Reality again trumps parody.
Sarah Palin has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced. Her publisher says the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17.
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The 400-page book is the first for Palin, who has been an object of fascination since Republican Sen. John McCain chose her as his running mate during his 2008 presidential bid. The book will be called ‘Going Rogue: An American Life.’
I wonder how long it took to transcribe her crayon etchings into text? But then again, that’s pretending as if she actually wrote this book.
400 pages?! Is there a coloring section?
You would be suprised how many pages you can write when you just ramble on endlessly.
Going Rogue…more like Jumping the Shark.
Will she narrate the audio book?
The former potential second in line to be President of the United States of America (no, really) and half-term Alaskan Governor added,
It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.
I’m actually curious to hear about her time in college. All five that she attended before receiving a diploma.
It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.
You mean it’s actually more than “um…arm…ah…uh…er…uh”?
He he.
Funny that the trip to Asia was big news, but what she had to say when she got there was secret. All image, no substance.
What are the odds that this person can actually sit still long enough and have enough thoughts to fill a 400-page tome?
About as likely as a 6000-year old earth. But I’m hoping she has something to say about Levi Johnston.
I hope it isn’t as dull as Clinton’s memoir.
That said, there will probably be a sceance for the amount of ghost writing done on SP’s book.
It’s interesting that the Dixie Chicks made an offhanded comment about being ashamed of George W. Bush,(who wasn’t?).
They were ostracized by Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly and the rest of the racist homophobes. “How dare they speak poorly about a sitting President, especially on foreign soil???”
Then “Barbie the Snowshoe Bimbo” goes to China and trashes Obama. The same clowns applaud her. It’s scary when 25% of Americans actually believe these lying pieces of garbage.
Not the word I would have used.
What does a governor drop-out have to tell us about leadership? That’s one I’m really curious about.
@Sean,
“Fascination” can apply to the witnessing of a train wreck, so I guess it’s technically appropriate.
I wonder if she had Bill Ayers ghostwrite her book?
I wonder if she had Bill Ayers ghostwrite her book?
Right wing humor…why do they even try?
Right wing humor…why do they even try?
Because they don’t realize that they’re not funny. Seriously, the most humorless group on the planet… except for maybe the evangelical Christians…
“I wonder if she had Bill Ayers ghostwrite her book?”
I would say Sean Hannity but even Palin has more education than that idiot.
Of course she wrote (well, dictated) the book…they tried using a computerized word-salad generator but what they got didn’t sound random or rambling enough, and when they adjusted it it didn’t sound nasty and rabid enough. Face it, the state of the art in Artificial Insanity is a long way from the actual Sarah Palin.
The painfully ignorant right wing idol added,
Frank DiSalle
September 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm
It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.
Invectives and venom? Aren’t you the person that posted a joke in a tacit defense of a doctor distributing an image of President Obama dressed as a “witch doctor” with a bone through his nose?
Well what happend to Levi Johnston’s book hope that they didnt shut him up but wouldnt suprize me.
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM ANYWAY? sarahs in a hurry she’s run out of
money and the story is her hubby is gonna dump her skanky tush.
So thats’ what the hurry was for her being ahead of her time frame, she probably can’t write she certainly can’t speak, her IQ is what???????????????????? Nor does she try to make up for it by reading, all she was capable of doing was snake charming (cheney)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!So he will probably back her for any more of her political junkets horrors!!!!!!
Actually, to the best of my recollection, no (but I am sure you’ll go find a comment I made and insist it vindicates your false accusation). And I don’t see what that has to do with the fact that people are criticizing a book that hasn’t even been reviewed.
We’ll know she actually wrote the book if the last 200 pages are blank.
C’mon, we all know it will top the NYT bestseller list. Scaife will make damn sure of that. As to how many people will actually READ the thing…whole ‘nother story.
RAVENS!!
You are wrong, right, and then wrong Frank.
1. Wrong. Yes, you did make a comment/joke in a post about racist photos of President Obama.
2. Right. Yes I found said comment/joke.
3. Wrong. I wasn’t insisting or accusing anything, I asked you a question from a vague memory. (And then found it.)
To answer your question about what it has to do with people commenting on a book that they haven’t read, it has a little to do with that subject, but moreso that you consider criticism of a yet-to-be published book to be venom and invectives, yet seem to take the stand that reaction to President Obama dressed like a primitive medicine man is not only not offensive, but is moreso people not being able to take a joke.
It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.
Tell that to the proofreaders who had to decipher the manuscripts from the original crayon on paper bags.
