The Clown Princess Tweets
I can’t wait until she is President.
August 18, 2010 7:06 pm
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Starbursts, Teabagger Stupidity
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147 Responses
maya - August 18, 2010 | 7:08 pm · Link
I just did an eye roll.
Cacti - August 18, 2010 | 7:09 pm · Link
I’m going to guess she meant “gaggle”.
maya - August 18, 2010 | 7:09 pm · Link
Wait! No I didn’t.
JamesC - August 18, 2010 | 7:09 pm · Link
“Cackle?” Is that the right term for it?
Singular issue, huh? Well, we can’t really be expecting Palin to interest herself in the actual and legitimate complaints and counterpoints of others. It’d be a distraction from her cult of personality~
dmsilev - August 18, 2010 | 7:11 pm · Link
Google tells me that a cackle is, among other definitions, the collective noun for a group of hyenas. Would seem to apply nicely to Sarah and her followers. Ironic, even.
dms
TooManyJens - August 18, 2010 | 7:11 pm · Link
@JamesC:
Sarah Palin is the GOP’s revenge against those of us who made fun of the way W murdered the English language.
“Oh yeah? See how you like this!”
jrg - August 18, 2010 | 7:12 pm · Link
Is a cackle of rads like a grumble of morons?
AhabTRuler, V - August 18, 2010 | 7:12 pm · Link
@dmsilev: I sure she didn’t mean that.
freelancer - August 18, 2010 | 7:13 pm · Link
Ha!
dmsilev - August 18, 2010 | 7:14 pm · Link
@AhabTRuler, V: Meaning is so passe.
dms
FLRealist - August 18, 2010 | 7:14 pm · Link
Clown princess – how apt.
jimBOB - August 18, 2010 | 7:15 pm · Link
If there were no ignorant wingnuts spewing stupidity then the language would be poorer. Aside from Palinisms like “refudiate” we’ve also had a bounty of crap like “the toobs” or “the internets” or “the Google,” not to mention “misunderestimate” or “strategery.” Now Sarah has given us a new singular coinage: “a cackle of rads.”
These bozos may have started multiple pointless wars, sunk the economy, and destroyed the atmosphere, but they’ve delivered up piles of original neologisms.
AhabTRuler, V - August 18, 2010 | 7:16 pm · Link
@TooManyJens:
Oh, good christ! Everyone stop making fun of Bushes prezidentin’ or we’re doomed!
DOOOOOOOOOOMED!
@jimBOB:
I’ll risk the trade-off, really.
And Another Thing... - August 18, 2010 | 7:17 pm · Link
eeeegads…. Sarah does performance art…cackle of rads…
meanwhile…back on earth, The last “combat troops” are driving out of Iraq into Kuwait.
damn. I know there are some 50K troops still in Iraq, but this is a flicker of what it felt like when Viet Nam was over.
Ash Can - August 18, 2010 | 7:17 pm · Link
I can’t even tell what the fuck she’s trying to say.
Allison W. - August 18, 2010 | 7:17 pm · Link
Can’t we forget this stupid bitch today?
MikeJ - August 18, 2010 | 7:18 pm · Link
@jimBOB:
As the Seattle Times said, Senator Stevens certain made an impact.
Derelict - August 18, 2010 | 7:18 pm · Link
Just remember how we all misunderestimated Bush—and what an awesomester preznit he turned out to be!
Allison W. - August 18, 2010 | 7:19 pm · Link
Crucify? wow, she loves playing the victim.
El Tiburon - August 18, 2010 | 7:19 pm · Link
Don’t sell Palin short.
Last time this happened the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
She’s got more brains in her entire head than most people do in the entire tip of their pinky finger.
She will simply demesicate anyone she plays in Scrabble. By my McEstimate, she has invented at least 200,000 new words arleady.
DCPlod - August 18, 2010 | 7:20 pm · Link
OK, Sarah, you can make the collective noun for ‘rad’ feminists a ‘cackle’, if we can make the collective noun for your family ‘a trailer’.
Chyron HR - August 18, 2010 | 7:20 pm · Link
What… what the fuck is a “rad”?
EDIT: Oh, I see, it’s short for “radical”. Brilliant.
JamesC - August 18, 2010 | 7:20 pm · Link
@MikeJ:
Dammit, I nearly snorted water out of my nose. Ice-cold water! Would’ve bloody stung, and it would’ve been your fault. Consider yourself lucky.
freelancer - August 18, 2010 | 7:20 pm · Link
@MikeJ:
Don’t know if that was intentional or not, but [golf clap] to you, sir.
