Jon Stewart on Palin: Spot-friggin-on!

This is fantastic. Stewart really hits all his marks with his ’special comment’ about Sarah the Impaler.

His best line:

“when you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there’s no onion. It’s just a conservative boiler plate mad lib: ‘Freedom is good and taxes are–ooh I need an adjective–how about, I don’t know, silly?’

I love this man.

Graphic courtesy of the remarkable Nonnie.

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This book is worth reading..

Tomorrow a new book will hit the stores. No, I am not talking about “Going Rogue: An American Life”, Palin’s new memoir, I am talking about “Going Rouge: Sarah Palin – An American Nightmare“. This book contains articles and essay’s written about Sarah the Impaler from well-known left of center folks like Max Blumenthal, Eve Ensler, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Juan Cole, Jim Hightower, Robert Reich, Naomi Klein and my favorite.. Matt Taibbi. Truthout has a  writeup about this new endeavor and speaks to the editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed about their book that exposes the former Alaska governor for what she really is…a publicity whore who hasn’t a clue about running a government and is so self-serving it’s downright pathetic and dangerous for America. This book isn’t a personal attack of Palin the individual, its a testament to her record as a politician who seeks to hold America’s elected highest office. A section of the books introduction:

Palinism works by draping hard-right policy in a winning personal story and just-folks rhetoric, delicately masking the extremism of her true positions and broad- ening the audience for them. Its genius rests in its ability to magically absorb inconvenient facts and mutually contradictory realities into an unassailable personal narrative. In the Palin universe, her unwed pregnant teenage daughter Bristol is somehow a poster child for abstinence- only education; hence criticism of Palin’s sex-ed policies is an attack on her family. While Palin says tolerantly that members of her own family disagree about abortion, that there are “good people” on both sides, and that she would “personally” counsel a pregnant 15-year-old who’d been raped by her father to “choose life,” she actually believes that a child in that situation should not have the legal option to terminate her pregnancy. Although Palin is an aggressive advocate for opening up the United States’ oil reserves to drilling instead of investing in renewable energy, she labels herself “pro-environment,” a stance exemplified by her love of shooting animals or her husband’s hobby of racing snowmobiles across the tundra. And who’d dare question Palin’s foreign policy credentials, when her son Track shipped out to Iraq after high school?

A small taste of the Q&A with the editors in the TO article:

TO: Why do you think Sarah Palin remains so widely accepted by conservatives as a viable national politician, despite her obvious shortcomings?

RK: A part of that is definitely the narrative she sells; being a mom from Alaska. Also, she also does share the views of 20 percent of the electorate: the far right. And it’s clear that they are not actually thinking in this moment of winning national elections. They’re not even trying to hold onto a seat in New York’s 23rd district, which has been in Republican hands since the 1850s. That was the race where Sarah Palin intervened and hacked out the moderate Republican. So that’s a big question that’s unknown: Is the Republican Party going to follow Palin into basically suicidal territory in terms of a national election?

Below is Robert Greenwald’s short video explaining the basis of the book and why it’s important to get the facts out about this irresponsible woman who seeks to drag our nation into the abyss and make a few bucks for herself whilst doing it.

Never underestimate Sarah from Wasilla. She is dangerous and crafty..and the far right adores her, regardless of her shortcomings and failings as a leader.

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The News Hour

Sarah Palin, a giant in her own midget mind, just won’t go away quietly…

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Wardrobe-Gate: The Story That Will Not Die

Patt Morrison, writing for Huffington Post has (gleefully) not let up in terms of going after the hypocracy of Sarah Palin:

Over the weekend, Governor Sarah Palin was backing away from Wardrobe-Gate like, well, like an Alaskan moose backing away from the barrel of a 30-06 Winchester.

She was back to wearing her own clothes, Palin said pointedly. And she had bought a lot of them from her favorite store, a resale shop in Anchorage called ”Out of the Closet.”

That name … it rings a bell in Southern California ears, doesn’t it? “Out of the Closet” is a chain of nonprofit thrift stores operated by and for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Liz Taylor has donated stuff to it. So have Carol Burnett and Aaron Spelling and the makers of “The X Files” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

I raised questions about this in my weekend blog here and on the LA Times site. Why? Because the OOTC shop in Anchorage, beloved of Palin, makes no mention whatsoever of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation on its website. OOTC’s AIDS charity status is a huge selling point for the California stores. So I posed the question, “Trademark lawyer alert?”

