Can it get any worse?
Uh-oh! The wicked, naughty elite media establishment is asking sweet, innocent Sarah Palin another nasty “Gotcha!” question! In this case, they had the audacity to ask, “Sarah, what do you like to read?” The results can be seen here:
Now, not to be too much of an elitist here, but if you’re routinely getting your ass kicked by Katie Couric softballs — and are even missing badly on Sean Hannity’s batting tee offerings — you stand no shot at standing up to Vladimir Putin. Of course, this clip will probably endear her further to our nation’s wingnut lizard brains, who regard reading with the same esteem that most of us regard child molestation. So maybe admitting that she doesn’t read will be a brilliant game-changing move after all.
UPDATE: K-Lo, right on cue:
As soon as I saw it on CBS earlier (I trust most of you have better things to do with your time!), I knew the new conventional wisdom would be something like “she bans books and doesn’t read.” And sure enough. The e-mails are coming in. Obviously the governor of Alaska reads. And what it looked liked to me is the governor of Alaska decided she wasn’t going to play along with Couric. Whatever she answered would be scrutinized for the next 24 hours for what she included and left off. So instead she let Katie badger her a little.
And now the ticket is in yet a better position to run against the media.
Who knew a McCain ticket would ever be in a position to do such a thing?
Brilliant.
The next time Couric or any other elite journalist asks Sarah Palin what she reads, she should slug down a Pabst Blue Ribbon and belch loudly in their faces. K-Lo would positively swoon.
Yes, it can get worse…
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129137.html
She’s just not sure if Field & Stream qualifies as a newspaper.
No wonder the markets are tanking. This could be our president in 3 1/2 months.
The next time Couric or any other elite journalist asks Sarah Palin what she reads, she should slug down a Pabst Blue Ribbon and belch loudly in their faces.
Extra points for “Because SHUT UP, that’s why!”
She reads “all of them”???
Really? But she can’t name one single solitary newspaper because she just reads ‘anything that has been put in front of her’? C’mon. That has got to be the lamest answer EVAH. As an avid newspaper reader I can at least say that there are a few I visit every morning– but she doesn’t make it sound like its her daily routine.
Who knows what she means by that– if she waits until they’re in front of her maybe she’s counting old copies of “Reader’s Digest” or “People” when she’s waiting to see the dentist.
I think she’ll actually do OK in the VP debate. She won’t be David Lange by any stretch, but I think the bar’s been set so low she can’t possibly end up crashing and burning. She may even be reasonably effective.
However, what will happen is that the debate itself will be relatively low-key, with Biden not going in for the kill. He’ll say something relatively minor during the course that the wingnutosphere will pick up after the fact and spin into a huge “Biden is a sexist/racist/anti-American/anti-Semite!” kerfuffle to cover up how disappointing the whole thing is.
None of this evades the fact that she’s the epitome of right-wing ignorance, though.
its sexist to expect her to walk and answer questions at the same time.
Poor booger. Picked, then flicked, by the finger of history.
She’s one of the elite (i.e. only) subscribers to Bear and Crab: Decorating Your Office Authentically.
So maybe admitting that she doesn’t read will be a brilliant game-changing move after all.
Well she does admit that she reads, she just doesn’t know what.
Maybe she just didn’t want to admit to reading End Times Quarterly.
Sarah Palin is the real sexist, she’s besmirching the reputation of the entire gender by her mere presence in national politics.
All of us Lonny fans are waiting on pins and needles to know if Palin reads the RANTOUL ILLINOS PRESS.
Saw that interview this evening and was duly appalled (as was Couric). It is clear that Palin reads nothing (especially the Bible, or at least not the New Testament), knows nothing, and is singularly unqualified for any position of trust and responsibility.
So do you think she really thought Couric was wondering if the WaPo and NYT deliver to Alaska, or was that just a really pathetic deflection that made her look like she’s got a giant chip on her shoulder?
How much clearer does Palin need to be for you people? She said that she reads the newspapers that are put in front of her.
We just need to find out who’s been in charge of puttin’ all tha noozpapers in front of ‘er, and there ya go!
and once again she’s using that voice like she’s trying to explain our electoral system to a 5 year old.
I can’t watch her interviews. I’ve got a horrible habit of being an embarassment sponge. If someone is making a fool of themselves, I just want to die for them. Watching her and/or McCain is far too stressful.
Besides, can’t she just see the Russian newspapers from Alaska?
For five and a half years, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin couldn’t read, you insensitive fucks.
“We just need to find out who’s been in charge of puttin’ all tha noozpapers in front of ‘er,”
Well it’s either Dude or Dude’s philandering business partner.
We just need to find out who’s been in charge of puttin’ all tha noozpapers in front of ‘er, and there ya go!
Well one of the papers that got put in front of her was a John Birch Society periodical.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/18/23642/2892/739/603353
If someone is making a fool of themselves, I just want to die for them.
clearly, conservatives are immune to this.
Readers Digest?Ladies Home Journal?Harold Robbins?Danielle Steele?
C’mon Shug,work with me.
In Russia, the newspapers see you!
clearly, I forgot to change the name field and I’m too embarrassed to admit who I am.
Has she read three Shakespeares? HAS SHE READ THREE SHAKESPEARES?
I don’t want you to die, Ann! Pewrhaps you could find someone else to die for you? (You are a conservative, after all…)
Maybe Palin enjoys reading fiction, like K-Lo’s vintage debunking of 2005’s Media Myths:
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That’s K-Lo arguing that, No Silly, The Economy Is *Not* In The Tank.
She just as capably proves that Bush is truthful, loves black people, and that the Terry Shaiavo’s nutrition wasn’t “life support” because, well, she says so.
Whatever she reads would be scrutinized? How terrible of everyone to question her choice of reading Free Advice by Amy Alkon, Caroline Johnson, and Marlowe Minnick available at Amazon.com for $18.88 new and 12¢ used over Time or Newsweek or Highlights for Children.
I swear I am not Amy trying to push her book to get cash for an addiction to Adderal and Maybeline. I swearz!