Dullard.
Some proposed rules:
1) For the love of God, nobody contribute to the winger welfare fund.
2) Seriously, not even out of morbid curiosity, no feeding the bubblehead.
3) No really, control your sick fascination, at least until there’s a library copy.
Oh, boo hoo, frank. Boo hoo. And such as.
I’m thinking Janus Node ghost wrote at least part of it.
“Going Rogue”? I thought a several hundred page rambling inchoherent screed of extremist right politics and persecution fantasy would probably be named “My Struggle”…
I haven’t seen that comment, so I don’t recall what I said. But my own comment , whatever it was , was in relation to something that had occurred – not something that was yet to occur .
Duros, my comment was not made out of sympathy for Gov Palin – she’ll take left wing criticism to the bank.
No, I was referring to the oft – repeated scene of you lefties acting in opposition to your own professed principles of fairness and compassion.
“It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.”
I tend not to read books whose authors haven’t read them, either.
Maybe this thread should have been called The Sarah Palin – Oriented Amateur Comedians Hour.
No, I was referring to the oft – repeated scene of you lefties acting in opposition to your own professed principles of fairness and compassion.
Frank, tolerance only goes so far as to things people can’t control. Nothing says we have to be tolerant of douchebags.
Actually, to the best of my recollection, no (but I am sure you’ll go find a comment I made and insist it vindicates your false accusation). And I don’t see what that has to do with the fact that people are criticizing a book that hasn’t even been reviewed.
Translation: Whaaa! It’s not fair. You can’t use my own words against me! Whaaaaaaaaa!
Right, Zython. Translation: We can do whatever we want, because we’re special, and ordinary rules and customs and old junk like that doesn’t apply to us .
Welcome to the world of Perpetual Adolescence.
BTWm Zython — where are these words? I haven’t seen them yet .. Have you?
Maybe this thread should have been called The Sarah Palin – Oriented Amateur Comedians Hour.
Well Frank, I will say she is more like a unintentional comedy. Kinda like a Uwe Boll movie. Take your pick.
Frank DiSalle
September 29, 2009 at 12:01 am
I haven’t seen that comment, so I don’t recall what I said. But my own comment , whatever it was , was in relation to something that had occurred – not something that was yet to occur.
You are 100% correct, Frank. And like the majority of both conservative and liberal posters on here, equally as 100% unwilling to concede to a point made by the “other side.”
Your comment was about something that had already happened, but the content of that event as well as your remark was pretty unbelievable. I didn’t bring up your crass comment to paint you as a racist, because I don’t believe you are. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of your spirited defense of Governor Palin having “venom and criticisms” leveled at her.
While there are a lot of jokes about her level of intellect and scope of understanding of the world around her. At least that is an individual thing aside from making her skin color a crime. However, you are just to loyal to your party to admit that. All the best, man.
My previous post. Next to last sentence. TOO to replace first to. Typo.
Maybe this thread should have been called The Sarah Palin – Oriented Amateur Comedians Hour.
Try heading over to Big Hollywood, where you’ll find all 3 kinds of conservative humor; Unfunny, Unintended and Unsuccessful.
Right, Zython. Translation: We can do whatever we want, because we’re special, and ordinary rules and customs and old junk like that doesn’t apply to us .
Lighten up, Frank. Monkeys!!
We don’t have to read each issue of the Weekly World News before saying that it’s probably full of bullshit. Lady has a track record.
Of course, she may surprise us. Maybe her book is full of intelligent and incisive analysis. Probably not, though: she wouldn’t want to alienate her fans.
Unsuccessful, Paul_D?
I think you need to check the scoreboard.
Frank
“It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.”
Not true, Oliver and his Media Matters buddies will read it in an attempt to find something they can tweak into racist rhetoric.
I find it amusing that both parties are trying to destroy this woman, I am interested to see where she goes from here.
Unsuccessful, Paul_D?
I think you need to check the scoreboard.
Oh right, Dimblart’s big victories, as I commented on earlier.
I was referring to the comedic underbelly of wingtardia over at Big Hollywood You know, the other talentless bunch.
“I tend not to read books whose authors haven’t read them, either.”
Sounds like some of the lefts bills to me.
Your requisite tbogg
Now there’s Right Wing Humor right there.
But we already had some on this thread:
So interested. More Kleenex, Suicida|?
Oh my!
The Olbermann Week That Was: By the Numbers:
* Palin: 56</B
* Afghanistan: 45
* Joe Wilson: 34
* Iran: 28
* Glenn Beck: 21
* Fox News: 13
* Iraq: 6
* Zazi / terror / plots: 0
The correllations continue to amaze.
