Is Sarah Palin really this fuckin' stupid?

[Palehorse]

You know. . . I've had time to think about this and I am now convinced that Sarah will play the retard card when confronted with a superior opponent! (And the problem is it will be the first truthful claim she has made!)

[me]

Nuf said?  Gotta have a union too remember so ya'll are treated fairily.....

 

  Whaaaaaaaaat?    I think that was the dumbest question you have ever asked.  Read it to  yourself again.

I love it! We can use some the taxes we collect from the freeloading churches to pay Lolly. (I think that one's gonna cost us, but she's worth it). Now that I think about it, perhaps Troll can help us collect those taxes. I think he'd be extremely persuasive. 

[The Troll]

Nuf said?  Gotta have a union too remember so ya'll are treated fairily.....

  Remember the preacher, I think it was Dr. Cadle's son.  In Indianapolis.  The preacher who wasn't going to pay his empoyees Social Security taxes.  Yes sir, one smart drinking fool.

  Remember how he stood out in front of "his" church as they sold it.      God didn't intervine, did he.   

  I'd sell any church property if they wouldn't pay taxes. 

[Sandy Eggo]

This morning, Think Progress and the Huffington Post both reported that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are planning to hold a 9/11 event in Alaska. It's supposedly a commemoration of the victims that you can attend for the low, low price of $73.75-$225 a ticket. To make things even better, there's no indication where the proceeds will go although the event was previously rumoured to be a political platform for Palin to announce her bid for the 2012 presidency. So much for Palin's high and mighty sensitivity to 9/11 victims...

I'd wonder what FOX NEWS has to say about this, but they seem to be too busy attacking Obama's 9/11 plans.

http://www.newshounds.us/2010/09/08/palin_and_becks_great_911_exploiticon_what_say_you_fox_news.php#more

[dan foster]

http://www.newshounds.us/2010/09/08/palin_and_becks_great_911_exploiticon_what_say_you_fox_news.php#more

If palin and beck are the heroes of the public, there really isn't any fucking hope for the country...

[Palehorse]

Palin enables Beck's extreme rhetoric
October 11, 2010 8:35 am ET — 26 Comments
As John Hamilton reported, alleged California highway shooter Byron Williams described Glenn Beck as "a schoolteacher" and said that "it was the things [Beck] exposed that blew my mind." One of Beck's biggest supporters has been Sarah Palin, who has appeared at Beck's events, praised his "wisdom," and encouraged followers to watch his conspiracy-laden programs.

Palin enables Beck

Beck's long history of violent rhetoric. As Media Matters for America has documented, Beck frequently spews violent rhetoric and pushes conspiracy theories about progressives.

Palin has appeared on Beck's Fox News program three times. Beck has hosted Palin on his Fox News program on three occasions: on March 18, January 13, and January 19, 2009 (Beck's first broadcast on Fox News).

During his January 13 interview with Palin, Beck read her an entry from his diary: "Tomorrow, I meet Sarah Palin and family for the first time. I'm actually a little nervous -- as she is one of the only people that I can see that can possibly lead us out of where we are. I don't know yet if she's strong enough, if she's well-enough advised, or if she knows she can no longer trust anyone. I don't know if she can lead and not lose her soul."

Palin wrote Beck's "Time 100" article. Palin wrote Beck's article in Time magazine's annual issue profiling the 100 "people who most affect our world." Palin wrote: "Who'd have thought a history buff with a quirky sense of humor and a chalkboard could make for such riveting television? Glenn's like the high school government teacher so many wish they'd had, charting and connecting ideas with chalk-dusted fingers -- kicking it old school -- instead of becoming just another talking-heads show host. ... His love of the Founding Fathers inspires others to learn and respect our nation's history. Best of all, Glenn delights in driving the self-proclaimed powers-that-be crazy." [Time, 4/29/10]

Palin and Beck hosted 9-11 event in Alaska. On September 7, Palin wrote a note on Facebook inviting followers to join her and Beck at a ticketed event on 9-11. Palin wrote: "We can count on Glenn to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will 'never forget.' Hope to see you there!" The Associated Press wrote in a September 12 article that at the event, "Palin applauded the conservative commentator as an inspiration for millions, saying he represents why so many citizens never have to apologize for being American."

