On the other hand, they provide plenty of fodder for wonderful people like TBogg. From life’s deepest miseries, art may be born.
2.
Comrade Javamanphil
Why Won’t These Awful People Just Go Away?
Because Atlas Shrugged was too long to actually read so instead they just decided the phrase “going Galt” must mean “whine until people give me free stuff.”
3.
jibeaux
Just sayin’, there are multiple families that are actual royalty that are less self-absorbed and thin-skinned than the Palins.
4.
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
Tundra. So that’s in Arizona, right?
5.
Comrade Dread
Why Won’t These Awful People Just Go Away?
Because America loves loud, stupid people.
6.
g
Oh, she’s giving her mom a run for her money in the ‘it’s all about meeeeeeeee!’ sweepstakes.
7.
Mike Goetz
Why would they go away? People like this never go away. They keep coming, relentless, remorseless, rubbing your nose in their presence, knowing you can’t stand them, making them all the more determined to stay, until you give up, and they grin and gloat in triumph.
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shortstop
@g: Something tells me mama grizzly wants grizzly cub to have a certain amount of spotlight and no more. Cub best not test the limits on that one.
9.
MattF
Homo sapiens griftette alaskanna. Takes after her mom, she does.
10.
ant
lol
so when you gettin tbogg over here cole?
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BC in Illinois
President Obama did comment about Bristol Palin, when she was under attack(September, 2008):
I have heard some of the news on [Bristol Palin] and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how a family deals with issues and teenage children–that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits.
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Hal
Sigh. I just won’t click on a Bristol Palin blog, so can someone summarize why she actually thinks the President should call her?
Also, is she still contending her pregnancy was the result of date rape? At least that’s what I would call it if you say you got drunk off of wine coolers, passed out, and then your boyfriend had sex with you.
That’s seems like an issue she could be a serious advocate for, as opposed to badly dancing on reality TV, and writing internet haiku’s on the lack of phone calls from the POTUS.
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Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
this reminds me of the term i coined on twitter for snooki.
MILDEW
mother i’d like to deny ever witnessing.
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pragmatism
why did i get out of teh boat to read titshimmy’s blog post? there are a bunch of potential answers and none of them reflect well. not a good way to start off the week.
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Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
Also, is she still contending her pregnancy was the result of date rape? At least that’s what I would call it if you say you got drunk off of wine coolers, passed out, and then your boyfriend had sex with you.
@Hal: In Alaska, that’s called “your first period junior high class”.
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jl
Bristol is signing up for the GOP WoW? Wow, is all I have to say.
Edit: as per previous thread, I will be referring to the GOP War on Women as the ‘GOP WoW’, pronounced ‘gawpwow’, since we need a catchy name for it.
As other commenters have mentioned, the War on Women is merely the first step. There are a lot of people on their list, which gets longer by the day.
What’s creepy about the Bristol Palin blog is that her audience is undoubtedly quite old. The Palin family never seemed to appeal to the younger crowd all that much.
@Betsy: That’s what I read Hal to be saying, and that Ms. Palin shouldn’t be waiting for the President to call her, but instead calling the Wasilla, AK District Attorney.
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pragmatism
that john hamm quote about celebrating stupidity seems apropos.
27.
quannlace
Why would they go away? People like this never go away. They keep coming,
And slowly going through the list of media outlets/ways to get attention.
Memoirs, book tours, reality shows, ‘campaign’ bus trips, political blogs. Maybe something will finally stick.
” having sex with a woman while she’s unconscious is rape. ”
Not so sure about that. By current GOP logic, that cannot be true, since she did not say ‘no’ and did not slap you. Any other conclusion would be rootless cosmopolitan commie logic the like of which has lead our great country to ruination, heck dangit you kids get off my lawn.
Also, figured I should check out Wonkette to see if they have covered this big story (internets sez yes)
You don’t know my telephone number, but I hope your staff is busy trying to find it. Ever since you called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, I figured I might be next. You explained to reporters you called her because you were thinking of your two daughters, Malia and Sasha. After all, you didn’t want them to think it was okay for men to treat them that way:
Can someone translate this into … meaning?
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Mark S.
I watched the video on Bristol’s site and they quickly run out of Bill Maher footage so they replay David Letterman’s A-Rod joke a couple of times. I guess they’re still really hurt about that one. Didn’t Letterman apologize pretty profusely about that?
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Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
Can someone translate this into … meaning?
@The Other Chuck: Send cash, I don’t want to have to move back home with that bitch.
@The Other Chuck: Look, some of those reviews she got on Dancing with the Stars were pretty brutal (from what my mom tells me. I’ve only seen two episodes of the show since I had to see the great Hinse/Kirstie/Chelsea dance down).
Has Bristol posted her Dancing with the Stars reviews? Some one should apologize for those hurtful things.
Right after they, and the nation, apologize for robbing Chelsea of her rightful title. Hines and Kirstie should have abdicated, out of honor.
