Quote of the Day – Sarah Palin and the Return of the Flaming Pants
“ You know how many people ask me on the campaign trail if I was Canadian? They think that we talk alike. We say ‘eh’ too, in Alaska*. Never thought anything of it until some reporters… I’m the dingy one and they’re asking me if I’m Canadian as I’m running for VP. These reporters, because of the way that I talk. I feel right at home here with you all, I think we share a lot with that accent.” ~Sarah Palin at a speech in Hamilton, Ontario 4/15/10
*No. No, we absolutely do not.
For the rest of her mind-numbingly unbelievable address click HERE.
“because of the way that I talk. I feel right at home here with you all” What an insult to Canadians. The ones I know have perfectly good grammar and can form a coherent sentence. They also know what newspapers they read too.
As my Canadian friend would say, “What a hoser, eh!”
DD
please, please keep her !!
I can just imagine Sarah and Todd’s conversation, back in the hotel room after that speech. Sarah: “Dang, this is fun. People are willin’ to pay anything just to hear me yammer out a few of those folksy stories from that Lynn Vincent book.” Todd: “Hon, they should have elected ya president and ya coulda been speakin’ all like this all around the world. Oh, I forgot, they don’t pay ya for each speech if yer president.”
When is her hair—I mean wig—going to catch on fire?
Enough with this lying fraud already!
Eh?
I have a much higher regard for Canadians – they speak clearly, know how to use punctuation, or pauses when speaking for effect (or is it affect), and believe in free speech but not “hate speech”
Got-ta Love ‘Em, Eh?
effect. She’s affected, afflicted, and delusional.
I call bullshit $arah …. “You know how many people ask me on the campaign trail if I was Canadian? ”
My guess would be
-zero-it-never-happened.
you may think your fantasy memories are cutesy poo entertaining but no; sit down, shut the hell up and leave Canada and America alone, eh.
She sounds unlike any Canadian I have ever heard. Also, too, unlike any American either. She has her own whacky dialect and an accent that morphs like a bad character actor’s.
*nodding furiously*
I’m guessing the economy isn’t at the bottom of the tank, if people still have money to throw around to pay Palin to tell them lies.
This sort of con seems to function as a sympathetic shrink for the stupid: “No, no, you’re not dumb and insane, you’re just like me! And I’m rich and pretty!” [So just goin on living your smug, nasty lives.]
Those poor deluded, ill-educated, gullible, unread saps! Bet the bendy straws have just been flying off the shelves at their local supermarkets – “now I’m even MORE like Sarah, cuz I got me some bendy straws! Ever time I open the cupboard ‘n see that box, I just get all patriotic – I even make the mister use them with his beer cans – it’s really high class, just like Sarah! I have to go and fix my hair now, my bumpit is falling off.”
sigh. “go,” not “goin,” whatever the heck that is. It sounds sorta interesting, tho.
We all thought the grifter was foreign, but not from an English speaking country.
No one I know talks like her and neither do I! She’s definitely one of a kind.
I tried to read it, I really did. I did not get a headache, so much, just a burning pain behind my eyes. I think it’s because I kept looking for the idea, the theme, the reason behind all those loosely strung words, the thought(?) message? Where was it – did she want to create a connection with Canada? was this her attempt at international relations?
If I were in that audience, I would ask for my money back. But I would let her keep the bendy straws.
She just makes up stuff as she goes, doesn’t she? A trait found in pathalogical liars. Lie when they don’t even have a good reason to lie.
Here is a disturbing piece about wildlife photography/filmaking, and the sometimes cruel and fake ways that are used to get the shot or the movie clip.
It made me think about Discovery and it’s support of Palin—the anti-Wildlife. These corporations could care less about Planet Earth or wildlife.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_14875823
Here is a quote, “In White Wilderness, the polar bear cub tumbling down a rock-strewn mountain was thrown over the side”.
Disgusting.
It’s all about the $$$$$$$. So tragic and so sad. Can you see why Discovery has NO problem paying someone like Palin millions?
I’ve lived in Alaska all my life and I have never met anyone that talks like her. It’s bizarre.
She got her accent from her Church (there is a review of her Church in the ADN) the reason she sounds so jumbled is because she’s leaving the “Praise Him” out. Every one of her speeches sounds like an Evangelical prayer – minus the “Oh Lord We Pray” stuff.
We should be thankful she isn’t Catholic, can you imagine her trying to cherry pick latin prayers to twist them into a political speech?
Also too, the Evangelicals, like Palin, do not consider Catholics to be true Christians. So, Catholics are NOT “real American’s” since this is a Christian nation.
I know this because my former husband’s family members are Assemblies of God/Evangelical (same as Palin), and they don’t consider Catholics to be real Christians. That would also include Presbyterians, Mormons, Lutherans,etc.
Truth be told, Palin’s definition of “Christian” is a lot narrower than most people even realize. Only “born-again” Evangelicals are REAL Christians.
Sheesh.
Oddly, she started out life as a Catholic…baptised and everything.
I was in an “End Times” church in my early teens and while in those days we were not political, there was a lot of Catholic bashing, dark secrets, what those nuns and priests really do in those monasteries.
Funny, it wasn’t about what was REALLY happening with all those sick celibate priests! (I believe that when you suppress sexuality, it is expressed in perversions, which is why celibacy is such a disaster for the Catholic church and all those kids.)
Catholic is considered the Anti-Christ. Very bizarre rationalization.
Notice how Palin, in every town she visits, pretends that she is ” I’m just like you” and makes up some kind of connection to that town? She just did this in Boston and she repeated it again in Canada.
In fact, one can expect this to be in her opening statements everywhere she goes. What a fake.
I could image her telling Canadians to take back their country from the health care elites.
What’s hilarious is that everyone she tries to fake her way into a community, she is almost immediately exposed. In Boston, at the Teabagger rally, they played “New York New York” at the end of the rally! What??!!
Even I know that’s a NO NO in Boston and I am not even remotely in tune with the whole Yankees Red Sox rivalry!! She is a whack-job.
Seriously, any day now, I expect her to pop up in Sydney and tell a tall tale about how her great great grandfather was a gold miner in Bendigo and rode with Ned Kelly!
sorry – every time, not everyone.
I’d I like to hear her try to convince people in Texas that she sounds like we do. She is clueless enough to try it.
I thought she talked that way because she has a difficult time “enunciating” her words. When she goes up an octave higher it sounds more like chalk-ian versus Canadian. To the Canadians that like her it might be okay but for those that disagree with her and think she is a simple Politician in guise, she is just as bad as the nails on the chalkboard.
