Plain and simple: Gun Control and Shut Up, Sarah1
Remember that dude who shot his TV because, among other reasons, he doesn’t like Palin, Bristol? (I wrote about him here.) Well, Palin, Sarah mentioned that dude in passing in remarks before Safari Club International in Reno, NV this weekend.
Sarah blathered on to the Safari Club: Non-real Americans are gunning for your guns; and you better keep your eye on the White House because librulz are totally taking your guns while you sleep gunless; and Tucson really sucked because librulz took all your guns and burned them at a gun(bon)fire while a bunch of hippy onlookers played drums. Although, the discussion seems to be focused on getting assault weapons with high capacity magazines off the street, and therefore of little relevance to the muckity mucks at the Safari Club, that didn’t stop Sarah from putting the fear of a Gunless Existence in them. (If any of you Safarians are hunting big game with assault weapons, I’m pretty sure UR DOIN IT RONG. )
After fearmongering for a while, Sarah Palin brought it home with some of her Wasilla-style folksiness:
“Here’s how I figure it. Remember that weird guy in Wisconsin was so angry, so upset, watching a Palin win slot after slot each week on Dancing with the Stars that he shot Bristol through his TV? He blasted his Panasonic? Well, I’m thinking, ‘Imagine more gun control. Then he’d have to attack his Panasonic with a butter knife.'”
Ha ha ha! Ho ho ho! It’s hilarious! Yes, let us imagine more gun control! What would that world look like? Weird right? You betcha! More alive people! Less not alive people! Unpossible! And besides, how will people shoot their TVs when they don’t like reality show results? Clearly, we need more guns (preferably with TV-monitor-piercing bullets).
Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg’s latest sting operation (Gunshow Undercover) demonstrates just how easy it is to purchase a gun in Arizona without a background check:
The investigation came just weeks after a Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured 13 others.
Bloomberg, at a news conference at City Hall, showed several undercover videos of illegal gun sales — including one that showed a “buyer” purchasing an extended magazines like the one allegedly used by Jared Lee Loughner — an at the Phoenix gun show last week.
Loughner, 22, is the man arrested for shooting and injuring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a meet-and-greet with voters three weeks ago outside a Tuscon supermarket.
“We have demonstrated how easy it is for anyone to buy a semiautomatic handgun and a high capacity magazine, no questions asked,” said Bloomberg. “This country must take two simple steps to stop more of the 34 murders that occur with guns every day — make every gun sale subject to a background check, and make sure the background check system has all the required records in it.”
So, to sum up: While folks are trying to figure out a way to keep high capacity automatic weapons off the street in order to curb gun violence, Sarah Palin and Tall is cracking jokes about guns and people with mental health issues using guns to do crazy shit (the dude in Wisconsin was bipolar), and all of this less than a month after the Tucson shootings. Klassy.
She needs to fire her handlers and speechwriters. She’s sounding more and more like a fool with each passing media appearance.
[Video after the jump]
1Actually, I take it back. We need Sarah Palin to keep talking.2 I may not survive another election having to listen to her whiny ass dumbspeak, but it sure would be fun.
2Actually, I take back that take-back. Sarah Palin winning the Republican nomination is too risky for a couple months of blissful schadenfreude. People just might be dumb enough to vote for her, and she might win — especially since she’d be helped by the likes of these assclowns.
[cross-posted here at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
LindaH
Wow! Sarah Palin thinks its funny that someone shot at her daughter, even if it couldn’t hit her? That’s sick and icky and borderline sociopathic. Scary woman.
Violet
Not gonna happen. Sarah can’t admit when she’s wrong. Especially not to herself.
Linda Featheringill
The guy who shot his TV may have bipolar disorder but his one act of violence [against a machine] seemed totally justified to me.
dmsilev
@Violet: That’s assuming that she thinks there’s anything wrong with what she’s doing. It’s entirely possible that we’re seeing the Real Sarah Palin, unplugged and unfiltered.
dms
dr. bloor
The “Gun shows are the wild west of arms sales and imagine that guys who deal in Nazi memorabilia and survivalist literature don’t always require background checks” story is like Santa on the NOAA radar on Christmas Eve. Gets recycled after every lunatic goes off.
