Just a quick comment about the crib notes (which, by the way, puts a new spin on the phrase “Talk to the hand” . . . ): The fact that she wrote some notes on her hand are less interesting than is the fact that she originally wrote the phrase “budget cut” and then drew a line through the word “budget” and underneath that wrote “tax.” Something progressive bloggers have been offering as a critique of conservative budget plans is that they talk enthusiastically about cutting taxes and (much) less precisely about cutting (or “reining in”) spending, offering no specifics. Palin’s little editing job is a real tell with regard to economic policy: No one in that crowd is going to question a “tax cuts” talking point; some of the more thoughtful there, though, might wonder about “budget cuts.”
Just came back, by the way, from a quick visit at C4P to see how they’re responding to the crib note pics; one argument in support of them (it runs, approximately, “They’re faked; but even if they’re not . . . “), stated by a couple of people, is that she’s already made these same points many, many times and just wanted to make sure she didn’t forget them this time. I’m not sure that’s the most flattering of defenses of the former governor . . .
I read that she taped the interview with Chris Wallace for FNC before she gave the tea party speech…maybe we’ll see her palm reading act again when they show FNC this morning!
By the way it wasn’t a “cheat” note on her hand. She was listening to Jiminy Cricket who was in her hand and saying: “Sarah, stop lying! Your nose is growing again! You know how much that plastic surgery and nose bob cost!”
Woke up laughing about last nite. And just to think sarah rode her broom thru the nite to speak for my Gov. today makes me smile…..
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She spent a while attempting to mock the Real President for using a teleprompter, which earned her derision and scorn even from her fans on twitter. Why, you ask, would a Palin fan not enjoy a good dash of mock and awe? Perhaps because Herself was reading off of notes for the entire speech….which only served to give us a gander at the odd poof of hair attached to her real hair. Not sure what’s going on there– maybe that’s “Real America” hair? http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489
Lift American spirits – well she accomplished this by pulling this prank. I wonder if her entourage, Piper, had a hand in this? Someone quick take that Sharpie away from them! She can’t be trusted with it – between the McCain visor and her hand!
It’s unfathomable to me that she was actually the Governor of Alaska. Between this and the email revelations, it brings new meaning to GINO.
sarah is taking a beating all over the place. Super Sunday indeed !!
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In sum, Sarah Palin loyally supports virtually every policy that defined the uniquely disastrous Bush/Cheney first term. The “tea party movement” depicts itself as some sort of novel and independent force in American politics, and the establishment media — which patronizingly equates far right extremists with “real Americans” and is petrified of accusations of “liberal bias” — plays along. But exactly the opposite is true. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin
Omigawd – I’m laughing so hard it hurts. I’m seeing the photos of $P’s version of a palm pilot for the first time. Went to bed before they were posted last night. I wasn’t even willing to believe it was real. I thought it just HAD to be photoshopped. Once I was sure they were legit I bust a gut laughing and now I can’t stop.
Wonder how the sea monkeys are gonna spin this one ? Hey Granny – How’s that whiney, snarkey, cheaty thing workin’ out for ya ??
Notes on the hand -well just imagine how embarssing it would have been had she given a poignant, grammatically correct speech -loaded with substance, and concrete ideas and accurate facts, but then was caught using a telepromter to deliver it.
Now that would have been embarassing! Notes on the hand? Not so much (wink).
jimsmum,
I’m going to watch–it’s on here in an hour and a half. They showed a preview of it with her doing the routine about how Obama treats the Xmas terrorist as if he has human rights…super fun times, ha ha.
HA !!
Scared ?!?! Bring it the f^*k on !!
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Near the end of her time on stage, the moderator said, “I can think of two words right now that scare liberals: President Palin,” causing the crowd to chant “Run, Sarah, run.” http://rawstory.com/2010/02/palin-speaks-tea-party-convention/
A call for a revolution… yeah, can’t you see miss “moose killer” fighting off liberals in her mini skirt, money shoes and a gun she doesn’t know how to use.
“treats the Xmas terrorist as if he has human rights…”
Shouldn’t say it, but honestly, I’d like to see her waterboarded, a bunch of times. Live. On Faux.
We always considered the kids who wrote the answers on their hands cheaters & the teachers did too. Maybe Piper who seems to be Sarah’s constant companion & perhaps her advisor suggested this nifty idea to her.
Apparently Fox was not too impressed with her performance. I think they thought she sounded a little mean & shrill. Imagiane that.
Hope this doesn’t effect plans for the in-house studio Fox is building for her in her house in Wasilla so she can reach out from her home to the rest of the world.
This morning on CBS Sunday Morning they did a segment on reality programing. Near the end they asked all that stuff would have any impact on us —- and, immediately I thought: SARAH PALIN. Those people who do and love the worst of reality TV are probably the ones who love her. This put a chill down my spine. Reality programming takes over TV and she emerges as the worst possible reality in our national scene as she just seems to slide by all of her horrid actions and words. Nothing seems to bring her down. Very very scary to me.
This morning, Palin declined to criticize Limbaugh for his use of the term “retard” on the rationale that Limbaugh was supposedly being “satirical.” Really? How about in 2000 when Limbaugh was saying that Gore had the “retard vote” and was “bussing retards” to the polls? Satirical too? Or is anything that Limbaugh says “satirical” and nothing that those on the other side of the aisle “defamatory” and horrible?
After how poorly she’s been paying the delightful Ms. Mansour I thougt maybe Piper would be the speechwriter. I have to admit I’ve not heard it yet. Wanted to make sure it was awful so I could enjoy it…now too early in am. If spouse heard that screechy voice this early there would be a mandation in this house. Spouse refuses to listen to all things Palin.
Oh my. Fox is calling bulls^*t on McCain about gays in the military.
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Even Fox host Clayton Morris agreed. “Yeah, it’s like a civil rights issue. I find it absolutely absurd,” Morris said. Then Morris and Hunt took a swipe at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who claims to heed the views of military leaders (except those with whom he disagrees):
MORRIS: On the campaign trail, then-Sen. John McCain said, look, when I hear from the military brass that they want to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, I’ll get right in line with them. That’s what happened — we heard from Admiral Mullen, we heard from Defense Secretary Gates. … Why is John McCain flip-flopping here?
HUNT: It’s just too damn convenient for McCain to be doing this. … He’s just wrong on this. We’re in a war. We’ve got guys deployed for 8 years in Afghanistan, almost 7 years in Iraq. And somebody says, I want to serve this country. And McCain wants to say, if you’re homosexual, you can’t serve. It’s wrong. We need these kind of people. We need all of them. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/fox-news-dadt-repeal/
Funny !! Aw……..goodtimes just keep on a rollin’. And just think , sarah and Chris “in my lap” Wallace and Perry are yet to come today. Ooops…….gotta watch my choice of words……..
Interrupting Chris Wallace to blather forever about being a military mom and worried about her son. Heck! What about the years when my cousins were there and nothing was being done?
The photo of President Lincoln’s hand with writing on it must be a fake. The lengths to which people will go to justify ANYTHING Sarah Palin does! Besides, the pics of her and her “palm pilot” were taken live!
The biggest problem about the hand-notes is that the interviewer was a friend, not a gotcha-nosy-journalist out to get Sarah. The questions and answers were all know ahead of time. And she still couldn’t remember three important talking points. Sarah just proved everything Steve Schmidt said was true. She could not learn anything, no matter how hard the McCain staff tried to teach her. No wonder she needed Todd and Chuck to help her run Alaska.
I agree that not even being able to write a palm crib note without having to EDIT it is amazing.
Palin’s prep team for the VEEP debate is kicking themselves this morning. The debate video will be scrutinized again. I bet her palm said “don’t answer the questions”.
Before retiring last night I caught a snippet of lady blah blah’s speech on CNN. Nothing has changed from the campaign. Still out there riling up the knuckle-dragging wingnut faction. She incites violence. I know many progressives want her in the 2012 race, not me, I believe there will be blood if this ignoramus is allowed to run around spewing her poisonmuch longer. I did, however, enjoy Andy Samberg’s Rahm on SNL. “You’re calling for my resignation on your facebook? What are you fourteen? Grow the “f” up.”
With so many important appearances and special events on Sarah’s calendar, I would like to provide some tips and hints for future notes-to-self:
1. Write on the left hand using Sharpie. If you write on the right hand, it could transfer when you shake hands with some guy with sweaty palms. (Most guys looking at Sarah’s short skirt do have sweaty palms).
2. Soft interviews: note each child’s name with correct birth date. For Trig, we are still going with April 18, 2008, no matter what that birth certificate says.
3. Next appearance with Glenn Beck: he may switch locations, so be sure to count how many windows in the Empire State Building, Trump Tower and Chrysler Buildings. Maybe Track can google it for Sarah. Use SarahPAC to pay his consulting fee for research.
4. Question: Why did Sarah use abbreviations in all of her tweets and yet she wrote each word out on her hand? Note: you can cram more stuff in if you use abbreviations like AM for American. Also too, remember to say GD BLS AM(erica) at every opportunity.
5. Sarah, consider wearing a tailored suit with pretty patterned blouse underneath. You can get more stuff on the cuffs, and then when you hold up your hands, no one will see your notes. Just remember to keep tugging the sleeves of the jackets to cover the writing.
6. Post-it notes. You can stick them anywhere.
Palin’s reaction to her stock sinking faster than Lehman Brothers’?
Appear on Pox to remind the faithful she’s “considering” 2012 run!
(Before her speaking gigs dry up completely).
Hey – now that the cat’s out of the bag, maybe she should just have her 7 repeated talking points tattooed right on her hand. No worries about it washing off. Always have it “handy” .
DaisyDem @44 – Yeah – the Lincoln pic is a photoshop. Here’s another of FDR using crib notes. http://twitpic.com/11w9wm
4 hours later and I’m still laughing. Twitter is on fire with it. The wingnuts are mostly quiet but the ones that are responding are spinning it either as no big deal or something about it being so smart of her to do and dang it , she didn’t need no stankin’ teleprompter.
She really and truly could make hats out of puppies and kittens and the nutters would be crawling over each other to be the first in line to buy one.
I agree. I’m sure the Lincoln hand thing is photo shopped. It’s not like they had Sharpies back then or modern ink. Can’t you see him dipping a quill into the ink bottle and then blotting his hand after writing?
My favorite thing from the Rahm thing on SNL was the “half politician” remark. I may have messed up the quote because I was laughing too hard. The whole thing expressed how I felt, with a few more swear words. I loved it anyway.
Instead of the writing on the wall, Palin reads the writing off her hand. How lame do you have to be, to not be able to remember the answers to preapproved questions that you’ve already seen.
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
“”"”February 07, 2010
Categories:Palin.Palin: Obama could help re-election fortunes if he plays “the war card”
Sarah Palin said on Sunday hat if President Barack Obama “played the war card” and declared war on Iran or bolstered Israel, it could change the political dynamic and improve his re-election odds.
I think everybody got it wrong on the topics on her palm. These were purely domestic
Energy : not forget to pop some pep pills before speach
Budget : for cabins (crossed that out in view of below)
Tax cuts : phone Parnell to pressure Mat Su borough
Lift America : buy new patriotic bumpits
Spirit : put bottle of gin in cooler to face the Q&As
“Led by Joe Lieberman, neocons have repeatedly shown their willingness to cynically exploit extremist Christian Rapture dogma for greater American fealty towards Israeli actions, and Palin reliably spouts neoconservative dogma on virtually every issue”.
Didn’t Palin recently have a meeting with Billy Graham to ask for Biblical guidance regarding our foreign policy in the Middle East? Lieberman, Kristol et.al. would also love to see our great nation go to war with Iran (which as luck would have it, also has a lot of “our” petroleum deposits) on behalf of Israel.
It is so ironic that Simple Sarah gets caught using her PalmPrompter® immediately following her screech referring to “our TelePrompter usin’” president. This poor twit has become a pathetic characature of herself. The saving grace in all of this is that she is the darling of a small and dwindling group of teabaggers and disaffected right-wing republicans that could conceivably appeal to her obvious vanity and convince her to run a third party presidential campaign in 2012. Then, she will be to Obama what Ross Perot was to Clinton in 1992. Priceless! The ultimate useful idiot.
I couldn’t sleep last night so I watched the rerun of the speech… with no sound. I tried so hard to make out what her hand said. I hope to find some screenshots today as I peruse the intertubes. I just got up!
Nan – you’re right, today’s Glenn Greenwald piece is beauty. He expresses so clearly how Palin is Bush/Cheney Lite – like the second cup of tea for those who re-use teabags [No! Don't do it!] – weak, bitter, acidic, flavorless. And that this has effectively killed the Teabag movement.
That analysis of the Israeli flag melded to the American flag on her lapel was just plain scary, like she’s channeling the demon ghose of Pope Urban or something.
tamara @64 – good one ! Someone over on twitter said — *** In Palin’s defense, her hand note “Lift American Spirits” may not have been a Q&A prompt but merely a reminder to shoplift cigarettes.***
Anyone else think that this (cheat notes) is just one of the reasons the press has been banned from all her previous speeches. I suspect she has used this memory aide before.
I bet this tea party for profit guy wanted to open this to the press in an attempt to elevate his convention to the level of major parties and he pressed Palin to agree to
the media coverage. She won’t make that mistake again.
Sarah Palin brought Alaska into the limelight for her own agenda and now she’s embarrassing. American’s biggest, dumbest Drama Queen appealing to the ignorant and illiterate.
AKM….this crazy lady is still steam rolling ahead. She continues to be given many free passes. The dumbing down of America and getting someone like her in office to continue fleecing Alaskan’s/Americans is a priority for big business. They just need a puppet, and she is their puppet. It may be too late for Levi to let the cat out of the bag. What he has to say may NOT make an impact what-so-ever. He has dragged his feet way too long on this one. The only thing that will bring her down is a conviction of any illegal activity. Ted Steven’s made someone in the Whitehouse very upset…he had no protection in the end. They wanted him outta there! She has protection at the top level….maybe even Cheney protection…but she has it.
DaisyDem @44 – Yeah – the Lincoln pic is a photoshop. Here’s another of FDR using crib notes. http://twitpic.com/11w9wm
People must think we are stupid. That FDR picture is fake. FDR would of been a left hand writer ? and also be able to read upside down and write backwards. LOL Reminds me of that girl who wrote Obama on her own face. Sick!
At what point does self serving criticism of our standing President become outrageous and treasonous?
Sarah Palin declared “America is ready for another revolution” and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama on Saturday before adoring “tea party” activists (Yeah- all 600 of them). They make up a seemingly natural constituency should she run for president.
“This movement is about the people,” the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said as the crowd roared. “Government is supposed to be working for the people.”
Here is a response regarding her scathing comments about the Dec 25 Terrorist.
U.S. justices system ‘will prevail’
“I have no doubt that the American justice system will prevail. Despite the claims and the criticisms of a lot of folks, including in Congress, that our judicial system is unable to handle these terrorists, I believe that our system of justice here is strong,” Brennan said.
“And I’m not going to give al-Qaida the victory of being able to overturn our system of jurisprudence here that is anchored in our Constitution and reflects our values as a people,” he said.
Brennan said he was confident that the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would face the “full weight of American justice” when he is tried no matter what the venue.
Ok, now that we’ve all had our fun, can we all make a concerted effort to publicize this “hand job” to all the main-stream media that has spent all morning giving us the crap about how she’s the next leader? What’s up with NPR that they did such a shallow reporting of her spew? Time to hold her accountable for her tax evasion, husband influencing policy and appointments, etc and the Troopergate abuse of power, etc. In the broader media.
I had lunch with a woman who has an MPH, married to an MD for 30+ years (and has 3 kids) who watches CNN and 60 Min and the nightly news, reads 2 papers a day and she didn’t know 1/100th the sh+t on her than any one of us here knows.
I also talked with another woman yesterday who has had children and asked her if the travel from TX to a small hospital in Palmer/Wasilla made any sense to her, especially in light of the newly revealed guy’s email who saw her in the Alaska Airlines lounge and $P/Granny Grifter was calmly reading a book while in labor.
“And I’m not going to give al-Qaida the victory of being able to overturn our system of jurisprudence here that is anchored in our Constitution and reflects our values as a people,” he said.
But Sarah Palin through her sheer stupidity- would be willing to do just that. Turn us into a police state because she so f*cking ignorant!
It’s too bad S’error hadn’t thought of this ‘ common sense solution’ with
her Palm Pilot or iPalm before that VP Debate last year.
She could have just written the name Biden on her HAND. She knew that answer ahead of time as well and couldn’t remember it.
Does this not also give more credence that she ‘ cheated on Tawdry ‘.
She CHEATs on EVERYTHING !! Watch out Tawd… just saying..
It must be really difficult arranging her speechifyin’ schedule around the length of time needed for Sharpie ink to fade enough to write new notes on top of the old ones.
Someone on another blog posted that Sarah Palin was dangerous. Here’s my response:
“It’s NOT Palin that’s dangerous, folks. It’s the machine behind her. It’s the people to whom she panders her drivel. It’s the backwoods militias that are arming to the teeth, just waiting for the word. SHE is a harmless, empty-headed ninnymuggins (thanks Elf) who is being puppeted by money.
The best thing we can do right now is to focus on everything illegal she has done and get the Feds to take her away.”
THEN I had a brainstorm for what I will refer to her as from now on.
Mary Annette. Say it outloud. She is a true puppet.
Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
The former Alaska governor, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
“I would be willing to if I believe that it’s right for the country,” Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012.
She qualified the statement, adding that she sees “many” other potential candidates who are “in as strong or stronger position than I am to take on the White House and if they’re in a better position than I in three years, I’ll support them.”
Palin is doing more than simply dipping her toe in the water with tentative talk of presidential aspirations. Since unexpectedly leaving the Alaska Governor’s Mansion last year, she’s formed a political action committee, she’s started endorsing and supporting candidates in the Republican primaries, she’s published a book and she’s been agitating the administration on a regular basis.
She delivered the keynote address Saturday at the tea party convention, using it to hammer Obama as soft on terrorism. When convention organizer Judson Phillips mentioned the idea of “President Palin” in a question-and-answer session afterward, audience members leapt to their feet and burst into a chant of “Run, Sarah, Run.”
In the near-term, Palin said she is going to focus her energy on the upcoming GOP primaries, and that she may support “hundreds” of candidates in the months ahead.
“I do want competition to allow the cream of the crop to rise (in the GOP contests),” Palin said, adding that her support would translate into everything from donations to campaign rallies. “There are hundreds of candidates on local, state and on the national level that hopefully we’ll be able to help.”
A HuffPo commenter posted a transcript of Palin’s response to O’Reilly’s question, “Are you intellectual enough to be president?”
“I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have — I believe the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spineless — a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are — could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that that has to be me.”
I find that woman’s claim to “common sense” is not just offensive, it’s a slur on all God’s children with cognitive abilities – and the people who love them.
Do not mean to offend anyone, but if she is an average Joe like most Americans, then we are all in a world of hurt.
I am not that dumb, nor do I idolize any one elected official…but I do put some faith into someone who is intelligent and knows how government works.
She only knows how to work it, not work within…my daughter calls her “a double negative” because she shouts the wrongs in reading rights to the Xmas bomber, and then runs off at the mouth about living up to our Constitution and laws.
She cancels herself out everytime.
If she were to run and win in 2012, I am heading to AK, at least there she will try to keep things pleasant for her homecoming.
You never sh*t where you sleep.
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I think in the long run- she will be dealt with. Either fate or circumstance. She has pissed on a lot of people and her number is up to get a little payback.
I don’t wish poorly on any soul, but she is just plain mean and has earned her day of reckoning. It is just a matter of time.
teutonic13 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:30 AM
I think in the long run- she will be dealt with. Either fate or circumstance. She has pissed on a lot of people and her number is up to get a little payback.
