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Sarah Palin Turkey Incident: Does TV Interview While Turkeys Are Slaughtered In The Background (VIDEO)

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:56:54 +0000

I'm definitely not a Palin fan, but this non-story is stupid. I'm squeamish about it, but how the hell do you think the turkey gets on the table? I bet reactions to turkey slaughter help divide people into tribes even better than "You betcha" and "Joe sixpack" verbal cues. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a bit intentional ... "Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!!"

Tags: #agriculture #huffington #interview #palin #politics #thanksgiving #turkeys

GOP Knives Come Out; Palin Gets Filleted

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:22:09 +0000

Tags: #mccain #palin #palin2012 #politics

Mark Maynard - it’s the company you keep

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:22:14 +0000

"I know a lot of you out there don’t plan to vote for Barack Obama. I can accept that. As much as I think America desperately needs the hope for a better future that he embodies, I can admit that he’s deficient in certain areas. And, I can see how his charisma and celebrity status might put some people off. I get all that. And I don’t want to change your mind. What I would like to convince you of, however, is that you shouldn’t reward McCain and Palin, who have, over the course of this campaign, appealed to the basest elements in our nature, with your vote. They have lied, engaged in race baiting, and even gone so far as to infer that their opponent - a United States Senator - is a terrorist, and a threat to our nation. I have to think that a majority of Republicans find that kind of behavior reprehensible. ... It is no longer a party of ideas. It has become the last refuge of anti-intellectuals, and fear mongers. It is the party of Sarah Palin."

Tags: #dishonesty #ignorance #intolerance #mccain #palin #politics #republicans

Palin suggests Chronicle withheld Obama remarks

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:25:29 +0000

Just like Troopergate, she counts on morons to just believe without question or follow-up. So tired of the exploitation of fear and willful ignorance. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in a campaign appearance Sunday, criticized comments about coal technology that Sen. Barack Obama made to The Chronicle editorial board in January, and suggested that the newspaper withheld the information from the public - even though the interview has been posted on the newspaper's Web site since it was given."

Tags: #cleancoal #coal #interviews #news #obama #palin #sfchron

Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:22:23 +0000

Tags: #constitution #firstamendment #palin #politics #speech

What was I thinking when I called Sarah Palin a bitch? « Margaret and Helen

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:24:56 +0000

Tags: #asses #bitches #for:missadroit #jackasses #mccain #palin #politics

Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:34:43 +0000

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

Tags: #alaska #mccain #obama #palin #politics #socialism

The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:43 +0000

"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."

Tags: #biology #creationism #education #election #elitism #evolution #fruitflies #gop #learning #mccain #palin #politics #religion #republicans #science

Sheddings - They're Palin and McCain...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:28:09 +0000

Tags: #and #brain #mccain #palin #pinky #politics #the

Think Progress » Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:03:06 +0000

"Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“"

Tags: #constitution #government #palin #politics #senate #vp

Biden lashes out at Palin's 'pro-America' comment - CNN.com

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:15:45 +0000

""It doesn't matter where you live, we all love this country, and I hope it gets through. We all love this country," he said. "We are one nation, under God, indivisible. We are all patriotic. We all love our country in every part of this nation! And I'm tired. I am tired, tired, tired, tired of the implications about patriotism.""

Tags: #biden #palin #patriotism #politics

Palin vindicated?: ADN Editorial | adn.com

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:42:50 +0000

Tags: #ethics #law #orwellian #palin #politics

The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:24:19 +0000

"I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases ("with that vote of the American people") be damned. It requires not a diagram but a selection of push buttons."

Tags: #funny #grammar #language #linguistics #palin #politics #writing

Gettin’ All Mavericky by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 13 October 2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:23:07 +0000

"Nevertheless, Palin’s verbal hodgepodge may say nothing about her qualifications for the vice presidency. Judgment and political acumen could well rest on different mental capacities than the ability to order thoughts into smooth sentences. But the inability to answer a straightforward question about economic policy without becoming tangled in words suggests either ignorance about the subject matter or a difficulty connecting between ideas. Neither explanation is reassuring. "

Tags: #conservatism #hypocrisy #idiots #language #mccain #palin #politics #thought

McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality - Times Online

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:12:24 +0000

"With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. "

Tags: #mccain #palin #politics