General Stuck - August 18, 2010 | 7:21 pm · Link
Me neither. Wonder if she will legalize shooting liberals from a helicopter?
mslarry - August 18, 2010 | 7:21 pm · Link
No idea what the fuck she’s even saying, but she makes me so stabby that i rolled my eyes so hard i’m pretty sure I sprained them.
Violet - August 18, 2010 | 7:21 pm · Link
A cackle of rads? Does that mean we can call her family “a murder of Palins”?
El Tiburon - August 18, 2010 | 7:22 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
She ain’t stuttering. Maybe yore ears are a flapping.
Villago Delenda Est - August 18, 2010 | 7:22 pm · Link
@El Tiburon:
Last time this happened the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
Thread over. El Tiburon wins!
Bob L - August 18, 2010 | 7:24 pm · Link
So a woman who almost became president of the United States because of the lust crazed judgment of octogenarian considers herself a feminist?
TuiMel - August 18, 2010 | 7:24 pm · Link
Hey! I am a member of that cackle of rads! I want a tee shirt…
PS: In truth, it is Sarah and her ilk who would like to hijack “feminist” and define it as they wish.
Annie - August 18, 2010 | 7:25 pm · Link
Maybe she thinks it is “ironic and passe” to speak good English. She truly is the GOP’s secret weapon. In negotiations with other governments, they will give in just to shut her up. Given how she talks and writes, they won’t even know what they agreed too.
The irony is that if it wasn’t for the women’s movement, she will still be home in Wasila waiting for her man to come home with the fish.
I still haven’t recovered from her recent twitter where she equated state-sponsored terror—overtaking the Bosnian enclave Sbrenica—with a group of Muslim Americans wanting to build a community center in NY. As someone who was in Tuzla at the time and helped the survivors, mostly women, young girls, and babies, with food, housing, and medical care, this utterly stupid, insensitive, and absurd twit still pisses me off.
matoko_chan - August 18, 2010 | 7:26 pm · Link
poor grandmaw grizzly.
her neck is looking very crepey.
is there such a thing as neck botox?
she can’t be a feminist unless she supports reproductive choice for women, poor sad bighaired mallbangs pageantspeak dimbo. i kinda want to see her run….just to see her get shut down again by all the 80s hairbands she fancied.
if america had chavs, she would be one.
oh…..btw…my guy friends said AllahP needs to disabuse himself of the MILF thing…..Palin is a GILF.
and they’d rather die.
Chat Noir - August 18, 2010 | 7:26 pm · Link
@Ash Can: Same here. I read that stupid thing twice and I don’t know what it means. I’ve never been good at understanding gibberish.
Warren Terra - August 18, 2010 | 7:26 pm · Link
@El Tiburon:
I’m with Ash Can here. Since you’re so in tune, maybe you could translate for us?
TuiMel - August 18, 2010 | 7:27 pm · Link
@AhabTRuler, V:
It matters not. By tomorrow she will be writing a “cackle of hyenas” on the palm of her hand.
matoko_chan - August 18, 2010 | 7:30 pm · Link
Tosh.0 just ripped on her.
pretty sweet.
TuiMel - August 18, 2010 | 7:31 pm · Link
@DCPlod:
Why not simply “a ‘trash’ of Palins”?
Joshua Norton - August 18, 2010 | 7:34 pm · Link
Koko love tickle here apple.
DougJ - August 18, 2010 | 7:35 pm · Link
Can a brother get a fly in his chardonnay?
Irony - August 18, 2010 | 7:35 pm · Link
I’m dead. Game over man, game over.
Anya - August 18, 2010 | 7:36 pm · Link
I bet her facebook ghost writer will soon tell us that the wasilla nitwit was brilliantly using “cackle” in the right context.
El Tiburon - August 18, 2010 | 7:38 pm · Link
@Warren Terra:
What do you think she’s trying to say, you morans?
What she’s trying to say is, “Let’s Dance!” -cue “Anyway You Want it” by Journey, now get your Caddyshack groove on.
Holla!
JenJen - August 18, 2010 | 7:39 pm · Link
@DougJ: Can a sister get a knife? It’s like I’ve got 10,000 spoons over here.
jl - August 18, 2010 | 7:39 pm · Link
I guess I am slower than most.