The only thing worse than reading the inane drivel of Palin’s speech would be hearing her screeching voice giving it.
Or paying to hear it.
What is wrong with these people?
… or having to work the event!
She probably put fear in the hearts of all Canadians with that little nuggett. She says the stupidest things and the crowds cheer her on. It’s just amazing….just amazing.
Haha! I remember Sarah before she got her “accent”. I’m surprised some AP reporters haven’t dug up ‘somewhat recent’ video of her and compared it to her present day learned accent.
*oh, sometimes we do say that, but only when we’re making fun of Canadians in a light-hearted way (I can say this because my sister is becoming a Canadian!
)
Very interesting that she likes Canadians and wants to identify with them.
Her Fox news friends have made it very clear they do not like Canada and consider it a socialist country.
Would be interesting to see how or if she defends Canadians when she gets gets questioned about them when she comes back home.
Ugh what an insult to Canadians. A recent protest sign declared “Sarah Palin can’t finish a job or a sentence!”
A job, sentence or THOUGHT!!
LOL
She learned how to speak from her teacher dad.
I believe she thinks Canada is another state like Alaska and Hawaii.
She wants to keep everything hidden so she can dodge claiming it on her taxes. Would love to see her tax return.
No, she learned science from her teacher dad, you know, that the earth is 6000 years old.
As we all are aware, the President must be born in America. So does the VP then.
So, did people really ask a VP candidate if she were Canadian?
She just says stuff, no matter what.
I was just thinking the same thing! I doubt there was anyone who would have asked her that. Especially in light of all those wingnut birthers out there supporting her lying self.
It’s obvious she is lying just to suck up to her audience. Palin needs to go speak to a room full of psychiatrists.
Trust me, as a Canadian, she DOESN’T talk like us!!! Heck, not even close! We sound much more educated to say the least!
Trust me, the majority of Canadians think she’s a helluva loon. Let’s hope this is her last appearance on my beloved Canadian turf.
Yes, can she and her whack-out followers just Rapture already? Then the entire world would be safer. Kinda like getting rid of loose nukes.
Every Canadian I’ve met speak the English language better than Americans. It is a slam to Canadians in general for Palin to say they share that folksy illiterate lingo of hers. She gets loonier by the day.
OK, so I went back and tried to read the transcript. I only got 1/4 way through. My eyes were bugging out of my head trying to understand what it all meant. One sentance to the next, words with in one sentance, all of it, did not make any sense.
Well, had to break quickly from the actual speach and thought I would take look at the comments. I almost threw up. One post by Grandma Annie was so vile I had to move away from my keyboard for fear that I would spew my lunch I just ate. How incredibly sad people have become.
All I can say is that someday Kharma will come a’knocking on the Godzilla from Wasilla’s door. Hope it just gets her and not her kids.
Grandma Annie posts on qite few sites regurgitating her Palinspew. I’ve seen that name before. On one site, where there are mods, she has had some of her posts deleted by the mods because they violate comment guidelines. But what diid get through, was vile enough.
My theory, it’s Meg Staplegun gettingpaid a “consultant” fee from SarahPAC to sit in her parents basment monitoring the web so she can dish out her hating hate on all the haters.
Just wanted to pose a possibility that not all that many people may be paying for tickets to her speeches. When I worked for a large, privately-held corporation, the bigwigs would buy tables at events and “request” that upper and middle management attend. Considering the venues at which she is speaking, aren’t some being held in areas where oil and gas corps are big employers?
It’s difficult to refuse to attend events when your boss tells you have to go – plus many go just because such things offer free food and booze. Applause is mandated because, I promise, those same bigwigs who expect attendance are either taking note themselves or have some designated to take note of who is cooperating and projecting the “right” image.
I’m not saying this is what is happening, but it is a real possibility. Before we drive ourselves crazy wondering why so many folks pay such big bucks to listen to such dribble delivered by a screeching narcissist, we might want to think about other reasons for the “sold out” events. I am absolutely convinced that big business thinks they have a lot to gain from people such as Palin because they can be easily manipulated to drum up their base to suit the corporate interests. Just saying it makes it easier to understand if you consider things from a different perspective because I sure as heck have a hard time believing there are that many truly stupid people in Canada (though it’s easier to accept it here).
KS – I have to agree with you. I’m sure the tickets are purchased in blocks. I feel sorry for anyone who had to hear that speech first hand.
Oh absolutely……..big business and big money are backing this woman. no doubt about that. we already know about the Koch family’s connection to the teabags. we know about Texas oil money being funneled to her. We know about Alaskan oil and Alaskan big business and the Anti Christ evangelical movement fomenting treason. we know these things, however corporate media including telecommunication corporations like Verizon are actively supporting teabag rallies while they advertise their products in black communities.it is a daggone shame.
We all know she used that strategy for selling huge numbers of her books. And it worked (although there have got to be several large warehouses stacked to the rafters with the darn things!). Why not take advantage of it for selling seats to speeches? Also. Too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that PAC money has also been used to help fill a few venues.
KS – Thank you for this perspective. It’s one I had not considered and it does really provide me a little sense of ease, because I WAS bothered to see ‘positive Canadian’ reaction to such contadictory drivel.
I think you are on to something. She is speaking at some point in Bakersfield, CA. That a big oil town represented by Kevin McCarthy who is completely bought out by the oil companies.
LOL at fishingmamma!!! I, too, tried to get through it, but she is so much a case of “there is no THERE there”.NONE of what she spews makes any sense. There is no train of thought, no inspirational ideas, NOTHING. Just blah, blah, blah.The people who think she
is so wonderful must be able to glean just one little nugget of crap that reinforces what they themselves already think and discard the rest. Cause in total, it is all gobbledygook.
And I thought I could never despise someone as much as I despised W….WRONG!!!!
I know a Canadien who lives in Wasilla and she bleached her hair blonde because people kept mistaking her for Palin which obviously she didn’t enjoy the attention. I’m sure this quote will make her cringe too, also.
Here’s a great video that shows that accent is just a populism prop she lays on for all the Joe Sixpacks. They sure eat it up though don’t they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhdUCHuxvAc
Absolutely useless, pointless and … a waste of everyones’ time.
“…I feel right at home here with you all…” ROFLMAO
My Canadian friends have often teased me by referring to Americans as “you-alls” – a most un-Canadian thing to say and downright funny to their ears. Also, too, I expect that means it’s not something one should say while attempting to sound at home with the natives while in Canada.
Dear Canadians,
She’s all yours now, mate! Have fun! NO RETURNS!!!
xo
USA
LOL!
