I dunno. The ‘Bamster doesn’t look happy.

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   Saturday - January 15, 2011

okokok … my final foul mouthed rant. damned left wing lying bastards, I hate em.

Day started okay, got our three papers and started reading.  What luck I thought after a few hours. Not one word about Sarah Palin’s insensitive use of the new politically correct term that I take it is now going to replace the dreaded ‘N’ word.  Because a few efin disingenuous jerks decided it was a slur. So okay. All going fine.  So I’m on my last paper and it’s one that pretty much passes for a conservative one and then SHAZAM! BAM! POW!  There it is. Damn if some libtard bitch name Anne Applebaum has written what nobody else I read this week has.  Palin spoke this jerk says (I’m avoiding really bad language here) out of “self pity.”
Yeah. She had an entire half page of a paper far bigger then those in the USA. We have broadsheets here. Sarah, this brain surgeon says, made herself look “foolish and petty.” So I just about end the day where I started it the day before yesterday.  Really pissed off, not so much by the insults. We expect that.
But the rotten, miserable witch wasn’t at all fair and I think intentionally twisted things to suit her own liberal left agenda. 
Obama’s speech sent her into orgasmic nirvana, or something like that. I’m not sure and this being the weekend I can’t find out and have no email as I did for a couple others (who I damn well wrote to, politely, no bad language) and have not heard a word. Which is okay. I think she’s an American but I am not sure about it.

So I’m pissed off and ranting again cos no, hard as I want to, I can’t let it go. This Applebaum shit is exactly the sort of Jew that other Jews HATE!  The kind other Jews want to distance themselves from least all be tared with a brush meant for her. Everything she doesn’t approve of is ipso facto anti-Semitic. 
Palin, this lying bitch continues, has already forgotten the six victims.  Well Ms. Applebaum has also forgotten in her one sided piece, that there were other victims as well. No matter. 

One last thing and then no more. In fact, I will not post the column. If you want to read it go to The Telegraph.co.uk and look for her. How’s that?

The last thing is, she mentions Palin speaking and behind her is the American flag.

WELL I’LL BE DAMNED! WHAT FUCKIN NERVE!  The flag of her country?  The Stars and Stripes?  Instead of what Anne? You socialist shit.

The Hammer and Sickle?

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   Thursday - January 13, 2011

liberals highly critical and offended by Palin remarks. good. it means she’s done something right.

I started working on this early today, but got called away so many times, here I am at the end of the day and just posting.
Glad to see Drew back and full of fire, his usual state of being.  He also covered the very subject which my rant goes over again. So I guess at this point although I should perhaps dump the subject, I can’t. I think I need a more public outlet for my angst.

I was so aggravated this morning over the criticism of Sarah Palin, I was spitting nails.
I think the calmer and reasoned approach is better, so I’ll censor some of the language I was driven to.
Doesn’t mean I’m less angry tho.

The wife is really frustrated and who can blame her, with my spewing four letter words in even more frustration, when I read the things I do about Sarah Palin in the aftermath of Tucson. 

Some idiot bitch who writes for the Telegraph named Allison Pearson, has suggested that while the shooting might not have been triggered (no pun intended) by her politics, her “bang-bang rhetoric” brings out the worst in the people who make comments on her blog and the net (right wing I guess) in general.
Her headline reads, PALIN BRINGS OUT THE WORST IN HER ON LINE SUPPORTERS.  To which I say … #!  You Miss Pearson. You are so full of it you float!  There. You bring out the worst in me. And so does the freekin !#~*^n press and that isn’t even the ones on the left. 

What Pearson was referring to was a posting on Sarah Palin’s blog in which some idiot, writing about that poor little girl who was shot, said it didn’t matter since the kid would probably grow up to be a hand wringing liberal.  What a god awful thing to say. 

Both of this morning’s papers have articles explaining to people how Sarah has put her foot in it again with her comment quoting “Blood Libel.” The BBC aired her comments several times, and I could find nothing in what she said that should have brought the house down on her again. If I’m angry and frustrated I can just imagine how Mrs. Palin feels. 

Until last night or maybe the day before, in spite of all my reading of history over many years, I had never come across the written words, “Blood Libel.” Of course, perhaps the more religious among you and the better read re. the bible may have.  Maybe it’s there. (?)

The term was explained plainly enough on the radio last night, and it’s now my understanding that originally, pagans used it against Christians and Jews and finally, the Christians took it and used it against the Jews. So,so long ago. But lets give Mrs. Palin credit.  The term as used by her is correct. It is NOT a slur nor was it meant to be or imply that Sarah Plain might be anti-Semitic.  And that’s another thing that has me angered today.  Wife says get over it since I can’t do anything about it. True I can’t, but I’ll be damned if I can find a way to get over it that easily.

