Sarah Palin is back home on Fox News, sending a thrill up Sean Hannity’s leg by endorsing the view that we’re on the road to the socialism.
Look, I’m not one of those people who pretends as if the Republican party or conservatism on a whole was ever sane, rational, or respectable — but it says oodles about the right when a moron like Sarah Palin isn’t laughed off of tv and the political stage.
And to preempt the conservative caterwaulers, yes, this post shows how scared we are of Sarah Palin. Just like we were scared last year before President Obama and Joe Biden kicked her rear from coast to coast.
How’s that $750 Billion stimulus working out for ya? Not to mention the trillions more in debt. So far team Democrat is an EPIC FAIL.
“Look, I’m not one of those people who pretends as if the Republican party or conservatism on a whole was ever sane, rational, or respectable”
“Point out a lying conservative, and they lose their mess and get personally destructive.”
Hard to believe both these lines came from you, sheep.
How’s that $750 Billion stimulus working out for ya?
So far, so good, in fact. It was and is too small, but is still infinitely better than nothing, given the circumstances. Or didn’t you realize that the war that helped create the modern American economy entailed massive government deficit spending?
But on point, I wonder how many conservatives still seriously consider her a legitimate 2012 candidate.
She makes Miss South Carolina look absolutely eloquent.
Hark–Sarah Palin, the most socialist governor in these United States– speaks. I guess it was okay a couple of years ago for her to happily consider Alaska “the most socialist state” when she was able to hand those checks out to every man woman and child in Alaska. But now since she wants to be president in that evil, not pro-American place–D.C.– Not so great teh socialism.
She’s funny ’cause she’s dumb and vapid.
channeling right winger “Amused Observer”:
‘But, but, but, ignorant, secessionist loving, anti-evolution, money-wasting shopaholic Republican Sarah Palin merited her anointment to the Republican Vice Presidential Candidacy!’
It’s astonishing that “Amused Observer” can passionately support an incompetent pol like Republican Sarah Palin and then claim he’s a true believer in a ‘meritocracy’ with a straight face.
[double facepalm]
This “sceer’d of SP” meme is one of my all-time favorites from the Palinoid right.
No, they are afraid of US, and are just hiding behind Nanny State Sarah’s skirts. They think everyone’s lives are ruled by fear, like theirs.
Writeoffs.
But on point, I wonder how many conservatives still seriously consider her a legitimate 2012 candidate.
Those most chronically deluded of all. Then again, there are a lot of chronically deluded people in this country.
oh, sorry if that didn’t come off supportive
SARAH PALIN / MICHAEL STEELE 2012!
[please, oh, please, oh, please!-]
Its a pity she wasn’t running for President. She would be a much steadier hand at the wheel than Obama. Much more experienced too. We would be expanding our energy production and I doubt she would have increased the public debt by 400% over Bushes spending spree like Obama did. But to Oliver she is a moron.
The ‘Thrill up the leg’ phrase is now 100% owned and operated by the liberal media for their worship and adoration of ‘He’s sort of like God’ Barack Obama.
It can no longer apply to anyone else.
Hard to believe both these lines came from you, sheep.
Yes, except unlike Whelan I’m not lying about the fact that Palin is stupid. Just listen to the babble that leaks out of her face.
The ‘Thrill up the leg’ phrase is now 100% owned and operated by the liberal media
Actually the phrase is from Chris Matthews who has been equally breathless about Bush and McCain. He’s a big fan of the mancrush.
Its a pity she wasn’t running for President.
We can always hope. Barack Obama debating Sarah Palin? I would pay big dough to see that.
Say, how do ya think she woulda done speakin’ in Cairo? (Wink) Probably better than Obama, doncha think?
‘In what respect, Charlie?’
Its a pity she wasn’t running for President. She would be a much steadier hand at the wheel than Obama.
Ah yes, the logic wholly onwed by the marginal. Have some more rope, son.
Dennis: The ‘Thrill up the leg’ phrase is now 100% owned and operated by the liberal media for their worship and adoration of ‘He’s sort of like God’ Barack Obama.
Obama as “The One/The Messiah” is an idea 100% pushed by the “conservative” side. A non-existant idea that they push so they then have something to point their fingers at.
Barack Obama debating Sarah Palin?