Dear USA,
Thank you very much. It’s thoughtful of you, but we wouldn’t want to deprive you of her.
Cda.
Desert Mudpup – another Palin convenient lie exposed in seconds.
Does this mean she’s gonna go to Australia and attempt to convince them that “eh” is also too Aussie lingo??
I look forward to my fellow Aussies laughing uproariously then throwing empty beer cans at her.
throwing EMPTY beer cans?
What right-thinking Aussie is going to waste beer on Palin?
Yup, too right!!
No seriously, no Aussie would waste beer let alone on Palin!
true dat!
The speech is one of the most obnoxious pieces of drivel I have ever read–no meaning at all, just her brains rattling around like beans in a fruit jar! (Is that country Southern or what? Ha!) Seriously, does she cast some kind of spell with her hairpiece that numbs the intelligence of her hearers so that she sounds like she’s making sense? A truly weird and scary persona.
I’m convinced this is why no one is allowed to video or record her speeches. I’m convinced this is why the McCain campaign kept her on a short, tight leash. Because, as we’ve seen and, unfortunately, heard, the free-ranging Sarah Palin is a disaster looking for a place to happen.
the free-ranging Sarah Palin is a disaster looking for a place to happen.
ROFLMAO!!!
LILADY you on a roll today..LOL
I have (Canadian) cousins down on the farm who speak with a Palin-like accent, but their’s is genuine, not exaggerated and used for effect. Also, they’re too smart to pay to listen to Palin’s speech, when the hogs in the barn make more intelligent noise.
I’m currently living in Canada and I have not heard a single Canadian speak like Palin, thank the gods! I’m pleased to report that most people regard her as an embarrassment to America and accept that she is a total a fraud. I’m convinced that many who attended the Hamilton speech did so just to see her, like a strange curiosity.
Please read this wonderful (Palin) article from Slate and pass it around to everyone you know, including those silly little tea partiers:
http://www.slate.com/id/2251267
She’s like a circus freak. Most of my Aussie friends regard Palin as an idiot and wonder why “the Yanks” keep paying to hear her speak.
I agree with your Aussie friends and wonder that same thing every day….We evidently are so into the celebrity culture here, that people watch. Some of us are waiting for the “train wreck surrounded by an earthquake” as lynnrockets commented a few days back on that blog, but others are truly delusional. It’s the delusional that I’m hoping are Raptured out of our misery. (Please oh please oh please oh please oh please!)
Minnesotans feel your pain. She told us the same thing when she came to campaign for Michelle ‘Batsh– Crazy’ Bachmann.
There is a big difference, Sarah. We actually use full sentences in MN.
I wish to God Palin would stay out of my country. She is an utter disgrace to humanity…and the English language.
Xenon: I wish to God Palin would stay out of MY country too; unfortunately that is the United States. I could wish her upon Canada, or Mexico or … but there is no country on the face of this Earth I would foist her upon.
Maybe we should send her to Iran….or better, just threaten to send her to Iran. I’ll bet it would work better than any sanctions they could ever think of.
Or maybe North Korea? I seem to remember someone commenting that Kim Jong Il might like to have a sleepover.
Apologies to all our Canadian friends. We have way to much liking and respect for you to buy into this #%&*@#.
A few comments:
(1) Canadians in general are too busy laughing at Sarah Palin to take her seriously
(2) Hamilton is a hole in the ground – it is a former steel town and now predominantly car plants. Nothing beautiful there.
(3) She’ll have trouble talking to the NHL president, since they have a Commissioner, not a President
(4) She grew up right next to us but further away? Not far enough, methinks.
(5) Sarah Palin’s roots: http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba/2010/04/17/13627301.html
(6) When is she going to stop writing on her hand? I know she’s trying to turn a negative into a positive, but all it does is remind us of the negative.
(7) Todd Palin is more impressive than I thought, being the “four-time world champion of snow-machine racing”. Here I thought he won the same race four time.
(8) If she is so hung up on avoiding dangerous forms of foreign energy, did she get jobs as city counsellor, mayor and City Manager? What is the connection between foreign energy and those jobs?
(9) Blathering on about oil and drilling misses the point that Canada has grasped – Hydro-electric energy is abundant and clean, and if sufficiently utilized, won’t require dirty oil or coal for electricity production.
(10) She is critical of Canadian Health Care, and yet the event was in support of two local health care organizations. The organizers at the last minute changed the beneficiary to a local children’s charity. You can understand why there was a bit of a local uproar over that choice of speaker.
(11) Have I mentioned most Canadians think she’s an idiot?
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/archive/2008/09/27/canadian-view-of-sarah-palin-draws-american-fury.aspx
She IS an idiot, a flaming, shamelessly self-promoting idiot. I just wish that I knew (when I was taking out all those loans for my college education) that I could get rich being an idiot. Between Dubya and Sarah, Umercans have proven that you do not need to nurture even one neuron to get ahead.
thanks for the links Canadian Guy. nice comments.
You can add most Aussies to that tally. Ok fine, I have no empirical statistics to back that up but I would find it very difficult to believe anyone back home taking her seriously.
I tried to read through the transcript but found it too difficult – has she never heard of sentence construction? Perhaps she doesn’t realise that it applies just as much to the spoken word as the written word.
BTW – love the way the comments are numbered. Kudos to Snos!
“– has she never heard of sentence construction?”
……. I would add “periods or commas” ………..
Duh Siren, I only noticed the numbers after I read your comment! Kudos x 2, Snos!
{My excuse is I was trying to catch up on today’s reading}
The reason this Canadian speech is so bizarre–more so than her others–is simple.
She’s bored.
Giving speeches used to be fun. It was novel and not too hard because her audiences didn’t care if she made sense as long as she threw in the catch phrases.
Now, it’s just the same old thing over and over. She loves the money. She loves the adulation but not the attention (think reporter’s questions). Giving speeches is getting too hard because she’s bored, and even with nice jets, the travel is too much. She wants something easier.
Like being a FOX contributor from home. Oh, wait, she gets bored doing that.
Like hosting a nature program. The reason there’s only 8 episodes is that she’ll lose interest in that, too. By the 8th one, it’ll be sounding like the Canadian speech.
Are you saying that it’s time for her to……gasp……Q U I T? ? ? ?
Nahhhh, she’d never do that, would she???
Never! She’ll just be leavin’ to progressivize her home state, that great state of . . . .what’s it called???? You know the one she’s doin’ a whitewash series on?
Oh, nevermind, also, too.
And the Quitty Quitter quits again!
Tick tock….
