Sensitive to widespread conservative criticism that Barack Obama uses a teleprompter during speeches (bet the Republicans are glad Obama didn't have a teleprompter when he ripped them a new one recently!) Sarah Palin used paper notes for her speech at the Tea Baggers Convention. For Q&A, Palin was even more low tech, consulting notes written on the palm of her hand.
Of course, she got caught.
Sarah Palin, every bit as clever as the average 9th grader.
This guy seems sincerely disappointed that the more or less astroturf corporate conservative types have co-opted the original grassroots movement. Is this feeling common among libertarians, I wonder?
Basically, the Borg invited (and paid for) a bunch of hacks to attend some event where they could get info about mobile devices and the third screen and blah blah. More than half of the hacks were using Macs. Sweet.
As you've no doubt heard, Sarah Palin has a slight lead in early straw polling for the 2012 GOP nomination. The Republican front-runners both have book tours going on, and were at one time scheduled to sign books at different times on the same day in the same store. Instead, 1,800 people turned up for 1,000 free armbands to see either of the undeclared candidates.
I hope to have video finished tomorrow. If so, you will see it here first.
Despite it being her primary mode of contact with fans, Palin never updated her Facebook page. It appears no one in the campaign realized her visit to Fort Hood was supposed to end 3.5 hours beforehand -- 529 miles away from Birmingham. The only reason I went was in hopes of seeing Teh Train Wreck™ have another meltdown.
The Going Rogue Express hits Homewood today and the faithful have already lined up to pay thirty bucks or so for a book available for $14.50 at Amazon as little as $4.97 elsewhere. There's a story behind the $4.97 price -- this is how releases from the right always end up on the bestseller lists from the get-go. Organizations like NewsMax preorder tens of thousands of copies of a book, then unload them at a deep discount to inflate sales numbers and get their conservative message out.
Being the true political junkie that I am, I usually begin my day waking to The Tom Joyner Morning Show on my clock radio so I can hear what black folks are talking about. Then I tune in to C-Span's Washington Journal to hear what "real Americans are talking about, then I flip/flop between Morning Joke, I mean Joe on MSNBC and American Morning on CNN. Then I boot up my trusty desk top, log on to Left in Alabama to find out what's really going on in the world of politics.
The same media that enabled Bush and Dick to lie us into war in Iraq are lying to us about health care reform. In case you haven't been paying attention, the majority of the talking heads giving commentary (not facts) about health care reform on TeeVee are majority anti health care reform. They always get the first and the last word. They don't disclose their corporate ties and they outnumber the health care reform supporters 2-1. It's like Deja Voodoo all over again.
I watched and listened to the so called "debate" on TeeVee over the weekend, and I'm still trying to figure out how HHS Secretary Selibus comment that the White House was open to considering co-ops in a health care reform bill translated into being reported in the media the public option was "dead" or "off the table". Immediately, the anti health care crowd began spreading the "news" that a "compromise" was in the works and congratulating themselves for defeating President Obama. Pat Buchanan could hardly contain himself on Morning Joke, I mean Joe this morning. He said we could put a fork in Obama because he was done.
This is just another example of how the media we have turns the winners into the losers. The majority of the American people elected President Obama on November to reform health care. The media we have is so busy trying to break him and make him break a campaign promise they use the public airways to promote misinformation and downright lies.
The media uses code words like "real Americans" to describe the anti reform Obama haters as if the those that support health care reform and President Obama aren't. The media lies and claims "A majority of Americans are against health care reform." They must really think we are stoopid because the majority of Americans elected President Obama not John McSame on November 8, 2008.
The majority of the people visibly protesting are not against health care reform. They are the same people who attended the Palin rally's and called President Obama a socialist and said he was promoting socialism and walking around with stuffed Monkeys. They are the same people who said President Obama wasn't a "real American" and a Muslim. They are the same people who cast their vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. They are the LOSERS, make that the SORE LOSERS.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil (pun intended) in the media. Right now the well financed losers are squeaking the loudest. Why aren't lefty's/democrats/progressives drowning them out?
