Palin's Media Bash-a-thon Continues

| Thu Feb. 26, 2009 3:32 PM PST
Recently, clips of an interview Sarah Palin gave to conservative filmmaker John Ziegler caused a stir because of Palin's comment that the media was on a mission to "seek" and "destroy" her vice presidential candidacy. At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Ziegler was on hand to show the full, unedited interview he did with Palin on January 5th in the governor's Wasilla, Alaska, home. Lasting roughly 40 minutes, the interview is full of fusillades launched at the mainstream media, many of most of which have already become public but some of which have not. Below are some moments from Palin – she calls the scandal surrounding the birth of her son Trig "the epitome of stupidity," defends her interview with Charlie Gibson, and says that she would do it all over again.

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On the speculation about the birth of her son Trig: "We were thinking this is the just the epitome of stupidity in terms of what the media will delve into and try to twist and portray very inaccurately. Little did I know that was just the beginning."

On her infamous "Bush Doctrine" moment with Charlie Gibson: "What the heck was wrong with that answer? Ask anybody in the Bush Administration what the Bush Doctrine is and I'll bet you you'll hear the same thing…. There are legitimately many interpretations of what the Bush Doctrine is."

On whether Charlie Gibson's attitude, which Ziegler describes as "condescending," would have been different if he had been interviewing Barack Obama: "I have to honestly say I think there would have been much more respect shown."

On whether she would do it again, despite her treatment by the media: "I would do it again though, knowing that there is great need in our country for reform. There is great need in our country -- I think we need to get back to the basic tenets that built up the Republican Party… if there is opportunity I can see to help, I would do it again."

Sounds like Palin vs. the Media, Round 2, is set for 2012.
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Sarah Palin would do it again?

She would have been shown more respect if she had been better prepared for her interviews. She has no one to blame but herself. Sure the media tries to find dirt on the candidates but she wasn't singled out for special treatment. It went right across the board and some of the other candidates faced worse then she did. So there was some question about whose child Trig actually was - and I don't like that it came up but it wasn't unnatural. An older mom is more likely to have a Downs Syndrome child than a youonger one so I never doubted he was hers but given some of her outspoken criticism of others led to it and she needs to accept that. The truth is she didn't show enough grace under pressure - and these were just interviews, what would she do if she had to face really tough criticism and crisis situations.

Sarah (duh) Palin, George

Sarah (duh) Palin, George W.hat me worry? Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John McCain, John Bolton, Bobby Jindal, ...Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, peas in a pod, "nuts-wise"! Talk about a list of mental misfits, megalomaniacs, pending charges "war criminals", and just plain horses' pa-toots, I'm inclined to believe the Republican Party is quite adequately and very accurately defined by this 'short list' of their "Best and Brightest". I submit, one couldn't do much worse picking Republican representatives for the Party if they drew from the police national list of pedophiles, murders, rapists, domestic abusers, and of course one must include "war mongering torturers"! I agree, Sarah Palin, megalo-moron that she is, is likely the best the Republicans have! Just take a gander at the run-of-the-mill Republican supporters (dumb and dumber)! If your search is limited to an apparent pool of genetic/evolutionary failures these are the Republican choice "standouts", such as they are! As for Palin and/or Jindal 2012, good luck with your "re-arranging the deck chairs" of your Republican Titanic voyage 2012, or put another way, "Ship of Fools v.2012". Is there not a single Republican politician or supporter in this country that isn't, apparently, a mind-meld of Terri Schiavo?! (I accept responsibility for all grammatical, spelling, etc. short comings, but then again, I'm not seeking a seat of political power or "leadership") Ali Lama, Milwaukee USA

The news media surrendered

The news media surrendered whatever credibility it had left in this last election. I don't think most of them will be around in 2012

The news media surrendered

The news media surrendered whatever credibility it had left in this last election. I don't think most of them will be around in 2012

Uuuuh, Pete?

The media isn't going anywhere. In truth, I hear the media talk about a Palin 2012 bid, but I don't hear anyone on the street giving it a second thought. Most folks are just trying to hold on during this bumpy economic ride and paying no attention to the screaming harpy we ditched back at the last mile marker.

Ditto. Well said.

Ditto. Well said.

Run, Sarah, Run in 2012!

