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You are here: Home / The Joke’s On You

The Joke’s On You

by John Cole|  February 8, 20109:55 am| 159 Comments

This post is in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Teabagger Stupidity

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The Founding Bloggers:

Founding Bloggers can confirm that we too captured an image of the writing on Governor Palin’s hand. The notes appear to be very innocuous.

On the other hand, the outrage on the left is being completely misunderstood by the right.

Who is outraged? We’re all hysterical. This is funny stuff. I think it is awesome that the lead wingnut in the country is such a dim bulb that she has to have “budget tax cuts” on her hand to remind her what she stands for. Put it this way, since this is Black History Month, this is akin to seeing “civil rights” written on MLK’s hand.

No one is outraged by Palin- we’re laughing at her and we are laughing at her supporters.

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  1. 1.

    daryljfontaine

    February 8, 2010 at 9:57 am

    The helicopters are laughing at Sarah as she tries to shoot wolves from them.

    D

  2. 2.

    General Winfield Stuck

    February 8, 2010 at 9:59 am

    The only thing i am outraged about is the un warranted attention this moronic woman garners in our media. It was more than half of memerandums front page yesterday.

    I like the clown show in between serious acts in our national political circus as much as anybody. But enough already. Jeebus christ.

  3. 3.

    Dan Robinson

    February 8, 2010 at 9:59 am

    For those who drink the Palin kool-aid, there is nothing that you can say about her which is not an attack. She is a moron with good teeth and tits, but pointing out the objective truth that she is a moron with good teeth and tits is an attack.

  4. 4.

    Cure 7802

    February 8, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Apparently “budget” was one talking point too many.

    Crazy people are funny.

  5. 5.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    February 8, 2010 at 10:00 am

    But, but, but … 57 states!

  6. 6.

    Brian J

    February 8, 2010 at 10:03 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    Also, teleprompter!

  7. 7.

    Mumphrey

    February 8, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Yes, but… Yes, but… See, the thing is, uh, well, she didn’t need to write that on her hand so she wouldn’t forget, uh, she…

    Yeah, well Obama can’t even TALK without using a teleprompter, and he’s a Chicago style crook and Acorn killed my grandmother and WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE and he’s a Muslim atheist communist nazi Marxist fascist and I’m not a racist, he’s the racist and I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!

  8. 8.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    February 8, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Scarborough was trying to defend her this morning while Andrea Mitchell was taking the piss by having notes written on her hand. He just kept shaking his head and saying “I’m just saying, relying on a teleprompter all the time is different than having a few notes written on your hand” the rest of the panel just laughed a him. I can’t wait to see The Daily Show’s take on this.

  9. 9.

    Da Bomb

    February 8, 2010 at 10:05 am

    You all are upset, because Caribou Barbie is making you see “starburts” through your tv.

    Just admit it. Also. too.

  10. 10.

    clone12

    February 8, 2010 at 10:07 am

    Coming Attractions on Sarah Palin’s Hand:

    “Mavericky”
    “liberals are mean”
    “jobs TAX CUTS!”
    “wipe butt, THEN wash hands”

  11. 11.

    Remember November

    February 8, 2010 at 10:08 am

    They only have one button on their Responso-meter. But you can press 1,2 or 3 for “outrage”.

  12. 12.

    KCinDC

    February 8, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Finally blocked the Project Wonderful images. Sorry if it hurts your ad revenue, John, but I can’t take the jumping gator anymore.

  13. 13.

    gnomedad

    February 8, 2010 at 10:09 am

    since this is Black History Month, this is akin to seeing “civil rights” written on MLK’s hand.

    This totally made my day.

  14. 14.

    bago

    February 8, 2010 at 10:09 am

    This was the superbowl of all events that may have occured this weekend.

  15. 15.

    Joe Beese

    February 8, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Should Palin run in 2012 – a possibility of which I remain skeptical – the frame of her squinting at her hand offers a pre-mixed, ready-to-serve “Dukakis in the tank” moment.

  16. 16.

    Zifnab

    February 8, 2010 at 10:10 am

    I’m sure this only proves that Sarah Palin is a better public speaker than Barack Obama, and once people realize that the Obamenace tricked them all into voting for him back in 2008, they’ll all come around and run him out in 2012.

    The conservative movement cannot fail, it can only be failed, after all. Stupid voters.