Palin spoke at Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall. Palin spoke at Beck's 8-28 "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. During her "non-political" speech, Palin said: "I must assume that you too, knowing that, no, we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want, we must restore America and restore her honor." Following the rally, Palin tweeted: "Please watch the entire rally. Honorable & inspirational from beginning to end. Listen to Dr. Alveda King, Beck, et al!" On August 29, Palin tweeted: "Silly media reports'maybe thousands'@Beck's 'irrelevant' event;insinuating MSM sheeple mustn't believe their own eyes&ears re: event's truth."

Palin: "Lamestream media: watch rerun of Glenn Beck's show today." In a September 13 tweet, Palin wrote: "Lamestream media: watch rerun of Glenn Beck's show today. Listen/Learn/Don't underestimate the wisdom of the people. Times,they r a'changin!"

On his September 13 show, Beck claimed that "there's a lot of us" who think America isn't going to "continue as a country" much longer, and told viewers: "There is an effort in this country to dismantle the free-market system."

Palin said Beck "hit the nail on the head" in CPAC speech. On February 20, Palin tweeted: "@GlennBeck hit the nail on the head in his #CPAC speech: USA is the abiding beacon of freedom & we need 'less Marx, more Madison'!" During the speech, Beck suggested a liberal "minority" has "hijack[ed]" America and claimed that "

• ur government looks at the American people as the bad guy," that "[e]conomic holocaust is coming," and that "[p]rogressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution."
  
  Palin promoted Beck's documentary linking progressives to atrocities of communism. On January 22, Palin tweeted: "Pls watch Glenn Beck's FOX documentary on Friday to learn about 'manufactured crisis'-mode of govt operatives that lead to harmful proposals." In previewing his documentary on communist atrocities, Beck promised to show what "progressives don't want you to know." Beck opened his documentary by citing Che Guevara, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong as "left-wing icons." Beck also suggested that Adolph Hitler was a liberal and claimed that Soviet genocide has been "erased" from history books.
  
  Palin invited her "friends" to watch Beck exposé on "who is actually running the White House." On August 26, 2009, Palin posted a note on Facebook inviting her "friends" to watch Beck. Palin wrote: "FOX News' Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House. Monday night he asked us to invite one friend to watch; tonight I invite all my friends to watch."
  
  During the week of August 26, 2009, Beck's shows regularly featured violent and paranoid rhetoric. On August 26, 2009, for instance, Beck told viewers they "are about to lose your freedom of speech" and suggested there could be a Venezuela-type "clampdown":
  
  BECK: Is this America? Is it? Ask yourself that question. These are reasonable questions in apparently unreasonable times.
  
  Is this the way we decide how things happen? Do we have these shadow operations with these new czars or advisers or whatever the hell they want to call them, calling the shots? And doing it with a hidden agenda? Doing it slowly, quietly behind the scenes and then, boom! There it is.
  
  You are about to lose your freedom of speech in this country. If you disagree with that, please contact me and tell me how, because I'd like to live in that world. I'd like to believe that. But with everything else I have shown you this week, and then you see the clampdown by somebody who is extolling the virtues of the revolution in Venezuela, I don't know how you see that.
  
  Could somebody, please -- I mean this sincerely -- please explain to me how this isn't anti-capitalist, revolutionary in nature, and anti-constitutional? How is this -- how does this resemble our republic and our First Amendment at all? Please answer that question.
  On August 27, Beck also cropped President Obama's remarks to fearmonger about Obama's "civilian national security force." As Media Matters has repeatedly noted, Obama made his comments about the necessity of a "civilian national security force" in a July 2, 2008, speech on service and referred to expanding the Foreign Service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps. Beck claimed that Obama's "civilian national security force" is "what Hitler did with the SS. He had his own people. He had the brown shirts and then the SS. This is what Saddam Hussein" did.
  