Paul, Apparently you haven't heard of Team Sarah and the many other organizations that are supporting a Palin run for the Presidency in 2012. The Internet is alive with Run, Sarah, Run! Even Sarah's Facebook page has over half a million supporters. Your statement about the man on the street sounds like the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand. Another Republican Revolution is brewing, and it is going to be bigger than ever before! God bless America, and God bless Sarah Palin, our next President!

It just behooves me that

It just behooves me that anyone could ever think this women could be a canidate for the highest office in the world. I see that some people need to have a false hero because they have no depth in the own lives.

Behooves?

I suggest that you have a dictionary or other usage guide at hand when making remarks for attribution.

Behooves?

Behooves? As the first reply states, get a dictionary. And as for false - just look who's in office now. There is NOTHING true about BO. He is but a falsehood.

Fay, there is a bright side.

Now that Obama is implementing some of what he promised, there will be no looking back and 2012 will be a slam dunk for him. Palin is already history except to a small, but loud, minority. The process of evolution is about to claim the Republican party. The good news, Fay, is that you will ultimately be better off for it.

OMG! Obama has delivered

OMG! Obama has delivered nothing but a bunch of pork and political payoffs! Why cant people see this for what it is? "Good news"??? We not only will be the worse for it, but our children's children will too!

seeing

obviously, you are blind.

FACEBOOK

PEOPLE AGAINST PALIN Facebook page has DOUBLE the amount of members. Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!

Fay-

I hate you. You are what is wrong with this country. Maybe you should run for president. You're probably equally qualified. Can I be your running mate?

Evolve already Sarah and quit breeding in the meantime!

More power to those who seek to better their world! Who look to the future with tolerance, sustainability and promote eductation and responsibility! Sarah is perfect to run for the Republican Ticket in 2012 though. Truly! Republicans are the party that continue to protect the greed that got us into this economic mess. They want to continue polluting the earth with their foreign ( and domestic ) global warming oil and dirty fuels and they continue to promote their sinful hate of anyone different than themselves. ( And as a mostly Christian party - how do they reconcile their religious views with bombing women and children in places they have never been... as they wrap themselves in the flag and cry they have the corner on the market of patriotism. ) PLEASE.... EVOLVE ALREADY!

You're joking, right? The

You're joking, right? The Idiots Revolt? The dumb leading the dumb? Are you familiar with the kind of "reform" Palin has brought forth in Alaska? We've spent 8 years regressing (quite a few more if you could the Reagan and Bush Sr. years).

sarah palin

Stupidity runs rampant in the republican party. How dare Sarah Palin complain about anything when the bought and paid for right wing radio hawkers fill the air waves with constant threats and lies about the democrats. Sarah Palin, totally unprepared, totally uninformed, was the cause of her embarrassment on national television. Funny, I'm not running for president, but I could answer Charlie Gibsons and Katy Courigs questions. If Sarah Palin, or Bobby Jindal is the best the republicans can do, we may have democrats in the White House for the foreseeable future. And no matter what happens, no one can be as destructive to this country as the corrupt GW and his minions.

Hey palinbots

We aren't buying it. She's simply too stupid. Your message is lost after the majority of thinking people, with brains, fail to understand her incoherent whacked out blathering. There are a few of you still hoping the nutcase will make it in 2012, 2016, but there is no amount of time that will allow sarah the palin to learn enough even to realize that tax payers don't need to be funding her childrens travel expenses, much less anything regarding being a president. She's flat out an idiot.

Palin's Media Bash

Some body should tell Sarah to keep dreaming because the same people who supported her in order to save the Republican ship,THEY themselves will be running 4 the same job in 2012 and I can't wait to hear them express their real opinions about their beloved Sarah & her qualification to run 4 president !

Palin In 2012...I Don't Think So

Mrs. Palin is at best a far-right talking head and shows no evidence of anything except being able to look good in expensive designer clothes and a costly pair of glasses. If this woman is the best the GOP can come up with in 2012, the party will be marginalized out of existence.

