Siren and everything.
The half-term, former governor says she’s not running for president in 2012.
However, she does want her teafans to continue donating money and buying her books, so she “leaves the door open” for a future run for office.
It’s going to be difficult not to ask the Teaparty, “How’d all that Quitty, Screechy stuff work out for ya?”
Via: The thrill is gone
Kyle Smith of the NY Post:
If you’re hopeful (or worried) that this movie is the secret trigger for a Palin relaunch, don’t be. Even if you fixed the blaring soundtrack and took out all the symbols of the cataclysmic evil opposing Palin (barking dogs, disaster footage, a closeup of Rosie O’Donnell), you’d still be left with a hopeless sputtering jumble.
The busted logic and narrative chop of “The Undefeated” don’t suggest the phrase, “spirited new defense of Palin.” They say, “cyclone landed here.”
[...] Similarly, as we learn about Alaska’s Survivalist Socialism — all the precious fuel in the ground belongs to the state; oil companies can only lease drilling rights — Palin is portrayed both as a free marketer and an antagonist of same who took on Big Oil by working with the Democrats to raise oil taxes.
In one scene, we’re told she didn’t care about polls; in the next, she’s bragging about her approval rating (88%). She says she doesn’t put much stock in such surveys — yet “I figured my administration must be doing something right.” So does her recent approval rating of 28% tell her that she must be doing something wrong?
Maybe it was this (I’m sure) honest review which got him UNINVITED to the critics’ screening in New York. Smith says, “Of course I will be mercilessly mocking this decision if it is not rescinded.”
Via Politico
So did she QUIT jury duty too? …or do they release you from jury duty for things like this?
The real question is: what will Greta Van Susteren have to talk about on her Fox “News” show without Palin’s exclusive interviews? Palin really seems to have become Greta’s meal ticket.
Former [half-term] Alaska governor Sarah Palin has canceled a trip next month to war-ravaged Sudan, one of the most unstable nations in the world and the focus of passionate advocacy within the U.S. evangelical community.
Palin scrapped her visit to the North African country for scheduling reasons, several sources close to her said. She was planning to travel with Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical leader Billy Graham, as well as Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren, to the July 9 independence ceremony of South Sudan, the sources said. Van Susteren also canceled her trip. Graham said on Wednesday that he still plans to go.
And MMFA catches the lamestream media trying to piss on Palin. AGAIN! NATURALLY… AS USUAL!
Earlier today, one of Fox News’ websites, FoxNews.com, reported that Fox News contributor Sarah Palin is “end[ing] her ‘One Nation’ bus tour” and returning home where “it’s prime salmon fishing season” this time of year. Palin subsequently fired off a tweet sarcastically asking “I did?” and saying that the media “never cease to amaze.”
And then another Fox News website, the Fox Nation, jumped in to defend Palin against the report by its sister website, reporting that Palin “quiets bus tour rumors.” Palin later jumped back into the fray with a Facebook post decrying reports from unnamed media outlets that her bus tour had been canceled. Palin ended her Facebook note by declaring that these unnamed media outlets have a “long track record of getting things wrong or just making things up.”
All the stories were generated by one lamestream source: Fox “News.” Heh. Oops!
“But [John] Ziegler’s defection is just one more indicator that Sarah’s narcissism is so pathological that she can’t even be bothered to keep her acolytes on their knees.” — Joe McGinniss: Palin Suckup Has Hurt Feelings, Whines
“What [Limbaugh] doesn’t understand is that Palin’s nutsiness is not a partisan matter in Britain, or anywhere else in the world. It is an obvious truth marveled at by all. Palin’s emergence as a serious figure in American politics has made the country a laughing stock across the world. The idea that a stateswoman like Thatcher, in advanced dementia, would be used by such a crackpot is simply unseemly.” — Andrew Sullivan
GUARDIAN, June 9, 2011: The ally who criticised Palin said the Thatcher circle would not change their minds despite the backlash. “Margaret will not be meeting Sarah Palin. If necessary we will make sure that Margaret has an off day when Palin is in London.”