In her Hamilton speech she stayed away from Health Care. The original charity that the promoter signed up to “sponsor” palin was a Hamilton hospital. Almost immediately after some protest, the hospital withdrew sponsorship. In her speech or my superficial reading of the news coverage, I didn’t see the name of the replacement charity but it’s something “for girls/children”. Maybe a pregnancy crisis or related service? One news report said the charity would net $50,000. I doubt this- the promoter’s efficiency (gross sales vs net to the cause) has been reported as much lower than that.
The only Alaskan who I can recall that speaks like a Canadian is Steve McDonald (a local media personality), who is originally *from* Canada.
But I can tell you, as a life-long Alaskan that Palin’s claim that we speak like Canadians and say ‘eh’, is a crock of $hit!
(Not that there’s anything wrong with speaking like a Canadian). =)
Excellent write-up on Slate re: Palin’s imperialism. She’s closer to being a dictatorial style leader than Obama ever would be. As with everything – she is ignorant of history.
http://www.slate.com/id/2251267
Is it just me? …I feel that no matter how many times the likes of MSNBC, AK blogs, or anti-palin blogs, or any other fact-based stream of information exposes who she really is and what she really does (or doesn’t do)…it’s just not reaching the people who can lessen her popularity…will she ever go away?!? …she’s already going to be in the history books (ugh)…maybe as jim jones or david koresh, but none-the-less, and she’s still young enough to corrupt our political lives for…seems like “ions”!
No, it’s not just you. I think we are share some level of anxiety that the nightmare that is Sarah Palin may continue for years. Even if that woman were to be convicted with the best evidence in the world, there will always be some poor fools unwilling to admit to themselves or anyone else that she tricked them – though I hold out hope that if there is evidence that she has betrayed a fundamental value they hold dear – as if she suddenly turned against gun ownership, came out as a lesbian, denounced Jesus Christ, then we might see a dramatic enough reduction in her popularity that we’d hear of her only now and again as a curiosity. You know, like “what ever happened to . . . .”
Obviously, her followers don’t buy the obvious evidence of her poor mothering, her failure to donate collected monies to charities or candidates as promised, and statements that are blatantly and easily proven to be false. So it may take finding a clutch of voodoo dolls in her luggage, hotel receipts or detective photos of her sharing hot nights with Hannity or Beck (oh, dear, a person could go blind just imagining this), or a sex tape (no, no that wouldn’t work – it would make her bazillions of dollars amongst the Republicans and Tea Party males who already lust after her.), Sigh. So, Lainey, any other ideas that could break the trance she has on her followers? I’m coming up with nothing useful.
lol on the “clutch of voodoo dolls”…that could be more true than we know, considering her “exorcism” on video tape! …unfortunately faux news would never report on her “indescretions” like that or like her not really being a hunter, or really cooking that moose stew, or interpreting the Bible as she see’s fit (like most of the fundies do), although this last speech of her’s, something about the U.S. should be a Christian nation…I don’t know the real quotes, because I don’t (won’t, can’t) listen to her! …but that seemed to cross that line you’re talking about. And I really don’t believe she’s a real hunter, or a cook, or a fantastic loving mother, or a Canadian!
Voodoo dolls!
Why didn’t we think of that sooner?!?!?!?!
Someone could make a lot of money with that idea…..
if anyone knows how to stuff burlap and put glasses on it…I’ll supply the straight pins
Or, maybe a video of Todd, after work, on the slope……………..
Sometimes I feel as though I just can’t take one more look at her mean-girl face, sound of her window-shattering voice or plethora of lies. I take a deep breath and remind myself that I felt the same way about Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
They are of no more value to our society than she is, but for a time, you couldn’t turn on the television, read a newspaper, listen to a radio or peruse a magazine without being subjected to photos and stories of their latest exploits. Just when I thought I was going to lose my mind, they just disappeared. People got bored and moved onto the next big media splash.
No matter how painful and frustrating this constant bombardment of Palinmania might seem to be right now, it, too, will eventually come to an end. Remember that old saying…’this too shall pass’. Unfortunately, like kidney stones, some passings are just more painful than others!
(Of course, a nice juicy scandal that would insure permanent obscurity would be nice too!)
I, too, agree that eventually Sarah Palinmania will pass, but at what price? She is already stoking the fires of sedition. Even that will pass – but I fear it might take the lives and livelihoods and perhaps even some civic freedom restrictions (like short periods of marshall law if riots between factions erupt) before it fades away in shame.
We will be to blame as much as she and her followers if we simply laugh at her. We need to reassess the legal and peaceful means we have to marshal in order to quash this frenetic rush to arms.
You are right that Sarah is as aggravating and sad as Lohan and Paris but Sarah is by no means as benign. Lest we forget. at least Parish stood up against the Republicans pulling her into the fray as a celebrity. She did so with more wit than I could have imagined possible given her public persona.
Sarah, on the other hand, spreads a cancer of the spirit that is fast-spreading and perhaps deadly to a lot we hold dear.
Perhaps more of us will have to show up in protest and do many of the peaceful but en masse responses that finally brought institutionalized racism to a halt (well, except for that county in MS that is only now being forced to end segregation). We are going to have to turn out in large numbers to have any real impact on that relatively small but frantic percentage that follow Palin’s drumbeat to violence.
I think I heard this on The Daily Show…Jon Stewart said something like when the Rapture comes, like “they” believe it will, then all the republicans will be taken away and we won’t have to worry anymore.
She is NOT that popular. Even half the teabaggers polled don’t want her for President, and that is all that really matters. Her poll numbers are terrible and sad to say, but 20% of adults are idiots and they will never be deterred unless a sex tape with Gov Perry surfaces although I heard in the last election that his wife caught him with another man.
In Texas textbooks, they’ve decided to use her to replace Thomas Jefferson. They’re rewriting the Declaration of Independence.
Dec o Ind
When some event happens, it becomes necessary for people to quit to progressive thier great state by speakin’ for money, also. Listenin’ to others is bogus. Get separated.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all born again Christians from my fundie church are created equal, unless they’re darker than me, that all born again Christians from my fundie church are endowed by their Creator, just look at Todd. I have certain untake away able Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness and the money that will get them for me. I’m raisin’ my fees. — That to secure these rights, Governments are taken away from old Senators and given to VPs who have been workin’ on keepin’ the Senate in line and makin’ them watch my kids.
I’m still trying to read through that mess of a speech. But one thing caught my eye. I thought that Track joined the Army the year that Sarah was running for VP. But in the next sentence she says it was around that time that she found out she was pregnant? Huh? Can’t she even keep track of her own life events? Or did Track join the year before and then get deployed in 2008?