The people making that scurrilous charge against her don’t believe it either. Which makes it even worse.  The bastards are simply looking for yet another false and unproved charge to levy against her.  I see nothing at all anti anything by her proper use of that term. In fact, the disingenuous lying SOBs are making a connection in that the congresswoman who was shot, is herself Jewish and so, proof positive that Palin is a Jew hater or she’d have found another more politically correct way of expressing herself.  A fellow named Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic “consultant” and I suspect a professional Jew, I think I know the type as a much disliked cousin not seen for years and totally unmissed, is one. Anyway, Mr. S. say that “Jews and rational people will find her use of those words objectional.” Say what?  Why? He doesn’t say in any detail. 
Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post claims she missed an incredible opportunity. He asks, “Did she provide solace, or did she only inflame the situation?”

By the way, in a small column in The Daily Beast, it’s reported that Jews have rallied round Sarah Palin in support.  Speaking of the Beast.

In an article by Kirsten Powers under the title , Obama Missed An Opportunity,
(seems to be going around), she writes. 

Sure, the president provided his usual inspiration, but he failed to shut down the ridiculous media meme that right-wing talk radio was responsible for the Arizona shootings. And how are ordinary Americans to blame?
President Obama’s speech in Arizona was a huge missed opportunity.
True, as always, he delivered as “Healer-in-Chief” and provided inspiration. This was Job 1 for the speech.

But there was another job: shutting down the nonsense about how Sarah Palin or right-wing talkers caused the shooting. This matters not only because it’s important to tell the truth, but also because it would set the stage to move on to really examining the true causes of this nightmare massacre.

Obama mostly chose to be vague on this point, “For the truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped those shots from being fired, or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man’s mind.”
When the president did lay blame, it was on Americans in general. Among the many odd assertions he made: suggesting that “what a tragedy like this requires” is that “we align our values with our actions.” We were told to “expand our moral imaginations.”
Huh?
A mentally ill gunman opened fire at a Safeway. A lack of “aligning” or “imagination” really wasn’t the problem.

But another idjit, Howard Kurtz by name, has attacked again her use of target maps … and being Jewish himself, of course Mr. Kurtz just had to be offended by the Blood Libel term. He says, among other things;

She could have said that all of us, including her, needed to avoid excessively harsh or military-style language, without retreating one inch from her strongly held beliefs.
Instead she went the blood libel route.

There’s your 2012 election issue people.  Not ours, theirs. And they will use we know.

BEAST

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   Sunday - January 09, 2011

anti usa self styled experts on the usa claim palin and tea party responsible for az shooting.jerks!

Good afternoon BMEWS.

Some interesting stuff. Hell, it’s all interesting to me.
First of all, I’m not going to post the story about the wanker who shot the congresswoman.  I imagine by now you folks at home are seeing it all on TV over and over and over again. And the talking heads, and the victim photos.  I also imagine there are now new calls for strict gun control.
So no.  I’m not gonna post the article that’s in ALL the papers here.  But I will post this line from the Mail on line.

Nation with a history of shocking gun massacres

The Tucson massacre is the latest in a series of shooting massacres in America.

That’s how they see us folks. Not all to be sure. Not all.  But very many sad to say.

I had thought of just posting some of the comments readers are leaving on the Mail site.  Changed my mind about that tho. Not I confess out of consideration for you. But out of selfish thinking on my part cos if I posted those damned comments here, it would mean I’d get frustrated and pissed off every time I had to come back or post something new and scroll and then see again.  I have no idea where some people are getting facts and figures. One person claimed there were 30,000 deaths a year in the USA from the use of guns.  When I wrote in and asked for a source for that figure, I got 20 red arrows for my trouble.
Here’s what I said.

May I please say that as an American (living here temporarily), it is not the business of foreigners to lecture us on our possession of weapons, which are mainly held for hunting, shooting sport and self defense. The last because the police can’t. As a former resident of Tucson I can assure readers that nobody anywhere in Az. can walk into a supermarket and buy a gun. The statement made by a supposed insider is absolutely false. Also please consider that many have guns illegally. And that’s true in the UK as well although the numbers are less because so is the population. Fact is, most Americans do not own guns. But let one deranged nut case like this commit such an outrageous act, and suddenly it’s the wild west. Well, it isn’t. And I’d like to know the source of those huge numbers of deaths by gun in the USA posted here. I question those numbers. But regardless, it is not the business of anyone else anyway. Not as long as we remain sovereign, unlike some.

