Irony Watch: Sarah Palin Calling Someone Else ‘Dumb’

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Friday is still young, but we already have our totally ridiculous Wingnut spin of the day, as Sarah Palin weighs in on Newt Gingrich’s serial affairs and divorces by calling the media “dumb arses.”

Poor conservatives, always being victimized.

“The American public could really care less about being Joe McGinniss’d, not when there are real issues,” Palin said. “Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife is getting ready to reveal all, again — she has already done that, it seems, like a few times.”

“The liberal media,” she added, “and some of that GOP holier-than-thou machine overplayed their hand this time.”

Palin said that Gingrich, who she identified this week as the candidate she would vote for in the South Carolina primary if eligible, would ultimately benefit from the media attack.

“I call them ‘dumb arses,’” she said. “They think by trotting out this old Gingrich divorce interview — that’s old news and it does feature this disgruntled ex- that claimed that it would destroy a campaign. All this does is, Sean, is incentivize conservatives and independents who are so sick of the politics of personal destruction because it’s played so selectively by the media.”

“Their target in this case, Newt,” Palin added, “is now going to soar even more because we know the game now and we just won’t put up with it. So you know, good call media. Way to go to covertly hype this, even with Gingrich opponents. For being so brilliant, they sure are dumb.”

That really says it all; Newt’s career will “soar even more” because he’s a serial philanderer, and the right wing just loves that kind of thing.

Wait. What?

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1 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:51:01am

Republicans stand steadfast on principle and values. Until they don't.

2 Daniel Ballard  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:52:16am

It's just a typo. Instead of soar she meant sore.
///

(I gave up on finding a safe for work sore butt image. Oh well.)

3 Obdicut  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:53:13am

Why the UK spelling of asses?

4 Lidane  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:53:19am

The party of personal responsibility and family values, y'all!

5 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:53:29am

Soaring like an eagle. (the fast version...you can dance to it)

Just one of many reasons Ashcroft once lost an election to a dead man.

6 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:55:41am

re: #3 Obdicut

Why the UK spelling of asses?

Looks smarter? /

7 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:55:48am

I love how Newt gets self-righteous but he's the one who really kicked the "politics of personal destruction" into high gear back in the day.

8 Tigger2005  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:56:32am

Not quite OT since it's about Newt. Local conservative spokeshole Chris Stigall says Newt's takedown of CNN's John King was "Simply...brilliant." So what was that all about? (I'm thinking it probably doesn't take much to impress Chris Stigall.)

9 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:56:46am

re: #3 Obdicut

Why the UK spelling of asses?

She can't say "ass"...it's a cuss word. So she says "arse" which is acceptable to the Jesus sect.

10 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:56:54am

re: #3 Obdicut

Why the UK spelling of asses?

Thats how she pronounced it. Because she's a good Christian wingnut, and "asses" is a dirty word. Cheating on wives and asking for "open marriages," though, is apparently fine.

11 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:57:02am

Unfortunately this interview's not likely to hurt Newt with the GOP base, because they're of two minds about it, with one half being Anybody-But-Romney who will forgive him if only because his candidacy is their last hope and the other half being It's-Okay-Because-God-Forgave-Him who are willing to overlook any violation of their socon beliefs if the politician in question says God forgave them.

12 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:57:22am

re: #8 Tigger2005

Newt got indignant over getting treated the way people treated clinton over the Lewinsky affair.

13 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:57:45am

re: #8 Tigger2005

Not quite OT since it's about Newt. Local conservative spokeshole Chris Stigall says Newt's takedown of CNN's John King was "Simply...brilliant." So what was that all about? (I'm thinking it probably doesn't take much to impress Chris Stigall.)

King asked about the open marriage thing. Newt was ready for it and ripped King a new asshole before filling it with Santorum.

14 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:57:47am

re: #8 Tigger2005

Not quite OT since it's about Newt. Local conservative spokeshole Chris Stigall says Newt's takedown of CNN's John King was "Simply...brilliant." So what was that all about? (I'm thinking it probably doesn't take much to impress Chris Stigall.)