  17. 17.

    chopper

    February 8, 2010 at 10:11 am

    i’ll note this time she didn’t have ‘also, too’ written on her palm.

  18. 18.

    KCinDC

    February 8, 2010 at 10:11 am

    I do want to thank you for resisting the siren song of disgusting ads about belly fat and yellow teeth that even the high-class blogs are succumbing to nowadays.

  19. 19.

    Ash Can

    February 8, 2010 at 10:11 am

    @KCinDC: One of last night’s posters pointed out that the animation in the ads (including that one) can be stopped by pressing the “escape” key.

  20. 20.

    ChrisB

    February 8, 2010 at 10:11 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Yeah, Andrea Mitchell showed that she had written Morning Joe and The Today Show on her hand to remind herself what shows she had to appear on. That was pretty funny.

    I was wondering if she used that gag in her Today Show report. That would have been interesting since real people including I’m sure even some teabaggers watch that show.

  21. 21.

    Joshua Norton

    February 8, 2010 at 10:12 am

    I’m “outraged” over the Divine Sarah’s antics like I’m “outraged” whenever one of the Three Stooges hits themselves on the head with a hammer or sticks their tongue in a light bulb socket.

    Some people should really start looking up the meaning of the words they use when stretching to make a non-existent talking point.

  22. 22.

    chopper

    February 8, 2010 at 10:12 am

    not just that she has to have those basic things written on her hand to remind her, but also in response to questions she received beforehand.

    i’ll repeat this: she’s such a moron she needs to have ‘tax cuts’ written on her hand to remind her in response to a pre-screened question.

  23. 23.

    DanF

    February 8, 2010 at 10:14 am

    The wingnut version of, “Talk to the hand.”

  24. 24.

    Ash Can

    February 8, 2010 at 10:14 am

    Maybe the yutzes at Founding Bloggers read Andrew Sullivan’s take on the matter, figured they then had “the left” covered, and ran with it.

  25. 25.

    Ann B. Nonymous

    February 8, 2010 at 10:18 am

    I hope she’s feeling the exhilaration of speaking to the crowd again! TURTH TO POWER!

    People have said she’s lazy, but she went out there for McCain in 2008, even after it was abundantly clear to McCain’s staffers that she was a drag on the campaign and doing it for the attention. If it becomes all about her, she’ll take the bait. Not a person in control of her passions.

    I want her to run so badly I can almost taste it. I don’t hunt, but I know people who do, and I imagine they sometimes feel this sort of giddiness at the potential.

  26. 26.

    Woodbuster

    February 8, 2010 at 10:20 am

    @Ash Can: Um, no. It doesn’t with Chrome.

  27. 27.

    mr. whipple

    February 8, 2010 at 10:20 am

    @KCinDC:

    “Sorry if it hurts your ad revenue, John, but I can’t take the jumping gator anymore.”

    I never even noticed the damn thing until people mentioned it.

    Thanks, thanks a ton.

    Wonder what the moron who designed the thing was thinking?

  28. 28.

    General Winfield Stuck

    February 8, 2010 at 10:21 am

    @Da Bomb: More like a meteorite. Burning itself up as it streaks to planet earth. The only thing left to wonder if it fizzles out or impacts and makes a big crater of stoopid, we will have to all live with. Like a hole in the head.

  29. 29.

    John Quixote

    February 8, 2010 at 10:22 am

    @Joshua Norton:

    I’m “outraged” over the Divine Sarah’s antics like I’m “outraged” whenever one of the Three Stooges hits themselves on the head with a hammer or sticks their tongue in a light bulb socket.

    Like Curly, she’s just a victim of circumstance.

    Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

  30. 30.

    jenniebee

    February 8, 2010 at 10:23 am

    The only people on the planet more gleeful about the HandWriting on the Doll are Tina Fey and the writers at SNL. The only way this could possibly have gotten better is if the notes had been for criticisms of Obama, including the teleprompter jab.

    But that wouldn’t have been true to Sarah, after all. Her three-item plan for how to run the country she has to write down; the 100 top things she hates about Obama she knows by heart.

  31. 31.

    gnomedad

    February 8, 2010 at 10:23 am

    Hey, can we start a #famouspalms thing on Twitter? I’ll start:
    Paul Revere: British are coming
    Lincoln: of ppl by ppl 4 ppl

  32. 32.

