Sarah Palin reminds us again why she’s not ready for cable access, let alone prime time.
As to whether another pursuit for national office, as when she joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the race for the White House less than a year ago, would result in the same political blood sport, Palin said there was a difference between the White House and what she had experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House, she said, the ‘department of law’ would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.
‘I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out,’ she said.
There is no ‘Department of Law’ at the White House.
That picture is priceless.
But there is a Department of Law because she said so. Whatever she says becomes true because the moment it leaves her quitting lips.
This is what it’s like to live in PalinWorld.
“Sarah, are you listening? Good. This is your ego. You’ve been a very, very, stupid woman and even I am ashamed for you. Please stop talking and go fishing for a couple of months with your family.”
How is that different than what she’s been doing?
Are we to assume that’s Palinese for Department of Justice? If so, isn’t that up the road a ways from the White House? Are we also to assume ‘White House’ is Palinese for ‘Washington D.C.?’
Hell, I give up.
Why do I keep thinking of Bat Boy?
Oh…the stupid…it burns!!!
“57 States”…
Compare and contrast, then discuss.
Biden: Israel has right to deal with nuclear Iran
And once again, Bam has to scramble from clear across the world to do damage control on his gaffe-prone VP:
‘No US green light for attacking Iran’
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Palin. Derangement. Syndrome.
I consulted my Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. All the signs are there.
Four score and ‘twenty centuries ago’…
Ah c’mon Farris sack up–don’t you have another one? Always using that same old boring Obama slip. Gosh, we have hundreds and hundreds of Stupid Sarah meanderings, vocabulary nightmares, syntax
massacres, general knowledge cluelessness, basic civics catastrophes and general idiot girl reactions. I feel you are letting your side down. I’m disappointed.
Amigo, the fact that the vice president has made some more relevant verbal missteps only indicates that he’s in a more relevant position. I suppose that Biden quote makes me pretty thankful that the one who thinks there’s a department of law in the white house didn’t get into a greater position of power. If she can mangle a resignation speech that badly, woe to the Iranian translator that would have tried to make sense of her.
I’ll bet Vice President Biden knows there’s no ‘department of law.’
Shorter Dennis: Look over there!
Dennis, do you believe there’s a Department of Law at the White House?
Parthy. Dude.
Which of the two gaffes might’ve had greater consequences?
Ka-boooooom!!!!
“Whooops. My bad.” “God luv ya, what am I talkin’ about?”
WELL YOUR RUBBER AND IM GLUED SO WHAT STICKS TO ME BOUCNED OFF YOU OLIVER – OF COARSE THERES NO DEPARTMENT OF LAW – AT LEAST NOT YET – SARAH PALEON IS GOING TO REMAKE TEH CABINET AND MAKE IT MORE OF A PANTRY SO SAY GOODBYE TO TEH FDA AND GET READY FOR THE DEPARMENT OF MEATS LIBERASL HA HA HA PETA IS GOING TO HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER SUPERMODEL
I’m willing to grant that she meant “Department of Justice.” I’ll give you that. That’s not what’s disturbing about this. (No, that part’s just funny)
What’s disturbing is that Bible Spice doesn’t seem to realize (despite what Dick Cheney may have told her) that THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ISN’T THE PRESIDENT’S PERSONAL ATTORNEY!
That photo needs a caption. I like “BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! DUMBER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!!”
There is a “Department of Law” in Alaska that I guess performs that function, so I guess she just assumed they have one in The White House too. Not as bad a gaffe as it sounds, but still shows how provincial she is.
If she chooses to call a “Battery of Lawyers covering your ass” a “Department of Law”, is that any worse than crediting the Muslims, in a world wide broadcast, with inventing everything from flour to the ball – point pen?
When you are brave enough to attack Gov Palin for favoring limited government, reduced taxes, a firmer foreign policy, and a less bloated bureaucracy serving the people, then come back and call her “crazy”.
When she’s president, SHE WILL BE THE LAW!
(HAHAHAHAHA)
Thanks, Dexter. You’re right there is one in Alaska:
State of Alaska Dept. of Law
Boy, this a really big gaffe.
Palin Derangement Syndrome. It’s come to this, America.
Frank: “Muslim Golden Age.” Pretty incredible era. Ended roughly at the same time Europe discovered the route around Africa, and stopped using the Silk Road.
And the topic at hand is not her political positions; rather it’s her impressive ignorance for a might-have-been national politician. And as Rheinhard points out, even assuming she meant DoJ, it’s an interesting comment on her opinion of the DoJ’s role.
Amigo: No way Israel goes off Biden’s word alone. I’ll grant it was a much more relevant gaffe, but come on now, not going to start WWIII.