FLASHBACK, SEP/2010:
VANITY FAIR: Early in the 2008 campaign, when John McCain’s aides discovered that Alaska-size gaps existed in Palin’s general knowledge (among those previously unreported: she had no idea who Margaret Thatcher was), they from time to time would give her some books to read in hopes of improving the candidate’s learning curve. On one such occasion, Palin accepted the books, set them aside, and for the next 25 minutes was held rapt by one of her three BlackBerrys.
Eventually, an aide asked, “What are you working on?”
“I’m reading these great e-mails,” she said, “from the prayer warriors.”
Hopefully the world can see the difference between most Americans and the teaparty / Palin fans. She really is an embarrassment for our country. And we can all thank Senator John McCain for that.
As recently as this past April, Palin was still taking cracks at Obama and teleprompters on her Facebook page (no mention of hand notes). This is called the “people in glass houses” lesson:
March 19, 2007
Palin’s hostility toward the use of teleprompters didn’t fit within her world back in 2007. When Calgary’s “Energy TV” called up looking to interview Palin, Palin communications aide Meg Stapleton wrote to staff:
Energy TV would like an interview with the Governor and I thought this Wednesday might work – the questions are below . What we need to do is simply book the Governor’s time, provide the answers to the questions below, use the prompter and have her look to the side and answer the questions for use by the TV station. I just need help on the answers . It needs to be very conversationally written . Needs to be on 3:30pm Governor’s feed Wednesday – could record according to Governor ‘s schedule on Wednesday morning and would need answers by tomorrow. Possible?
Palin recalled that she had a “long cabinet meeting” scheduled for the same time they had allotted to shoot her side of the interview. Stapleton replied:
We’re working around that. Joe Balash is crafting the answers right now , Sharon will ask the questions, we will have the answers in a teleprompter, and then send those answers over the satellite tomorrow afternoon . It shouldn’t take long , once we have the answers. Expect them tonight.
You’re awesome.You’re all awesome.
Whataday…
Teleprompters! Seriously, they are just a useful tool that politicians should use. Much preferable to the palm of one’s hand. — Jason Linkins
Teleprompters are also much preferable to the completely boneheaded word salad Palin vomited about Paul Revere’s ride in response to the “gotcha” question: “What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?”
No wonder she only does Fox “News” interviews — they give her the questions ahead of time so someone else can plan what she’ll say.
TheDailyWhat: A Fox News report on Sarah Palin’s ambiguous presidential aspirations, which aired this morning, inadvertently used an image of Tina Fey as the former Alaska governor in lieu of, you know, Sarah Palin.
See video at Crooks&Liars >>
Jon Stewart talks about the meeting of the Birther and the Quitter in NYC — and how The Donald EATS PIZZA WITH A FORK:
David Frum on why a certain segment of the conservative working-class* is still attracted to the former half-term governor:
They feel victimized, embittered, deeply mistrustful of every established institution except the military. And they are hungry for a candidate who pungently expresses their victimhood, bitterness and mistrust: Donald Trump? Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann? But of course, nobody does it better than the candidate who has made victimhood her core message: Sarah Palin.
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* A “gaggle of weirdly horny baby boomer men with chemical erections” (and their weirdly obedient wives).
At this point, I think we can all predict that when something goes wrong, it’s never going to be Sarah’s fault:
On TLC’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” Sunday night, the former governor of Alaska went camping and hunting with her dad, Chuck Heath. After spotting a caribou in a remote Alaska hunting land, Palin missed the animal by shooting too high several times.
But with daddy’s help, she finally hit the caribou. …She and her dad skinned and gutted the caribou in the field.
Because Palin’s rifle missed the caribou so many times, she later claimed in the show that there was something wrong with her dad’s gun.
Isn’t the GOP supposedly the party of personal responsibility? American Exceptionalism! Anyway, Jesus knows you can’t shoot straight, Sarah. And that’s all that really matters in the end.