    Violet

    February 8, 2010 at 10:24 am

    @chopper:

    not just that she has to have those basic things written on her hand to remind her, but also in response to questions she received beforehand.

    —

    i’ll repeat this: she’s such a moron she needs to have ‘tax cuts’ written on her hand to remind her in response to a pre-screened question.

    This.

    And this was as friendly an audience as she’s ever going to find. Imagine her in front of a slightly less hand-picked crowd. Not that her controllers would ever allow that to happen.

    On the Today Show they ran a segment on this in the first half hour and it wasn’t a friendly segment. Interesting.

  33. 33.

    Joshua Norton

    February 8, 2010 at 10:24 am

    I’m outraged that the Demon Sheep aren’t around when you REALLY need them. Except for the ones clapping in the audience.

  34. 34.

    KCinDC

    February 8, 2010 at 10:24 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt, Scarborough is exactly right that there’s a big difference between the teleprompter and the hand notes. The fact that he thinks the difference is in favor of Palin shows that he’s a moron or a Republican hack.

    If Palin’s notes had been some economic figures, for example, then this wouldn’t have blown up the way it has. The problem for her is that the things she wrote are so obvious and should be second nature for any Republican politician.

  35. 35.

    GregB

    February 8, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Elitists never have to cheat on a test to make themselves look smarter.

    Dontcha know?

    -G

  36. 36.

    Max

    February 8, 2010 at 10:25 am

    Joe Scarborough is being so dishonest. The notes were for the Q&A, not the speech.

    I can’t believe he really thinks this Obama is the Teleprompter president thing is a winner.

  37. 37.

    Woodbuster

    February 8, 2010 at 10:25 am

    I think she’s hilarious. YOU think she’s hilarious. However, I am surrounded by a bunch of SC rednecks who think she is the greatest thing to happen to Amurka since Reagan. Hell, she is the Southern Baptist version of Mother Mary.

    Sorry, but I share Sully’s fear that this idiot could get elected, through some aberration of time/space and events. I made the mistake of thinking W. couldn’t get elected, and look where that got me.

  38. 38.

    Brian J

    February 8, 2010 at 10:27 am

    I don’t think Palin is particularly bright, but at the same time, does anyone suspect this may have been planned? She does something that nobody who deserves to be in such a high profile position would do, she’s rightfully mocked for it, and then she gets to play the victim. She could have sat on a pet before going on stage and her supporters would have found some way to excuse it, so the only reactions she really needs to be concerned with are those outside of her base.

    If she is manipulating people in this way, I have to say, it’s pretty clever.

  39. 39.

    Comrade Mary

    February 8, 2010 at 10:28 am

    Most people seem to think that the notes are a foolish error that will make Palin look bad to those who might have started off even slightly sympathetic to her. Lance Mannion disagrees, and I think he has a point.

    Try to make the case that this is a sign of what a dope she is and most people will look at you like you’re being a jerk. That’s because most people can’t, and know they can’t, speak in public even if they were handed a detailed speech to read from, let alone stood up to speak prepped with a few hastily scrawled notes on their hand, cuff, or index cards.
    __
    Palin’s cribnotes are something that makes her “regular folks.” Yes, what the President was able to do in his Q & A with Congressional Republicans, giving detailed and specifically factual answers off the cuff while speaking in complex and parsable sentences, was truly impressive. It’s also one of the things that make him an “other.” Regular folks can’t do that.
    __
    Sure, it’s a sign of how smart he is, but we live in a country where that kind of intelligence is suspect. The ability to out-talk, out-argue, and out-think other people is also the ability to out-smart them. Nobody likes to be out-smarted. Bad things happen to you when you are out-smarted. And how do you know when you’re being out-smarted? When you start to feel really dumb.
    __
    Doesn’t matter if the person who is out-smarting you isn’t doing it to be mean or to trick you or to make you feel stupid, you can’t help it, you’re going to feel not as smart as they are. There are two ways to react that feeling. With modesty: “Guess I’d better do some more homework if I’m going to keep up.” Or with vanity: “Who does that asshole think he is, talking to me like I’m some kind of idiot?”
    __
    Guess which one most people choose instinctively. Sarah Palin doesn’t make anyone feel dumb. In fact, she makes a lot of people feel too smart. Particularly liberals.
    __
    It’s useless to try to talk about how smart or dumb Sarah Palin is anyway, because she does not operate that way. She doesn’t “think” in the usual sense of the word. She reacts to her own moods and instincts, most of which are apparently expressions of her vanity and ego. That’s why she is not all that well-liked outside of the base that adores her. Women, especially, don’t like her, not because she’s stupid, but because she holds such a high opinion of herself and such a low opinion of anybody who isn’t enraptured by Sarah Palin.
    __
    When people say they don’t think she’s qualified to be President, I don’t think they mean just that she isn’t smart enough or intellectually well-enough prepared or mentally disciplined enough. I think they mean that she is too wrapped up in her own self. It’s obviously all about her.
    __
    But it’s not because she has to write notes to herself to get through a major public speaking engagement. Make fun of that about her and you are making fun of everybody whose knees shake, voice fails, lips go dry, foreheads sweat, and minds go blank when they’re put in front of an audience of any size. Ever been to a wedding where the best man needed note cards to get through the toast and still blew all his punchlines? It’s not easy to speak in public.