I will be referring to the GOP War on Women as the ‘GOP WoW’, pronounced ‘gawpwow’, since we need a catchy name for it.
NEW! From WrongCo! It’s the GOPWoW! The new ultra-absorbent replacement for that tired old rag. It’s not just a shammy, it’s the shammiest! Use the GOPWoW to mop up and retain any substance: weak tea, diluted arguments, concentrated filth. Even Santorum! And the GOPWoW holds its shape even when washing with the truth or crushing it with logic. The GOPWoW is impervious!
Act now, and get your GOPWoW! From the same geniuses who sold you the War on Terror and the Missing Birth Certificate! Order your GOPWoW today!
38.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
Ha Ha, Bristol. Sandra Fluke is a responsible law student. You are a an irresponsible slut who chugs wine coolers in tents with the local meth dealer’s son. Without protection.
So long as tabloid mags sell at checkout counters everywhere, we’ll never be rid of this lot. Even unto death will we bear witness to ev’ry foolish utterance, ev’ry fevered dream, ev’ry deranged longing, ev’ry silly scheme, till even the blessed FSM shall rend his marinara garment and cry out: “WOULD YOU GET A LIFE ALREADY?”
In honor of kay, here’s what Barack Obama said about Bristol Palin in 2008:
I have heard some of the news on [Bristol Palin] and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits.
Apparently, that’s not good enough for this prissy prima donna with a persecution complex. So, maybe someone should call Bristol directly and tell her exactly where she can get off.
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Satanicpanic
No one cares about the Palins. They’re not even at Kardashian level anymore.
This thread reminds me of the bumper sticker “Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.”
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pragmatism
OT, but i have been waiting for some sort of tortured explanation for the “Don’t Re-Nig” bumpersticker.
Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”
well then. case closed.
ETA this gem of “logic”:
“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”
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joeyess
Why Won’t These Awful People Just Go Away?
Because grifters gotta grift.
Also, too, because moose meat isn’t free and when Putin rears his head in their airspace for moose meat, where he go? He goes to Alaska. Ya, Alaska.
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makewi
Everyone knows that only people who share your politics deserve to be treated well.
I request an apology from you, via personal phone call. And I want one from Jesus too, for cruelly raising my expectations for love and acceptance from worthless crumb bums like you.
@pragmatism: Well then, Ms. Smith can have no objection whatsoever to being called a bitch, given the precise dictionary definition.
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kindness
I think we should all call Bristol and tell her what is on our mind. Please don’t everyone tell her it’s John Cole calling. We don’t want John sent off to Gitmo on our account of pranking Sarah’s Devil Spawn.
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scav
@makewi: Well, that does sound like your Holy platform, nice of you to finally put it on a bumper sticker.
I request an apology from you, via personal phone call. And I want one from Jesus too, for cruelly raising my expectations for love and acceptance from worthless crumb bums like you.
Jesus saves…by calling only those with 800 numbers.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
I sometimes feel sorry for her, since I figure she was probably raised by the Teletubbies and a series of fourteen year olds from down the street and this was almost certainly the idea of that ex-screenwriter (I believe) who writes her mother’s drivel, but not today. Shut up, Bristol.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
I sometimes feel sorry for her, since I figure she was probably raised by the Teletubbies and a series of fourteen year olds from down the street and this was almost certainly the idea of that ex-screenwriter (I believe) who writes her mother’s drivel, but not today. Shut up, Bristol.
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Ken
The problem with “GOPWoW” is that people will think it is a World of Warcraft clone.
Because Atlas Shrugged was too long to actually read
Hey, lots of us also decided that Atlas Shrugged was too long to read (and a worthless exercise in masochism as well).
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Ash Can
@Yutsano: If he weren’t doing so much harm to the non-white people in Arizona, I’d consider him hilarious. As it is, I just hope this birther stuff is distracting him from his usual schtick of going around terrorizing people.
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pragmatism
@scav: going through the phases of wingnut grief here. first they tried to deny it. “it must be fake!” now explain away. “it’s not racist!”. next is tu quoque. then blame on MSM. then blame on obama for bringing race into this.
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Satanicpanic
@Chyron HR: Just had to be in San Diego. Just the other day it was that Invisible Children guy, now this.
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burnspbesq
This is the price you pay for your freedom of speech: people who should shut up get to speak, too.
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Taylormattd
I wish I knew what this fucking post said, but I cannot get anything but the motherfucking, piece of shit, jacked up, fucked in the face, mobile site to load.
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PurpleGirl
@Kristine: Why, they could do the responsible thing, set a good example for their children (and the country) and GET JOBS, the lazy grifters.
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Culture of Truth
I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it.”
So… she ONLY uses racists words?
68.
dogwood
Why Won’t These Awful People Just Go Away?
