hokay enough about palin
 

seriuosly i'm about to vomit.

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Yes, my stomach's also goin' rogue at the sight of this complete and utter joke in the media once again.

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i keep wondering if levi "she knows what I got on her" johnston is going to have a little "accident" here soon.

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"Once again?" That implies that she was ever OUT of the media spotlight.;) Not sure how it's been overseas, but here, it may have slowed down some, but between doing interviews in front of turkeys being butchered, a parade of ethics issues, her grandbaby's daddy doing Playgirl, quitting her first term as governor, random bizarre endorsements of political candidates, and just all around folksy you betcha' gotcha stories, she has never been gone...

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The Grauniad did a fab pastiche of the editorial process for her new book. :D

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I almost died of laughter when I read that.

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I think it's time for a group hug: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34002562...more_politics/

But I don't wanna be in the middle of it just in case some blows start getting thrown. I DO want to be there though just to watch.

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oh come on - the world's far less funny without her!

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Here's funny...

Palin asked about possible running mates, in an interview with Newsmax:

"I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I'm not there yet," Palin tells Newsmax. "But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way. And he's so bold -- I have to respect that. He calls it like he sees it, and he's very, very, very effective."

Really, I can live without funny!

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He'd be the first male to throw Jell-o on the spat.

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Holy shit.

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oh, come on! that'd be brilliant! she has respect for a man who can summon up crocodile tears in front of cameras! i can't even imagine what they'd be coming up with! it'd be the funniest (and least succesful) campaign ever!

they should just do it as comedy series anyway...:D

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It would have to be one where the final episode involves armageddon or something. So 11 episodes of "gosh darnit" hilarity, followed by a blackadder-style last one.

Honestly - that Palin gained the amount of support she did during the campaign (as opposed to being universally laughed out of town) leaves me decidedly uneasy about the prospect of that decision being placed in the hands of the electorate.

The nutters are becoming more influential than ever.

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it'd work pretty well as a blackadder-type thing - with beck pulling palin's strings. who's baldrick in this, though?

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From the msnbc piece:....


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :D :D

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Unfortunately, every campaign rally would probably end up escalating into angry mobs of white people with AK-47s rioting across whatever city they're in. But while these crazies may be more influential in the media these days, luckily their numbers place them in the minority, and they still only get one vote each...

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i think that the phrase for all of these so-called trumpeters of democracy is 'hoist by their own petard'. ;)

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on o'really :D

brilliant - 5'40: he plays the clip of her not being able to name a newspaper that she reads and asks why she couldn't name any - he response:

"of course i could, it's ridiculous to suggest, to say that i couldn't"

she's a fantasist of the highest order :eek:

o'reilly, in his 'no-holds-barred' manner, soft-soaps her and suggests it was merely down to media inexperience - she just says the questioning was 'annoying'...

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matt taibbi is breathtakingly brilliant.

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009...alin-wwe-star/


Sarah Palin sells copies. She is the country’s first WWE politician — a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle American followers who will cheer for her against whichever villain they trot out, be it Newsweek, Barack Obama, Katie Couric, Steve Schmidt, the Mad Russian, Randy Orton or whoever. Her followers will not know that she is the perfect patsy for our system, designed as it is to channel popular anger in any direction but a useful one, and to keep the public tied up endlessly in pointless media melees over meaningless nonsense (melees of the sort that develop organically around Palin everywhere she goes). Like George W. Bush, even Palin herself doesn’t know this, another reason she’s such a perfect political tool.

You’d have to be thinking about the broader picture, about the fact that the president of the United States ought not to be a drooling yahoo whose two favorite Supreme Court cases are Roe v. Wade and Roe v. Wade and who thinks living near Canada counts as foreign policy experience, to not see what an asshole Katie Couric was being. And that other reality, the reality where one worries about a national political candidate having the brains of an innertube, is less immediate than the five-foot airspace radius around the Palin bobblehead. It’s harder for the average person to connect with, I guess.