The thing that stands out so far to me is that she seems as disorganized in her thought process as ever, her grammar hasn’t improved, she only thinks “real people” are blue collar workers and hockey players/fans. She is so arrogant – if she runs into the president of the NHL she’ll put a bug in his ear about a franchise, like her word would make it happen. Good grief.
She also seems intent on making the point that she’s almost a Canadian, and that’s why they should all love her. The woman is so self-absorbed, but I think really she is very insecure in every aspect of her life. I think on some level she knows that she isn’t a good mother, or a good politician, or a good anything else. But to admit any of that she would have to deal with all those issues, and it wouldn’t be easy or pretty.
Oh, and one more thing jumped out at me. She talked about when she was first on the oil and gas commission that she was young. At age 60 I refer to my younger years as those when I was under 21. Anything that happened since I became an adult I refer to as a long time ago or X number of years ago, or maybe I even talk about it as something that happened during my 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. But maybe that’s just me being nitpicky, which I tend to be whenever I force myself to read her nonsensical rhetoric – which still makes no sense. At least she is consistent. But for the life of me, I can’t understand why anyone still pays her to speak, especially in Canada.
One more thing about the “eh?” Here in Washington state, I do hear that now and then. But it’s mostly because we have quite a few Canadians who live and work here or who visit here. I would hardly say that the times I use that expression makes me almost a Canadian, anymore than I would say that all the times I use y’all make me a Mississippian or a Tennesseean (sp?) – and honestly, I use that one all the time.
Pat, you are right, she only sees certain classes of people as “real” Americans. I hope someone points out that she no longer – if ever she did – belongs to those classes of Americans. So, she’s proven herself that she is a phony “real” American.
But then, hasn’t she always presented herself as something she isn’t? I think you are correct when you say she is insecure. I think she demonstrates a high level of self-hate and projects that onto others.
I wish the Canadians (specifically the radio guys that punked her) would make an issue out of her entire speech. Not just the actual speech, but her comparisons betwixt herself and the Canadians’ speech patterns. She’s an anomaly. A freak, if you will. She not only makes no sense whatsoever, she does it in a sing-songy way that makes the people who are gaga over Lady Blah Blah not care what she’s saying.
How does she get away with this?
Come on Canadia…. stand up and take your country back!
A. I was born & raised in Alaska. I don’t talk like her — either in intonation or incoherence. There’s not a single person in my family who does so.
B. I am living in Canada, and fortunately have not run across anyone who speaks like her. She’s pure Doug & Bobby McKenzie (Rick Moranis & ???), and that was satire, lady!!!!!!!
C. When she worked at the AOGCC that was pure pay-back, she was worthless (husband & I had dealings with them, often), and so she spent about 6 months there before cooking up her back-stabbing thing so that she could exit on her own terms instead of getting the boot.
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Great White North, eh? No doot aboot it.
And, who asked her if she was Canadian? I think she made that up, too. She is also getting some response from her most recent “Christian Nation” comments and her misleading inferences to an Obama speech – which I heard in person, I might add. DC, 2006 (I think), Sojourners Conference.
Obama was right in what he said. I live in a very diverse area with many different religions and it is lovely how all the religions come together to form a community. It is a wonderful learning experience. Palin would insult many in my community with her drivel.
just read this brilliant piece by Robert J. Elisberg over at HuffPo.
My favorite part:
“I don’t understand a world view,” she scolded, “where we have to question whether we like it or not that America is powerful.”
The only thing that makes sense in her admonition are the words, “I don’t understand a world view.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/one-question-for-sarah-pa_b_544289.html
This is an excellent post. More people should be speaking in this manner about Sarah Palin. Elisberg is spot on.
This is what would happen if she ran in 2012. She can’t run from the Press forever, especially if she’s applying for the Big Job.
“So, Mrs. Palin, what are your proposals on diplomatic relations with Iran that would be different to the current administration and how do you think that would affect our relationship with Israel? What impact do you think sanctions on Iran would have on the region?”
*DEAFENING SILENCE* from Palin as the air in her head thickens.
Oh no never silence. She would just “I want to talk to the American people without your filter so I will answer what I want, which is that God;s country will prevail over the terrorist regime of EYEran, you betcha and sanctions, gosh yes, obama should not have treated them to a beer summit for the last 4 years.
… and it’s all about job creation ….
So… her position on the economy is Creationism?
I got as far as her claim of “diversity” at those teabagger idiot-fests before I rolled my eyes so hard I’m sure I pulled something. Unless, of course, by “diversity” she means “some middle-aged white men WITH hair, some middle-aged white men WITHOUT hair”. Yeah. Diversity. Right.
Somebody pass the ibuprofen…
any “I can has cheezburger” fans?
if $P was a cat making a speech:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/04/20/funny-pictures-wait-here-they-are/
bwhaaahaaa!
Yes, yes, yes! I visit every day to save my mind from the craziness that is sweeping the nation. LOVE IT!
OMG!!! that was hilarious… thanks Justa….and Glory.
OMG – this is my new favorite website. I was laughing so hard that I was literally crying at some of the pictures!
A bit of advice to anyone choosing to visit and peruse: make sure you use ‘the facilities’ first and do NOT drink anything while meandering about the site!
And make sure you check out the pics on pages 4-7.
the goggie/dog pictures are pretty funny, too….as are the ones under the “Engrish” tab
I have to use that site after I read about Grifter Granny getting away with her ever-growing list of BS.
I love cats and offer this:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-viral-cat-ipad-story,0,746739.htmlstory
as a much-needed brain cleanse after attempting to read her incoherent speech.
I have it as an app on my cell phone! They have another site called Pundit Kitchen that’s hilarious. It has lots of funny pics of Palin on it.
Word has it she was born in Kenya, the daughter of a witch doctor. Anyone seen her birth certificate?
i have got to make dinner Alaska Disaster and you pups are on a roll today. i am laughing too hard to even make a start..
I was born and raised in Anchorage and am the same age as Palin. I have never heard a native of Alaska use the word, Eh, or speak like Palin. I often travel to Wasilla because of business investments there. I have never, ever, heard anyone else in Wasilla speak with this bizarre “Midwest/Now Canadian” accent. In fact, Palin appeared to develop the accent when she was first picked by McCain. Then when people started making fun of it, it disappeared. Now it’s back. Psychiatrists should study this phenomena.
She’s beginning to sound like that very, very odd dimwit Victoria Jackson, but with darker hair. Close your eyes and listen to them. If whack-job think she sounds Canadian, then her hearing must be going along with her brain cells. Sanity seems to be losing favour with the teabagger crowd.