That would be like Hulk Hogan vs. Herve Villechaize. A MASSACRE.
matt621: “‘Look, I’m not one of those people who pretends as if the Republican party or conservatism on a whole was ever sane, rational, or respectable’
‘Point out a lying conservative, and they lose their mess and get personally destructive.’
Hard to believe both these lines came from you, sheep.”
In what regard? They seem quite logically consistent to me.
That would be like Hulk Hogan vs. Herve Villechaize. A MASSACRE.
In a debate? That might be closer than it looks.*
*Herve’s non-living status. not withstanding.
“All of ‘em, any of ‘em that have been in front of me over all these years.”
Interesting…
Considering she’s right and what she and McCain warned about is actually taking place.
Obama’s down in the 40’s in the public view on his handling of government spending and handling the deficit. It means, people are finally seeing through media arse kissing and the “We inherited…” excuse is no longer flying.
The whole “She’s stupid” meme is incredibly lame. Get some new material.
Obama as “The One/The Messiah” is an idea 100% pushed by the “conservative” side. A non-existant idea that they push so they then have something to point their fingers at.
Yes, it was coined because of the cult-like following that Obama had built up during the campaign. It was spooky. I saw some of these people up close and if you dared to criticize Obama you were set upon by wild jackals who wanted to tear you to shreds because you didn’t believe in the Hopey Change!
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,”
“So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”
It is amusing that so many people consider Governor Palin to be ‘uninformed’ or ‘lacking in curiosity’ and appealing only to a fringe on the far Right of the GOP and to religious conservatives. I find it is my liberal friends who are ‘uninformed’ about Palin. For instance they are always surprised to find that Palin’s bitterest opponents in Alaska are on the far Right of the GOP and that her most supportive allies have been Democrats. They are astonshised to discover that she risked the wrath of religious conservatives to protect the acquired rights of same-sex couples in Alaska. Likewise they look at me as if I had two heads when I explain that Governor Palin was the first Governor to set up a cabinet sub-committe to look at climate change and has the most ambitious ‘Green Enery’ plan among all the states of the Union. The ignorance and sheer lack of curiosity among liberals never ceases to amaze me.
It is amusing that so many people consider Governor Palin to be ‘uninformed’ or ‘lacking in curiosity’ and appealing only to a fringe on the far Right of the GOP and to religious conservatives.
Yeah, its almost we went through a multi-month multi-million dollar election campaign involving interviews and debates and other investigations and profiles of the candidates and came to the conclusion based on what she regularly said that sarah palin was a kook.
Yes, it was coined because of the cult-like following that Obama had built up during the campaign. It was spooky. I saw some of these people up close and if you dared to criticize Obama you were set upon by wild jackals who wanted to tear you to shreds because you didn’t believe in the Hopey Change!
Yep, I remember seeing a bunch of brainwashed children worshipping a cardboard cut-out of Obama.
Oh wait…
the “We inherited…” excuse is no longer flying.
So you’re saying that Obama destroyed the economy 4 months before he took office? That’s powerful as hell.
The whole “She’s stupid” meme is incredibly lame. Get some new material.
You’re right? How can anyone who reads every newspaper in the world be stupid?
Go home and play with AO, Jay, the grown-ups are talking right now.
Obama as “The One/The Messiah” is an idea 100% pushed by the “conservative” side. A non-existant idea that they push so they then have something to point their fingers at. –Sean D Martin
I beg to differ, Sean, but we’ve been over this too many times.
Just last week Evan Thomas, another Obama-adoring liberal journalist, if you’ll excuse the double redundancy, said that He was ’sort of God’.
At the very least this disproves your 100% figure. In reality, it’s just another in a very long list of Obama as the Messiah/The One references from His subservient media personnel. The state-controlled media, if you will.
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Actually the phrase is from Chris Matthews who has been equally breathless about Bush and McCain. He’s a big fan of the mancrush. OW
Debatable. Even accepting your premise, the ‘thrill running down his leg’ will be forever linked to the liberal media’s crush on Obama. It’s all yours.
And now, So is the term ‘hatef*ck’. Which by the way, I wonder why Sarah Palin didn’t make you guys’ famous hate-list of extreme liberal misogyny. Certainly couldn’t have been out of respect.