What is the ‘singular issue’?
Abortion? Equal pay for equal work? Equal educational opportunity? Equal health care access? Bras required at work?
Or do the femiNazi rads have a problem with Cingular phones that I haven’t heard about yet, and Palin had a typo?
Trolls please note: I have sympathy for peoples’ typos, so don’t taz me, bro!
Probably the last. I am always out of the loop on important breaking issues.
MikeJ - August 18, 2010 | 7:39 pm · Link
@DougJ: All this time I thought you’d been getting a free ride here, but it turns out you’ve already paid.
El Cid - August 18, 2010 | 7:39 pm · Link
What the hell kind of gay French word is “passe”? I don’t think Real Americans use those sorts of Eastern Establishment words.
DougJ - August 18, 2010 | 7:41 pm · Link
@JenJen:
Win.
I had forgotten that one.
freelancer - August 18, 2010 | 7:41 pm · Link
@MikeJ:
I met the man of my dreams today, and then his beautiful wife.
Mister Papercut - August 18, 2010 | 7:42 pm · Link
I call shenanigans: no way, no how did Miss Refudiate tweet the word passé with the correct accented ‘e’ and use the obscure collective noun for a group of witches or hyenas. Someone obsessed with language would, sure, but not this harpy git.
jl - August 18, 2010 | 7:42 pm · Link
@El Cid: The aide who types up these things will probably get a stern talking to.
Mumphrey - August 18, 2010 | 7:43 pm · Link
Well, geese come in gaggles. Presumably, witches come in cackles. Maybe she’s saying that these rads are witches. Makes as much sense to me as anything else she might have meant…
suzanne - August 18, 2010 | 7:43 pm · Link
@Allison W.:
Fixed.
El Tiburon - August 18, 2010 | 7:44 pm · Link
@El Cid:
I think that is what Levi calls Bristol’s little moose knuckle.
What? Too soon?
p.a. - August 18, 2010 | 7:44 pm · Link
Obviously she meant ‘gaggle’, although I believe some of the proper terms are: ‘soviet of rads’, ‘bedlam of Palins’, ‘putsch of Republicans’, ‘invertebrate of Democrats’...
Apparently Norm Crosby is still alive. Possibly the only way to stop the Palin bandwagon would be if he sues her for stealing his schtick.
morzer - August 18, 2010 | 7:46 pm · Link
@DCPlod:
What’s wrong with “cluster-fuck”?
suzanne - August 18, 2010 | 7:47 pm · Link
God. Another post in which I’d have the argue that words, and what they mean, matter. That is, if I wasn’t sick to death of this fuckin’ moron.
morzer - August 18, 2010 | 7:49 pm · Link
@Violet:
I still think “a cluster-fuck of Palins” catches all the nuances of that bizarre and repellent clan best. Anyway, I think the crow family might be a tad miffed at this unwanted association. They got the “murder” collective noun first.
jl - August 18, 2010 | 7:50 pm · Link
I think the thought expressed in proper Palin dialect would go something like:
“Any 1 notice the passéd hijacking feminists have done, crucifyingly disagreeing others who simply utter their 1st AM RIGHTS on singularity issues of note all this time?”
Gravenstone - August 18, 2010 | 7:50 pm · Link
What the flying fuckety fuck is a “cackle of rads”?
FlyingToaster - August 18, 2010 | 7:51 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
To quote Inigo Montoya:
Of course, in this instance, it applies to every word she tweets. Including “and” and “the.
Sheila - August 18, 2010 | 7:52 pm · Link
What would a flock of Palins be called? A murder of Palins? A pustule of Palins? Would the collective of vipers be a Palin of vipers?
morzer - August 18, 2010 | 7:52 pm · Link
@Sheila:
A cluster-fuck of Palins?
Mark S. - August 18, 2010 | 7:53 pm · Link
I love this Tweet:
They doctor those pictures to make it look all pretty, when in reality it’s a shithole that would look better with a bunch of drills and pipelines!
ETA: Sorry to inflict more Palin tweets on everybody, but I was trying to get some context to the original one. I guess this is Palin’s way of celebrating the anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Mister Papercut - August 18, 2010 | 7:53 pm · Link
@morzer:
Yes, but if I’m in polite company, I go with “a shed of tools.”
morzer - August 18, 2010 | 7:55 pm · Link
@Mister Papercut:
A tool-shed of Palins? A brain-fart of Palins?