I just found out today that my husband did the most amazing thing to help a woman in Kenya. I know I am off topic……but he has paid her fees for training to be a nurse. I am busting with pride about my guy.
Nice. Lucky woman, you…. and the recipient.
… as you should be… this is Who We Are, and What We Are All About! Congratulations!
This How It Should Be!
(sorry about all the caps, but I had to just shout it out!)
ring those bells mudpup
That is so awesome. THAT is how you help a woman. Help her be independent!
wow! Irishgirl…..what a treasure he is.
He is
We need a THUMBS UP button to click ala Facebook!
Well done to hubs!
Now, this is the America I believe in and know – kind and caring people who try to write wrongs or improve the lives of others in constructive, positive ways.
A blessing on you and your husband for this blessing on the soon-to-be nurse. The money your husband will spend will reap benefits for decades to come. It will multiple with each life saved and each life made more healthy.
There is a lot of that going on. It might be a positive backlash to the Palin misery.
For example, my husband and I just attended an art auction on Sunday night that was organized by a small group of artists and their friends to raise money for a girls school in Kapkemich, Kenya where there is no electricity or running water and where girls have just gotten government support for minimal education. The modest amount raised was enough to build and supply a small library for the upper grades. No one had a lot of money to donate, but everyone donated something and an anonymous donor matched the funds raised.
You don’t have to belong to a church or attend a temple or synagogue, to make a positive difference. You simply have to do your part, even if it is a little part. That’s something people such as Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the rest don’t understand. You don’t find happiness in a big bank account, a huge house, or private jets. You find it by sharing what you have with those who have less – but extending a hand, not a fist, a smile not a blow/
Irishgirl, my thanks go out to you and your husband and to the people we know who organized the little auction here. Every act of kindness makes a difference and acts as a counterbalance to the hate being brought to the surface in too many places. The people who receive these extensions of friendship may remember and not judge the rest of the world by shrill, hateful rhetoric and actions of a few selfish souls such as Palin.
Thank you for making a difference and for inspiring us all by sharing your story!
Well said. Hopefully I will be able to let you know about the progress of Ann. She has just started!
Bursting even
Oops – Irishgirl. If you are in Ireland, please forgive my thoughtless comment about America, but I think you know what I meant – doesn’t matter what country we live in. What matters is the noble spirit that each person, each country aspires to that counts. Your husband reminded us that even one person can make a significant difference.
I am in Ireland. I didn’t take offence. Your comments speak for everyone. (Even us evil socialists)!!!
Well done ‘evil socialists’! I can imagine how many lives hubby’s ‘helping hand’ (and yours) will touch in this instance.
As a Canadian, who follows the Sarah Palin story for all of it’s interesting facets (political dynamics and personal story of drama), I am perplexed by people of intelligence who associate themselves with Sarah Palin. The Hamilton speech sounded so juvenile. It should have created one large collective cringe. Yet, people of influence are willing to be associated with her. In attendance at the Hamilton speech was a former Premier of Ontario. When Palin spoke in Calgary, Alberta, she presented essentially the same speech. The former Premier of Alberta was in attendance for that one. These men know how to run a province with a population of millions of people and all of the complicated responsibilities involved. And yet they willingly participated in this charade. They were leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party (our most right-wing party mainstream party), but still. Palin did not bring any ideas that were useful to her audience.
And Palin, she don’t sound like no Canadian, eh!
If you are referring to Ralph Klein and Mike Harris, they are the farthest thing from intelligent.
Klein throws pennies at the homeless, makes fun of the mentally challenged to the media, and has a drinking problem. Mike Harris cut services to the point that there was an outbreak of water poisoning in Walkerton, he slashed welfare payments, laid off nurses (comparing them to hula hoop manufacturers – at the end of a “fad”). He was a golf pro who had no experience or brains.
They were very similar, relying on truthiness, gut instinct, and blind adherence to “smallest government possible” principles. If they could have gotten rid of all regulations, they would have.
Have not read every comment, but here is mine:
Every publication should use the photo of Palin stretching our her right arm in a NAZI salute!
Just as Dick Cheney’s every comment should be prefaced with his callous statements that he had
“other objectives” when he secured multiple deferments during the VietNam war!
These people are Fascists/Dominionists in the both the secular and the religious fanatic versions!
It does not matter which of the various angles they claim, they are hellbent upon enlarging their power, real or perceived. We have to use our own powers of reason to stop them! A very difficult task, as Reason appeals to the Intellect, whereas Power appeals to the Base Instincts… the Gut Feelings!
And just in case anyone wonders why I feel free to use the NAZI term? I was born into WWII in Germany, lived through carpet bombing by the Allies (who had every right to do so, after being provoked), living my childhood in the ruins of a devastated nation. So, please understand my “fromthediagonal” angle…
FROM THE DIAGONAL… now i understand why i enjoy your perspective. you are a very lovely pup and i am glad to know you…bubs
Bubs, Fromthediagonal is definitely a welcome addition. Always thoughtful and definitely has something to add in general. We like FTD.
“ You know how many people ask me on the campaign trail if I was Canadian?” None! You couldn’t be elected VP were you Canadian, nor could President Obama be POTUS were he not American!
Imagine that!
Maybe she was thinking of the “Trailer Park Boys”.
No, even they have a higher standard.
It’s appropriate that a flaming idiot would have flaming pants.
heehee, now i really must prepare food before i starve to death sitting here laughing.
“I don’t know if I should Buenos Aires or Bonjour, or… ”
Where could you go from there?
I am struck dumb.
(No…wait… Silent. I am struck silent. There’s a difference between the two, as Missy Flaming Pants so excruciatingly illustrates.)
(On a different note, congrats, AKM on your coolo new Mudflats! It’s marvelous.)
Trisha08 said: “Also too, the Evangelicals, like Palin, do not consider Catholics to be true Christians. So, Catholics are NOT “real American’s” since this is a Christian nation. Truth be told, Palin’s definition of “Christian” is a lot narrower than most people even realize. Only “born-again” Evangelicals are REAL Christians.”
Good points. A few years back Charles Kimball (chair of the department of religion at Wake Forest University) wrote a best seller titled “ When Religion Becomes Evil”. A quick and excellent read, a must for all. In it he emphasizes the five warning signs of corruption in religion: 1. Absolute Truth Claims 2. Blind Obedience 3. Establishing the “Ideal” Time. 4. The end Justifies Any Means 5. Declaring Holy War.
Now you tell me. Does not the lovely Sara thoroughly provide authentication for all five?
PS—-Isn’t “born-again” where you have to crawl through broken glass or something?
