Even dumber than the Rahm Emanuel “retarded” controversy?
Consider this an open tread.
by DougJ| 47 Comments
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Even dumber than the Rahm Emanuel “retarded” controversy?
Consider this an open tread.
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Captain Haddock
The woman has a knack for getting herself in the news.
DFS
More like the woman has a knack for getting herself on Sullivan’s blog.
This is about as controversial as…oh, name something nobody should give an nth of a shit about.
serge
I think they’re both fucking retards.
Makewi
At this point Sullivan’s Palin obsession has to point to the fact that he is head over heels in love with her.
Alice B. Stuck
What Sarah Serendipity saw through the looking glass
According to White Wabbit
The Queen of Hearts,
she made some tarts,
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts,
he stole those tarts,
And took them quite away
Shame of that Brown man
for stealing Sarah’s tart
dr. bloor
Hey DJ, just a little gift to shake off those Upstate New York Midwinter Bluez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtG2CfAwMGE
Sarah Serendipity
It’s all true, all of it.
arguingwithsignposts
“Consider this an open thread” posted at 5:26 p.m.
“A conversation with Obama” posted at 5:30 p.m.
is there no coordination at all between the front pagers?
A little self-reflection for the open thread.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
Also, is either one dumber than the “was Kerry really in Cambodia on Christmas?” controversy.
JGabriel
Sigh. Bible Spice’s political career is over.
No one can maintain the excitement necessary for a successful political campaign and appear on TV as regular, daily, mundane, correspondent. By the time 2012 rolls around, Sarah will discover that she has all the political appeal of Glenn Beck combined with Laura Ingraham or Greta Van Susteren or Nancy Grace — which is to say, just enough to win a time slot on Fox News, but not enough to win an election.
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Lev
No, the “President isn’t welcome in Las Vegas” controversy was way, way stupider
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
I’d like her to maintain enough political appeal to make a third-party run in 2012 and siphon off enough votes to throw it to Obama, but that’s about it.
jeffreyw
I’ll just throw this out there.
Shameless plug to the how to page for the above.
Quaker in a Basement
Another Palin conspiracy theory from Sullivan?
Please, no. He must be retar….um, a really slow learner.
jeffreyw
Damn you Word Press!!
Here’s dinner.
jeffreyw
And a shameless plug for the how to cook the above page.
The Bearded Blogger
This is making molehills out of bat dung
Tim I
There is nothing dumber than a “retarded” controversy!
trollhattan
Since is open thread…I’d like to hire someone to hit me on the head with a frypan daily, until the first Wednesday in November.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/2010/02/whitman-goes-on.html
kthxbai
lol
On its own it’s pretty stupid, but it’s one additional log on Palin’s bonfire of habitual lies.
As anyone who’s watched the Wire knows, people like this lie when they don’t even need to.
Notorious P.A.T.
No doubt. They’re probably both wrong.
AxelFoley
Oh, look–Cenk Uygur is further enhancing his firebagger credentials:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/4/114019/4756
Rodney King? Really, Cenk?
Fuckin’ idiot.
Why oh why
It is good to see some of those dumbass conservatives who went after Clinton for years with fake scandals now on the side of Obama. Hopefully Sullivan will call it ‘Palinphonecall-gate’, and later a special prosecutor can impeach Brown over it.
Sly
Sully and Lady Starburts need to get a fucking room already. She seeks to push the boundaries of her limited fame, and he’s been more than happy to oblige her. If he wanted her to go away, he’d ignore her.
abo gato
@jeffreyw…that’s perfect! We got 10 pounds of large shrimp yesterday direct from Pt Aransas. Had some lightly fried last night…heaven!… and was planning on a shrimp/garlic/pasta something for dinner tonight. mmmmmm
Some of the rest of the shrimp are going into my Super Bowl gumbo on Sunday. I had been planning a thematically appropriate food for the game and had secretly been rooting for the Saints just so I could make that gumbo.
Thanks for the recipe.
Lev
I’ll be very interested to see what persona Brown adopts as a Senator. My guess is that the only way he gets more than three years is by becoming like 2002-vintage McCain and by being a pain in the ass of the GOP leadership by cutting deals with Democrats all over the place. If he does that right out of the gate, I’d expect him to have a chance at another term. If, as I expect, he doesn’t do this, he’ll either lose in 2012 when Obama’s at the top of the ticket, or he’ll run for governor or something like that.
I’m still incredulous that he won, and shocked at how bad Coakley was. Her main messages seemed to be: healthcare (which is irrelevant in MA), this is Ted Kennedy’s seat (?), Scott Brown is a bad guy because he doesn’t pay for his workers’ health insurance (?), etc. Were it not for the Dem wave in 2006, would she have ever held an elected position?
jeffreyw
@abo gato: Mmm…shrimp gumbo! Love that stuff.
Rick Taylor
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Booman, a few days ago:
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Tonal Crow
You never know when even something this stupid will become a huge political liability — if you’re a Democrat. But, as with issues far more substantive, IOKIYAR.