I wonder why Sarah Palin didn’t make you guys’ famous hate-list of extreme liberal misogyny
What list is that?
It is amusing that so many people consider Governor Palin to be ‘uninformed’ or ‘lacking in curiosity’ and appealing only to a fringe on the far Right of the GOP and to religious conservatives.
Do you believe we came to that conclusion because someone told us to, or because we watched her appalling stupid responses to simple questions? Your denial approaches pathological. What is it about her that you LIKE? Her wonderful family? Her use of the governor’s office to settle personal vendettas? The fact that Alaska is a socialist state that sends checks to every resident and gets $2 in federal funds for every dollar they pay in taxes?
California should be so lucky. Pretty easy to balance the books when you get more back than you send out, isn’t it?
Redneck Rider, it speaks volumes about liberal blogging and liberal bloggers in general that you have no idea what the list of ‘conservative women liberals would most like to hatef*ck’ is. As much as some lib bloggers scour the internet daily looking for any indication of conservative hate speech, you’d think they’d speak out against such an obscenely misogynistic display of liberal trash. Especially the ones who so quickly squawk about intellectual dishonesty in conservatives.
Jay Caruso: “The whole ‘She’s stupid’ meme is incredibly lame. Get some new material.”
We will stop calling her stupid when she stops acting stupid.
Does that work for you?
Debatable. Even accepting your premise, the ‘thrill running down his leg’ will be forever linked to the liberal media’s crush on Obama. It’s all yours.
Hey, we’re not the one who wanted to “teabag” Obama.
California should be so lucky. Pretty easy to balance the books when you get more back than you send out, isn’t it? Redneck Rider
Lucky is being a government worker in California, Repack. I don’t think Sarah Palin or Alaskans would stand for the kinds of salaries and overtime opportunities that many government workers bring home in the Golden State. Look at this list of salaries of San Francisco government workers.
I left My Heart (And Fat Public-Employee Paycheck) In San Francisco
Or this oen: Highest Paid Workers Outside UC System
Why several investment officers fpr Cal Pers and Cal Sters need to be making $600k in this crappy environment is not so bewildering as why the same liberal bloggers who decried the bonuses at AIG and the evil bankers who were making so much money aren’t questioning the same exorbitant salaries from government investment personnel.
And for the real shocker, look at these salaries of medical personnel in the UC System.
Something tells me Alaska doesn’t allow the same kind of government waste as California does.
Yeah, I mean its like Alaskans take government checks while California is one of the largest economies in the world and is ground zero for the largest growth industry on the planet in the last 3 decades or something.
Dennis: I beg to differ, Sean, but we’ve been over this too many times.
Just last week Evan Thomas, another Obama-adoring liberal journalist, if you’ll excuse the double redundancy, said that He was ’sort of God’.
At the very least this disproves your 100% figure.
Yeah, I actually had “essentially 100%” originally but removed the qualifier before hitting the Submit button. I figured if you could claim the Obama=God idea is “100% owned and operated by the liberal media” then I could speak in absolutes, too.
Fact remains tho, despite your claims otherwise, it is not an idea touted by the vast majority of the people who voted for Obama. Yes, many were/are very enthusiastic supporters but that’s a far cry from the blind worship you and others on the right like to claim is the norm just so you can then dismiss all supporters as irrational. It is the equivalent of pointing to the one person in a crowd who likes wears glasses and then claiming everyone has vision problems.
But, then, its those who have difficulty accepting reality or seeing anything more complicated than black/white that would make such obviously false statements like journalist is synonymous with liberal.
Obama’s down in the 40’s in the public view on his handling of government spending and handling the deficit.
And what is that in non-juiced Rasmussen polling? Not quite as bad, and with a 61% job approval rating, averaging somewhere in the 58% territory (higher if you filter out crap like Rassmussen and Zogby). I’ll take it compared to our last resident, Mr. 23%.
The whole “She’s stupid” meme is incredibly lame. Get some new material.
Tell Sarah Palin to stop saying stupid things.
In what respect, Charlie?
it speaks volumes about liberal blogging and liberal bloggers in general that you have no idea what the list of ‘conservative women liberals would most like to hatef*ck’
What responsibility do I and other liberals have for words we don’t agree with and reject universally?
