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Let Me Clear This Up For You, Marc

by John Cole|  November 13, 20098:26 am| 54 Comments

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SHE IS LYING.

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  1. 1.

    4tehlulz

    November 13, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Jesus Christ, just say what you mean. I hate when people try to soften their point.

  2. 2.

    Napoleon

    November 13, 2009 at 8:30 am

    At this point why would anyone assume that anything that comes out of her is true?

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    November 13, 2009 at 8:33 am

    I’m sorry, I’m a tad unclear what you’re trying to say here. Could you clarify?

    -dms

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    November 13, 2009 at 8:35 am

    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!

    .

  5. 5.

    PeakVT

    November 13, 2009 at 8:35 am

    This is good news for John McCain!

  6. 6.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    November 13, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Does this mean you won’t be standing in line to have Palin autograph a copy of her new book?

  7. 7.

    kay

    November 13, 2009 at 8:37 am

    “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.

  8. 8.

    Michael D.

    November 13, 2009 at 8:38 am

    @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 see do that!

  9. 9.

    JGabriel

    November 13, 2009 at 8:39 am

    Napoleon:

    At this point why would anyone assume that anything that comes out of her is true?

    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.

    .

  10. 10.

    donovong

    November 13, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Leave Sarah Palin Alooonnne!!!!! Also.

  11. 11.

    Morbo

    November 13, 2009 at 8:46 am

    @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.

  12. 12.

    Starburster

    November 13, 2009 at 8:47 am

    Must this poor, decent woman explain her every move?

  13. 13.

    Napoleon

    November 13, 2009 at 8:48 am

    @JGabriel:

    . . . a snowbunny Annette Funicello

    :)

  14. 14.

    Comrade Dread

    November 13, 2009 at 8:50 am

    SHE IS LYING.

    But- but the starbursts!?

  15. 15.

    jon

    November 13, 2009 at 8:51 am

    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.)

  16. 16.

    Aspasia

    November 13, 2009 at 8:53 am

    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

  17. 17.

    Legalize

    November 13, 2009 at 8:53 am

    But but but, Obama’s half brother purple banana telephone monkey gabba gabba hey!!!

  18. 18.

    Michael

    November 13, 2009 at 8:55 am

    The McCain campaign footed the bill for Art Culvahouse’s investigation of Palin before she was elected.

    Heckuva job, Culvy.

  19. 19.

    kay

    November 13, 2009 at 8:58 am

    @Morbo:

    Well, there’s Lieberman,

    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?

  20. 20.

    donovong

    November 13, 2009 at 8:58 am

    Maverick!

  21. 21.

    Buffalopundit

    November 13, 2009 at 9:03 am

    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.

  22. 22.

    burnspbesq

    November 13, 2009 at 9:05 am

    @Legalize:

    But but but, Obama’s half brother purple banana telephone monkey gabba gabba hey

    Hey, leave the Ramones outta this! They’re not responsible for Sarah Palin.

  23. 23.

    RememberNovember

    November 13, 2009 at 9:07 am

    to quote a bad joke-
    “Trig wasn’t the only retarded thing to come out of SArah Palin”

    mean, but funny.

  24. 24.

    Cat Lady

    November 13, 2009 at 9:07 am

    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.

  25. 25.

    Demo Woman

    November 13, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Please explain to me why Couric is still being attacked for asking soft ball questions that Sarah could not handle.

  26. 26.

    geg6

    November 13, 2009 at 9:10 am

    @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.

  27. 27.

    geg6

    November 13, 2009 at 9:11 am

    @geg6:

    Editing fail.

    Whatever Tina Fey can think up, Sarah Serendipity can not only match but can take all the way up to 11.

    Fixed.

  28. 28.

    David

    November 13, 2009 at 9:14 am

    from TPM:

    Palin: ‘Oprah Was Very Hospitable’ And Her Audience ‘Energized’

    Does that make her a RINO?

  29. 29.

    Davis X. Machina

    November 13, 2009 at 9:31 am

    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.

  30. 30.

    RedKitten

    November 13, 2009 at 9:43 am

    @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 wipes their ass with it.

    That would work too, and would be less likely to result in assault charges.

  31. 31.

    donovong

    November 13, 2009 at 9:52 am

    @RedKitten: Thanks, but I would not want to run the risk of infection in my nether regions!

  32. 32.

    NickM

    November 13, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Thank you, Davis. You saved me a trip to reeducation camp.

  33. 33.

    Evinfuilt

    November 13, 2009 at 10:03 am

    How about buying the book that Nation put out, swap jackets and get her to sign it. I think that would be worth while.

  34. 34.

    cmorenc

    November 13, 2009 at 10:05 am

    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%.

  35. 35.

    Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    November 13, 2009 at 10:17 am

    @Legalize: Just had to leave the room at work, to keep from spraying coffee across my desk and about 10 students!

  36. 36.

    gbear

    November 13, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Hey, leave the Ramones outta this! They’re not responsible for Sarah Palin.

    Don’t be so sure. Johnny Ramone was a Reagan-luvin’ republican.

  37. 37.

    Violet

    November 13, 2009 at 10:42 am

    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.

  38. 38.

    Zuzu's Petals

    November 13, 2009 at 10:52 am

    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.

  39. 39.

    mahesh

    November 13, 2009 at 10:58 am

    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!!

  40. 40.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 13, 2009 at 11:06 am

    TL; DR

  41. 41.

    de stijl

    November 13, 2009 at 11:33 am

    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!

  42. 42.

    Arakasi

    November 13, 2009 at 11:41 am

    @Evinfuilt:

    You can probably get away without swapping the dust jackets. If anyone asks, just say that it is the Canadian edition

  43. 43.

    RememberNovember

    November 13, 2009 at 11:55 am

    @Evinfuilt:

    Jabberlock in da haus!

  44. 44.

    slag

    November 13, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    You’re going to need a bigger font.

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    November 13, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    @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.

  46. 46.

    asiangrrlMN

    November 13, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    @slag: Brilliant riposte. Man. I needed the guffaws.

  47. 47.

    Midnight Marauder

    November 13, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    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.

  48. 48.

    slag

    November 13, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: If you want guffaws, you must watch Jon Stewart’s bit on Sean Hannity’s “apology”. Guffaws all over the place.

  49. 49.

    eemom

    November 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    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.

  50. 50.

    licensed to kill time

    November 13, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    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.)

  51. 51.

    joel

    November 13, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    @Kay (7)

    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.

    Um, Joe Lieberman. He’s still a huge, continuing pain in the ass nine years after the election.

  52. 52.

    asiangrrlMN

    November 13, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    @slag: Saw it. Loved it. Would have married it.

    @eemom: Beautiful.

  53. 53.

    mey

    November 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    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.

  54. 54.

    binzinerator

    November 13, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    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 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.)

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