TagsTagsAs our warming planet starts another trip around the sun, happy New Year from me, Stinky Beaumont, and the lizard monitors! Here's an open thread to kick off 2012...
It's the time of year when it becomes mandatory to make predictions about what will occur in the next year, so here's mine. Despite right wing bloggers and Fox News concocting at least one minor fake outrage per day, and at least two ridiculously overblown fake outrages per week, Barack Obama ...
Apparently he's not going to let the total failure of his 2008 candidacy deter him: Rudy Giuliani gearing up for DC run. Giuliani's failure in 2008 wasn't just due to strategic blunders; he played on his 9/11 experiences so much that for many people (myself included) he crossed the line into ...
Sarah Palin says she would consider running on a ticket with the craziest Fox News ranter, the man the Anti-Defamation League singled out as “most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger:” Sarah Palin: ‘We’ll see’ about run with Glenn Beck. Palin ...
At her Facebook page, Sarah Palin apologizes for leaving hundreds of people with unsigned books after they waited in the rain for 6 hours: Not Enough Hours in the Day. I’ve been told that yesterday there were supporters in Noblesville who stood in long lines for hours in the cold ...
After Sarah Palin ended a book-signing event in Noblesville, Indiana, without signing more than 300 books for people who waited more than 6 hours to see her, the crowd turned on her outside her tour bus, booing and yelling “Quitting on the job!” [Video] Here’s a story on the embarrassing incident at ...
Sarah “I didn’t come from no monkey” Palin gets the ultimate soft ball interview from Rich Lowry at National Review: The Rogue, on the Record. When Lowry asks about her absurd fear-mongering “death panels” statement, she compares herself to … Ronald Reagan. You remember how Reagan called the Soviet Union the ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Rogue, Alaska, Death Panel, Fear
Some of John McCain’s top campaign aides are not happy about Sarah Palin’s book. Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book “revisionist and self serving” “fiction.” Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who emerges as Palin’s ...
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It won’t be officially released until Tuesday, but the Associated Press has an advance look at Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” She complains that the McCain campaign deliberately kept her “bottled up,” and coached her to give non-answers. She portrays herself as a down-home simple kinda gal who resented being forced ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Rogue, Alaska
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, John McCain finally admits there was tension between his campaign manager Steve Schmidt and the Sarah Palin camp: McCain weighs in on Palin in 2012. He had to admit it because Schmidt forced his hand by saying recently that a Palin candidacy ...
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Steve Schmidt, former top campaign strategist for John McCain, said today that if Sarah Palin becomes the GOP nominee for President in 2012, it would be “catastrophic” for the party. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for ...
The New York Post reports that Sarah Palin isn’t having much luck on the lecture circuit. After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Death Panel, Lecture
Uh oh. 61% of Americans think Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska was a bad move. (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that most Americans don’t think Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as Alaska governor was a smart political move. Sixty-one percent of people questioned in a Marist ...
ABC News has been running a series of pretty good “fact check” segments on the proposed health care legislation: Watch Our Fact Check Series — All in One Place - The World Newser. Here’s their piece on the Sarah Palin “death panel” smear and the distorted accusations of euthanasia. [Video] I’ve seen some ...
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Probably because her first statement about “death panels” was such a resounding political success, Sarah Palin is doubling down on the euthanasia card in her latest post at Facebook: Sarah Palin Notes. These consultations are authorized whenever a Medicare recipient’s health changes significantly or when they enter a nursing home, ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said today that Sarah Palin’s description of the end of life provisions in the House bill as “death panels” is “nuts”. Q: How did this become a question of euthanasia? ISAKSON: I have no idea. I understand — and you have to check this out — I ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Quite a few readers were upset with me for criticizing the mob-like behavior of many town hall demonstrators. Some denied that this behavior even happened at all, accusing the media (or me) of exaggerating and lying about it. If Sarah Palin were to come out with a statement asking the demonstrators ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Sarah Palin weighs in. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” ...
Now you can keep up with Sarah Palin’s daily life by following her new personal Twitter site. I’ll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site;launch July 26; in meantime it’s pleasure to update interested folks on State biz!
After quitting her job as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin says she’s not leaving politics. WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is not only staying in politics once she leaves the governor’s office later this month, she’s jumping right back into the national fray. Palin tells the Washington Times ...
A couple of silly Internet polls, asking some Palinesque questions: [Poll] [Poll]
The Washington Post has an open letter from Sarah Palin’s attorney (PDF), threatening to sue Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore and several media sources: To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Lawsuit, Blogosphere, Free Speech, Libel
Smiling theocratic backbiter Mike Huckabee says Palin’s resignation doesn’t make sense. Karl Rove is also less than enthusiastic. Part of her explanation for resigning — that she was dogged by critics who cost her state millions in legal fees — will be a liability for her if she seeks the White ...
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Vice President Joe Biden says Sarah Palin is no victim. Vice President Biden rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s complaint that she was the victim of political blood sport yesterday - a day after she stunned the nation with her abrupt resignation. Asked if he agreed with Palin’s contention, Biden told ABC’s George ...