Ah, yes. That vast kind of variety. As opposed to the non-vast kind.
So instead she let Katie badger her a little.
Fucking badgers.
Brad,
Not to sound like a cocky elitist Red Sox asshole, but I think the mainstream trailer trash brains are turning out on Sarah Palin. Their dicks have gone limp, so to speak. We might actually see Palin drop as she deserves to.
In all seriousness, I think what this shows is that she is so accustomed to hiding the truth that when asked a straightforward question, a softball even, that surely has a straightforward answer (I really don’t think that she spends her time reading the Bircher newsletter, or that she just doesn’t read) her instinct is to deflect the question and attack the questioner.
She said that she reads the newspapers that are put in front of her.
How to house-train a vice-presidential candidate.
If someone is making a fool of themselves, I just want to die for them.
I get that too. It’s quite a curse, since people make fools of themselves so much.
“All of ’em” and “any of “em” ‘
I haven’t heard of these publications.
CAN’T WAIT FOR THE VP CANDIDATE DEBATE. Will be making a partay of it.
clearly, I forgot to change the name field and I’m too embarrassed to admit who I am
Candy, is that you?
Fucking badgers.
Stupid DEMON-crat, you’re supposed to chase the two of them in opposite directions before they mate, not stand there and watch them!!!
Now, not to be too much of an elitist here,
Hey you know what, Bradley for President?
I’m no elitist or anywhere close to being a rocket scientist, as everyone here can attest, but first thing every morning I read newspapers and business and economics periodicals. It’s part of my job.
If someone asked me to name a few publications I’d have no trouble providing at least 10 or 15. Off the top of my head. Because I read them every day. How hard can that be IF YOU’RE READING SHIT.
If she’s annoyed – and she is – by the question, it’s because she doesn’t read.
Oh, God.
See, here’s the thing. Your average pol really and truly doesn’t have time to read the Post or the Times, especially if he or she has a family. Instead, he or she receives summaries or clippings of key articles from some staffer or other, and maybe skims them while on a conference call with the opposition leader.
There’s nothing wrong with that. The problem here is that Palin simply has no idea how to answer the question. She could’ve said “Well, I read relevant articles from the Post, the Times, and the Economist–not the silly things about Britney, you understand, but the key articles–as well as articles from political magazines across the spectrum.” It’s not that she doesn’t read–she almost certainly does–it’s that she can’t figure out how to answer the question intelligently. Good Lord.
So instead she let Katie badger her a little.
Gawd! That sounds as sexy as all get out!
That said, given the debate format, I think she’ll do fine (by Republican lights). They don’t care if she is unable to provide clear, coherent answers to policy questions; they just want someone with a character that is “admirable” by their lights. If Gwen Ifill asks her about foreign policy, she can just talk about what happened the last time she was out shooting moose, and she’ll be okay with the Goldbergs, Steyns, and K-Los of the world.
Obviously the governor of Alaska reads.
How is this obvious?
And what it looked liked to me is the governor of Alaska decided she wasn’t going to play along with Couric.
Like any badger, Couric first plays with its prey before going in for the kill. Had Palin answered that “what newspapers inform you?” puzzler, Couric had this question in hand and ready to destroy: Governor, are you shitting me? The Times? Those fucking douchenozzles? Am I right or what?. Badgers are famous for this method of questioning.
Whatever she answered would be scrutinized for the next 24 hours for what she included and left off.
No shit. I mean Palin could have said, I like the Newsweek. and the press would have went batshit. It would have been like the time the Dali Lama just kept staring at me until it really got on my fucking last nerve and I said, what the hell are you looking at? And he said, “A man getting increasingly angry.” I thought about that for like 35 years. And then I realized something. He was right. Palin is like the Dali Lama. An anti-badger Dali Lama.
So instead she let Katie badger her a little.
As badgers will by instinct. Then she mauled the candidate with her claws.
Sarah Palin is Britney Spears. She’s a dimbulb who happened to fake her way in to politics, which isn’t hard to do when you live in Hicksville. (That said, there seem to be a lot of people in Alaska who can’t stand her.)
Our PM plagiarized an entire speech supporting the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He reads and says what other right wingers are saying.
Blech, I’m so sick of these shitheads….
Is pre-impeachment off the table?
Ignoring the Children’s Cult of Obama, I see.
I see Brad leading the next O! Chorus.
I am thrilled McCain picked this moron to be his running mate. Seriously, we should all be celebrating because she is ruinous for McCain. An utter disaster. I encourage her to speak in public as much as possible.
She never looks at newspapers or magazines because that’d leave her less time to read Wittgenstein.
An anti-badger Dali Lama.
Fucking surrealists.
I read all of them, too. And they say you’re an idiot, Sarah.
I would have liked to have seen Couric prompt her with made-up/generic newspaper names:
“Do you read the Washington General? The New York Metropolitan? The Christian Scientific American? Any of those?”
Dollarz-2-donutz she’d say, “Oh, all of them, at one time or another. Not every day, Katie, I mean, the governorship is a busy jahb…”
Tearsheets. Clippings. Briefings.
These are things that executives get their news from.
They don’t read, per se. And they sure don’t read “any, all of ’em”.
Please lord baby Jesus H. Bourbon-drinkin’ Christ, let John McCain keep this gift to Democrats on the ticket. Every time she opens her mouth he loses 100,000 voters.
Not just okay. She’ll have totally kicked Joe Biden’s ass into the next county.
It reminds me of how, when I babysat a lot as a teenager, I had to always bring a thick book, because the kids would be down by nine, and often people wouldn’t come home until after midnight.
Because chances were, there would be no reading material. Maybe an Enquirer, and always a TV Guide, but books…. strangely absent.
“Obviously the governor of Alaska reads.”
Weren’t the wingnuts saying this about the governor of Texas, eight years ago? And yes, the answers are “three Shakespeares”, and “look where that’s gotten us.”