Damned at Random
@Linda Featheringill:
What you said. You don’t need to be bipolar to have Palin fatigue.
freelancer
@dr. bloor:
Clearly, this “journalist” is just trying to blood libel Arizona’s freedom.
Violet
@dmsilev:
Oh yeah, I think this is the real Sarah. Well, more or less. It’s the prettied up Sarah for public consumption. The real one shouts at her family and beats up her fridge.
But I don’t think she’s capable of admitting she’s doing something wrong. Even if she’s aware things aren’t going as well as she wants them to, she’ll blame someone else. Classic narcissistic personality disorder.
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
Nicole Wallace called it when she said on one of those interchangeable morning snoozefests – Sarah Palin will demonstrate why she shouldn’t be considered seriously (by sane people): “Just let her do her thing, she is going to be exposed enough to the American public that she will reveal what her nature is. I think her nature has been revealed lately as very prickly, very cynical.”
I would add ignorant, narcissistic and aggressively bitter in response to any hint of criticism to that. After the “blood libel” video, many people who weren’t strongly opposed to her saw what frightens so many of us.
beltane
If the Egyptians can oust Mubarkek, is it too much to ask that we Americans can shun this lethally stupid woman?
Violet
@Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q):
She’s been remarkably quiet with all the stuff happening in Egypt. Not twatting. No Facebooking. And I don’t see a lot of musings about “What does Sarah Palin think about our foreign policy in Egypt?”
PS
@Violet: Oh, that one’s easy. Sarah is absolutely opposed to Obama’s misguided policy on Egypt. It’s just that (like everyone else) she doesn’t know what this is yet.
dr. bloor
@Violet:
I suspect people rightly assume she couldn’t find Egypt on a map. Can’t see it from Alaska, dontcha know.
Ruckus
@Violet:
First of all there is no thinking going on inside that melon.
Second, can she even pronounce Egypt? I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know where it is and couldn’t find it using Google maps.
Calouste
@Violet:
It might be a bit much assuming that Palin knows that something is going on in Egypt. In any case, she’d probably just copy and paste whatever Netanyahu says, so she comes off seriously.
Svensker
@Violet:
I don’t think the Righties quite know what to do about Egypt. None of my reliable wingnut relatives have said a word and Fox seems pretty quiet about it, too. The extreme wackos — Bolton, Gellar, et al — have said that it’s disastrous for Israel, but I think it’s difficult for the rest to pretend that Mubarak is a good guy, which makes dissing the protesters difficult. Won’t last, I’m sure — we’ll soon be hearing about caliphates, islamofascism and other crap, but at the moment, they haven’t been told what to think.
The Dangerman
I read someplace that a very high percentage (like, nearly half) of Palin backers will bolt the GOP if it doesn’t nominate Sarah in 2012.
Popcorn, get your popcorn here!
freelancer
@Calouste:
She’d have to turn it into backwoods folksy aphasia first.
p mac
Sarah Palin is a well known Egyptologist, with particular strength in her work on Denial.
KG
@The Dangerman: I thought it was the other way around, people who didn’t support Palin would be more likely to bolt if she got the nomination
freelancer
@p mac:
WIN.
Arundel
@Violet- She actually did made a crack about Egypt, I think at this same event. Basically that the lamestream media would probably blame her if she said anything, har dee har. Even unrest in Egypt is all about her in her mind.
Violet
Well of course Sarah doesn’t know anything about Egypt or foreign policy or what the US should do. When has that stopped her from opening her yap? It’s not her lack of knowledge that’s notable. She’s got that going on all the time. It’s her restraint in not inserting herself into the discussion that’s interesting.
Mr Stagger Lee
You know, if one of the victims of the Tuscon shootings was a relative of the Koch brothers, there would be gun control and the NRA would come out looking like the Boogey-man b—- slapped them.
DMD
“This country must take two simple steps to stop more of the 34 murders that occur with guns every day—make every gun sale subject to a background check, and make sure the background check system has all the required records in it.”