God Bless America and God

God Bless America and God Bless Everyone, including Sarah Palin, but seriously, she'll never be in the White House. Won't happen. There are teams of all kinds of folks doing all kinds of things in the name of all kinds of subjects but the SARAH PALIN TEAMS are largely a group of undereducated yahoos that have finally found someone that's not the sharpest tool in the shed to rally around. Haha. Wasting your time.

palin for president? you gotta be kidding

If Palin's FB page has 1/2 million supporters, that means nothing. Except to people who are unaware of how many voters are required to win the election. Palin was the reason McCain lost the last election. She appeals to such a narrow minority it isn't even funny.

Sarah Palin

Are you nuts? You can not be serious! I would rather vote for a 50 plus women who has to work her ass of for $2,-- per hour at a diner that serves unhealthy patriotic American burgers, next to a ugly highway with polluted fumes, because this woman knows what the real America is and she would be better to be the new president of the USA than this nutcase Palin. God bless the world! And teach the states a lesson!

You just keep telling

You just keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

Sarah the BIG FAKE

God help America if this woman is considered legitimate.

I love this line: "we need

I love this line: "we need to get back to the basic tenets that built up the Republican Party… if there is opportunity I can see". Yeah, if there's opportunity to collect per diem for eating at home; if there's opportunity to have the state pay for my children's travel; if there's opportunity to get someone to pay for a *lot* of designer clothes; ..... Yeah, the Republican way "What can I get". Oh, and would that be Palin/Jindal or Jindal/Palin in '12?

CPAC is now known as TP for CRAP

CPAC has exposed itself as TP for CRAP when one considers that their featured ranters are the likes of Palin, Coulter, Jindal, Steele, Joe the Plumber, with Limbaugh being their National Deranged Ranter-in-Chief. Def: TP is the Traitor Party wing of the former GOP which has now devolved to CRAP (Communist Republican Anti-American Party) since Bush and his congressional republican sycophants sold out America to communist China over the last eight years and became the root cause of their 2009 GOP Depression.

You all should be ASHAMED with yourselves

tagged as: 
I am so disappointed to read these comments many of you have posted! Many of you which know nothing about Sarah Palin. I am not going to explain it to you because have another reason why you personally do not agree with this woman running for President. I have seen so much media corruption its not even funny. I am not going to defend Sarah Palin all I am going to say is that she is a very brilliant woman. Half the reason most of you don't like her is because of what you have seen or heard. Nothing actually factual you all have the common knowledge of. If you were to research with you own brains and eyes you would see a different side. Unfortunately most of you are taking the easy way out and letting the media do all of the researching for you. I am sorry but for my canididates I have to do the researching myself! There so much corruption with Mr. Obama and half of you know nothing about it because you haven't taken you own time to view these circumstances. I am not insulting any of you personally. I just think many of us are party driven and when we think of the Republician party we think Bush, and many of you may not like him but her benefited our country a great deal. Although we many not see the impact currently we shall one day. I think that if Palin would have been greeted with open arms by more of the Mainstream media this would have been a different situation. Now you all can talk about my post or talk about me personally which no of you know me....or you could possibly slame my grammar which I am sorry if you have the time to do that you seriously need to get a life. I think Sarah Palin has as much of an opportunity as any other person that decides to run for 2012. The only thing I believe is that we all need to learn from our mistakes, and Sarah Palin can do that she has done it before. I don't need facts for people either so if you wanna post some ridiculous respose to this trying to prove me wrong or whatever nonsense you wanna provide you can, but know that after I post this response I won't come back to this site it shall be completely blocked from my knowlegde. All I can say is Team Sarah your amazing and I am fully supporting you, and I hope to one day work in helping Sarah reach the National office as President of the USA. Oh, and also Barack Obama does not have the 2012 presidentcy in the bag he has not even finished his 100 days in office so we will all just have to wait, wonder, and see what results! YOU ROCK SARAH PALIN!!!! 2012 2012 2012 2012 You have my vote! Her facebook page will double in size of the supporters for her I hate to break it to you.

Palin supporters

Why is it that rants by Palin supporters, including the one on this page signed Chris BurkMenn, are invariably peppered with poor grammar, syntax, and diction, unsubstantiated charges against Obama and most other progressives -- and so much anger? I rest my case, made in another comment on this page ("Sarah Palin's guardian mythology"). The GOP had a potential presidential winner in 2008 in Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, a devout Christian conservative, decorated Vietnam War combat vet (two tours), and self-made successful businessman who puts reason, knowledge, and facts -- and his country -- first. But the Republican Party pushed him aside because he spoke out against the Bush administration's Iraqi fiascoes. McCain picked Palin in an act of desperate and cynical political calculation. Americans looked at Palin. A few were amused and a majority was appalled. In picking a no-nothing hate-monger pretending to be a "soccer mom", McCain put his political career ahead of country. To watch him now, sitting in the audience as Obama speaks, arms folded in hostility, is proof this man has been left behind by changing times.