  Beck also mentioned Soros and Tides that week. For instance, Beck wondered how many members of the administration are part of a "communist, socialist society" and asked: "What role does George Soros play in all of this?" From Beck's August 25, 2009, show (retrieved from Nexis):
  
  BECK: All this week, we are asking questions. I may not have the answers but I have a whole lot of questions and you should, too. These are just from tonight's show. Who is surrounding the president at the White House? Do any of the president's advisors have criminal records?
  
  President's advisors work to better the country or for their own ideals? Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington? What role do they have in crafting any of the bills, especially the jobs creations? What was STORM? What happened to the founders? Where are they now?
  
  What are the qualifications to be a czar or a presidential advisor? What's the difference between a community organizer and a community activist? Is there? Do these czars have power, real power? Should a communist have the ear of the president of the United States?
  
  America, please, answer that question, please. What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting the bill? Does the president know that the cofounder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance that crafted the stimulus package?
  
  How many people in this administration are connected to the Movement for a Democratic Society? That is a communist, socialist society, developed in 2006. What role does George Soros play in all of this? Where is the Constitution?
  On his August 27, 2009, show (from Nexis), Beck and right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin discussed the alleged connections between the Tides Foundation, Soros, ACORN, and the Obama administration:
  
  MALKIN: Glenn, you have talked numerous times on your show about the Tides Foundation, and the connection between Tides an Drum & Pike, and ACORN. There is a direct relationship between ACORN and President Obama.
  
  BECK: Michelle --
  
  MALKIN: President Obama's campaign paid $832,000 to an ACORN front group. The connections are far greater on the left between the Democrat Party and these fringe groups than they are on the right and the Republicans.
  
  [...]
  
  BECK: This week I have been telling you, ask questions. Here are the questions from just today. We have more. You will find them on the website at Glennbeck.com.
  
  I told you that we were going to talk about these things. We were going to talk about Obama, the Left, internationalists, graft, ACORN-style organizations, revolution and hidden agenda. Oligarh -- one letter is missing. Why did I select these words, because ACORN selects Tides, they all select their words first, and then tie them altogether into one word. Oligarch, the only letter that is missing is Y. I don't know what we're turning into an oligarchy, or what we're turning into, but unless you ask why, we're going to transform into something. Ask questions.
  
  Now, the second part of this, a few months ago, I told you, you got to know you're not alone. You've got to know. You got to unite. Talk to people. Make sure you know you're not alone, through the 9/12 project. We started that. Millions all involved across the country and the 9/12 project and other organizations like it. I knew we needed to connect with one another.
  Byron Williams reportedly told investigators that "his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU." He also assailed Soros during his interview with reporter John Hamilton.
  
  -- Media Matters Staff
  http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110020

[Palehorse]

Palin claims someone is "pulling [Obama's] strings," warns of Iran "Armageddon"

Palin smears Obama as "naïve," claims "whomever it is who's pulling his strings" won't let him institute free-market principles. During Newsmax's October 12 "Making America Great Again" webcast, Palin said that Obama's policies "lean towards" being socialist, adding:

It's the free-market system that built America, that allowed us to be so prosperous and safe and generous, that will work. But he won't apply those principles because I think he's quite naïve. I think he's stubborn. I think whomever it is who's pulling his strings will not let -- because the ideology involved in all of this will get in the way -- they will not let him admit what we know from history, that those free-market principles will certainly work better than socialism.
Palin: Nuclear Iran could lead to "Armageddon." After describing Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as among "evil, evil dictators ... evil men who would think that they are going to control America and make us fearful," Palin said that "we have to show our steel spine and we have to tell them that, yes, military option will be on our table." Palin added:

We need to remind Russia that any assistance given to Ahmedinejad -- given to Iran -- we have to realize that at the end of the day, a nuclear weapon in that country's hands is not just Israel's problem or America's problem, it is the world's problem. It could lead to an Armageddon. It could lead to that World War III that could decimate so much of this planet.
Palin: Sharia law will be "the downfall of America." Palin said that "Americans will never stand for sharia law being the law of the land," adding:

Whether it be just affecting a segment of the population, a demographic, certainly not in its entirety all over our country, Americans will not stand for this because Americans are smart enough to know Sharia law, if that were to be adopted -- allowed to govern in our country, it will be the downfall of America. And too many Americans are onto this already and are starting to rise up and send that message to our federal officials and say, no, we will not put up with any hint of Sharia law being any sort of law of the land.
Palin: Obama "bows and kowtows and pokes our allies in the eye." Later in the interview, Palin accused Obama of lacking "that humbleness where he can look back and see what has worked throughout history, what has failed, so that we can repeat the successes." She also claimed that Obama "bows and kowtows and pokes our allies in the eye, which makes absolutely no sense."

Attacks echo those made by Palin's right-wing compatriots

Beck, Limbaugh have portrayed Obama as a "puppet." In discussing a "class war" chess game, Beck portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as "pawns" that are "meaningless," while the "king" is George Soros. Beck has also said that "the question you have to answer is" if Obama is "the president, or is he a puppet," adding that "you can at least make the case" that Obama is a "puppet." Rush Limbaugh has suggested Obama is a puppet by saying: "Soros may be running Obama. Who the hell knows?"

Beck has repeatedly invoked Armageddon imagery. Beck has praised a book by evangelist John Hagee that cites "the maniacal nuclear ambitions of the theocratic dictatorship in Iran" as part of a "perfect storm" resulting in the current "terminal generation" fulfilling "Bible prophecy for the first time in world history." Beck has praised Hagee as "the guy that really has spoken about Iran and Israel an awful lot," then commented that "a lot of the pieces" for the Second Coming "are here now." Beck has touted another book warning of "end-time occurrences and the financial warnings that are pointing us toward the Armageddon of the Bible." Beck has even invoked the film Armageddon to criticize the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill.

Gingrich: "We should have a federal law" to ban courts from applying Sharia. Gingrich asserted at the September 18 Values Voter Summit that "what threatens America are radical Islamists," adding that "I am totally opposed to any effort to impose Sharia on the United States" adding, "We should have a federal law that says under no circumstance in any jurisdiction in the United States will Sharia be used by any court to apply to any judgment made about American law. ... [N]o judge will remain in office who tries to use Sharia law to interpret the American Constitution." Sean Hannity, Frank Gaffney, Pam Geller, and Jim Quinn have also fearmongered about Sharia law.

Conservative media obsessed with Obama's alleged bowing. Palin's claim that Obama "bows and kowtows" echo previous fixations on such behavior by conservative media and commentators such as Beck, Hannity, Geller, and Neal Boortz.

Palin brings "death panels" falsehood back to life

Palin repeats debunked "death panels" claim. Palin said that "I was about laughed out of town for bringing to light what I call death panels, because there's going to be faceless bureaucrats who will, based on cost analysis and some subjective idea on somebody's level of productivity in life, somebody is going to call the shots as to whether your loved one will be able to receive health care or not. To me, death panel -- I called it like I saw it, and people didn't like it."

Previous Palin "death panel" claims were false. As Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented, there are no "death panels" in the health care reform law. Palin originally claimed that such "panels" were created by a proposed provision that would have provided for voluntary, Medicare subsidized end-of-life counseling sessions. After that claim was thoroughly debunked, she said her comments concerned Dr. Ezekial Emanuel's purported position of rationing, which was based on a distorted version of his views. She later claimed that the Independent Payment Advisory Board established under the law amounted to a "death panel" because it would create a "panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients; in fact, the law specifically prohibits the Advisory Board from making "any recommendations to ration health care ... or otherwise restrict benefits."

