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Hey, Fox “news” viewers: you’ve been grifted!

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Don’t cry for me, Wasilla.

Think Progress: According to a news analysis by the Smart Politics project of the the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, during former Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as a contributor to Fox News—which ended last week with the decision not to renew her contract—Palin was paid $15.85 per word she spoke on the network.

Here’s some of the “Palin by the numbers” breakdown:

-$1 million: Sarah Palin’s annual salary as a Fox News analyst.

-189,221: Words Palin spoke on Fox during her three-year contract.

-$1.25 million: Palin’s advance for her memoir Going Rogue.

-469,000: copies of Going Rogue sold in its first week on the market. The memoir would go on to sell 2,670,000 copies in 2009.

-797,955: Copies of America By Heart, Palin’s second book, sold in 2010.

-$100,000: Palin’s speakers’ fee, as negotiated by the Washington Speakers Bureau, as of 2010.

-$200,000: The reported low estimate for Palin’s per-episode fee for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, her TLC show, which ran for a single season. One of the reasons the show ultimately wasn’t renewed? Palin’s salary demands for a second year.

-$15,000-$30,000: Bristol Palin’s range of speaker’s fees, as of 2010.

What does it say about the state of the modern conservative movement that BRISTOL PALIN is paid $15,000 – $30,000 in speaking fees on issues like teen pregnancy and ABSTINENCE! Seriously, if Bristol hadn’t gotten pregnant at 17, where would she be now?

$15.85 per word, Rubes. What’d you learn?

Did Bristol Palin get opposite-sex married yet?

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The self-awareness gene is completely missing in this one. Bristol and her ghost writer explain why Tawd Palin is a superior father to President Obama. Hilarious commentary from TBogg:

Backseat Bristol Palin has once again allowed her mom to use her name to dictate some word shrapnel to the person who writes both Bristol’s blog as well as Sarah Facebook Screech Wall. [...] this person…wrote a thing about that Oblamer black fella who used his terrorist pals to deny Sarah Palin, Queen of the North, her rightful place on the Iron Throne, and how he is cool with non-opposite marriage now because his daughters have friends with gay baby-momma + other gay baby-momma for “parents”:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads.  In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.  Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.  Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

[...] Anyway, it’s too bad that Malia & Sasha Obama don’t have a “real” (white) father, like Todd Palin, with his stern rules about dating like “Be in by midnight”, “Don’t forget to bring me home some beer” and “Spitters are quitters”.

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An exhausted nation pleads with all the Half-term-Quitter-Snowbilly-Grifters of the Far North: STFU.

We are all sluts now*

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*if by sluts you mean average women who use birth control for WHATEVER reason (which would be the business of a woman and her doctor), and would like health insurance companies to cover it exactly like men’s sexual health services are covered. 

Regardless of what Limbaugh said in his backhanded apology, or what the righwing blogosphere is saying, or what the flunky Dittoheads argue, Sandra Fluke’s testimony wasn’t at all bizarre, she never mentioned her sex life, she WAS talking about a friend with cancer — and it’s all on tape – or you can read it. 

As I’ve said to two rabid commenters on other posts already — Dittoheads who either want to defend Limbaugh’s lies or their own (by using arguments like those above), OR who want to argue that birth control shouldn’t be covered by health insurance (becauuusssee the EXPENSE! to every other insurance subscriber — that would be like paying women to have sex! OHNOES!!!) — okay, let’s talk about some things that health insurance DOES cover like health “problems” or “issues” associated with other people’s lifestyle choices / personal responsibilities:

  1. Overweight people and all of their medical conditions and meds (why don’t they lose some weight?)
  2. Drinkers, drug users, or smokers (hello, Rush Limbaugh?)
  3. All of the olds who want their Medicare-paid Little Rascals (why can’t they use a walker or a wheelchair and save us ALL some money?)
  4. Men with erectile dysfunction (it’s over, accept it)
  5. Or people like Bristol Palin who don’t use birth control, have SEX, get pregnant, and make the rest of us absorb more insurance costs through our premiums for [a] her pregnancy, [b] the birth, and [c] a new person’s healthcare for many years to come (Why couldn’t she have used BIRTH CONTROL? Because — by the way, and using the righwingnutosphere’s logic — if she would have used birth control it would have been so much cheaper for all of the other health insurance subscribers — it’s like everyone on her parents’ health insurance plan PAID HER TO HAVE SEX and then rewarded her for getting knocked up! Right, Rush?).

So monitor the companies who proudly stand with Rush Limbaugh’s grotesque and ludicrous comments and who are continuing to advertise their products / services exclusively to the sociopaths and misogynists who listen to his show.  Why should anyone else ever give these companies one more penny of business?

(Video) Bristol Palin walks into a bar to ride a mechanical bull…

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video: coalspeaker

Poor Bristol! Can’t even ride a mechanical bull in a Hollywood bar for her reality TV show without someone yelling out that her mother’s a whore. And, yes, that is a completely inappropriate thing to say to someone — the guy was, obviously, an asshole. Possibly even a drunk asshole.

But before you feel sorry for Bristol, she did confront the man and was able to call him a ‘homosexual’ and taunt him before her film crew and entourage dragged her away. So… happy ending. It turned out to be a “like attracts like” type of deal in the end.