I don’t wish poorly on any soul, but she is just plain mean and has earned her day of reckoning. It is just a matter of time.
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Yes sir. The combination of the “Law of Averages” and karma are a force to be reckoned with. The freight train of truth and justice is comin’ down the track for sarah. No bell , whistle , or light.
I think Greenwald hit the nail on the head in his Salon piece. Last night’s ‘campaign’ speech by Palin just clarified what most of us already knew: The Teabagger (NOT ‘Tea’–these folks are nothing like the original Tea Party patriots) movement is nothing more than the ultra conservative wing of the extreme Republican neocon party. Sarah is a perfect metaphor for them: She is a whole lot of ugly inside wrapped in a pretty outside. They are trying to disguise truly hateful and vile ideology in a pretty populist package. Let’s just hope it doesn’t work.
For those “unreal merikuns” who can’t take the sound of her screeches, here is the link to the transcript of Fox news interview in Nashville.
A word salad except :
“…they won’t want someone like me who has been unfortunately by the media put in a box as being so parochial and myopic in terms of some positions that they won’t recognize my own independence. So some people will shy away from my support that I could offer.”
#89 that is well said!!! She seems to hate elites. So the educated-liberals are the worst. So does she think they are small “smart tea party.” Well may those elites can start their own party. The party of “no” or wait that is already taken.
Heavens, is this all the Republicans have? You have to wonder if the elite Republicans are silently sitting there asking “why???” Keith O for President!!!
Palin did use written notes during her debate with Biden!
“Palin, the former sportscaster, did an impressive job sounding spontaneous while working from a combination of rote memory, as well as what seemed like both pre-written and written notes”.
REALITY CHECK:
The “screen capture” of SP at the podium, the one purportedly from CNN and showing the smudge/writing on her hand, has NO time listed. Screen captures usually don’t drop off the time [of the frame], do they?
AND, if the ‘close up’ is meant to be from the [above] screen capture, it isn’t. The hand in the close up is in a totally DIFFERENT position than is the one shown in the screen capture.
Had what is being shown as her “notes” been actual, the close up and the screen capture would have been one and the same shot.
That she had something written on her hand is NOT “proven” by the ‘screen capture’/'close up’ — the two photos aren’t even of the same moment in time (whenever that moment might’ve been.)
Unless irrefutable evidence to the contrary surfaces, I say the “notes” have been photoshopped.
Pity, too…in an effort to show SP for the fraud she is, a fraud was perpetrated on her. One that’ll give credence to her assertions that h8ters are “makin’ things up.” beth.
In the book, “Game Changer”, there was a reference to Sarah saying how she only wanted to “go home and sleep with her baby”. I don’t think she was referring to Trig but to Piper who seems to accompany her to most events. It is Piper, her little look alike and campaign trooper, who has her attention not the baby she only drags around like a coat over her arm until she finds someone willing to take him off her hands.
In a few years his disabilities will be more pronounced and I doubt we will be seeing much of him thereafter. Just my belief. But Piper, you betcha!
60 mommom Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 8:39 AM
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
“”””February 07, 2010
Categories:Palin.Palin: Obama could help re-election fortunes if he plays “the war card”
Sarah Palin said on Sunday hat if President Barack Obama “played the war card” and declared war on Iran or bolstered Israel, it could change the political dynamic and improve his re-election odds.
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she does realise WAR cost money !
It sickens me how she advocates war but god forbid somebody receives health care
Did everyone catch the fact $P gave the oglers their due? Skirt up high when she sat and then caressed her left leg, up and down for some time with her right hand? Spare me!!!!!! Probably had to protect the notes on the left hand or maybe crossing over, leaning down helped the cleavage display better.
Being a people watching feminist I always point out the “good stuff” to my partner when we are out in public. Wouldn’t want him to miss anything worth checking, and he would miss a lot if it weren’t for my scoping out the environment ;>)
I was just expressing my frustration and pointing out one of the errors in the Fox article. No way was the comment directed at you. I’m so sorry for my failed communication.
Actually, Sarah is probably lucky there is so much attention on her inability to remember her own answer to questions she has already been given in advance.
It distracts from the biggest story, which is her suggestion that President Obama play the ‘war card’ if he wants to get reelected.
Like “Bomb,bomb, bomb Iran”, this is a signature moment that defines Sarah’s frighteningly shallow thinking – as well as signalling who the people are behind her, pulling those strings.
I agree with the still photo. Video doesn’t have the resolution to pull in that close to read writing and have it that legible.
The video shows there was something written on her hand.
But it takes going through all of the still photos shot to find the “money shot” where you have the resolution to blow up the hand to see the actual writing.
Video would pixilate. Not so a high quality digital still.
I don’t think it’s photoshopped.
I wonder who is going to come forward to claim the still.
I’ve had fun with the stupidity evidenced by SP this weekend, but now it is time to refocus our energies on ensuring that she is removed from any position of power, particularly her power over the dangerously stupid teabaggers who are likely willing to die for SP should she give the order, or perceived order, to ‘take out’ specific persons in power. Wow! That is almost a word salad sentence!
Thanks, AKM, for your push last week regarding the lack of honesty in SP’s personal tax base. That is one good point moving forward.
I’m hoping the emails also will ‘progress’ her downfall.
However, it seems that both are largely overshadowed by her speech, her acknowledgement that she may take on President Obama in 2012 since she has the skills and experience to win such a contest, and her war mongering that appeals to the uneducated riff raff teabaggers.
We need more, and we need it now! The longer she is on the stage, the worse it gets. Her followers are more directly dangerous than her I believe, thus we need to get her muzzled in such a way that they don’t rise up to avenge their queen. I think her downfall must be something that she is totally responsible for that reflects badly on her current stand as a righteous, religious being.
106 tamara Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:43 AM
For those “unreal merikuns” who can’t take the sound of her screeches, here is the link to the transcript of Fox news interview in Nashville.
A word salad except :
“…they won’t want someone like me who has been unfortunately by the media put in a box as being so parochial and myopic in terms of some positions that they won’t recognize my own independence. So some people will shy away from my support that I could offer.”
Holy moley did she really say that? It gives me vertigo and goes a long way to showing just how dizzy she is.
Some time last year a i made the comparison of her brain to a gerbil or some such runing around and around in their exercise when, never catching anything and never progressin’ exept in their own minds eye. But, man o man look at ‘em go!
I can’t wait until The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Letterman and next week’s SNL. We’ll have junior high crib notes and property tax evasion to entertain us.
After reading that Wallace transcript, I’m beginning to think like that SNL Rahm skit. What a psychopath she is! I hope longevity doesn’t run in her family. Then again, small planes aren’t as safe as the large commercial airlines, so maybe it’s a good thing that’s written into her speaking contracts.
She is beyond contempt. She says Obama may play the “war card” in Iran to get elected in 2012. What a horrible horrible human being she is. Flippant over possible nuclear war.
You can see them when she’s waving out at the crowd. And you can especially see them when she’s doing the “talk talk talk” pinch with her hand as she’s dissing out President.
Somebody on another blog mentioned the Track Palin bracelet (like the ones we used to wear for those soldiers missing in action) on her left wrist — wonder if she needed it to make sure she also mentioned the military and Track and how wonderful it is that he chose to go into the military and how proud she is of him.
This little Palin telepalmter episode is sort of the perfect thing to use
for signs for protests later when she shows up to speak somewhere. You can use a very simple message and draw a simple ‘ hand’ on the signs. The hand-sign could have the same thing Her hand said or add your own slogans. We remember that she really made a BIG fuss and got really upset with Schmidt when she saw just ONE sign on the Campaign Tour. She said ” I don’t want to see those out there.”
Imagine all of the signs with a big Hand on it.
OR… just modify those big soft Foam Fingers that you can buy anywhere. The Were # 1 fingers you see at sporting events. Tape THOSE to the signs or just have everybody ‘ giving Sarah the foam Finger ‘ .
And the cheers can be something simple like ” What does your Hand say ?” over …and over …and …over… like a cheerleader cheer. It really would make her loose her concentration and focus. It seems it doesn’t take much to do that either.
I just picture a LOT of foam fingers waving at her all in unison like doing the wave. People do that at those basketball games ( behind the backboards ) when the ballplayers are doing free-throws to throw them off.
Syphilis P, once again, used her time that could of been better utilized towards a more positive political move to criticize. Just like in her book she chose to pay people back for not singing her glory-Prez Obama for what was said at the RNC-O’Biden for what was said in the Game Changer. Rahm, never apologized to her and I doubt that he ever will.
Her theory is; if you want to win you need to come to me and ask my help to gain my cult trust and to receive their vote. The Repubicans are bowing down to her. The Democrats would rather lose sits than to kiss her a__. That makes her angry!!
aha,
Celtic Diva did get emails as well sometime before Christmas, but right now I think she said she is going through the ones from MSNBC.
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December? It’s now February. Hmm, wonder why she just doesn’t put them online like MSNBC and we’ll all go through them together. Also, too, I wonder if the State ended up dropping that $5,000 fee to only a few hundred like they did with MSNBC.
There’s gotta be some tasty morsels in her emails, too. Well, hope we see them soon.
I don’t know how much “busted” she is – there’s nothing wrong with a politician referring to notes, but the fact that she did like a schoolgirl trying to hide something instead of as a professional is amusing, and will simply add to the growing impression that she is out of her league. Image is important – as unfair as the Dukakis-in-a-helmet appearance was, this is something similar. It’s a simple illustration of her unsuitability for office. It’s perfect material for comedians.
The Palm company should market a special handheld device for Teabaggers– the Palm Palin. You enter a bunch of jumbled ideas and talking points into it and when you try to retrieve them, it quits.
Oh, and it keeps track of your appointments also too… and then cancels them just before you are due to show up.
I don’t understand Celtic Diva. We have been waiting for what, 6 weeks for even the first glimpse at the emails she got?
She has been busy, and the holidays, etc…
And now, she has time to read the same emails we can all already see, from NBC, but still doesn’t have time to let us know if there is anything in the emails she has had all this time.
Is there just nothing in those emails? Is there more to this that we don’t know? Does anyone know what is holding this up? I only ask because this was a group effort, and we have been promised a post on this for a long long time….
How bout when she rubbed her legs after looking at her hand, to try to wipe it off? She knew she was busted. HA – this IS the funniest Palin thing to date, but my memory may be off.
Also …about any signs that could be used at any speaking engagement.
The ‘ Tax Issue’ is something that EVERYBODY relates to and is offended by.
Signs with a simple ” Pay your Taxes… We do “. ” Tax Cheat “. ” Where is MY tax Free House ?”
The Tax issue needs to stay out front because it identifies with her moral and ethical standards. Nobody… likes a ‘ cheater ‘.
Wave a Foam finger at her and yell …” Pay Your Taxes … Pay your Taxes ”
Foam Finger ( and palms ) for Sarah
Look, she plainly had notes on her hands. As someone else said … an Eddie Haskell -like ploy. How juvenile. Bottom line is she criticizes the President for using a teleprompter, the she “cheats” with notes on her hands to remember like Energy which she is touted as being an “expert” in? She also used note cards … no problem except she had to continually look at them and even then lost her train of thought. She can’t speak in understandable sentences; she uses old Republican talking points; and it was pointed out that some of the phraseology seemed to be left over from her resignation speech. She needs to be booted forever from the stage. I am tired of the press coverage that is given this idiot. The worst thing is she keeps criticizing our President, Vice-President and the President’s staff. I hope Perry loses too.
119 Rob in Ca Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Like “Bomb,bomb, bomb Iran”,
She wants this to be repeated so that Iran can become upset and provoke a fight. This is her job. Syphilis P. is evil. She is a combination of Bush and Cheney. All those visits the Repubicans are paying to the other Countries is to undermine what the Prez has done. It angers me that he doesn’t have a group to monitor and do damage control. You see want is happening with the US and China.
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Rob in Ca Says:
It distracts from the biggest story, which is her suggestion that President Obama play the ‘war card’ if he wants to get reelected.
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If she ever makes it to the primaries i hope this will bring sensible people out to put a stop to her . Man i dislike this woman and her cronies
a day doesn’t go by that I’m not so sick of her…disgusted…and wonder how society got this way. who can stop her? …and how? ‘they’ seem to be able to stop the people they don’t like…hmmm.
“Private sector, free enterprise principles”–like those exemplified in the Palin family E-mails. Plenty of under-the-table support for the private sector there.
The President, on the other hand, represents the public. Thank you, President Obama.
oh goody, sign on! from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (I do believe they’ve had enough and are fed up.)
“To Sarah Palin and her merry band of tea partiers
Your lies won’t work. You aren’t fooling me and you aren’t fooling America. We know that you’ll say anything, make up facts, and deceive the public in order to scare people and win elections.
I’m going to stand up to your deceptions, scare tactics, and fabricated information. I’m going to fight hard in 2010 to make sure the truth prevails and make sure that lies from Republicans that pander to this fringe don’t stop America from moving forward and creating positive change.”
She gets more outrageous every time she tries to defend her actions. Alaskans need to tell the country how much she loves Alaska by telling Americans about the number of initiatives that she’s working on in the State (a hint, it’s the same total as the amount she pays in property taxes).
It sure seems like the state has no reason to try to keep them privileged since Mrs. Palin just last night said “I’m going to bounce things off Todd. Nothing confidential that couldn’t be shared with others out there in the public. Todd never circulated anything that was confidential, and hadn’t already been circulated. ”
I believe this was from her interview with Chris Wallace.
Wouldn’t this statement be grounds to release the redacted emails and the ones from the Troopergate investigation too? Also?
I just saw a Tebow commercial… it only had his mother saying that she “almost lost him ” and had “a lot of trouble” with the pregnancy. None of that inflammatory propaganda. At least not on this version. Then the hook… the website for the Family blah blah, “for more on this story”.
118 Rob in Ca Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Beth…did you watch her read her hand during the Q&A after the speech? She wasn’t checking her nails there, she was reading her hand.
That’s the clincher. Why would she be scoping her palm while trying to address the audience?
Giving her some credit, rubbing her very exposed leg is not a normal behavior and is too erotically tacky for her to stoop to in public. It is not unreasonable that she had her mind on something else, like Lady McBeth, and just wasn’t aware of what it looked like.
I bet she really had the guys’ attention, though probably not to what she was saying.
The only kind of defense I could think for her is that she apparently was “off her game” charisma wise and was kind of freaky like she was in her quitter speech. But it is truly bizarre to watch.
112 twain12 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:56 AM
60 mommom Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 8:39 AM
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
does she does realise WAR cost money !
Is Track still in active duty or just reserves? Does she realize that if the RepoTaliban force another war that her only not special needs son could get killed or mutilated?
There she goes doing her “Mutter Courage” bit again, sacrificing children for self interests.
GrammaNancy, of course she spoke about Track, even tho he asks her not to, it was part of the question answer time, ya know, one of those PRE-selected questions. Check out the C-SPAN slam, she said it with snark……. as a teen he most likely watched MTV or whatever and no news period, lol.
“He’s doing awesome. And I’m so proud of him and the decision that he has made along with all the many, many men and women in uniform who — I look at, especially these young men and women and think, they could be doing anything or nothing else in our world, and they have chosen to serve something greater than self. They are not just biting time or wasting time in their young years of their lives. They get it. They understand the need to protect our security and to really be willing to die for our freedom. And when I talk about my son, and he doesn’t like me to talk about him, as a matter of fact, he’ll chew me out if he hears about this, but –
QUESTION: He may be watching.
PALIN: I don’t think he’s ever turned on C-SPAN in his entire young life. But I’m proud of him and the decision that he has made because, again, they are serving something greater than self, but as Track, as my son would tell me, he says, don’t pick me up, mom to thank me. Thank the troops I serve with and thank those who have gone on before me to allow me to do what I’m doing, yeah.
When I first saw this earlier I was sure it was a joke. Somebody’s idea of funny but it can’t be true because Sarah’s left handed, or even Sarah couldn’t be that dumb. There had to be some other explanation. I even Googled Sarah Palin bill signing, certain I would find pictures of her with a pen in her left hand and this would all be a good laugh.
Wrong. She’s right handed. She really did write down notes to help her answer a question she had gotten before hand.
This one goes in the Sarah Palin Stupid Tricks Hall of Fame. She is dumb as a bag of hammers. Unbelievable.
#159 @ R’ipley in CT Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 1:18 PM
I just saw a Tebow commercial… it only had his mother saying that she “almost lost him ” and had “a lot of trouble” with the pregnancy. None of that inflammatory propaganda. At least not on this version. Then the hook… the website for the Family blah blah, “for more on this story”.
. . .where I’m sure they have a BIG Please Donate Button!
It’s the mindless idiots who have become Palin’s flock of followers that scare me. What in the name of common sense are they thinking in believing this imbecile has anything to offer any discussion?! If she weighed 300 pounds not a person on the face of the earth would listen to any of her senseless babble.
Celtic Diva did post about the emails she received….when she received them. She hasnt received much yet, and what she did get, was mostly redacted if I remember rightly. I am sure that when Diva has something of consequence we will hear about it.
I don’t know if this has been brought up before or not, but wanted to get it out there, just in case
About those emails that Andree went to court about… Here’s what SP had to say about Todd being so in-the-middle of things (italics mine):
“Nothing confidential that couldn’t be shared with others out there in the public. Todd never circulated anything that was confidential, and hadn’t already been circulated.”
Well, now. Doesn’t that put a whole new light on the judge’s ruling against Andree?!!!
Oh! In that interview (previous post), Sarah reiterates her support of Rand Paul, saying: “Because he’s a federalist and he wants the states to have more say and as we respect the 10th Amendment in our Constitution, he wants the states to have more say in a lot of these issues. ”
I thought a “federalist” favored a strong centralized government… ??? Or have things changed when I wasn’t looking?!
for a Christian lady (and I use that term just for the sake of this post), she sure likes to throw around the words ‘crap’ & ‘bs’…just one more thing to add to the hypocrisy of palin.
yeah right Scarah, lol……..she names no names of where this speaking fee will go…….uh huh, gonna plow it all back in, to her own pocket. She must have thought damn this guy holding my feet to the fire.
“Q: OK, I wanted to ask you about the speaking fee again — you said in USA Today and on your Facebook page it’s going back to the cause. What does that mean? Is it going likely through SarahPAC to certain candidates and certain campaigns?
PALIN: I think the logistics of how it goes back — I don’t know if it goes through the PAC or not, I haven’t talked to PAC treasurers or attorneys about it. I’m keeping it simple. I’m committing to not personally …
Q: To potentially tea party candidates?
PALIN: Well the tea party is not a party but those who believe in what the tea party is all about — limited government and a strong national security policy coming out of D.C., yeah I’m gonna support ‘em.
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PALIN: It is yet to be determined. There are hundreds of candidates on local, state and on the national level that hopefully we’ll be able to help. Don’t know how many and don’t know specifically which ones it’ll be today.”
This is a low res version but the actual shot is much higher and has just been cropped in Photoshop to show the writing.
Even in this low res version you can see the black marks on her hand.”
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(And @ 115, 116, 123, 125, 127 & 147…)
The problem is, and to me, this is a HUGE problem, in the *same* series of AP photos, is a shot of her hand (# 9 in the series) that shows **something** there, BUT there has been (or isn’t) the same ‘zoom in’ on *that* photo to CORROBORATE what is purported to be shown in the (#4) “money shot.”
Surely **IF** the “money shot” were NOT photoshopped, and assuming all the photos in the series were taken by the *same* AP photographer, the same zoom-in could/would be applied (to photo #9) to corroborate the veracity of ‘the list’ (purportedly shown in photo #4) written on her hand.