Basically he chewed out King on stage for CNN daring to repeat the claims of the interview and then asking him a question about it at the debate.

15 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:58:44am

re: #10 Charles

Thats how she pronounced it. Because she's a good Christian wingnut, and "asses" is a dirty word. Cheating on wives and asking for "open marriages," though, is apparently fine.

As I said before...Sarah isn't unfamiliar with fucking outside marriage...she banged Todd's friend/business partner.

16 allegro  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:58:54am

This was the week's Palin quote that made me spew:

“More debates, more vetting of candidates because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted..."

17 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 9:59:50am

re: #16 allegro

This was the week's Palin quote that made me spew:

Goldy, bronzy, irony.

18 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:00:15am

re: #16 allegro

This was the week's Palin quote that made me spew:

That was funny...the talking heads on MSNBC were laughing when they played it and someone (Charles Blow, I believe) said, "Wait...I thought she was talking about herself...she meant Obama?"

19 albusteve  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:00:21am

re: #16 allegro

This was the week's Palin quote that made me spew:

so true...nobody knew how stupid Palin was at the time...a very honest observation from Sarah

20 Lidane  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:00:29am

re: #12 Dreggas

Newt got indignant over getting treated the way he treated Clinton over the Lewinsky affair.

FTFY

Newt got a taste of his own medicine and hated it. And now the GOP is in full-on outrageous outrage mode because someone dared ask him about his affairs in public.

21 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:00:35am

The punditocracy has decided that Newt's attack on the media for bringing up the issue of his rotten character was "brilliant." Oh brother.

22 Lidane  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:01:09am

re: #16 allegro

This was the week's Palin quote that made me spew:

Self-awareness -- she haz none.

23 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:01:17am

re: #17 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Goldy, bronzy, irony.

Dunno. Palin was vetted very scrupulously, which is why she was a drag for McCain (thankfully).

24 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:01:37am

re: #23 Sergey Romanov

By the press, that is.

25 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:02:29am

re: #24 Sergey Romanov

By the press, that is.

She was vetted by the press after he chose her. Doesn't exactly speak highly of the GOP's vetting ability.

26 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:03:12am

re: #25 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

She was vetted by the press after he chose her. Doesn't exactly speak highly of the GOP's vetting ability.

True, but she was vetted in the end. (So was Obama, but that's another story.)

27 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:03:33am

Let me get this straight.

Newt commits adultery and supposedly apologizes. He then goes on to divorce his second wife and marries his paramour. I get that.

His ex-wife then gets an interview and claims that he wanted an open marriage to which she refused (and then he carried on with the extramarital affair and later divorce).

This is certainly newsworthy, especially in light of his crucial involvement in the impeachment of President Clinton. For all the talk of family values, Newt certainly has some interesting family values, like it's apparently okay to have an open marriage but gay marriage leads to the downfall of civilization. Having mistresses on the side is bad if you're a Democrat, but it's okay if Newt's the one doing it.

And Newt is somehow managing to spin this in his favor - claiming that the media and other GOPers are attacking him on an issue more than a decade old.

You know what else is more than a decade old? Lots of the same kinds of claims he's thrown at Romney for his time at Bain Capital, let alone the time as Massachussetts governor. There's no statute of limitations on any of those issues, and there's none on Newt's infidelities and character and judgment faults.

The marital infidelity is a character fault, but that by itself isn't bad. Other politicians have successfully come back from marital infidelity; it's that he targeted President Clinton over his infidelities and lies/coverups all while Newt was engaging in his own infidelity (and it would turn out that Newt had much more serious problems - ethics violations that cost him his Spearkership and resulted in fines as well). In fact, he was forced out of office by his fellow GOPers. Yet, he continues to act like he's the smartest guy in the room and isn't shy about pronouncing the same, even as he lies and obfuscates about his own ethical and character flaws.