- jd peiper, winchester. UK, 9/1/2011 10:28
Click to rate Rating:  20

Another poster said that the media in the USA were censored. So I asked for the source of the posters info.
That earned me 18 red arrows.

Well, as I said, I’m not posting their comments but here’s the link to the story. Scroll down and read the comments of the uninformed and mostly anti-American hand wringers and be prepared to get very pissed off. Maybe some of you will post comments of your own but be warned, they’re very nannyish and so really personal insulting remarks made to posters won’t get through.

Oh ... btw.  They’re also calling for Sarah Palin’s head and The Tea Party (a terrorist organization says one) and the American right.  They’re bringing up the fact that Palin had cross-hairs on states and people and so deduced from that, that she and the TP were encouraging what happened in AZ.  These experts on America and American expressions don’t understand the term having someone or something in the cross-hairs, does not mean we are suggesting they be shot.
Not always anyway.  Here’s the maddening link.

MAIL COMMENTS

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   Tuesday - November 09, 2010

One for JayD

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   Wednesday - June 02, 2010

Why We Love Her

Ok, I was caught napping. I thought the flotilla was going to be standard kabuki theater. I knew the ferry was from Turkey with hundreds aboard, and I knew it had been sponsored by “the IHH”. But I had no idea who that was or what their past has been. I didn’t put one and one together. Once the fight started, and the story hit the news, and the videos came out on YouTube, I read, looked, and quickly arrived at the conclusion that this was not a peaceful protest. That the participants were armed and were forcing a violent confrontation. And the videos show that they swung first.

Just think what could have happened had that ferry landed in Gaza and been full of armed jihadis. 600 of them. It would have been a small invasion force, sneaking in under the guise of “humanitarian aide” - a tactic used all too frequently by the Gazan terrorists, with their pretend ambulances etc. Of course Israel had to interdict the ships. And it’s an utter straw man to whine that they did it in “international waters”. My guess is that’s where the ships were in the pre-dawn hours; they may not have crossed into official Israeli waters until mid-afternoon the next day.

So who in the US government is speaking up for our #2 ally? Nobody.

Thank God we have Sarah Palin.

[...] instead of uniting behind Israel, Obama and many other countries united behind the Islamic extremists who are trying to ship arms to Hamas, and condemned Israel. After all what Obama and many countries failed to see was that the blockade is completely legal. USA has done similar blockades during the time of World War 2. Europe has done similar blockades in the past on multiple occasions. And Israel has the right to self defense, just like any other nation.

President Obama may not have come out in support of our dearest ally Israel. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have ditched Israel, when Israel needed our voice the most.

But Sarah Palin took her rifle out in defense of our greatest ally.

The media, as usual, seems to be reporting only one side of the Israeli Flotilla incident. Don’t trust the mainstream media to give you both sides of a story fairly… you must seek out fair reporting to ensure you have all the information.

As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective. This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the liberal mainstream media keeps reporting. The whole operation was designed to provoke Israel, not to provide supplies to Palestinians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Anyone who sees the video of Israeli commandos being attacked as they land on that ship knows the people aboard were vicious thugs, not “peace activists.” The media insults our intelligence with their outright mischaracterization of who these enemies are.

Israel delivers thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies every week to Gaza. These ships could have offloaded their cargoes at a nearby Israeli port if they really wanted to help the people of Gaza. Instead, they chose to incite confrontation and violence. Israel has a right to prevent arms shipments to Gaza that will be used to target innocent Israelis, so they were legitimately checking the cargo on the flotilla. Turkey has chosen to condemn Israel but we should be asking some serious questions about Turkey’s role in this whole affair. Why is a fellow member of NATO sponsoring such a dangerous publicity stunt? As one expert points out: “Three ships of that six-ship pro-terror convoy flew Turkish flags and were crowded with Turkish citizens. The Ankara government – led by Islamists these days – sponsored the ‘aid’ operation in a move to position itself as the new champion of the Palestinians. And Turkish decision-makers knew Israel would have to react – and were waiting to exploit the inevitable clash. The provocation was as cynical as it was carefully orchestrated.”

We can only hope the Obama Administration does not join the anti-Israel chorus in the aftermath of this staged confrontation. Please, Mr. President, we need to let Israelis know we stand with them in their fight against terrorists and those who arm and support them. America and her ally, Israel, stand by waiting for your response.