Mountain Laurel - August 18, 2010 | 7:56 pm · Link
@TuiMel: Unfortunately, they’ve already hijacked it.
Allison W. - August 18, 2010 | 7:57 pm · Link
@suzanne:
LOL!! you are so right. that is my ultimate wish.
Sheila - August 18, 2010 | 7:57 pm · Link
And were it not for that cackle of rads, Ms. Palin would never have been governor of Alaska.
scav - August 18, 2010 | 7:58 pm · Link
When Todd and I and our groundswell of random nounspawn drive into the sunrise on the great freeways of liberty in this our country of Alaska, we passés on the right. also.
(nah, can’t manage it. I blame kindergarten.)
Elias Isquith - August 18, 2010 | 7:58 pm · Link
@Ash Can: My sentiments exactly. My overriding emotion in response to this has not been anger or offense or indifference – it’s been pure confusion, with perhaps a tinge of sleepiness.
Bill Murray - August 18, 2010 | 7:59 pm · Link
I thought the proper term was a Roentgen of rads, although I suppose Curie of rads would also be acceptable
JGabriel - August 18, 2010 | 7:59 pm · Link
Cacti:
I think she meant “cackle of centigrays“.
Geek humor! Get it? Cause, like, a rad has been obsoleted out by centi...
(Pause.)
Sorry. Never mind.
.
Comrade Kevin - August 18, 2010 | 7:59 pm · Link
Perhaps her comment will make more sense you think of a “rad” like this.
Or not.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal - August 18, 2010 | 8:01 pm · Link
This thread is staying disturbingly on-topic. Can we get an open thread?
freelancer - August 18, 2010 | 8:01 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
@Comrade Kevin:
Wow, just wow, fellas.
scav - August 18, 2010 | 8:02 pm · Link
@JGabriel: pat pat don’t worry, I keep seeing, or rather hearing, the sounds that come about of a Geiger counter and that isn’t even half as clever as yours.
Taterstick - August 18, 2010 | 8:02 pm · Link
It’s obvious – Trig is in charge of Caribou Barbie’s Twitter account.
Martin - August 18, 2010 | 8:03 pm · Link
@jrg: I think it’s more like a sphincter of conservatives.
YellowJournalism - August 18, 2010 | 8:05 pm · Link
I swear that I didn’t see who tweeted this when I started reading it, so when I saw the “Who hijacked term: “feminist”?” part, I thought, “Stupid hags like Sarah Palin that don’t know what it truly means to be a feminist.” Then I read the rest of the tweet, saw who wrote it, and thought, “Case in point.”
Joseph Nobles - August 18, 2010 | 8:08 pm · Link
Surely Democrats gather in trembles.
And witches gather in covens where they then cackle.
scav - August 18, 2010 | 8:08 pm · Link
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Is it possible disdain should die or go off-topic while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signiorina Palinista?
Bruce (formerly Steve S.) - August 18, 2010 | 8:09 pm · Link
Whatever Turing machine generated this tweet has failed, because I don’t recognize this as human conversation.
Restrung - August 18, 2010 | 8:09 pm · Link
she has the electrolytes we need? I don’t get that either. (the .jpg alt-text)
Mark S. - August 18, 2010 | 8:10 pm · Link
@Restrung:
I think it’s a reference to Idiocracy.
bemused - August 18, 2010 | 8:11 pm · Link
Seeing or hearing her gives me a headache in two seconds and I rarely get headaches. Thinking of seeing and hearing her if she was president gives me a massive migraine.
Grisha - August 18, 2010 | 8:14 pm · Link
can’t say I saw that “whom” coming
Martin - August 18, 2010 | 8:14 pm · Link
I don’t know about you guys, but this steady diet of word salad by the Moose Queen makes me suspicious that we’re seeing some kind of twitter tea-party/mama-grizzley shibboleth. This has to be deliberate.
60th Street - August 18, 2010 | 8:16 pm · Link
@Sheila: A pageant of Palins
Restrung - August 18, 2010 | 8:17 pm · Link
OHH. Brawndo. That movie needs a sequel set in fall of 08. Or 10. Can’t see how a professional writer could write such a thing, tho.
JGabriel - August 18, 2010 | 8:17 pm · Link
Joseph Nobles:
So, anyway, a cackle of feminists, a tremble of Democrats, and a dildo of Republicans are sitting at a bar. The bartender turns to the dildo and says, “Hey fellas, why the long face?”