That there is *something* on her hand, I have no doubt…whether the #4 photo was (retroactively) ‘enhanced’ to fit/substantiate the ‘reason’ she’s looking at her hand so oddly and intently in the Q&A, is something I do think raises a serious question.
Does anyone have the capability to zoom-in on the #9 photo to reveal that there, is, indeed, the last word of her ‘list’ showing? And/or, are there any OTHER photos taken during her diatribe to the TPers against POTUS and the ‘un-real Americans’ that could be offered *in support of* the assertion that she DID have a ‘list’ on her hand?
For as much as the woman bugs the ever-lovin’ chit out of me with every . single . thing . she . says . and . does, it somehow bothers me even more that there is NO corroboration of/for the ‘money shot’ and yet, we’re all asked to accept it *as if* there were! That sounds, to me, like something SP would pull; trying to foist untruths off on people by making assertions –without a shred of evidence to corroborate– that what she’s stating is ‘fact’ … and should be blindly accepted as ‘truth.’
Sorry, without corroboration, I flat DON’T buy it; seems to me that folks who are so adamant about exposing SPs lies, shouldn’t either – what’s good for the gander should be good for the goose (or the one-time “lame duck”, as the case may be).
As her hero, Ronnie, was so fond of saying, “Trust but verify.” Just sayin’… beth.
Nan @174 Re: Rand Paul ( or as Palin called him yesterday – ” Ron Paul ” )
Wouldn’t Rand be a libertarian like his Dad ? I’m with you, there’s a big difference !
And @173 – Oh, so Todd didn’t send around anything that hadn’t already been circulated ??? She does realize we can actually SEE the emails, right ?! Todd is initiating emails left , right and sidewise and is receiving emails that hadn’t even reached Granny PalmPilot yet.
Remember the Sarah Palin, whose only really good speech, the one at the Republican convention, written by real pros, was read by her from a teleprompter?
Remember the Sarah Palin, the failed VP candidate who was rushing to the stage to get her farewell speech (I only wish farewell) loaded onto the teleprompter before McCain could get his loaded?
Sarah, my Sunday School teachers taught me that lying was a mortal sin, even if it is number 11 of the Commandments.
I feel like I just arrived in some alternate universe- remember the show Sliders? In this place an absolutely ignorant person can be considered for POTUS. How do I get back?
For me, its not so much the writing on the hand, but when she hypocritically criticizes President Obama for using a teleprompter, while she is using her paper written speach, well as we all know she never makes sense. She is soo jealous and it will continue to eat her up.
The thing about the hand is that it proves she had the questions ahead of time. And even then she doesn’t know what she thinks, she has to write it down????
I am behind on the comments so I apologize if others have read this already……
BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS MORE QUALIFIED AND CAN DO A BETTER JOB THEN PRESIDENT OBAMA!……….sorry for shouting that, I just find it so ridiculous and outrageous!
He even asks her, qualified enough without McCain? She’s sure, gah. Make her go away…….
Q: This poll said by I think a margin of about 4-1 among Republicans they thought you were more qualified to be president than Obama. Do you think you’re more qualified to be president than President Obama?
PALIN: The whole qualification issue still perplexes me, because in the campaign we tried to bring attention to the fact that Obama had really not a lot of experience. And I do say that my executive experience, as an administrator, as a team manager if you will was, and so was John McCain’s as a matter of fact, was stronger and we had more experience than Barack Obama did in terms of managing huge multi-billion dollar budgets and thousands of employees that I had just come from a position of that and that hasn’t changed.
Q: But without McCain?
PALIN: And without McCain, I mean Barack Obama had 150 days in the U.S. Senate where he was able to vote quite often present, not have to make decisions, being one of many, not having to manage. His executive position now in the White House is as, whether he likes it or not, a manager. He has to make tough decisions. He has to be willing to fire people, though you don’t make any friends when you fire people and I know that first hand because I’ve had to do that. And you have to make tough decisions, and not dither on issues. You have to make quick decisions in many respects and I think that President Obama with all due respect, his lack of experience is really made manifest in the way that decisions are made in the White House today.
Beth,
You’re absolutely right- we need to verify or we feed into that victim thing. But here’s a scary thought. She definitely was looking to her palm for inspiration. Maybe there was NOTHING there, she was just waiting for words to appear.
The “money shot” photo itself wasn’t “zoomed in” from a far-away photo. It was taken with a zoom lens and thus it is the original photo, not a “zoom in” to a part of a wide-shot photo using software after the fact. You can only “zoom in” so far after the fact on a picutre originally taken as a wide shot.
I’m sure the AP photographer noticed there was something on her hand and decided to use the powerful zoom lens ON HIS CAMERA to capture the writing as a separate photo.
92 teutonic13 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:15 AM
The former Alaska governor,..said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
“I would be willing to if I believe that it’s right for the country,” Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012.
Hey, I got no prob with that since by 2012 he will have 4 years experince as leader of the free world and she will have 4 years experience as leader of a bunch of people that go around in public with flow through tea bags hangin on their head, and thinking that makes them like a bunch of guys who risked jail or worse by rebelling against the entire government, army, and navy of Britain.
Beth, I do know that these professional digital cameras take pictures that are original huge file size, that have to be cropped and re-sized a lot before converting to jpg. thus creating a smaller file for faster uploading/downloading to the internet.
Professional cameras also take continuous pictures if set to, within seconds, one right after another, kind of like blinking your eyes at the fastest possible speed.
Also too, beth, keep in mind that she has not denied that she used a telePALMter. If this was a Photoshop (and WHY would the AP do that in any case?), you can bet Quitty’s Facebook ghosts would be burning up the series of tubes with her fauz outrage.
I have a zoom lens and I take my photos with a huge file size. It does give you incredible detail and you can always crop and resize later depending on what you want.
It’s certainly possible that the photo is a fake but does anybody think for a minute that Meg and Van Flea would let a whole day go by without calling it a fraud and demanding apologies and threatening law suits?
Palin reminds me of a commercial we used to have in Ireland. An agent is interviewing a boy band and when they have finished playing their music, he says:
“You can’t sing, you can’t dance, you’ll go a long way.”
sorry Beth, I don’t follow what you are seeing. Personally I believe it. But I’ll leave the last word up to the professionals.
so as to those emails and Toad……..follow this is you can, lol.
“He was forwarding on emails. And here’s another thing. Todd and I being, in some cases, thousands of miles apart, if I emailed him about being, say, outside traveling, Todd’s home, he’s there, there, as a desktop, and I’m telling Todd, “Hey! Todd! Print this off for me, I’m going to grab it on my way home, because I work off a Blackberry, constantly, for practical reasons, it helped too. Todd helped as Alaska’s “First Dude” with no staff. with no office, being thousands of miles away during a lot of times, with his job in Prudhomme Bay on the North Slope and commercial fishing. He helped with workforce development issues, issues that meant a lot to him and people out there, IN THE REAL WORLD. With carhearts, and steeltoed boots and hardhats trying to build this country. Todd helped in that respect. He never got into the minutiae of the politics, Todd’s too good for that, he hates this kind of periphery political bull-stuff that we go through. He’s not a part of any of that and, no, more power to Todd for being a good adviser and being a good practical person with common sense solutions.”
My brother worked at that plant last August. Some of his Union brothers were there today and none of the Carpenters died, but some were hurt. The Pipefitters lost people. One of his female carpenter friends was inside, and got blown 40 feet. She said she saw a guy’s head and arm blown off. Horrible stuff. They are digging through the rubble to find survivors. It took an hour to put the fire down.
I’m so glad my brother wasn’t working today. He hasn’t worked there since August in any case, but his friends do and have. It was very hard for him to see the pictures on TV. He kept pointing out things he was familiar with.. the access road, the trailer, the sides of the building that blew off.. ones he had a hand in putting on.
I’m not a big “pray-er” but my thoughts go out to those who are struggling with this even today.
OMG, I don’t remember her saying this, I think I turned on the tv after it began.
I’m reading the Dayton, Ohio VP intro speech. She may have been referring to the surprise VP pic, but when I read it, I thought a little somethin else.
“And Todd and I are actually celebrating our 20th anniversary today, and I promised him a little surprise for the anniversary present, and hopefully he knows that I did deliver.”
“On Fox this morning when posed with the statement: “Reagan would never have quit”, she responds” etc……..
Wow, what a pile of crap that was! She claimed that she takes pot shots all the time and it doesn’t bother her. I call BS!
From all indications she’s totally freaked out by us bloggers and the truth we expose. She quit because she couldn’t do the job…..she’s not competent enough to run a governorship even with help from Dude and Dad……and now she wants to be handed the top job because she’s got better ideas…….ideas she has written on her hand!
I can’t wait til Letterman and Jon Stewart get ahold of this latest FAIL!
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jc in co Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:42 PM
I think Joan Walsh over at salon.com pretty much sums it up; palin is mean and dumb. Case closed.
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sums it up for me to…after her convention speech when everybody thought she did so great i thought what a snarky , sarcastic B$#%
R’ipley, I have read since that the number of 50 dead may be wrong. I immediately thought of you when I saw the news. How sad for your brother and his friends. I’m not a big “pray-er” either, but every now and again I will offer up prayer. I am doing so tonight.
“Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren’t supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can’t help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.
How rich that she read her talk in a sing-song voice as she ripped Barack Obama for using a Teleprompter. Once she left the speech for the Q&A, she really went off-message, as well as nearly off-English. (Even though it looked like, at one point, she was reading answers off of her hand.) ”
Thank you Irish. 5 confirmed dead. They are searching for survivors in the rubble. It’s very unlikely that anyone left in there under the wreckage made it, but I am hopeful…the fire….the concussion. What a wreck.
My brother said that when he talked to one of his “brothers”, who was at the scene, that he said the static electricity was very high today. That is a possibility.
A woman Carpenter in his Union, who he taled with, said she saw a man’s head and arm blown off and she had been thrown 40 feet herself. She has a concussion but is ok. She’ll never get rid of that memory, though.
I watching to video to hear how she says the Anniversary surprise and how she delivers.
And why in the world would not all that noise when introducing Scarah not wake any child up? funny watching this after all that time, Bristol is hiding her tummy with Trig, who is knocked out, not moving with roaring crowds screaming.
That is so weird, what baby would not wake up? lol, they must have realized the oddity, he was awake at the convention. Poor little guy.
You can tell Cindy is in director coordinator mode. It’s funny to watch McCain, he’s worried every time she says something. He’s got so much riding on this, lol. They also positioned Bristol behind McCain’s standing body, clever.
lol, I just heard her say it, she used her fingers to imply little 1″ surprise, she meant the pick but the crowd didn’t get it.
McCain’s face goes blank when she says she never set out to be in politics.
And wait just a minute, do we have some embellishing in her background?
She was elected to city council in 1992, Track her oldest was 3 yrs old born 1989, Scarah’s got some splainin to do. I think she rearranged things to sound better. Like her political career didn’t come before her kids even went to school.
“I was just your average “hockey mom” in Alaska. We were busy raising our kids. I was serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side. I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the City Council and then elected mayor of my hometown, where my agenda was to stop wasteful spending and cut property taxes and put the people first.”
Sarah has proven that everything Steve Schmidt said was true. She would not or could not learn anything at all; the top McCain political professionals could not turn the sow’s ear into a silk purse.
Sarah could not even fake being smart. I was appalled when I saw old video of her three way debate for governor, and the other two candidates allowed Sarah to use index cards– from which she read her talking points. Fast forward to Sarah’s disastrous interview with Katie Couric, and, once again, Sarah was allowed to do the interview with a pile of index cards in her lap. She turned them over, reciting each topic sentence. The only problem was that it was a total jumble. When Tina Fey repeated Sarah’s interview, word for word (without the index cards) it was laughable.
Now, after all this time to study, learn, solidify a political point of view, maybe even read a book, we can see that Sarah has done nothing to change from that index-card reading stiff. There is no difference between the teleprompter and the stack of index cards that Sarah kept glancing down at during her tea bagger speech. Sarah did not appear to have rehearsed or studied her cards ahead of time. She seemed quite ill at ease referring to them and trying to cite each blurred talking point.
I think that we saw Sarah at her best when the GOP spent $150,000. or maybe $250,000. to dress her. They spent many thousands more to do her make up, do her hair, and try to turn her into a passable candidate. That was the best that Sarah could be. Everything thing that we see now from that dated wig, frozen face, poor delivery and hand written crib notes is the real Sarah, the mean girl still trying to get even with the people who won the election. Her speech was not worth $100,000. And, she proves that everything that Steve Schmidt said was true.
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I liked the comment below on the link you shared.
“Palin doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit. To her it means God opened a new door for her to enter. In her version of reality it’s not exactly quitting, it’s moving forward through that newly opened door.
IOW, it’s deny reality, don’t accept personal responsibility for her actions, and continue to lie. ”
I agree with this 100%. SP is crazy, and too hungry for power.
Mae 212, yes, Steve Schmidt has made some sense, but he also said that Palin has an amazing ability to memorize. Ha! She can’t even remember that ENERGY is one of her big talking points. Tax (not budget!) cuts, also too. So funny.
Syphilis P. have no shame. She needed to have used the time to study up on different policies and how the government works. Instead, she is just full of alot of vinegar and revenge.
BuffaloGal, I have no clue where it came from, I found it over at Palingates, the poster left no link, but I’m guessing it came from the Wallace interview.
It seems Track is back.
I asked about this yesterday, got no response so did a little ‘googling’.
{http://www.adn.com/palin/story/966845.html}
Palins welcome troops, and son, back from Iraq (The Associated Press)
Published: October 8th, 2009 10:00 PM
I AM a Military Mom and that is why this irks me.
At the tea party she spoke of her son again below.
>>PALIN: So the things that he has done right now as president in protecting the country, more power to him. We appreciate that he kind of went there fully with the commanders on the ground asking for more reinforcements in Afghanistan. Couldn’t get there all the way with these guys, but kind of went there. Good, more power to you. And I speak as a military mom, too, saying thank you. You’re giving me a little bit more of a secure knowledge that you’re looking out for our troops and the things that their commanders are asking for. I’m thinking kind of, of my son in this situation. Thank you for doing that. However, there are many things that he is doing today that cause an uneasiness in many, many Americans, I’m one of those.
Who looks at the way that he is treating the trials of these terrorists and kind of as gosh, they’re on a crime spree right now. No, we are in war. These are acts of these war that these terrorists are committing. We need to treat them a little bit differently than an American who is worthy — an American being worthy of our U.S. constitutional rights. I don’t think the terrorists are worthy of our rights that people like my son fight and are willing to die for>>
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Tina in Tennessee Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 4:47 PM
They’re looking for Obots to play
You won’t believe the spin…
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Tina… I just asked a question there about the NYT story.
Why didn’t she pay any Taxes on her Chalets… that just doesn’t seem right for a Role Model. Lets see what answer we get… in 5… 4… 3…..
palin’s book has fallen to #11 – Game Change is at #1.
Was in my local BJ’s yesterday, stopped by the book section.
One lonely column of S’error books – 7 overall, while Game Plan had 3 columns right smack in the center, one of which only had 2 copies and the other 2 had 3 each. Other surrounding books were 10 deep for each column.
Oh, the BJ price for S’error DROPPED from the last time it was out on the shelf.
Well, i’ve been saying mean things about their queen. And i’ve been defending Michelle Obama.
Believe it or not, there have been comments supporting my take on Ms. Palin. A few thanked me for talking about the Beverly Wooley story (…said she was a REAL guerrilla woman).
Ha ha! Otherwise, they’ve called me names (pig, man, misogynist, Andrew Sullivan in drag, sicko, Obot, troll, etc.) There are people who need to be jostled into asking questions. At least it doesn’t take a rapier wit [grin], so i’ll be OK.
Tina in Tennessee Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 5:17 PM
If they called me ‘Andrew Sullivan in drag’ at that Tennessee mean girls site, is that good or bad?
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it’s all good sugar. i know some Queens that would make those ‘things’ in Tennessee look like the swamp rats they are.
“beth,” did you hear? Palin confirmed the writing on her inside left palm today in Texas while campaigning for Rick Perry: she wrote “Hi Mom!” there so photographers could capture it–basicially admitting that: 1) she’s immature and 2) that she needs a note to remember to say hi to her mother.
Hee hee… one of ‘em even told me that Sarah, being the mother of 4 other children, certainly knew if she was capable of getting on a plane ~ or not.
One said i was jealous of Sarah because she’d had so many kids and looked so good. I replied that she looked like sh!t compared to me, and i have five kids, too (i wanted to say ‘for real’, but i didn’t feel like going there if i was going to have any credibility with those girls).
“Latest Internet Explorer Flaw Exposes Any File on Your PC
by Terrence O’Brien — Feb 5th 2010 at 1:30PM
Internet Explorer is no stranger to security vulnerabilities, but a flaw revealed by Microsoft on Wednesday is one of the most stunning we’ve ever seen. The flaw effects IE6, IE7, and IE8 on Windows XP as well as IE7 and IE8 on Vista and Windows 7 if protected mode has been disabled (though protected mode is turned on by default).
The exploit would allow a hacker to access any file on your system by forcing IE to incorrectly render data from local files, exposing it to outside parties. The flaw, which is actually several smaller security holes combined in an ingenious way, would require tricking a victim into visiting a Web site through e-mail or IM, and then the attacker know the location and name of the file they’d wish to access. Unfortunately, many programs store sensitive data using a standardized structure that would be easy to find though guesswork.
If you’re running Vista or Windows 7, ensure that you’re running IE in protected mode, or even better — choose a different browser. If you’re still running XP and can’t bring yourself to use Firefox or Chrome, you can lock down IE by setting the Internet and Local security zones to “High” or disabling ActiveX completely. You could also enable IE Network Protocol Lockdown, which requires editing the registry. Thankfully, Microsoft has created a “Fix it for me” link, available here, that does the dirty work for you.”
Sarah is the next George Washington in my book. On with the Revolution!! I like her ideas of small government. As a member of the Tea Party, I oppose all pay for government workers; government should be run by volunteers, not paid employees. Members of the Senate and House should also be volunteers as well as all public servants. Let stop that Socialist Security System and make the military truly a volunteer entity, not a paid organization. No more Veterans Administration and all the bureaucracy”
Check the Fox news page; you can almost feel the person transcribing this cringe at having to put it down verbatim…”We HIRED her to represent our network?!”
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Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 7:00 PM
huh……..
“SarahSupporter
Sarah is the next George Washington in my book. On with the Revolution!! I like her ideas of small government. As a member of the Tea Party, I oppose all pay for government workers; government should be run by volunteers, not paid employees. Members of the Senate and House should also be volunteers as well as all public servants. Let stop that Socialist Security System and make the military truly a volunteer entity, not a paid organization. No more Veterans Administration and all the bureaucracy”
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bunch of dweebs
We really are who we are when we are doing the things we do when nobody is looking. The Sarah Palin that sat there and wrote those notes on her hand is the Sarah Palin you will get. And that way of cheating and deception will carry on through in all her endeavors, in fact as many of us know, the Sarah Palin sitting there with the pen writing on her other hand is the only Sarah Palin we have seen so far. Throw in a mean streak and vindictive nature with her lying, cheating, and deception, then season with God and Patriotism and you come up with the great white hope of the Teabaggers. Retarded is a big compliment for that group……
I just left a comment on Huff Post about the Palin’s comment from this morning that it was Ok for Rush to use the r word, and used the “r…..d’ word three times, twice to point out that Sarah said it was OK to use the word and once to call her that. Huff Post instead of delaying my comment for review put it straight into the comments.
So I guess that filter is off, at least for Sarah.
I don’t like the word but fair is fair and we can use it to call her what she just said it OK for Rush to call us, ‘casue she said it’s OK.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a looong time! A cheat sheet! I’ve taught middle school, and one of the things you look for during tests is students reading their palms! That was so hilarious. Did her daughters tell her about this, or has she been using this trick since she was 12? Is this how she got through Potato U?