In other words, “well-regulated.” Where have I heard that phrase before? Some old legal document I think…
TOP123
@Svensker: My closest wingnut relative (Limbaugh in the car and tv volume up whenever Krauthammer’s on FOX) brought Egypt up rather excitedly the first day, and has gotten strikingly silent on the matter since. Conservative High Command have been very unclear vis-a-vis the marching orders on this one, I suspect.
kdaug
@p mac: No, you’re thinking of Laura Croft.
gnomedad
Usually I know what she’s trying to say, even if it’s evil or crazy. But how does one decode this? “When guns are outlawed, only teevees will have guns”?
freelancer
@TOP123:
5 minutes of Levin tonight, he’s demonizing the protestors as violent, thuggish Jihadis bent on becoming the new Iran on the block. He’s endorsing the Geller stance on Egypt.
trixie larue
Why is it that the kookiest functionaries (as opposed to just helpless mentally ill people) are so obsessed with guns?
I wonder if Jan Brewer is reconsidering her cuts to mental health funding – given Tucson and her own familial needs.
good god, y’all!
Violet
@TOP123:
Caught about ten minutes of Limbaugh’s show today. He was saying that democracy was breaking out in the Middle East and it’s all because of George W. Bush. He quoted Bush saying something along the lines of, when Iraq has democracy all the other Middle East countries will fall like dominoes. Or something like that.
I didn’t listen to any more than that, so I’m unsure if the demonstrations in Egypt are considered a good thing or not in Greater Wingnuttia.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Interesting that she refers to Bristol as “a Palin” first. Maybe she forgot which of her children she was talking about.
Jebediah
@Ruckus:
Given that Fox News doesn’t know where Egypt is located, I wouldn’t expect Numbnuts of the North to, either.
MikeJ
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I thought it was Hungerdunger.
TOP123
@freelancer: @Violet:
The cognitive dissonance must be thundering when you believe on the one hand in the greatness of Bush and the rightness of Rush (check) and at the same in the growing menace of the global Muslim jihad (check). I am not surprised I have not heard about the subject again.
rikyrah
I usually don’t correct you, ABL.
Palin is a fool, plain and simple.
Cacti
Most of the guns used by the Cartels currently at war with Mexican government were purchased in the United States.
Not only do they make us less safe, they’re also helping to destabilize a neighboring country.
Mnemosyne
I think we all need some happy news right about now:
Illinois governor signs civil unions bill
Silver
You know, when I see the words, “Sarah Palin” the first thing that comes to mind is a quote from a cigar smoking philosopher named Morris Wanchuck.
“That c#nt is no good.”
Alison
@Silver: Well, aren’t you lovely.
mr. whipple
I expect her to remind Merkins of that iconic photo of Marines planting the flag on top of the pyramids.
Silver
@Alison:
Never claimed to be, actually.
jwest
Before focusing on Sarah Palin, perhaps liberals could explain to their leaders….
• There are not 57 states.
• What the three branches of government are.
• How to pronounce “corpsman”
• That the Panama canal is not in Egypt
Pancake
Lady, you appear to be not only angry, but batshit crazy.
Jeffro
Every time the people of a middle eastern country (or occupied territory) rise up against tyranny and demand democracy, I find the silence on the Right quite hysterical.
Their “Conservative High Command” sure doesn’t want anyone here getting any ideas, and the ‘ground troops’ have been so conditioned to repeat whatever garbage they’ve been told, they don’t know what to think/do/say in the absence of orders.
I expect we’ll get a continuing slight dose of “Bush Was Right” (about Iraq and dominoes, etc) and some “Obama Isn’t Doing Enough to Reassure Israel” for good measure. But really, that’s about all the right can risk at this point…otherwise the High Command looks like it’s endorsing democracy, or worse yet, the troops start to see shades of gray as they slowly think something through on their own for once.
brantl
@jwest: How about you focus on something substantial, hmmm? Once in your life would be a start.
maya
Spelling it would be her bigger problem.
Original Lee
@dr. bloor: Plus she only watches FauxNews, who also can’t find Egypt on a map. (Ack! Screenshot not working.)
Ab_Normal
@Alison: My go-to reply for usage of that word is “{target} lacks the depth, warmth, strength and flexibility of that noble organ. Please don’t besmirch it with such a comparison.”