.
PurpleGirl - August 18, 2010 | 8:18 pm · Link
Where the hell did she learn English… face/palm.
As Olbermann says: She’s an idiot.
Restrung - August 18, 2010 | 8:18 pm · Link
@60th Street: Yeah, I like it.
Martin - August 18, 2010 | 8:19 pm · Link
@Restrung: Oh, nothing that Ken Burns couldn’t handle.
PurpleGirl - August 18, 2010 | 8:20 pm · Link
@jrg: I like that—“a grumble of morons”.
Montysano - August 18, 2010 | 8:22 pm · Link
How did my beloved Rads get mixed up in this mess?
Mister Papercut - August 18, 2010 | 8:22 pm · Link
Isn’t it ironic,
Don’t ya think?
It’s like Palin
In your VP slot,
It’s calling it a mosque
When you know that it’s not,
It’s pretending
She’s capable of deep thought,
And who woulda thought? It figures…
J.W. Hamner - August 18, 2010 | 8:23 pm · Link
@El Cid:
And why does she know the ASCII code for e with an acute accent? Whoever writes her tweets is going to blow their cover!
Cat Lady - August 18, 2010 | 8:23 pm · Link
@Sheila:
A crookery of grifters.
A quittery of retards.
Ruckus - August 18, 2010 | 8:25 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
That’s OK she can’t tell what she’s saying either.
Comrade Mary - August 18, 2010 | 8:31 pm · Link
Y’all need to chill. Here, listen to some Justin Bieber.
(No, seriously, this is AWESOME ambient music that starts with a Bieber single but gets stretched to 8 times its length by a kid from Florida and ends up sounding like Eno, This Mortal Coil and/or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Or, as someone here said, “like Sigur Rós doing Vangelis covers in a cathedral being washed away by the sea”.
Restrung - August 18, 2010 | 8:32 pm · Link
pageant of Palins— Besides momma being a shittty governor for a little while, they’re only slightly more successful than the Balloon Boy family. And the helicopters weren’t laughing; they were killing wolves!
gelfling545 - August 18, 2010 | 8:32 pm · Link
@TuiMel: Oh yes, a t shirt, please. I would send the woman a dictionary if I thought she could read it. Words have meanings, Sarah, even those that end in ist.
Comrade Mary - August 18, 2010 | 8:33 pm · Link
WHY CAN’T I LINK HERE ANY MORE? WHY IS MY PREVIOUS COMMENT IN MODERATION? I AM CRYING NOW SO, SO HARD! DON’T LEAVE ME IN A WORLD WHERE PALIN SHRIEKS AND GULPS ON MY EARS FOREVER!
Test link.
EDIT: OK, I can link, but not anything related to Justin Bieber. (Those of you who have been paying attention for the past couple of days know that this isn’t as terrifying as you might think). Or maybe I just can’t make TWO links.
Belvoir - August 18, 2010 | 8:36 pm · Link
Agreeing with Mister Papercut and others, that accent mark on “passè” is mightily suspicious. One might say, un-American. Let’s blow this up into a controversy.
Comrade Mary - August 18, 2010 | 8:36 pm · Link
Grr.
Baby otter learns how to swim.
Otters holding hands.
EDIT: I can make 2 links, but not to what I want. I give up.
PurpleGirl - August 18, 2010 | 8:37 pm · Link
@Bill Murray: Subdued LOL. Clever boy.
p.a. - August 18, 2010 | 8:39 pm · Link
If she gets the Republican nomination her pick for veep may be the most important decision in this country since the choice to fire on Sumpter, just on the chance she wins. It would be like Nixon’s last days from her day 1 in office. They’ll have to take the choice out of her hands a la Cheney-Bush. Could you imagine Palin-Bachmann? I better get working on that Italian citizenship I qualify for because of my grandparents.
beltane - August 18, 2010 | 8:42 pm · Link
@p.a.: Me too. I’d rather deal with Berlusconi and his mountains of burning garbage than with the USA under a Palin presidency. I am not kidding.
Paris - August 18, 2010 | 8:43 pm · Link
Did she graduate junior high?
Menzies - August 18, 2010 | 8:49 pm · Link
@Mister Papercut:
I think if we’re really expecting any politician to do his/her own tweets (except possibly Pete Hoekstra) we might as well put up our hands and admit to the ponies as well.