When you can’t remember what your top 3 or 4 talking points are without pointedly reading your palm, and then waving it around so people see the print, you aren’t prepared for your 2 minute class speech. I can’t bear to listen to her or read transcripts, but she is worth a million laughs.
Hey Bea !!
Just scrolled the thread and saw another couple of fine examples of your work. Love it !! Thanks.
And yeah baby on da Saints !! Brees be from Austin.
Can you imagine her as president, visiting foreign dignitaries and some poor schlep having to TRANSLATE her word salad? That she is reading off the crib notes on her hand?
Tim Shriver talked to Rahm Emanuel because of Palin and the retard comment. I read he wrote Rush a letter. Now Sarah says it’s okay for Rush. Wonder what Shriver thinks of Palin now that it is okay for Rush to say retard. She did throw her baby under the bus. A loving mother wouldn’t be selective in allowing insults.
“From the Branchflower report on Troopergate, the “Mr. Wheeler” being asked questions was part of her security detail:
Officer Wheeler testified that Todd Palin spent at least 50 percent of his time in Governor Palin’s office. Although he did not have his own office, he would routinely use the governor’s office, sitting at the conference table that had a phone on it. I asked Officer Wheeler whether he had an opinion about Todd Palin’s level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the Governor’s office:
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: Do you have an opinion about his level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the working of the governor’s office?
MR. WHEELER: I — I think that he — that he had a significant influence, in that he was always interacting with the — the employees there. That any time I needed to get information to the governor, I would always go through Todd, because he was the only one I could — could talk with, either via the cell phone or in person.
He — I know that he got e-mails and stuff that he was in the loop on — on activities. Because if — if the governor was required to leave and go to Juneau or something, that Todd was always the one that would call me and let me know where they were and that they’d be five or ten minutes out.
So he — yes, he was — he knew a lot of the stuff that was going on.
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: How would you compare his level of involvement with the level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the governor’s office by the spouse of former governor Tony Knowles or Frank Murkowski? You worked for them as well, correct?
MR. WHEELER: I did. I would say that the first ladies from the two previous administrations, while they were involved in state business, it was primarily in functions and non — or — I can’t think of the word right now. Private — things like breast cancer awareness and, you know, representing the state in these — in these nonprofit organizations. They all had an organization that they took to heart.
And I never saw that from Mr. Palin. You know, I basically saw where he was involved more with the day-to-day things than — than going out and attending these specific things, or specific organizations.”
I’d go ahead and put Palin on the ticket in 2012. They should know they’re going to lose to Obama no matter who they run. Why taint a potential, future candidate with a sure loss?
Palin is their token candidate. A seat filler.
They can use Palin as a placeholder and they can get rid of the Teabaggers once and for all. With Palin as their figurehead, the Teabaggers will be relegated to the lunatic fringe. And the GOP can say “Hey, we gave you a shot and you blew it. Now we call the shots. Tow the line or get out.”.
They can go through the motions of supporting her while in reality hanging her and the teabaggers our to dry. Then after the election make a big deal about hearing the voice of the voters, turning over a new leaf, new direction, etc. And dumping Sarah, the Teabaggers and the Talibangelicals.
aha @136
No they did not give Celtic Diva a discount. She sent in the check for the full amount she was quoted, so I think she deserves a refund considering the charges that MSNBC paid and got vs what Celtic Diva got and paid for. It is quite ridiculous that Diva had to pay over $5,000.00 for emails when the charge for MSNBC was less than $400.00 and they got so much.
I know that it was the first week of December 1st & 3rd (those are the dates of the posts she made about it) that she got the notification that the records request was ready, but had been partially denied due to so many being classified as “privileged” and she wrote about the list of privileged email list on Jan 25.
I know she said she got over 2,000 pages of information so I am not sure what it is she got as that last discussion in Jan was about what she didn’t get (the emails that were marked ‘privileged’).
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!! See – I TOLD you there is a God =) And He’s got quite the sense of humour.
Could you have ever imagined that the day would come when a potential Presidential candidate would:
- Bash a sitting President and imply he is not a commander-in-chief
- AND have notes written on her hands during a this bashing for all to see AND
- Sit thru a softball on stage interview with the SAME notes on her hands again for the world to see AND
- Admit on national TV that as long as you are a well known Republican who can help her politically, you are WELCOME to make fun of people with disabilities AND she will laugh WITH you.
This is freaking awesome. Seriously – anyone who tells me from now on that she is a serious contender for President, I will LAUGH until I can not breathe. Thank you, Jesus.
Yes, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were Federalists who wanted a strong, central government. Jefferson and Madison were strong Democrats who wanted decentralized, small governments.
Here’s one of her crib talking point that she needed to be sure to plug………. “Allowing America’s Spirit to Rise”, again, is that from the downtrodden? or from the dead? ashes? calling it forth from our founding fathers out of some cave? inviting the Holy Spirit to indwell America? and it’s government of course.
Divine intervention of course would be her as the answer to all our ills, gag.
So is she saying the American Spirit has got to be Christian, why yes she is.
Oh dear………
“I think, kind of tougher to, um, put our arms around, but allowing America’s spirit to rise again by not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a God fearing nation where we’re not afraid to say, especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, where we’re not afraid to say, you know, we don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again. To have people involved in government who aren’t afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that you know — they have to be afraid of what the media said about them if they were to proclaim their alliance on our creator.”
Our President is not going to back down from Health Care, he just said a large provider out of CA plans to raise it’s premiums by 39%.
My spouse just lost his job a week ago, Cobra for two adults in their mid 50′s with no serious health problems will cost us $1364.00 a MONTH! it was costing us 360.00 through his employer, which my husband never used except for teeth cleaning 2 times a year, and I for mamo, pap and bloodwork.
Who can afford that without a job? We decided to pay as we need treatment, and hope nothing big comes up.
I would encourage those who have health benefits to GET IN to your docs and dentists, eye exams etc. and use them while you’ve got them. I will now not have a mamo or pap since last years.
Make those appointments, get it done.
Andrew Sullivan has Katie Curic’s interview with the Pres. 14.5 min
Aussiegal #257 – amen. Just brought me to do a little research on lying too.
Proverbs: These 6 things doth the Lord hate, yea 7 are an abomination to him: a proud look, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood; a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
My mother used to say when I was little, that once one starts a little lie, and gets away with it, they get addicted to lying, and of course it ruins lives around them. I can’t imagine how any family could live daily while making outrageous lies about other people, and on national tv, heavily critiquing leaders on and on so deviously; it would impact children, make them unstable and feel isolated. This makes one get a headache just reading about it.
I cannot imagine Texans being happy that she called Texas Alaska’s “little sister state”!!
6000 people showed up for a venue that seats 9500. Thats probably not what Perry was expecting to happen. I bet he thought that with Palin and free music from Ted Nugent,there would be overflow.
253 merrycricket Says: February 7th, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Can you imagine her as president. …
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No. No, I cannot.
btw – as to those emails… yanno… someone could get the same pile of documents released to the media by putting in an request for “any and all documents requested by and released to [name of news organization here].”
It cracks me up that her stupid cult followers are defending Palin for writing notes on her hand. They are saying there is nothing wrong with her writing notes on her hand….people have done it for years,etc.
First of all, I challenge them to name “people”. Are they talking about junior high school “people”?
Secondly, I guess those gosh darn high tech teleprompters are bad, but taking a sharpie to your palm or reading notes is good. Sheesh.
#265 bb, good article. Noticed there wasn’t one positive comment for goodhair & lady blah blah in San Antonio. That’s interesting, I have a good friend down there, we don’t talk politics as he’s a rabid republican….
Within the videos I watched, there were also a good dozen or so shots of her left palm that showed absolutely *nothing* at all on it -it was bare nekkid …I attributed that ‘nothingness’ to the rapidity of her hand movement and/or to the lighting [out of deferrence to what seems to be the prevailing line of thinking: SP *did* have words written on her hand.] However…
In all the frames where I did see ’something’, there were only 5 – maybe 8- frames where anything even remotely resembling the layout of ‘the list’, showed. All the rest of the left-palm-forward frames showed different combinations of heavy/light // long/sort // thin/thick “smudges’… none of the frames showed a consistent ‘layout’. Surely IF there had been ‘a list’, the frames showing it would have had some consistency, no?
I also find it extremely odd that out of all the media present, with all the cameras trained on her, only *one* photographer noticed the ’something’ on her left palm and got curious enough to zoom in on it to see what it was? There were no other camera operators/photographers in the room with any curiosity and no other cameras in the room with that zoom in capability? I think that highly unlikely.
Think of it from the financial standpoint of the photographer…can you imagine the amount of money a photo of SP with a ‘crib sheet’ written on her hand, would bring? And you think any photographer would pass up the opportunity to get a photo of that “money shot”? Wouldn’t have heart racings with the anticipation of hawking it to the highest bidder? I don’t.
I’d be interested to find out when the photos were given/uploaded to AP from the photographer who ‘captured’ the “money shot” — was it before minute 6:35 of the Q&A, or after; and, *if* after, how long after? Long enough after, that the photographer (or someone) could’ve found a pic to ‘enhance’ as a ‘companion’ to SPs weird staring at her palm?
Call me skeptical, but the ‘facts’ of the one, lone, “money shot” just don’t add up [for me]. I sure do wish there were SOME –any– corroboration of/for the picture; without one, I think, ‘we’ are just accepting as ‘truth’ what ‘we’ want to see. And that’s a real pity. beth.
There were also enlargements of video frames and you could easily see it was the same list as in the picture, as well as the video of her reading off of her hand. I noticed that long before the photo surfaced.
so, I’m reading the Dallas Morning News and Good Hair Perry and Sarah (aka lying b**ch) are on front page..there is confetti flying every where and Sarah is holding hands with her little girl Piper(looks like they were running for President) and the caption says:”Honey, we’re in Alaska’s little sister state.”
Holy sh*t!…yeah, that’s what us ego driven a–holes in Texas want to be called…Alaska’s little sister…heads will roll.
Does anyone recall posting that the Texas Governor offered the Palins the Texas State Jet to return to Alaska on that momentous day in April 2008 when Sarah Palin says she was leaking amniotic fluid.
Anyone from Texas, who knows someone who could shed some light on this?
I firmly believe that if the reporting and pictures of notes written on SP’s hand were not true—we would have all been hearing from the woman.
She follows a pattern—-deceit -deceit-deceit in all she does and says.
Someday, sometime, she is going to dig a hole deep enought that she can’t crawl out. I am waiting for that day.
Me, too Lacy Lady. I think she’s creeping closer to that day by day. Naturally, she has no earthly clue that’s what she’s doing. As if the “tele-palm-ter”, disastrous wig, extreme nonsensical screeching, mini-skirt, and leg-rubbing weren’t cringe-worthy enough, now she referred to Texas as “Alaskas’s little sister state”? OMG! I hope every soul in Texas hears about that monster insult. You CANNOT say that about Texas!! I can almost see the posses forming as we speak. Proud, red-blooded Texans won’t cotton to her idiotic comment at all…them’s fightin’ words.
Oh no! I took a shower and forgot everything I was supposed to say!!!
It’s A-OK AKeditor, it’s all copied right here on Sarah’s hand.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KRrIq3tsnvs/S26MoO21lcI/AAAAAAAAAFk/rvoN-dN3f2Y/s1600-h/Cheat+Sheet+2010-02-07-palinhandclose.jpg
Free market principles … like propping up Mat Maid?
MSNBC got emails.
Wasn’t Celtic Diva supposed to get emails, too?
Good morning! Still laughing over last night’s inky palm speech. Such a silly, silly thing to do.
Not surprising, sadly.
Just a quick comment about the crib notes (which, by the way, puts a new spin on the phrase “Talk to the hand” . . . ): The fact that she wrote some notes on her hand are less interesting than is the fact that she originally wrote the phrase “budget cut” and then drew a line through the word “budget” and underneath that wrote “tax.” Something progressive bloggers have been offering as a critique of conservative budget plans is that they talk enthusiastically about cutting taxes and (much) less precisely about cutting (or “reining in”) spending, offering no specifics. Palin’s little editing job is a real tell with regard to economic policy: No one in that crowd is going to question a “tax cuts” talking point; some of the more thoughtful there, though, might wonder about “budget cuts.”
Just came back, by the way, from a quick visit at C4P to see how they’re responding to the crib note pics; one argument in support of them (it runs, approximately, “They’re faked; but even if they’re not . . . “), stated by a couple of people, is that she’s already made these same points many, many times and just wanted to make sure she didn’t forget them this time. I’m not sure that’s the most flattering of defenses of the former governor . . .
I read that she taped the interview with Chris Wallace for FNC before she gave the tea party speech…maybe we’ll see her palm reading act again when they show FNC this morning!
A headline on the front page of the CNN site says:
Did Palin Deliver?
Now, THAT is a loaded question…
aha,
Celtic Diva did get emails as well sometime before Christmas, but right now I think she said she is going through the ones from MSNBC.
Dan thought, for some reason, I had taped the show, I mean speech, last night. Zoë was pretty sure I hadn’t. Of course, I HAD NOT!
This morning he was listening to NPR’s take on the speech and told me he was glad I had not taped it, he would have gotten physically ill watching it.
That’s me, saving the world from Palin.
By the way it wasn’t a “cheat” note on her hand. She was listening to Jiminy Cricket who was in her hand and saying: “Sarah, stop lying! Your nose is growing again! You know how much that plastic surgery and nose bob cost!”
MSNBC has a poll up about how palin did last night. one of the comments from the “great!” crowd: “put obama boy to shame ”
no one’s going to convince me that the entire teabag movement is not motivated in large part by pure deplorable racism.
go here to vote: http://politics.newsvine.com/_question/2010/02/07/3864825-what-did-you-think-of-sarah-palins-speech-to-the-tea-party-convention
Oh, Sarah.
This video perfectly encapsulates everything about her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2YtDCc-6Y
Woke up laughing about last nite. And just to think sarah rode her broom thru the nite to speak for my Gov. today makes me smile…..
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She spent a while attempting to mock the Real President for using a teleprompter, which earned her derision and scorn even from her fans on twitter. Why, you ask, would a Palin fan not enjoy a good dash of mock and awe? Perhaps because Herself was reading off of notes for the entire speech….which only served to give us a gander at the odd poof of hair attached to her real hair. Not sure what’s going on there– maybe that’s “Real America” hair?
http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489
Funniest boat name ever. Spew alert before clicking link.
http://i.imgur.com/8dcJK.jpg
Lift American spirits – well she accomplished this by pulling this prank. I wonder if her entourage, Piper, had a hand in this? Someone quick take that Sharpie away from them! She can’t be trusted with it – between the McCain visor and her hand!
It’s unfathomable to me that she was actually the Governor of Alaska. Between this and the email revelations, it brings new meaning to GINO.
sarah is taking a beating all over the place. Super Sunday indeed !!
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In sum, Sarah Palin loyally supports virtually every policy that defined the uniquely disastrous Bush/Cheney first term. The “tea party movement” depicts itself as some sort of novel and independent force in American politics, and the establishment media — which patronizingly equates far right extremists with “real Americans” and is petrified of accusations of “liberal bias” — plays along. But exactly the opposite is true.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin
Omigawd – I’m laughing so hard it hurts. I’m seeing the photos of $P’s version of a palm pilot for the first time. Went to bed before they were posted last night. I wasn’t even willing to believe it was real. I thought it just HAD to be photoshopped. Once I was sure they were legit I bust a gut laughing and now I can’t stop.
Wonder how the sea monkeys are gonna spin this one ? Hey Granny – How’s that whiney, snarkey, cheaty thing workin’ out for ya ??
HA!!!!!
I can relate AKM….for it got to a point where I had palin-overload ~ and had to TOTALLY disconnect!
But fortunately, woke to catch the SNL ‘Rahm Skit’…and if you have not seen it already, it is a must!
Laughter is indeed some real good medicine ~ and in time, TRUTH will heal the woes.
Have a SUPER SUNDAY everyone!
Anyone up to watching Mrs. Palin on Fox this morning? I am going to try.
Notes on the hand -well just imagine how embarssing it would have been had she given a poignant, grammatically correct speech -loaded with substance, and concrete ideas and accurate facts, but then was caught using a telepromter to deliver it.
Now that would have been embarassing! Notes on the hand? Not so much (wink).
palin’s book has fallen to #11 – Game Change is at #1.
jimsmum,
I’m going to watch–it’s on here in an hour and a half. They showed a preview of it with her doing the routine about how Obama treats the Xmas terrorist as if he has human rights…super fun times, ha ha.
HA !!
Scared ?!?! Bring it the f^*k on !!
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Near the end of her time on stage, the moderator said, “I can think of two words right now that scare liberals: President Palin,” causing the crowd to chant “Run, Sarah, run.”
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/palin-speaks-tea-party-convention/
and now she’s killed the tea party movement!
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/02/07/the-begining-of-the-end-sarah-palin-hijacks-the-tea-party-movement/
lilyf 21. Do you have Maalox on hand? I have a new jug.
A call for a revolution… yeah, can’t you see miss “moose killer” fighting off liberals in her mini skirt, money shoes and a gun she doesn’t know how to use.
“treats the Xmas terrorist as if he has human rights…”
Shouldn’t say it, but honestly, I’d like to see her waterboarded, a bunch of times. Live. On Faux.
jimsmum: hahaha! Thank you for the offer…especially since it’s too early to drink alcohol
Hi all, this is one of the funniest diaries on Daily Kos that I’ve seen.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/7/4254/92035
p.s. I am AnnetteK over there, we are having a lot of fun with the Hillbilly palm pilot.
We always considered the kids who wrote the answers on their hands cheaters & the teachers did too. Maybe Piper who seems to be Sarah’s constant companion & perhaps her advisor suggested this nifty idea to her.
Apparently Fox was not too impressed with her performance. I think they thought she sounded a little mean & shrill. Imagiane that.
Hope this doesn’t effect plans for the in-house studio Fox is building for her in her house in Wasilla so she can reach out from her home to the rest of the world.
#25 Paula
That would almost make me tune in to Fox, just that once.
Phoebe, when she has the studio built by Fox, she plans to get Piper out of school so that she can hold up the cheat sheets behind the camera.
This morning on CBS Sunday Morning they did a segment on reality programing. Near the end they asked all that stuff would have any impact on us —- and, immediately I thought: SARAH PALIN. Those people who do and love the worst of reality TV are probably the ones who love her. This put a chill down my spine. Reality programming takes over TV and she emerges as the worst possible reality in our national scene as she just seems to slide by all of her horrid actions and words. Nothing seems to bring her down. Very very scary to me.
This morning, Palin declined to criticize Limbaugh for his use of the term “retard” on the rationale that Limbaugh was supposedly being “satirical.” Really? How about in 2000 when Limbaugh was saying that Gore had the “retard vote” and was “bussing retards” to the polls? Satirical too? Or is anything that Limbaugh says “satirical” and nothing that those on the other side of the aisle “defamatory” and horrible?
Photo found that shows Lincoln used hand notes to keep talking points straight :
http://twitpic.com/11wbnk
After how poorly she’s been paying the delightful Ms. Mansour I thougt maybe Piper would be the speechwriter. I have to admit I’ve not heard it yet. Wanted to make sure it was awful so I could enjoy it…now too early in am. If spouse heard that screechy voice this early there would be a mandation in this house. Spouse refuses to listen to all things Palin.
Oh my. Fox is calling bulls^*t on McCain about gays in the military.