For those of you who can’t play the clip, the original question…
Why wouldn’t she say the Anchorage Daily News or the Mat-Su Valley Clarion-Plain Dealer-Picayune or whatever her hometown paper is? There’s no reason for the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal to enter into the discussion. “In my role as Governor of Alaska, it’s most important to keep tabs on all the small communities that are so essential to” blah, blah, blah. Whether it’s true or not, it’s a fine answer, and how would it backfire?
At this point Palin is clearly just flailing around, for no good reason — not this weird tactical anti-media meta-performance of _apparent_ flailing Lopez has just conjured up.
Wow. Laura Flanders sitting in for Mike Malloy on Nova M Radio.
[My last was inspired by Trilateral Chairman’s statement, She could’ve said “Well, I read relevant articles from the Post, the Times, and the Economist–not the silly things about Britney, you understand, but the key articles–as well as articles from political magazines across the spectrum.” I don’t think she needed to go anywhere near that far to come up with an acceptable answer.]
Smoky broads and smoky windows in the square
Come come charmer come on over for the day
Disappearing mortgage futures flash and die
Fortunes crumble all demolished in the bay
Anti-badger Dalai Lama
Stella maris missa nobis
Miss shapiro Katie Couric
Mauled the candidate with her claws.
Movement hampered like at christmas
Ha-ha isn’t life a circus
Round in circles like the archers
Always stiff or always starchy
Yes it’s happening and it’s fattening
And it’s all that we can get into the show.
“Well, I don’t read any of them dang f***ot a** East Coast n***er lovin’ snob papers, if’n that’s what you was asking.”
Well, she doesn’t read. But she knows that’s bad. So she makes up something, in a spasmed reflex that has always worked for her before. Jes’ Folks!
Which just sums up how you can’t cover all the questions…
Probably they have gotten her real responses, ran around and screamed for a while, and now she’s afraid to say anything.
yes, the multitude of sources, things that have been in front of her over the years.
like, say, the john birch newsletter.
Whether it’s true or not, it’s a fine answer, and how would it backfire?
Oh sure, but if you were her handler smart guy, would you risk her trying to pronounce “Picayune”? Her tongue would explode. Then her head.
K-lo doesn’t understand the difference between “tactics” and “blithering idiocy.”
perhaps i should have read the comments before posting.
She just hadn’t prepared a question, so she reverted to her default, which is to pretend she’s being attacked.
By the time of the debate, she’s gonna have the answers tattooed all over her body like the feller from Memento.
That said, I would have loved for her to say The Call.
I just can’t believe how vapid she comes off, and let’s not forget that this is Katie Couric, folks. She’ll have to do some other interviews, and she’s sunk. But I doubt people vote for prez based on who the VP is. It’s a subject us poli junkies love.
Has she read “My Pet Goat” (yet)?
Watching Rachel Maddow’s show.
She introduces Pat Buchanan w/a screen that sez: “ITS PAT!”
You know why that’s teh funny, right?
What part of “most of ’em” and “all of ’em, any of ’em” and a “vast, variety of sources” didnt you eggheads understand?
Gosh, ain’t never seen so many obtoose folks as the peeple postin’ on Sadly, Nah!.
Thank God KiLo is keeppin’ it real.
The McCain team’s best move might be a Palin-Quayle debate.
She introduces Pat Buchanan w/a screen that sez: “ITS PAT!”
You know why that’s teh funny, right?
Because he looks like an 80-year old bulldyke?
Oh sure, but if you were her handler smart guy, would you risk her trying to pronounce “Picayune”? Her tongue would explode. Then her head.
More newspapers should be called the Picayune. I’ve always liked that one.
It’s prejudicial to ask what periodicals she “reads.” Finding anomalous items on a back cover picture is not quite reading, nor is the keen moral discernment exercised in distinguishing Goofus’s bad choices from Gallant’s good ones. It’s really just a category error.
You know why that’s teh funny, right?
I’m not sure…
Partner and I have been chuckling over that since it started. Pat will probably never know… even if you explained it to him.
ITS PAT!
Are you accusing me?
But goddam, whoever that blonde babe is that plays the bartender in the Budweiser commercials, she is the most beautiful woman in the world and should be having my children.
Oh Kay, carry on with your meltdown and your palintology…
mikey
Yes, it could get worse. She could be VP. Fortunately, that’s looking less and less likely. McCain’s Intrade numbers continue to plummet just 4-5 weeks out. He’s down from a high of 60ish to just barely cracking 35. For the uninitiated, you unwashed steenky steenky masses who aren’t really aware of ALL internet traditions, basically the consensus is two to one against McCain winning. Intrade.com.
PATwas a character in a recurring SNL skit from the not very good days (by which I mean anything after 1978).
K-Lo may be the most all-around embarrassing human being on the planet, considering her job title and whatever it is she masturbates with, which I’m sure she calls the, “Opinion Leader.”
Good lord.
Sarah Palin is Einstein compared to K-Lo. And that’s considering Sarah can’t tell us what she reads.
If this election is close, it’s too late.
Hey. She isn’t familiar with the Bush doctrine. She doesn’t even read his talking points. I mean, how bad is that?
gbear –
It’s a real bitch to get that LAST ISSUE copy of End Times Quarterly after forgetting to resubscribe. I looted and pillaged only to find everyone was still here.
Actually Sarah Palin isn’t Einstein compared to KLo. KLo and Palin are soul sisters. KLo being the youngest who looks up to…
Is it just me, or does Sarah talk like the cop in “Fargo”?
‘Cause it sure seems like it.
What is it about north/snow?
mikey
I think she’s sandbagging. She has a clipping service of course but she wants to appear “one of the people” so she makes herself look stupid. But she isn’t talented at looking stupid. I bet she is talented at going all barracuda on her opponent in a debate though.
Scandiwegians in New Zealand talk the same way, yah. Nothing wrong with it.
Well, in California it’s just WEIRD…
mikey
The problem here is that Palin simply has no idea how to answer the question. She could’ve said “Well, I read relevant articles from the Post, the Times, and the Economist–not the silly things about Britney, you understand, but the key articles–as well as articles from political magazines across the spectrum.” It’s not that she doesn’t read–she almost certainly does–it’s that she can’t figure out how to answer the question intelligently. Good Lord.