How does something I didn’t say and do not agree with reflect on me? It speaks volumes about your unique form of insanity to suggest that it does.
Dennis the Bigot: “Lucky is being a government worker in California, Repack. I don’t think Sarah Palin or Alaskans would stand for…”
People like you who change the subject.
Alaska lives on Government welfare, while California helps pay for Red States. You can’t deny that, so you are just going to ignore it and hope we don’t notice.
Something tells me Alaska doesn’t allow the same kind of government waste as California does.
Something tells me that you don’t know one way or another, but that doesn’t even slow you down.
How about Sarah Palin charging the state per diem travel pay while she lives in her own house? Having the state pay for private travel for her kids?
The whole “She’s stupid” meme is incredibly lame. Get some new material
Its been said before but conservatives creat and worship “heroes” more than any political stripe I have encountered. Just stop with “she is not stupid”. The evidence(actions, words and socially childish gestures) suggest a immature and stupid woman. I know it burns conservatives up that they must worship the stupid constantly. I am sure she is a nice woman but stop allowing your blind worship cloud the most obvious.
LOL Repack,
You’re old enough to probably know better.
“The fact that Alaska is a socialist state that sends checks to every resident and gets $2 in federal funds for every dollar they pay in taxes?
California should be so lucky. Pretty easy to balance the books when you get more back than you send out, isn’t it?”
The Alaskans were wise enough to understand human nature, specifically the human nature of politicians and government workers. Why not explain to the people here what that means. Unless of course…
“Something tells me that you don’t know one way or another, but that doesn’t even slow you down.”
Cons love stupid leaders and attack every college professor as “elite” They want every child to be homeschooled with a Biblical curriculum
Well, to borrow a phrase from a top tier political blogger, you guys told me that if I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin, we’d have a bumbling idiot moron for a Vice President.
And guess what, you were right.
How about Sarah Palin charging the state per diem travel pay while she lives in her own house? Having the state pay for private travel for her kids?
Yeah, having taxpayers foot the bill for the kids to travel is so wrong. Where’s the outrage?
Republican Sarah Palin is a socialist.
She takes money from corporations and the Federal government and gives it to the Alaskan citizenry.
Last I read, most Republican Red States were Socialist Welfare Recipients.
Right winger “Jay”:
“…the cult-like following that” Sarah Palin “had built up during the campaign. It was spooky. I saw some of these people up close and if you dared to criticize” Sarah Palin “you were set upon by wild jackals who wanted to tear you to shreds because you didn’t believe in” God’s divine plan for Republican Sarah Palin to become President.
Republican Sarah Palin was the right wing’s weapon against Witches!
http://google.com/search?q=Sarah+Palin+witchcraft
Republican Sarah Palin was also the right wing’s weapon against evolution!
http://google.com/search?q=Sarah+Palin+evolution+Dinosaurs
Republican voters sure distinguished themselves in their march against Witchcraft and their push to have Dinosaurs accepted as existing contemporaneously with humanity!
And. Also!
Amused 0: The Alaskans were wise enough to understand human nature, specifically the human nature of politicians and government workers. Why not explain to the people here what that means.
Well, for one thing it means you clearly have no objection to welfare, government handouts or people who game the system. I’m sure we’ll never see an comment from you in the future complaining about those.
Or is that only something to object to in blue states and/or when a Dem is in the White House?
SaveFarris: Yeah, having taxpayers foot the bill for the kids to travel is so wrong. Where’s the outrage?
Translation: I’m incapable of admitting my side is wrong, so I’ll instead I’ll “Look! Over there!” while linking to an article that provides no support for the claim I’m making.
Fact remains tho, despite your claims otherwise, it is not an idea touted by the vast majority of the people who voted for Obama. Yes, many were/are very enthusiastic supporters but that’s a far cry from the blind worship you and others on the right like to claim is the norm just so you can then dismiss all supporters as irrational., Sean D. Martin
It’s hardly something conservatives created out of whole cloth, either, Sean. Seems Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush did. Not that I care, but liberals sure did when Bush did it, now you don’t hear a peep from them with Obama. Same with the Jesus references and imagery that emanated from the Obama camp and his followers and from other Democratic supporters= liberals were all too willing to overlook them. So that when conservatives seized upon them, liberals inexplicably counter that this was all part of a scheme concocted by liberals to paint Obama as the Messiah. It wasn’t.