Parthy, it commanded an immediate response from Obama while he’s over in the Soviet Union tending to more important matters. He must’ve thought it needed swift clarification and that it was a fairly serious statement ‘Ol Joe made, no?
Palin no doubt deals with the Alaska Dept of Law every single day. Is it really all that out of the ordinary for that to slip like that? No matter what, it’s nowhere near the daily comedy Biden provides. Except I shouldn’t call this last one comedy seeing as how long you guys took the McCain ‘Bomb Iran song’ as campaign fodder and pretended to be dead serious about it.
The idea that Obama is too dumb to know how many states there are or is dependent on teleprompters to form a coherent thought will never catch on beyond freeperville because people know he’s a smart guy even if they don’t agree with him. You wingnuts will probably get more traction with the whole “socialist” argument – not much more, but some anyway.
I’m sure Palin is not as completely addled as she sounds at times, but she’s produced little counter-narrative to convince most American’s that she gives governance or policy decisions much thought at all – so the “Palin is an idiot” image gets reinforced every time she garbles her message. If the die-hards want to use up their time, money and any credibility the conservative movement may have left trying to convince the rest of the country that she is America’s last best hope, I applaud their decision.
Biden’s problem isn’t so much that he sounds dumb, but that he doesn’t think about what he is saying, and to whom. Which is almost as bad, and you won’t find me defending him as a brilliant choice for VP. I’m sure Obama has his “what was I thinking” days, though clearly not as many as John McCain.
If she chooses to call a “Battery of Lawyers covering your ass” a “Department of Law”,
Is that what we are reduced to? Trying to reinterperet what she said into what she meant?
is that any worse than crediting the Muslims, in a world wide broadcast, with inventing everything from flour to the ball – point pen?
If it’s true, what’s the issue? See that zero on your keyboard, Frank? Thank a muslim for that.
The gravity denieress doing her thing
So being President is OK, because there she’ll have (in her mind) a Department of Law, but being Governor isn’t OK, because Alaska has(in actuality) a Department of Law? This makes less sense than the error of fact.
Oh, and the cutesie-pie defense that she must have assumed that the US has a DoL– because Alaska does– only shows that wingers are perfectly happy with a President who doesn’t know the least little thing about the US government.
Dennis, she was speaking in the sense that if she was in the White House, she’d call upon this imaginary dept of law to help her. Yes, there is an Alaskan state Dept of Law. But why would a sitting VP need a state branch to assist her?
Poor Sarah. What a wussy. She can dish it out by the truckloads, but man, she sulks like a spoiled brat child when it comes back her way.
Carry on, Palinistas.
Remember the time Republican Sarah Palin wanted to start World War III with Russia over the Republic of Georgia?
Yeah, good times.
Republican Palin says war is peace and ignorance is strength and uhm, uhm…
Also!
Oh well, like it matters. Diva Sarah will NEVER hold office ever again. And if she thinks she will be some magical fund raising person that will be in demand, she is far dumber than anyone could have measured.
Who in their right mind would want the quitting governor endorsing them?
You might as well ask Mark Sanford to come raise money for you.
“Africa is a continent?”
Republican Sarah Palin, 2008:
“”As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”
2008!
It’s not about Republican Sarah Palin any more, it’s about how completely unhinged and fringe Palin’s right wing supporters are.
Palin is not a serious person.
The Republican Party is NOT a serious political party.
And the right wing is NOT a serious political movement.
The right wing has degenerated into a unhinged fringe that lives within their own fantasy creations trumpeted by their own TV stations, 80% to 90% of the talk radio stations, and the owners of most print publications.
All of those media outlets feel obliged to twist reality and shout down truth so those right wing extremists don’t throw a childish tantrum.
And if reality intrudes and right wingers can’t shout it out, ignore it, or change the subject, the right wing just makes up a new fantasy to explain what’s going on.
It’s delusional.
Right winger “Dennis” even refers to a fantasy copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that he cites to explain whatever he’s making up lately.
Duros -
See that zero on your keyboard, Frank? Thank a muslim for that.
Actually, you can thank an Indian – south asians had a decimal system which included a special symbol (.) for “naught” by the 3rd century BC. The concept made its way to Europe via the Arab world around AD 800. The name “zero” does come from the Arabic word “zifr.”
oh, and Sarah Palin is a certifiable idiot.
I would just like to take this opportunity to reiterate how incredibly frightened we Liberals are of Sarah Palin. Shaking in our boots, we are. Petrified. Pissing in our pants. Golly is she scary!
Since there appears to be a “Department of Law” in Alaska, why didn’t she let THEM defend her from all those “frivolous” accusations?
Parthenon: The Muslim’s “Golden Age” was when they collected and safeguarded the knowledge from all over the area of Islamic conquest. They discovered or invented next to nothing. Even La Fontaine’s Fairy Tales (including Cinderella) came from India by way of the Muslim world.