I don’t know, but I’m getting ready to leave the country in a few weeks. I’ll be gone for a month, and I’m gonna try to go cold turkey off politics for the duration. I’ve always been pretty passionate about issues, but fairly dispassionate about politics. Frankly, I got a kick out of most of nonsense that occurs during political campaigns. I got through the 08 election without ever feeling stressed. But the crap that’s going on right now is starting to affect me, and I don’t like it. If I feel better after my trip, I just might stay disconnected until it’s over.
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The Dangerman
I wonder if any of the Palin’s realize what their life would be like if McCain had actually vetted their Mom (beyond the cursory check that she had the right “plumbing”). Shit, Bristol would be asking “do you want Caribou fries with that order?” Really, she needs to grow up beyond the ability to just procreate.
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shortstop
@burnspbesq: Once again we must explain to the self-vaunted “lawyer” (it’s really beyond belief how often you exhibit your professional incompetence here even as you’re thumping your little chest) that there’s a difference between censorship and criticism.
Bristol Palin has the right to air her opinion. She does not have the right to avoid mockery when she does so. A private citizen may, in perfect freedom of speech, tell another private citizen who possesses freedom of speech to “shut up.” Except in certain very narrowly defined circumstances, the government may not. Point to an example of someone in this thread asking for the latter situation — or shut up.
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Martin
@pragmatism: Ah yes, the ‘there are black people, and there are niggers’ defense. The black people know their place, obviously. Obama, well, he just had to step out of his place and pretend he’s better than us by running for president.
Yup, a red king-cab with lift package parked at a Scottsdale Walmart.
I suspect the Palins are pissed at Toyota for using Tundra, which they were doubtless reserving for naming the “special one” Palin child yet to be born (seemed so obviously missing from the quiverfull of odd Palin kid names). As revenge they’ll probably name it Camry, instead.
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shortstop
@The Dangerman: The Palins, especially Sarah, are truly unable to stop picking the scabs of their real and imagined wounds. I think the reason they’re demanding “vetting” of Obama is that they can’t let go of the deep, deep grievance they lie awake at night clutching when they think of all those people saying Sarah wasn’t vetted properly.
They’re not at all bummed that she was utterly unprepared for and incapable of high office. They’re just mad that people keep pointing this out. Game Change just brought all that back in the public memory, and they’re lashing out.
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pragmatism
@Martin: maybe we should all pitch in and get Ms. Smith a new dictionary. the one she is using seems deficient.
Hard to think of any royal family as thin-skinned and self-obsessed as the Palins these days. Well, not since Bokassa was desposed.
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pragmatism
@trollhattan: i have a college buddy who named his kid jetta due to the locus of conception of said kid. at the shotgun wedding i asked the bride what the kid’s middle name was. she responded, “Rome”. i asked what the significance was and she said, “Rome, like as in Paris.”
…when they think of all those people saying Sarah wasn’t vetted properly.
Oh, she was vetted when she couldn’t answer softball questions (possibly also vetted a long while back, though it could have been transammed).
78.
Citizen_X
which Palin family fans can then print out and keep until they meet someone who can read it to them while they clap their hands in childish delight.
Oh, Tbogg, you are a bad, bad man. But I love you.
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shortstop
@The Dangerman: But by that time she was McCain’s running mate. No one on his team took a close look at her–on the inside, anyway–before he finalized the pick.
There are a lot of people on their list, which gets longer by the day.
Yes — remember, “Country First” was just a target prioritization reminder.
Ed
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dexwood
Why won’t these awful people just go away
Because they are loved by assholes like my brother-in-law who thinks the Palins are patriots and considers Bush II the greatest president ever. Family gatherings are really fun.
Well, Obama doesn’t have time to call Bristol, but maybe Ginny Thomas can give her a ring. But it will probably be a wrong number.
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Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Maybe if Bristol would take up a cause like helping single mothers get adequate day care, and Maher went after her, Obama would call her. But “that other girl got a call and I didn’t” sounds an awful lot like “You gave my sister ice cream but not me.” I doubt that works very well around the White House.
I watched the video on Bristol’s site and they quickly run out of Bill Maher footage so they replay David Letterman’s A-Rod joke a couple of times.
Well, I guess she wants to make sure everyone gets a chance to hear it.
Seriously – WTF? Whine about people saying mean things about you and then give them more airplay? I guess it’s true, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
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g
@slag: If I recall correctly, during the campaign Mama Grizzly rather uncharitably mischaracterized Obama’s words as asking for “hands off” for his family only, instead of what he was really saying. So as far as I’m concerned, the Palins deserve what they get.
I watched the video on Bristol’s site and they quickly run out of Bill Maher footage so they replay David Letterman’s A-Rod joke a couple of times. I guess they’re still really hurt about that one. Didn’t Letterman apologize pretty profusely about that?
Perhaps when El Rushbo apologizes for calling Chelsea Clinton a dog, Maher et al can apologize for comments made about the Palin people.