Restrung - August 18, 2010 | 8:49 pm · Link
Thanks, McCain. you fukker.
piratedan - August 18, 2010 | 8:51 pm · Link
I don’t know which is worse…what she says or the possibility that she actually believes what she says.
Anne Laurie - August 18, 2010 | 8:51 pm · Link
@jrg:
Or a yap of TPers.
Anyone who thinks Palin is doing her own tweets is… almost as dumb as Sarah Palin. But not as crafty.
catclub - August 18, 2010 | 8:52 pm · Link
@Comrade Mary:
if it is a reply to another comment, that is a third link – WP no likee.
Mark S. - August 18, 2010 | 8:53 pm · Link
@Comrade Mary:
I just heard of him yesterday. Best I can tell, he’s some 10 year old singing sensation moppet. I feel like I’m completely missing out on an important cultural phenomenon.
Zach - August 18, 2010 | 8:56 pm · Link
It’s not ironic at all to want to crucify women and abort pregnancies. Unless she means it’s ironic to want to protect women’s rights by crucifying them. She should clarify. Either way, I suspect she’s misreading the first clause in constructing the second. Pre-semi-colon Sarah Palin spoke of metaphorical crucifixions.
Comrade Mary - August 18, 2010 | 8:56 pm · Link
@catclub: Nope, I’ve been caught by that before, so my post in moderation really only has two links.
What the hell. I’ll try again.
Leap of faith time.
EDIT: Woo-hoo! It worked!
Anne Laurie - August 18, 2010 | 9:00 pm · Link
@morzer:
For peak Palinosity, you’d have to go with “A fustercluck of Palins”.
Also, I will note that the official terms are ‘a murder of crows’ but ‘an unkindness of ravens’. Guess ravens are big enough that it pays to be polite about them!
JenJen - August 18, 2010 | 9:06 pm · Link
Uhhh, I think Cole might have posted this a tad too soon. Check out Sarah’s latest tweets:
Ummmm…. ok, and:
I mean, just…. wow.
demo woman - August 18, 2010 | 9:10 pm · Link
I’m sure she meant…...................fill in the blank. Mrs. Family Values has no idea what she meant so why should we worry about it.
GregB - August 18, 2010 | 9:11 pm · Link
This is just another collective liberal stab in the heart of the heartland by those east coast and west coast elitists who mock the middle America of applie pie and Jim Crow and the free market way of life that we all hold sacred and near and dear to our families and way of life of capitalism and free markets that are being threatened by the gay communists who laugh all the way to the athiestic banks of moral decay.
maus - August 18, 2010 | 9:12 pm · Link
118: I hope someone gets screenshots before those are inevitably removed.
Zach - August 18, 2010 | 9:16 pm · Link
@JenJen: I’m keeping tabs on off-hand twitter comments that will doom 2012 Presidential runs. Newt can say goodbye to a large percentage of the Latino vote solely based on his bigotry re: Sotomayor. Defending someone’s right to say “nigger nigger nigger” while taunting a black person … probably disqualifying. Any other ones?
matoko_chan - August 18, 2010 | 9:18 pm · Link
@TuiMel: a trailerpark of palins.
JenJen - August 18, 2010 | 9:24 pm · Link
@Zach: It’s almost as if she’s telegraphing that she’s dying to go on TV and say the “N” word a few dozen times herself, honestly.
Also? Since when does the 1st Amendment guarantee all Americans the right to their own radio show, and the right to be immune from all criticism about the words they use? It’s just unfuckingbelievable to me.
She’s really stepped in it this time. And she tweeted that while combat troops (including her own son, I imagine) were withdrawing from Iraq. She’d rather praise Dr. Laura. It really says a lot about who we’re dealing with.
mslarry - August 18, 2010 | 9:25 pm · Link
@JenJen:
according to conservatives… the first amendment means their right to say offensive fucked up shit and not be held accountable.
in the real world, we understand that it’s all about her beloved “free markets” at work. sponsors pulled out b/c they could no longer make $ by advertising on “Dr Laura’s” fucked up show. sigh… why isn’t this obvious?
if she’s president in 2012 i’m outta here… off to amsterdam, at least there will be copious amounts of legal pot. though as a transplanted new yorker, i’ll miss the the LA Kogi truck, but the lack of Korean beef tacos will be a small price to pay.