- Sarah Palin

It’s sad that Ms. Palin is 100% correct about the media. The people and organizations who earn vast amounts of money bringing us the news are merely bringing us their agenda. “All the news that fits”. If you want both sides you have to put the effort in and do your own research. That’s real work, and time consuming. So why bother to support the MSM if you only get their half of the story? I don’t. My mother gets all her info from the MSM. When we talk about news events it’s often as if we are talking about two entirely different stories. “I never heard that!” “Where did you get that?” “What? That’s not what ABC said at all!” Exactly Mom, exactly.

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   Tuesday - May 18, 2010

How To Drive Liberals Insane

It’s absolutely every right-wing concept rolled into one. Even the campaign buttons. Iconographic overload! We’ve got Sarah, with Those Glasses and That Hair, in a sturdy working outfit, looking very strong and fit. But with sexy red shoes (squashing Alinky’s Rules For Radicals underfoot), and the viewing angle is almost an upskirt. Almost, and you know you looked! Constitution and Bible in her pocket, 5 campaign issue buttons on her chest including one for Reagen and another for Pro-Life, her personal ammo can and her trusty, almost still smoking all American Remington 870 home defense gun, 3 rounds fired, hulls in her lap. Holding firmly the Gadsden snake, text message about death panels on her cell phone, backdropped against the American flag, and if you look real close the Motivator message is “2012”. A picture being worth a thousand words or so, Sarah is giving a stump speech here, while literally sitting on a stump.

And the image format itself is a strong salute to another, earlier feminine icon: Rockwell’s original Rosie:

In the shadow of Capitol Hill, a forgotten patriot consigned to America’s trash heap of the unemployed has created a new national symbol that celebrates the values Sarah Palin holds true.

A man who goes only by the name of Dale has cast Sarah Palin as the lost daughter of the World War II heroine, Rosie the Riveter – but with a twist.

Shotgun News runs the whole story, and tells us a lot about the artist, Dale Brown, and the inspiration behind all of it.

Shortly after Sarah Para Bellum appeared on the conservative web site, Free Republic, a writer with the screen name Devtob, launched into a rant against Dale’s illustration on the liberal blog, the Daily Kos.

Dale noted in our conversation that Sarah Palin as Rosie the Riveter wasn’t originally his idea. It was inspired by an email from the editor of the online, All Right Magazine.

Still, the larger question looms: was Dale destined to render Sarah as Rosie?

“When I was 12 or 13, I was enamored of Michelangelo, studied him pretty intensely and at the time I lived with my grandparents,” Dale recalled. “I decided to decorate their basement wall with Isaiah from the Sistine Ceiling, and that’s what Rockwell based his Rosie the Riveter on.” [link has pic]

So by association, Sarah is Rosie is Isaiah. Sarah Palin, Prophet. Oooh, I can feel the lib’s blood pressure spiking!

The assortment of pins and button on Rosie’s coveralls have been replaced with five buttons that express Palin’s energy policy “drill baby, drill” from her Vice President debate with Joe Biden. Another button on Palin says “choose life.” The others refer to President Reagan and an Old Testament verse. Dale also added a crucifix around Sarah’s neck.
...
Rockwell emphasizes Rosie’s can-do spirit by depicting her right foot crushing a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Dale replaced it with Saul Alinsky’s 1971 perennial handbook for grassroots organizing, Rules for Radicals.

Pretty damned outstanding IMO. And for the talking head TV pundits that just don’t get it, the whole Palin meme is right here where you can see it. It couldn’t be any plainer if she dressed in a green choir rob and wore a spiky crown while holding up a flaming torch. She may or may not wind up as an elected leader, but her persona has come to symbolize all these points. She represents. And that’s why the Right is wild about her. Voice of America in person. And it’s even more fitting that she isn’t an elected official. Because none of them really seem to represent us anymore.

Somebody said something about not posting Motivators/DeMotivators? God, guns, guts, sex appeal, righteousness. I think this one will do.

PS - this is America, so of course the image is for sale. Zazzle has it as a poster, and probably as a shirt, cup holder, coffee mug, and commemorative plate.

... yeah, I know. It may not really be the Gadsden snake, or even the original Gerrymander one. But it looks kinda like both, and it’s in black and white. Hey, it symbolizes those other two. Hating snakes is real old time stuff, straight out of Genesis. 

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   Tuesday - April 27, 2010

Huff Po’s Idea of Economic Stimulus?

That’s the left, keeping it classy, always. Was HuffPo behind this? No, but they ran the story. And it sorta blew up in their faces, neener neener. Read on.