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Even Fox host Clayton Morris agreed. “Yeah, it’s like a civil rights issue. I find it absolutely absurd,” Morris said. Then Morris and Hunt took a swipe at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who claims to heed the views of military leaders (except those with whom he disagrees):
MORRIS: On the campaign trail, then-Sen. John McCain said, look, when I hear from the military brass that they want to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, I’ll get right in line with them. That’s what happened — we heard from Admiral Mullen, we heard from Defense Secretary Gates. … Why is John McCain flip-flopping here?
HUNT: It’s just too damn convenient for McCain to be doing this. … He’s just wrong on this. We’re in a war. We’ve got guys deployed for 8 years in Afghanistan, almost 7 years in Iraq. And somebody says, I want to serve this country. And McCain wants to say, if you’re homosexual, you can’t serve. It’s wrong. We need these kind of people. We need all of them.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/fox-news-dadt-repeal/
Hillbilly Palm Pilot. Love it! Did she forget her Blackberries?
Buffalo Girl
Oh no, I sure hope the baggers won’t start comparing Palin to Lincoln plus Lincoln used the ooutside of his hand not the palm…big difference.
BuffaloGal -
Funny !! Aw……..goodtimes just keep on a rollin’. And just think , sarah and Chris “in my lap” Wallace and Perry are yet to come today. Ooops…….gotta watch my choice of words……..
and they paid a $100,000.00 for that speech? I know I really have some bridges to sell somebody some lonely smuck today.
Sarah says thank you smucks for filling my bucket “O” money!
Interrupting Chris Wallace to blather forever about being a military mom and worried about her son. Heck! What about the years when my cousins were there and nothing was being done?
Too dumb to figure out how to use the telepromter.
Too dumb to hide the notes on her hand.
Too scared to stand up to Rush.
Will sombody just restrain her and send Piper out instead?
Sarah looked down to consult her iQuit!
The hand said…..energy, budget (crossed out) tax cut, lift American spirits. That hardly seems worth the humiliation. Even a cross out. Geez.
check out shannyn’s blog for a VERY clear closeup of her hand.
she’s pathetic
Yee haw……..people are havin’ fun today on the tubes.
http://i.imgur.com/dAvf6.jpg
The photo of President Lincoln’s hand with writing on it must be a fake. The lengths to which people will go to justify ANYTHING Sarah Palin does! Besides, the pics of her and her “palm pilot” were taken live!
The biggest problem about the hand-notes is that the interviewer was a friend, not a gotcha-nosy-journalist out to get Sarah. The questions and answers were all know ahead of time. And she still couldn’t remember three important talking points. Sarah just proved everything Steve Schmidt said was true. She could not learn anything, no matter how hard the McCain staff tried to teach her. No wonder she needed Todd and Chuck to help her run Alaska.
@42 phoebe Says: … crossed out …
I agree that not even being able to write a palm crib note without having to EDIT it is amazing.
Palin’s prep team for the VEEP debate is kicking themselves this morning. The debate video will be scrutinized again. I bet her palm said “don’t answer the questions”.
Before retiring last night I caught a snippet of lady blah blah’s speech on CNN. Nothing has changed from the campaign. Still out there riling up the knuckle-dragging wingnut faction. She incites violence. I know many progressives want her in the 2012 race, not me, I believe there will be blood if this ignoramus is allowed to run around spewing her poisonmuch longer. I did, however, enjoy Andy Samberg’s Rahm on SNL. “You’re calling for my resignation on your facebook? What are you fourteen? Grow the “f” up.”
http://thedailypingpong.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/a-promise-is-a-promise/
Good job AKM, sleep tight!!
#43 @austintx
I laughed so hard my cat fell off the windowsill!
From commentor maelewis at Palingates:
With so many important appearances and special events on Sarah’s calendar, I would like to provide some tips and hints for future notes-to-self:
1. Write on the left hand using Sharpie. If you write on the right hand, it could transfer when you shake hands with some guy with sweaty palms. (Most guys looking at Sarah’s short skirt do have sweaty palms).
2. Soft interviews: note each child’s name with correct birth date. For Trig, we are still going with April 18, 2008, no matter what that birth certificate says.
3. Next appearance with Glenn Beck: he may switch locations, so be sure to count how many windows in the Empire State Building, Trump Tower and Chrysler Buildings. Maybe Track can google it for Sarah. Use SarahPAC to pay his consulting fee for research.
4. Question: Why did Sarah use abbreviations in all of her tweets and yet she wrote each word out on her hand? Note: you can cram more stuff in if you use abbreviations like AM for American. Also too, remember to say GD BLS AM(erica) at every opportunity.
5. Sarah, consider wearing a tailored suit with pretty patterned blouse underneath. You can get more stuff on the cuffs, and then when you hold up your hands, no one will see your notes. Just remember to keep tugging the sleeves of the jackets to cover the writing.
6. Post-it notes. You can stick them anywhere.
Douchebag Nation
Palin’s reaction to her stock sinking faster than Lehman Brothers’?
Appear on Pox to remind the faithful she’s “considering” 2012 run!
(Before her speaking gigs dry up completely).
Hey – now that the cat’s out of the bag, maybe she should just have her 7 repeated talking points tattooed right on her hand. No worries about it washing off. Always have it “handy” .
DaisyDem @44 – Yeah – the Lincoln pic is a photoshop. Here’s another of FDR using crib notes. http://twitpic.com/11w9wm
4 hours later and I’m still laughing. Twitter is on fire with it. The wingnuts are mostly quiet but the ones that are responding are spinning it either as no big deal or something about it being so smart of her to do and dang it , she didn’t need no stankin’ teleprompter.
She really and truly could make hats out of puppies and kittens and the nutters would be crawling over each other to be the first in line to buy one.
I agree. I’m sure the Lincoln hand thing is photo shopped. It’s not like they had Sharpies back then or modern ink. Can’t you see him dipping a quill into the ink bottle and then blotting his hand after writing?
My favorite thing from the Rahm thing on SNL was the “half politician” remark. I may have messed up the quote because I was laughing too hard. The whole thing expressed how I felt, with a few more swear words. I loved it anyway.
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austintx Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 6:11 AM
Funniest boat name ever. Spew alert before clicking link.
http://i.imgur.com/8dcJK.jpg
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Titan Uranus. oh Lord!! too funny.
This one’s just for sista sayrah:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/snl-takes-on-rahm-emanuel_n_452596.html
Excellent article at Salon:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin
It includes an update from a local reporter, too. Very interesting take on the whole thing.
A must read at HuffPo of Sp defending Limbaugh’s use of the word retard and why it is not offensive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html#postComment
I especially liked the last line: I’m just appreciative of having some good information at my fingerprints now.”
Instead of the writing on the wall, Palin reads the writing off her hand. How lame do you have to be, to not be able to remember the answers to preapproved questions that you’ve already seen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
“”"”February 07, 2010
Categories:Palin.Palin: Obama could help re-election fortunes if he plays “the war card”
Sarah Palin said on Sunday hat if President Barack Obama “played the war card” and declared war on Iran or bolstered Israel, it could change the political dynamic and improve his re-election odds.
“If the election were today I do not think that Obama would be elected. But three years from now things could change on the national security front,” she said on “Fox News Sunday”"”"”"”"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0210/Palin_Obama_could_help_reelection_fortunes_if_he_plays_the_war_card.html#comments
AKM, you should get creative royalties when the zombie political horror movie, “Sarah Palin Ate My Brain!” comes out.
Just always remember this:
http://i.imgur.com/6lAAs.jpg
Hey sarah !! I found a book for ya……
http://i.imgur.com/NpzwR.jpg
I think everybody got it wrong on the topics on her palm. These were purely domestic
Energy : not forget to pop some pep pills before speach
Budget : for cabins (crossed that out in view of below)
Tax cuts : phone Parnell to pressure Mat Su borough
Lift America : buy new patriotic bumpits
Spirit : put bottle of gin in cooler to face the Q&As
Nan (aka roswellborn) @57
mommom@60
“Led by Joe Lieberman, neocons have repeatedly shown their willingness to cynically exploit extremist Christian Rapture dogma for greater American fealty towards Israeli actions, and Palin reliably spouts neoconservative dogma on virtually every issue”.
Didn’t Palin recently have a meeting with Billy Graham to ask for Biblical guidance regarding our foreign policy in the Middle East? Lieberman, Kristol et.al. would also love to see our great nation go to war with Iran (which as luck would have it, also has a lot of “our” petroleum deposits) on behalf of Israel.
Palin said “I will live for America” and “I will die for America”…
Could she please implement the latter, sooner than later.
It is so ironic that Simple Sarah gets caught using her PalmPrompter® immediately following her screech referring to “our TelePrompter usin’” president. This poor twit has become a pathetic characature of herself. The saving grace in all of this is that she is the darling of a small and dwindling group of teabaggers and disaffected right-wing republicans that could conceivably appeal to her obvious vanity and convince her to run a third party presidential campaign in 2012. Then, she will be to Obama what Ross Perot was to Clinton in 1992. Priceless! The ultimate useful idiot.
I couldn’t sleep last night so I watched the rerun of the speech… with no sound. I tried so hard to make out what her hand said. I hope to find some screenshots today as I peruse the intertubes. I just got up!
O.M.G.!!! LMFAO!!!! I just read the first post and saw her Palm Pilot! I should really learn to do that first…..
Nan – you’re right, today’s Glenn Greenwald piece is beauty. He expresses so clearly how Palin is Bush/Cheney Lite – like the second cup of tea for those who re-use teabags [No! Don't do it!] – weak, bitter, acidic, flavorless. And that this has effectively killed the Teabag movement.
That analysis of the Israeli flag melded to the American flag on her lapel was just plain scary, like she’s channeling the demon ghose of Pope Urban or something.
Hey everyone – I just posted this on FAIL Blog. Please rate it, and maybe we can get it on the main page: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3166178304
Boy, I knew Alaskans were clever and handy but this takes the
cake!
http://www.optimaljet.com/OptimalJetHTML/mulchatnaHigh.htm
DD
“ghost,” of course. Someday I’ll be a good typist.
Nan @57 – great article. thanks!
tamara @64 – good one ! Someone over on twitter said — *** In Palin’s defense, her hand note “Lift American Spirits” may not have been a Q&A prompt but merely a reminder to shoplift cigarettes.***
Anyone else think that this (cheat notes) is just one of the reasons the press has been banned from all her previous speeches. I suspect she has used this memory aide before.
I bet this tea party for profit guy wanted to open this to the press in an attempt to elevate his convention to the level of major parties and he pressed Palin to agree to
the media coverage. She won’t make that mistake again.
Palin’s just another Republican girl with a curious hand. Oh, and Carrie Prejean too.
Sarah Palin brought Alaska into the limelight for her own agenda and now she’s embarrassing. American’s biggest, dumbest Drama Queen appealing to the ignorant and illiterate.
AKM….this crazy lady is still steam rolling ahead. She continues to be given many free passes. The dumbing down of America and getting someone like her in office to continue fleecing Alaskan’s/Americans is a priority for big business. They just need a puppet, and she is their puppet. It may be too late for Levi to let the cat out of the bag. What he has to say may NOT make an impact what-so-ever. He has dragged his feet way too long on this one. The only thing that will bring her down is a conviction of any illegal activity. Ted Steven’s made someone in the Whitehouse very upset…he had no protection in the end. They wanted him outta there! She has protection at the top level….maybe even Cheney protection…but she has it.
DaisyDem @44 – Yeah – the Lincoln pic is a photoshop. Here’s another of FDR using crib notes. http://twitpic.com/11w9wm
People must think we are stupid. That FDR picture is fake. FDR would of been a left hand writer ? and also be able to read upside down and write backwards. LOL Reminds me of that girl who wrote Obama on her own face. Sick!
At what point does self serving criticism of our standing President become outrageous and treasonous?
Sarah Palin declared “America is ready for another revolution” and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama on Saturday before adoring “tea party” activists (Yeah- all 600 of them). They make up a seemingly natural constituency should she run for president.
“This movement is about the people,” the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said as the crowd roared. “Government is supposed to be working for the people.”
Here is a response regarding her scathing comments about the Dec 25 Terrorist.
U.S. justices system ‘will prevail’
“I have no doubt that the American justice system will prevail. Despite the claims and the criticisms of a lot of folks, including in Congress, that our judicial system is unable to handle these terrorists, I believe that our system of justice here is strong,” Brennan said.
“And I’m not going to give al-Qaida the victory of being able to overturn our system of jurisprudence here that is anchored in our Constitution and reflects our values as a people,” he said.
Brennan said he was confident that the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would face the “full weight of American justice” when he is tried no matter what the venue.
Ok, now that we’ve all had our fun, can we all make a concerted effort to publicize this “hand job” to all the main-stream media that has spent all morning giving us the crap about how she’s the next leader? What’s up with NPR that they did such a shallow reporting of her spew? Time to hold her accountable for her tax evasion, husband influencing policy and appointments, etc and the Troopergate abuse of power, etc. In the broader media.
I had lunch with a woman who has an MPH, married to an MD for 30+ years (and has 3 kids) who watches CNN and 60 Min and the nightly news, reads 2 papers a day and she didn’t know 1/100th the sh+t on her than any one of us here knows.
I also talked with another woman yesterday who has had children and asked her if the travel from TX to a small hospital in Palmer/Wasilla made any sense to her, especially in light of the newly revealed guy’s email who saw her in the Alaska Airlines lounge and $P/Granny Grifter was calmly reading a book while in labor.
I haven’t had kids, but I’m not retarded.
“And I’m not going to give al-Qaida the victory of being able to overturn our system of jurisprudence here that is anchored in our Constitution and reflects our values as a people,” he said.
But Sarah Palin through her sheer stupidity- would be willing to do just that. Turn us into a police state because she so f*cking ignorant!
It’s too bad S’error hadn’t thought of this ‘ common sense solution’ with
her Palm Pilot or iPalm before that VP Debate last year.
She could have just written the name Biden on her HAND. She knew that answer ahead of time as well and couldn’t remember it.
Does this not also give more credence that she ‘ cheated on Tawdry ‘.
She CHEATs on EVERYTHING !! Watch out Tawd… just saying..
It must be really difficult arranging her speechifyin’ schedule around the length of time needed for Sharpie ink to fade enough to write new notes on top of the old ones.
Someone on another blog posted that Sarah Palin was dangerous. Here’s my response:
“It’s NOT Palin that’s dangerous, folks. It’s the machine behind her. It’s the people to whom she panders her drivel. It’s the backwoods militias that are arming to the teeth, just waiting for the word. SHE is a harmless, empty-headed ninnymuggins (thanks Elf) who is being puppeted by money.
The best thing we can do right now is to focus on everything illegal she has done and get the Feds to take her away.”
THEN I had a brainstorm for what I will refer to her as from now on.
Mary Annette. Say it outloud. She is a true puppet.
#57 Nan – Thanks for the Salon article. She wore a US/Israel pin???
Here is the transcript from the Fox Chris “in my lap” Wallace interview.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-sarah-palin/
Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
The former Alaska governor, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
“I would be willing to if I believe that it’s right for the country,” Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012.
She qualified the statement, adding that she sees “many” other potential candidates who are “in as strong or stronger position than I am to take on the White House and if they’re in a better position than I in three years, I’ll support them.”
She truly is a complete and total A$$hole.
Palin is doing more than simply dipping her toe in the water with tentative talk of presidential aspirations. Since unexpectedly leaving the Alaska Governor’s Mansion last year, she’s formed a political action committee, she’s started endorsing and supporting candidates in the Republican primaries, she’s published a book and she’s been agitating the administration on a regular basis.
She delivered the keynote address Saturday at the tea party convention, using it to hammer Obama as soft on terrorism. When convention organizer Judson Phillips mentioned the idea of “President Palin” in a question-and-answer session afterward, audience members leapt to their feet and burst into a chant of “Run, Sarah, Run.”
In the near-term, Palin said she is going to focus her energy on the upcoming GOP primaries, and that she may support “hundreds” of candidates in the months ahead.
“I do want competition to allow the cream of the crop to rise (in the GOP contests),” Palin said, adding that her support would translate into everything from donations to campaign rallies. “There are hundreds of candidates on local, state and on the national level that hopefully we’ll be able to help.”
IT
JUST
KEEPS
GETTING
CREEPIER …
I would have loved to see her and Hitler go at it. Goebbels would have had a personal melt down…
Who to choose- who to choose ????
A HuffPo commenter posted a transcript of Palin’s response to O’Reilly’s question, “Are you intellectual enough to be president?”
“I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have — I believe the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spineless — a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are — could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that that has to be me.”
I find that woman’s claim to “common sense” is not just offensive, it’s a slur on all God’s children with cognitive abilities – and the people who love them.
#87 teutonic –
“Since unexpectedly leaving the Alaska Governor’s Mansion last year, she’s formed a political action committee…..”
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Uh, no…..The PAC and other money-making schemes came first. Then she quit.
Do not mean to offend anyone, but if she is an average Joe like most Americans, then we are all in a world of hurt.
I am not that dumb, nor do I idolize any one elected official…but I do put some faith into someone who is intelligent and knows how government works.
She only knows how to work it, not work within…my daughter calls her “a double negative” because she shouts the wrongs in reading rights to the Xmas bomber, and then runs off at the mouth about living up to our Constitution and laws.
She cancels herself out everytime.
If she were to run and win in 2012, I am heading to AK, at least there she will try to keep things pleasant for her homecoming.
You never sh*t where you sleep.
#90 curiouser
I think we all know that here at the flats- just a quote-
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I think in the long run- she will be dealt with. Either fate or circumstance. She has pissed on a lot of people and her number is up to get a little payback.
I don’t wish poorly on any soul, but she is just plain mean and has earned her day of reckoning. It is just a matter of time.
So, I see she gave Rush a pass on the retard usage.
I predict that at least one of her worshippers will have those words tattoo’ed on their palm in honor of their idol.
teutonic13 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:30 AM
I think in the long run- she will be dealt with. Either fate or circumstance. She has pissed on a lot of people and her number is up to get a little payback.
I don’t wish poorly on any soul, but she is just plain mean and has earned her day of reckoning. It is just a matter of time.
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Yes sir. The combination of the “Law of Averages” and karma are a force to be reckoned with. The freight train of truth and justice is comin’ down the track for sarah. No bell , whistle , or light.
I think Greenwald hit the nail on the head in his Salon piece. Last night’s ‘campaign’ speech by Palin just clarified what most of us already knew: The Teabagger (NOT ‘Tea’–these folks are nothing like the original Tea Party patriots) movement is nothing more than the ultra conservative wing of the extreme Republican neocon party. Sarah is a perfect metaphor for them: She is a whole lot of ugly inside wrapped in a pretty outside. They are trying to disguise truly hateful and vile ideology in a pretty populist package. Let’s just hope it doesn’t work.
What I want to know is when is Tina Fey coming back to SNL. She has sooooo much material to work with.
For those “unreal merikuns” who can’t take the sound of her screeches, here is the link to the transcript of Fox news interview in Nashville.
A word salad except :
“…they won’t want someone like me who has been unfortunately by the media put in a box as being so parochial and myopic in terms of some positions that they won’t recognize my own independence. So some people will shy away from my support that I could offer.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-sarah-palin-interviewed-foxnewscom/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.057171:b30299166:z0
#89 that is well said!!! She seems to hate elites. So the educated-liberals are the worst. So does she think they are small “smart tea party.” Well may those elites can start their own party. The party of “no” or wait that is already taken.
Heavens, is this all the Republicans have? You have to wonder if the elite Republicans are silently sitting there asking “why???” Keith O for President!!!
Scarah never leaves home without Piper and her (face)Palm-Pilot.
honestyinGov@81
Palin did use written notes during her debate with Biden!
