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If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join Them in the Palintology *Updated*
by hardybear
Posted on 17 November 2009 | 7:57 pm 
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In all honesty, we thought the only way to survive the next week of the Black Hole of Palintology was a self-defense posting of a spot to run her greatest hits. And because she’s Sarah, they will certainly just keep on coming, live.
It’s somehow comforting to think of Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, rather than of the former-Governoring, mavericky, moose-huntin’, fancy-pageant-walkin’ broad herself. If she does run in 2012, Lorne Michaels had better have Tina locked down.
The folks who brilliantly put together Going Rouge should go down in history as expert purveyors of political satire. Here is an interview of the authors, from Truthout.
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“Going Rouge” Takes On the Palin Nightmare
Maya Schenwar, Truthout
Next Tuesday, when Sarah Palin’s already-bestselling memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” hits shelves, another much-anticipated look at the Palin phenomenon will also debut: “Going Rouge: Sarah Palin – An American Nightmare” . I interviewed Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, the editors of “Going Rouge,” about Palin’s place in the American political landscape, her influence on the tenor of Republican politics, and why they did not choose to make Levi Johnston a focal point of their anthology.
Why do you think Sarah Palin remains so widely accepted by conservatives as a viable national politician, despite her obvious shortcomings?
BR: I think she does have quite a strong following among a certain cohort of Christian, conservative, white, married women. The Republican party is a mostly male phenomenon, but I think Republicans recognized that they needed to do better with women when they picked her.
RK: Going back to what Betsy said earlier, the narrative that she sends out of being persecuted is actually deeply resonant now with that portion of the Republican Party, which is out of power in the White House, out of power in Congress, and seeing the policies of the Bush years being rolled back. She constantly says, “I’m not being recognized by the national media, so I’m going to go rogue and tell you the story directly.” In that way she can bypass Washington and bypass the media world.
BR: It’s nothing new – The American right has always felt itself to be aggrieved. … MS: That sense of victimhood can make it difficult for the media to cover Sarah Palin at all. If you had to map out a strategy for the progressive media in confronting the phenomenon of Sarah Palin over the next couple of years, what would you include?
RK: Some of the humor in the book just comes from quoting Sarah Palin. She’s funny enough just on her own. There’s a piece in the book that puts Sarah Palin’s own words into verse, in haiku form.
Finish the article here.
Some SNL moments:
Say it ain’t so Joe.
Well, Katie …
From Jonathan Meacham at Newsweek:
Why Palin Matters to Obama—And to You
Goldwater was a seminal figure, and is too often caricatured as a nuclear cowboy by the left and as a conservative John the Baptist by the right. … Now comes Sarah Palin, an heir to the Goldwater tradition, to try to harness the conservative discontent abroad in the land. Her political celebrity is so powerful that it has reduced a large part of the Republican Party to irrationality and civic incoherence. According to Gallup, Republicans are more likely to say they would seriously consider voting for Palin for president (65 percent) than to say she is qualified for the job (58 percent). At the moment she is promoting a book. But she is also, inevitably, promoting a distinctive political sensibility.
What Obama advisers privately refer to as “Palinism” has created a climate of ideological purity inside the GOP. To deviate from the anti-Obama line at all—that is, to acknowledge that politics is the art of compromise—risks the censure of the party. Pure ideologues will argue that this is a good thing; others like, say, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close friend of Palin’s onetime champion John McCain, think differently. Graham was denounced last week by the Charleston County Republican Party for working with Democrats on issues such as climate change; the senator’s office replied by invoking President Reagan’s belief that “elected officials need to find common ground and work together to solve difficult problems.”
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Here’s the “What you didn’t see” Oprah film, then a clip from today’s show.
Some commentary from real amurricans who watched the show for a news affiliate:
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Here’s a doozy, from Bob Weir:
November 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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yup yup — nothing sycophantic about that.
Project much?
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So far I’ve seen Andrea, Norah O, and now Maria Menounos from NBC out in Michigan following SP …
I haven’t seen a single piece of film re Hillary in Afghanistan.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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Hil’s boring. Sarah’s like crack, addictive and really bad for your health, but you just can’t quit.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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They’re doing your C Street story on MSNBC, our guy Jeff S. is on.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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Sharlet deserves a Pulitzer and/or Nobel prize for his work.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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Absolutely, wouldn’t surprise me if he picked one up.
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Sarah-Glennduh 2012!!
“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. 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.”
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_beck_2012_ticket/2009/11/17/2 87568.html
November 18th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
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Barf.
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Sarah and ThRush talk “Shady Science”
“It’s kind of tough to figure out with the shady science right now, what are we supposed to be doing right now with our climate. Are we warming or are we cooling? I don’t think Americans are even told anymore if it’s global warming or just climate change. And I don’t attribute all the changes to man’s activities. I think that this is, in a lot of respects, cyclical and the earth does cool and it warms”
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The whole clan was appropriately named “Wasilla Hillbillies”…altho I think that might be unfair to actual hillbillies. It’s like watching a really bad reality show (things I avoid at all cost).
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Levi: I Look at Palin with “Disgust”
Says She Repeatedly Lied About Him on “Oprah,” and Turns Down Her “Invite” to Thanksgiving Dinner
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/17/earlyshow/main5682541.shtml
:woot:
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Jonathan Capehart just offered the best visual … La Palin is out there enacting that carnival game where you stand in a glass booth of flying money, and get to keep what you manage to grab up. Cause she ‘has all those kids to feed’.
Heh.
Other fave observation: should her book be filed under nonfiction or fiction?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:12 am
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At Home Depot in the fire starter log isle….
November 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
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November 17th, 2009 at 11:34 am
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My Kitties were snooty and snotty little princesses… they would NEVER have lowered their arses to crap on her stuff…… next door’s rosebeds are so much classier for their morning constitutionals .