In fairness, OW did mention the Zazi/terror plots. A total of 5 comments, two of which were from Indeed/Mr. ed., but the only thing discussed was torture.
Amazing.
I think you need to check the scoreboard.
Unintentonal humor doesn’t count, Dennis.
Wilbur-
He, along with two early twenty-somethings and a total of $1,300 living off Subway sandwhiches and Power Bars, managed to do infinitely more to ACORN than the entire leftosphere AND Democrats in Congress AND Keith Olbermann did to Halliburton over an entire 9 year period in their wailing and gnashing of teeth over the company.
One would almost think that the wailing and gnashing of teeth was the strategy all along.
Good example of unintenional right-wing humor: Dennis making his daily obsessive pseudo-point about the left obsessing over Palin by linking to a right-wing site that obsesses over Keith Olbermann.
I’m trying to help you guys, Wilbur. Please try to understand that.
The first and hardest step for you is admission.
Yes, it’s easier to find one bad office out of hundreds of a anti-poverty organization mostly filled w/ low-income workers than to take down a massive corporation that’s part of the Military-Industrial Complex. SHOCKER!
I know you’re just trying to help, Dennis, but better let the grown-ups handle the power tools. Why don’t you go play with your nice plastic hammer and peg set.
Funny, Jesse, you make it sound like it’s how the left attacks the Catholic Church. Are you saying as long as they do good things to help poor people, everyone should just look away?
Really, just what are you saying?
He, along with two early twenty-somethingzzzzzz….
Sorry, Dennis, I assumed you were responding to Paul’s post with something pertinent to that post. My bad.
The mullahs in Iran are getting themselves a nice big power tool set, Wilbur. Obama jets off to Copenhagen for some face time with the IOC. Gen. McChrystal is asking for more men and more power tools in Afghanistan or all will be lost. Obama has spoken to him a total of one time.
Unbelievable.
Seriously, Wilbur, for your own sake, please, enough with the ‘adults’ shtick. I honestly think enough of you that I don’t feel comfortable when you embarrass yourself so.
Here’s a little comparison for you.
ACORN = Decentralized organization that an overgrown fratboy managed to find a couple of bad employees.
Catholic Church = Massive, decades-long, heavily centralized cover-up of basically massive child sex abuse.
That Palin was made out to be the dumber of the VP candidates is one of the all-time low points in media history. God help us if anything happens to Obama.
When I saw the news about Palin’s book, at first I read the title as “Going Rouge” and thought it would be about her preferences in makeup.
Which she might actually know more about than governing.
The methods liberals use to attack the Catholic Church and their unbelievable lame ‘attack the messenger’ defense is the ultimate in liberal hypocrisy. When anyone points out the incredible amount of goodwill and money the Catholic Church does to help the poor in comparison to the relatively few bad eggs, liberals just scoff.
With ACORN, they play the bleeding heart game, look the other way, and cheer when ACORN decides to sue the kids who uncovered widespread corruption in their organization. So prevalent that even Barack Obama himself has to distance himself. Even Barney Frank threw them under the bus.
Still, the netroots continue to place the blame squarely on the kids.
Unreal.
That Palin was made out to be the dumber of the VP candidates is one of the all-time low points in media history.
As I recall, the indictment came out of her own mouth, when she couldn’t take a softball question like what magazines she read or whether she agreed with the current president’s foreign policy. We found that it took her five colleges to graduate, with a degree slightly less prestigious than Obama’s. Then we heard her rambling, out-of-c0ntrol dissertation on her latest failure to finish a job she had accepted, and it sounded like she needed a week in a rubber room.
Which part of her anti-intellectual image was “manufactured?”
Dennis, that’s exactly the sort of reaction I get from my 9-year old when I tell her to keep away from the power tools.
That Palin was made out to be the dumber of the VP candidates is one of the all-time low points in media history. God help us if anything happens to Obama.
Anyone who watched the VP debate would have to chuckle at that. It was an experienced senator vs. a plasticized infomercial huckstress.
When anyone points out the incredible amount of goodwill and money the Catholic Church does to help the poor in comparison to the relatively few bad eggs, liberals just scoff.
The Inquisition? Just a few “bad eggs.” It’s not like it was church policy or anything. The slaughter and enslavement of Native Americans? It was for the good of their souls. Profit had nothing to do with it.
The Catholic Church did wonders for my soul by excommunicating my grandfather.
DKel: Is there some reason why you will not quote from this alleged comment, or post its link?