Also, many thought she was planning to hunt wild cows tonight:
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In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had It Coming
Here’s an excerpt from The New Yorker‘s Nancy Franklin’s reaction to watching the first segment of TLC’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
“…I know that some Americans think Palin is stupid, but I never realized that she thinks we’re stupid.
The first episode involves a couple of fun family outings. But before we leave the house let’s set outside a spell, shall we? Palin likes to do “a lot of my writing and researching, especially on a beautiful day . . . on our cement slab, where I get to take in the beauty of the lake.” The scene, it turns out, is really just an excuse to bring up a subject that infuriates her: the writer Joe McGinniss, who is working on an unauthorized biography of Palin, has naughtily rented the house next door. Palin’s husband, Todd, ambles onscreen and explains that “our summer has kind of been taken away from us” by this. Palin adds proudly that Todd and his buddies have put up a fourteen-foot-high fence—a fence that handily doubles as policy. “I thought that was a good example, what we just did. Others could look at it and say, ‘Oh, this is what we need to do to secure our nation’s border,’ ” she says.
The first excursion is to the Big River Lake area for fishing and bear-watching, with Todd, their nine-year-old daughter, Piper, and a niece. “I’m really hoping that Piper . . . will have that treat of seeing a mama grizzly,” Palin says. Nature, it seems, exists to provide her with a chance to use one of her signature terms. Only brown bears show up, but it turns out that they have something to teach us, too. Palin says, “I love watching these mama bears. They’ve got a nature, yeah, that humankind can learn from. She’s trying to show her cubs nobody’s going to do it for ya, you get out there and do it yourself, guys.” That sounds great, except that in this case the mother bear is doing all the fishing while her cubs splash around on a nearby rock, ignoring her. When a bear growls, Palin says, “You hear that? That is a growl.” And then, “Wow.” And then “Wow” again. And then “Wow” again. When they arrive back home, Palin attempts to poison Piper’s little mind with her mean-girl attitude. “See, we one-upped him, Piper,” she says of McGinniss. “We had a good day. And he’s stuck in his house.” (Actually, the camera finds him sitting outside on his porch, reading a book.)”
From Mush! Sarah Palin takes us for a ride. | Nancy Franklin
I’m with Nancy Franklin: I “flippin’” hope Palin just stays “out there bein’ free!” Forever. And, as I’ve said before, if you watch the trailer — THAT VOICE! shout/bleating “How come we can’t ever just be satisfied with tranquility?!!” is very funny. It’s as if the word “tranquility” has a completely opposite meaning to the one we’ve understood up to this very moment in time.
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Yeah, right! Tell us another one, Sarah. Arnold could really ‘learn’ something from you and all your half-term former governor ‘leadership’ skilz?
Bob Cesca: Palin Responds to Arnold
Arnold posted a tweet the other day in which he jabbed the “I can see Russia” Palin thing. Her response:
Arnold should have landed; I could have explained our multi-billion dollar state surplus & US energy security efforts. What’s he been up to?
Yeah, I wonder if she’ll explain to Schwarzenegger that when she left office, Alaska had the highest debt-to-GDP ratio of any state in the Union. 70 percent. No wonder she quit. Self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives with a debt record that bad should probably run away.
Also, California is the most populous state. Alaska is #47. Clearly it’s going to be more difficult governing a state of 36,961,664 people as opposed to a state with 698,473 people. Not surprisingly, Sarah doesn’t think so.
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“It’s easy to balance a budget when you’re waist deep in handouts from states that pay more into the system.”
AMERICAblog News: Palin fires back at Schwarzenegger’s ‘I can’t see Russia’ tweet (via robot-heart-politics)
Oh, Sarah, how baitable you are.
(via goodreasonnews)
Americablog’s link to that CNN story was dead, so here’s another one for you showing that Alaska receives more federal money than California — and every other state in the union. — ryking
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@Schwarzenegger: Over Anchorage, AK. Looking everywhere but can’t see Russia from here. Will keep you updated as search continues.
