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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
We have all the best words.
It’s been a really long fucking year.
They are all Michael Cohen now.
Deploy the moving finger of emphasisity!
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
Too inconsequential to be sued
Reality always wins in the end.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
We can agree to disagree, but i’m right.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Just a few bad apples.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
4tehlulz
Jesus Christ, just say what you mean. I hate when people try to soften their point.
Napoleon
At this point why would anyone assume that anything that comes out of her is true?
dmsilev
I’m sorry, I’m a tad unclear what you’re trying to say here. Could you clarify?
-dms
JGabriel
Apostasy! She who represents all that is good, holy, beautiful, white, and Republican would never, ever, lie!
Suffer in hell, you commie islamofascist homo libtard bastard! Sarah Palin is the only true path to redemption!
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PeakVT
This is good news for John McCain!
The Grand Panjandrum
Does this mean you won’t be standing in line to have Palin autograph a copy of her new book?
kay
“I can confirm that she was not billed for any vetting costs by the campaign,” said Trevor Potter, the campaign’s general counsel. “I do not know if she was billed by her own lawyer for his assistance to her in the vetting process, but from the excerpt that has been read to me by the AP, it sounds as if that is what she is describing.”
People have to speak really bluntly and clearly when completely contradicting what Sarah Palin says. I like his first sentence.
He’s anticipating the blizzard of muddying Twitter bullshit that will follow.
I don’t remember a losing VP candidate ever being such a huge, continuing, pain in the ass a year after the election. This may be unprecedented whining level, even for a perpetual-victim conservative.
Michael D.
@The Grand Panjandrum: I hope someone buys the book, waits in line for an hour, and then just starts beating her over the fucking head with it.
I’d pay to
seedo that!JGabriel
Napoleon:
They (i.e., the MSM) don’t. It’s just a game they play, because a cross between Ann Coulter with elective experience, Ron Paul in a dress and go-go boots, and a snowbunny Annette Funicello, is good for ratings.
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donovong
Leave Sarah Palin Alooonnne!!!!! Also.
Morbo
@kay: Well, there’s Lieberman, but he chose to spread his pain in the ass-ness (and general ass-ness) out over the course of the last several years. Sharia Plan has certainly been a more acute version.
Starburster
Must this poor, decent woman explain her every move?
Napoleon
@JGabriel:
:)
Comrade Dread
But- but the starbursts!?
jon
All the words that come from Sarah are inadvertent mistakes, kind of like Sean Hannity video files. It’s hard to live in a reality that is constantly under fire from people who use verifiable facts and badgering questions, but some people are just made of tougher stuff than others.
So, in the end, this is good news for John McCain(‘s former running mate.)
Aspasia
Wolcott has an interesting article in this month’s Vanity Fair about the cultural effects of reality television, which, he says, have taken us back to the level of pre-literacy, where everyone thoughtlessly expresses their pain at the top of their voices.
Could it be that reality television is only reflecting what is already true of the culture?
Don’t ask me about the cultural effects of home schooling or the systematic dumbing down of public schooling by the demand for testing, testing, testing.
Aspasia
Legalize
But but but, Obama’s half brother purple banana telephone monkey gabba gabba hey!!!
Michael
Heckuva job, Culvy.
kay
@Morbo:
No, you are absolutely right. I missed him. He’s worse.
I’m not even sure what election he’s currently petulant and punishing Americans for; the last one, right?
donovong
Maverick!
Buffalopundit
I, for one, look forward to President Palin returning “In God We Trust” back to its position of prominence on American coinage.
After all, if it’s out on the edge of the coin, then our trust in God must be somehow diminished.
Or something.
burnspbesq
@Legalize:
Hey, leave the Ramones outta this! They’re not responsible for Sarah Palin.
RememberNovember
to quote a bad joke-
“Trig wasn’t the only retarded thing to come out of SArah Palin”
mean, but funny.
Cat Lady
Well, I hope she keeps it up. Levi’s got a couple of bullets with her name on them, and Steve Schmidt has her concession speech she was told she couldn’t give, lifted right out of the teleprompter, and a very hot temper. Grifters are like zombies – you can’t just shoot them, you have to burn them, also, too.
Demo Woman
Please explain to me why Couric is still being attacked for asking soft ball questions that Sarah could not handle.
geg6
@Demo Woman:
To hear Sarah tell it, Katie Couric is the equivalent of OBL. Apparently, Sarah diagnoses Katie as suffering from lack of self-esteem.
It’s impossible to parody this woman. Whatever Tina Fey can think up, Sarah Serendipity can not match but can take all the way up to 11.
geg6
@geg6:
Editing fail.
Fixed.
David
from TPM:
Palin: ‘Oprah Was Very Hospitable’ And Her Audience ‘Energized’
Does that make her a RINO?
Davis X. Machina
All correctly oriented cadres know that ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ in the sense of ‘conforming to reality’ and ‘not conforming to reality’ are bourgeois concepts.
The truthfulness of a statement can only be measured by asking ‘does this utterance serve to advance the Party, which is the Vanguard of the Revolution, or not?’ When the answer is ‘yes’, the utterance possesses revolutionary truth.