I believe the reason is because it doesn’t say what you say it says.
Please prove me wrong by posting either the comment or the link to it.
Fair enough, Repack. Then why do you sit back quietly when ACORN provides the ‘just a couple bad eggs’ and ‘look what we do for the poor’ and ‘you only criticize us because you hate blacks’ defenses?
One would think you of all people would be screeching the loudest, but one would be wrong to think that.
Then why do you sit back quietly when ACORN provides the ‘just a couple bad eggs’
Maybe because the right-wing noise machine is screaming about it loudly enough for the both of us? Meanwhile you all are conspicuously silent on corruption in KBR, Blackwater, etc. I don’t know what explains that imbalance. Racism or mere partisanship? Possibly some of both.
It is true that right-wing screaming tends to get more results (e.g. defunding of Acorn) than left-wing screaming. Why? Part of it is probably where the money is and who you own. Part of it is a well-honed and practiced talent for screaming that the left does not possess. Part of it is the fact that in this left-wing/right-wing tango only one side has even a scintilla of interest in responding to the concerns of the other side to reach some sort of consensus.
Modern American liberalism: victim of Battered Wife Syndrome. Time to call the divorce lawyer.
As for the Catholic church: until one of your minicam avengers finds evidence that any senior official at acorn knew about the prostitution-coddling and turned a blind eye to it, you might want to think about not making the comparison, not that any sort of honest objective reflection is likely to detain you for a moment.
Wilbur, I’m not saying there is a perfect comparison between the Catholic Church and ACORN. There’s not a perfect comparison between ACORN and KBR/ Blackwater, either. You don’t know what I think or have said about KBR. A very good friend of mine is the aunt of a high profile case involving electrocution in a shower, and I’ve said plenty to her and others. You make an accusation you nothing about. But one thing is for sure, liberals use the bleeding heart defense when it’s convenient for them, and scoff at it when someone points out all the good in the world the Church has done, and that is hypocritical. You can’t call for a RICO investigation for the Catholic Church on the one hand and play ‘attack the messenger’ with ACORN and not be a blatant hypocrite.
Sorry, you just can’t.
I think you need to check the scoreboard.
2 out of 3.
DKel: Is there some reason why you will not quote from this alleged comment, or post its link?
He’s a gentleman?
As to the Catholic Church comparison to the way hypocritica way liberals are defending ACORN, here’s another glaring example of liberal hypocrisy along those same lines….
Roman Polanski: What if He Were ‘Father Polanski’?
He’s a gentleman?
He’s being deceptive ?
Roman Polanski: What if He Were ‘Father Polanski’?
If he was Father Polanski, right wingers would be accusing us of anti-Catholic bigotry for suggesting he deserves to be arrested.
Roman Polanski? The fatass with the acne? No, wait, I was thinking of that big liar David Weigel. My mistake. As you were.
He’s a gentleman?
He’s being deceptive ?
No, he seems to be going out of his way not to embarrass you. That seems pretty upstanding to me.
Frank DiSalle
September 29, 2009 at 4:06 pm
He’s a gentleman?
He’s being deceptive ?
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/07/23/conservative-activist-circulates-picture-of-obama-with-bone-through-nose/
Frank,
Again….of course I am not sure why I am stating this again. I asked you a question from a vague memory. I did look it up AFTER I posted the question to you of whether or not you had posted a comment/joke on a thread about Obama being portrayed with a bone through his nose.
I’m not deceptive at all. I just submit that even though we have ideological differences, I have posted in defense of what I thought was right on this blog regardless of party lines. I have disagreed with both liberals and conservatives that post on this blog, including Oliver on many occassions. My point is that for you to complain about Palin being treated unfairly in regard to criticisms about her new masterpiece is kind of funny when you let so many other things slide.
After P.T. I was working outside most of the day, so I wasn’t around to post this when you requested it earlier.
For the record, here is my comment in full:
Readers will note that, at no time, did I defend or support the idea of circulating a picture of Pres Obama with a bone in his nose.
Please also note that I did not make any negative comments about another poster.
The original point of my comment was that the comments were getting worse, despite the fact that the book has yet to be released.
Frank,
Readers will note that,…
Noted and acknowledged, Frank. However, I maintain you posted a joke/comment in tacit defense of the actions of this buffoon. Your statement of,
“So is there nothing that can be said about Pres Obama in a racial context?”
is pretty specific as I see it. It tells me that you are asking, “why are people complaining about what this doctor sent out in an email?”