Question answered. At a press conference today, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation did two things…

And two, the foundation’s lawyers are pressing the trademark infringement issue against the Anchorage OOTC, sending off a ”cease and desist” letter about the name that’s been above the doors of the foundation’s AIDS benefit shops since 1990.

“Out of the Closet” is a federal trademark, and yes, that means Alaska, too. As Palin herself noted rather indignantly in a Katie Couric interview, “Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, `Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?’ ”

If this woman can not even formulate an effective response to such an (ultimately) insignificant issue as this, that does not get her in to deeper doo doo, how the hell does any person capable of rational thought think Palin is capable of holding the office of vice president?

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A Message To Sarah Palin

And a message to anyone contemplating voting for the McCain/Palin ticket from the young women who would have to live in a country with Sarah Palin a hair breadth away from the presidency:

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Palin lies in conference call to reporters

Listen to the conference call here. During a conference call, Sarah Palin, who also refers to TrooperGate as TaserGate, stated:

Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

Big ol lie, because the report (pdf) did find her guilty of abusing the power of her office for personal gain, an ethics violation. This woman evidently has no shame. Part of the transcript below from the Alaska Daily News site:

Palin: Hey, thank you so, Meg. Thank you so much. Thank you also to our local reporters up there in Alaska. Even hearing your names make me feel like I’m right there with you at home. It’s good to get to speak with you. Let me talk a little bit about the Tasergate issue if you guys would let me and, Meg, you want me to just jump right on in there?

Stapleton: Sure governor, go ahead.

Palin: OK cool.

Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that. Todd did what anyone would have done given this state trooper’s very, very troubling behavior and his dangerous threats against our family. Todd did what I think any Alaskan would do.

And he, Todd did what the state’s Department of Law Web site tells anyone to do if they have a concern about a state trooper. And that’s you go to the commissioner and you express your concern. And Todd did what our personal detail asked him to do. Bob Cockrell early on as I was elected and was asked are there any threats against you, and Todd brought the concern as I did to Commissioner Monegan about the state trooper’s threats. He did what any – I think — any rational person would do so again, nothing to apologize there with Todd’s actions and again very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing.

Why do these people think we are all ignorant? Why does Sarah Palin have the ability to lie so easily and to reporters? She also contradicts herself, as per her usual. First says she is happy as a clam to be cleared and then bitches that the report was just partisan politics…which btw..it wasn’t.

Like her running mate, she is a delusional, lying bag o batshit folks..

H/T to TPM for the link to the audio.

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Tina Fey does Palin, take two.

The best is the last part I think, where Palin can’t give an example..Glad to see Fey back on SNL if only to lampoon Palin.

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Stop the Presses! Palin takes reporters questions..

She took all of Five questions..CNN also has another writeup about the cough..Q&A here. From the very short transcript, here are the questions:

CNN: On the topic of never letting this happen again, do you agree with the way the Bush administration has handled the war on terrorism, is there anything you would do differently?

POLITICO: Do you think our presence in Iraq and afghan and our continued presence there is inflaming islamic extremists?

POLITICO: Do you support the reelection bids of embattled Alaska Republicans, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens?

POLITICO: Are you gong to vote for them?

JERSEY JOURNAL: What do you think of bailout package before congress?

The answers were worthless so why waste space printing them here? The phrase…,trained seal…comes to my mind.

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Palin loves aerial hunting.

Of course the reality is..aerial hunting isn’t hunting..its morbid and its a painful death for the animal. Pass this around. I grew up in a family where we didn’t eat store-bought meat until I was 7 or 8. I know hunting and this ain’t fucking hunting. My republican father agrees and is appalled.

From the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.

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Jon Stewart goes after Hannity and Palin lovefest

H/T to Crooks and Liars for the video. They also have the transcript available. Talk about a mouthpiece for the Rethugs…go Hannity!