Ended roughly at the same time Europe discovered the route around Africa, and stopped using the Silk Road.
You’ve got your “chicken” and “egg” mixed up. The Silk Road became a rather expensive “Toll Road” thanks to the Muslims. To get the pepper required to preserve meat, it had now become worth the effort to go around the Cape to get to Asia, or at least the western coast of India, to trade with Chinese traders.
It has been theorized that Columbus was not looking for a western route to Asia, but had gathered information to the effect that a land mass 3,000 miles across could be found 3,000 miles west of Europe.
Oh, and Sarah Palin is a certifiable idiot.
Has anyone noticed that Sally Palin strongly resembles Sally Field in Sybil? And Palin is even more fucked in the head than that movie’s title character…
Frank,
There must be a reason why the word algebra is from Arabic. Maybe because Islamic mathematicians did the hard work. From Wiki:
God you’re dumb Frank. Muslims invented, among other things, modern math and medicine. I notice Repack Rider beat me to it. Please go take a nap and take your meds.
As for Sarah Palin, there’s really not much that needs to be said. Palin. Limbaugh. Sanford. Jindal. This is your modern GOP. These are the reasons why it’s almost dead. Just look at the fuckwits like Dennis and Jay who actually try and defend these people.
The good guys have won.
Repack and Jaim: They did no such thing …
Once again, you have convinced yourselves that if you believe it to be true, I must be wrong.
The “word” ‘algebra’ is not from Arabic. The name al-Jibr is the name of the Arab mathematician who wrote down the work of the Greek mathematicians he learned about.
As did al-Kwarizmi (algorithm). Call me dumb again, you pitiful buffoons… You don’t know jack shit about how the Arabs collected and preserved the information they got from the Greeks. That’s what you get for relying on the World Book Encyclopedia of the Internet.
Go read up on al-Mansur, the library at Baghdad, and the Nestorians, and their connection to Prince Henry the Navigator.
Have you never heard the saying, “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Jaim, your ageist insults are yet another glaring example of the hypocrisy of the modern leftist. No wonder you’re not teaching in the United States. You’d be laughed out of the room.
And just in case you are thinking of asking me for a link, check right here:
http://tinyurl.com/l9gdw6 [esp pp 516, et. seq. ]
When it comes to the “Spanish Bridge” and how the Muslims conserved and conveyed the information of the Ancients to late Medieval Europe, I know what I know. Do you think I would just make some stuff up, so some jimokes like you could call me on it?
Learn this and learn it well: You don’t know everything, or half of everything, or one – quarter of everything, or one – tenth of everything. I have as much education as either of you, and have probably read more books than either of you, and been more places in the world than either of you. I certainly have spent more time on earth than either of you. You may never respect your elders, but don’t ever think you’re better than me because you’re younger.
Palin actually debuted the “Law Department” on Friday 7/3, but no one seemed to pick it up. She said it and she posted it on her website. In her 7/3 remarks the “Law Department” is the Supreme Court. Excerpt from Palin’s 7/3 speech:
“Another accomplishment — our Law Department protected states’ rights — two huge U.S. Supreme Court reversals came down against that liberal Ninth Circuit, deciding in our state’s favor over the last two weeks. We’re protectors of our Constitution — federalists protect states’ rights as mandated in 10th amendment.”
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php
Paul Begala’s great post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/sarah-palin-turns-pro_b_225633.html
Her speech was not off the cuff. Palin wrote it herself and posted it word for word on her website just as the press conference was starting. She read the speech into a portable, mobile teleprompter. Greta’s show posted enough video that it included pan back shots showing the teleprompter Palin read into, with a camera on either side of the teleprompter. Paul Begala’s take at HuffPo on her posted text is priceless, with all of its various ALL CAPS and exclamation points and odd punctuation. Her rambling syntax was planned, and all the more frightening.
I was teaching in the States, moron. And for various reasons it was an unpleasant experience.
And the Arabs who preserved Greek thought? They did a hell of a lot more of a service to modernity than many of the Western Europeans who were burning people at the stake for questioning the authority of the Pope at the time.
To base your “scholarship” on the rankest of anti-Muslim bigotry would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic and sad. (For starters, not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arab.) But hey, we expect no less from the nutter trolls around here.
But please, at what accredited university do you teach history? I’d love to check out some of your peer-reviewed academic articles.
I hear the sound of moving goalposts …
You had absolutely no cites… And Repack was at least smart enough to know that he had gone to the wrong source to back his play. Did the Arabs preserve Greek thought? Who said they didn’t?
But who said the “Muslims invented … modern math and medicine”? That would be you, chuckles.
Quit while you’re behind, Jaimie !