Sarah Palin Lookalike Contest Being Held At Chicago Strip Club The Day Palin Speaks At GOP Fundraiser

A Chicago strip club is celebrating Sarah Palin’s visit to Illinois next month by hosting a Palin lookalike contest titled “Less Taxation, More Stimulation"--and a portion of the event’s proceeds will be donated to the Tea Party movement.

On May 12, Palin will be in suburban Rosemont raising money for the state Republican party, and the Admiral Theatre Gentlemen’s Club in Chicago wanted in on the action.

...

Some proceeds from event will be donated to the Tea Party Movement.

And that last line just broke their little hearts. Mwahahahahahaa!

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   Monday - February 08, 2010

SARA HAS SIGHT ON WHITE HOUSE BUT MINUS THE PARTY.  TEA THAT IS.  ??

SOME COMMENTS ON PALIN by people who don’t know the USA and wouldn’t learn if given the chance. 

A Molly wrote:

I do believe everyone in life gets what they deserve..so if Palin is what America wants, so be it. I am not going to lose any sleep over it.

All I can do from here is hope that Europe will never again be fooled by the lies that have come out of America in the past and will never lead our troops into another 8 years of war on their behalf.

Let the cowboys fight their own battles in the future.

If it’s in Palin you trust, well good luck to you!

Ellie Light wrote:

Sarah Palin is a proven quitter, with little experience and even lower inate intelligence (I can see Russia). Her only accomplishment is that she can reproduce, but even that she did not do properly. She is not even a good mother, raising a daughter that breeds an illegitimate grandchild. She is a joke. Her only supporters are gap toothed inbreds from Appalachia.

And that’s about as kind as it gets here among the comments from ppl foreign and domestic with regard to Americans (who they take to be war loving, ignorant, inbred hillbillys) who led them into an 8 year war ongoing.  The suggestion is also made that America should fight it’s own battles and not drag others into our quarrels.  Some see Palin as “Bush in a wig.”
Tell the truth, the comments section is more interesting then the article but also more aggravating because they also show how little they know us, and how mean spirited some folks can be with regard to the USA.

There was a column recently from America reporting on the trend Obama seems to be setting, that the writer feels is somewhat isolationist.  Which he doesn’t believe to be a good thing.  Being something of an isolationist myself, I wondered if that’s a bad thing.  Is Barry doing something right?  Nah. In my dreams.  But I’ll be honest no matter how bad it might make me look.  I wish we could be isolationist and circle the wagons and tell the world to go to hell.
Americans have enough home grown problems to deal with.  Serious problems that I don’t see being resolved no matter who’s in office.  We mostly aren’t getting along very well with each other, who needs the additional headache of arguments with people outside our own country?

Back to Mrs. Palin for a moment.

She was paid a hefty sum it’s been reported, to address the Tea Party folks in Nashville recently.  As I understand it and if I don’t I know BMEWS will correct me, she also accepted a second speaking date with the TP.  BUT ... she has also appeared FREE on behalf of Republicians who have different views then that of the Tea Party Congress.  She has also agreed to speak on behalf of Sen, McCain.  Why?  He surely isn’t running for anything. Is he?

Sometimes I get to feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Here’s part of the article and as always the rest is at the link below.

Sarah Palin has her sights on the White House not Tea Party movement

Giles Whittell in Washington
The Times

Sarah Palin has given the clearest indication yet that her ambition is to become President of the United States, rather than merely the leader of the radical grassroots Tea Party movement that adores her.

The day after her return to national politics with a barnstorming attack on President Obama in a speech in Nashville, Mrs Palin was shown a poll yesterday ranking her the top Republican candidate for 2012 and asked if she would run.

“I would,” she said without hesitation. “I would, if I believed that that was the right thing to do for my country and for my family.”

In an interview with Fox News, for which she is also a paid analyst, Mrs Palin said that it would be “absurd not to consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country”. She said that she would not “close a door that could perhaps be open to me in the future” and acknowledged that she had started receiving daily political and economic briefings by e-mail from a panel of Washington experts.

In oblique reference to a disastrous pre-election interview with CBS in 2008, she added: “I sure as heck better be more astute on these national issues than I was two years ago.”

MORE HERE AT THE SOURCE

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   Friday - November 20, 2009

Pwned!

Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her book:

“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”

Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder. One guffawed, “That sentence by Sarah Palin could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. It could have a chance at winning a (sic) honorable mention, at any rate.”