Her reaction to the question – a perfect opportunity to BS that he reads the Times, Post, Alaska papers – is so weird, defensive, nervous, almost panicky. I can hardly imagine anyone giving such an unconvincing answer to such an innocuous question. Why was it so hard for her to answer? Does she think she will alienate the base if she admits to reading anything apart from the Bible?
The fact is that Sarah Palin orders her cheesesteak with Cheez Whiz and not “liberal” Swiss cheese. All other questions are purely academic.
Palin gives a whole new meaning to deadliest catch
“Is it just me, or does Sarah talk like the cop in “Fargo”?”
I don’t hear it. the northern Minn. / N. Dakota accent is very Scandinavian with an upward lilt at the end of sentences. “T” tending toward “D” doan ya know der. A lot of Finns up north too, Wobblies, not at all like the AIP.
What’s with this concern about reading?
I get the shit I want to know about beamed directly into my skull. Saves time, saves money, blurs vision.
What does she need to read for anyway. She is guided by the pure fire of her ambition. That’s all anyone needs.
Well, she is Joe Six-Pack according to her interview with Hugh Hewitt tonight.
I get the stuff I want to know about by eating the brain of someone who learned it previously.
Oops, last comment got eaten. She probably thought this was a trap about the Birch society paper that broke in the last couple of weeks, where she is in a picture from her city council days with the Bircher magazine in front of her.
So, she’s too stupid to know it wasn’t a trap.
Aw, jeez. WP is gonna post that in, like, three hours.
So here it is again…
“We have both kinds of music here. Country and Western.”
</Blues Brothers>
Okay, I’ll try it without the unicode…
“We have both kinds of music here. Country and Western.”
/Blues Brothers
fuck you, wordpress.
Well, that, and those long walks on the beach with the Risen Christ.
Prediction: the next Fox biopic special on Palin, styled as an after school special, will chronicle her courageous decision to learn to read.
Bonus prediction: K-Lo will be her tutor, and Palin will end up even dumber.
Let’s not forget what was Sarah Palin’s major in college.
Journalism.
The problem here is that Palin simply has no idea how to answer the question.
Agreed. At least she could’ve given some cornpone charming answer about the hometown Wasilla and Alaska papers.
I hate badgers too. Ya know.
K-Lo’s brilliant. Sarah just made herself look stupid on TV, just to stick it to Katie!
That’s not strategy, my friends, that’s tactics!
Let’s not forget what was Sarah Palin’s major in college.
Which college?
she actually went to five colleges in five years to get her degree – which isn’t necessarily bad, some people do.
she went to U of Hawaii @ Hilo, but left after the first semester. Then she went to a 2-year college in Idaho. Then she enrolled in University of Idaho. Then she studied at a 2 year college back in her hometown, then enrolled again in U of I, getting her degree.
Nothing wrong with that kind of academic career – some kids don’t like being away from home, lots of kids from poor families go to community colleges and transfer credits to the higher-priced school.
But she majored in fucking JOURNALISM and she can’t even pull up a convincing lie about what newspaper’s she reads? The governor of Alaska can’t even name the newspaper published in her own capitol?
Hell, if she’d named the Wasilla Pennysaver I’d at least give her a bit of credit.
Hey guys, I’m back again. I now take that most of you guys are skeptics when it comes to the existence of large undiscovered animal species, so I’ll try and give you the facts.
The mountain gorilla was previously thought of as a myth cooked up by African bushmen until two of them were shot in 1902.
The coelacanth “living fossil” is an ancient species of large fish that the scientific establishment thought went extinct with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago, until a specimen was caught in a fishing net off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
In 1976, a previously unknown species of large shark called the megamouth shark was discovered by a U.S. Navy research vessel in the South Pacific.
The scientific establishment has since the 19th century mostly rejected the idea that their are large animal species that science has not yet discovered. Yet, time and time again the scientific establishment has been proven wrong with many large species of animals being discovered in the 20th century, those three that I mentioned are only a fraction of what has been discovered since most mainstream scientists have ignorantly thought every species of animal to have been discovered.
I hope I have persuaded at least some of you to support me in trying to bring cryptozoology of the field of “pseudoscience” and into the mainstream scientific field.
She probably thought this was a trap about the Birch society paper that broke in the last couple of weeks, where she is in a picture from her city council days with the Bircher magazine in front of her.
There was a voice in her head shouting “American Opinion! American Opinion!” and she stammered through her answer praying she hadn’t said it out loud.
fucking dali lamas
Not only did she major in journalism and fail to have a favorite newspaper, she failed to even write a newspaper article in her college paper. And good lord, I bet the college paper at U of I is full of Pantload wannabes. I’m sure their standards are not high.
I thought Ms. I Wandered Lonely as a K-load wasn’t going to watch any more Palin interviews and any stupidity exhibited by Palin was because the GOP was keeping her in durance vile.
Also, the concepts “Katie Couric” and “Badger” go together like “Katherine Jean Lopez” and “Coherent Thought.”
Shorter Sarah Palin: “Trust me.”
I’ll make one bold prediction for the debate.
If Palin mentions Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden will paraphrase Bentsen’s awesome line about Jon F. Kennedy.
“Governor, I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. Governor, you’re no Hillary Clinton.”
I really like the look on Katie Couric’s face when Palin gets all defensive. Let’s give Couric some credit here, could YOU have suffered through these interviews and kept a straight face and not let it show (much) how unpleasant it was to be around this woman?
You’re all familiar with that “some of my best friends are…” line, right? Palin replaces it.
One of her best friends is gay!
On an unrelated note, she says “sweat is my sanity.” So maybe she does read—Billy Idol lyrics, and gets them wrong.
You sort of have to wonder: if she’d casually said “oh, well gee, Katie, The New American is one I really enjoy,” would Couric have even known what she’d just heard? Or care?