Obama still plays the game, just not as directly.
People like News Idiot still are obsessed with Sarah Palin’s appeal to Christians, but never bat an eye with Obama’s increasingly frequent references to Jesus.
Go figure.
LOL,
“Well, for one thing it means you clearly have no objection to welfare, government handouts or people who game the system. I’m sure we’ll never see an comment from you in the future complaining about those.”
Sean you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I’ll give you a few clues. It all has to do with whose money is it anyway and at the risk of repeating myself…The Alaskans were wise enough to understand human nature, specifically the human nature of politicians and government workers.
There have been liberals that have expressed disappointment at Obama’s regular invocation of God.
Other liberals are delighted that a true follower of Christ is in the Office of the Presidency.
Liberals were angry when Republican President Bush declared a Crusade and then lied US into a war that was sold to right wingers as a Holy War even while Republicans were looting the treasury.
Republicans worship a Serpent that named ‘Jesus Christ.’
Are the stars on the Republican elephant icon still upside down?
Right wingers don’t worship Jesus Christ.
Right wingers worship a Serpent they named ‘Jesus Christ’.
People like News Idiot still are obsessed with Sarah Palin’s appeal to Christians, but never bat an eye with Obama’s increasingly frequent references to Jesus.
A great many of us recognize that he talks that way because there are a bunch of uninformed people who still think he’s a muslim.
There have been liberals that have expressed disappointment at Obama’s regular invocation of God. –News Idiot
Expressed disappointment. Good one, News Idiot. You must mean the trademark quiet disapproval liberals were so well known for the last eight years? Or something.
A great many of us recognize that he talks that way because there are a bunch of uninformed people who still think he’s a muslim.
–Duros
Maybe it’s one of the reasons, Duros, but it’s not the reason, or even the main reason. But if you believe that’s the case, then you must think that He thinks that His reputation as The Messiah or The One is less damaging politically than is the lingering perception that he is a Muslim. Otherwise he’d cool it the Jesus talk.
You seem to want it both ways.
Duplicitous right winger “Dennis” is so cute. He’s demanding that liberals get mad at Obama for Obama’s Christianity.
And right winger “Dennis” is mad that liberals aren’t mad at Obama’s Christianity.
Christ is/was a liberal, you know.
And where were you Dennis when the right wing were falsely painting Obama with the Muslim brush?
“Duros62″ is right. There are still a lot of right wing lunatics that still have crazy ideas and the only way to combat that ignorance is to repeatedly, repeatedly correct it.
And lastly where were you, “Dennis”, when Republicans declared an unholy Crusade and funneled tax dollars to their fanatic religious supporters?
Oh, that’s right, you’ve been one of Republican’s loudest cheerleaders.
You’re clearly not a religious person, “Dennis”, but you should do some reading on “ethics”.
He’s demanding that liberals get mad at Obama for Obama’s Christianity. News Idiot
I made no such demand, NI. I’m just saying your silence on the subject is quite deafening, especially since you are so anxious about making religious charges against Bush and Palin.
Christ is/was a liberal, you know.</i?
No, I don’t know that. And neither do you.
And where were you Dennis when the right wing were falsely painting Obama with the Muslim brush?
Like his current Secretary of State, Hillary ‘White Power’ Clinton, as one liberal blogger referred to her as, I think rumors of his being a Muslim are untrue, ‘as far as I know’.
Dennis: …but never bat an eye with Obama’s increasingly frequent references to Jesus.
I don’t know about the “increasingly frequent” part and would be interested in seeing you support that.
But, in any event, let’s compare the number of times Obama has mentioned his Christian faith to the number of times he’s been accused of being a Muslim.
Amused 0: Sean you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I’ll give you a few clues. It all has to do with whose money is it anyway
Enlighten me then. Just whose money is it that the Alaskans are taking? Because with nearly twice as much coming in as is being paid out in taxes, it clearly isn’t theirs.
Sean, I am taking the frequency from the Politico article I linked to above. If you want to dispute that, fine with me. What I meant by increasing frequency is his use of Bible references now as detailed in the article vs. when he was campaigning. Excuse me, make that ‘now vs. before he was President’.