What people know about Palin

Those of us who are critical of Palin may not know every bit of her history, but we had a great opportunity to see her both in interviews and in speeches she gave that were covered during the election campaign. The combination of lunacy and idiocy that she displayed in those settings is more than enough for intelligent people to conclude that she has no business being considered for national office. She couldn't give intelligent responses to softball questions from Katy Couric like "what publications do you read?" She made stupid statements more than once. The most quoted ones, like "I can see Russia from my front porch" were repeated because of their wacky incongruity. But the screwball stuff wasn't limited to gaffes. Her political speeches were laced with nuttiness. And her avoidance of the press while campaigning for vice-president was the ultimate in stupidity. Blaming it on her handlers makes it even worse. Who wants a president whose decisions about what to say and when are regulated by "handlers"? No, those who reject Sarah Palin as a viable candidate have plenty of reason to do so. After eight years of republicans trying to portray Bush's inarticulate dunderheadedness as "folksy," the people aren't buying it any more. To quote the feckless Dubya "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, uh . . .uh . . . we won't be fooled again."

I can only hope....

I'm hoping for a Palin 2012 run...She will make it much easier to defeat the republicans and continue with the change this country so desperately needs!

Why isn't intelligence valued in politicians?

If Sarah Palin is the best that the Republican party can put forth for 2012 then it is a sad state of affairs. Bobby Jindal is at least an intelligent individual. If we can have a minimum age to become prez can't we have some minimum educational requirement? And do you really want to vote for someone from the bottom of their classes (McCain, Bush)? The smart go into business and the dumb become politicians, at least in the USA.

Body Language

"On her infamous "Bush Doctrine" moment with Charlie Gibson: "What the heck was wrong with that answer?" For me it was her body language when she answered: "In what respect, Charlie?'' She slumped slightly to the right on the arm of her chair, a gesture that intuitively seems to me (and I imagine to others) to be incongruent with confidence. It was like a fight or flight reaction, a dear caught in the headlights, with a frozen smile on her face. She was smiling while under stress. Not congruent and an indication to me that she was trying to cover up her nervousness and was not being authentic. Whether or not this means she knew the answer or not, or was just winging it, does not matter to me. To me the problem is that she comes across as being fake and inauthentic...and I imagine she has learned to do this a lot.

Jayzus!

Jayzus! ChrisBurkMenn.....get a diary.

Sarah (duh) Palin?;

Sarah (duh) Palin?; G.W.Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John McCain, John Bolton, Bobby Jindal, Sarah (duh) Palin...Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, peas in a pod, "nuts-wise"! Talk about a list of mental misfits, megalomaniacs, pending charges "war criminals", and just plain horses' pa-toots, I'm inclined to believe the Republican Party is quite adequately and very accurately defined by this 'short list' of their "Best and Brightest". I submit, one couldn't do much worse picking Republican representatives for the Party if they drew from the police national list of pedophiles, murders, rapists, domestic abusers, and of course one must include "war mongering torturers"! I agree, Sarah Palin, megalo-moron that she is, is likely the best the Republicans have! Just take a gander at the run-of-the-mill Republican supporters (dumb and dumber)! If your search is limited to an apparent pool of genetic/evolutionary failures these are the Republican choice "standouts", such as they are! As for Palin and/or Jindal 2012, good luck with your "re-arranging the deck chairs" of your Republican Titanic voyage 2012, or put another way, "Ship of Fools v.2012". Is there not a single Republican politician or supporter in this country that isn't, apparently, a mind-meld of Terri Schiavo?! (I accept responsibility for all grammatical, spelling, etc. short comings, but then again, I'm not seeking a seat of political power or "leadership") Ali Lama, Milwaukee USA

The "epitome of stupidity"

The "epitome of stupidity" is that Sarah Palin chose to have a kid at her advanced age. Sarah, keep your legs and your mouth closed and life will be better for you and the rest of the world. BTW, what Republican values are of any value? Almost every good thing in this country comes from the Democrats. All the rotten, greedy-rich, racist, dumbass values are Republican.