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Wait. Wait....

Let me post something. Please make sure you've swallowed any liquids before viewing this....

ROFLMAO...

Like. Oh. My. God.

Whatever.

Holy spitballs Batman - is this it? This is what we're all getting worried about?!

Quick - someone get me a barrel - I've got some dumb fucking fish to shoot here.

"We need to get the polar bears off the endangered list, so we can drill there!"

bahahaha

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First things first... http://i45.tinypic.com/sv12kk.gif

Second, http://i50.tinypic.com/apgp5j.gif


Finally, one of the comments says:
But would there really have been such rich pickings?

I mean, really?

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superb!

and scary...

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The sad thing is that, in fairness, I'd have to agree with the comment Deckard posted about that many Obama supporters would be just as ignorant. I remember during the primaries, a good friend of my wife and I was talking about why she liked Hillary Clinton and was nervous about Obama. One of her reasons that I remember her listing was that "Obama has ties to the mob, doesn't he?" Granted, that's not an example of an Obama supporter being ignorant, but I do believe that she voted for Obama in the Presidential election - despite his apparent ties to the mafia. She's a sweet girl, but that was sad. :( Anyway, lots of ignorant people out there.

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yeah I couldn't get very far through your video, chuck. its too nauseating. its probably a lot more amusing if you aren't actually in sara palin country.

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Well it's interesting that you bring up Clinton because she kind of went after the equivalent of the Democrat-voting public, didn't she?

Obama - for all his faults - didn't set out to pander to the least informed. That's not to say he sets out to exclude that chunk of the country - but he doesn't let the lowest common denominator form his base in the way that Palin does and, to some extent, much of the McCain/Palin and Hillary campaigns did. And the point is, it's only natural that the demographics of his supporters - as compared to hers - are going to reflect that difference.

So if anything my point was really to question that sense of equivalency that sometimes gets drawn up, whether out of a desire to sound objective and polite, or (if the other side) to suggest that "you're no better". Because, well - actually, if we're referring to the collective intelligence or informedness of Obama supporters, then yes, I think there is a noteworthy difference.

But it's a minor point. Stupid is stupid, at the end of the day, whatever political allegiance it identifies with.

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Btw, that's the same guys that did the Tea Party film isn't it? New Left Media (website currently down due to bandwidth limit being exceeded)

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oh...my...god......:drool:

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I know what you mean. I still consider myself essentially a political centerist, but the sheer level of stupidity coming out of the most vocal portion of the fractured Republican party couldn't be further from where I stand on issues. Like on environmental issues for example. The reflexive "drill baby drill" mantra, and calls to take polar bears off the endangered species list so that we can drill for oil in their habitats isn't a political issue in my mind. It's an issue of living intelligently on the only planet we have access to. It's not conservative or liberal to recognize the scientific fact that life on Earth functions through balanced ecosystems, and that the more we mess those ecosystems up, the more we risk messing the entire planet up, and ourselves with it. Conservatives making that a political issue is like saying that stepping out of the way of a speeding train is just behaving like a tree-huggin' liberal. It's flat out stupid.

So I guess what I'm getting at is that while stupid lives on both sides, it does indeed seem like the Republicans are pushing a much more dangerous brand of stupid than the Democrats in my opinion.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'm wondering how many of these things he'll be able to do before he starts getting recognized. He's great at just letting people talk and expose themselves as the morons they are rather than trying to put words in their mouth or argue with them.

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from o'reilly, she's gone all the way to greta van s - NOW i reckon she's in for a hard ride...

ok; she doesn't - spouting exactly the same stuff - surprise surprise.

something i find creepy, the term 'the homeland'....

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Glad it's not just me then. I find the way that word has grown in parlance since 9/11 slightly sinister. There's just something about it that makes me think it's not a good thing.

Also, every time I hear members of the Conservative Party use it in reference to the UK, I wince.

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me too, i refer to our country as the 'shit hole' nowadays.........