In honesty, I think Bristol’s parents acted horribly by allowing their daughter to be exposed to public scrutiny the way she was. I don’t think comedians should make fun of politicians’ children. But when those children are shoved on TV and all over the internet by their folks, doing and saying stuff that’s better left in the private sphere, it makes it tough. I feel sorry for Bristol, having those thoughtless parents. Unfortunately, seems like she’s growing up to be even trashier than her mom.
Whine about people saying mean things about you and then give them more airplay
I’d bet a million quatloos that Bristol had very little to do with the decision to start this. Her mother is very good at getting the howlers to feel $orry for her.
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catclub
I get a 403 error if i try to comment from the excised ‘www.’ version
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Jim Pharo
Because you all can’t quit talking about them, that’s why.
What I don’t understand about people like Palin and Andrew Breitbart for that matter is that they feed not only off the adoration of their followers, but the hatred of their detractors as well. I never listen to Palin, but I’ve seen a few recent pictures of her, and she looks haggard and exhausted. This crap is probably taking years off her life. I don’t think Brietbart would be dead today, if he hadn’t been addicted to this madness. Anger mixed with megalomania is a dangerous drug.
And last I heard, Bristol was making pretty good money pretending to be celibate. She’s not exactly trying to stay completely out of the limelight.
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les
@catclub:
yeah, me too; or “Ditto,” to coin a whatever. Annoying.
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Jebediah
@shortstop:
I guess I interpreted Burns’ comment a little differently… I assumed he was just saying that being annoyed by stupid, obnoxious speech is the price we pay for freedom of speech, and that stupid, obnoxious speech will always be around to plague us.
Something tells me mama grizzly wants grizzly cub to have a certain amount of spotlight and no more. Cub best not test the limits on that one.
While I am sure you are spot-on about that, I really wish she would. If they really got into it, the publicly aired dirty laundry would be amazing and very entertaining!
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the fugitive uterus
well that whole “i just want to focus on being a great mom” thing didn’t last long
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the fugitive uterus
@dogwood: and her hair is getting bigger and bigger
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TenguPhule
They keep coming, relentless, remorseless, rubbing your nose in their presence, knowing you can’t stand them, making them all the more determined to stay, until you give up, and they grin and gloat in triumph. cut their heads off and mount them on a pike.
Am I the only one who’s offended by TBogg’s title?
Nope. Somebody over at his place was also quite vexed. Unless that was you.
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Mr Stagger Lee
So in 2024 we’re looking at Bristol vs Chelsea presidential contest?
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Anya
@TBogg: You are better and more creative than that title, TBogg. I expect better from you. Palins, not so much.
@Smiling Mortician: No. I didn’t read the article, let alone comments. Also, too, I refuse to sign at FDL.
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debbie
@ Mark S.:
I remember Letterman’s apology. It was definitely profuse. I bet he then chewed the hell out of the writer who wrote the joke without verifying which daughter it was at the ball game.
@burnspbesq: Once again we must explain to the self-vaunted “lawyer” (it’s really beyond belief how often you exhibit your professional incompetence here even as you’re thumping your little chest) that there’s a difference between censorship and criticism.
__
Bristol Palin has the right to air her opinion. She does not have the right to avoid mockery when she does so. A private citizen may, in perfect freedom of speech, tell another private citizen who possesses freedom of speech to “shut up.” Except in certain very narrowly defined circumstances, the government may not. Point to an example of someone in this thread asking for the latter situation—or shut up.
I thought GOP WoW was a World of Warcraft Guild for Republicans.
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Patrick Phelan
I really can’t agree with the “we should just ignore them” business. I mean, I agree that it would work if everyone in the world did it, but everyone in the world is not gonna do it. I think what would happen if we – and I’ll go so far as to assume you could get everyone on every liberal or nominally liberal blog to agree to look the other way and whistle whenever one of these people posts something stupid in public – ignored them is this: they would continue posting stupid things, the news media would continue chasing them dog-vs-stick style, and they wouldn’t then go home and sigh “but it is all worthless, because I didn’t get frontpaged on FDL”.
I agree that they get a bit more attention from people pointing and laughing, but at least that gives us some schadenfreude, and reinforces that we really shouldn’t worry about whether people associated with them have good ideas or not. That much is worth the minor downside.
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shortstop
On the other hand, they provide plenty of fodder for wonderful people like TBogg. From life’s deepest miseries, art may be born.
Comrade Javamanphil
Because Atlas Shrugged was too long to actually read so instead they just decided the phrase “going Galt” must mean “whine until people give me free stuff.”
jibeaux
Just sayin’, there are multiple families that are actual royalty that are less self-absorbed and thin-skinned than the Palins.
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
Tundra. So that’s in Arizona, right?