You can compare the number of times he invokes Jesus to whatever number you want to assign to how much he’s been accused of being a Muslim, but if you do, you should also compare the number of times he makes the Jesus reference to the number of times Palin has, and whether or not the way the left has freaked out over her use is in any way comparable or justified given their relative silence over Obama’s use of religious references.
Given that many of you, especially liberal bloggers, are still so weirdly obsessed and frightened by this woman who is only a mere governor in a far away, thinly populated state like Alaska, I would think a President using religious references just as much if not more would be the one you’d be more likely to express your concern over.
Or am I being too rational in my thinking?
Liberal misogyny continues to rear it’s ugly head regarding Sarah Palin.
Letterman: Palin Updated Her “Slutty Flight Attendant” Look
She’s ‘Very Much Like Herpes’
Letterman on Sarah Palin’s Daughter…”Getting knocked up by A-Rod”.
Further down the sinkhole they go.
Dennis, those quotes are from comedians, not politicians…you do understand the difference?
As I said in reference to ex-Governor, former President Bush: You can call Governor Palin a moron, when you have governed a state the size of Alaska, and done such a good job of it that she looks like a moron compared to you.
Until then , Methinks thou dost protest too much
She’s got you scared, huh?
you do understand the difference? TG
Yeah, I think I do understand the difference. What, pray tell, is your point? Shitty jokes, and highly demeaning to women. Letterman was talking about Palin’s 13 year old daughter getting knocked up by a professional baseball player. Do you call that comedy, and if you do, does that excuse his being a far-left, classless liberal asshole who would lower himself that way just to make his audience chuckle?
You can call Governor Palin a moron, when you have governed a state the size of Alaska, and done such a good job of it that she looks like a moron compared to you.
Not to mention, Sarah Palin has ‘created or saved’ 300,000 jobs.
Dennis: Given that many of you, especially liberal bloggers, are still so
weirdly obsessed and frightenedamused by this woman who is only a mere governor in a far away, thinly populated state like Alaska…Fixed that fer ya, you betcha.
Ok, Sean. Amused, as well as weirdly obsessed and frightened. I was amused too by Al Gore when he gained a thousand pounds, grew a beard and started screaming at the top of his lungs about Bush betraaaaaay-ing his country, but other than that I didn’t care to spend too much time thinking about him. Same with John Kerry and John Edwards. Politicians, comedians, rappers, journalists and conservative bloggers didn’t either. Nowhere near the degree that same group obsesses over Palin. It can’t possibly be over mere amusement.
Could it be that the unhinged left still hasn’t quite healed themselves even after winning the election? What gives?
Frank: “She’s got you scared, huh?”
No. No she does not. She was a drag on the GOP ticket in 2008, and she shows no sign of becoming a more viable candidate in 2012.
If she’s on the top of the ticket, Obama will be re-elected with an even wider margin.
yes, dennis, it’s called comedy. As in humor. Of course I do understand that conservatives don’t get humor and irony often.
The reason why the jokes are made, Dennis, is because the person being made fun of gave the joke writer ample opportunity to make the joke in the first place.
Palin runs around preaching there should be no sex-ed and abstinence only should be taught in school, and her own daughter gets knocked up.
This is the stuff that joke writers dream about. Of course you don’t think it’s funny, but that’s understandable. Your hero is being mocked, rightfully so, but you think this is the same as being a woman hater. You didn’t see Hilary Clinton cry about all the jokes made at her expense, did you?
If Sarah Palin cannot stand a simple late night TV joke,
then how can she stand up to North Korea and Iran?
Sean,
“Enlighten me then. Just whose money is it that the Alaskans are taking? Because with nearly twice as much coming in as is being paid out in taxes, it clearly isn’t theirs.”
Wrong again. Strange that people are shooting off thier mouth about things that they know nothing about.
Why do you suppose Alaska has received so much federal money besides having (had) great seniority in Congress?
Why do you suppose Alaskans send so little in comparison into the Federal coffers?
Sarah Palin was treated extremely poorly by liberals and the liberal press( yes, yes, I know it doesn’t exist). Things were said about her that were beyond the pale.