Your original point was that the comments were getting worse despite the fact that the book has yet to be released is noted as well. However, my point which I don’t see you directly addressing in any of your general responses, is that you are bothered by people making comments about Sarah Palin and her book before they read it, yet you are cavalier about an action that most sane people look at as racially offensive.
Of course you would have had to have been willing to admit that it was indeed offensive, but a lot of conservatives seem to think about pictures of watermelons in the White House rose garden, Obama food stamps with chicken and ribs, photoshopped pictures with bones in his nose, and pop-eyed, red-lipped minstrel caricatures are not racist. “They are just done in a spirit of disagreement with his policies.” And anyone, especially blacks or democrats that cry foul need to STFU.
DKel, I was merely following the drift of the thread, which seemed to be that any criticism of the President was , per se, racist.
My attitude toward the email might have seemed cavalier to you. In reality, there were many things involved in my attitude:
1) I am certain many horrible things are being circulated in workplaces and bars all over the country.
2) As far as insults to blacks go, I viewed this as rather tepid. The worst “bite” to the insult might that because the President’s father was African, it represented both an ethnic and a racial slur.
3) Most importantly, I don’t know Pres Obama, I didn’t vote for him, and I don’t much care for his attitude. Thus, I am not inclined to be empathetic.
I don’t mind saying that the guy who passed it around was a horse’s ass, but high dudgeon? Not really.
I don’t much care for his attitude.
Too uppity?
Frank,
If you viewed that photograph portraying a Black American as a primitive person with a bone through his nose to be a tepid insult to blacks, I hope I never do anything to draw a heated response from you.
I don’t think that you have to have voted for President Obama, or personally know him, or even be empathetic to anything he encounters in order to think that a photo that points to his skin tone instead of his policies is wrong.
This is a dead horse, and I didn’t mean to hijack Oliver’s thread away from the book. But you, just like a couple of my peers don’t understand that when you criticize someone that you don’t like by talking about his racial background and skin tone, you have the tendency to piss off and offend people who have a similar racial background even if those people share your same ideological views. But you would have to care about them as people in order to see my point. All the best, man….I’m done.
Indeed, try again later, wrong tree, but you’re still barking.
But you, just like a couple of my peers don’t understand that when you criticize someone that you don’t like by talking about his racial background and skin tone, you have the tendency to piss off and offend people who have a similar racial background even if those people share your same ideological views
So when I am called an old man who will dies soon, and the commenter hopes it is sooner than later, I have no idea what it’s like to be the recipient of an offensive remark ?
Or when some dope implies that a recovering alcoholic of 23 years is drinking, I guess I’m not the victim of stereotyping?
From where comes this idea that the left is acutely attuned to racial prejudice and stereotyping, and conservatives are numb?
I wonder.
Frank, if you want sympathy stick to Freep. If you troll a liberal blog with your moronic rantings, don’t be surprised when people point out the obvious: that you’re a racist dumbfuck who looks like he’s thirty years older than he actually is.
Palin is the gift that keeps on giving.
Frank, on the other hand, is just an old butthole.
So when I am called an old man who will dies soon, and the commenter hopes it is sooner than later, I have no idea what it’s like to be the recipient of an offensive remark ?
I didn’t make any comment on your race, Frank. I think that Dkelsmith was talking about something more specific than you are referencing. Good work on the equivalence, though.
Also, nothing that you just cited (that I wrote) is an insulting remark. Which aspect do you consider an insult?
Frank, have you forgotten how Italian Americans were negatively portrayed at the turn of the previous century, their internment during the war and all of the terrible stereotyping inflicted upon your ethnicity buy the early social workers – smelly garlic eaters who feed coffee to their young children. You’d do well to remember this hurt before you shoot your mouth off. This shit doesn’t go away Frank.
Are you simple minded or what? I am Italian, you git!
Jaim, mambolio and buma…
Could you please make some relevant point. Your stupid fucking insults are accomplishing nothing, except to convince me that liberals share their brains and are incapable of original thought.
And , Jaim, once again, you don’t get to rationalize your outrageous behavior by saying that I deserve it because I am not a liberal, you douchenozzle!
First of all, I have never seen anyone at Free Republic get called names and have insults and disgusting epithets hurled at them, as you and Mambolio have done. Not once, not ever.
Second, whatever you do is generated in that septic tank that lies between your ears, Mambolio and Jaim, not by any “radio waves” emanating from me. You are responsible for your actions, whether you think so or not. Your behavior is vile and despicable, and would be so, no matter who the target is.