I’d swear Palin is getting a bonus every time she DOESN’T reply to a question with a lucid answer … she’s like the Drunk Sufi Poet of the GOP fer cryin’ out loud.
You DO know this isn’t exactly a political headshot here, right?
The Talibangelicals had their kids literally PRAYING to a cardboard dummy of Bush & getting psyched to go die “FOR GOD & COUNTRY” in Iraq … a dozen kids singing some goofy song with silly hand-gestures is mighty weak sauce, next to that level of hardcore frag-an-abortion-clinic-for-Jesus nutbar. Lovin’ that title, too. Comparing little kids who admire Obama to the Hitlerjugend is to real journalism as a Tonka-Truck is to a Rolls-Royce.
It’s worse, alright – just not QUITE in the way you think it is … poor poor “Reason” … if this tepid Godwin-gruel is all they’ve got, they may as well go back to tugging it to Atlas Shrugged in Mom’s basement & stay off the Interwebs.
“I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay”
more finesse used to be required of vice-Ps.
I really like the look on Katie Couric’s face when Palin gets all defensive.
Yes, Couric’s glance to the side around second 35 is great.
For those unwilling to go to the Joe-Sixpack link above:
No need to whisper, folks, she’s not listening.
Because he looks like an 80-year old bulldyke?
Is Pat Buchanan somewhere in here?
Not only did she major in journalism and fail to have a favorite newspaper, she failed to even write a newspaper article in her college paper.
Oh – Christ. I’d have to go looking for it somewhere, but I swear last week I saw a quote from here saying how much she loved to write! Maybe I’ll try to find it….
Q: How will McCain replace her without attracting attention?
I don’t doubt that she has actually heard of a few Supreme Court cases other than Roe, but she can’t seem to come up with any off the cuff. Of course she has read newspapers, and could name them, given time and comfort. She’s just absofuckinglutely horrible at thinking on her feet.
She’s worried about how any answer will play in the media. Duh. That’s a candidate’s job. She’s awful at it. Most any national level candidate has a pretty good public persona committed to memory. Whether that persona is actually them, or complete bullshit, isn’t my point. There are plenty of exceptional candidates whose entire existences are lie upon lie, based on lies. They have, however, done the work to keep consistent. Palin, on the other hand, is so far out of her league, she just doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind, pretty much regardless of the question.
No amount of coaching is going to enable her to ad-lib in the role of candidate at this point. She’s bumbling the fourth-grade school play script trying to fit into a role meant for a method-acting DeNiro.
tl;dr, She is made of massive fucking Fail, and there ain’t shit they’re going to do about it between now and election day.
I call fake on the Joe Sixpack quotes. Either that or they’re cleaning up her syntax in their transcriptions.
That’s not anywhere near as incoherent as she usually is.
She’s just not sure if Field & Stream qualifies as a newspaper.
I’m honestly no longer willing to even believe that she’s a hunter simply based on her say-so. Unless I see her bag and dress a moose, I’m going to assume that her hunting record is no more reality-based than her bridge-refusing record.
Smut Clyde said,
October 1, 2008 at 3:57
I get the stuff I want to know about by eating the brain of someone who learned it previously.
I knew it!
Smut Clyde, alias “Brain Bug” has been sending missiles from outer space to destroy our planet.
K-Lo:
You were able to anticipate that a person who tried to ban books and couldn’t name a newspaper she has read would evoke such an opinion? Amazing.
Oh the stupid. It hurts:
Yes it was obvious throughout that interview that she had Couric in the palm of her hand, giving her enough rope to hang herself. Forget the Russians. Palin/McCain are taking on the real enemy: the media.
noen said,
“I think she’s sandbagging. She has a clipping service of course but she wants to appear “one of the people” so she makes herself look stupid. But she isn’t talented at looking stupid. I bet she is talented at going all barracuda on her opponent in a debate though.”
I felt a momentary stab of panic at this and thought, Oh, god what if he/she is right? But I don’t think so. The just-folks answer would have been, as noted above, the Sitka Courier-Bee-Bugle-Above-Average-Intelligencer.
“I read what everybody reads in my state, Katie. We get just as good coverage of the, you know, the international news and what have you, the trends and all the big stories, just because we’re so far, you know, everybody thinks, you can’t keep up, but that’s just wrong, those papers and the media we have.”
Oh hell no. At some point, maybe ten minutes in, I would have stopped the whole thing, asked her what the fuck she was thinking even pretending to run, then busted the fourth wall and screamed for someone to favor me with a quick death.
But that’s me. There are perfectly good reasons that I am not on television.
I usually go for the woodchipper and quicklime, but that may not…
What…
I really like the look on Katie Couric’s face when Palin gets all defensive
Couric annoyed the shit out of me the Today Show. But I must admit that she was a great straight woman in Palin’s comedy routine. She kept it very professional and non-confrontational but her eyes clearly said WTF?! in each reaction shot.
I realize Tennessee is one of them red states but I doubt they’d look kindly on a VP who supports shooting wolves from helicopters when they’ve made October 2008 Elephant Awareness Month.
http://www.elephants.com/elephant_awareness_month_08.htm
More Joe-Sixpackiness:
Just to clarify
Joe six-pack American is a drunken fool with a beer gut not a six pack.
Cheney drunk-shotgun must be pissed off, bigtime.
CAUTION! Cliff May has his thinking cap on.
But if the Dow jumped 2000 points would that not indicate that the overall economy was not being pulled down by the crisis in the credit markets?
And if the crisis could be confined to the credit markets would the solution not be fairly simple: providing increased liquidity, and matching people with money they want to lend with people who are good credit risks and want to borrow?
These are serious questions I’m asking — not points I’m attempting to score. (This is not an area in which I claim expertise.)
By next Wednesday, expect Cliff May to be co-hosting a financial show with the bald guy from CNN.
She doesn’t know what the newspapers are. She only looks at teh pictures.
The audio of the Joe Six-pack interview is at http://townhall.edgeboss.net/download/townhall/audio/mp3/9c930bbd-2571-4987-bd47-d1862ba390eb.mp3.