But soon, the original contributor confessed: “I probably should have mentioned that the sentence quoted above was not written by Sarah Palin. It’s taken from the first paragraph of Dreams From My Father, written by Barack Obama.”

[or was it by Bill Ayers? Either way, this is probably the first criticism any part of that book has received from the left]

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Don’t they ever learn?

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a “production error.”

Wednesday’s incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand-new book,’’ adding that the images being shown were “some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning.”

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett’s report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, “This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video.”

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner

Not mentioned in this story is how Google News first reported that “thousands” attended one of her events, then later changed the headline to “hundreds”. Or that other news story about - what was it again? - either the police or the military limited either press access or crowd access to another event, out of fears the situation would become unmanageable.

The bottom line is obvious: Sarah Palin is a lightning rod. So be real careful. Double and triple check everything, from the video clips to the editing to the rights of the picture you’re using for your magazine cover. Because both her fans and her detractors will put everything under the microscope and then cry foul if anything is off-kilter. Be warned. Wise up.

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   Monday - November 16, 2009

Ain’t That The Truth

I found this image by following a link from one of the comments at Moonbattery on their 2nd post about the really thin AP story about “errors” in Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue. A book that’s been on the best seller lists for 50 days and it hasn’t even been released yet! Plus it already has a possibly-copyright-infringing counter book called Going Rouge out there already. She Who Must Be Destroyed At Any Cost!!!!11! Total pants shitting hysteria IMO.

Yeah, I saw the AP story when it came out. Palin writes a 432 page book, and some news agency sicks 11 fact checkers on the thing to attempt a debunking. ELEVEN. And they come up with a whole 6 “errors”, several of which are really, really, really thin ...

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking “only” for reasonably priced rooms and not “often” going for the “high-end, robe-and-slippers” hotels.

THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) .

PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations and turned back large checks if her campaign perceived a conflict of interest.

THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis. The maximum that individual donors could give was $1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.

Of the rest, about $76,000 came from Republican Party committees.

... another idiot bit of “news” from the biased MSM. So typical that it’s boring to the point of “why even bother”. But Moonbattery did bother, and NRO, and Breitbart, and quite a number of other VRWC blogs, so I guess I missed the boat. I figured you guys all saw the stupid thing anyway and dismissed it as the crap it was.

No, my post here is that Moonbattery’s post generated a swarm of comments - more than 100; a regular troll fest, which quickly devolved into name calling, handle jacking, assertions of homosexuality, and the usual poop flinging monkey tantrum that results when anything about Sarah Palin is published. Amazingly, there were no comments about Nazis. And their 2nd post, appropriately titled More Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome” is quickly travelling down the same path. Which just proves the point, yet again. Sarah Palin makes the left’s heads explode. She sets their hair on fire. Mwahahahaa, the women is a goddess for that.



Hmmm ... I wrote a post about a post written about a post written about a news article written about a book that doesn’t yet exist in the marketplace. Is that meta-meta-meta-meta-blogging? If anyone blogs about my post, we’ll be up at the quantum level!

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   Sunday - July 12, 2009

Too early to write off Sarah Palin. She will be back, says Leonard Doyle of The Telegraph.

Never did care for Letterman and never thought he was funny.  But apparently many think boring is funny so I’m in a minority or he wouldn’t have that job.

This was a long piece and so I didn’t post all of it. The rest is at the link below.

Sarah Palin may have quit as governor of Alaska, but after gauging the mood in Washington, Leonard Doyle says it’s too early to write her off

By Leonard Doyle
Published: 9:30PM BST 11 Jul 2009

Last Tuesday, Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin showed up on a beach in a fisherman’s bib and waders, hoping to clear the air about her decision to quit her job by the end of the month. But instead of providing the answer to whether she intends to launch a “Palin for President” bid for the White House in 2012, she became fodder for David Letterman, the late-night comedian.

“Is it just me, or is anybody else here having naughty thoughts about Sarah Palin in those waders?” he asked, pointing to endlessly looped footage of the telegenic governor clothed in rubber.

A few weeks ago he was advising her to update her “slutty flight-attendant look” and made an outrageous on-air sexual jibe about her daughter, which he later only half-apologised for.

When the jeering died down, it was not immediately clear whether Palin still had her eyes on the White House. Some of the governor’s friends believe her real aim is to develop a lucrative career on the lecture circuit, perhaps with her own TV talk show – indeed Levi Johnston, the estranged father of Palin’s grandchild, claimed last week that he had heard her talk several times of how nice it would be to take advantage
of the lucrative deals currently on offer. But her currency is based on the likelihood that she will declare herself as a presidential candidate some time next year.