Alaska is a far different place than the lower 48 and most of what I’ve read in the national media makes clear they don’t even come close to understanding what they’re commenting on. So here in OllieLand it is even more noise with even less knowledge. In short you folks have no idea what you’re talking about.
Sean,
“Enlighten me then. Just whose money is it that the Alaskans are taking? Because with nearly twice as much coming in as is being paid out in taxes, it clearly isn’t theirs.”
Wrong again. Strange that people are shooting off thier mouth about things that they know nothing about.
Why do you suppose Alaska has received so much federal money besides having (had) great seniority in Congress?
Why do you suppose Alaskans send so little in comparison into the Federal coffers?
Sarah Palin was treated extremely poorly by liberals and the liberal press( yes, yes, I know it doesn’t exist). Things were said about her that were beyond the pale.
Alaska is a far different place than the lower 48 and most of what I’ve read in the national media makes clear they don’t even come close to understanding what they’re commenting on. So here in OllieLand it is even more noise with even less knowledge. In short you folks have no idea what you’re talking about.
oops double post, moderator can nuke one of them
Palin runs around preaching there should be no sex-ed and abstinence only should be taught in school, and her own daughter gets knocked up. TG
Willow Palin is 13 years old, you f’ing moron cretin. She didn’t get knocked up. She didn’t do anything. Letterman is a washed up old pervert and if you think it’s just a simple late night TV joke to make fun of girls that age and their having sex with adults, then you’re just as sick as he is.
Amused said…. Sarah Palin was treated extremely poorly by liberals and the liberal press( yes, yes, I know it doesn’t exist). Things were said about her that were beyond the pale…..
Treated poorly, as in asked questions like “What is your view of the Bush Doctrine” and “what magazines and newspapers do you read” Yes, she was treated so poorly and unfairly by being asked simple questions, how dare they?
SDM: Just whose money is it that the Alaskans are taking? Because with nearly twice as much coming in as is being paid out in taxes, it clearly isn’t theirs.
Amused 0: Wrong again. Strange that people are shooting off their mouth about things that they know nothing about.
Can anyone other than Amused 0 explain what he’s talking about, because he certainly can’t.
A0: Alaska is a far different place than the lower 48 and most of what I’ve read in the national media makes clear they don’t even come close to understanding what they’re commenting on.
Alaska gets $1.84 in federal aid for every $1 they pay in federal taxes. What’s not to understand about that?
Amused 0 just keeps re-iterating “you don’t understand Alaska” as if that somehow disproves that they are in fact nearly the biggest welfare state in the union.
Dennis: Letterman is a washed up old pervert
And yet it seems you are still so weirdly obsessed and frightened by this man who is only a mere comedian on a late night talk show.
Dennis, it’s what they call a dumb joke. Someone at Lettermans staff knew that Palin and her daughter went to a ballgame, and they obviously didn’t do their research as to which daughter was with her. Letterman didn’t say Willow Palin by name did he? Did they show a picture of the two of them? No, so just calm down with your projections about underage sex there.
Most of America knows Palin has a daughter who had a child at 18. Most of America knows A Rod is a whore.
Boom, there’s your joke. Ha ha. It was only a joke, a lame and lazy one at that, but no one is going to lose their life or anything.
This is what Palin gets for entering herself into this arena. She will never be a private citizen again for the rest of her life no matter where she goes. That’s part of the deal when you say yes to joining a national ticket, and if she doesn’t like it, too bad.
LOL Sean,
“that they are in fact nearly the biggest welfare state in the union”
Is that your position Sean? And you’ve based this on what? your knowledge of the state in question or just some propaganda talking points you’ve blundered into.
First of all, it is the largest state in the Union and has the smallest population. The largest property holder is the Federal Government which reneged on the agreement at statehood to turn over the bulk of the federal land to the state. Something that angers Alaskans constantly. There are many military bases in Alaska. It was the frontlines in the cold war. You probably know what the DEW line was.
So many of those federal tax dollars you whine about are federal dollars tending federal projects and military installations. The Alaskan natives are quasi wards of the Federal government who have a large bureaucracy that spends lots of money on the natives in far flung places out in the bush with the usual level of government effiency. And lastly Alaska has had powerful congressmen who have brought home the bacon. But it is not just the bacon that is counted as tax money coming in but all of the federal money.
