Oh look- the Washington Post is making a big deal out of something the idiot Sarah Palin said.
I’m shocked the WH won’t let them interview Kagan.
John +3
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Oh look- the Washington Post is making a big deal out of something the idiot Sarah Palin said.
I’m shocked the WH won’t let them interview Kagan.
John +3
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handy
First Obama TOOK EERR JOBZ now he is coming ferr URR GUNZ!!
Also, too.
Corner Stone
Vietnamese egg rolls FTW.
kdaug
Jesus on a Pogo-stick, I wish she’d just go away.
Seriously, why are we still talking about her? It’s so 2008…
No, I mean, seriously. Why is she relevant to anything?
Alex
Man, of all the goddamn zombie wingnut fairy tales…has anyone figured out what Obama would want with all those guns? If he has any, ya know, purpose for them? Other than laughing maniacally at Rrll Murrika’s sudden impotence?
daveNYC
PC Load Letter!? WTF does that mean?
+3
kdaug
Let me re-phrase that:
What will it take for me never to hear from that screechy know-nothing ever again?
Isn’t there some counter-meme that can suck up all of the Palin oil, and then we can just scrape the crap off the top?
Tx Expat
Well, I for one, think Ms. Palin has much to contribute to our public discourse. Where would we be without a “you betcha?” and a wink?
For my money, her Facebook page is a must read for anyone who wants to keep abreast of cutting edge political insight.
The woman is a truly illuminating intellectual figure, bar none.
/snark
TX Expat + 6
robertdsc
And she’s beautiful, also too.
kdaug
@Tx Expat: It hurts because it’s true.
sloan
Open thread!
C. W. McCall vs Dave Dudley
merl
If I made $100,00.00 every time I said something stupid, I’d be the richest man in the world.
Sometimes I have to think that she’s not as stupid as we all think she is, stupid sells.
I actually kind of admire succesful grifters like the former half term governor of Alaska.
freelancer (itouch)
Lamestream WaPo
Michael G
The number one threat to America?
BEARS.
kdaug
@robertdsc: Well, I’ll give you that she’s likely the most fantasized-about grandmother in modern American history. And you’re right, there’s a certain sexualization to the whole thing (so, we should make elections based on porn video ratings?)
But back to the point – how do I get this stain out of my fabric of life? Lysol? Listerine?
Thoroughly Pizzled
Sarah Palin + Bear. Wonder how Colbert will react?
Tx Expat
@kdaug: @kdaug:
It’s only true if you think it is. Believing Sarah Palin is legit is a lot like believing that you’re gonna get raptured into heaven on 12/12/12. Of course, that’s not gonna keep some (hell maybe all) Republicans nominating her in 2012.
However, if you do believe that, I have a rapture pet caretaker service you might be interested in for the low, low price of $5/month.
In the dark days of the tyranny of Palin’s Facebook page, mockery and ridicule are your friend. Use them well!
Corner Stone
@merl:
I can’t even bother any more.
Corner Stone
@kdaug:
That’s probably true. It’s hard to quantify.
I’m sure there’s some space between Grannie from Beverley Hillbillies and Raquel Welch.
Phoebe
Hey Furminators [and Furminatrixes], you in particular can help with the gulf spill:
http://matteroftrust.org/
Because it’s an open thread and all. But then Sarah Palin and the gulf spill are connected in a drill-baby-drill way. And both are awful and uncontainable.
Church Lady
Inflicting Sarah Palin on yourself is like picking at a scab. If it hurts, don’t do it. I see her name, I see her picture, but I feel absolutely no compunction to read about her because I’m no more interested in what she might have to say about anything than I would be if it was someone like Ashton Kutcher babbling. She isn’t running for office, so I don’t care.
Steeplejack
@sloan:
Fuck those guys. Del Reeves!
Gina
Just introduced the kids to “Safety Dance”. What can top that for 80’s awesomeness?
cat48
Grievance/resentment politics=George Wallace=Palin. She’s very good at it if that type of thing appeals to you. Doesn’t fit my personality type….I find it very repeling. It’s constant vapid complaining.
Steeplejack
@Gina:
You’ll be sorry as they keep playing it and playing it and playing it. The only thing that will get them off it is to introduce them to an equally catchy ’80s song that is even worse. I recommend “Come on, Eileen.” Believe me, you’ll thank me later.
(Although oddly enough Dexy’s Midnight Runners redeemed themselves with a surprisingly good rendition of Van Morrison’s “Jackie Wilson Said.”)
Anna Belle
Geez, progs always do this. The instant quip is just too tempting for you immediate gratification folks. Guess what? “Mama grizzlies” may resonate. Goodness knows a whole subset of female voters of child-bearing age who are mother and who are waiting to be taken seriously. Less them half of them are poisoned by leftist rhetoric, which is uninviting in it’s arrogance. Hate me for saying it if you must, but it’s your party, and you’ll cry if you want to.
