What Do Britney Spears and Sarah Palin Have In Common?
Besides gender? They are both famous for being famous. Seems Gov. Palin is about to pimp out her status as the most historically and politically illiterate vice-presidential candidate of all time for big bucks:
SARAH Palin won’t be vice president, but she won the hearts of talent scouts and literary agents who are scrambling to sign her to multimillion-dollar contracts.
CAA, ICM, William Morris, Paradigm and other agencies “smell books, talk shows and commentary for Fox and CNN” as possibilities for the Alaska governor, West Coast PR man Hal Lifson told us.
Eagleburger Recants His Anti-Palin Remarks
The McCain people must have whipped him good and proper, because he went on Fox this morning and groveled in the most abject fashion imaginable.
OMIGAWDZ!@ THEYZ INFRINGING ON TEH CONSTITUTIONZ!@#!!one!!
You know, Sarah Palin…
ABC News’ Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.
Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.
…is dumb. She’s just so incredibly, beyond the pale fucking stupid.
Captain Picard became so exhausted with all the face palming she’s induced every time she opens her trap, he’s ordered Riker to relieve him.
Sweet pancake flippin Jesus, somebody shut this lady up before she stupifies us all.
If Wishes Were Horses, McCain Would Have Picked Abe Lincoln for VP
James Joyner reacts to the numerous recent stories that Sarah Palin is becoming more of a liability to McCain’s candidacy by the day — or maybe the hour:
Robert Kagan on Bribing Sunni Fighters: It Worked, Didn’t It?
Spiegel Online interviews Robert Kagan in its current issue. The conversation turns to “the surge” in Iraq (emphasis mine):
Sarah Palin: Bombing Abortion Clinics Is Not Domestic Terrorism
A few days ago, in the same interview in which Sarah Palin defined “elites” as people “who think they’re better than anyone else,” there was this interesting exchange:
No Post-Abortion Guilt Here
I’ve had two abortions, and I feel no guilt whatsoever. I am told by Kevin Burke, however, that I am “repressing powerful feelings of guilt, grief, and shame,” and that is why I can’t stand Sarah Palin:
Palin and McCain Define “The Elites”
The question: Who is a member of the elite?
Sarah Palin: The Vice-President Is in Charge of the Senate
I never thought there could be a bright side to Sarah Palin running for vice-president, but turns out there is one: She could be a second grade teacher. That would be worse:
Via Think Progress.
Sarah Palin, the Non-Judgmental Homophobe
From Think Progress:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has said he opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the Constitution to ban marriage equality, because he believes it is an issue to be left up to states. In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) broke with McCain and strongly supported the amendment:
PALIN: [I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that’s where we would go because I don’t support gay marriage. I’m not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can’t do, should and should not do.
Sarah Palin: Geography- and Truth-Challenged
It’s amazing how much of the United States Sarah Palin can see from Alaska:
Sarah Palin and Abortion
Yesterday, Sarah Palin ended her attempts to play down her support for forced childbirth, and gave an impassioned sermon on the gospel of Fetus Worship to an adoring crowd in Johnstown, Pennsylvania:
Country Last
McCain and Palin are apparently now fighting over whether to continue inciting mobs of supporters to violence, or not. The last paragraph in the quote below (from the London Times) says it all:
With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign.
McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies.
Mark Salter, McCain’s long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an “honourable defeat” rather than conduct a campaign that would be out of character – and likely to lose him the election. Palin, 44, has led the character attacks on Obama in the belief that McCain may be throwing away the election and her chance of becoming vice-president. Her supporters think that if the Republican ticket loses on November 4, she should run for president in 2012.
Harriet, meet your match
Since I always love pointing out just how friggen smart I am, in light of Palin and Troopergate soon to explode on a Sunday paper near you I’d like to quote something I said here concerning what is now named Troopergate. From August 29, 2008, the day Palin was named to the ticket:
I’ve been blogging for a while, and I can smell big stories from a mile away. The pundits on cable news may be singing praises for McCain’s choice right now, but trust me, the old man f—–d up big time. Gov. Palin will be McCain’s Harriet Myers.
For the first month of the McCain/Palin ticket, it looked like I might have to eat those words. But the iniquities of Sarah Palin have come home to roost. This is what happens when you chose a nominee who is currently under investigation. The Troopergate report is a huge embarrassment to the McCain campaign at a time when they least needed it — it’ll be pretty tough to push those BS Ayers, Acorn, and socialist storylines now that Palin is revealed to have abused her powers as governor. After this weekend, McCain will wish the economy was on the frontpage more often.
Harriet Myers demonstrated just how inept one Republican politician was. Unfortunately, that politician was the sitting president and no scandal could eject him from office. Sarah Palin, in the otherhand, has far more power to effect the fate of another Republican politician — much to his chagrin. I’d feel sorry for him, but quite frankly, I hate the f–king guy. Screw McCain: he’s only getting what he deserves.
Pulling Out All the Stops
In organ music terminology, a “stop” is both a set of pipes, all tuned to the same note, that play simultaneously when the organist presses any key on the keyboard, and the knob or handle that activates each set of pipes. When an organist pulls out a stop, she activates the pipes associated with that stop.
Ripping the Mask Off
First, watch the video (via Blogger Interrupted):
And Here I Thought They Were Fighting for Oil
Here is Glenn Greenwald on Sarah Palin’s response to an anti-war protester at her rally in Florida today:
Listening to a Sarah Palin rally is like visiting a museum exhibit of every empty, trite, manipulative right-wing political slogan from the last three decades. Today, an anti-war heckler interrupted her speech in Florida and this is how she responded, to cheers from right-wing throngs both at the rally and around the nation:
Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest.
Right, because if Saddam Hussein had remained in power in Iraq — or if we were no longer occupying the country — then the U.S. would have been invaded by the Iraqi Army by now and we’d be living under the tyrannical rule of Ace of Clubs Quasy and Ace of Hearts Uday (and Five of Hearts Dr. Germ and cardless Mrs. Anthrax) and they would have abolished our First Amendment rights of speech and assembly. So that’s exactly what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq: “fighting for our right to protest.” And those who oppose that war, therefore, are unwilling to Fight for Our Freedoms. And Freedom is on the March.That may be the motive driving many, perhaps most, citizens who join the military. But even under the most romanticized vision, whatever it is that we’re doing in Iraq, fighting for our “right to protest” quite plainly isn’t it.