Third, you are so bereft of ideas, especially you, jaim, that you have not posted a substantive thread in over a week. You have been dogging me around someone else’s weblog telling me to “put the bottle down”, when that remark has no relevance, no humor, and certainly no intelligence. Are you waiting for some ankle biter like Zython to say, “Wow, jaim! That was cool!”?
Finally, I have decided to avoid you, Mambolio, and you, Jaim. Permanently. Rave on, children.
‘It’s interesting to note that the criticisms will gain in vindictiveness and venom, even after the book is published, and none of you have read it.’
Why the fuck would anyone give a shit about what this vacuous, attention seeking joke has to say about anything?
“Are you simple minded or what? I am Italian, you git!”
My God you’re dumb Frank.
“you don’t get to rationalize your outrageous behavior”
I’m not trying to rationalize it. You’re a dumbfuck who trolls a liberal blog constantly then whines about his treatment, despite the fact that you drop idiotic and racially questionable turds practically every hour. Indeed, you are the fat guy at the Sizzler buffet complaining about the quality of the food. It’s pathetic, just like your sorry, failed life.
“I have never seen anyone at Free Republic get called names and have insults and disgusting epithets hurled at them, as you and Mambolio have done. Not once, not ever.”
So you’re obviously happier over there. Too bad you don’t stay permanently among your kind. Your act has worn really thin here in reality-land.
So yeah, here’s hoping you die soon. Because you’re annoying as fuck.
Could you please make some relevant point.
OK, Frank, since you asked nicely. How’s this: Sarah Palin is not intelligent. She needed to go to nearly a half-dozen schools before getting her degree in journalism, and now seems to despise the media. She couldn’t handle a simple interview with Katie Couric. Nearly every time she opens her mouth, nonsensical blather is emitted. And we’re to expect that she wrote a 400 pg. book in no time flat. I do not have high hopes that this will be an edifying read.
And she’s one of the “stars” of the GOP right now. That’s really pathetic.
you don’t get to rationalize your outrageous behavior by saying that I deserve it because I am not a liberal, you douchenozzle!
Your pleas for civil discourse are hypocritical. If you truly wanted to have civil discourse, you wouldn’t be calling people “douchenozzles.” Or calling me “Mambolio”, whatever that’s supposed to convey.
Also, I think that it’s unlikely that you “not being a liberal” is the precipitating stimulus that is causing us to insult you. I have family that aren’t liberal, and I don’t go around insulting them. I asked you a few days ago if you knew why I gave you so much shit, while mostly leaving other conservatives on these boards alone. Maybe you should think about it.
whatever you do is generated in that septic tank that lies between your ears, Mambolio and Jaim, not by any “radio waves” emanating from me. You are responsible for your actions, whether you think so or not. Your behavior is vile and despicable, and would be so, no matter who the target is.
Ah, but surely you realize that if you behaved differently on these boards, that our reactions to you would be different. None of this happens in a vacuum, Frank. Not to say that I am not responsible for my own actions – I am. However, my actions would be different if I didn’t have such a low opinion of you; and my opinion of you is based on your commentary on these boards.
Finally, I have decided to avoid you, Mambolio, and you, Jaim. Permanently.
OK, Frank. It’s been fun. You don’t have to avoid us, you know – you could just make more sense in your posts, and maybe not be such a hypocrite, and engage honestly with the issues. That would ensure that behavior towards you would change.
Let me know if I should expect that, or just more of the same.
I don’t much care for Ms. Palin’s attitude.
There, I said it.
I pity her, honestly. She gets up every morning and reads every newspaper and magazine that exists.
More from the tbogg:
Who’s us?
Also.
No Frank,
Conservatives are not numb, nor are liberals, they are BOTH acutely aware of things much as liberals are. BOTH, I say again, BOTH. Let me spell it phonetically….BRAVO, OSCAR, TANGO, HOTEL….. BOTH just avoid the subjects when they want to avoid answering questions.
Just like you have caused my original comment which asked if you defended Sara for venom and criticism, why you wouldn’t defend anyone else from venom. I suppose you considered the question rhetorical, so I’ll happily take the blame for not asking the question clearly enough for you to understand and respond without all of this.
For the record, if someone said they hope you die soon, they are rotten to the core for letting a debate go there. Likewise, Jaim calling you a drunk and taunting you about alcoholism is wrong in every way imagineable.
But do I think taunting you in this way pales in comparison to insinuating that a person is less of a person purely based upon their DNA? Yes.