EVERY born-again Christian I know had hit rock bottom in their “previous” lives…being of the naughty nature…so someone who is walking the walk, being kind to others and themselves, following the law, ALL THE TIME are LESS Christian in palin’s eye’s??? I can’t believe it, and I won’t…that, too, is hypocritical as is everything she says and does. If you found yourself through religion, that’s one thing, and good for you…but if you’re saying you’re better than me, then FU!
NOT FU St. Elias, just generally speaking to those people who think that…sorry if I appeared to be speaking to you directly…not the case.
As much as i HATE to agree with Palin on anything; I was born and raised here and have been known to say ‘eh’ on occasion. I also travel a lot and all over the world I am mistaken for Canadian because of my accent. No, I do not talk like Palin, but I guess there is something to it.
Just did a little genealogy on the Palin family – Richard and Florence (Stange) Palin were both born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England in 1878, married there in 1900 and had their first 2 children(May and Lily) there. They then emigrated to Canada and can be found in the 1911 and 1916 Manitoba censuses. The first child they had in Canada was Todd’s grandfather, Frederick William Palin, who was born in Manitoba on 17 Feb 1905. Frederick moved to the US (Washington state) in 1926 at the age of 21 and in 1928 married Harriet who was born in Roslyn, Washington in 1912. In 1935 Frederick William Palin, a British subject, applied for naturalization. Son James, (Todd’s father) was born in the state of Washington.
So, although Canadian for 21 years, the roots are in Lancashire, England for a number of generations.
Maybe that’s how they speak in Blackburn, Lancs cause it sure ‘ain’t’ Canuck !
Her next speech will be in Blackburn, Lancashire where she will claim that she has been thought to be British because of her distinctive shrill, nasal whine. Unfortunately, she will be stranded in England for years as the Icelandic volcano will once again regurgitate and the poor dear will be unable to get back to whichever country she claims at the time to be her home.
Sigh………Life’s just too hard for a little gal from Alaka, Hawaii, Utah, Washington, Manitoba, Blackburn (and we musn’t forget Kenya).
“as the Icelandic volcano will once again regurgitate and the poor dear will be unable to get back”
Maybe you just hit on something. Give her to Iceland so they can stuff her into the Volcano, shut the both of them up.
oooohhhhhh I would LOVE to see her do a speech in Kenya !!! Can you imagine her saying words to the effect “I’m just like you!!, and I’ve been mistaken as a Kenyan in my travels…..” bhahahahaha!!!
oh good Lord. poor Kenyans. please Dear Universe keep that low-life. bi-pedal, sack of watery salt away from Mother Africa….. on the other hand Mother might just eat her for lunch in the guise of Sister lioness and Brother Hyena. eh. also. too.
huh???? omg…. I tried to read it all…. but my brain has shifted into over drive trying to follow along…. this is the real deal? what she actually said… and for this she gets paid $100,000+????
Omgoodness… I’m in the wrong profession.
Ravenstrict: “I was born and raised here and have been known to say ‘eh’ on occasion. I also travel a lot and all over the world I am mistaken for Canadian”
Same here. Born here too. Although I don’t think I say “eh” much, we do travel a lot over the world and are constantly mistaken for Canadians. I follow hockey closely so fit in well. Our son still plays. I don’t recall anybody suggesting we have Canadian accents, rather, often times when we mention we are from Alaska they say, Oh, Canadians? When Bush was running the show and scaring hell out of everybody, those mistaken identifications came in handy once in a while. I could just grunt and they thought I was confirming their judgement. Now that Obama is charge they like us again.
Here’s a gem from near the end of Sarah Palin’s speech in Canada.
“We North Americans we come from the stock of our ancestors.”
The speech writer might have actually penned a coherent thought but it met an untimely end between Palin’s palm and Palin’s tongue.
That’s when she went “full ret@rd” to quote a Ben Stiller movie.
Here ya go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSgkft4z_oc
….. unlike all of those who come from the stock of other people’s ancestors? Or do you mean you’re proud that you come from your ancestors’ livestock? Didn’t think it was possible, but it might help explain things …
I copied the text of her speech into my word processor so I could use the “find” quote and see if that made any more sense in context (it doesn’t) — no way was I going to read through it. There couldn’t be a speech writer for that thing.
I just don’t understand why any Canadians want to listen to her. We in America have what some call “Southern Heritage,” that others might call a toxic sludge of racism, Protestant fundamentalism, military culture, anti-intellectualism, machismo and xenophobia, and we also have what might be called “fading empire nostalgia,” which is self-explanatory, but what excuse do Canadians have?
i wonder the same thing Chaim…. i always had the greatest regard for the Canadian government and i am so let down by their willingness to allow this putrid woman in their country for any reason. terribly saddened by it all.
She’s like a human (sort of) equivalent to that Icelandic volcano, only she causes more pollution with her BS plume.
Oh wow, look at all those numbers. Now we can quote each other’s comments chapter and verse. Nice solution. Thanks, Snoskred!
I don’t see the pig with lipstick going away…the only way that will happen is when the msm will call her out…
their afraid of her…look what she gets away with….laughing all the way to the bank….
Star I agree with you as long as she raises their ratings they will not call her out on her misrepresentations,One or two do but they are not the ones her followers listen to. So it does little good,Comedy central now that may do some of the job.
The Charity of Hope charity raised over $50,000 from Sarah Palin’s speech, in Hamilton. If she got paid at least $100,000 for that, with only $50,000 going towards “children in need” (which is very vague, when checking out the Charity of Hope site), then she’s a pretty greedy lady.
Don’t forget to deduct expenses, two first class tickets and two more in coach, hotels, cars, straws….
Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out just how much any of her speeches helped anyone but herself
Leave it to Sarah not recognize the absurdity of anyone thinking that someone on the US Presidential ticket could be Canadian. Of course, many of her fans think the President is from Kenya, so in her bizarro world, it made perfect sense to say that people asked if she was from Canada. I’m sure that’s what all the people in the audience were wondering when she started her speech with “Buenos Aires” everyone! (I believe that’s Buenos Dias in Spanish Canadian.)
Right — when you get a blooper like “Buenos Aires” in the first line, you know she didn’t have a speechwriter and doesn’t know enough to know she needs one. Unless she thinks it’s “folksy” to demonstrate blithe ignorance of Spanish. Good “airs,” indeed — and good fawning to you, Sarah!
I am beginning to wonder if anyone can really accurately characterize a true Canadian accent anymore, because isn’t Canada becoming a sort of melting pot of different cultures and languages? Haven’t Canadians always varied in accent and language depending upon ethic background and geography just like any other country? Television and movies have created a sense of a Canadian accent just as it has a standard American accent (remember how Johnny Carson used to say he was hired because he had a neutral midwestern accent – and he was from Nebraska).