Palin

It's interesting Palin blaming the media for the rumors surrounding her pregnancy. This information came from several bloggers living in Wasila. Then the GOP got wind of this information and took down the website. One had a Youtube video of her daughter saying the baby was her's. Zigler from all that I can gather has decided to make Palin a victim of the media's when the truth was she was a victim of the GOP's. She was become a smart woman, when she wakes to that fact. Think about it. The cloak under which she was introduced to the public. No one could interview her, then her first interview with Gibson. All was mismanaged by the GOP. The GOP convention presented her on her looks opposed to her intelligence. She was simply a mouth piece for the GOP party. It was obvious and overly apparent. Then when provided an opportunity to speak for herself, she ended up looking like a joke. She did that all herself. So Zigler is smart. He's come up with a way to make money during a time when our economy is turning very bad. That's if there are lots interested in knowing this about Palin. I'm not

I hope Ms. Palin does run in 2012

As other have pointed out here, this will make it that much easier to defeat whatever package the Republicans put together in 3 years. Sara Palin is her own worst enemy, and a little digging around in her past shows a lot many people do not want to see. Her clumsy, adolescent delivery (in a pretty package) may have worked in Alaska for a while, but I understand it's wearing thin there as well. As for the somewhat inarticulate people who support her - bully for them. They are a small fraction of the votes needed to get things done in the USA. Even our past President had an 'approval' rating over 20% when he left office, 20+% who for whatever reason (Money? Upbringing? Drugs? Brain Trauma?) still supported him and his disastrous 8 years in office. So, Ms. Palin manages to stay in office in Alaska, avoid any number of legal problems, she'll still be a huge drag on the Republican ticket with the majority of Americans. It'll be interesting to see what she does in the next few years. Maybe she could study a bit of history while she's nursing Trig. John W Beck www.veganjohn.com

Why Can't You See????

Arizona Sailor How could any thinking person consider that Sarah Palin is a candidate for president of this country! Wow! Perhaps her supporters are living under rocks and refuse to see her innate stupidity and to ponder just who the villians have been in the last eight years. When my Senator McCain named her his VP, I laughed so hard the tears were running down my face. And knowing what I know about McCain, that man is no hero. He was a D. C. insider since birth, having been raised there, and has been on the public dole his entire life. Amazingly, he has crashed more airplanes than anyone I know and survived! And the villians for the past eight years are the Republicans, my former party, which has gone so far to the religious right in accommodating the Southern theists that I do not recognize it any more. Nor do I like it very much. As an investor, I am getting a big kick out of watching CNBC and seeing and hearing the Republican commentators squeal like stuck pigs. After the GOP devastated the middleclass and ruined the economy, it has the nerve to complain about the taxes that the new administration intends to restore to the wage earners who make over $250K annually. They call these taxes "new" when, in fact, they are the fair share of what the wealthy should pay. Bush threw them tax reductions, which made up half of the huge deficit he ran up. For all of you ultra religious people who think Palin and some other Republicans represent a god, I have a big horse laugh for you. They would pick your bones clean like the vultures they have become. Mr. Reagan's trickle-down policies were really "crumbs for the masses". If you don't understand that this is economic class warfare, you are under a rock and blind to reality.

Truth hurts

To Anonymous: Like a true ideological Republican, calling a bill that the GOP refuses to support "pork" just because it doesn't measure up to the flawed ideals that got us into the economical mess we now find ourselves. Never mind that the GOP had 6 years to try and show it could fix things, but instead doubled the national debt in the blink of an eye, while also giving massive tax cuts to people that already had the money, and then embroiling us in a war that was nothing more than a lie in a country that never attacked us or had anything to do with 9/11. If the GOP wants to keep crying foul while President Obama and the Democrats do the real work to fix America and our economy, then let them. After all, the infighting amongst the GOP is a nice distraction each day from the doom and gloom that they brought us in the first place. The irony of all this is that the GOP are continuing the same defeatest policies that have brought them to their lowest approval ratings and internal turmoil in more than 25 years. They did this to themselves with false beliefs that the American people would just blindly follow whatever they did or said as the gospel of truth. However as we all know lies and deceit eventually see the light of day, and the GOP has learned this "gospel" in a harsh way after being soundly defeated in not one, but two major nationwide elections. With Rush-I'm-An-Idiot Limbaugh now their trumper bearer, the GOP is going to be in even worse shape than they were in 2008. Not one thing the GOP has said about the recent stimulus bill that has been signed into law is true. Not one single "opinion" is based on fact or actual evidence. Once again the GOP has resorted to the media to try and spin their side of things, and when the media wouldn't bite, they once again attack them as being "liberal" and "out of touch with mainstream America". To the GOP; we've opened our eyes and awakened from the lies and falsehoods you perpetrated on America for more than 6 years. Guess what? Time for your nap.