November 17th, 2009 at 11:16 am
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Hah!
In my paper this morning —
“. . . “I’d probably rather write than talk,” she told Walters.. [:roll:] . . Those wanting a book signed receive a wristband after presenting a Meijer receipt for the book. Only the first 1,000 people in line with wristbands are guaranteed an autograph. If there is extra time, Palin will accommodate more people. [there will likely be more] [she's coming here on Thursday]
Palin is not scheduled to give a speech of any kind and will not have time to pose for pictures.” [Oh, I can only imagine some of the folks here will be disappointed to hear that!!]
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091117/NEWS03/911179965
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memorialise…… at 1.28… is that a different American definition to the word that we have over here….. or is another Malapropism from Thickhead??
November 17th, 2009 at 11:02 am
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No, it is indeed one more malaprop in the growing list … if she dedicates herself, she will surpass W in that spécialité.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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PLEEEEEZE let her stay the…. need something to brighten up England’s gloomy Winters!!!
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YOU LIE!
“WINFREY: Didn’t several times they say to you when actually you mentioned, when you were talking about pulling out of Michigan and you said I wished we’d stayed in Michigan. Weren’t you told then, Sarah just stay on script?
PALIN: Right, told after wards and that, that was always puzzling to me because if I were to respond to a reporter’s questions very candidly, honestly, for instance, they say, “what do you think about the campaign pulling out of Michigan” and I think, “darn I wish we weren’t. Every vote matters, I can’t wait to get back to Michigan” and then told afterwards that, “oh, you screwed up. You went rogue on us Sarah, you’re not supposed to be.” And my reminder to the campaign was, I didn’t know we pulled out of Michigan. My entire VP team, we didn’t know that we had pulled out. I’m sorry, I apologize, but speaking candidly to a reporter.”
November 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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Incoherent, also too.
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if Sarah’s new “job” is to promote conservative candidates, she missed the boat while in Chicago.
Rep Mark Kirk (R-IL) already has the endorsement of Glennduh, and was awaiting Sarah’s Chicago visit for her endorsement
November 17th, 2009 at 10:25 am
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Good catch, kel. Obviously she hasn’t the requisite smarts to realize that every quote and piece of film will be used against her in future, no matter what she runs for. ‘Setting the record straight’ runs the extreme risk of creating gaffes far graver than the original issue.
She either lacks the most basic political savvy … or is playing a deeper game involving the current populist climate than is readily understood.
But as Seinfeld once said of NEWman when asked if there could be more to him than meets the eye, “No. There’s less.”
November 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
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“If you don’t lie, you never have to remember what you said.”
November 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
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Basic common sense. She has none.
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Now she’s declared the Newsweek cover ’sexist’. Which she herself posed for for Runners World Magazine.
The strange thing is, she didn’t seem terribly enamored of governing … so why she would seek a demanding public office again is perplexing.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:48 am
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“Her rehab tour is about Sarah Palin Inc. not 2012, but her appeal reflects an anti-elite anger Dems can’t ignore”
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/opini on/walsh/politics/2009/11/16/sarah_palin
November 17th, 2009 at 10:00 am
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so true. this is about Sarah the Celeb Brand — I highly doubt she wants to actually do thinky work.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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Not sure she wants to do any work.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
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OPM – Other People’s Money! That is the creed by which the Palin lives
November 17th, 2009 at 10:07 am
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Damn, that Joan Walsh is guddd … no slouch your own self, Babsie.
I still wonder when the Dems got labelled the ‘litists … for decades the conservatives were the old and new-moneyed crowd, firmly in charge of a large chunk of the Social Register and associated class division-ing. Hollywood and the music industry couldn’t have changed that dynamic all by themselves.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:25 am
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Joan Walsh is brilliant!!! Babsy also too
November 17th, 2009 at 10:32 am
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Yis…just too lazy to post a proper thread….
November 17th, 2009 at 10:50 am
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I’ve always wondered that too, Hardybear. Could be projection.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:53 am
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The cons are way better at shaping and staying on message.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
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these Idiot Victim/Martyr/Whore cows like Sarah and CaliBoob playing the “inappropriate sexist” card is laughable.
that it still works for some is horrifying.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am
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Is she gone yet????
November 17th, 2009 at 9:44 am
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November 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
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What a perfect smilie!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:54 am
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I’m afraid we are stuck with her til after the primaries, unless somebody digs up some juicier dirt on her.
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WTF ?!?!?! Catholic Church threatening to shut down social services in DC if a gay marriage bill is passed?! I didn’t think they had the brass to go through with it, and were just blowing hot air.
For phucque’s sake.
Brilliant Bible spoof by Colbert, total hoot.
And “Dont ask how the pearly gates got pearly.”
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This dopey broad is nothing more than a brainless bubblehead ; I’m tired of seeing this dipshit on the Net and on TV ………..
November 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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Buckle up, they’re just getting started.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
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Yeah , that stunning reply of “I understand” sure was believable , wasn’t it ?
That friggin’ dummy can’t even understand how a toilet works ……..
November 16th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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I’m hoping she does ; it’s the only way her brain might get cleansed (what little there is of it) ……….
November 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
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Nicely done.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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She is going to be around for quite a while… unfortunately
November 16th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
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The only way she can be productive/useful , is for ads that read/say :
This is what you DON’T want to turn out like ……..
November 17th, 2009 at 12:36 am
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I think they should use her is PSA’s for staying in school.
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I’m fascinated by Jake Adelstein. The Japanese mob is feearce.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
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They are scary like the Russian Mob.
That guy was a bit interesting.
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Oxford American Dict. word-of-the-year contest: “TEABAGGER” was a finalist!!!
“In a press release touting “unfriend” as the word of the year, the New Oxford American Dictionary may have unwittingly made a more controversial move than the New Oxford American Dictionary pretty much ever does.