Now the often mentioned money that the Alaskans receive each year is not welfare but a dividend. When they struck oil the state wisely struck a bargain with the oil companies for a piece of the action instead of a normal lease. Alaska receives a share of the actual oil itself which is sold on the open market, the proceeds going into the state coffers. Now there aren’t too many people living there but they aren’t dumb. They know what politicians and government workers lust over. Somebody elses money to spend on thier wild eyed ideas and ever increasing salaries and benefits. So the people in thier wisdom set up someing called the Permenent Fund with the first of the big oil money. It is an endowment in which the principal cannot be touched by the always greedy hands of the government. That money is invested and allowed to grow and yearly a dividend is siphoned off and returned to the people who own it, the citizens of Alaska. It is sort of like social security except there is real money in a real account that really has been invested and generates real returns. Bigger returns in good years and leaner returns in not so good years. The state exercises a careful stewardship over the money because if they blow it they will answer directly to the entire population of the state, and a well armed state at that.
And lastly Alaskans return fewer dollars to the federal coffers because there are so few Alaskans.
http://google.com/search?q=Alaska+welfare+state
Right winger “Amused Observer” reads fiction and calls it history.
Look up the facts. There are actual metrics (nifty things called numbers) that reveal that Alaska is one of the biggest welfare state in the Union.
Beyond the FACT that Alaska is a welfare state, Republican Sarah Palin is a welfare recipient: she used government money to pay for her interstate vacations and used private welfare money to spend more on clothes in a month than most Americans make in three years.
REPUBLICANS LOVE WELFARE for themselves, they just hate it when those other people get welfare.
Republican Sarah Palin was so cute when she supported the Bridge to Nowhere when it was politically convenient and then lied to claim she’d never supported it.
Republican Sarah Palin is a Welfare Recipient.
Republican Sarah Palin is a Socialist.
Republicans are Duplicitous, they take government welfare and engage in Socialism every chance they can and then decree it as if their welfare using socialist politicking is someone elses fault.
Republican’s First Rule: Rules Are For Other People
decree = decry
Right winger “Amused Observer” supports Socialism in action but decries it with rhetoric.
Your Socialist actions, “Amused Observer”, speak louder than words.
“Amused Observer” is a closet Socialist.
Come our of the Socialist Closet, “Amused Observer”.
It was only a joke, a lame and lazy one at that, but no one is going to lose their life or anything.
So in 2012, when Obama is traveling the country campaigning for reelection, if some douchebag with a nationwide audience happens to make a crack about Malia Obama getting knocked up by [insert celebrity name here] during a recent visit, then I’m sure we can expect the same shoulder-shrugging “hey, it’s a lame joke” response from the left.
it says oodles about the right when a moron like Sarah Palin isn’t laughed off of tv and the political stage.
So what does it say about the left when a moron like Joe “Endless Gaffes” Biden is selected as Obama’s VP because he’s considered “a statesman with sound judgment”?
This is the guy put in charge of the economic stimulus project who, when pressed for details on where the Obama administration is getting its bogus “jobs saved or created” figures from, admits that it was “above [his] pay grade” to explain the methodology the White House uses.
As Oliver’s favorite libertarian/evil conservative blogger likes to say, “The country’s in the very best of hands”.
Hey look, Palin was right again! I’m sure the apology will be forthcoming…
Dave in SoCal: “So in 2012, when Obama is traveling the country campaigning for reelection, if some douchebag with a nationwide audience happens to make a crack about Malia Obama getting knocked up by [insert celebrity name here] during a recent visit, then I’m sure we can expect the same shoulder-shrugging ‘hey, it’s a lame joke’ response from the left.”
Only if Obama goes around preaching abstinence only and suddenly becomes anti-choice.
I know you are stupid and this might be hard for you to understand, but the situation matters.
The daughter of the VP nominee of the Part of Family Values got knocked up, and then was used as a political prop by the party, and is now touring preaching the virtues of abstinence only sex education.
There are jokes that you call tell about the people involved there that won’t make sense when used against those who argue for comprehensive sex education.
Additionally, the person Letterman was talking about is 18. Malia will be 14 in 2012.
SaveFarris: “Hey look, Palin was right again! I’m sure the apology will be forthcoming…”
What the fuck are you talking about?