And if anyone from small-town America can grow up to become president, surely it is Sarah Palin. She remains by far the most attractive woman in US politics. Even in her grungy, blood-streaked overalls, she cut a compelling figure for the cameras. But why she quit the top job with 18 months still left to serve remains a mystery.

Speaking to the journalist Andrea Mitchell, she said it was because she “loves Alaska”. She then complained bitterly of multiple and frivolous ethics investigations which had effectively paralysed her administration. The governor was also incensed at the growing mockery of her infant, Trig, who has Down’s syndrome.

America’s liberal elite chortled at the explanations. When someone pointed out that she shot her first rabbit on her back porch aged just 10, the media deemed that, at 45, she had shot herself in both feet.

More jeers were to follow every time the governor updated her thoughts on Twitter. In one early morning burst, she wrote: “Couple of thoughts for the day on beautiful bright AK morn: ‘You have to sacrifice to win. That’s my philosophy in six words.’ “

The governor’s BlackBerry produces half a dozen such haikus on any given day.

“Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy,” was how The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd summed up the situation. Vanity Fair magazine, the bible of America’s chattering classes, dissected what it called Governor Palin’s “narcissistic personality disorder”. On the cable news channel MSNBC, someone described Governor Palin as “incompetent”.

But it was Maureen Dowd’s spoof column, headlined “Sarah’s Secret Diary”, that captured the condescension in which so many sophisticates view her. “No one understands me. It’s like I’m speaking some Eskimo dialect or something,” Ms Dowd wrote, channelling Governor Palin’s style. “Andrea Mitchell follows me all the way to Kanakanak Beach and I get a French manicure and set up this huge photo op for her, even though she spooked the salmon.”

The liberal caricature of Governor Palin has previously been that she is a hopelessly erratic leader. Now she was being redefined as a “quitter” who could not stand the heat of political battle, and is therefore unfit for the Presidency.

The media is often a poor predictor of events in the US. It was slow to identify Barack Obama’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination and the Presidency. It completely missed the story of the global economic collapse. And thus predictions about the end of Sarah Palin’s political life seem premature.

Even though the Democrats believe they are unassailable in the face of a leaderless Republican Party, the country’s mood is fickle. There are signs that the tide is already turning against President Obama in some areas as he struggles to end the worst recession since the 1930s. In Iowa, a key bellwether state, his polling numbers are declining sharply.

THE REST OF THIS EDITORIAL HERE

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The Alaska governor’s resignation shows how shallow Republicans have become.  Oh Boy.

Yeah I know.  This is supposed to be a conservative site. But wait. 

Three major papers here have stories on her, all somewhat different slants with this being the harshest by far. I’m betting you haven’t read this article in the states, and I thought BMEWS should post it.  I thought you should see it and then have at it using I hope some logic instead of anger alone.
Truth to tell, I do not want to believe this. Any of it. But Andrew Sullivan seems to have done a bit of research. As a political writer he must scan speeches and attend his fair share of them as well.

I have read this fellow often, and this is the first time I’ve read anything like this by him. 

Is there food for thought here?  Look, I was one of many years ago who really did think Ross Perot was the answer.  I believed in him. I wasn’t alone. And look what happened. 

One thing is true and some of you have pointed it out as well.  The party seems to have a leadership problem these days.  It almost seems to be tossed by waves in the ocean going this way and that with no firm direction. Drew said it better, but you get the drift.

Question for you folks. Ya think there’s any truth to this? Even a little? Cause if there is, where does that leave us?

From The Sunday Times
July 12, 2009
Palin leads the right into a reality TV vortex

Andrew Sullivan

Writing about Sarah Palin always presents a quandary. Does one operate under the usual assumption that this is a rational figure, a serious politician, a rising Republican star . . . or do you acknowledge the copious evidence that she cannot tell the truth, has delusions of grandeur, has no policy record to speak of and quit her job as Alaska governor halfway through her first term because she is, in her own explanation, “not a quitter”? I think that you have to proceed under the assumption that this is a joke of a candidate and a symptom of a political party in the middle of a mental breakdown.

Mind you, I love the idea of Sarah Palin: a brassy, no-nonsense enemy of bloated government and corruption. That was probably John McCain’s rough idea of who she was in the five minutes his staff vetted her, and on the one occasion he’d met her, before offering her a chance to be leader of the free world. The idea of Sarah Palin, though, is sadly not the reality of Sarah Palin.