Comrade Dread
Because America loves loud, stupid people.
g
Oh, she’s giving her mom a run for her money in the ‘it’s all about meeeeeeeee!’ sweepstakes.
Mike Goetz
Why would they go away? People like this never go away. They keep coming, relentless, remorseless, rubbing your nose in their presence, knowing you can’t stand them, making them all the more determined to stay, until you give up, and they grin and gloat in triumph.
shortstop
@g: Something tells me mama grizzly wants grizzly cub to have a certain amount of spotlight and no more. Cub best not test the limits on that one.
MattF
Homo sapiens griftette alaskanna. Takes after her mom, she does.
ant
lol
so when you gettin tbogg over here cole?
BC in Illinois
President Obama did comment about Bristol Palin, when she was under attack(September, 2008):
Hal
Sigh. I just won’t click on a Bristol Palin blog, so can someone summarize why she actually thinks the President should call her?
Also, is she still contending her pregnancy was the result of date rape? At least that’s what I would call it if you say you got drunk off of wine coolers, passed out, and then your boyfriend had sex with you.
That’s seems like an issue she could be a serious advocate for, as opposed to badly dancing on reality TV, and writing internet haiku’s on the lack of phone calls from the POTUS.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
this reminds me of the term i coined on twitter for snooki.
MILDEW
mother i’d like to deny ever witnessing.
pragmatism
why did i get out of teh boat to read titshimmy’s blog post? there are a bunch of potential answers and none of them reflect well. not a good way to start off the week.
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
@Hal: In Alaska, that’s called “your first period junior high class”.
jl
Bristol is signing up for the GOP WoW? Wow, is all I have to say.
Edit: as per previous thread, I will be referring to the GOP War on Women as the ‘GOP WoW’, pronounced ‘gawpwow’, since we need a catchy name for it.
As other commenters have mentioned, the War on Women is merely the first step. There are a lot of people on their list, which gets longer by the day.
J.
These awful people won’t go away until we stop writing and talking about them.
Ken
@jibeaux: And not nearly as in-bred.
dogwood
What’s creepy about the Bristol Palin blog is that her audience is undoubtedly quite old. The Palin family never seemed to appeal to the younger crowd all that much.
flukebucket
And with it Tbogg gives us the GIF that keeps on giving
Oh, and SuperPacs = 60 piece tubs of Juicy Fruit also, too.
Wonderful stuff.
Ash Can
@Hal: Feel free to click; it’s a link to the redoubtable Tbogg eviscerating her. He does a spectacular job of it, too.
Betsy
@Hal: Hal, having sex with a woman while she’s unconscious is rape.
Cris (without an H)
Hopefully our Google X Glasses will come with a pie filter.
Punchy
There’s a pregnancy joke in here somewheres…
Soonergrunt
@Betsy: That’s what I read Hal to be saying, and that Ms. Palin shouldn’t be waiting for the President to call her, but instead calling the Wasilla, AK District Attorney.
pragmatism
that john hamm quote about celebrating stupidity seems apropos.
quannlace
And slowly going through the list of media outlets/ways to get attention.
Memoirs, book tours, reality shows, ‘campaign’ bus trips, political blogs. Maybe something will finally stick.
jl
@Betsy:
” having sex with a woman while she’s unconscious is rape. ”
Not so sure about that. By current GOP logic, that cannot be true, since she did not say ‘no’ and did not slap you. Any other conclusion would be rootless cosmopolitan commie logic the like of which has lead our great country to ruination, heck dangit you kids get off my lawn.
Also, figured I should check out Wonkette to see if they have covered this big story (internets sez yes)
http://wonkette.com/467419/bristol-palin-wants-apology-phone-call-from-president-obama-now#more-467419
Included in the Wonkette post are some super secret political math calculations the GOP uses to understand how the ladies think.
Soonergrunt
@Punchy: …thereafter known as your last period class…
The Other Chuck
Quoth Snowball Snookie The Lesser:
Can someone translate this into … meaning?
Mark S.
I watched the video on Bristol’s site and they quickly run out of Bill Maher footage so they replay David Letterman’s A-Rod joke a couple of times. I guess they’re still really hurt about that one. Didn’t Letterman apologize pretty profusely about that?
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
@The Other Chuck: Send cash, I don’t want to have to move back home with that bitch.
Hungry Joe
@The Other Chuck:
No.
jl
@The Other Chuck: Look, some of those reviews she got on Dancing with the Stars were pretty brutal (from what my mom tells me. I’ve only seen two episodes of the show since I had to see the great Hinse/Kirstie/Chelsea dance down).
Has Bristol posted her Dancing with the Stars reviews? Some one should apologize for those hurtful things.
Right after they, and the nation, apologize for robbing Chelsea of her rightful title. Hines and Kirstie should have abdicated, out of honor.
wrb
ooooh noooo!
Tbog is Rush!!