No, it wasn’t another cutesy tech neologism: they included “teabagger” as one of their Word of the Year finalists.
According to the release, they define “teabagger” as “a person who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as ‘Tea Party’ protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773).”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/cue-outrage-teabagger-is-an-oxford-word -of-the-year-finalist/
November 16th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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Disconcerting that “tramp stamp” was included.
I think they do that just to poke at American stupidity. I don’t blame them for that, but…
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Oh that Jon … new segment title: Law & Order KSM
And Samantha is saying that NYorkers will be fine — but she doesn’t think the media can handle it. Cause they lose their shit during minor trials.
Then predicted how Nancy Grace will cover it!!
November 16th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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The Nancy Grace part! LOL!
November 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
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I Know!! That woman terrifies me. Should have had her interview SP.
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(one of) the Male Sarah Palins, Tim Pawlenty, says Human Activity does NOT cause Global Warming
and he’s trying to coin the new nick “T-PAW”
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_ id=14845121
“Although Pawlenty has already earned a “Full Flop” from PolitiFact because of his cap and trade policy reversals, he deserves another for his politically motivated denials of science.”
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Just saw a preview of Palin on GMA. Barbara Walters asked her if she knew Bristol was sexually active. I might actually watch that interview.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
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I know BW can be annoying and often it doesn’t seem she asks the hard questions like she used to … but this is a biggie, and I think she’ll bring her A game.
Still wish she would have done TDS or Colbert.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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I have always rather liked her actually. True she has gotten softer with age, but I can’t believe Palin would be dumb enough to do an interview with her.
I have seen her do some great interviews long ago where she was a shark. I hope she is not easy with Palin.
She still might. She would be great on Colbert.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
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She hasn’t poisoned Hasselbeck yet, big props there. I might have to watch The View tomorrow to see what the little gopper has to say.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
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I would love to see Whoopi interview her!
I think I will set it to tape so I can watch it too.
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Lou Dobbs to be on TDS on the 18th/Wednesday.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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I heard CNN gave him $8 Million dollars to leave CNN…
November 16th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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pretty sad when you weigh the pro’s and con’s and 8-mil sounds like a fair price to get rid of something
November 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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They should replace him with Geraldo rather than King … now that he’s the Voice of Reason at Fux.
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Dana Perino defending SP on Fux … boo hoo.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
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She is… Can’t even think of anything remotely nice to say about her.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
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She helped get Obama elected?
November 16th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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so true … she actually was the glue that brought the Dems back together
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Here’s KO:
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oh, hey, lookie there. remember those scary militia groups we keep trying to expose, but they keep somehow disappearing into the shadows … just like The Family and all the other scary secretive freaks out there … CNN is finally doing a piece on them
YES!!!! I will be discussing this further
November 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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Nice going CNN!
November 16th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
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Flint… bummer.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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sorry Noch
November 16th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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No worries… we have had a problem with the Militia here for as long as I can remember.
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I thought of one nice thing to say about Palin.
I kind of like some of the earrings she has worn.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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http://imagesa.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/234/product -5097234.jpg
November 16th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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LOL! I didn’t know they had one in Wasilla.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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I may have seen the silver and black onyx ones at Target before. I liked em.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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Just heard an ad for Oprah’s show tomorrow (Tues)
She’ll be interviewuing a different kind of porn star, Jenna Jamison.
Apparently Oprah is doing a ‘theme week’….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
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yeah, there’s something rotten in the state of denmark….
what’s up with this lineup???
November 16th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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Evidently she is trying to increase viewers during sweeps.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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Maybe Levi will come with Jenna … and announce an upcoming film.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
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She only does girls now.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
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I’ll go help out Levi….
November 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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I never got offended when someone asked what I read.
She is such a liar. Ugh.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
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I was just so perturbed and annoyed … like, I mean, really, why are you asking me all these questions.”
This woman wants to be worshipped, revered, adored, and not held accountable for anything.
she doesn’t want to work. she just wants to be a reality show star.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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I think you are spot on with that.
Shallow like one would expect from a beauty queen. She didn’t have to do anything but smile then and she hasn’t changed at all.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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Badgered by questions… in an interview.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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Biased librul ‘litist media with their questionney interviews.
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just to get everyone’s tastebuds watering — the chocolate mousse cheesecake was the best I’ve ever made. I have now officially mastered that science project
November 16th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
November 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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I’d be happy to drive down and be a taster –
diabetes be damned!!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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YAY!!! Now if you would just send some to my house….
November 16th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
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hubby and daughter were already fighting over it this morning. He wanted to take some to work and she was being all nazi-like with the rations.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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LOL! Like it was the last cheesecake on earth ever!
Excellent job kelly!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
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I finally got it perfectly layered and really moussey.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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I hadn’t realized how much you like torturing people… are you Liz Cheney in disguise????
November 16th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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‘p.s. those are damn-near the worst highlights I have ever seen! did she do the Quiet Touch stripes or what?
November 16th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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heh. Yeah, doesn’t look great. Gads, neither does Oprah. Watching now – cannot turn on sound. Cannot.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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Closed Caption Time.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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I was just laughing about that. It is like the Toni home highlite kit from the seventies look.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
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she best throw on a hat lest some aerial hunter mistake her for a wild tiger
November 16th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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remember aluminum foil and hydrogen peroxide?
November 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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Apparently she does. Tin foil is fitting …
November 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
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and you could reuse the aluminum foil when you “laid out” and fried in the sun with your baby oil
I remember all too well
November 16th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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The Love’s Baby Soft baby oil. Or… Sun In.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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Sun In I remember, amazing our tresses didn’t fall out …
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Haven’t watched Oprah in years. Glad I didn’t feed her ratings today. Hope we are almost done talking about this stupid cow
November 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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I think many are suffering from Sarah Palin fatigue…and the BW interview is not until Friday….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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I’m def gonna have to pass on that one also too such as
November 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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I didn’t watch Oprah and will not watch BW…..Both are too fond of kissing up to really do good interviews…
November 16th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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agreed … and if Oprah dares to say that she had to do it that way, those were the conditions, then she’s even more of a whore
November 16th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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I really was hoping for a bit of a smackdown.