28 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:03:48am

re: #25 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

She was vetted by the press after he chose her. Doesn't exactly speak highly of the GOP's vetting ability.

Exactly. McCain's camp talked to her for an hour before they decided to bring her on to the ticket, right?

Dumb arses.
/

29 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:04:08am

re: #21 Charles

The punditocracy has decided that Newt's attack on the media for bringing up the issue of his rotten character was "brilliant." Oh brother.

How was it "brilliant"? Because he threw red meat to the rednecks in the audience to cheers and calls for more?

30 Achilles Tang  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:04:28am

It's so simple: Honor, family and faithfulness and all that stuff would never be an issue for anyone if the liberal media didn't talk about it.....then we wouldn't have to either.....see how simple?

31 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:04:32am

re: #28 makeitstop

Exactly. McCain's camp talked to her for an hour before they decided to bring her on to the ticket, right?

Dumb arses.
/

I seem to remember Kristol was involved in that. That intellectual.

32 nines09  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:05:18am

"So our candidate has multiple wives. So what? He's that good. And he's up on murder charges? He CARES. Didn't pay his taxes? He's a Maverick! Lies? Only to protect the truth"! Rock? Meet someone denser than you.

33 blueraven  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:06:10am

re: #21 Charles

The punditocracy has decided that Newt's attack on the media for bringing up the issue of his rotten character was "brilliant." Oh brother.

Well the best defense is a good offense, and there is no better target of Newts wrath and indignation than the librul media for a SC republican debate audience .
So I guess in that sense it was brilliant.
To the rest of us it was high hypocrisy.

34 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:07:21am

Newt sure can play the victim when it suits him, and the media has his back for some reason. Weird.

BTW - I was heading to dinner last night and heard a Gingrich for President ad on one of the NYC news stations. 60 seconds' worth of hot, steaming bullshit.

35 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:07:55am

re: #27 lawhawk

Another thing that's a decade old is Newt's relevance. The man hasn't held an elected office since his ass was run out of Congress on a rail by his own party. But I guess it does take a decade or more for the plebes in the party ranks to remember just how bad his leadership was, that they forced him into the political wilderness without a second thought.

36 Mocking Jay  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:08:19am

re: #27 lawhawk

You just don't love your country so much that you need to fuck everything that moves. Don't try to understand him, hater!

37 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:09:05am

re: #33 blueraven

Hypocrisy and brilliant political tactics aren't mutually exclusive. It's another example of how Newt will say/do anything to win. Facts and history fall by the wayside.

He's a magician and con artist in how he's running; magicians and con artists both get away with things by diverting attention from what they're doing. It's the nature of the trick/con. Newt's apparently raised that to a whole new level with his latest spin.

38 euphgeek  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:09:39am

Just let them attack the "liberal media" all they want. They'll find it won't play as well in the general election.

39 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:10:16am

re: #36 JasonA

He's just trying to spread his love of country around; one woman at a time. /

40 Sionainn  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:10:31am

re: #7 Dreggas

I love how Newt gets self-righteous but he's the one who really kicked the "politics of personal destruction" into high gear back in the day.

Isn't that what he is doing to Romney right now?

41 darthstar  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:11:10am

Republican integrity at its best:

Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) - In what appears to be a last ditch attempt to halt Newt Gingrich's late momentum in South Carolina, a fake CNN Breaking News alert was emailed to state Republican activists early Thursday morning claiming that the former House Speaker pressured his ex-wife to have an abortion.

CNN did not send out the email alert.

42 allegro  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:12:46am

re: #35 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Another thing that's a decade old is Newt's relevance. The man hasn't held an elected office since his ass was run out of Congress on a rail by his own party. But I guess it does take a decade or more for the plebes in the party ranks to remember just how bad his leadership was, that they forced him into the political wilderness without a second thought.

Yanno, this is something I just don't get. How has his essential expulsion from his own party not even been mentioned during these debates? Last night, what little I watched, looked like "gloves off" yet this rather large, stinky turd in the Gingrich resume fails to get a mention. Or have I just missed it?

