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
Sean Hannity has decided that a Palin-Bachmann presidential ticket in 2012 would be just the thing America needs. Another name for this wonderful moronic convergence: “The Dumb and Dumber Ticket.” Palin says, “It’s in God’s hands.” “Woot woot,” says the crowd. [Video]
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Death Panel, Michele Bachmann, Election 2012
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
Former John McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt now says Sarah Palin has trouble with the truth. John McCain’s top campaign strategist said in an interview Sunday that Sarah Palin was dishonest as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee and that her untruths have done long-term damage to her public image. “There were numerous ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, John McCain, Steve Schmidt, 60 Minutes, Video
On 60 Minutes last night, former John McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt went rogue, revealing that the McCain staff was very concerned that Sarah Palin’s debate with Joe Biden was going to be “a debacle of historic and epic proportions.” And Palin couldn’t stop referring to Biden as “O’Biden.” CBS Video
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 ...
Sarah Palin’s extreme religious beliefs are on display in this video released by the Billy Graham organization, in which she repeats the long-debunked fundamentalist canard that the founding fathers “dedicated the country to God,” and calls for America to be ruled by “godly” leaders. And of course, she’s not talking about ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Birthers, Religion, Theocrat, Constitution
Watch in awe as racist antisemite “conservative” Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan (who, once upon a time, was marginalized on the right, but has now come raging back into the mainstream with all of his hatred and creepiness intact) defends Sarah Palin’s pandering to the mindless Birther “movement,” even ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Birthers, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, Pat Buchanan
Oopsie! Sarah Palin’s trying to distance herself from her Birther-pandering remarks now, like any weasely politician does when called on an outrageous remark: Sarah Palin: Stupid Conspiracies | Facebook. Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Birthers, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories
The circle of stupid is now unbroken, as Sarah Palin announces on right wing talker Rusty Humphries’s show that she thinks it’s “fair” to question Barack Obama’s citizenship: Palin: Obama birth certificate ‘a fair question’. Yes, that’s right. Sarah Palin is blowing the Birther dog whistle. You’ll never see a better ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Birthers, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories
The moronic convergence of 2010 will feature the two loony superstars of the far right: Palin, Bachmann to headline Tea Party convention. (CNN) – Sarah Palin will be the main attraction at what’s being billed as the “First National Tea Party Convention.” Tea Party Nation announced Wednesday that last year’s Republican ...
Sarah Palin, 2010, Rogue, Michele Bachmann, Extremism, Far Right, Tea Party
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 ...