Palin invents Obama "lie" on health care

Palin misrepresents Obama statement on health care costs. In claiming that the health care reform bill was "full of lies," Palin said that "we had been promised that this would bend the cost curve. And actually what we're finding out now is that even our president admits that, well, he knew all along that in the margins, costs would actually increase." This is an apparent reference to a September 10 statement by Obama, responding to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report on health care reform, that "As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs -- we knew that. ... We didn't think that we were going to cover 30 million people for free."

In fact, increase comes from more people being covered, not higher costs for care. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote in a September 10 blog post about the CMS report:

So even in the most simplistic analysis, we're covering about 10 percent of the country and increasing spending growth by 0.2 percent. Seems like a good deal to me. But it's actually a better deal than that.

[...]

What you're seeing here isn't the cost curve bending up. It's a one-time increase in the level of spending. That's the big jump in 2014, the year the exchanges and subsidies come online. So when you compare 2014 to 2013, spending growth seems like it's gone up a bunch. But by 2016, we're back to normal. In fact, we're better than normal: "For 2015-19, national health spending is now projected to increase 6.7 percent per year, on average -- slightly less than the 6.8 percent average annual growth rate projected in February 2010."

In other words, 2014 is a one-time increase in spending level as we get 30 million new people covered. After 2014, costs grow more slowly than they would without the health-care reform bill. And as some of you know, the major spending controls, like the excise tax and the Medicare board, only really start in 2018, so we can expect spending to slow even more in the years beyond this projection. And that, of course, is exactly what the Congressional Budget Office found when it looked at the bill on a longer timeframe.

So, the nickel version: Spending goes up in 2014 because we're covering 30 million new people and then down after that because we're controlling costs in the system.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201010120041

[Locutus]

The examples just keep rolling in. 

(CNN) –For a lot of Republicans, an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the gold standard of conservative street cred.

West Virginia Republican Senate candidate John Raese received such a nod this morning, except her endorsement was for a Senate seat in ... Pennsylvania.

In a now-deleted tweet, Palin wrote, "Pennsylvania:makes sense 2 send GOP 2 DC 2 avoid PA economic disaster that will occur under Obama/Pelosi Cap & Tax scheme;workers need Raese."

Apparently, ole' Sarah can't even keep her states straight. 

[Henry Hawk]

Joe Biden....................that is all I need to say.

[Locutus]

If you want to talk about Biden's gaffes, start your own thread. 

This thread is about Sarah Palin.   

[Henry Hawk]

If you want to talk about Biden's gaffes, start your own thread. 

This thread is about Sarah Palin.   

naw, just tryin to keep this one in perspective... ......comparativly speaking, she is NOT , THAT 'f'ing stupid.....

[Bo D]

naw, just tryin to keep this one in perspective... ......comparativly speaking, she is NOT , THAT 'f'ing stupid.....

Compared to who? The rest of her family?

Barbara Walters - "You became famous for impregnating a 17-year-old girl. You're 20 years old, you don't have a high school diploma yet, you don't have a trade. Now you're running for mayor. Would it not be better for you, instead of seeking publicity, to learn a trade, to find a job, to get an education and to support your son?"

When asked what are his qualifications to be Mayor, Levi misses the point entirely and says, "You gotta live in the city limits for one year." *head smack*

Whoopi asks him what his platform is and Levi responds, "At this point in time, I couldn't tell you. I said I was running for mayor, what, a month ago?"

Sigh. Actually, it was almost three months ago. Not that that makes any difference."

[Locutus]

He'll probably get elected too. 

After all, they elected Sarah and started off that nasty gift that keeps on giving. 

[Locutus]

Now hopefully, Christine O'Donnell won't be around nearly as long as Sarah Palin, but if she is, maybe we should start a thread about how stupid she is. 

http://www.youtube.com/v/JdOpo-pNhWc

[Palehorse]

Now hopefully, Christine O'Donnell won't be around nearly as long as Sarah Palin, but if she is, maybe we should start a thread about how stupid she is. 

http://www.youtube.com/v/JdOpo-pNhWc

Seriously. . . with jackasses like this running for public office, how long is it going to take this country to collapse upon itself?