“Palin, the former sportscaster, did an impressive job sounding spontaneous while working from a combination of rote memory, as well as what seemed like both pre-written and written notes”.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2008/10/biden—palin-1.html
REALITY CHECK:
The “screen capture” of SP at the podium, the one purportedly from CNN and showing the smudge/writing on her hand, has NO time listed. Screen captures usually don’t drop off the time [of the frame], do they?
AND, if the ‘close up’ is meant to be from the [above] screen capture, it isn’t. The hand in the close up is in a totally DIFFERENT position than is the one shown in the screen capture.
Had what is being shown as her “notes” been actual, the close up and the screen capture would have been one and the same shot.
That she had something written on her hand is NOT “proven” by the ‘screen capture’/'close up’ — the two photos aren’t even of the same moment in time (whenever that moment might’ve been.)
Unless irrefutable evidence to the contrary surfaces, I say the “notes” have been photoshopped.
Pity, too…in an effort to show SP for the fraud she is, a fraud was perpetrated on her. One that’ll give credence to her assertions that h8ters are “makin’ things up.” beth.
In the book, “Game Changer”, there was a reference to Sarah saying how she only wanted to “go home and sleep with her baby”. I don’t think she was referring to Trig but to Piper who seems to accompany her to most events. It is Piper, her little look alike and campaign trooper, who has her attention not the baby she only drags around like a coat over her arm until she finds someone willing to take him off her hands.
In a few years his disabilities will be more pronounced and I doubt we will be seeing much of him thereafter. Just my belief. But Piper, you betcha!
60 mommom Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 8:39 AM
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
“”””February 07, 2010
Categories:Palin.Palin: Obama could help re-election fortunes if he plays “the war card”
Sarah Palin said on Sunday hat if President Barack Obama “played the war card” and declared war on Iran or bolstered Israel, it could change the political dynamic and improve his re-election odds.
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she does realise WAR cost money !
It sickens me how she advocates war but god forbid somebody receives health care
Did everyone catch the fact $P gave the oglers their due? Skirt up high when she sat and then caressed her left leg, up and down for some time with her right hand? Spare me!!!!!! Probably had to protect the notes on the left hand or maybe crossing over, leaning down helped the cleavage display better.
Being a people watching feminist I always point out the “good stuff” to my partner when we are out in public. Wouldn’t want him to miss anything worth checking, and he would miss a lot if it weren’t for my scoping out the environment ;>)
#92 – teutonic
I was just expressing my frustration and pointing out one of the errors in the Fox article. No way was the comment directed at you. I’m so sorry for my failed communication.
for Beth:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html
Beth, I don’t think that’s a close up of the video, I think it’s a still shot from a camera taken at about the same moment.
Sorry for the doublepost. In the closeup, her hand is resting on the lectern.
Beth…did you watch her read her hand during the Q&A after the speech? She wasn’t checking her nails there, she was reading her hand.
Actually, Sarah is probably lucky there is so much attention on her inability to remember her own answer to questions she has already been given in advance.
It distracts from the biggest story, which is her suggestion that President Obama play the ‘war card’ if he wants to get reelected.
Like “Bomb,bomb, bomb Iran”, this is a signature moment that defines Sarah’s frighteningly shallow thinking – as well as signalling who the people are behind her, pulling those strings.
The bottom line is that Sarah Palin needs crib notes to remember “Tax Cuts.”
End of story.
I agree with the still photo. Video doesn’t have the resolution to pull in that close to read writing and have it that legible.
The video shows there was something written on her hand.
But it takes going through all of the still photos shot to find the “money shot” where you have the resolution to blow up the hand to see the actual writing.
Video would pixilate. Not so a high quality digital still.
I don’t think it’s photoshopped.
I wonder who is going to come forward to claim the still.
Watching the former 1/2 term Gov T-partying & Wallace, etc
Her mantra is “commen sense solutions” — but I am not hearing any
solutions!
If you give tax cuts – without increasing taxes – more borrowing
Free Markets — without a national currency – we would be back ibartering
Without workable solutions – she is just giving more talking points
Watching the former 1/2 term Gov T-partying & Wallace, etc
Her mantra is “commen sense solutions” — but I am not hearing any
solutions!
If you give tax cuts – without increasing taxes – more borrowing
Free Markets — without a national currency – we would be back ibartering
Without workable solutions – she is just giving more talking points
I’ve had fun with the stupidity evidenced by SP this weekend, but now it is time to refocus our energies on ensuring that she is removed from any position of power, particularly her power over the dangerously stupid teabaggers who are likely willing to die for SP should she give the order, or perceived order, to ‘take out’ specific persons in power. Wow! That is almost a word salad sentence!
Thanks, AKM, for your push last week regarding the lack of honesty in SP’s personal tax base. That is one good point moving forward.
I’m hoping the emails also will ‘progress’ her downfall.
However, it seems that both are largely overshadowed by her speech, her acknowledgement that she may take on President Obama in 2012 since she has the skills and experience to win such a contest, and her war mongering that appeals to the uneducated riff raff teabaggers.
We need more, and we need it now! The longer she is on the stage, the worse it gets. Her followers are more directly dangerous than her I believe, thus we need to get her muzzled in such a way that they don’t rise up to avenge their queen. I think her downfall must be something that she is totally responsible for that reflects badly on her current stand as a righteous, religious being.
It’s not photoshopped.
Yes, it is the most crazy, dumb, unbelievable, wtf moment, but it’s not photoshopped.
106 tamara Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:43 AM
For those “unreal merikuns” who can’t take the sound of her screeches, here is the link to the transcript of Fox news interview in Nashville.
A word salad except :
“…they won’t want someone like me who has been unfortunately by the media put in a box as being so parochial and myopic in terms of some positions that they won’t recognize my own independence. So some people will shy away from my support that I could offer.”
Holy moley did she really say that? It gives me vertigo and goes a long way to showing just how dizzy she is.
Some time last year a i made the comparison of her brain to a gerbil or some such runing around and around in their exercise when, never catching anything and never progressin’ exept in their own minds eye. But, man o man look at ‘em go!
Beth at 110:
Huffington post has the exact shot used for the blow up of Palin’s hand. It’s an AP photo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html
No, it’s not photoshopped.
She’s toast.
I can’t wait until The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Letterman and next week’s SNL. We’ll have junior high crib notes and property tax evasion to entertain us.
Whoo hoo!
After reading that Wallace transcript, I’m beginning to think like that SNL Rahm skit. What a psychopath she is! I hope longevity doesn’t run in her family. Then again, small planes aren’t as safe as the large commercial airlines, so maybe it’s a good thing that’s written into her speaking contracts.
Got this in the comment section at Huf Post
SP with nuc codes, fun
http://tilt-o-rama.com/palin%20nuke.jpg
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/palin-leery-of-obamas-war-card.html?wprss=44
She is beyond contempt. She says Obama may play the “war card” in Iran to get elected in 2012. What a horrible horrible human being she is. Flippant over possible nuclear war.
AP has the money shot. You can see it here on Yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Sarah-Palin/ss/events/pl/082908govsarahpalin/im:/100207/480/9720c298c2d546d2845f8f9f025f1e05/
This is a low res version but the actual shot is much higher and has just been cropped in Photoshop to show the writing.
Even in this low res version you can see the black marks on her hand.
She is busted.
You can see them when she’s waving out at the crowd. And you can especially see them when she’s doing the “talk talk talk” pinch with her hand as she’s dissing out President.
Somebody on another blog mentioned the Track Palin bracelet (like the ones we used to wear for those soldiers missing in action) on her left wrist — wonder if she needed it to make sure she also mentioned the military and Track and how wonderful it is that he chose to go into the military and how proud she is of him.
She says Obama may play the “war card” in Iran to get elected in 2012.
She’s tipping her own hand.
This little Palin telepalmter episode is sort of the perfect thing to use
for signs for protests later when she shows up to speak somewhere. You can use a very simple message and draw a simple ‘ hand’ on the signs. The hand-sign could have the same thing Her hand said or add your own slogans. We remember that she really made a BIG fuss and got really upset with Schmidt when she saw just ONE sign on the Campaign Tour. She said ” I don’t want to see those out there.”
Imagine all of the signs with a big Hand on it.
OR… just modify those big soft Foam Fingers that you can buy anywhere. The Were # 1 fingers you see at sporting events. Tape THOSE to the signs or just have everybody ‘ giving Sarah the foam Finger ‘ .
And the cheers can be something simple like ” What does your Hand say ?” over …and over …and …over… like a cheerleader cheer. It really would make her loose her concentration and focus. It seems it doesn’t take much to do that either.
I just picture a LOT of foam fingers waving at her all in unison like doing the wave. People do that at those basketball games ( behind the backboards ) when the ballplayers are doing free-throws to throw them off.
Syphilis P, once again, used her time that could of been better utilized towards a more positive political move to criticize. Just like in her book she chose to pay people back for not singing her glory-Prez Obama for what was said at the RNC-O’Biden for what was said in the Game Changer. Rahm, never apologized to her and I doubt that he ever will.
Her theory is; if you want to win you need to come to me and ask my help to gain my cult trust and to receive their vote. The Repubicans are bowing down to her. The Democrats would rather lose sits than to kiss her a__. That makes her angry!!
#9
EyeOnYou Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 5:36 AM
aha,
Celtic Diva did get emails as well sometime before Christmas, but right now I think she said she is going through the ones from MSNBC.
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December? It’s now February. Hmm, wonder why she just doesn’t put them online like MSNBC and we’ll all go through them together. Also, too, I wonder if the State ended up dropping that $5,000 fee to only a few hundred like they did with MSNBC.
There’s gotta be some tasty morsels in her emails, too. Well, hope we see them soon.
She is busted.
I don’t know how much “busted” she is – there’s nothing wrong with a politician referring to notes, but the fact that she did like a schoolgirl trying to hide something instead of as a professional is amusing, and will simply add to the growing impression that she is out of her league. Image is important – as unfair as the Dukakis-in-a-helmet appearance was, this is something similar. It’s a simple illustration of her unsuitability for office. It’s perfect material for comedians.
Let’s not forget her reference to being a hockey mom in the Wallace interview. What child of hers plays hockey anymore?
The Palm company should market a special handheld device for Teabaggers– the Palm Palin. You enter a bunch of jumbled ideas and talking points into it and when you try to retrieve them, it quits.
Oh, and it keeps track of your appointments also too… and then cancels them just before you are due to show up.
Oh yes, the notes on her hand! What a flake!!
Do you suppose that is why she attended (5)
colleges? She ran out of hands??
For austintx:
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/beac_bucket/hand-jive_Palincopy.jpg
A little something I made up during the election. Who knew it would come in handy again?
Can’t wait for Letterman’s top ten things written on Sarah’s hand.
Bea!!! You are a true gem! LMFAOPMP!!!! Hand JIVE indeed!
I don’t understand Celtic Diva. We have been waiting for what, 6 weeks for even the first glimpse at the emails she got?
She has been busy, and the holidays, etc…
And now, she has time to read the same emails we can all already see, from NBC, but still doesn’t have time to let us know if there is anything in the emails she has had all this time.
Is there just nothing in those emails? Is there more to this that we don’t know? Does anyone know what is holding this up? I only ask because this was a group effort, and we have been promised a post on this for a long long time….
How bout when she rubbed her legs after looking at her hand, to try to wipe it off? She knew she was busted. HA – this IS the funniest Palin thing to date, but my memory may be off.
Also …about any signs that could be used at any speaking engagement.
The ‘ Tax Issue’ is something that EVERYBODY relates to and is offended by.
Signs with a simple ” Pay your Taxes… We do “. ” Tax Cheat “. ” Where is MY tax Free House ?”
The Tax issue needs to stay out front because it identifies with her moral and ethical standards. Nobody… likes a ‘ cheater ‘.
Wave a Foam finger at her and yell …” Pay Your Taxes … Pay your Taxes ”
Foam Finger ( and palms ) for Sarah
“beth” @#110: Is it time for your annual eye exam, perhaps?
Look, she plainly had notes on her hands. As someone else said … an Eddie Haskell -like ploy. How juvenile. Bottom line is she criticizes the President for using a teleprompter, the she “cheats” with notes on her hands to remember like Energy which she is touted as being an “expert” in? She also used note cards … no problem except she had to continually look at them and even then lost her train of thought. She can’t speak in understandable sentences; she uses old Republican talking points; and it was pointed out that some of the phraseology seemed to be left over from her resignation speech. She needs to be booted forever from the stage. I am tired of the press coverage that is given this idiot. The worst thing is she keeps criticizing our President, Vice-President and the President’s staff. I hope Perry loses too.
Doin’ a little hopey, changey dance here in the forest. Lookin’ for some divine intervention to bring a little enlightenment to the U.S. electorate.
It’s pretty clear that T-party doesn’t stand for Tolerance or Taste. Many thanks to President Obama for raising the bar in politics.
Sniper Sarah is soooo good at snipin’–not so good at setting a good example of leadership, paying her share of taxes, or actual reformin’.
119 Rob in Ca Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Like “Bomb,bomb, bomb Iran”,
She wants this to be repeated so that Iran can become upset and provoke a fight. This is her job. Syphilis P. is evil. She is a combination of Bush and Cheney. All those visits the Repubicans are paying to the other Countries is to undermine what the Prez has done. It angers me that he doesn’t have a group to monitor and do damage control. You see want is happening with the US and China.
119
Rob in Ca Says:
It distracts from the biggest story, which is her suggestion that President Obama play the ‘war card’ if he wants to get reelected.
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If she ever makes it to the primaries i hope this will bring sensible people out to put a stop to her . Man i dislike this woman and her cronies
a day doesn’t go by that I’m not so sick of her…disgusted…and wonder how society got this way. who can stop her? …and how? ‘they’ seem to be able to stop the people they don’t like…hmmm.
“Private sector, free enterprise principles”–like those exemplified in the Palin family E-mails. Plenty of under-the-table support for the private sector there.
The President, on the other hand, represents the public. Thank you, President Obama.
oh goody, sign on! from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (I do believe they’ve had enough and are fed up.)
“To Sarah Palin and her merry band of tea partiers
Your lies won’t work. You aren’t fooling me and you aren’t fooling America. We know that you’ll say anything, make up facts, and deceive the public in order to scare people and win elections.
I’m going to stand up to your deceptions, scare tactics, and fabricated information. I’m going to fight hard in 2010 to make sure the truth prevails and make sure that lies from Republicans that pander to this fringe don’t stop America from moving forward and creating positive change.”
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_sarah_palin_and_the_tea_partiers_to_stop_lying#letter_form
I decided my ‘handjive’ Photoshop really deserved an update. So, I present to you Sarah Palin’s Hand Jive-TEABAG edition:
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/beac_bucket/handjiveTEBAGeditioncopy.jpg
Could it be that “mandation” is writing crib notes on one’s hand? Just asking.
It distracts from the biggest story, which is her suggestion that President Obama play the ‘war card’ if he wants to get reelected.
I hardly think she’s the one he looks to for advice.
This may have been posted already…On Fox this morning when posed with the statement: “Reagan would never have quit”, she responds:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002070005
She gets more outrageous every time she tries to defend her actions. Alaskans need to tell the country how much she loves Alaska by telling Americans about the number of initiatives that she’s working on in the State (a hint, it’s the same total as the amount she pays in property taxes).
AKM – any way to get this to Andree McCleod?
It sure seems like the state has no reason to try to keep them privileged since Mrs. Palin just last night said “I’m going to bounce things off Todd. Nothing confidential that couldn’t be shared with others out there in the public. Todd never circulated anything that was confidential, and hadn’t already been circulated. ”
I believe this was from her interview with Chris Wallace.
Wouldn’t this statement be grounds to release the redacted emails and the ones from the Troopergate investigation too? Also?
I just saw a Tebow commercial… it only had his mother saying that she “almost lost him ” and had “a lot of trouble” with the pregnancy. None of that inflammatory propaganda. At least not on this version. Then the hook… the website for the Family blah blah, “for more on this story”.
118 Rob in Ca Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Beth…did you watch her read her hand during the Q&A after the speech? She wasn’t checking her nails there, she was reading her hand.
That’s the clincher. Why would she be scoping her palm while trying to address the audience?
Giving her some credit, rubbing her very exposed leg is not a normal behavior and is too erotically tacky for her to stoop to in public. It is not unreasonable that she had her mind on something else, like Lady McBeth, and just wasn’t aware of what it looked like.
I bet she really had the guys’ attention, though probably not to what she was saying.
The only kind of defense I could think for her is that she apparently was “off her game” charisma wise and was kind of freaky like she was in her quitter speech. But it is truly bizarre to watch.
Marnie – it was creepy close to the quitter speech. Especially when she mentioned a “title” again.
112 twain12 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:56 AM
60 mommom Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 8:39 AM
From Politico-Palin thinks that declaring war is a good way to get re-elected.
does she does realise WAR cost money !
Is Track still in active duty or just reserves? Does she realize that if the RepoTaliban force another war that her only not special needs son could get killed or mutilated?
There she goes doing her “Mutter Courage” bit again, sacrificing children for self interests.
GrammaNancy, of course she spoke about Track, even tho he asks her not to, it was part of the question answer time, ya know, one of those PRE-selected questions. Check out the C-SPAN slam, she said it with snark……. as a teen he most likely watched MTV or whatever and no news period, lol.
“He’s doing awesome. And I’m so proud of him and the decision that he has made along with all the many, many men and women in uniform who — I look at, especially these young men and women and think, they could be doing anything or nothing else in our world, and they have chosen to serve something greater than self. They are not just biting time or wasting time in their young years of their lives. They get it. They understand the need to protect our security and to really be willing to die for our freedom. And when I talk about my son, and he doesn’t like me to talk about him, as a matter of fact, he’ll chew me out if he hears about this, but –
QUESTION: He may be watching.
PALIN: I don’t think he’s ever turned on C-SPAN in his entire young life. But I’m proud of him and the decision that he has made because, again, they are serving something greater than self, but as Track, as my son would tell me, he says, don’t pick me up, mom to thank me. Thank the troops I serve with and thank those who have gone on before me to allow me to do what I’m doing, yeah.
oops, the link…
http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/06/cnr.09.html
When I first saw this earlier I was sure it was a joke. Somebody’s idea of funny but it can’t be true because Sarah’s left handed, or even Sarah couldn’t be that dumb. There had to be some other explanation. I even Googled Sarah Palin bill signing, certain I would find pictures of her with a pen in her left hand and this would all be a good laugh.
Wrong. She’s right handed. She really did write down notes to help her answer a question she had gotten before hand.
This one goes in the Sarah Palin Stupid Tricks Hall of Fame. She is dumb as a bag of hammers. Unbelievable.
#159 @ R’ipley in CT Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 1:18 PM
I just saw a Tebow commercial… it only had his mother saying that she “almost lost him ” and had “a lot of trouble” with the pregnancy. None of that inflammatory propaganda. At least not on this version. Then the hook… the website for the Family blah blah, “for more on this story”.
. . .where I’m sure they have a BIG Please Donate Button!
It’s the mindless idiots who have become Palin’s flock of followers that scare me. What in the name of common sense are they thinking in believing this imbecile has anything to offer any discussion?! If she weighed 300 pounds not a person on the face of the earth would listen to any of her senseless babble.
if this has been posted before my apologies
Jason Linkins Fox roundup is too funny
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_n_452587.html
@Rob in Ca
Celtic Diva did post about the emails she received….when she received them. She hasnt received much yet, and what she did get, was mostly redacted if I remember rightly. I am sure that when Diva has something of consequence we will hear about it.
lil lady…..they must have forced a comprise on the ad.
for a mom and christian, Scarah sure has a potty mouth on and off tv……
“Palin has called the book “a bunch of BS from [McCain campaign manager Steve] Schmidt and those guys,” Palin said. “It’s pretty made up.”
2000 people gathered in Dupont Square for a snowball fight…..