Rick Taylor
Though this isn’t an example of that, but rather of Sullivan’s obsession.
Cat Lady
Does this mean that a Brown/Palin ticket is unlikely? Or does it mean that a Palin/Brown ticket is more likely? Or does it mean that a Palin/Brown ticket is unlikely? Or does it mean that between now and 2012 that the Mayans were more likely right? The dumbitude that is our discourse must mean we’re in the outer reaches of the Wingularity, where all rational thought ceases.
Zandar
#Demonsheep still rules Twitter. That is all.
28 Percent
The R-word controversy is not “dumb” and that is an insult to mute people it is just like you PC THUGS to try to shut down legitimite critisism of you’re Obamessiah by making fun of Sarah Palin she cares about people with “intellectual disabilities” which is no disability because look what messes intellectuals has gotten us into. But you do not know what it feels like to be calle d”retarded” it really hurts but maybe you do know it would not surprised me at all!
Lev
@28 Percent: I do not believe you are serious. You had me at “the r-word”.
trollhattan
28 Percent’s faux trollery (fauxllery?) is deliciously droll. Demibravos.
Comrade Dread
I’m starting to learn Mandarin.
KCinDC
@AxelFoley, “Obama’s Rodney King Strategy”? Sounds tailor-made to be quoted on Limbaugh.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
@28 Percent – http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/hushgush/applause.gif
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
I would like to think that Brown decided not to talk to Sarahcuda and instructed his aides accordingly. Maybe he figured out that she is the kiss of death and didn’t want her hanging around.
I do think that Sarah may be just what Sully needs but they should get a room first.
Thanks jeffreyw! I always wanted instructions on how to cook a page. If I were you I would send a copy of it to Mark Foley. He might stop chasing pages and decide to cook one some day.
Hey jeffreyw, is there any chance your last name is Dahmer? ;)
southpaw
Let’s play the tape through to the end:
1. Palin releases her phone records; there either (a) was or (b) wasn’t a call.
2a. Andrew Sullivan is disappointed.
2b. Sarah Palin makes a whatever face, maybe blames the whole thing on Todd or the liberal media.
3. Nobody gives a shit.
In the end, nobody gives a shit.
Mike Furlan
bad Coakley was
This is a very important point.
Coakley was a horrible candidate.
Carly Fiorina bad.
Didn’t help that her “tough on crime” reputation was earned at the expense of the Black community, who, not surprisingly didn’t turn out to vote for her.
feebog
@Southpaw
I give a shit. Just not about this…
Lev
@Mike Furlan: Yeah, Carly Fiorina is bad. I don’t know why any Republican donated to her after her surrogacy for McCain.
But at least Fiorina has been in the ballpark of what the public wants to hear about. Coakley? Pretty much every theme of her campaign was specifically designed to appeal to the Hillaryites and noone else. How else can you square the focus on health care (irrelevant in MA), on Brown’s staff’s health insurance (only Brown’s staff cared) and how he tried to keep rape victims from getting help? I don’t know if any of that stuff was true (the latter seems stretched), but how much resonance was that going to have outside the Girl Power! types? Meanwhile, she had nothing about the environment. Nothing about Brown’s macho asshole persona on torture. Nothing about his bullshit “I hate the banks so much I want them to keep their money, plus not have any new restrictions!” populism. Nothing! Except for third-rate gender cardism! I wonder if she even got 30% of the male vote in the Dem primary.
Coakley didn’t deserve to win. She seems to be a constituency-obsessed, unimaginative seat-filler. But Brown absolutely doesn’t deserve to be a senator.
SiubhanDuinne
“Consider this an open tread.”
Is that anything like a “wide stance”?
DougJ
@dr. bloor:
Thanks. Awesome video.
DougJ
@southpaw:
In the end, nobody gives a shit.
Do you think?
Anne Laurie
@Cat Lady:
It is to Palin’s benefit if she can convince people (defined as the 28-percenter base and the Media Village Idiots) that she is the Queen of All Teabaggers, someone whose imprimatur is required by any self-styled “independent” Republican who wants access to “her” pool of voters. It is to Wrentham Grifter Brown’s interest to pretend he’s never heard from — barely heard of — the Wasilla Grifter. If he’s trying to keep his new job as Senator Masshole, he needs to stay as far away from the Teabagger spokesmodels as possible. If, on the other hand, he decides to go for broke and court the Fox News low-information demographic in search of national office, accepting Palin’s phonecall and her implicit claim to be the Teabagger gatekeeper gives her an advantage.
Either way, the sensible thing is for Brown (or his handlers) to keep insisting that they never got that call. The only interesting thing, for those of us not Andrew Sullivan, will be seeing whether the Wrentham Grifter gets to ignore the Wasilla Grifter without being reprimanded by the rightwing wingnut wurlitzer. If Brown’s people don’t have to “walk back” his I-never-heard-from-her declaration, it means Palin’s losing some of her Number One Queen of the RW Idiots credentials.