/snark
EriktheRed
Gotta ask: is that Bristol dancing in that video?
rollSound
@jl:
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Act now, and get your GOPWoW! From the same geniuses who sold you the War on Terror and the Missing Birth Certificate! Order your GOPWoW today!
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
Ha Ha, Bristol. Sandra Fluke is a responsible law student. You are a an irresponsible slut who chugs wine coolers in tents with the local meth dealer’s son. Without protection.
rikyrah
because this is who they are.
period
Ben Cisco
So long as tabloid mags sell at checkout counters everywhere, we’ll never be rid of this lot. Even unto death will we bear witness to ev’ry foolish utterance, ev’ry fevered dream, ev’ry deranged longing, ev’ry silly scheme, till even the blessed FSM shall rend his marinara garment and cry out: “WOULD YOU GET A LIFE ALREADY?”
slag
In honor of kay, here’s what Barack Obama said about Bristol Palin in 2008:
Apparently, that’s not good enough for this prissy prima donna with a persecution complex. So, maybe someone should call Bristol directly and tell her exactly where she can get off.
Satanicpanic
No one cares about the Palins. They’re not even at Kardashian level anymore.
Kristine
If they stop, so does the money. The way they’ve been spending, they’ll blow through the current batch of sucker money in a few years, and then what?
Carol from CO
Rick Perlstein answers your question:
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-conservatives-are-still-crazy-after-all-these-years-20120316#ixzz1padJzbND
wrb
@jl:
If they need a headquarters building, this one combines their fascination and disrespect:
link
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
This thread reminds me of the bumper sticker “Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.”
pragmatism
OT, but i have been waiting for some sort of tortured explanation for the “Don’t Re-Nig” bumpersticker.
Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”
well then. case closed.
ETA this gem of “logic”:
“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”
joeyess
Because grifters gotta grift.
Also, too, because moose meat isn’t free and when Putin rears his head in their airspace for moose meat, where he go? He goes to Alaska. Ya, Alaska.
makewi
Everyone knows that only people who share your politics deserve to be treated well.
jl
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
I request an apology from you, via personal phone call. And I want one from Jesus too, for cruelly raising my expectations for love and acceptance from worthless crumb bums like you.
Yutsano
Related to this subject. Now with juicy birfer goodness!
(Warning: Hufflepuff link)
scav
@pragmatism: Well then, Ms. Smith can have no objection whatsoever to being called a bitch, given the precise dictionary definition.
kindness
I think we should all call Bristol and tell her what is on our mind. Please don’t everyone tell her it’s John Cole calling. We don’t want John sent off to Gitmo on our account of pranking Sarah’s Devil Spawn.
scav
@makewi: Well, that does sound like your Holy platform, nice of you to finally put it on a bumper sticker.
Chyron HR
@makewi:
Speaking of double standards, when are you going to tell the Tea Party to stop raping people?
slag
@jl:
Jesus saves…by calling only those with 800 numbers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I sometimes feel sorry for her, since I figure she was probably raised by the Teletubbies and a series of fourteen year olds from down the street and this was almost certainly the idea of that ex-screenwriter (I believe) who writes her mother’s drivel, but not today. Shut up, Bristol.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I sometimes feel sorry for her, since I figure she was probably raised by the Teletubbies and a series of fourteen year olds from down the street and this was almost certainly the idea of that ex-screenwriter (I believe) who writes her mother’s drivel, but not today. Shut up, Bristol.
Ken
The problem with “GOPWoW” is that people will think it is a World of Warcraft clone.
cmorenc
@Comrade Javamanphil:
Hey, lots of us also decided that Atlas Shrugged was too long to read (and a worthless exercise in masochism as well).
Ash Can
@Yutsano: If he weren’t doing so much harm to the non-white people in Arizona, I’d consider him hilarious. As it is, I just hope this birther stuff is distracting him from his usual schtick of going around terrorizing people.
pragmatism
@scav: going through the phases of wingnut grief here. first they tried to deny it. “it must be fake!” now explain away. “it’s not racist!”. next is tu quoque. then blame on MSM. then blame on obama for bringing race into this.
Satanicpanic
@Chyron HR: Just had to be in San Diego. Just the other day it was that Invisible Children guy, now this.
burnspbesq
This is the price you pay for your freedom of speech: people who should shut up get to speak, too.
Taylormattd
I wish I knew what this fucking post said, but I cannot get anything but the motherfucking, piece of shit, jacked up, fucked in the face, mobile site to load.
PurpleGirl
@Kristine: Why, they could do the responsible thing, set a good example for their children (and the country) and GET JOBS, the lazy grifters.
Culture of Truth
So… she ONLY uses racists words?
dogwood
I don’t know, but I’m getting ready to leave the country in a few weeks. I’ll be gone for a month, and I’m gonna try to go cold turkey off politics for the duration. I’ve always been pretty passionate about issues, but fairly dispassionate about politics. Frankly, I got a kick out of most of nonsense that occurs during political campaigns. I got through the 08 election without ever feeling stressed. But the crap that’s going on right now is starting to affect me, and I don’t like it. If I feel better after my trip, I just might stay disconnected until it’s over.