Anyway, short anecdote and a thanks to Canadians for the stellar reputation they have worldwide.
It is because our daughter was mistaken for a Canadian while living in Beijing that she escaped mob violence as she walked home from work through an area where Chinese citizens had been bussed in to “riot” in front of the US Embassy. She was jostled around and questioned by the angry crowd until she said something in English and then Mandarin. Because they believed her “accent” was Canadian, they let her go unmolested and even thanked her for not being from the evil America.
So our family has a very, very warm spot for Canadians. Who knows what could have happened to our daughter had she not been mistaken (and believe me, she did nothing to dissuade the mob’s conclusion) for being one of the good guys – Canadians.
Ahem, our daughter in no way, shape or form resembles or sounds like Sarah Palin. If she did, I don’t think she would have been protected as she was that night. Thank all the lovely and kind energies in this world for that.
WOW! great story. thank goodness all turned out well.
Palin: “I’m the dingy one…”
First honest thing she’s ever said.
Good point.
I actually have been mistaken for a Canadian, mostly a result of living and growing up within 12 miles of the British Columbia border in Washington state. I have never claimed to be one, despite that familiarity. I don’t say ‘eh’ (really folks, it’s a long ‘a’ sound, not ‘eh’), and most folks across the border don’t either. I have a flat accent that is pure Puget Sound, being neither Midwest, East Coast, or California. I actually could see Canada from my house, the Coast Range mountains around Vancouver, the Lions Gate and all that. Certainly a more realistic vista than seeing “Russia from my house (in Wasilla).” Now, I can see Mexico from my house…
I’ve spent time and more than a few dollars in Vancouver, enjoying the city and its inhabitants. I know more than a few Canadians personally, and none of them are anywhere near the void that is Sarah. For her to say what she did in Hamilton was simply ridiculous, and utterly stupid. I’m glad to hear (on here) that the majority of CDN’s find her to be more of a hilarious nature: we, unfortunately, have to deal with her in some sort of political sense and not comedic. So, also, I ask our Canadian friends to set the best of their pranksters, spoofers, and comedians to bring her down in the minds of those left in Canada who actually think positive thoughts about her before it’s too late. Remember the Borg: “You will be assimilated…”
I normally dislike using profanity, but she’s simply bat***t crazy, saying what she did. As if no one is going to check her ‘truthiness.’
I hear she has to go to Tennessee to testify in the Blackberry/email hacking case: will she ask the judge for expense money and a Learjet?
Quite honestly, I’m surprised Canada allowed her into their Country. Did she promise not to use hate speech like she does in Real America and Un-America. Was she able to give talk without denigrating our President on foreign soil?
yes. Canada is surprising me. i had thought better of their government. Doesn’t seem to be a very friendly gesture towards this government.
The Religious Right has seduced millions of Americans with titillating hatred and lies.
Appeals to facts get nowhere with these folks because they don’t trust any sources
but their own and listen only to what emunates from an alternative right-wing universe.
Thus arguments become circular. The more impartial the source, the more suspect it
becomes. Propaganda, fulminating (and fundraising), and hatred of gays, women,
our government, big-city folks, black people, the educated “elite,” everything-not-like-us-
Real-Americans supplant compassion and even common sense.
(Quoted from the pages of the book PATIENCE WITH BY FRANK SCHAEFFER)
Read the book…you will better understand Sarah Palin.
Partially off-topic: I finally googled “bumpit”, since I hadn’t encountered any such thing before, and discovered this wonderful fact: “Bumpits are not edible.” (from the Happie Hair instruction page)
Thought someone here might enjoy knowing this fact as well!
That is a funny, funny tidbit! Thanks. Guess they had people like Palin in mind when they wrote the warning.
Just found this: Sarah Palin will be ‘speaking’ in Eugene, Oregon on Friday night.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/palins_talk_at_lane_gop_fundra.html
(excerpt)
“Tight security and a host of restrictions will surround political lightning rod Sarah Palin when she comes to Eugene later this week for a Republican fund-raiser.
Palin, the former governor of Alaska who ran for vice president in 2008 alongside Sen. John McCain, will talk at a $250-per-plate dinner hosted by the Lane County Republican Party. The event is sold out, and the party is now selling $100 tickets for an overflow room where diners can watch her on a big screen…
…It’s also tightly controlled. No cameras — still or video — will be allowed at the event. Sound recordings are prohibited. Reporters won’t be allowed in the room where she is speaking, but will be allowed to watch a live video feed. Palin will answer no questions from the media.
Bags will be checked at the door. Recording devices and cell phones will not be allowed in. Anyone seen trying to record the event will be shown the door.
“These conditions were not established by us,” said Whaanga Kewene, who is coordinating the fundraiser for the Lane County Republicans. “They were in her contract.” He said the party had to fight for an exception to allow news media to cover the event at all. (article continues)
Lol! I have missed seeing the “pants on fire” stamp. Since most of what she says is a twist of truth or an out and out lie, that “stamp” should be an obligatory addition to any reference to her or anything she says. Her rear-end must have melted at this point.
“God does not want you to sit in a parked car” SP, Hamilton screech. Come on down to Dallas folks. For only $75,000.00 US you can stand next to her!
The day I actually say ‘eh’ for real is the day I want someone to shoot me…thank you.
God! What will she dream up next.? Simply put “she’s a reall nutter” lacking the brains to get in out of the rain.
She may say “eh” but brother that’s where the similarity begins and ends.
Elaine in Canada
Well, golly gee, I’m no $arah Paylin (thank goodness!), but I say “eh?” quite a bit, with the long A sound, rhymes with day…
Don’t know where or when I picked it up, but it might’ve been a couple of hosers on Saturday Night Live, long ago and far away… I use the final “eh” to give a wink and a nudge as if to say, “Ain’t it the truth?” or “Do you agree?” Sometimes instead of eh, I use “ennit?” like some friends and former students on the Rez (Qualla Boundary), meaning, “Isn’t it?”
It’s an old habit that I see no reason to break, so if it gets under your skin, just skip it, or roll your eyes and smile at the crowwoman crazy…
*wink*
I think $arah watched Strange Brew too many times and decided that she liked Bob and Doug’s
( The Hosers) accent, eh?
. And, her Bumpit is her version of their Toques………….what a flaming idiot she is.
My theory on this: Sarah thinks Fargo is in Canada……jus sayin’.
I want to see her birth certificate! She may be Canadian and therefore is not a true citizen of the United States.