All Posts Tagged With: "Sarah Palin"

In the past couple of days, there have been some new stories about former Bush aides talking about the soon-to-be former president and his legacy. Lawrence Wilkerson, top aide and later chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, is reported to have said…

… as a new president, Bush was like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee whom critics said lacked knowledge about foreign affairs. When Bush first came into office, he was surrounded by experienced advisers like Vice President Dick Cheney and Powell, who Wilkerson said ended up playing damage control for the president.

To which Spencer Ackerman asks…

Is comparing Bush to Sarah Palin more insulting to Bush or to Palin?

Matt Yglesias answers…

I’m going to say “more insulting to Palin.” Palin’s something of a laughingstock, but Bush is a villain. I mean, he wrecked the world economy, he led to millions of Iraqis being forced to flee their homes, he’s a total disaster and a disgrace. Palin gave bad answers in TV interviews. There’s no real comparison.

MSNBC reports:

Sarah Palin pardons a turkey in Wasilla, Alaska and things don’t go so well in her interview after the pardoning.

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I have a fan — fellow Okie blogger Jim Martin, publisher of Fried Green Onions and a number of other blogs. He apparently reads this blog often and he likes to leave me “nice” comments. He even likes to expound on his comments here with commentary on his own blog about things I have written here. Once you get past the poor grammar, his remarks both here and there are always entertaining, highlighted by fallacious and unreasoning commentary punctuated with acrid ad hominem personal attacks.

Yesterday, I published a post here entitled “Delusional Reality,” in which I was commenting on Sarah Palin’s intentional, delusional or intentionally delusional revisionism in her attempts to whitewash the historical record of the waning weeks of the presidential campaign. Mr. Martin apparently took offense to the post and responded on his own blog:

“Delusional reality: Brad Neese: Living Large and Woman-phobic”

Did you hate yo mama Brad baby or is it just that Sarah is common folk that irritates you blubber mouth? Nothing like an obese woman hater who was rejected by the chicks due to caloric intake to spread a little feminine frothing.

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In one short paragraph, this brilliant writer has packed in so much bitterness, vitriole, absurdity and ignorance that it’s hard to know where to begin, but I’ll take a stab at it. Continued

Andrew Sullivan points out Sarah Palin’s latest historical revisionism:

Palin complained to Matt Lauer that Katie Couric had crossed a line of condescension in interviewing her:

Palin said she was annoyed by “questions about, well, you know, ‘What do you read up there in Alaska?’ … Because I’m like, what do you mean, what do I read in Alaska? I read the same things that you guys read in New York.”

Here’s the question Couric actually asked:

“When it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?”

The truth is that Palin has never read anything of any seriousness, and is trying to deflect from her massive ignorance by playing culture war games. She heard about the surge “on the news,” remember?

Why should we continue to care about Sarah Palin even after this election is over? Because she continues to put herself into the news with an aggressive media tour in the last week whitewashing her record from the last couple of months and because many in the GOP base see her as the savior of 2012.

Campbell Brown calls bullshit on McCain campaign aids pointing their fingers solely at Sarah Palin for McCain’s election loss:

To those McCain aides who say she is the reason they lost this election… can I please remind you of one thing: you picked her. You are the ones who supposedly vetted her, and then told the American people she was qualified for the job. You are the ones who after meeting her a couple of times, told us she was ready to be just one heartbeat away from the Presidency. … If Sarah Palin is the reason some voters chose Barack Obama, that is no one’s fault but your own.

“John McCain, as he so graciously said himself the other night, lost this election. He lost it with your help, your advice, your guidance, and yes, your running mate recommendations,” she added. “And that is crystal clear to everyone, no matter how hard you try to blame Sarah Palin or anyone else.”

(Courtesy Think Progress)

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Lyrics to the song Continued

Has this campaign boiled down to this? “Outrage” over Newsweek cover because Sarah Palin’s photo was allegedly unretouched?

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