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okay i did not see the big O interview today….
nor did i watch any news….
i’m barely a minute into these clips posted here and miss moose remarks on how she had desire to “record and MEMORIZE” events throughout her life… (re: her supposed journal entries)….
*sigh*… it’s going to be a long viewing….
better grab some vino….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
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around 1:26 in to be exact….
and for the dumbasses out there, the word is “MEMORIALIZE”!!!!!!!!!
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Oprah yielded such a tame interview, you have to wonder if there wasn’t a deal made with SP delimiting the scope of the questions. Actually, I figure that is often the case when any msm interviewer wants the interview badly enough.
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The History Channel is also showing a phenomenal series with newly-discovered color film of WWII.
It’s fascinating.
And good evening!
November 16th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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Wow – graphic.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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That’s war.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
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It makes me wince, but it is mesmerizing history.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
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Howdy TCN! And it’s in HD!
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Alert – American Experience -The 1930’s: Surviving the Dust Bowl, tonight 9:00 PM EST on PBS.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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Thanks for the reminder Bertie!
November 16th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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Thanks!
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“My philo on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals how come He made them out of meat?” -Sarah Palin
November 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
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Makes perfect sense to me…..
November 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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Oh, no she didn’t…….
November 16th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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Thankfully, my nails were wet and I couldn’t work the remote. Didn’t get to see the QUITbull tell more lies and make more crap up to try and make herself seem impotent…er, importent.
Hey Sarah – this one’s for YOU
November 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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she didn’t have to try that hard. Oprah set her up quite nice. Acted like every word of the book was fact and just wanted QuitBull to expand on her feelings and thoughts …
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“Oprah, this one is for you”
November 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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Also too.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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And my message to Oprah…
November 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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co-sign
November 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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i’m not there yet….but i may be after watching this interview….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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wait. I thought you lived there
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“For all her aplomb and telegenic charm, Ms. Palin still had the “hunted look and defensive crouch she wore in television interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson last year.
In the age of balloon dads and transformative reality television Ms. Palin has emerged as quintessentially American, in terms of the America of the moment. Her career gyrations, life and family continue to feed a spotlight-hungry media carnival. In some ways her almost son-in-law’s quick and callous cashing-in looks like a junior version of her own quickie book campaign.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/arts/television/17watch.html
November 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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If Palin reads the article Couric might have company on Palin’s shit list…..
November 16th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
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“If Palin reads”….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
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Maybe Piper can read it to her….
November 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
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“hunted look and defensive crouch” — it’s called Guilt — the subconscious is a powerful thing
November 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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I would venture to say she doesn’t feel guilt about anything… Purely amoral.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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yes
November 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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That’s because she knows deep down she’s not standing on firm ground…The bluff she ran in Alaska won’t cut it in the lower 48….We demand more substance which is why she flopped with the majority of Americans…
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ok..I tried to watch the new video embeds but my ears started bleeding from her voice
November 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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It is bad. It’s hard to watch.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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plus Oprah’s pandering…
:gladIdon’tthaveballslikeyou:
November 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
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Well, i watch Oprah, and I felt a difference. A subtle lack of respect and response to her stilted rehearsed folksy bullshit answers.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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btw, did you hear? After a thousand years in Chicago, O is moving the show to LA??? I’m devastated.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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Wow, hadn’t heard that. She’s finally launching her own network, non?
November 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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yeah…many are saying she did the interview to boost her ratings before the move
November 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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I guess she figured “There goes the neighborhood” when she heard you were moving to Chi town.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
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Any time, any where, my sweet!
November 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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she lurvs Santa Barbara — I’m actually surprised it took her this long to make it final.
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Did i say balls? I meant pearls. bwahahahahha
November 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
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Did I tell you about my pearls?????
Did I send you a picture???
November 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
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Did I tell you about my pearls?????
Did I send you a picture??
November 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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I saw them Babs, gohjuss!!
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Am i the only one with the balls to watch the fucktard in the actual interview?
November 16th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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balls where your brain should be….
November 16th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
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I caught it, Suzy. My reaction: Wish I still drank.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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Dear Lord, why did you stop?
November 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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I didn’t anticipate the BushCo years and La Palin, that’s for sure!!
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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wow, sorry to hear that. that doesn’t sound fun.
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The footage of David Brooks calling her a joke just doesn’t get old.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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so true … and any Rethug with half a brain should follow Brooks’ lead and denounce Palin as someone not worthy of serious consideration.
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So I have to share my daily Fucktard Moment. Driving home from the barn last night, I’m listening to radio for traffic report,catch a talk show with “Steve Yuhas”, a former Marine, conservative viewpoint. Topic was irregularities and poor mgmt. at Arlington. He starts reading a press release that begins “Arlington National Cemetary, where Pres. Kennedy and other heroes are buried….” and Yuhas says:
“Why is his name first? Why is Kennedy even mentioned? He’s not a hero. It’s not heroic to get your head blown off by an assassin! He shouldn’t be mentioned along with the real heroes.”
So, I wrote an email to the station manager saying:
“I was stunned by Steve Yuhas’ tasteless and uncalled-for remarks regarding Pres. Kennedy and suggest he look up Kennedy’s heroism during WW2. In case his research skills are as weak as his historical knowledge, here is a link “(and I linked to the Kennedy Library page on PT109)
Can you believe???? This guy is such a know-it-all, and he doesn’t know jack shit. I was furious.
OK, rant is complete. Thank you.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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What an asshole!!!! I hope that station gets lots of mail on that.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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You are SO good!!
