Yes… Yes… Give In To The Dark Side…
Sarah Palin’s been unleashed.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
“What newspapers do you read” and “what Supreme Court cases do you disagree with” are not liberal or conservative questions – they are questions about a person’s preferences.
Most commenters on this site could answer the newspaper one with approximately a half-second of thought, and probably the Supreme Court one, too.
Perhaps Palin’s new motto should be “if you don’t know the answer, blame the question.”
Is this the Barney Frank “criticizing Democrats for enabling Fannie and Freddie to collapse on the back of monumentally stupid lending policies is racist” brand of racism, or is it the Joe Biden “articulate, clean, and bright” brand of racism?
You know, since you move the line every damn day, it’s really kind of hard to tell.
Dance for me Sarah! Dance!
So awesome. Every time she opens her mouth, more Republicans decide they won’t vote, or will vote for Barr this November.
Thank you Sarah! Thank you!
And you should really find a better picture of Joe Biden – he had those wrinkles taken care of, y’know.
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You can put lipstick on a secessionist, but she’s still a secessionist. Nice pic BTW- racism rears its ugly head.
Wow, props to my friend, who said the day after she got nominated how much she reminded him of Greg Stillson. It’s getting eerie.
Actually I think a picture of somebody in a WHITE hood would be a better illustration for a post about Palin.
Republicans scream racist crap at rally = Dog bites man.
Is this the Barney Frank “criticizing Democrats for enabling Fannie and Freddie to collapse on the back of monumentally stupid lending policies is racist” brand of racism, or is it the Joe Biden “articulate, clean, and bright” brand of racism?
Read it again, Matt. This is the “call a working black man a ni88er and a boy” old-fashioned redneck kind of racism.
Maybe Ms. Palin is taking the gloves off, but her admirers are keeping their pointy hoods on.
I absolutely love this bit from OW’s link-
McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”
‘Isn’t discussed more?’ Governor, where were you last March, April, May and June? Jupiter? Jeremiah Wright is now the OJ case of presidential politics. His exposure is somewhere slightly to the south of Coca-cola.
When Sarah Palin said:
I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.
She really meant:
I’m losing. Can we talk about Jerimiah Wright? Why aren’t we still talking about that gosh darn it! Say it ain’t so, Jimmy Willkers! I’m losing! Jerimiah Wright! Jerimiah Wright! William Ayers! He’s Muslim! He’s Black!”
McCain and Palins hypocrisy and transparent attempt at smearing will focus back onto them. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers and his wife where charged but never convicted. His anti-war philosophy, although very radical at the time was unpopular but he was not involved in blowing up toilets in federal buildings himself. Ayers was voted as Chicago’s citizen of the year for his work on teaching school children peace and funding raising for impoverish communities in need of school supplies. I think it’s safe to say if he is a terrorist in this day and age, he’d be in Guantanamo right now.
However, the Palins have no excuse. I’m sure they wouldn’t like voters seeing video of Todd Palin’s mentor and peer member Joe Vogler founder of AIP and Governor Palin’s warm welcome to the AIP into her Governorship in her own words captured on news archives along with Vogler in his own words here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYqRfp6-x8
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.
“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”-Joe Vogler.
For the FOX News and dittoheads out there:
# Fannie and Freddie didn’t issue bad mortgages
# Fannie and Freddie didn’t package them into incomprehensible securities
# Fannie and Freddie were private companies that had shareholder-elected boards of directors
# 50% of subprime loans were made by originators that didn’t have any CRA review at all
# Another 30% of subprime loans were made by institutions that had limited CRA review
# CRA review had only one practical consequence: a limitation on mergers
# Congress was controlled completely by Republicans from 1995-2007 (except for a brief period of Senate control by Democrats in 2001-3
# The presidency was controlled by Republicans from 2001-7
# The regulator of Fannie/Freddie, OFHEO, was an Executive branch agency
# The problems at Fannie and Freddie were undercapitalization
# The first hint of problems at Fannie and Freddie came in 2003, and had to do with inflating earnings, not with lending standards
For more, go to http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/misunderstandin.html#more
and
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008104001/cra-blood-libel
I know, I know, it’s much more fun to be like Neil Cavuto and blame poor urban blacks for this. But hey, even Republicans have to deal with the truth without sugarcoating it with a comforting racism that falsely absolves their heroes (such as Phil Gramm).
No, no, its not racist if they do it. Its ultra-patriotism! Seriously though, she’s a pretty hideous talking points parrot with a nasty streak. Her selection for this race has been truly bizarre. I can’t wait for November 5 when she packs up her stupid self and disappears back to Alaska again. By the way, her approval ratings at home have taken a huge hit since she became a national phenomenon. Methinks her own peeps didn’t even really know her or just how slow-witted she is.
OW, Sick Sally isn’t even remotely in the class of Emperor Palpatine.
I’d think of her as more of a Jar Jar Binks type…