone else get the feeling someone else is driving her bus?
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I agree with you, but I don’t pity her. Life is all about choices and Palin made these choices. But, I agree that someone else is driving the bus. I’m sure when she signed that multi-media deal (book, tour, Fox, ect) with Murdock She didn’t realize that she would work for them. She likes having all the power and as Governor, she bullied a lot of people to get her way. Now, she has a boss and I am sure they are telling her to tow the line. She can’t get all mavericky on them and send Toad out to harrass Murdock or the producers of Fox when she doesn’t get her way. Nope.
Welcome to the real world, Palin.
Well done and great blog. Thank you!
Kenda
I used to work for a woman who was somewhat addicted to cosmetic surgery.
She was 65 years old, but fancied herself to be a 30 year old hottie. She wore short tight skirts, and sexy high heels. Palin reminds me of her…..a lot.
One thing I noticed about that woman, the more procedures she had done, the more her eyes moved toward the sides of her face. A lot of people are commenting on Pain’s mouth, but I keep looking at her eyes. They look further apart and they look like they are being pulled to the sides of her face.
Plus, I think they look glassy and vacant. No big surprise there!
austintx@217
Good one! LOL
Sarah Palin’s word salad is disenchanting and disconnecting. Moose Pucky could not even eat it for lunch
@Paula #30 Thank you. hahahahahhahaa
Bla, Bla, Bla, Bla, Blahhhhh
That’s all I can hear besides the “Governor Palin” introduction.
I wonder how Sean Parnell feels about that.
Isn’t she an EX- governor????
(mind boggling to me…)
I can’t even attempt to listen to her anymore. I saw that she was on Oprah again and thought I might try to watch. I couldn’t. Listening to her is like hearing nails on a chalkboard. At least with Bush I could somewhat figure out what he was talking about. With Palin, it is a big giant run on sentence. She says she will offer common sense solutions yet doesn’t tell anybody what they are. I am also tired of the poor me, everyone one is out to get me spiel. Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. I am just waiting for the big meltdown on camera. I’ll have my popcorn ready for that one.
What the heck was that woman talking about? Talk about a disconnect? It’s like she came on with an agenda and talking points and by God she was going to use them.. She’s a joke.
We, she does speak from experience…especially when it comes to matters of, you know, nothingness.
Did anyone else think she was sedated? There was a little extra pause between the end of Hannity’s question and the beginning of her reply. This is even stranger considering that she certainly had the questions in advance, and all she had to do is agree with the set-ups Hannity fed her. But there was no life to her face or voice, no changes of expression, just a vacant stare while Hannity was talking.
There is a time delay of several seconds when going from Alaska to NY. AKM
VILE IS HE!..WHO CALLS ANOTHER MAN VILE!…the redneck does what todd and she does, name calling, loud repetitive feedback…written by other people! at prices nearing $10,000..not just one writer but three! and one has a vile tounge!. we up here are to blame for the cadilac (for bristol) escalanti mama!…SHE WAS OUR LEADER!?