November 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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Ewww … but way to go, CM!!
November 16th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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Glad you called them out on it, CM. Let us know if you get a response.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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Very nicely done!
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Sarah Palin got a college D: Guess which course (Poll)
http://www.kansascity.com/stargazing/story/1573311.html
November 16th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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LOL. I wonder which one (if the course was there) it was??? 66% Human sexual development. Hah!
November 16th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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Guess again, she thought Africa was a country…..
November 16th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
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Was it Geo 101? I didn’t see the answer.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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That was the 65% vote, not Human Sexual Deve……
November 16th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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I don’t see “ESL” as a choice.
Gawd, she still makes my skin crawl.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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Did Oprah ask her(Palin) about the racist tone of her rallies where there were shouts of “Kill him” in reference to Obama?
November 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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Glaringly absent Bertie, unless it came up off camera.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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Strange considering she gave voice to current groups of right-wing loons who were more or less in the background until the rallies…
November 16th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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Too true.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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Doubtful.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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if Oprah asked that question the “Reverse Racist” faux outrage would be glaring
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Palin voice is far too annoying to sit through the Oprah show. BTW, Oprah still owes me an apology for Dr. Phil…
November 16th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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4:56: You are the Queen, Oprah
Only a few minutes to go, Oprah has to find a way to bring it back to being all about her. Can the queen of daytime TV do it?
“One final question,” Oprah says. “Should I be worried? Because I have heard that you’re going to get your own talk show.”
“Oh,” Palin says.
“Yeah — come on,” Oprah says sweetly — only maybe not. Palin’s not taking the hint. Finally, she gets it:
“Oprah, you are the queen of talk shows. There’s nothing to over worry about.”
“No, no,” Oprah simpers.
“Yes,” Palin insists, then, sensing this is playing big with Oprah, she plows ahead: “You can’t shut off my mic so let me say this — or maybe you can. You’re the boss.”
“No, I won’t,” Oprah assures her. “Go ahead” she insists.
“Okay, the inspiration that you have provided…..those were the years where I was a stay-at-home-mom — got to watch you more than I watch you now… and being quite inspired by some of the challenges you were facing…you provided a lot of inspiration and I appreciate what you have done all these years,” Palin cooed.
“Thank you for saying that,” Oprah gushed.
It’s official. They are in love.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tvblog/?hpid=topnews
November 16th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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Gail will be so hurt. Maybe she can drown her sorrows with Kristol, who is more in love with Sarah than even Sarah is with herself
November 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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Even better is the live blog from Wonkette!
4:02 — MOVING ON: WHAT WAS IT LIKE SARAH WHEN YOU GOT THE PHONE CALL, to hold John McCain’s catheter on the road for a few months? What did it mean? Does John McCain smell, because he looks like he smells.
4:08 — BARACK OBAMA’S CHILDREN GOT LEFT ALONE! WHY WEREN’T MINE. WHY WEREN’T MY MALIAS AND SASHA’S LEFT ALONE. Probably because he didn’t wear them as a cape every time he appeared in public? Or maybe because he said other things besides “MY KIDS MY KIDS MY KIDS” when explaining his qualifications for president? Meh, let’s just blame Andrew Sullivan.
http://wonkette.com/412232/liveblogging-sarah-palin-on-oprah#more-4122 32
November 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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Her hair looks like a wig, even though it’s not.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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:puke:
November 16th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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I’m with kelly
November 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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Loved when he was giving marriage advice after being married and divorced a hundred times…
Blech
November 16th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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My husband calls him PenisHead.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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LOL! Needs a blow hole on the top of his head
November 16th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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Ha! Good for him.
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“Of course it had happened”
Prove it, Sarah! Show us one example where a VP candidate of a losing campaign gave a concession speech
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???did Pat BuKlanan just say that Steve Schmidt or Sarah is “outside the mainstream of the Republican party”????
November 16th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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Pat B.: “She wants to tell the truth AS SHE SEES IT.”
November 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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That’s the Republican way.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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Believe it’s their motto.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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I am not watching MSNBC, but I would guess since he is a huge supporter of hers, he meant Schmidt.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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I swear, I watched it again, I think he meant Sarah, and it was as to the anti-evolution thing.
I’m not 100% but I think he meant sarah’s position on evolution was outside the Rethug mainstream –
November 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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I thought most of those Rethugs were creationists.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
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definitely the “social conservatives” are
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Tweety just said Palintology…
November 16th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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His staff must be reading FRT again….
November 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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or maybe he just spied on Keith’s dress rehearsal today –
November 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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It’s old.
http://palintology.com/
November 16th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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I was reading it here the exact time he said it… it was weird.
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Sullivan is live-blogging Oprah if anyone wants to follow the blow-by-blow
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/liveblogg ing-oprah.html
November 16th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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His comments are GREAT!
4.37 pm. Having called him “Ricky Hollywood,” and an aspiring porn star, she says he is loved. She also says she doesn’t like “drama” which is like Oprah saying she doesn’t like food or my saying I don’t like beards.
4.35 pm. She describes “so many inconsistencies” in Levi’s story. There are no inconsistencies in Levi’s stories. There are only massive differences between his account of reality and Palin’s. The real inconsistencies are within Palin’s own confused and constantly changing stories and lies.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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the “beard” comment was the best
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*Break Time*
Susan Boyle sings “Wild Horses”
November 16th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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Lovely voice.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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“Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his “Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act” will protect veterans’ gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a “dangerous” proposal that could allow “over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons” to buy guns—people who would previously have been barred from doing so by the Veterans Administration (VA).”
yes, by all means, we should let the mentally-ill vets buy guns! DUH! But I’ll be damned if we’ll let them homosexuals serve MY country!!!!