LOL,
Jaim is tackled in his own end zone. Repack makes an honest mistake, relying on a slightly dubious source that most of us use but wouldn’t trust with our lives.
Jaim however shows his ass once again. It is deliciuos to watch the gears spinning in his head. I bet teaching in the states was an unpleasant situation. It is never fun operating outside the boundries of your abilities.
A O :: I Took a nine credit Guided Independent Study on the Middle East . I wrote 10 papers , from 5 pages on Life in the Desert to 34 pages on the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict.
One of the more interesting papers was on “The Spanish Bridge” about how the Muslims preserved the great academic treasures of the Chinese and Indians that had been passed along the Silk Road, and then passed the work of the Greeks around the Mediterranean and Spain into western Europe where they influenced Galen, Dante and Fibonacci. al-Mansur borrowed the Talmudic method of teaching at his library in Baghdad, which was borrowed by Prince Henry for his Navigators’ school in Portugal, which Columbus attended. Get where I’m going with this?
Kids today .
Heh.
Parthenon: The Muslim’s “Golden Age” was when they collected and safeguarded the knowledge from all over the area of Islamic conquest.
And if they hadn’t? Very different world. Much worse world, far less aware of its classical heritage (even as little as we are aware now).
They discovered or invented next to nothing.
Sorry, that’s just flatly false.
Even La Fontaine’s Fairy Tales (including Cinderella) came from India by way of the Muslim world.
Indian culture being much older than Islamic culture, I wouldn’t find this at all surprising.
You’ve got your “chicken” and “egg” mixed up. The Silk Road became a rather expensive “Toll Road” thanks to the Muslims. To get the pepper required to preserve meat, it had now become worth the effort to go around the Cape to get to Asia, or at least the western coast of India, to trade with Chinese traders.
Yes, they were rather good capitalists to take advantage of their geography, weren’t they? However, I don’t have my eggs and chickens mixed up; the golden age did end right around when Europe found the sea route and fought their way into the Indian Ocean trading circuit, and Muslims lost the revenue that they had been getting charging for use of the silk road trade route.
It has been theorized that Columbus was not looking for a western route to Asia, but had gathered information to the effect that a land mass 3,000 miles across could be found 3,000 miles west of Europe.
That’s interesting; I hadn’t heard of that. However your passive voice has me curious, who theorized it? I’ve also read theories that Zheng He discovered S. America (and called it Fussong) and that a handful of African sailors (ancient Mali, if I recall) landed in either Mexico or the southern United States, which is close enough in climate to their home that they’d have likely thought they were still in Africa.
To get the pepper required to preserve meat,
Pepper? You sure about that, big guy? Are you “worth your salt”?
one of the more interesting papers was on “The Spanish Bridge” about how the Muslims preserved the great academic treasures of the Chinese and Indians that had been passed along the Silk Road,
All very fascinating, Frank. Whether muslims invented and/or preserved much of what we use today is obviously up for debate. What is not is that we in the west owe them a debt of gratitude for their efforts in furthering intellectualism. If not for the Spanish Moors, we never would have had a Renaissance.
f not for the Spanish Moors, we never would have had a Renaissance.
Agreed. I never denied that. But the theory and the data did not originate with Muslim mathematicians. My point was that Pres Obama incorrectly credited them with devising / inventing / creating these theories and concepts, when that was not the case. But when he makes a mistake, you leap to his defense with tales of Arabs preserving the Graeco – Roman heritage which would give birth to the Renaissance.
While the Muslims / Arabs did do that, they did not do what they were credited with doing. But when Gov Palin makes a mistake, she is mentally defective, insane and even worse.
My point was made — your point was not. Gov Palin was extemporizing; Pres Obama was reading a prepared, presumably well – researched speech, and yet it contained glaring errors, which were pointed out by numerous bloggers within days of the Cairo speech. I willingly concede that 1) We owe a debt to the Muslims for preserving that heritage, just as we do to the many monks that preserved the Latin (Roman) religious and secular heritage; 2) That politicians are not necessarily historians, and that they do make errors, and even deliberately exaggerate when it is an important matter of state; and 3) If Pres Obama can be forgiven his errors, so can Gov Palin.
Two quick points:
If you now go to the Alaska Governor’s web site, you will find that someone has edited Governor Palin’s July 3 statement, changing the dozens of UPPER CASE words to lower case:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php
Second, Governor Palin is just wrong when she says she has “won” all the ethics complaints that have been filed against her:
Sarah Palin and the Department of Law
The note is boring, but the pictures are fabulous–especially the ones of a young Sophia Loren.
If you patheticly dumb and easily people were capable of thinking, you might have wondered why Sarah would have said, “Department of Law.” This link will take you to the Alaska State web site that shows this is what the state calls it, which should explain why Sarah does too.
http://www.law.state.ak.us/