The Soviet Union is dead and buried, the Wall is twenty years a memory, but Leninism marches on.
RedKitten
That would work too, and would be less likely to result in assault charges.
donovong
@RedKitten: Thanks, but I would not want to run the risk of infection in my nether regions!
NickM
Thank you, Davis. You saved me a trip to reeducation camp.
Evinfuilt
How about buying the book that Nation put out, swap jackets and get her to sign it. I think that would be worth while.
cmorenc
Sarah Palin is the quintessential example of a “toxic clown”. A “toxic clown” is someone who, were they knowingly deadpanning dangerous stupidity for deliberately creating biting self-satire, they might be brilliant and hilarious like Steven Colbert, because we know they’re pretending and have no intent to carry such things out. But alas, instead they are actually serious in intending to impose themselves and their dangerous, stupid ideas on the rest of us, and become frightening instead of funny to the extent they have any chance of actually succeeding or convincing others.
When we laugh at Sarah Palin, unfortunately it is often a very, very nervous laugh. We are quite confident she could never attract enough of a following to gain any actual control of our govenment, but not confident enough to not be just a *bit* nervous about the hoardes of wingnuts who really do seem to think she’s just the tonic this country needs. She’s indeed a ridiculous clown, but she’d be a lot more entertaining and a lot less scary if we could be 100% confident there’s absolutely NO chance she might somehow succeed, rather than just 99%.
Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Legalize: Just had to leave the room at work, to keep from spraying coffee across my desk and about 10 students!
gbear
@burnspbesq:
Don’t be so sure. Johnny Ramone was a Reagan-luvin’ republican.
Violet
Good Lord, this woman is awful. Lying all the time.
I saw a few short clips of her appearance on Oprah and it seems to me she looks older and fatter. Although that sounds terribly sexist and catty of me (and maybe it is), a big part of her appeal is her appearance. The whole starbursts thing wouldn’t happen if she were thirty pounds overweight and average looking. She wouldn’t be anywhere without her appearance. So it interested me that in the short clips I thought she looked older. If she becomes noticeably middle-aged, I think her electability will be compromised.
Zuzu's Petals
Palin evidently doesn’t explain which of Katie Couric’s questions were “biased” or “badgering.” Uhm, “what exactly is your foreign policy experience?”
Interesting that she received mostly the same queries as Joe Biden – but he didn’t seem to be flustered by all those “gotcha” questions.
mahesh
And, also…ummm also, and,…yeahhhh and whatzuuuuup with the pale hands, bronzier face, snarkly smile and hideous laughter…..
ps;Thanks a lot for these short teasers; they really saved my life!!
Jay in Oregon
TL; DR
de stijl
Please explain to me why Couric is still being attacked for asking soft ball questions that Sarah could not handle.
If Ms. Palin cannot answer a question, it ceases to be a softball question, and instead becomes a gotcha question.
And gotcha questions are prima facie evidence of the liberal bias of the MSM.
Ipso facto. QED. Check-motherfucking-mate, bitchez!
Arakasi
@Evinfuilt:
You can probably get away without swapping the dust jackets. If anyone asks, just say that it is the Canadian edition
RememberNovember
@Evinfuilt:
Jabberlock in da haus!
slag
You’re going to need a bigger font.
asiangrrlMN
@Arakasi: Yes! She’d buy that, doncha know.
Cole, thank you for this post. I cracked the hell up without even clicking on the link. Snort.
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Brilliant riposte. Man. I needed the guffaws.
Midnight Marauder
I think my favorite part about this post is that I instantly knew who the “She” in question was, as soon as I saw the word “lying.”
Clicking on the link was just the icing on the cake.
slag
@asiangrrlMN: If you want guffaws, you must watch Jon Stewart’s bit on Sean Hannity’s “apology”. Guffaws all over the place.
eemom
every now and then, amidst the general mediocrity of C-Span callers-in, there’s a real gem: either someone who is so batshit crazy it’s funny, or someone who totally nails truth to power.
Today their “question” was “are you gonna buy Sarah’s book?” and they had a “line” for yes and a “line” for no. One of the callers on the “no” line was a guy who growled in a deep Southern accent, “No I ain’t gonna buy her book, cuz she’s a LIAR, and she don’t know what she’s talking about.”
I could’ve kissed him.
licensed to kill time
Q: When is a lie not a lie?
A: When Sarah Palin says so. Also, too, and in what respect, Charlie?
(Saw the headline, grokked it right away.)
joel
@Kay (7)
Um, Joe Lieberman. He’s still a huge, continuing pain in the ass nine years after the election.
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Saw it. Loved it. Would have married it.
@eemom: Beautiful.
mey
2012 can not come soon enough. Palin won’t be on the ticket, she’ll try to play Kingmaker. And will fail. Yet again. Also.
binzinerator
@Davis X. Machina:
The best explanation yet of this whole right wingnut bizarre interpertation of reality, and what’s going on in their heads, at least for those not clinically delusional.
(I figger those who are clinically delusional make up about 27% of the base. In other words, the base’s base.)