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/senate-bill-would-allow-mental ly-incapacitated-vets-buy-guns
November 16th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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Anybody catching Op-raaaaaaaah?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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no, I think I’ll pass and just count on catching the highlights here.
I really do not need to hear Sarah go on and on about her Oprah Ratings
November 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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I got Dave to watch with me.
No fun making pithy comments alone.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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wow! that is one seriously devoted hubby you got there, bear.
maybe you could pop in a Bump-It and some cool specs and red pumps for him
http://www.bighappiehair.com/
November 16th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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A MUST article read from WaPo:
“Among the more revealing moments in Palin’s book comes this one: One morning during the campaign, she was showering when she received a telephone call with pastor Rick Warren, who had offered to pray with her. “I said, absolutely! Pray away!,” she writes. “I would never turn down prayer even with limited hours in a campaign day, standing in a few inches of water with a shower curtain for a wardrobe. You do what you’ve got to do.”
“I love meat,” Palin writes. “I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.”
And when she first put eyes on Todd Palin in the school gym she whispered, “Thank you, God.” She writes that she really knew that he was the one for her when “he told me he had become a Christian and had been baptized at a sports camp.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009 111601770.html?hpid=artslot&sid=ST2009111602114
November 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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You watch so we don’t have to…
November 16th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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The tag line was precious: she carries on somehow thanks to God and Todd.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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“Thank Taahd!” —
November 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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4:02: It took Oprah under 2 minutes to make it all about her:
“You know there were reports last year that I had snubbed you during the election by not having you on my show. Did you feel snubbed?” she asked and yes it was her very first question.
Palin says no, apologetically, she was really busy what with this and that.
“Really?” Oprah asks incredulously. “So at the time of the campaign when everybody was saying that I was snubbing you, you didn’t even know about it?”
This is already the best Oprah interview ever.
“It didn’t register. No offense to you — but it wasn’t the center of my universe, okay?” Palin says.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tvblog/?hpid=topnews
November 16th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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when egos collide
November 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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Two narcissists in the same room, will probably make for boring television.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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I’m not watching, but reading the live-blogs, it sounds VERY Boring. Oprah is not calling her out on anything.
She’s merely echoing claims in the book as though they’re facts and asking her to expand on them.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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Absolutely.
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Get to know Chuck DeVore, the OC ConservaFreak who is going to battle Carly Fiorina in the Primaries to try to take Barbara Boxer’s Senate Seat.
he’s beyond frightening … and dumb. He’s the idiot who said last summer that “Gay marriage emboldens NAMBLA.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/gop-senate-candidate-devore -seeks-to-defuse-birtherism-story.php
These primary battles bewteen Establishment Rethugs and Conservatives is sure to drain the coffers of the donations and further damage the GOP — let the implosion continue
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Teabaggers Punk’d
November 16th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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Stupid is as stupid does…
November 16th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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The stupidity astounds…
November 16th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
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I love it. Good for him. Good night guys.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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must have been some Left-Wing Conspiracy that clocked Sarah from her rightful place on the shuttle Rapture
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Palin included the two younger girls in interviews with Oprah and Barbara, is school out in Alaska? BTW where is Levi’s baby’s mama? She in not in any of the promo ads…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
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school is for ‘leetust librul snobs — Sarah can’t risk those girls learnin’ any facty-sciency crap lest they might be turned atheist … or worse … learn about contraceptives
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More crap in her book… She doesn’t believe in evolution.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/15/palin-book-evolution/
November 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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She didn’t come from no damned monkey … like that evil family in the Whitehouse
November 16th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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my head hurts…
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I hope the two celebrity suck-ups Oprah and Barbara asked Palin about the near race riots she was feeding at her rallies which was largely ignored by the msm. Much of what was allowed to go on at her rallies gave voice to the teabaggers and the other right-wing nuts…It was always there, she help give it a wider public voice..
November 16th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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Don’t hold your breath. If either of them ask anything like that she is liable to pull a Carrie on them.
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“I think the reason we lost is that the economy tanked under a Republican and people were very seriously looking for a change,” Palin said today on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
“I don’t think I was to blame for losing the race more than I could have been credited for winning the race if I had done a better job.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-talks-campaign-family-futur e-oprah-winfrey/story?id=9095281
November 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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I still love the picture of her standing on the stage during McInsane’s concession speech. priceless
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/11/05/palin.campaign.anatom y/art.palin.afp.gi.jpg
November 16th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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Looks like she has a stick up her butt.
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FACT CHECK: Palin’s book goes rogue on some facts
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_BOOK_FACT_CHECK?SITE=O HAKR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Sarah Palin: Levi Johnston busy doing ‘porn’
“Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin slammed Levi Johnston – the father of her 11-month old grandchild – for being too busy courting media attention to see his son and for engaging in “aspiring porn.”
Palin was asked about Johnston during an interview with television host Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday.
Referencing Johnston’s photo shoot with Playgirl magazine, Palin said “some of the things that he is doing is kind of heartbreaking.”
“I call that porn,” Palin said of the magazine shoot. ”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29571.html
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And as Palin prepares to launch her book tomorrow, she’s apparently loose with the truth. Who knew?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sarah-palin-angers-mccain-aides-rogue/story? id=9090753
November 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
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6 out of 10 people think Palin is not qualified to be president:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/11/sarah-palin-rogue-for-pres ident.html
November 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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So, 40% think that she is qualified. That’s a scary percentage.
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OMG! Like, Sarah wants to “Friend” me, you betcha!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/16/continetti.palin.facebook/index. html
Continetti praises Sarah for her ability to learn technology and take advantage, and laments the sadness of her not getting credit for it.
uhm, pretty sure anyone could learn Facebook, especially if they were unemployed and sitting around the house eating Taco Bell and surfing the net.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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Sorta like Herpes………..
November 15th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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At least with Herpes you’ve had some fun for starters….
November 15th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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November 15th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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i better have had a DAMN good time to get herpes from someone….