Gina
@Steeplejack: Tried it, but failed! My son’s now having me listen to Gorrillaz “Dirty Harry”. I told him it’s too slow :-)
Gina
He’s countered with Green Day “She’s a Rebel”, but I’m hitting back with Adam and the Ants, the *entire album* “Kings of the Wild Frontier”.
Steeplejack
@Gina:
You’re spiraling down now. You’ll never be able to match the yoots song for song. Distract ’em with Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You” and run for it.
Steeplejack
@Gina:
If you’ve got to go all ’80s funk on his ass, can’t do better than Morris Day and the Time. “Jungle Love.”
Mark S.
Sarah was speaking to a pro-life group called the Susan B. Anthony List. It seems anti-choicers have taken some statements that probably weren’t written by Anthony to make her one of their own.
Gina
Winner!
And fits w/the Palin mania theme.
Steeplejack
@Gina:
Green Day, huh? Give him some Clash–“I Fought the Law.”
Steeplejack
I’m gone. Sleepy time.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I feel like you just got here! And I’m nowhere near tired. Late dinners tend to wake me up though.
@Anne Laurie: Is he crying or fapping? I seriously can’t tell these days.
Anne Laurie
@Michael G:
You have made Andrew Sullivan cry.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
I was here for an hour or two since getting home from work. Nothing going on, and I couldn’t summon the strength to wade back into the “Hypocrisy” thread. (I find myself sad that Stuck is gone, for some reason.) Couldn’t even prod anybody with YouTube music links, usually a sure response-getter. Need to go to bed before I lapse into full night-owl mode and stay up until dawn. Still have to work tomorrow afternoon/evening before my real weekend begins.
Will check back in the A.M.
Anne Laurie
Incidentally, the June Harper’s has an interesting “Notebook” (editorial) by Jack Hitt titled Is Sarah Palin Porn? Can’t print a teaser extract, it’s not on the website even for subscribers yet, but it’s worth looking for when the magazine reaches a bookstore near you.
Basically, Hitt argues (very entertainingly) that Sarah Palin is the wonk’s version of Lindsey Lohan… a celebutard whose tiny, fiercely loyal fan base is augmented by a much larger number of people waiting for her next wacky disaster, which they expect from previous experience to be much more entertaining than her “serious” offerings. I think he’s right that even a lot of Sarah’s self-proclaimed defenders are more interested in her making a spectacle of herself than they are in her Seeryus Pulictical Thots.
sukabi
If you liked their take on Palin… you’ll love that they’ve recognized Eric Erickson’s piece on Kagan… he’s got PROOF that she’s a socialist!!!1!
Yutsano
:: ping ::
EDIT: Okay, BJ isn’t broken. Everyone else must be off having a life.
Anne Laurie
@Yutsano: Sweetie, if you can’t tell, what hope has an old lady like me of understanding?
P.S. It’s been a long, lousy week for quite a few people, apparently. Just put up a honeypot that should attract some outrage eventually — look upstairs, but put down your drink first.
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: I have occasionally wondered if I shouldn’t just retire to my kitchen permanently and just cook until I make Rush Limbaugh look like Twiggy, then blog about it endlessly. Such as it is, I’m seriously contemplating becoming burnspbesq’s
worst nightmarecompetitioncompatriot in the world of federal taxes, only on the side of the government. It’s a very hard job to say no to, plus they’re hiring for 70 positions. Just my part in assisting in being Sarah Palin’s worst nightmare, an ever-expanding federal bureaucracy.Oh and that video above? Sir Elton lives for shit like that, although trust me the only snack he wanted on that stage was Bruce.
Oh and I think I just broke some blogging protocol there, but meh. Maybe we can start a pool on the return of Stuck.
Martin
@Yutsano: I think Stuck will be back. I thought Cole was pushing too hard in that post as well – Obama is over the line on this, but I think just barely. Personally I hope he comes back, but we all have our moments.
Yutsano
@Martin: Get me confirmation that there’s a signed order for his death (you do realize no one has actually seen it, amirite?) without trial and Barack will definitely have some splainin’ to do. Otherwise let’s convict the fucker in absentia and then figure out the punishment. I don’t think a treason conviction would be difficult to obtain here. And I’m gonna let the matter drop right there.
Oh and I wouldn’t be suggesting a pool if I wasn’t totally confident Stuck would return I am predicting a change in nom de Internet however.
Martin
And I would like to note, for the record, that I think Radiohead’s performance of The National Anthem from 2000 is the best SNL musical performance ever. That’s not a terribly high bar, but it really was an excellent performance.
TenguPhule
Here’s a hint.
Those aren’t tears.
Martin
@Yutsano: I think we’re pretty close to being on the same page.
You have the surgery done already?
fucen tarmal
chevy van for the win!
bago
Apparently I missed some epic shit in the hypocrites thread. For the record, I’m of the opinion that the security state has gotten waaaaay out of hand, and politicians rarely relinquish power. People who supported the patriot act and people that support assassinations can all go to their free speech zone and suck it.