The Dangerman
I wonder if any of the Palin’s realize what their life would be like if McCain had actually vetted their Mom (beyond the cursory check that she had the right “plumbing”). Shit, Bristol would be asking “do you want Caribou fries with that order?” Really, she needs to grow up beyond the ability to just procreate.
shortstop
@burnspbesq: Once again we must explain to the self-vaunted “lawyer” (it’s really beyond belief how often you exhibit your professional incompetence here even as you’re thumping your little chest) that there’s a difference between censorship and criticism.
Bristol Palin has the right to air her opinion. She does not have the right to avoid mockery when she does so. A private citizen may, in perfect freedom of speech, tell another private citizen who possesses freedom of speech to “shut up.” Except in certain very narrowly defined circumstances, the government may not. Point to an example of someone in this thread asking for the latter situation — or shut up.
Martin
@pragmatism: Ah yes, the ‘there are black people, and there are niggers’ defense. The black people know their place, obviously. Obama, well, he just had to step out of his place and pretend he’s better than us by running for president.
trollhattan
@Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity:
Yup, a red king-cab with lift package parked at a Scottsdale Walmart.
I suspect the Palins are pissed at Toyota for using Tundra, which they were doubtless reserving for naming the “special one” Palin child yet to be born (seemed so obviously missing from the quiverfull of odd Palin kid names). As revenge they’ll probably name it Camry, instead.
shortstop
@The Dangerman: The Palins, especially Sarah, are truly unable to stop picking the scabs of their real and imagined wounds. I think the reason they’re demanding “vetting” of Obama is that they can’t let go of the deep, deep grievance they lie awake at night clutching when they think of all those people saying Sarah wasn’t vetted properly.
They’re not at all bummed that she was utterly unprepared for and incapable of high office. They’re just mad that people keep pointing this out. Game Change just brought all that back in the public memory, and they’re lashing out.
pragmatism
@Martin: maybe we should all pitch in and get Ms. Smith a new dictionary. the one she is using seems deficient.
Calouste
@jibeaux:
Hard to think of any royal family as thin-skinned and self-obsessed as the Palins these days. Well, not since Bokassa was desposed.
pragmatism
@trollhattan: i have a college buddy who named his kid jetta due to the locus of conception of said kid. at the shotgun wedding i asked the bride what the kid’s middle name was. she responded, “Rome”. i asked what the significance was and she said, “Rome, like as in Paris.”
The Dangerman
@shortstop:
Oh, she was vetted when she couldn’t answer softball questions (possibly also vetted a long while back, though it could have been transammed).
Citizen_X
Oh, Tbogg, you are a bad, bad man. But I love you.
shortstop
@The Dangerman: But by that time she was McCain’s running mate. No one on his team took a close look at her–on the inside, anyway–before he finalized the pick.
Redshift
@Ken:
Which makes me think that is something the Conservapedia people think should exist, but it never will, because it would require competence and effort.
Daaling
Fed Plans to Fine Eight More Banks for Foreclosure Violations
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/19/fed-plans-to-fine-eight-more-banks-for-foreclosure-violations/
Sad day for people like Taibbi and Greenwald who gloom porn addicts like Cole depend on for their daily brainwashing.
Betsy
@Soonergrunt: Thanks, I see what you are pointing out now, missed it earlier.
Ed Drone
@jl:
Yes — remember, “Country First” was just a target prioritization reminder.
Ed
dexwood
Why won’t these awful people just go away
Because they are loved by assholes like my brother-in-law who thinks the Palins are patriots and considers Bush II the greatest president ever. Family gatherings are really fun.
Punchy
@Soonergrunt: And there it is.
Kristin
I will give her one tiny bit of credit — it seems like almost every comment is getting through moderation.
mdblanche
Well sir, grifting is a funny thing. If people stop paying attention to it, pretty soon, it goes away.
Exactly. If you stop paying attention to the grifters, they’ll lose their powers.
You know, maybe a jingle would help. Don’t watch the grif– Don’t watch the…grifters-s-s. Heh. Well, it’ll sound a lot better coming out of Paul Anka.
MikeJ
@mdblanche: Guarantee void in Tennessee.
Mark B.
Well, Obama doesn’t have time to call Bristol, but maybe Ginny Thomas can give her a ring. But it will probably be a wrong number.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Maybe if Bristol would take up a cause like helping single mothers get adequate day care, and Maher went after her, Obama would call her. But “that other girl got a call and I didn’t” sounds an awful lot like “You gave my sister ice cream but not me.” I doubt that works very well around the White House.
g
@Mark S.:
I watched the video on Bristol’s site and they quickly run out of Bill Maher footage so they replay David Letterman’s A-Rod joke a couple of times.