Continuing Conservative Contradiction

To Sage Advice: You hit it right on the head. The GOP is rife with contradictions. Limbaugh railed against McCain throughout the primaries, but when McCain became their banner bearer, suddenly he was touted as a great American hero. For what? Crashing multi-million dollar jets? Surviving Hotel Hanoi as many other POW's did against great odds in a war that ended 35 years ago? Spending the rest of his public life getting a taxpayer supported income that put him among the 5% wealthiest people in the country? How many homes is it that you own, Mr. McCain? Or how about the remarkable health care he, as a federal public servant, receives, not to mention traveling around the world at taxpayer expense. Don't get me wrong. One has to admire a man with his history. But if I had to hear "maverick" one more time as some sort of proof that he was qualifed to represent us common folk, I was going to puke! Then along came Sarah. Neither Rush nor Hannity knew a thing about her when she was first announced. McCain had spoken to her twice while vetting other possible running mates. I can only image how other "great Americans" in the GOP cringed when McCain made his maverick announcement, and then witnessed how Palin crashed and burned during her interviews with Gibson and Couric. She needed Capt. Sully, not a moose hunting helicopter to rescue her. Better yet, she should have had the dignity to withdraw from the ticket. Her handlers made the right decision putting a gag in her mouth, but screwed it up with their choice of her very expensive wardrobe. For that I am grateful. Yep, as a middle-class American, I could really identify with her as "one-of-us." You betcha, darn toot'n! Maybe Sarah can get her plumber buddy to come over and fix my toilet since I can't pay for it. I haven't seen a paycheck in a year. Or, better yet, ship me a case of Moose Drool Beer. Then I might even be able to see Russia from my house too. But back to the conservative contradictions. They tend to be "pro-life", but they want to execute criminals. They support less government, but they created the most expensive military industrial complex the world has ever known. How many billions of taxpayer dollars have been paid to military contractors with which Bush administration officials have been or now are affiliated? Conservatives claim to be against increased taxes, so they reduced them for the most wealthy and offset the lost revenues by cutting middle class social programs. Is it truly lost on the conservative wing that Bush's policies effected the largest weath transfer and have resulted in the largest trade and budget deficit in our nation's history which is causing a global economic collapse? On just two specific notes: (a) Bush ordered 28 of the most expensive Air Force One shuttle copters ever, which even the military says today are unnecessary and fraught with budget mismanagement, and which Obama is now cancelling; and (b) TARP was approved and implemented by Bush, without safeguards on how the money could be spent, so that the heads of the financial institutions who received the bailout money granted themselves multi-million dollar bonuses and planned lavish "reward excursions" for their senior employees. This was all from Mr. Bush and his band of burglars. So, my conservative friends, don't keeping ranting against Obama and his administration. They didn't create this mess. Your conservative colleagues spent the past 8 years miring us in this muck. Obama has had only 5 weeks to try to figure out how to get us out of it.

Palin

Only if the media continues to pay attention to her...(hey, what's Dukakis doing lately?) Why don't we just let Sarah retire into bad-hair, turkey-grinding anonymity? If we all agree that her 15 minutes are over, maybe they will be.

"Sounds like Palin vs. the

"Sounds like Palin vs. the Media, Round 2, is set for 2012." Great. I am looking forward to watching her beat herself into submission again.

Condescending to Paulin?

It is very possible Gibson appeared condensending. Although we must remember that the quality of discourse has as much to do with with the person being interviewed as it does with the interviewer. Gibson wouldn't appear condensending when interviewing a 4-year-old. It becomes more apparent when interviewing an intellectually challanged VP candidate.