That’s 1400 more than gathered for Sarah’s speech last night, and none of them are shills with pre-prepared questions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/dupont-circle-snowball-fi_n_452638.html
So, we need to have the Snowball Express Party? I see a few frozen blue Tea Bags in the future…..
curiouser @90
Yeah, if anyone else had done the same, they’d be pilloried for not being patriotic enough.
austintx @91
re:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-sarah-palin/
I don’t know if this has been brought up before or not, but wanted to get it out there, just in case
About those emails that Andree went to court about… Here’s what SP had to say about Todd being so in-the-middle of things (italics mine):
“Nothing confidential that couldn’t be shared with others out there in the public. Todd never circulated anything that was confidential, and hadn’t already been circulated.”
Well, now. Doesn’t that put a whole new light on the judge’s ruling against Andree?!!!
Oh! In that interview (previous post), Sarah reiterates her support of Rand Paul, saying: “Because he’s a federalist and he wants the states to have more say and as we respect the 10th Amendment in our Constitution, he wants the states to have more say in a lot of these issues. ”
I thought a “federalist” favored a strong centralized government… ??? Or have things changed when I wasn’t looking?!
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Bea))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
you are good!!!
for a Christian lady (and I use that term just for the sake of this post), she sure likes to throw around the words ‘crap’ & ‘bs’…just one more thing to add to the hypocrisy of palin.
yeah right Scarah, lol……..she names no names of where this speaking fee will go…….uh huh, gonna plow it all back in, to her own pocket. She must have thought damn this guy holding my feet to the fire.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-sarah-palin-interviewed-foxnewscom/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.057171:b30299166:z0
“Q: OK, I wanted to ask you about the speaking fee again — you said in USA Today and on your Facebook page it’s going back to the cause. What does that mean? Is it going likely through SarahPAC to certain candidates and certain campaigns?
PALIN: I think the logistics of how it goes back — I don’t know if it goes through the PAC or not, I haven’t talked to PAC treasurers or attorneys about it. I’m keeping it simple. I’m committing to not personally …
Q: To potentially tea party candidates?
PALIN: Well the tea party is not a party but those who believe in what the tea party is all about — limited government and a strong national security policy coming out of D.C., yeah I’m gonna support ‘em.
[....]
PALIN: It is yet to be determined. There are hundreds of candidates on local, state and on the national level that hopefully we’ll be able to help. Don’t know how many and don’t know specifically which ones it’ll be today.”
@ 137 “AP has the money shot. You can see it here on Yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Sarah-Palin/ss/events/pl/082908govsarahpalin/im:/100207/480/9720c298c2d546d2845f8f9f025f1e05/
This is a low res version but the actual shot is much higher and has just been cropped in Photoshop to show the writing.
Even in this low res version you can see the black marks on her hand.”
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(And @ 115, 116, 123, 125, 127 & 147…)
The problem is, and to me, this is a HUGE problem, in the *same* series of AP photos, is a shot of her hand (# 9 in the series) that shows **something** there, BUT there has been (or isn’t) the same ‘zoom in’ on *that* photo to CORROBORATE what is purported to be shown in the (#4) “money shot.”
Surely **IF** the “money shot” were NOT photoshopped, and assuming all the photos in the series were taken by the *same* AP photographer, the same zoom-in could/would be applied (to photo #9) to corroborate the veracity of ‘the list’ (purportedly shown in photo #4) written on her hand.
That there is *something* on her hand, I have no doubt…whether the #4 photo was (retroactively) ‘enhanced’ to fit/substantiate the ‘reason’ she’s looking at her hand so oddly and intently in the Q&A, is something I do think raises a serious question.
Does anyone have the capability to zoom-in on the #9 photo to reveal that there, is, indeed, the last word of her ‘list’ showing? And/or, are there any OTHER photos taken during her diatribe to the TPers against POTUS and the ‘un-real Americans’ that could be offered *in support of* the assertion that she DID have a ‘list’ on her hand?
For as much as the woman bugs the ever-lovin’ chit out of me with every . single . thing . she . says . and . does, it somehow bothers me even more that there is NO corroboration of/for the ‘money shot’ and yet, we’re all asked to accept it *as if* there were! That sounds, to me, like something SP would pull; trying to foist untruths off on people by making assertions –without a shred of evidence to corroborate– that what she’s stating is ‘fact’ … and should be blindly accepted as ‘truth.’
Sorry, without corroboration, I flat DON’T buy it; seems to me that folks who are so adamant about exposing SPs lies, shouldn’t either – what’s good for the gander should be good for the goose (or the one-time “lame duck”, as the case may be).
As her hero, Ronnie, was so fond of saying, “Trust but verify.” Just sayin’… beth.
Photo #9 (from the *same* series of AP photos): http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Sarah-Palin/ss/events/pl/082908govsarahpalin/im:/100207/480/9720c298c2d546d2845f8f9f025f1e05/#photoViewer=/100207/480/ecdbcec3fb3643c5b75dc810d1a935c5
Nan @174 Re: Rand Paul ( or as Palin called him yesterday – ” Ron Paul ” )
Wouldn’t Rand be a libertarian like his Dad ? I’m with you, there’s a big difference !
And @173 – Oh, so Todd didn’t send around anything that hadn’t already been circulated ??? She does realize we can actually SEE the emails, right ?! Todd is initiating emails left , right and sidewise and is receiving emails that hadn’t even reached Granny PalmPilot yet.
What a strange week.
Remember the Sarah Palin, whose only really good speech, the one at the Republican convention, written by real pros, was read by her from a teleprompter?
Remember the Sarah Palin, the failed VP candidate who was rushing to the stage to get her farewell speech (I only wish farewell) loaded onto the teleprompter before McCain could get his loaded?
Sarah, my Sunday School teachers taught me that lying was a mortal sin, even if it is number 11 of the Commandments.
I feel like I just arrived in some alternate universe- remember the show Sliders? In this place an absolutely ignorant person can be considered for POTUS. How do I get back?
[[[[in # 178, <should be: "...BUT there has NOT been (or isn’t) the same ‘zoom in’ on *that*..." Sorry. b. ]]]]
For me, its not so much the writing on the hand, but when she hypocritically criticizes President Obama for using a teleprompter, while she is using her paper written speach, well as we all know she never makes sense. She is soo jealous and it will continue to eat her up.
The thing about the hand is that it proves she had the questions ahead of time. And even then she doesn’t know what she thinks, she has to write it down????
You’re kidding, right Beth?
Connecticut Gas Explosion: ‘Mass Casualties’ Reported At Kleen Energy Systems Power Plant.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/connecticut-gas-explosion_n_452682.html
It appears that up to 50 people may have been killed.
I am behind on the comments so I apologize if others have read this already……
BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS MORE QUALIFIED AND CAN DO A BETTER JOB THEN PRESIDENT OBAMA!……….sorry for shouting that, I just find it so ridiculous and outrageous!
He even asks her, qualified enough without McCain? She’s sure, gah. Make her go away…….
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-sarah-palin-interviewed-foxnewscom/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.057171:b30299166:z0
Q: This poll said by I think a margin of about 4-1 among Republicans they thought you were more qualified to be president than Obama. Do you think you’re more qualified to be president than President Obama?
PALIN: The whole qualification issue still perplexes me, because in the campaign we tried to bring attention to the fact that Obama had really not a lot of experience. And I do say that my executive experience, as an administrator, as a team manager if you will was, and so was John McCain’s as a matter of fact, was stronger and we had more experience than Barack Obama did in terms of managing huge multi-billion dollar budgets and thousands of employees that I had just come from a position of that and that hasn’t changed.
Q: But without McCain?
PALIN: And without McCain, I mean Barack Obama had 150 days in the U.S. Senate where he was able to vote quite often present, not have to make decisions, being one of many, not having to manage. His executive position now in the White House is as, whether he likes it or not, a manager. He has to make tough decisions. He has to be willing to fire people, though you don’t make any friends when you fire people and I know that first hand because I’ve had to do that. And you have to make tough decisions, and not dither on issues. You have to make quick decisions in many respects and I think that President Obama with all due respect, his lack of experience is really made manifest in the way that decisions are made in the White House today.
Beth,
You’re absolutely right- we need to verify or we feed into that victim thing. But here’s a scary thought. She definitely was looking to her palm for inspiration. Maybe there was NOTHING there, she was just waiting for words to appear.
beth,
The “money shot” photo itself wasn’t “zoomed in” from a far-away photo. It was taken with a zoom lens and thus it is the original photo, not a “zoom in” to a part of a wide-shot photo using software after the fact. You can only “zoom in” so far after the fact on a picutre originally taken as a wide shot.
I’m sure the AP photographer noticed there was something on her hand and decided to use the powerful zoom lens ON HIS CAMERA to capture the writing as a separate photo.
92 teutonic13 Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:15 AM
The former Alaska governor,..said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
“I would be willing to if I believe that it’s right for the country,” Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012.
Hey, I got no prob with that since by 2012 he will have 4 years experince as leader of the free world and she will have 4 years experience as leader of a bunch of people that go around in public with flow through tea bags hangin on their head, and thinking that makes them like a bunch of guys who risked jail or worse by rebelling against the entire government, army, and navy of Britain.
Beth, I do know that these professional digital cameras take pictures that are original huge file size, that have to be cropped and re-sized a lot before converting to jpg. thus creating a smaller file for faster uploading/downloading to the internet.
Professional cameras also take continuous pictures if set to, within seconds, one right after another, kind of like blinking your eyes at the fastest possible speed.
I’ll go look at what you are trying to say……
Also too, beth, keep in mind that she has not denied that she used a telePALMter. If this was a Photoshop (and WHY would the AP do that in any case?), you can bet Quitty’s Facebook ghosts would be burning up the series of tubes with her fauz outrage.
I have a zoom lens and I take my photos with a huge file size. It does give you incredible detail and you can always crop and resize later depending on what you want.
It’s certainly possible that the photo is a fake but does anybody think for a minute that Meg and Van Flea would let a whole day go by without calling it a fraud and demanding apologies and threatening law suits?
Not likely.
I think Joan Walsh over at salon.com pretty much sums it up; palin is mean and dumb. Case closed.
Palin reminds me of a commercial we used to have in Ireland. An agent is interviewing a boy band and when they have finished playing their music, he says:
“You can’t sing, you can’t dance, you’ll go a long way.”
From a professional standpoint…..what I see written on her hand (and the actual behavior of writing on her hand) suggests the following possibilities:
a) Palin is much more insecure and nervous than she projects.
b) She may be medicated (anxiolytic? antidepressant?).
c) She’s decompensating psychologically.
d) She’s a dead fish trying to swim upstream (aka “beyond her inherent capabilities”).
e) All of ‘em…..
sorry Beth, I don’t follow what you are seeing. Personally I believe it. But I’ll leave the last word up to the professionals.
so as to those emails and Toad……..follow this is you can, lol.
“He was forwarding on emails. And here’s another thing. Todd and I being, in some cases, thousands of miles apart, if I emailed him about being, say, outside traveling, Todd’s home, he’s there, there, as a desktop, and I’m telling Todd, “Hey! Todd! Print this off for me, I’m going to grab it on my way home, because I work off a Blackberry, constantly, for practical reasons, it helped too. Todd helped as Alaska’s “First Dude” with no staff. with no office, being thousands of miles away during a lot of times, with his job in Prudhomme Bay on the North Slope and commercial fishing. He helped with workforce development issues, issues that meant a lot to him and people out there, IN THE REAL WORLD. With carhearts, and steeltoed boots and hardhats trying to build this country. Todd helped in that respect. He never got into the minutiae of the politics, Todd’s too good for that, he hates this kind of periphery political bull-stuff that we go through. He’s not a part of any of that and, no, more power to Todd for being a good adviser and being a good practical person with common sense solutions.”
Irishgirl:
My brother worked at that plant last August. Some of his Union brothers were there today and none of the Carpenters died, but some were hurt. The Pipefitters lost people. One of his female carpenter friends was inside, and got blown 40 feet. She said she saw a guy’s head and arm blown off. Horrible stuff. They are digging through the rubble to find survivors. It took an hour to put the fire down.
I’m so glad my brother wasn’t working today. He hasn’t worked there since August in any case, but his friends do and have. It was very hard for him to see the pictures on TV. He kept pointing out things he was familiar with.. the access road, the trailer, the sides of the building that blew off.. ones he had a hand in putting on.
I’m not a big “pray-er” but my thoughts go out to those who are struggling with this even today.
even= event
OMG, I don’t remember her saying this, I think I turned on the tv after it began.
I’m reading the Dayton, Ohio VP intro speech. She may have been referring to the surprise VP pic, but when I read it, I thought a little somethin else.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94118910
“And Todd and I are actually celebrating our 20th anniversary today, and I promised him a little surprise for the anniversary present, and hopefully he knows that I did deliver.”
re: 157 OMG
“On Fox this morning when posed with the statement: “Reagan would never have quit”, she responds” etc……..
Wow, what a pile of crap that was! She claimed that she takes pot shots all the time and it doesn’t bother her. I call BS!
From all indications she’s totally freaked out by us bloggers and the truth we expose. She quit because she couldn’t do the job…..she’s not competent enough to run a governorship even with help from Dude and Dad……and now she wants to be handed the top job because she’s got better ideas…….ideas she has written on her hand!
I can’t wait til Letterman and Jon Stewart get ahold of this latest FAIL!
Say No @198 – lordy – is that from the Fox interview that aired this morning ?
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jc in co Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:42 PM
I think Joan Walsh over at salon.com pretty much sums it up; palin is mean and dumb. Case closed.
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sums it up for me to…after her convention speech when everybody thought she did so great i thought what a snarky , sarcastic B$#%
R’ipley, I have read since that the number of 50 dead may be wrong. I immediately thought of you when I saw the news. How sad for your brother and his friends. I’m not a big “pray-er” either, but every now and again I will offer up prayer. I am doing so tonight.
From Joan Walsh
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/02/06/palin_speaks
“Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren’t supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can’t help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.
How rich that she read her talk in a sing-song voice as she ripped Barack Obama for using a Teleprompter. Once she left the speech for the Q&A, she really went off-message, as well as nearly off-English. (Even though it looked like, at one point, she was reading answers off of her hand.) ”
ROFL
((((((((R’ipley and other folks in Connecticutt)))))))
So sorry for this tragedy.
Safety should be industry’s #1 priority in these jobs that are so risky for folks.
Thank you Irish. 5 confirmed dead. They are searching for survivors in the rubble. It’s very unlikely that anyone left in there under the wreckage made it, but I am hopeful…the fire….the concussion. What a wreck.
My brother said that when he talked to one of his “brothers”, who was at the scene, that he said the static electricity was very high today. That is a possibility.
A woman Carpenter in his Union, who he taled with, said she saw a man’s head and arm blown off and she had been thrown 40 feet herself. She has a concussion but is ok. She’ll never get rid of that memory, though.
read the Palin Doctrine on my blog.
i could not help it but list them all.
http://bilia.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/the-palin-doctrine/
I watching to video to hear how she says the Anniversary surprise and how she delivers.
And why in the world would not all that noise when introducing Scarah not wake any child up? funny watching this after all that time, Bristol is hiding her tummy with Trig, who is knocked out, not moving with roaring crowds screaming.
That is so weird, what baby would not wake up? lol, they must have realized the oddity, he was awake at the convention. Poor little guy.
You can tell Cindy is in director coordinator mode. It’s funny to watch McCain, he’s worried every time she says something. He’s got so much riding on this, lol. They also positioned Bristol behind McCain’s standing body, clever.
lol, I just heard her say it, she used her fingers to imply little 1″ surprise, she meant the pick but the crowd didn’t get it.
McCain’s face goes blank when she says she never set out to be in politics.
And wait just a minute, do we have some embellishing in her background?
She was elected to city council in 1992, Track her oldest was 3 yrs old born 1989, Scarah’s got some splainin to do. I think she rearranged things to sound better. Like her political career didn’t come before her kids even went to school.
“I was just your average “hockey mom” in Alaska. We were busy raising our kids. I was serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side. I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the City Council and then elected mayor of my hometown, where my agenda was to stop wasteful spending and cut property taxes and put the people first.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0darQB7r4 (the comments are brutal)
Sarah has proven that everything Steve Schmidt said was true. She would not or could not learn anything at all; the top McCain political professionals could not turn the sow’s ear into a silk purse.
Sarah could not even fake being smart. I was appalled when I saw old video of her three way debate for governor, and the other two candidates allowed Sarah to use index cards– from which she read her talking points. Fast forward to Sarah’s disastrous interview with Katie Couric, and, once again, Sarah was allowed to do the interview with a pile of index cards in her lap. She turned them over, reciting each topic sentence. The only problem was that it was a total jumble. When Tina Fey repeated Sarah’s interview, word for word (without the index cards) it was laughable.
Now, after all this time to study, learn, solidify a political point of view, maybe even read a book, we can see that Sarah has done nothing to change from that index-card reading stiff. There is no difference between the teleprompter and the stack of index cards that Sarah kept glancing down at during her tea bagger speech. Sarah did not appear to have rehearsed or studied her cards ahead of time. She seemed quite ill at ease referring to them and trying to cite each blurred talking point.
I think that we saw Sarah at her best when the GOP spent $150,000. or maybe $250,000. to dress her. They spent many thousands more to do her make up, do her hair, and try to turn her into a passable candidate. That was the best that Sarah could be. Everything thing that we see now from that dated wig, frozen face, poor delivery and hand written crib notes is the real Sarah, the mean girl still trying to get even with the people who won the election. Her speech was not worth $100,000. And, she proves that everything that Steve Schmidt said was true.
#157
I liked the comment below on the link you shared.
“Palin doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit. To her it means God opened a new door for her to enter. In her version of reality it’s not exactly quitting, it’s moving forward through that newly opened door.
IOW, it’s deny reality, don’t accept personal responsibility for her actions, and continue to lie. ”
I agree with this 100%. SP is crazy, and too hungry for power.
Mae 212, yes, Steve Schmidt has made some sense, but he also said that Palin has an amazing ability to memorize. Ha! She can’t even remember that ENERGY is one of her big talking points. Tax (not budget!) cuts, also too. So funny.
Syphilis P. have no shame. She needed to have used the time to study up on different policies and how the government works. Instead, she is just full of alot of vinegar and revenge.
With a little practice, maybe Sarah will get this good and she can write her whole speech on her hands.
http://snarfd.com/2007/11/25/the-ultimate-hand-jive-video/
Apologies if already posted.
BuffaloGal, I have no clue where it came from, I found it over at Palingates, the poster left no link, but I’m guessing it came from the Wallace interview.
For the love country and all good things, whoever has the goods that will stop this monster, NOW is the time to come forward.
A few words come to mind…………….
Mean
Evil
Dangerous
They’re looking for Obots to play with over at http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com.
You won’t believe the spin…
“U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet”
http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/
I sware I am not making that up.
219 @Tina in Tennessee
Whoa. There are some pretty angry people over there. I am not comfortable with that much anger. Are they always there?
If they called me ‘Andrew Sullivan in drag’ at that Tennessee mean girls site, is that good or bad?
@Marnie (#162) and say no (#164)
It seems Track is back.
I asked about this yesterday, got no response so did a little ‘googling’.
{http://www.adn.com/palin/story/966845.html}
Palins welcome troops, and son, back from Iraq (The Associated Press)
Published: October 8th, 2009 10:00 PM
I AM a Military Mom and that is why this irks me.
At the tea party she spoke of her son again below.