43 Daniel Ballard  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:13:36am

re: #11 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Unfortunately this interview's not likely to hurt Newt with the GOP base, because they're of two minds about it, with one half being Anybody-But-Romney who will forgive him if only because his candidacy is their last hope and the other half being It's-Okay-Because-God-Forgave-Him who are willing to overlook any violation of their socon beliefs if the politician in question says God forgave them.

IMO "anybody but (---)" is willful political ignorance. Just deliberately unintelligent.

44 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:14:45am

re: #42 allegro

Yanno, this is something I just don't get. How has his essential expulsion from his own party not even been mentioned during these debates? Last night, what little I watched, looked like "gloves off" yet this rather large, stinky turd in the Gingrich resume fails to get a mention. Or have I just missed it?

Santorum gave him a solid kick in the ass about it, which was one of the points I put in his column last night. The frothy one had a pretty good showing if you believe in something approaching honesty and intelligence.

If you were just looking for a bombastic asshole, then Gingrich won.

And if you were looking for a sweaty, nervous looking bumbler, then Romney won.

45 euphgeek  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:15:15am

re: #43 Rightwingconspirator

IMO "anybody but (---)" is willful political ignorance. Just deliberately unintelligent.

Not only that, but it's a political loser. The Democrats tried "anybody but Bush" back in 2004 and look what that got them.

46 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:16:17am

re: #41 darthstar

Republican integrity at its best:

Whoa. Party's gettin' rough...

47 Lidane  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:16:36am

re: #45 euphgeek

Not only that, but it's a political loser. The Democrats tried "anybody but Bush" back in 2004 and look what that got them.

A rich patrician from Massachusetts. Sounds familiar.

48 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:20:05am

Oh, Lordy. I just followed this link off the CNN fake email story...

TRENDING: Gingrich's Secretary Palin?

Callista better keep a real close eye on Newtie...

49 Targetpractice  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:20:28am

re: #45 euphgeek

Not only that, but it's a political loser. The Democrats tried "anybody but Bush" back in 2004 and look what that got them.

They've got themselves convinced that this time, it will be different for them. This time, Obama's the new Carter and whoever they put on the ticket will be Reagan, riding to victory upon a white steed to rebuild America.

50 allegro  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:22:03am

re: #49 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

They've got themselves convinced that this time, it will be different for them. This time, Obama's the new Carter and whoever they put on the ticket will be Reagan, riding to victory upon a white steed to rebuild America.

Except that the horses are smarter and will clothesline them on their haul back to the barn.

51 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:23:52am

re: #41 darthstar

Republican integrity at its best:

My. There are just a myriad of ways to spin that one. Anti-media. False Flag. And Rovian as well.

52 euphgeek  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:24:31am

re: #49 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

They've got themselves convinced that this time, it will be different for them. This time, Obama's the new Carter and whoever they put on the ticket will be Reagan, riding to victory upon a white steed to rebuild America.

Yeah, then reality will punch them in the face in November.

53 Joanne  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:29:17am

re: #39 lawhawk

He's just trying to spread his love of country around; one woman at a time. /

Oh boy. There's an image I do not want floating around my head. (shudder)

54 Ming  Fri, Jan 20, 2012 11:52:41am

Interesting that Sarah mentioned Joe McGinniss.

I honestly believe that the primary reason Sarah Palin decided not to run for President is Joe McGinniss' excellent book about her, The Rogue. With that book, Palin finally got it: journalism in America is not completely dead. If she were to run for President, she knew, thanks to that book, that more of The Real Truth About The Real Sarah would eventually come out.

We'll never know, but I sometimes wonder what might have been, had The Rogue book not been written.

Of course, Palin might still run for some office at some future point... crazy is as crazy does.

55 labman57  Sat, Jan 21, 2012 9:36:36am

Sanctimonious hypocrisy, thy name is social conservatism.


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