I wonder how often this happens to Bristol in bars? A whole lot, I’m guessing.

Awkward! Bristol Palin wants to see Michele Bachmann and her mom mud wrestle

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“I think she dresses a lot like my mom. But a lot, a lot of women have done that the last few years. I do think it’s odd, you know, seeing people with red blazers with their hair up with glasses. I don’t know if she’s wearing glasses but you want to be hummmm, do you think that people don’t notice you’re dressing like my mom?” – Bristol Palin.

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What’s falling out of the Teaparty Republican Clown Car today?

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RNC Clown College

For years Pastor Jim Moats had been telling his Newville, Pennsylvania congregation that he was a former Navy SEAL. …The Patriot-News, asked Moats for his perspective on the [bin Laden] attack. But when he regaled them with his own history as a SEAL, replete with scenes lifted from Steven Seagal’s “Under Seige” and “GI Jane” his story started to unravel. Also PennLive has Moats’ humiliated confession.

NOT RACIST THOUGH!

Pam Geller / Atlas Shrugs would do well to remember that Obama’s parents were married — but if she wants to label a baby as illegitimate, she should look to Alaska.  Grandma Palin’s daughter Bristol remains unmarried to this day, as far as I know.

Speaking of Palin, Inc: Bristol gets her own reality show. And a new face?

The ratings for Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice sputtered and stalled on Sunday — DOWN 23%. Trump also says he’s “the least racist person there is!”

It’s official: Newt in 2012!!

Dick Cheney, apparently with an extra-long extension cord, appeared on Fox “News” Sunday (where else?) to discuss how Obama should reinstate “enhanced interrogation” (torture) of detainees, such as waterboarding.

But NOT racist!!

Is there anything Teabaggers can’t accomplish? Remember Truck Nutz: NOW they have Hoveround / L’il Rascal Nutz. Let the eagle soar!


And what have you seen fall out of the clown car today?

Would it be possible for Mike Huckabee to be MORE of a hypocritical asshole?

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“People see a Natalie Portman who boasts, ‘We’re not married but we’re having these children and they’re doing just fine,” Huckabee told radio host Michael Medved on his show Monday. “I think it gives a distorted image. It’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of- wedlock children.” — Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman’s Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy

Did Huckabee have ANYTHING to say about Bristol Palin in 2008, when McCain and Sarah tried to use Bristol’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy as a “pro-life, real ‘Murican, Christian, patriot” campaign event?

A successful and college-educated 29-year-old woman who’s ENGAGED is denounced by Huckabee for getting pregnant “out-of-wedlock,” but he praised the ‘bravery’ of a teenager who got herself knocked up in high school — because her mother is relevant to his political party.

Huckabee the hypocrite.

The big middle finger of karma

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“Going out there and winning this would mean a lot. It would be like a big middle finger to all the people out there that hate my mom and hate me.” — Bristol Palin, Tuesday on DWTS

Heh. Well…

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Bristol no longer Dancing With The Stars

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Joe.My.God. — Jennifer Grey Wins DWTS

And as everyone in the world with a computer knows by now, Bristol Palin came in third. Confession: I’d been secretly hoping that Bristol would win. You know why. Snork! Anyway, homocon Tammy Bruce went all Lady Miss Sour Grapes on Twitter once Bristol was eliminated.

Bruce followed up that bit with this: “While LibProgs were obsessing on #dwts…Ohio judge allows third healthcare reform challenge to go forward. Bwahahaha!” Uh, I think the person organizing “Operation Bristol” was the obsessive party here, Miss Kapo USA.

It’s very weird how the rightwinger-teabaggers really thought Bristol winning DWTS proved something. What it proved, I still don’t know…And her losing proves nothing either because most of us don’t care about DWTS or Bristol Palin.

Palin ‘fans’ are seriously obsessive — to a frightening degree — and they assume the fun that’s had with the Palins (mostly Sarah) is equally as ‘serious’ or shows that her detractors are afraid or intimidated by her. Her fans really don’t understand that Sarah will never never be taken seriously by anyone but them. Most people look at Sarah Palin and see a half-stupid clown with a gigantic ego, who uses her baby, the flag and the cross as props in her roadshow.

She’s endlessly amusing. It’s her fans we worry about.

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Watch Sarah and Bristol club halibut!

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Presidential!

“Ah wuz proud of Bristol… she got that billy club and she started stunnin’ those fish! I wuz lookin’ at her out of the corner of mah eye thinkin’, wonder what she’s picturin’ as she’s makin’ her mark, there, on those fish.”

I imagine Bristol was picturin’ the halibut with glasses and a bumpit.

Gawker:

On tonight’s episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, she and daughter Bristol went commercial halibut fishing. During their trip, both ladies got the chance to kill their very own fish with a club—how cute! Watch the (graphic) video inside.

Sarah Palin on the “deluded” people who can’t sing but go on American Idol anyway

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“Did you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?”

- An excerpt from Sarah Palin’s upcoming book America By Heart, likely written before her daughter Bristol began her TV-gunning stint on Dancing with the Stars.

[Daily What]

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