{http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-sarah-palin/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.051303:b30299430:z0}
>>PALIN: So the things that he has done right now as president in protecting the country, more power to him. We appreciate that he kind of went there fully with the commanders on the ground asking for more reinforcements in Afghanistan. Couldn’t get there all the way with these guys, but kind of went there. Good, more power to you. And I speak as a military mom, too, saying thank you. You’re giving me a little bit more of a secure knowledge that you’re looking out for our troops and the things that their commanders are asking for. I’m thinking kind of, of my son in this situation. Thank you for doing that. However, there are many things that he is doing today that cause an uneasiness in many, many Americans, I’m one of those.
Who looks at the way that he is treating the trials of these terrorists and kind of as gosh, they’re on a crime spree right now. No, we are in war. These are acts of these war that these terrorists are committing. We need to treat them a little bit differently than an American who is worthy — an American being worthy of our U.S. constitutional rights. I don’t think the terrorists are worthy of our rights that people like my son fight and are willing to die for>>
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Tina in Tennessee Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 4:47 PM
They’re looking for Obots to play
You won’t believe the spin…
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Tina… I just asked a question there about the NYT story.
Why didn’t she pay any Taxes on her Chalets… that just doesn’t seem right for a Role Model. Lets see what answer we get… in 5… 4… 3…..
22 GA Peach Says: February 7th, 2010 at 6:27 AM
palin’s book has fallen to #11 – Game Change is at #1.
Was in my local BJ’s yesterday, stopped by the book section.
One lonely column of S’error books – 7 overall, while Game Plan had 3 columns right smack in the center, one of which only had 2 copies and the other 2 had 3 each. Other surrounding books were 10 deep for each column.
Oh, the BJ price for S’error DROPPED from the last time it was out on the shelf.
jimzmum 5:15 ~
Well, i’ve been saying mean things about their queen. And i’ve been defending Michelle Obama.
Believe it or not, there have been comments supporting my take on Ms. Palin. A few thanked me for talking about the Beverly Wooley story (…said she was a REAL guerrilla woman).
Ha ha! Otherwise, they’ve called me names (pig, man, misogynist, Andrew Sullivan in drag, sicko, Obot, troll, etc.) There are people who need to be jostled into asking questions. At least it doesn’t take a rapier wit [grin], so i’ll be OK.
honestingov @5:30
Did they say it was a lie?
Tina in Tennessee Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 5:17 PM
If they called me ‘Andrew Sullivan in drag’ at that Tennessee mean girls site, is that good or bad?
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it’s all good sugar. i know some Queens that would make those ‘things’ in Tennessee look like the swamp rats they are.
“beth,” did you hear? Palin confirmed the writing on her inside left palm today in Texas while campaigning for Rick Perry: she wrote “Hi Mom!” there so photographers could capture it–basicially admitting that: 1) she’s immature and 2) that she needs a note to remember to say hi to her mother.
bubbles ~
Hee hee… one of ‘em even told me that Sarah, being the mother of 4 other children, certainly knew if she was capable of getting on a plane ~ or not.
One said i was jealous of Sarah because she’d had so many kids and looked so good. I replied that she looked like sh!t compared to me, and i have five kids, too (i wanted to say ‘for real’, but i didn’t feel like going there if i was going to have any credibility with those girls).
GO SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overturned call gets ‘em a 2 pt conversion, now ahead by 7! Great reverse angle replay on the score!
Commercials – nothing, nada, zilch, dull. Nothing has caught my fancy…
i like the “lost” parody (budweiser)
Interception by SAINTS! 74 yard return for TD…
Oh, yeah, baby! 30 – 17 SAINTS!!!!!!
Looking good NO!
Make that 31 -17 after extra point conversion…
less than 3 minutes left in the game…
twain12, excellent link
Eeewwwww, and more eeewwwwww. She’s a fraud and a liar. And disgusting in her attempts, but what else is new.
Thank you, Akm, and all here. Thank you.
I liked the Google one (guy going to Paris)
AN IMPORTANT FYI FOR EVERYONE…
http://www.switched.com/2010/02/05/latest-internet-explorer-flaw-exposes-any-file-on-your-pc/
“Latest Internet Explorer Flaw Exposes Any File on Your PC
by Terrence O’Brien — Feb 5th 2010 at 1:30PM
Internet Explorer is no stranger to security vulnerabilities, but a flaw revealed by Microsoft on Wednesday is one of the most stunning we’ve ever seen. The flaw effects IE6, IE7, and IE8 on Windows XP as well as IE7 and IE8 on Vista and Windows 7 if protected mode has been disabled (though protected mode is turned on by default).
The exploit would allow a hacker to access any file on your system by forcing IE to incorrectly render data from local files, exposing it to outside parties. The flaw, which is actually several smaller security holes combined in an ingenious way, would require tricking a victim into visiting a Web site through e-mail or IM, and then the attacker know the location and name of the file they’d wish to access. Unfortunately, many programs store sensitive data using a standardized structure that would be easy to find though guesswork.
If you’re running Vista or Windows 7, ensure that you’re running IE in protected mode, or even better — choose a different browser. If you’re still running XP and can’t bring yourself to use Firefox or Chrome, you can lock down IE by setting the Internet and Local security zones to “High” or disabling ActiveX completely. You could also enable IE Network Protocol Lockdown, which requires editing the registry. Thankfully, Microsoft has created a “Fix it for me” link, available here, that does the dirty work for you.”
Oh, yeah, the SAINTS are definitely marching in right now on Bourbon St…
WHO DAT?
DAT’S THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPION SAINTS!
WHO DAT’s, right. I am so happy for the Saints and New Orleans! Great game.
huh……..
“SarahSupporter
Sarah is the next George Washington in my book. On with the Revolution!! I like her ideas of small government. As a member of the Tea Party, I oppose all pay for government workers; government should be run by volunteers, not paid employees. Members of the Senate and House should also be volunteers as well as all public servants. Let stop that Socialist Security System and make the military truly a volunteer entity, not a paid organization. No more Veterans Administration and all the bureaucracy”
Check the Fox news page; you can almost feel the person transcribing this cringe at having to put it down verbatim…”We HIRED her to represent our network?!”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-sarah-palin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
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Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 7:00 PM
huh……..
“SarahSupporter
Sarah is the next George Washington in my book. On with the Revolution!! I like her ideas of small government. As a member of the Tea Party, I oppose all pay for government workers; government should be run by volunteers, not paid employees. Members of the Senate and House should also be volunteers as well as all public servants. Let stop that Socialist Security System and make the military truly a volunteer entity, not a paid organization. No more Veterans Administration and all the bureaucracy”
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bunch of dweebs
In case you really want to see some of the lamest SB ads ever…
http://superbowlads.fanhouse.com/2010
We really are who we are when we are doing the things we do when nobody is looking. The Sarah Palin that sat there and wrote those notes on her hand is the Sarah Palin you will get. And that way of cheating and deception will carry on through in all her endeavors, in fact as many of us know, the Sarah Palin sitting there with the pen writing on her other hand is the only Sarah Palin we have seen so far. Throw in a mean streak and vindictive nature with her lying, cheating, and deception, then season with God and Patriotism and you come up with the great white hope of the Teabaggers. Retarded is a big compliment for that group……
I just left a comment on Huff Post about the Palin’s comment from this morning that it was Ok for Rush to use the r word, and used the “r…..d’ word three times, twice to point out that Sarah said it was OK to use the word and once to call her that. Huff Post instead of delaying my comment for review put it straight into the comments.
So I guess that filter is off, at least for Sarah.
I don’t like the word but fair is fair and we can use it to call her what she just said it OK for Rush to call us, ‘casue she said it’s OK.
Lost power for about 4 hours (weird, b/c we had it all through Snowpocalype) and just got it back.
Just want to say a belated (((((R’ipley in CT)))))). We were listening to our battery radio and heard all about in on the BBC. So, so very sad.
I feel dirtied now I think I will go and disinfect my lap top.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a looong time! A cheat sheet! I’ve taught middle school, and one of the things you look for during tests is students reading their palms! That was so hilarious. Did her daughters tell her about this, or has she been using this trick since she was 12? Is this how she got through Potato U?
When you can’t remember what your top 3 or 4 talking points are without pointedly reading your palm, and then waving it around so people see the print, you aren’t prepared for your 2 minute class speech. I can’t bear to listen to her or read transcripts, but she is worth a million laughs.
Hey Bea !!
Just scrolled the thread and saw another couple of fine examples of your work. Love it !! Thanks.
And yeah baby on da Saints !! Brees be from Austin.
Can you imagine her as president, visiting foreign dignitaries and some poor schlep having to TRANSLATE her word salad? That she is reading off the crib notes on her hand?
Like someone on Palingates said, she threw Trig under the bus to cover for Rush. She’s such a loving mother too also. Disgusting!!!!
Tim Shriver talked to Rahm Emanuel because of Palin and the retard comment. I read he wrote Rush a letter. Now Sarah says it’s okay for Rush. Wonder what Shriver thinks of Palin now that it is okay for Rush to say retard. She did throw her baby under the bus. A loving mother wouldn’t be selective in allowing insults.
from Barb D at Palingates………..
“From the Branchflower report on Troopergate, the “Mr. Wheeler” being asked questions was part of her security detail:
Officer Wheeler testified that Todd Palin spent at least 50 percent of his time in Governor Palin’s office. Although he did not have his own office, he would routinely use the governor’s office, sitting at the conference table that had a phone on it. I asked Officer Wheeler whether he had an opinion about Todd Palin’s level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the Governor’s office:
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: Do you have an opinion about his level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the working of the governor’s office?
MR. WHEELER: I — I think that he — that he had a significant influence, in that he was always interacting with the — the employees there. That any time I needed to get information to the governor, I would always go through Todd, because he was the only one I could — could talk with, either via the cell phone or in person.
He — I know that he got e-mails and stuff that he was in the loop on — on activities. Because if — if the governor was required to leave and go to Juneau or something, that Todd was always the one that would call me and let me know where they were and that they’d be five or ten minutes out.
So he — yes, he was — he knew a lot of the stuff that was going on.
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: How would you compare his level of involvement with the level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the governor’s office by the spouse of former governor Tony Knowles or Frank Murkowski? You worked for them as well, correct?
MR. WHEELER: I did. I would say that the first ladies from the two previous administrations, while they were involved in state business, it was primarily in functions and non — or — I can’t think of the word right now. Private — things like breast cancer awareness and, you know, representing the state in these — in these nonprofit organizations. They all had an organization that they took to heart.
And I never saw that from Mr. Palin. You know, I basically saw where he was involved more with the day-to-day things than — than going out and attending these specific things, or specific organizations.”
If I were the GOP, this is what I’d do.
I’d go ahead and put Palin on the ticket in 2012. They should know they’re going to lose to Obama no matter who they run. Why taint a potential, future candidate with a sure loss?
Palin is their token candidate. A seat filler.
They can use Palin as a placeholder and they can get rid of the Teabaggers once and for all. With Palin as their figurehead, the Teabaggers will be relegated to the lunatic fringe. And the GOP can say “Hey, we gave you a shot and you blew it. Now we call the shots. Tow the line or get out.”.
They can go through the motions of supporting her while in reality hanging her and the teabaggers our to dry. Then after the election make a big deal about hearing the voice of the voters, turning over a new leaf, new direction, etc. And dumping Sarah, the Teabaggers and the Talibangelicals.
aha @136
No they did not give Celtic Diva a discount. She sent in the check for the full amount she was quoted, so I think she deserves a refund considering the charges that MSNBC paid and got vs what Celtic Diva got and paid for. It is quite ridiculous that Diva had to pay over $5,000.00 for emails when the charge for MSNBC was less than $400.00 and they got so much.
I know that it was the first week of December 1st & 3rd (those are the dates of the posts she made about it) that she got the notification that the records request was ready, but had been partially denied due to so many being classified as “privileged” and she wrote about the list of privileged email list on Jan 25.
http://www.divasblueoasis.com/diary/946/transparency-in-public-recordsthe-ak-legislature-is-our-only-hope
I know she said she got over 2,000 pages of information so I am not sure what it is she got as that last discussion in Jan was about what she didn’t get (the emails that were marked ‘privileged’).
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!! See – I TOLD you there is a God =) And He’s got quite the sense of humour.
Could you have ever imagined that the day would come when a potential Presidential candidate would:
- Bash a sitting President and imply he is not a commander-in-chief
- AND have notes written on her hands during a this bashing for all to see AND
- Sit thru a softball on stage interview with the SAME notes on her hands again for the world to see AND
- Admit on national TV that as long as you are a well known Republican who can help her politically, you are WELCOME to make fun of people with disabilities AND she will laugh WITH you.
This is freaking awesome. Seriously – anyone who tells me from now on that she is a serious contender for President, I will LAUGH until I can not breathe. Thank you, Jesus.
To Nan (aka roswellborn)
Yes, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were Federalists who wanted a strong, central government. Jefferson and Madison were strong Democrats who wanted decentralized, small governments.
Palin is such an illiterate idiot.
Here’s one of her crib talking point that she needed to be sure to plug………. “Allowing America’s Spirit to Rise”, again, is that from the downtrodden? or from the dead? ashes? calling it forth from our founding fathers out of some cave? inviting the Holy Spirit to indwell America? and it’s government of course.
Divine intervention of course would be her as the answer to all our ills, gag.
So is she saying the American Spirit has got to be Christian, why yes she is.
Oh dear………
“I think, kind of tougher to, um, put our arms around, but allowing America’s spirit to rise again by not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a God fearing nation where we’re not afraid to say, especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, where we’re not afraid to say, you know, we don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again. To have people involved in government who aren’t afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that you know — they have to be afraid of what the media said about them if they were to proclaim their alliance on our creator.”
Our President is not going to back down from Health Care, he just said a large provider out of CA plans to raise it’s premiums by 39%.
My spouse just lost his job a week ago, Cobra for two adults in their mid 50′s with no serious health problems will cost us $1364.00 a MONTH! it was costing us 360.00 through his employer, which my husband never used except for teeth cleaning 2 times a year, and I for mamo, pap and bloodwork.
Who can afford that without a job? We decided to pay as we need treatment, and hope nothing big comes up.
I would encourage those who have health benefits to GET IN to your docs and dentists, eye exams etc. and use them while you’ve got them. I will now not have a mamo or pap since last years.
Make those appointments, get it done.
Andrew Sullivan has Katie Curic’s interview with the Pres. 14.5 min
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/couric_interviews_obama_–_and_he_makes_news.php
Aussiegal #257 – amen. Just brought me to do a little research on lying too.
Proverbs: These 6 things doth the Lord hate, yea 7 are an abomination to him: a proud look, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood; a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
My mother used to say when I was little, that once one starts a little lie, and gets away with it, they get addicted to lying, and of course it ruins lives around them. I can’t imagine how any family could live daily while making outrageous lies about other people, and on national tv, heavily critiquing leaders on and on so deviously; it would impact children, make them unstable and feel isolated. This makes one get a headache just reading about it.
CribNotesGate Part Deux:
http://tilt-o-rama.com/palinnuke.jpg
Tried to email you this
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Palin_beats_drum_for_Perry.html
both of my emails could not recognize your email. ?????????
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I cannot imagine Texans being happy that she called Texas Alaska’s “little sister state”!!
6000 people showed up for a venue that seats 9500. Thats probably not what Perry was expecting to happen. I bet he thought that with Palin and free music from Ted Nugent,there would be overflow.
253 merrycricket Says: February 7th, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Can you imagine her as president. …
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No. No, I cannot.
btw – as to those emails… yanno… someone could get the same pile of documents released to the media by putting in an request for “any and all documents requested by and released to [name of news organization here].”
It cracks me up that her stupid cult followers are defending Palin for writing notes on her hand. They are saying there is nothing wrong with her writing notes on her hand….people have done it for years,etc.
First of all, I challenge them to name “people”. Are they talking about junior high school “people”?
Secondly, I guess those gosh darn high tech teleprompters are bad, but taking a sharpie to your palm or reading notes is good. Sheesh.
#265 bb, good article. Noticed there wasn’t one positive comment for goodhair & lady blah blah in San Antonio. That’s interesting, I have a good friend down there, we don’t talk politics as he’s a rabid republican….
My post with (video) times of left palm forward frame-by-frame shots went into moderation – too many links, I believe; my bad.
In any event, the bottom line of the post was:
…we see SOMETHING on the palm of her left hand. [Pretty good pic of 'it" @ minute 5:31 on C-Span: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_kkIEq-hg&feature=related ]
But what? What is that “something”?
Within the videos I watched, there were also a good dozen or so shots of her left palm that showed absolutely *nothing* at all on it -it was bare nekkid …I attributed that ‘nothingness’ to the rapidity of her hand movement and/or to the lighting [out of deferrence to what seems to be the prevailing line of thinking: SP *did* have words written on her hand.] However…
In all the frames where I did see ’something’, there were only 5 – maybe 8- frames where anything even remotely resembling the layout of ‘the list’, showed. All the rest of the left-palm-forward frames showed different combinations of heavy/light // long/sort // thin/thick “smudges’… none of the frames showed a consistent ‘layout’. Surely IF there had been ‘a list’, the frames showing it would have had some consistency, no?
I also find it extremely odd that out of all the media present, with all the cameras trained on her, only *one* photographer noticed the ’something’ on her left palm and got curious enough to zoom in on it to see what it was? There were no other camera operators/photographers in the room with any curiosity and no other cameras in the room with that zoom in capability? I think that highly unlikely.
Think of it from the financial standpoint of the photographer…can you imagine the amount of money a photo of SP with a ‘crib sheet’ written on her hand, would bring? And you think any photographer would pass up the opportunity to get a photo of that “money shot”? Wouldn’t have heart racings with the anticipation of hawking it to the highest bidder? I don’t.
I’d be interested to find out when the photos were given/uploaded to AP from the photographer who ‘captured’ the “money shot” — was it before minute 6:35 of the Q&A, or after; and, *if* after, how long after? Long enough after, that the photographer (or someone) could’ve found a pic to ‘enhance’ as a ‘companion’ to SPs weird staring at her palm?
Call me skeptical, but the ‘facts’ of the one, lone, “money shot” just don’t add up [for me]. I sure do wish there were SOME –any– corroboration of/for the picture; without one, I think, ‘we’ are just accepting as ‘truth’ what ‘we’ want to see. And that’s a real pity. beth.
There were also enlargements of video frames and you could easily see it was the same list as in the picture, as well as the video of her reading off of her hand. I noticed that long before the photo surfaced.
so, I’m reading the Dallas Morning News and Good Hair Perry and Sarah (aka lying b**ch) are on front page..there is confetti flying every where and Sarah is holding hands with her little girl Piper(looks like they were running for President) and the caption says:”Honey, we’re in Alaska’s little sister state.”
Holy sh*t!…yeah, that’s what us ego driven a–holes in Texas want to be called…Alaska’s little sister…heads will roll.
Does anyone recall posting that the Texas Governor offered the Palins the Texas State Jet to return to Alaska on that momentous day in April 2008 when Sarah Palin says she was leaking amniotic fluid.
Anyone from Texas, who knows someone who could shed some light on this?
I firmly believe that if the reporting and pictures of notes written on SP’s hand were not true—we would have all been hearing from the woman.
She follows a pattern—-deceit -deceit-deceit in all she does and says.
Someday, sometime, she is going to dig a hole deep enought that she can’t crawl out. I am waiting for that day.
Me, too Lacy Lady. I think she’s creeping closer to that day by day. Naturally, she has no earthly clue that’s what she’s doing. As if the “tele-palm-ter”, disastrous wig, extreme nonsensical screeching, mini-skirt, and leg-rubbing weren’t cringe-worthy enough, now she referred to Texas as “Alaskas’s little sister state”? OMG! I hope every soul in Texas hears about that monster insult. You CANNOT say that about Texas!! I can almost see the posses forming as we speak. Proud, red-blooded Texans won’t cotton to her idiotic comment at all…them’s fightin’ words.