The Truth shall see you FREE h/t Jim Dean Democracy for America (he says "wrong again", I say lies again);
The media is wrong... again.
Let's be clear: A Health care bill without a public option is D.O.A. in the House. Period.
To pass any bill in the House they need at least 218 votes but 64 House Democrats have stood up and said they will not vote for a bill without a public option. That means a bill without a public option would only have 193 votes.
You got that mainstream media talking teevee pundit heads?
Socialist is the new N word i.e. Obama is a Socialist. Socialism is the new code word for welfare. Healthcare reform is socialism. Haven't we been down the code word route before?
Seriously, I heard the term socialist and socialism chanted over and over again by the anti healthcare reform people in the parking lot of Jefferson Beauregaurd (Azaela Trail Maids) Sessions town hall meeting yesterday. I wondered if they could even define socialism or even knew what the term meant, because if they did they would know it doesn't apply to President Obama as Sarah ( I can see Russia from my house) Palin labeled him.
PTCruiser at jackandjillpolitics.com reminded me of the historical use of the word;
the terms "socialist" and "communist" were among the favorite epithets hurled at Black Americans, their allies and organizations such as the NAACP before, during and after the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, these terms have been used since the early 20th Century, if not before, to discredit and stigmatize men and women fighting for social justice.
So now we know..the term is used to describe someone who is fighting for social justice, not someone who is trying to take our freedoms away. President Obama and others can wear the lable proudly.
A good friend of mine told me they take their blood pressure medicine and watch Faux News every night. When I asked why they would do something stoopid like that, they replied because forewarned is forearmed and so they would know how and what righty's think (now there's an oxymoron for you). Prior to tuning in to the Faux News Talking Pundit Heads I started to pour a stiff drink of my favorite alcoholic beverage, but I didn't want my preception to be, cough, cough, impaired :). So, armed with an arsenal of sock bombs to throw at the TeeVee if needed, I settled in for an evening of watching Faux News. This is my report;
Only in Hannity's America. The highlight of Sean's show was reporting the Supermax Prision in Denver, CO tried to ban terrist Abib AckmanMohamed Mumbo Jumbo from reading President Obama's books because they were deemed a "terrist threat".. Yadda, yadda, blab, blab, blah, blah. Two sock bombs.
On the Record with Greta Von Sustern with Lil Lindsey Graham on Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearing. Lil Lindsey said he didn't know if he was going to vote for Sotomayor or not because of her "radical statement about abortion". Ralph Hallow from The Washington Times talking about Sarah Palins' plan to campaign for republicans and democrats (what democrat would want Sarah Palin to campaign for them and why?). Former Congressman Rick Santorum (r. PA) bashed Palin's almost son-in-law Levi Johnson, and defended Sarah Palin against the mean old media attacks. ( I wonder why Greta didn't ask him about the racist pool in Philly?). The only interesting story was about the Penguin Love Triangle where *gasp* same sex female penguins were a couple who even hatched an egg together until a male penguin appeared and made one of them ungay. 4 sock bombs.
Unreality check with Bill O'Rielly. He's still hating on Michael Jackson and Chris Brown with some Louis Farrakkan thrown in for good measure. Everyone who disagrees with him or questions him is either a moron or a pin head (where have we heard that before?). Speaking of things we've heard before, check out the God, Global Warming and Obama talking points. Race and the Supreme Court , according to BillO, the real deal is Sotomayor is the product of a system that celebrates her minority status and has created doubts about her ability to be fair, if she turns out to be another Ruth Bader Gingsberg we are in big trouble. Rut Roh! Karl Rove just made an appearance! Rove said congress wasn't briefed because the program was just an idea not a program and they didn't tell Congress because they might leak it to the New York Times, it's about protecting Nancy Pelosi and protecting our country in a time of war.
I can't take it anymore. I'm going to have a stiff drink after I deplete my sock bomb arsenal.
And we wonder why the rightwing is so misinformed?
Sarah Palin criticizes Hillary Clinton's "percieved whine" about the mean old media in March 2008. Palin's position on "whining" has, shall we say, evolved a bit since then.
... fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it really. I mean you've got to plow through that ... When I hear a statement like that, coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think that doesn't do us any good. ... I don't think it bodes well for her, a statement like that ... She is going to be under that sharper microscope. So be it. Work harder. Prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're going to be the best candidate ...
It feels different when the shoe is on your foot. Sarah Palin couldn't walk 50 feet in Hillary Clinton's shoes, let alone a mile.
Will Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, SC Gov. Mark Sanford(R, Appalachian Trail) and other lame duck Republicans follow Sarah Palin's lead and resign now rather than stick it out until their terms are up? Sanford obviously has better things to do than run a state. Riley's another lame duck and, according to the Palin Doctrine, so little can be accomplished in that sad state that hanging on is just a waste of time and effort.
And so as I thought about this announcement that I wouldn’t run for re-election and what it means for Alaska, I thought about how much fun some governors have as lame ducks . . . travel around the state, to the Lower 48 (maybe), overseas on international trade – as so many politicians do. And then I thought – that’s what’s wrong – many just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and “milk it”.I’m not putting Alaska through that – I promised efficiencies and effectiveness! ? That’s not how I am wired. I am not wired to operate under the same old “politics as usual.” I promised that four years ago – and I meant it.
Unlike Sarah, Bob Riley is well and truly a lame duck since Alabama law prohibits him from running again -- say wasn't he in Paris just a few days ago? Perhaps it was some of that fun, lame duck overseas travel Sarah condemns.
Sarah Palin stated justification for quitting her job midterm is incomprehensible. And there is no way quitting helps her run for office in 2012. She posted a rambling, 2500 word statement on the Alaska Governor's office website offering up "the politics of personal destruction," "only dead fish go with the flow" and lame duckitude as excuses for quitting, concluding with "in the words of General MacArthur said, “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.” "
That last is even wackier than normal since it was (and usually is) said as an attempt to gloss over a failure. And it was Gen. O.P. Smith, not MacArthur who said it anyway. The whole statement is classic Sarah Palin: clear, coherent and accurate.
I predict Palin will end up succeeding Bill O'Reilly at FAUX News. She's easier on the eyes and ethics problems won't matter there. And Bob Riley will 'accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and “milk it”.'
holy crap... I hesitate to jinx it, but 2012 should be a breeze if this is the caliber of political ads we'll be up against.
Sarah "the thrilla from Wassilla" versus "Matt the Mormon" Romney. How will the GOP faitful vote in the primary?
btw... this video is courtesy of an interesting group that calls themselves "Conservatives4Palin.com." Sorry, not linky love, but you can enter it into your browser. It's worth visiting just to see the header image and read the headline title: "Governor Palin's Travel Plans Up In Air: Blame Mother Nature."By Videmus Omnia (translation: we see all - expecially Sarah's butt in the photo).
Any of our conservative lurkers want to claim these guys? ;-)
(cross-posted at Daily Kos - made the rec diary list) I was reading some news feeds this evening and stumbled upon a Sarah Palin at odds with the Alaska legislature story. Apparently she took off to headline a pro-life event in Indiana over the weekend at the end of the Alaska legislative session. Well what caught my attention was this line at the end of that article
And her controversial pick for attorney general — the outspoken Wayne Anthony Ross — has not yet been confirmed.
So of course being an inquisitive and investigative blogger, I immediately did my research on this Wayne Anthony Ross and found plenty to get upset about. The line listed in the subject is just one of the remarks from Ross that I found. Thank god, Ross has not yet been confirmed and we can stir up some sentiment.
"The jury found Stevens guilty of "knowingly and willfully" scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor.
"Stevens faces a maximum sentence of up to to 35 years in prison -- five years for each of the seven counts...."
I bear no particular malice to this aged and stubborn old Republican. I hope the Judge's sentence is lenient. I just want him out of the U.S. Senate.
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Besides, this conviction gives America a greater gift than any jail time he could serve (again, I hope he doesn't serve -- just leave, Senator. Just leave). Well, this conviction and YouTube:
Will Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, 