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EVERYTHING she does hurts the GnoP.
And that is a GOOD thing, as Martha Stewart would say. Go ahead, Tundra-tart – put your interests before your party. Just remember how much you helped NY-23 turn blue.
Besides – she’s even funnier than Mr. Potato(e)-head, Dan Quayle. And just as good for her party.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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Wonder how is Latin lessons went for next time he “Visited Latin America”… bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh……. over here, we never realised he was as thick as a brick, we just thought he was being ironical and brilliant at satire..
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“How Sarah Palin Made Herself Indispensable While Destroying the Republican Party”
By Max Blumenthal
“The answer lies beyond the realm of polls and punditry in the political psychology of the movement that animates and, to a great degree, controls, the Republican grassroots — a uniquely evangelical subculture defined by the personal crises of its believers and their perceived persecution at the hands of cosmopolitan elites.
By emphasizing her own crises and her victimization by the “liberal media,” Palin has established an invisible, indissoluble bond with adherents of that subculture — so visceral it transcends any rational political analysis. As a result, her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders — and followers — not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl who parachuted into their backwater towns to lift them from the drudgery of everyday life, assuring them that they represented the “Real America.”
http://tomdispatch.com/post/175139/max_blumenthal_how_palin_became_a_r ogue
November 15th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
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she’s the girl repube women want to be, and the girl repube men want to—well…you know…..
problem is she’s NOT really that girl….she’s a disingenous, lying sack of shit who will flirt and flaunt her ignorance as high as her ass and her aspirations will take her….
it’s called the party of “me”!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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and then when she gets called out on her MANY, MANY mis-speaks/errors/misunderstandings/LIES, then it’s the mean-ol’-liberal-media attacking her again…..
November 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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Professional victim.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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“she’s a disingenous, lying sack of shit who will flirt and flaunt her ignorance as high as her ass and her aspirations will take her”
but that’s precisely why they do love her, kitty.
they know she’s a lying self-serving hypocritical greedy low-life with all kinds of ugly baggage … seeing her succeed helps them to justify their own judgmental immorality and fake lives
November 15th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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November 15th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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i forgot about the repube’s first commandment….
“thou shalt be a fucking hypocrite.” aka “do as i say, not what i do.”
YOUR kids should be abstinent, while MY kid gets knocked up twice (that we know about)….
November 15th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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“a disingenous, lying sack of shit who will flirt and flaunt her ignorance as high as her ass and her aspirations will take her”
kk!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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November 15th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
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you know, i’m kinda embarrased to admit this, but i literally just noticed in your avatar that george clooney was holding a pug….
i don’t know if that says more about me or says more about george clooney….
or maybe it says more about you since i’m usually distracted reading your shit….
whatever…
thought i’d share…
November 15th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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I think it’s just because of your poor tired eyes…don’t be sorry!
November 15th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
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yes, these poor tired eyes aren’t what they used to be…
and they weren’t much to start with….
oh well….
i shall go cry now and perhaps drown my sorrows in some libation…..
or maybe i should just rest for good…
oh, i don’t know….
i’m sorry to have said this…
November 15th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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sorry for, you know, like suggesting suicide on an anonymous blog…
November 15th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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Liz Cheney discussing Palin this a.m. on FUX News, hinting a possible “Cheney 2012″ presidential run
(check out LiverLips still crushin’ on Sarah) 
November 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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I don’t even think about Palin, but Liz Cheney scares me. Truly, she is a chip off the old block. Nastier tho’ because she is a woman & you know what they say about woman being the more vicious of the two.
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“In what reads like payback for McCain aides’ disparaging comments about her in the wake of the ticket’s loss to Barack Obama, Ms. Palin depicts the McCain campaign as overscripted, defeatist, disorganized and dunder-headed — slow to shift focus from the Iraq war to the cratering economy, insufficiently tough on Mr. Obama and contradictory in its media strategy. She also claims that the campaign billed her nearly $50,000 for “having been vetted.” The vetting, which was widely criticized in the press as being cursory and rushed, was, she insists, “thorough”: they knew “exactly what they’re getting.”
Some of Ms. Palin’s loudest complaints in this volume are directed at the McCain campaign’s chief strategist, Steve Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt, ironically enough, was one of the aides to most forcefully make the case for putting her on the ticket in the first place, arguing to his boss, as Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson reported in their recent book “The Battle for America,” that she would shake up the race and help him get his “reform mojo back.” Robert Draper reported in The New York Times Magazine that neither Mr. Schmidt nor Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, apparently saw Ms. Palin’s “lack of familiarity with major national or international issues as a serious liability,” and that Mr. McCain, a former Navy pilot, saw the idea of upending the chessboard as a maverick kind of move.
All in all, Ms. Palin emerges from “Going Rogue” as an eager player in the blame game, thoroughly ungrateful toward the McCain campaign for putting her on the national stage. As for the McCain campaign, it often feels like a desperate and cynical operation, willing to make a risky Hail Mary pass in order to try to score a tactical win, instead of making a considered judgment as to who might be genuinely qualified to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/15book.html?_r=1
November 15th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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If Sarah really is planning to run for office again, I highly doubt it will be as a Republican Party candidate
November 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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She did not write that, her ghost writer did. She doesn’t have the brains for that sophistry.
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McInsane urges townhall klan to “cut up their AARP cards.”
http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&a rticleID=34627
Fuqtard!
November 15th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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Coming for a man who has received government paid health care since the day he was born…
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WTF??? …hillary is open to a coffee summit with miss-moose?
the faux-18-million-cracks have hit the fan!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091115/pl_nm/us_clinton_palin_1
November 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
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She should send Amy Poehler in for her.