Mark S.
I found this rather interesting about al-Awlaki:
I don’t think we had shit on him at that time, otherwise why the fuck didn’t we try to get him extradited? He has since been more active, and had ties with the underwear bomber and the Ft. Hood shooter, but I’m not sure there’s enough in either case to get a conviction.
ETA: Sorry if this has been covered in either of the TLDR threads on the subject.
SiubhanDuinne
I think it’s extremely interesting (from a journalism stylistic POV) that in the WaPo article John linked they *only* identify Palin as the former governor of Alaska. Nowhere in the piece does it mention the little fact that this woman was the Republican Party’s official nominee for Vice President of the United States less than two years ago. Why, it’s almost like Kaplan’s fishwrapper is in some kind of conspiracy to keep us from remembering that we could have been just *this* close to having La Palina a heartbeat away from Grampa Walnuts.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Thanks Sen. McCain!
No really, unleashing Gov. Word Jumble on the nation is the best thing he ever did.
Boudica
@Steeplejack:
Gonna have to recommend A-ha’s Take on Me. My kids love it!
El Cid
I don’t think there’s a conflict between being bat-shit crazy and dumb-as-rocks ignorant about any substantial things about the world and being a stunningly successful grifter / Talibangelical / carnival barker.
Malron
John C,
how do you feel about adding “Meet the new meme; same as the old meme” to your list of revolving subtitles for the blog?
Pasquinade
Conservatives Sell Palin Poster With Legs Open, Shotgun Shells On Crotch…*
http://www.zazzle.com/sarah_para_bellum_2012_poster-228118176066278091
* http://www.nationalconfidential.com/
sloan
@fucen tarmal: lol – those singing truck vids always creep me out
sloan
@Gina: I just posted this the other day but it is wicked awesome 80s worth a repost. Herbie Hancock at the 83 Grammys. Love the dancing legs.
Steeplejack
@Boudica:
Well, then you’ll need the version with the subtitles. Band montage!
JCT
@Pasquinade:
Holy crap — she looks like she’s ready to channel Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct”.
What the hell is wrong with these people who lionize this nitwit grifter — it’s
mindboggling, depressing beyond belief.And yes, I know some of this is theoretically the fuckability factor, but come on.
Citizen_X
@Pasquinade: What the fuck? Is that parody?
And that snake winding round: phallic much?
Cheryl from Maryland
Pity she isn’t a grizzly sow, latin name Ursus arctos horribilis. Then her maternal behavior would consist of:
Being a solitary animal.
Having the lowest reproductive rate of any North American mammal.
Haveing a very slow reproductive rate (every 3 years, unless the cubs die).
Having spontaneous abortions if the food supply is low.
Not reproducing until they are 5 to 8 years old (after 25% of her life span has passed).
Cubs usually remain with the mother for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years, during which time the mother will not mate.
Loss of habitat, resulting in genetic fragmentation, resulting in inbreeding, resulting in weakened evolutionary fitness.
Oh, some of that already applies! Be very careful when you anthropomorphize.
Malron
@Pasquinade: What to the fuck is that? It looks like a Palinesque Griffon with the face and body of a Palin, the shoulders and arms of a man and the tail of a serpent. Somebody made a Freudian slip and portrayed Caribou Barbie as the self-serving Succubus she is. Brilliant.
I really like this comment under the poster:
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
This came up late in the thread, but you really can’t convict people in absentia unless they skipped out during their trial, and even that gets pretty shaky sometimes. What we actually need is an indictment and arrest warrant so we at least have a legal leg to stand on when it comes to apprehending the guy. I’m really not comfortable having the government issue “capture or kill” orders on people who they don’t even claim committed a crime.
fucen tarmal
@sloan:
well to be fair, there is enough creeping in that song, that it fits. to me the amazing part of that song is that it passed format for am hits radio back in the early 70’s. even if the van=molester/ hitchhiking /runaway connection wasn’t as strong as we would see it through contemporary eyes.
patrick II
At the Rolling Stone Magazine
Probably for your “who could have guessed” category, Karl Rove, in the wake of the recent Citizens United decision, Karl Rove has started what is a shadow RNC to raise money, help republican candidates, and set political strategy. Because of the the Citizens United decision the new entity is pretty much unconstrained by law and regulation, and because it is Karl Rove it is unconstrained by ethics. It is raising a lot of money from large Republican donors while the RNC is left to pick up the small stuff.
I would say they could just put a “for sale” sign on congress, except for the one already there. Maybe they could make it a neon sign and have it glow at night.
Rolling Stone
Ella in NM
Sarah Palin= Ann Coulter without an Adam’s Apple.
Doncha think?
Just Some Fuckhead
@merl: You woulda made at least $200,000 with that one comment.