JenJen - August 18, 2010 | 9:27 pm · Link
@maus:
Roger Ebert was all over it, and quickly:
http://twitpic.com/2g12ok
Zach - August 18, 2010 | 9:28 pm · Link
@JenJen: “It’s almost as if she’s telegraphing that she’s dying to go on TV and say the “N” word a few dozen times herself, honestly.”
I have to admit that would rally the base.
Mark S. - August 18, 2010 | 9:31 pm · Link
@JenJen:
Shit, I forgot her son was in the military. I hardly expect her to remember, considering how busy she is.
And hell, were any black people ever going to vote for Sarah in a million years? I’ve never seen a person of color at any of her rallies. Her base makes the tea party seem diverse.
Mark S. - August 18, 2010 | 9:31 pm · Link
@Zach:
That it would.
Zuzu's Petals - August 18, 2010 | 9:34 pm · Link
@FLRealist:
I prefer Mad Sow myself.
Rick Taylor - August 18, 2010 | 9:37 pm · Link
It would make sense Sarah Palin would admire Dr. Laura. Like her, she feels victimized by the left wing. And like her, she quit her job, so she could be more free to do what she wants to. At least Dr. Laura waited for her contract to come up for renewal.
JGabriel - August 18, 2010 | 9:46 pm · Link
maus:
I sent a jpeg of the two twits/tweets to John, Doug, and Anne.
.
Xanthippas - August 18, 2010 | 9:50 pm · Link
Why can’t we just ignore her? She’s not as important politically as everybody seems to think she is, but every liberal tweet/blog post only confirms in her mind and the minds of her followers that she’s the leader of the 28%ers.
Zuzu's Petals - August 18, 2010 | 9:51 pm · Link
@JenJen:
Naw, Track is home drinkin’and huntin’.
Mike in NC - August 18, 2010 | 9:51 pm · Link
@mslarry:
FYI, pot is legal in Prague, one of the most beautiful cities we’ve ever visited. Perhaps not as easy to come by as in Amsterdam, but they have excellent food and that world-class Czech beer. Gorgeous women, also too.
JGabriel - August 18, 2010 | 10:00 pm · Link
JenJen:
Yes, exactly. I’m sure she is. There have been stories? rumors? about Palin trafficking in those kinds of slurs ever since she emerged on the national scene.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Palin’s eager to take it live and national.
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JenJen - August 18, 2010 | 10:02 pm · Link
@Zuzu’s Petals: Ahhh, I was not aware of that. Maybe one of her next tweets will be in support of Ted Nugent’s poaching habits, then?
asiangrrlMN - August 18, 2010 | 10:16 pm · Link
@Comrade Mary: It’s ambi e n t because it contains the sleeping pill.
Fuck you, Palin. No, seriously. You DO NOT get the word feminist, you lying, conniving bitch. You just don’t.
ADM - August 18, 2010 | 10:24 pm · Link
I think y’all are being to hard on Palin’s texter here – dude went out of her/his way to accent “passe,” and use whom. You think the twitter version of Palin pre-”refudiate” would’ve done those things? Plus used a semi-colon? No, that all smacks of trying too hard.
And I think the “cackle of rads” is a shot at how disagreeing women sound, like a “moo of cows” or a “honk of geese” or like a “static of Limbaughs” would sound to us.
mrmcd - August 18, 2010 | 10:25 pm · Link
Huh, and all this time I thought the correct usage was “a cackle of terror babies.”
Comrade Mary - August 18, 2010 | 10:29 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN: D’oh! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Steeplejack - August 18, 2010 | 11:31 pm · Link
I can’t believe she nailed the accent in passé. Who knew she had upper-ASCII-fu?!
Comrade Darkness - August 19, 2010 | 12:13 am · Link
Well, given how vastly overqualified earlier feminists needed to be to break ground in male-centric careers, I guess the fact that this willfully ignorant, barely a mom to her kids dipshit can pull in eight figures a year . . . shows feminism won?
robert green - August 19, 2010 | 3:02 am · Link
i can say with no small amount of pride that my partner and i were behind the emily’s list video to which this refers.
and i love that palin wasn’t able to get her words right. YOU MEAN GAGGLE NOT CACKLE IDIOT.
sigh.
anyway, we’ve got more coming, hope you all enjoy.
debbie - August 19, 2010 | 8:12 am · Link
Palin’s definition of feminism is as anti-feminist as anyone can get. No wonder so many conservative men drool over her.