Having listened to part of it, I am now officially too stoopid to do html, but I can say that at least five “y’know”s were cut just from the bit I excerpted above. Otherwise it seems to be a pretty good transcript.
My question isn’t “What does she read?”. My question is “CAN she read?”
something is not right with Sarah
Where’s that cryptozoology guy? They just found a drowned governmentopithecisaurus in Grover Norquist’s bathtub.
Oh, she reads. From the governor’s bio page (my emphasis):
Apologies are in order.
They just found a drowned governmentopithecisaurus in Grover Norquist’s bathtub.
Before, or after, it tripped Gwen Ifill on the stairs?
This is so wrong but….but…
Ya know that business with the kids choir singing Go Obama, etc. that Jawa Report and so on are all over saying “They think Obama is Jesus, blah, blah,….”
Well, when faced with that shit, there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmimQNnEVw
God Bless!
Let’s be fair, folks.
If she had answered with what she reads, she would have been ridiculed by everyone who knows USA Today is McPaper, and alienated those who believe that anything other than the Babble is “Satan’s work”.
I…
don’t know if i can take this. I’m worried that if i move to Canada, she’ll be able to see me.
audio of the Joe..
NOOOOOOOOOOO. It’s bad enough reading her inane utterances. That voice though, aiyyiyiyi. It drills big ragged holes in my head.
Ok, let me repeat, you all will find no salvation in Canada. A majority of boneheads is about to elect the worst Prime Minister ever, modeled after the worst President ever. Yes, it seems we have been invaded by an alien moron race and they don’t value reading or ethics either. Seriously, you will want to stay in America past election day.
Totally agree on the voice. But muting the teevee doesn’t help either. Does anyone really think she’s hot?
Lesley, you didn’t notice those huge “pea pods” they’ve been selling at Loblaws? The ones you have to let “ripen” for a few days?
Richard Cohen almost manages to connect the GOP with the radical right. Almost.
On the plus side, at least for me, he does get in a mention of taxi dancing, although a bit anachronistically, as he gives the impression it originated during the Great Depression.
Oh, she would be hot. If she was burning at the stake. But I guess Rev. Witch Dr. Muthee put the kaibosh on that.
Does anyone really think she’s hot?
I don’t, for what it’s worth.
Only a man would find Palin “hot” because men are shallow idiots/houseplants.
I haven’t shopped at Loblaws since I lived in Toronto…about 30 years.
Do you wanna know something funny? One of the Loblaws sons is named Bob.
Bob Loblaws. Say it fast ten times.
Speaking as a man, and not a houseplant, I may be a shallow idiot but … NOOOOOO
I think there should be a PENIS COPTER at the VP debate.
Sara? Hell no. But the first dude is kinda hunky. He’s not what I’d call hot, but it wouldn’t take too many beers…
Speaking as a man, and not a houseplant, I may be a shallow idiot but … NOOOOOO
Yeah, gotta second that. Palin is good-looking in a plasticky sort of way, IMO, but not in the least attractive.
She iz aware of ALL noozepaper tradishuns.
Wonkette is
reportingrumor-mongering that the lipstick is tattooed on, so you’re not that far off.Tina Fey is hot even when she dresses up as Palin.
Q: How will McCain replace her without attracting attention?
Another stunt, of course!
The noble Saint-Sarahcuda will bow out to care for her special-needs kid (+200 Family-Values Bonus-Points) while candidly admitting she may need a few more years to get the whole “national politics” thingy figured out … & will either be a dark-horse candidate in 2012, or never be seen or heard from again.
Alternatively, folks who were, shall we say, inconvenient to GOP political fortunes sure do seem to have had an awful lot of airplane-crash issues since circa 1990 (like, about 1,000% worse than the general population), & the FAC just never has much interest in finding out why they can’t seem to stay airborne. She’d make an awesome “martyr-mom” & might get a lot more votes dead than alive. If I was her, I’d consider going places by train or car from now on instead. Srsly.
Palin and Couric each look as if they were expecting Ashton Kutcher to suddently appear and tell them they’ve been punked.
Funniest thread, by the way, since the one about the guys who dress up as furry animals. Which reminds me:
“Where the hell are the dancing cats?”
In loving memory of Paul Newman.
I dated a ficus once but he didn’t give a fig for me.
Unbelievable!! How much more of this can this country take?? The pitiful liberal media would have the American people believe Gov. Palin is some kind of idiot. Well, I gotta say, If you’ve listened to Biden the last few weeks, his gaffes outnumber Gov. Palins gaffes by a huge margin. How much longer are the American people gonna let this slide??
Tom Robbins’s Cold Vodka Dolma
Ingredients:
1 stick panda
7 pinches hopeful vodka, marinated
1 pathetic Gorgonzola
7 tablespoons impala thorax, braised
2 sticks flour
3 pinches butter
Sacrifice a nearby ape or a creature of similar size. Discard remains respectfully. Place the panda into a medium bag. Use a food processor to mix the Gorgonzola with the vodka. Slather resulting mixture over the panda. Grill – very maliciously – the impala thorax, flour, and the butter. Dab the latter combination on to the former. Grill for 79 minutes. Serves 3 freedom-loving enemies with silver stomachs.
Hmmmmm.
In a dark room, with duct-tape over her piehole … probably still a no on that.
Which is sort of odd: I’m actually rather partial to nerdy-looking ladies with glasses.
Sorry – one of my heads still has a more-or-less functional brain.
The other one would never forgive me.
Just like George:
http://heylookhear.com/image/palinreads
(Best with sound on.)
Won’t happen. Biden can’t risk having ‘you like taking other people’s lines’ thrown back at him. He just needs to debate an absent Cheney, and see if Palin gets to embrace all of Shotgun Dick’s eight years in a way that would raise Richard Nixon from the grave to scream ‘NOOOOOOO!’
Man, we totally dodged a bullet when Obama picked Biden over Hillary. McCain most likely wouldn’t have picked Mayor of Crazytown if Hillary had been on the ticket, and then where would we be without this comedy gold?