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Anchorage Alaska Has Something to say…

Anchorage Alaska Has Something to say…

“This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.~ Progressive Alaska

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.”~Alaska Real

Mudflats writes:
o, as I jettisoned myself from the jaws of the ‘Drill Baby Drill’ crowd and toward the mystery rally at the library, I felt a bit apprehensive. I’d been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it’s a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren’t sent by Eddie Burke, we’ll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing “socialist baby-killing maggot” haters.

It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.

*Hat tip to Enigma @ Watergate Summer for posting links to these blogs

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Ten Post Round-Up: Bad News Ahead

Last week, I did my level best to stay out of the political fray, but to no avail.  So, I officially give up.  And, since our politicians aren’t giving up, I guess I might as well just dive in and go for the gold.

Today’s Ten Post Round-Up is designed to show you just how bad this election show has gotten.  But, before we go any further, I should first let Uncle Jay explain the news (the word for the day is: lipstick).

You know things are bad when:

• Your go-away party is bigger than your welcome home party.

• Your financial guru won’t vouch for your tax plans.

• Your running mate is being labeled as worse than the guy you are planning to replace.

• You claim to be the “Party of Lincoln” in order to woo African-American voters, but some of your more outspoken members keep doing things to remind black folks precisely why they don’t vote for your party.

• Websites are popping up having to debunk all the crap hitting the fan in this election.

• The man, notorious for being a lying scumbag, calls you out on national television–for lying (and he’s supposed to be on your side).

• A local newspaper, formerly notorious for supporting all things Republican (and/or conservative), actually has the gonads to come out against you.

• Doctors are questioning your ethics for not fully disclosing your medical records.

• A comedienne can make your running mate look she’s the one who’s copying her.

• The fact that you are Caucasian allows you to get away with things that you would never let slide if the candidate were African-American.

(originally posted at: The Sirens Chronicles)

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SNL does Palin-Humor Alert!

Its great and its SNL at its best…watch it!

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Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin-Humor alert!

I do like the Funny or Die website on occasion, Its twisted….and so am I.

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Pulling Out for Palin

You have to admit, the ridiculous factor in this election is over the top. The pro abstinence Vice Presidential candidate who eloped when pregnant, steps into the National arena as a wildcard, not vetted, VP pick, and before she could begin to comment on her political platform/beliefs, announced her unwed daughter was pregnant. We should step back and allow her privacy, while Palin would legislate anti-abortion laws that would make such private decisions for the rest of the country. Not exactly a smooth intro, but it just keeps going–

What exactly does a Vice President DO?

The obvious answer to this question, is to accept the candidacy, and proceed to tell half truths in front of 40 million witness/viewers. All the press could do was lavish praise of what a spunky little gal this is and how she’s energized the party. Before she was on the ticket, McCain was struggling to get a crowd at all for his speeches… now he can get 10,000, although not the 84,000 Obama had attending his acceptance speech.

The RNC had a whole lot of empty seats. I can’t help but think lots of Republicans thought his choice was bad- McCain himself announcing the VP choice would be terribly important because of his age and health- picks a vastly inexperienced candidate with no Foreign relations experience whatsoever.

This dynamic dundering duo has duped the public into their sideshow of snappy lines that are shallow on substance. We hear slams, rhetoric, and McCain inviting us to *Fight with Him*…. is he really referring to that 100 year war he was talking about, and if we choose to NOT fight with him , will he impose a military draft? So while we know the names of Palin’s kids, one heading off to Iraq, one heading off to a shotgun wedding, leaving the rest of the kids to care for the special needs baby, McCain & Palin head off on their campaign tour, repeating the snappy lines that only tell half the story.

Palin said “Thanks but no Thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere Money”– but kept the money & used it for other things.
While Gramps McCain waves his fist saying he will stop pork barrel spenders in their tracks, Palin got the most pork barrel monies of all the States in the US…. a per capita bonanza for Alaska. So Palin’s only political experience is in direct conflict with McCain’s no pork barrel spending mandate.

While Palin prattled on about her family & Hockey Mom/PTA resume- all that time wasted as we are left not knowing where they Stand on Torture, Gitmo, the Iraq War, the Economy, the Mortgage Crisis, and the $9.5 trillion dollar national debt.

I fear that I know the answers to those questions.
We should all pull out for Palin.

Crossposted at Ramblings.

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