Your last post to me included an italicized quote which happened to be the crux of the point I was making. You cut it, pasted it, italicized it, and ignored it and started trying to compare Jaim’s hateful remarks directed to you about your recovery to a picture that criticized the President for being black.
I’ll happily debate you or anyone else about things without name calling because I have the backbone to answer honestly whether it goes with the majority on this blog or not. If you can’t answer a directly don’t worry about responding.
Oh. My. Sarah Palin 2010 calendar God!
Going Rogue #3 on Amazon.
Already.
Yowzers.
This is excellent news for John McCain!
Hopefully this’ll keep Ex-Governor “Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Also.” in the spotlight and she’ll run for…any office. See also tbogg’s comment cited above.
Going Rogue #3 on Amazon.
Already.
Totally comfortable with that, Dennis. If there’s anything the presidency of Bush and the success of Fox News has taught us, it’s that popularity doesn’t equal value. Often, it seems to be the opposite.
Wonkette:
Also.
What Tbogg said.
Cashin’ in quick is so much more fun than governatin’, ’specially when someone else does the writin’. This is true Wingnut Welfare, where you don’t have to do a DAMN THING to make money.
H.L. Mencken supplies the exact analysis: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Don’t most “authors” (I use the word advisedly) go on publicity tours where they get interviewed? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Sarah went on Rachel Maddow’s show to show Tom Ridge how to push the book?
Value is in the eye of the beholder, mambo. Sounds like there’ll be inside info on the campaign that’ll be worth reading, though.
And like they say, don’t judge a book by its cover. I just hope the cover has a photo from her Runner’s World photo shoot.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Sarah went on Rachel Maddow’s show to show Tom Ridge how to push the book?
What’s the over/under on the IQ differential between Ms. Palin and Ms. Maddow? My money’s on:
Fuckin’Darn Ginormous.Sounds like there’ll be inside info on the campaign that’ll be worth reading, though.
…according to the publisher. A tell-all from speech writers and/or handlers and minders would be a wee bit* more intellectually honest (on multiple levels). And readable. Also.
*in the sense that Rachel Maddow is a wee bit smarter than Ms. Palin
Going Rogue #3 on Amazon.
Already.
Yeah, and “American Idol” has been going strong for how long now?
Maybe she should’ve just written her memoirs when she was in her late 30s and early 40s. Get that over with and then move on. I’m not aware of any former radicals living in her neighborhood at the time that could’ve helped her along, but I’m sure she could’ve managed to find someone.
What’s the over/under on the IQ differential between Ms. Palin and Ms. Maddow?
Eleventy-billion.
Value is in the eye of the beholder, mambo. Sounds like there’ll be inside info on the campaign that’ll be worth reading, though.
And in the case of many Americans, the beholders in this country are really dumb. Like I said – Fox News, Pres. Bush. Add to it the popularity of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, American Idol, and reality TV – I don’t trust the American people to know something of value if it stole their remote control and slapped them in the face.
And like they say, don’t judge a book by its cover. I just hope the cover has a photo from her Runner’s World photo shoot.
A little creepy. And as far as “judging a book by its cover”, I think that it is justifiable sometimes. If you know the source, and have extensive experience with the idiocy of the source, there’s little reason to suspect that there’s anything worthwhile in the text of this book. Just like I wouldn’t read a book by Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Beck, Inhofe, Tom Delay, Cheney, etc… I don’t intend to poison my mind with Palin’s rambling.
Made the mistake of reading a book by O’Reilly once. Rest assured, I will not make that mistake again.
Hear ya, SQ. Until Sarah America’s book bumped it from the top 3 on the Amazon bestsellers list, I was wondering the same thing about Ted Kennedy’s book, even though I admit I was a bit impressed to see a liberal tome on there.
I’m not aware of any former radicals living in her neighborhood at the time that could’ve helped her along, but I’m sure she could’ve managed to find someone.
David Weigel calls bullshit on that particular trope which will not die. Repeating it will never make it true, but wingnuts will say anything, it seems. To wit,
That won’t make the accusation true either. Stay klassy.
Maybe she should’ve just written her memoirs when she was in her late 30s and early 40s. Get that over with and then move on.
Move on to what? What does quitting your last two jobs in the middele qualify you for?
I’m not aware of any former radicals living in her neighborhood at the time that could’ve helped her along, but I’m sure she could’ve managed to find someone.
Are you JOKING? Her husband was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party that called for secession from the United States, an act which was described as treason when Jefferson Davis did it. Palin “palled around” with these seditious nutcase loonies and terrorist wannabes, so one of them could probably have helped her.