Well, I guess she wants to make sure everyone gets a chance to hear it.
Seriously – WTF? Whine about people saying mean things about you and then give them more airplay? I guess it’s true, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
g
@slag: If I recall correctly, during the campaign Mama Grizzly rather uncharitably mischaracterized Obama’s words as asking for “hands off” for his family only, instead of what he was really saying. So as far as I’m concerned, the Palins deserve what they get.
Svensker
@Mark S.:
Perhaps when El Rushbo apologizes for calling Chelsea Clinton a dog, Maher et al can apologize for comments made about the Palin people.
In honesty, I think Bristol’s parents acted horribly by allowing their daughter to be exposed to public scrutiny the way she was. I don’t think comedians should make fun of politicians’ children. But when those children are shoved on TV and all over the internet by their folks, doing and saying stuff that’s better left in the private sphere, it makes it tough. I feel sorry for Bristol, having those thoughtless parents. Unfortunately, seems like she’s growing up to be even trashier than her mom.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@g:
I’d bet a million quatloos that Bristol had very little to do with the decision to start this. Her mother is very good at getting the howlers to feel $orry for her.
catclub
I get a 403 error if i try to comment from the excised ‘www.’ version
Jim Pharo
Because you all can’t quit talking about them, that’s why.
Ignore them! It’s the easiest thing in the world!
mdblanche
@MikeJ: D’oh!
dogwood
What I don’t understand about people like Palin and Andrew Breitbart for that matter is that they feed not only off the adoration of their followers, but the hatred of their detractors as well. I never listen to Palin, but I’ve seen a few recent pictures of her, and she looks haggard and exhausted. This crap is probably taking years off her life. I don’t think Brietbart would be dead today, if he hadn’t been addicted to this madness. Anger mixed with megalomania is a dangerous drug.
Mark S.
@catclub:
It’s annoying as hell.
@Svensker:
And last I heard, Bristol was making pretty good money pretending to be celibate. She’s not exactly trying to stay completely out of the limelight.
les
@catclub:
yeah, me too; or “Ditto,” to coin a whatever. Annoying.
Jebediah
@shortstop:
I guess I interpreted Burns’ comment a little differently… I assumed he was just saying that being annoyed by stupid, obnoxious speech is the price we pay for freedom of speech, and that stupid, obnoxious speech will always be around to plague us.
Jebediah
@shortstop:
While I am sure you are spot-on about that, I really wish she would. If they really got into it, the publicly aired dirty laundry would be amazing and very entertaining!
the fugitive uterus
well that whole “i just want to focus on being a great mom” thing didn’t last long
the fugitive uterus
@dogwood: and her hair is getting bigger and bigger
TenguPhule
Corrected for accuracy.
Bruce S
I hate you and that TBogg guy for “making me” read that. Also myself, for letting you.
SiubhanDuinne
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Certainly not as long as Michelle and Mama Robinson have anything to say about it.
Anya
Am I the only one who’s offended by TBogg’s title? I didn’t even read the post because with a title like that…………
Go ahead, call me names, but I think one should have higher standards than the person they’re mocking.
TBogg
@Anya: Yeah, well, that ain’t gonna happen…
Smiling Mortician
@Anya:
Nope. Somebody over at his place was also quite vexed. Unless that was you.
Mr Stagger Lee
So in 2024 we’re looking at Bristol vs Chelsea presidential contest?
Anya
@TBogg: You are better and more creative than that title, TBogg. I expect better from you. Palins, not so much.
@Smiling Mortician: No. I didn’t read the article, let alone comments. Also, too, I refuse to sign at FDL.
debbie
@ Mark S.:
I remember Letterman’s apology. It was definitely profuse. I bet he then chewed the hell out of the writer who wrote the joke without verifying which daughter it was at the ball game.
AxelFoley
@shortstop:
Pwn’d
Mnemosyne
@EriktheRed:
That really is Bristol doing … something in that video, but I don’t think you can honestly call it “dancing.”
gene108
@jl:
Thanks for the edit.
I thought GOP WoW was a World of Warcraft Guild for Republicans.
Patrick Phelan
I really can’t agree with the “we should just ignore them” business. I mean, I agree that it would work if everyone in the world did it, but everyone in the world is not gonna do it. I think what would happen if we – and I’ll go so far as to assume you could get everyone on every liberal or nominally liberal blog to agree to look the other way and whistle whenever one of these people posts something stupid in public – ignored them is this: they would continue posting stupid things, the news media would continue chasing them dog-vs-stick style, and they wouldn’t then go home and sigh “but it is all worthless, because I didn’t get frontpaged on FDL”.
I agree that they get a bit more attention from people pointing and laughing, but at least that gives us some schadenfreude, and reinforces that we really shouldn’t worry about whether people associated with them have good ideas or not. That much is worth the minor downside.