Sure, we could mock Mittens, but that’s not as fun.
OT, & heartbreaking –
O dear sweet Cthulhu, please tell me that this is a glitch .. or just a sick joke while the REAL Norbizness is on hiatus.
Perhaps we need the UN to pass legislation to allow aerial hunting of domain-name-swiping yuppie prats … & the first 200 rounds are on me.
I miss him & his happy furry puppy stories already.
Damn you, Interwebs! Damn you to HELL!
I think I get it now. McCain is doing the country a great service. He knows he’s going down, but he’s taking the religious right with him.
This election will stand as a repudiation of everything they represent. Thanks John.
He could lock her in a closet in one of his 47 houses and then get Fred Thompson to show up at press conferences in drag with a Sarah Palin mask. Maybe no one would notice.
Man, you do not understand Johnny Drama. You might as well ask how a dog can look at a pot roast and not drool.
McCain can get rid of Sarah Palin and still keep the religious right vote by claiming that God was running a kind of test run of the rapture and sucked Palin up to heaven.
Meanwhile, McCain can pick another running mate and send Palin away to hang out with Vicki Iseman.
You people are so fucking fucked…
Also courtesy Wonkette:
McCain’s Maverick Pick For SEC Boss Actually Caused Entire Financial Crisis
From the article (emphasis added):
Yes.
Well, the Bible and the Left Behind books.
Not this time, dear. 😉 I’ve been out all evening learning about administrative rule making, state of Iowa vs. federal, informal and formal, adjudicative vs. legislative functions, Chadha, and other fun law facts. Then I came home and watched The Graduate. I haven’t had time to embarrass myself on the interwebs this evening. And now I must go to bed.
As for Palin, if she were the least bit interested in being informed, she’d at least have some newspaper headlines emailed to her. I myself have The New York Times, MSNBC, The Seattle Times, and The Des Moines Register breeaking news, headlines, and opinion emailed to me or on my home page. Oh, and Truthout, can’t forget Truthout. Only takes about ten minutes to scan to see if there is anything I really want to read, on any given day. I also take the local rag in dead tree form. Now, I’m not the governor of Alaska, but I am a student with lots of required reading, so if I can fit it in so can Sayruh.
Oh, before I go I’d like to add that K-Lo is the lowest bar in the bar hierarchy, the most wilted intellectual flower in the bouquet, and although it may be a tad uncouth to say so, all her dogs ain’t barking
It must be heartwarming for Joe Six-pack D. Public to know that one day he to could be CHOSEN to become royalty by the Republican party.
Hmm. ‘All of them?’ did she mean ‘any’?
I will admit, I was hard-pressed recently to name a trade magazine I read regularly for my trade news. Normally I read lots of press releases, wire dispatches, and whatever newspaper comes to me with the story first, or locally.
So it’s hard to say, ‘Well, I read anything.’ Or maybe it isn’t.
Erm, no. As they say, “Pretty may be skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone”, and her bones are showin’. I’ve always had a thing for the librarian look, too, but not her. I also have a history of pickin’ the crazy ones, but one has to draw the line somewhere.
I’m just about her age, and thinking back to high school and college, and the pics that have been around of her, I don’t think I’d have given her a second look then, either. Not that she’s misproportioned or anything, just not my type. Bad ratio of smarts to teh crazy, I suppose. She seems to have aged well because she found a “style” that works for her, learned a deft touch with the makeup trowel(sorta), and never dropped the saucy-pageant-runner-up expression, none of which have ever done that much for me.
Also, Lesley,
That would be because Tina Fey is actually pretty hot.
Mercy me, I’ve been spelling my god-damned name wrong.
But here’s the thing.
Given what we’ve seen of her so far, it’s pretty clear she has little or no curiosity about the world outside her Alaska dealings.
If she ever reads anything from a national newspaper or magazine – or has the clippings put in front of her – you can guarantee they only have to do with what affects Alaska…and her.
Andre, bonus points for mentioning Lange. Palin would be an ant under his shoe.
The problem here is that Palin simply has no idea how to answer the question
No, its worse than that. She doesn’t even know the question.
How will McCain have her replaced so that no one notices? She will have been eaten alive by badgers.
Hot, I guess, if you like fembots. (h/t Candy for the idea to visit Truthout).
If you haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s well worth picking up. What’s really sad is that it’s just as relevant today as it was when it was written 23 years ago. The good news is that the majority of young people seem to have soundly rejected such ideas of Puritanical authoritarianism.
They just found a drowned governmentopithecisaurus in Grover Norquist’s bathtub.
It would be a mistake to throw the governmentopithecisaurus out with the bathwater. If nothing else, the neighbours are liable to notice.
Dunno if it could get any worse, but she sure can be a bigger a-hole:
And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read
I used to get by with classified TSC government briefing papers.
ugly goes all the way to the bone
Fortunately, the fleshless-skull hallucination only begins (in my experience) after about the 3rd or 4th day of total insomnia.
Not so fortunately, I usually get insomnia when I am travelling, so I am used to the experience on the 4th day of a conference of trying to make intelligent conversations with people when all I can see of their faces is their screaming skulls, and I am trying to memorise the structure of their zygmotic arch and their mastoid process, so that there will be more chance of remembering the conversation when I meet the same people under more lucid conditions.
The rule used to be that politicians were people who didn’t mind embarrassing themselves in public. The new rule is that conservatives are politicians who don’t mind embarrassing other people for them in public…
As for Journamalism majors, back when I was attending
Moo Ua large Midwestern college in the early 1970s, journalism classes consisted largely of second-string jocks looking for a fallback and coeds “working on their MRS degree”. In those days, the rest of the students could still find it embarrassing that some of their fellows had not already mastered concepts like “punctuation” and “spelling”. Of course, today the Intratubes handles all that picayune shite, so the deeply subliterate are no longer reduced to getting degrees in Communications, I guess.Since Palin couldn’t even be bothered name-checking the Wall Street Journal, I’m guessing Rupert Murdoch is congratulating himself on giving all that money to Hillary Clinton instead.
yah. you first, buddy. i have enough problems with the fucking pelicans.