How about the witch doctor who came to her church? Palin has any number of fools and clowns to help her.
Palin has any number of fools and clowns to help her.
William Kristol. Rich Lowry. Also.
TBD.
Oh, and apparently a guaranteed bestseller and a Facebook page that strikes fear in the hearts of Democratic legislators.
that strikes fear in the hearts of Democratic legislators.
If this is true, it is only because so many Democratic legislators are scared little bitches.
The one question I had, answered:
Going Rogue
Sarah Palin took the name of her memoir from this (unflattering) Slate article.
By John Dickerson
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, at 5:31 PM ET
Sarah Palin’s anticipated first memoir, Going Rogue, will be available Nov. 17, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. The inspiration behind the unique title? Slate’s John Dickerson first used the phrase in an Oct. 20, 2008, article questioning whether the former Alaska governor was purposely disagreeing with the presidential candidate. The original article is reprinted below.
http://www.slate.com/id/2230930/
FDS – “Your stupid fucking insults are accomplishing nothing, except to convince me that liberals share their brains and are incapable of original thought.”
Calling you an Italian is not an insult but you certainly take it as one. Curious. You must have been on the bad end of racial slurs in the past: Most Italian immigrants and their children have been. You should have more insight into the insidious dynamics of racial slurs but alas, you don’t. Sad indeed.
Speaking of ghost writers, look what David Weigel noted today:
Huh. Who could have predicted? I wonder if Weigel’s appearance had anything to do with what he wrote? Or is that irresponsible?
http://washingtonindependent.com/61675/rush-limbaugh-shouldnt-talk-about-ghostwriters
Amazing: Palin’s book number one on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller list;
Update: “It is truly unprecedented”
Forty-eight days before the release and she’s already topped Dan Brown’s latest conspiracy-theory casserole at both top retailers. To put that in perspective, note that the book doesn’t even have a cover yet. So much for the Page Six hit piece about demand for her being slack…..
Don’t fear the reaper.
Amazing: Palin’s book number one on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller list; …
Dennis,
It’s not that I object to anyone taking fools for their money. There is a long American tradition of that. Ayn Rand made money. “Dianetics” by L. Ron Hubbard sold more copies than Sarah will, but I wouldn’t want him in charge either. Selling ghost-written books to rubes is not the same as running the country. It’s not even the same as running a convenience store, which also requires long hours and hard work.
She didn’t really write the book, she has not actually done any intellectual heavy lifting or shown personal leadership, and there is no possibility of her fragile self-image and limited intellect surviving what she would have to deal with in a national political campaign. Sarah Palin likes the spotlight, but she doesn’t want the ball in the fourth quarter. She doesn’t even want to come out of the locker room for the second half.
For me the fascination is in seeing how long she can conceal her uninformed, lazy, shallow and vindictive real self behind the manufactured image and the protected appearances. I understand that there are people who believe Sarah is a legitimate political candidate for high office. What I do not understand is how anyone could look at this woman’s limited abilities and history of quitting and think that.
Try heading over to Big Hollywood, where you’ll find all 3 kinds of conservative humor; Unfunny, Unintended and Unsuccessful.
Went there once, read an post about some guy whining about how he’s entitled to the money of homosexuals. Haven’t gone back since.
Repack, I think you and I share something in common in that neither of us can understand what the fascination is with Sarah Palin.
Where we differ is which side seems to be the most fascinated.
tbogg covered this well upthread
Where we differ is which side seems to be the most fascinated.
“Fascinated” does not mean the same thing as “laughing our asses off that this is what passes for the GOP.”
So contrary to your abuse of the language, only one side is “fascinated,” and the rational folks would like to know why.
This is your forum to tell us WTF it is about Sarah that you admire, and it’s not like you haven’t been asked. It isn’t her dazzling intellect, her vast depth of knowledge or her stick-to-it-iveness, that’s for sure, so what is it?
‘And like they say, don’t judge a book by its cover. I just hope the cover has a photo from her Runner’s World photo shoot.’
And therein lies the appeal of Palin to GOP males; talk about flash over substance.
‘Eleventy-billion.’
Classic, but don’t tell Sarah; she’ll be convinced it’s a real number.
“the fascination is with Sarah Palin”
People slow down to stare at car crashes on the highway too. Pretty much the same thing. The woman is a disaster of a human being, and I look forward to Obama ruthlessly crushing her in 2012 if she manages to get the nomination over Romney.
Letterman Top Ten Writing Tips from Sarah Palin:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/top-ten-sarah-palin-tips-writing-book
Funny enough.