TagsTagsShocka! After waging a war of words with Sarah Palin and her family for the past year, Levi Johnston is suddenly apologizing. “Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Levi Johnston, Scandal, Slap Fight, Apology
Sarah Palin is pissed off at the media again: Twitter / Sarah Palin: Lamestream media: I never … Lamestream media: I never compared Obama to Hitler. Quit making things up. Oh, no, you would never compare Obama to Hitler, would you? Instead, you just link to other people comparing Obama ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Sowell, Hypocrisy
Sarah Palin demonstrates once again her calm, rational basis for making policy. Gulf disaster needs divine intervention as man’s efforts have been futile. Gulf lawmakers designate today Day of Prayer for solution/miracle Isn’t a disaster like this often referred to as an “act of God?” Maybe God already did intervene. ...
Religious Right, Religion, Populism, Rogue, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry
By the way, Sarah Palin is (or was) a pot smoker. And she thinks marijuana is “a minimal problem.” Nope, not kidding. You think I could make up something like this? About 13 minutes into this clip from (where else?) Judge Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch.” Video Palin represents the new far right breed of ...
Not wishing to be outdone by the krazy new kids on the GOP block, Sarah Palin just posted her latest bizarre conspiracy theory to her Twitter feed: the Obama administration is deliberately destroying jobs to pass “cap and tax.” Schizophrenic Agenda:just last wk DC claims top priority=JOBS;then=REDUCE DEBT;now=CAP&TAX(exploit tragedy 2 ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Gulf of Mexico, Oil, Drill, Baby, Drill, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness
You know, I can almost believe Sarah Palin actually wrote the title herself for her new Facebook post excoriating President Obama for not doing enough in the Gulf: Sarah Palin: Less Talkin’, More Kickin’. And parts of the text have that Palin ring to them, too. Unless government appropriately regulates oil ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Gulf of Mexico, Oil, Drill, Baby, Drill
This last presidential election marks the first time in my life when I wish I could have a do-over, to reverse my vote for the dimmest bulb in US politics in many a year: Palin Needed Scripted Answers for Debate. The McCain group did a pretty good (but not perfect) job ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, 2008 Elections, Debate
Quote of the week so far, a painfully accurate observation from David Frum: “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we’re discovering we work for Fox. And the balance here has been completely reversed. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines ...
Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Birthers, Populism, Fox News, David Frum
Blatant hypocrisy — it’s spelled P-A-L-I-N: Sarah Palin sees eye-to-eye with Albertans in Calgary speech. The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse. “We used to hustle over the border ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Health Care, Fear
The South Carolina Republican Party apparently feels that they aren’t conservative enough yet, so they’ll be uniting with tea party groups. That ought to do it. The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and push ...
South Carolina, GOP, Republican Party, Tea Parties, Populism, social conservatism
At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing To Be Unfamiliar With Tea ...
Massachusetts, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism, Extremism
Chris Cillizza has a piece on the Democratic blame game in full force in Massachusetts. Less than 24 hours removed from state Attorney General Martha Coakley’s (D) stunning loss in the Massachusetts Senate race, Democrats were at daggers-drawn over whose fault it was. Two rival camps quickly emerged: Coakley’s campaign ...
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
Republican Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, running on a platform driven by populist resentment, with a main plank of “killing” health insurance reform.
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
The Massachusetts election is going down to the wire. Here’s a thread to discuss it. (I’m typing this on my iPhone in an airport, so excuse the terseness.)
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
Anybody want to talk about Coakley vs. Brown? It’s looking like right wing tea party candidate Scott Brown will ride to victory on a wave of Fox News-fueled populist anger, so here’s a thread to discuss it. (Yes, I’m still traveling, and won’t be back on solid ground until late ...
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
She’s found her fear-mongering story and she’s sticking to it, no matter how stupid or deceptive: Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter: ..merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?what’s punishment 4not purchasing mandated HC? Ahhh! Ahhh! Death panels! We’re doomed! [run around ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Anti-Science, Health Care, Fear
The indispensable Politifact website has named their Lie of the Year, and it came from the pen of none other than Sarah Palin, you betcha: PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death panels’. Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Anti-Science, Health Care, Fear
Nobody will ever accuse Christopher Hitchens of being shy about expressing his opinions. [Video] Don’t be too hard on her. She didn’t write that piece and she probably hasn’t read it. I doubt she could either read or write it. Everything she does is for effect, and is always deniable. She ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Antisemitism, Christopher Hitchens, Afghanistan, Video
Christopher Hitchens has an article at Slate about Sarah Palin’s increasingly open extremism, and points out that one of Palin’s new advisers is Fred Malek — the Nixon administration hatchetman who infamously compiled a list of Jews to be fired from the Department of Labor: Sarah Palin’s brand of populism ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Antisemitism, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Nixon, Fred Malek
In the New Yorker, Sam Tanenhaus has a very interesting review of Sarah Palin’s book, with a revealing quote from Palin’s father about her reason for leaving Hawaii (where she was attending UH): She is equally circumspect on the issue of ethnicity, pointing out that Todd, whom she met in ...