The reality of Sarah Palin is that politics is a means to her higher goal: celebrity. Every action she takes is designed to make sense . . . if you believe that government is really a version of a reality show. The remote, David Lynch-style location, the family often in trouble with the law, the pregnant teenage daughter and her impossibly handsome redneck boyfriend, the boyfriend’s angry sister, an ornery Alaskan trooper, a few moose and mysterious pregnancies . . . and, well, the mini-series never ends. The best guess I’ve heard of the real reason for her abrupt departure is: “I’m a celebrity . . . get me out of here!”

No one yet understands the real reason for a first-term governor just quitting on Friday, July 3, with no advance notice. If it were planned, why did her husband have to travel 300 miles to be there? Why do it all on a federal holiday before the Fourth of July? As Bubble from Absolutely Fabulous might note: “Who can say?”

A blog reader scanned every single governor of all the states for the past century to find precedents. There are plenty of examples of governors being arrested, being impeached or dying. But only two others in American history have just up and quit: Eliot Spitzer, New York governor, involved in a professional escort service after he had vowed to clean up the state; and Jim McGreevey, whose gay lover blackmailed him. Palin has quit for no apparent reason.

If it were to spend time with her family, it would be understandable, but she insists that’s not the case — and if you’re prepared to run for national office months after giving birth to an infant with Down’s syndrome, it’s a little odd to quit the governorship of a state when you have only a year and a half to go. It doesn’t make sense politically since it implies she could do the same thing at any moment in any future office. Why should anyone vote for someone who could quit for no good reason at any time?

But trying to makes sense of Sarah Palin is a fool’s errand. I spent a lot of time last year trying to figure out how her bizarre pregnancy story could make any sense at all — it doesn’t — and came up with nothing but a suspicion that large parts of it were made up. If you present the facts to Palin spokespeople, they seem offended and regard you as some liberal hater. But the facts reveal she lies all the time about almost everything and so is probably improvising about her reasons for resigning.

I’ve now compiled 32 incontrovertibly untrue statements of fact that she has uttered in the public record and never retracted. They are not the usual political lies — spinning or shading the truth; they are demonstrably, empirically untrue in the public record. Some are trivial: Palin said on television that she asked her daughters to vote on whether she should accept the vice-presidency offer; but that story contradicts details given by Palin herself, who said she accepted the offer on the spot.

Others are more serious: Palin lied when she said the dismissal of Walt Monegan, her public safety commissioner, had nothing to do with his refusal to fire Mike Wooten (her former brother-in-law, who was at war with her family) from his job as a state trooper; in fact, the Branchflower report concluded she repeatedly abused her power when dealing with both men.

Palin lied when she repeatedly claimed to have said, “Thanks, but no thanks,” to the famous “bridge to nowhere”, an expensive, pork-barrel government project; in fact, she openly campaigned for the federal project when running for governor. I could go on. But the truth is, she’s a reality-show star vaulted to national prominence by a Republican party now so devoid of talent and desperate for some kind of support that it gambled on the political equivalent of Susan Boyle. One who couldn’t even sing.

My own bet is that there is another scandal out there that would have forced her resignation if she hadn’t pre-empted it. Yet as plausible is the simple notion uttered by the only person in the melodrama who seems halfway sane: Levi Johnston, the teenage father of Palin’s grandson: “I think the big deal was the book. That was millions of dollars.” With a multi-million-dollar book deal, Palin can now become the darling of the right-wing media in America without the tedious duties of actually, you know, governing something. If the book contains scandals we have not yet learnt about, it could be explosively big in the mainstream; if it’s a hagiography, it could sell well with an adoring religious base.

And this helps explain the broader problem with American conservatism right now. It is less a movement than an industry. From Fox News to talk radio to conservative publishing houses, it has created an alternate and lucrative media reality that is worth a fortune to those able to exploit it. Alas, these alternative media thrive on paranoia, hatred of liberal elites and growing extremist rhetoric made worse by a hermetically sealed echo chamber of true believers. Anyone criticised by the left or even by the establishment right is a martyr in this world. In America, martyrdom sells. And Palin is a product worth lots of money.

She wants some of it; and she has no actual interest in governing America (even though she’d love the title of president). She referred to giving up her “title” as governor, not her “office”. In this, she is the ultimate Republican of this degenerate moment: all culture war, no policy; all identity politics, no engagement with practical answers to difficult public problems; and all hysterical opposition to Barack Obama, no actual alternatives offered.

Since even epic scandals heighten celebrity rather than diminish it, Palin’s future is secure. Her party’s? Getting bleaker by the day.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com

SOURCE

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