November 15th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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What else could she say when asked??? “C’mon give me a break, I’d rather chat to a 13 year old kid with her head in the clouds……. oh, wait…”
Personally, I think Clinton would secretly relish the thought of having a public debate over coffee with Palin…… the words Mop and Floor spring to mind……., “So, Sarah, I have such and such qualifications… good college results… … career as a lawyer…. served as Senator in New York…. travelled the World as First Lady…. now serving as Sec. of State for the most powerful Nation on earth…………………………. and vous?….. speak up Sarah… can’t hear… Wassillly what?…… you can play the flute…….. fancy pageant walk???? Okkaaaay….. cream and sugar??”
November 15th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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Education = BAD! Turns ya’ atheist with all the facty sciencey crap
New York = Really Bad! Den of librul leetust evil!
Travel = fine, only if it’s on someone else’s dime
November 15th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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Oops, I stand corrected….. silly me!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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Hillary was being diplomatic nothing more…Had she said otherwise the msm would taken issue with it…
November 15th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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Eggsaxly Bertie, that’s what I’ve said… great minds think alike (Or is it ”fools never differ!!!” )
She could not say anything else, but I still think she would like to have a go at her….. she’d play her like a cat with a mouse… then with one swipe of her claw, kill the bitch !!!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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There is nothing to gain by taking a person beneath her intellectually…What would be to the point other than feed the msm…Sarah in no match for Hillary…
November 15th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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I know……. it was the evil side of me… the practical,politically astute side agrees with you… but my evil side… and I’m sure Hilary’s fantasy would lurrrrrve it… BWahahahahahahahahaha…
Forgive me… it’s the start of “Panto Season” over here, and I’m getting in the mood to jeer at the baddies!!!!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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I understand, you don’t have to explain…
November 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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OOps … solly…. hey , Panto season… I revert to being a 5 year old… oh wait a minute……
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re: how GD close we came……
indulge me, please…..
November 15th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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That was hilarious…. true too!!!
Loved the polar bear….awwww..
Hey Kitty…
Message from “‘ ‘im indoors”….. to say Hi from him, as he can’t seem to catch you on here… so from Indy
November 15th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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meant to comment on his latest toon but have been a little busy….
once i slip out this mary poppins get up i’ll be back to my dirrrty ol’ ways….with him and you!
November 15th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
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SSSSSSSSSSooooooooooo look forward to that!!!!
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LittleGreenFootballs had this to offer, regarding Palin’s dislike of the sciencey things:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35144_Palin_Proudly_Owns_Her_C reationism
November 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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Yup Yup! I’m surprised she didn’t just come out and say “I didn’t come from no monkey like that evil family in the Whitehouse”
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With all that hem-hawing, I’m amazed that Katie was able to keep a straight face.
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
just goes to show how important one little voice on one (then) little blog can be
November 15th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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Fantastic!!!
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This is so funny, CNN just had one of their panelists recount a story of meeting a (woman) friend on the street in NY on the upper east side, and halfway down the block she was saying loudly “I hate her. I hate her, I just hate HER!” And he knew immediately whom she was talking about.
I had the same conversation with my mum on the phone! Maybe this is the hidden benefit of the Palin Tour, she gives libs the kick in the arse we need to remind us how GD close we came to having her in the #2 spot. And McGrumps in the oval office.
Keep that thought close.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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ygm
November 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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❤ Good find!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
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I’ll give her this: Nothing energizes both BASES like Sarah.
that’s some kind of power!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
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She’s not energizing the left..She’s providing us with an endless source of amusement…Power, I don’t think so…
November 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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As we say over her she”Adds to the gaiety of the Nation.”
November 15th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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Great saying!
November 15th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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Yes. Amen and all them kind of words.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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For your pain, kit.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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Sweet thing.
Actually it doesn’t hurt all that much which confirms my suspicions of a bruised bone. We shall see.
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thanks for the laughs!!!
i heart tina fey!! 
while i want miss-moose to go away, since SHE’s choosing to stay in the spotlight and exploit the liberal media, i REALLY want levi to spill the beans about trigg not being sarah’s baby and any other family secrets….
naw….really just the trigg baby issue….i don’t care about her meth-addicted eldest son (track) that got sent away to the military IMMEDIATELY when the campaign started….
the trigg-baby issue is the one that i can’t seem to let go…..nine months pregnant (yet NOBODY KNEW ABOUT IT) and you fly from alaska to texas….go into “labor” :cough: in TX and get back on the plane to fly back to AK…..but oh wait, you don’t go to a hospital or to the same doctor that birthed your first four kids….you instead go into some back woods log cabin with a mid-wife…. even though this is a high-risk pregnancy with a special needs baby…..
sorry….can’t let it go…..i want this lie to be exposed….
i’m countin’ on you, levi….
November 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
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That is one bizarre chain of events, kitty.
Stay on that and keep us posted!!
November 15th, 2009 at 11:17 am
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forgot to add that bristol was mysteriously taken out of school for several months and and was MIA….
then magically re-appeared AFTER trigg was born…..
this has been documented……no conspiracy theory there….
November 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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ah, yes, the old “mono” story
and don’t forget about the little 17 y/o cutie-pie basketball star whose MySpace was a virtual Love Shrine to Bristol and their Love Child.
obviously, that kid got disappeared
November 15th, 2009 at 11:18 am
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and hi,
November 15th, 2009 at 11:19 am
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November 15th, 2009 at 11:20 am
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i’ll check now…..
November 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am
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November 15th, 2009 at 11:27 am
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Great to see you,
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Sarah’s Facebook entry re 9/11 defendants: “Hang ‘em High”
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/obama-administrations-atroci ous-decision/173486643434
November 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am
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Sick Sick Sick.
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Good piece in Politico about the book tour goals, this one seems to be a focus:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29509_Page2.html
Andy Barr is not too bad as far as the Politicos go.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
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here she is on Facebook this a.m. blaming the media
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=174541533434
November 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
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Ugh.
Same shite, new day.