Is she also openly black?
Anne Laurie —
Moo U? As in that place across from the theater that had the five-alarm chili? Dusty’s was it?
all that picayune shite
I was under the impression that a Picayune was a kind of South-East Asian animal related to the pig, so why anyone would name a newspaper after one escapes me.
OMG! They’ve removed the
Nazi YouthObama’s Tots video.Embarassed, perhaps?
Don’t be. You’ll all be singing the praises of your Dear Leader in a few months whether you want to or not.
*wink wink nudge nudge*
Oh, my mistake, it hasn’t been removed.
“This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request. ”
Yep. Gotta keep it in the
MansonObama “Family”, as it were.Nobody cares, booger.
Do you actually believe that shit?
Wouldn’t want to elect this woman as mayor of a population-5,000 town.
I found this ray of hopelessness rather interesting:
The First Lady Michelle, who is no belle, will be doing fists up on the East Lawn of the White House while rap dancin to 50 Cent. I can just see it – Michelle thinks she is so bad. She’s right, she is bad. She is so bad all she will get is a one way ticket to hell and no bottled water please – you know plastic melts in fire.
This was over at The Hill Chronicles.
Wow….this just floors me. Palin really is that much of a ditz. Can’t wait to see Biden tear her apart limb by limb tomorrow. I doubt if her ‘debate camp’ is really going to help much with that kind of paltry raw material to work with. Ouch!
Let Sarah be Sarah, by all means. Let her talk about the End Times, Dino the pet dinosaur, and the wrath that awaits all unbelievers.
That will be a debate!
Do you actually believe that shit?
Apparently not.
I submit this to the Sadlynauts for an accurate description of Palin’s word salad.
Well, she is Joe Six-Pack according to her interview with Hugh Hewitt tonight.
That interview was embarrassing from start to finish, old man-tits has become a parody of himself. However, it is quite amusing watching him unravel as Obama’s number go up & up. He will be a gibbering idiot by November that even tranquillisers and a straight jacket wont be able to sort out.
OMG! They’ve removed the Nazi Youth Obama’s Tots video.
Embarassed, perhaps?
Don’t be. You’ll all be singing the praises of your Dear Leader in a few months whether you want to or not.
*wink wink nudge nudge*
Yawn…unoriginal, uninspired, and frankly boring. We so need a higher class of troll.
Smut —
Thought you have the region (SE Asia) correct, I’m afraid you’re confusing a picayune (related to the fuching ferret) with a pastrami (related to the dim-witted badger).
Actually, that’s though, though.
Wow….this just floors me. Palin really is that much of a ditz. Can’t wait to see Biden tear her apart limb by limb tomorrow. I doubt if her ‘debate camp’ is really going to help much with that kind of paltry raw material to work with. Ouch!
Again, these are not real debates. You can win massively on points but lose as far as political outcome. Palin’s team will have her memorize three or four zinger lines that she has to deliver. The rest of the time she has to tread water without drowning (though even that might prove difficult). One or two of the zingers will be all that is remembered a week later.
God damn, I can’t imagine an easier question. Just say the Wall Street Journal!
Unless she doesn’t actually know of any publications ….
Which would be scary.
Shorter goober:
Do you really, honestly, actually think a video of some random kids singing a dumb song about Obama is going to gain any sort of traction? Especially given the daily disasters the McCain Express give us?
Wow. Dude, just go back to AOSHQ, where the armpit fart contests are always welcoming, your advice is always sought as to why AOS, esq., can’t get laid, and talk of Obama being a Nazicommie doesn’t get laughed out of the room.
I get the stuff I want to know about by eating the brain of someone who learned it previously.
Hey, that’s how I learned about kuru!
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But Sarah was interviewed by a newspaper just recently – a story appeared in her hometown paper yesterday morning.
she can’t even remember it’s name?
And read her answers here – this was no on-camera interview where she had to speak off the cuff. She was given these answers and emailed her responses, which means she could fact-check, review, and edit her words.
Yet even with that, she comes across as an egotistical moron:
“We are both mavericks, and we hit it off right away. The idea of this being a possibility became real when I flew to Arizona three days before I was announced as his selection.”
They pay K-LO? She accepts it? Schlemiel meet Schlomozzle!
Jus’ because YOU, mon ami, cannot play “hide the croissant” with a female of your species is no reason for you to go breaking up my romantic tête à têtes.
Briano Eno, I lurrrrrvs you.
Is anything she says not a snide insult at somebody?
What a bunch of mean strawmen are picking on her, implying that she can’t read because Alaska is so far away from, um, the printed word.
In the spirit of fairness, I will disclose that I subscribe to and read the following print publications:
AdBusters
Maximum PC
Money
Parenting
PC Gamer
Scientific American
And then of course I read blogs and linked newspaper/magazine articles throughout the week. I don’t bother subscribing to a news magazine because by the time it’s published, I’ve already read its articles online.
And the short answer is, NO.
The longer answer is, No, because if she could, she’d soon realize that all that speaking-in-tongues-at-Pentecost thing from Acts was just a one-off thing to enable the disciples of Christ to spread the Good Word, and that what goes on in Church every Sunday is just a lot of gullible nutters throwing self-inflicted epileptic seizures.
And then there’s the little matter of Westbrook Pegler. Apparently, she hasn’t read him (or ABOUT him) much, or she might want to think twice about citing a fascist who thinks the sun rises and sets on the mental midgetry of small towns.
But hey! You can totally see it from Russia. Doesn’t that just RAWK?
Don’t worry. I live there now, and she can’t see me. But then, I carry fernseed, and walk invisible.
(That’s Shakespeare. But I won’t say which. I trust people here can READ, which is more than can be said for you-know-who.)
His first name wasn’t “Monroe” by any chance, was it?
But hey! You can totally see it from Russia. Doesn’t that just RAWK?
Maybe that’s the problem: you can only see Cyrillic from her house…