The Big Red Fairy Tale - "Palin Will Be Our New Reagan"

and "Palin begins Proto-Fascist Campaign to Move Rural Workers Into The Big Oil Economy" find these and much more at http://nailinpalinnow.blogspot.com/

Sarah Palin's guardian mythology

After watching Palin stumble recently over yet another simple question, as she did throughout last year's presidential campaign, ultimately failing to answer the question but launching instead into a thicket of tangled syntax having something to do with GOP talking points, a friend of mine made what I think was a brilliant assessment. "She's the dream-coming-true of aspirational voters," she emailed me, "inspiring people who have accomplished little, know less, and have no qualifications for national leadership, but in their heart of hearts cherish the pathetic conceit that, if magically propelled to high office, they would have all the answers and lead triumpantly. Palin, who is culturally illiterate, poorly informed, full of opinions but blind to the basic tenets of the religion to which she professes devotion, seems determined to prove that you can dress for success and play the I'm clueless-and-that's-OK card all the way to the White House. For all those aspirational voters, she's their queen. She'll be back, that's for sure -- and what a dismal prospect that is, to see that smiling face of hate and intolerance asking for votes

Right On

The best bet for a Democratic two-fer and the success of our nation's economic/political/social recovery is that Palin be on the GOP ticket. Your friend eriditiously explained why. Palin is the brunette equivalent of that Reese Witherspoon character, except that Reese's character actually had a bit of common sense and some underlying smarts. Palin on the other hand comes up with insulting metephorical references to middle class Americans while wearing expensive designer clothes and thinks that will endear her to the mass populus. That would only happen if the majority of Americans are as vacuous as Palin and don't know what newspaper they read this morning. The scary thing, though, is there are at least 100 Americans who would vote for her in a national election. I can only hope they all move to Wasilla, increase that town's population to the continually inflated number reported in the press, and elect her head of animal control since she knows how to kill 'em and dress them out. Good for her. Just give her an aspirin to hold between her knees and keep her the hell away from my kids.

All "the media" had to do

All "the media" had to do was stick a camera and a mic in front of her face and let her do the rest of the damage necessary to sink her campaign. Just look at the monumentally dumb-@$$ comment: ..."I would do it again though, knowing that there is great need in our country for reform. There is great need in our country -- I think we need to get back to the basic tenets that built up the Republican Party… if there is opportunity I can see to help, I would do it again." Indeed there is great need for reform after the RepubliKKKons spend the last 8 years destroying this country. Maybe she didn't get the memo, but doing the same thing again and expecting a different result was einstein's definition of insanity. Then again, Sarah is no Einstein. I hope she runs in 2012 so we won't have to worry about the KKKons until 2016 at the earliest.

Palin

My goodness, the American voters just go from dumb to dumber. I couldn't believe George Bush was elected for a second term -- but he was. Sarah is a nice looking woman and she will stand out there and say what she thinks is right. But there is no way she can legitmately fill the office of President. She is dumb as a box of rocks. I know the Republican women are happy to have a woman in the forefront -- for the first time ever. But Sister, this woman aint it. I agree with the Christian comments made above. Christians have become the most unforgiving group around. "If it aint like me, it must be wrong". I learned that Jesus said "forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us", He also talked about the rich man, a camel, and the eye of a needle, He also talked about doing for those least amoung us, and said that the poor will be with you always. George, the Christian, did nothing for needy folks except make it harder for them to get by. All he had to do was say he was a christian and all the church people were convinced he would do the right thing. Many of them are without work, out of homes, and out of a car today. Sarah lines up with this way of thinking. I will not criticize her for having a baby late in life. Or for not aborting it when she knew it was a Downs baby. And I will not criticize her for supporting her daughter when she was pregnant. These are what is known as choices. Other people are allowed to make choices too. And if someone knows they cannot have and/or raise/support the baby they are carrying -- they have the right to make a choice too. Their choice should be as safe and legal for them as Sarah's choice was for her. Wasn't it Job who said it would have been better if he had died in the womb? The Sarah cheerleaders can cheer all they want, she wasn't qualified then, she aint qualified now, and she aint gonna be qualified in 2012. Get over it and Find a new Role.

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