  40. 40.

    gnomedad

    February 8, 2010 at 10:29 am

    Superman: glowing green rocks = bad

  41. 41.

    Brian J

    February 8, 2010 at 10:29 am

    @Woodbuster:

    Not that this is a good thing, but I suspect there are enough people who hold enough power in the party that they would do anything they can to stop her from getting there. After all, why go with an idiot like her when you can get actual competence, or at least a higher chance of it, with someone like Romney, while still getting roughly the same support for basic Republican ideas?

  42. 42.

    General Winfield Stuck

    February 8, 2010 at 10:29 am

    @Max: Watching Morning Joe can have deleterious effects on your mind and spirit. I can’t and haven’t watched it for many months and no longer drool as much as I did. And viewing Savanna and Broadway Chuck is about as bad.

    Be kind to yourself and turn that redneck fool off, and his airhead sidekick Mika.

  43. 43.

    KDP

    February 8, 2010 at 10:32 am

    @gnomedad:

    Patrick Henry: Give liberty or death
    FDR: Only fear fear
    JFK: Ask u can do country

  44. 44.

    Max

    February 8, 2010 at 10:32 am

    @General Winfield Stuck: Oh, I don’t watch it. I’m in California and I tend to get up midway thru Chuck and Savannah.

    I follow Joe on Twitter and the arrogance of that man is staggering. It’s a very unattractive quality in people and I find that the bloggers I dislike the most have that same arrogance.

    That’s why I like it here. Everyone is realistic about what they know or don’t know.

  45. 45.

    Joshua Norton

    February 8, 2010 at 10:33 am

    She was just using her snowbilly Palm Pilot.

  46. 46.

    Morbo

    February 8, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Sarah Palin doesn’t need no stinking teleprompter; she’s BSed her way through much harder presentations at 5 different colleges. Some of those presentations were also better attended.

  47. 47.

    OC

    February 8, 2010 at 10:37 am

    @Mumphrey: Amen.

  48. 48.

    Rick Taylor

    February 8, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Most people seem to think that the notes are a foolish error that will make Palin look bad to those who might have started off even slightly sympathetic to her.

    __
    I haven’t seen anyone who holds this view. In my opinion, anyone who was not long ago convinced that Sarah Palin was terrifyingly unqualified to be a heartbeat away from becoming President of the United States is not going to be suddenly convinced because she writes on her hand.

  49. 49.

    Skepticat

    February 8, 2010 at 10:39 am

    @Ash Can: Thank you thank you thank you/

  50. 50.

    Violet

    February 8, 2010 at 10:39 am

    @Woodbuster:

    Sorry, but I share Sully’s fear that this idiot could get elected, through some aberration of time/space and events. I made the mistake of thinking W. couldn’t get elected, and look where that got me.

    Agreed. Not trying to be a concern troll, but it’s wise not to underestimate her. Just imagine if the economy is still in the tank in two and a half years time and somehow she’s won the GOP nomination. Neither is impossible to imagine and it won’t be funny at that point.

    She’s laughably ridiculous. But she’s also terrifying because she could win. There are a lot of people who like the sound of “President Palin.”

  51. 51.

    gnomedad

    February 8, 2010 at 10:40 am

    @Comrade Mary:
    This is scary, and probably right. People don’t want a President smarter than they are because it would make them feel bad. And the right mocks “self-esteem” advocates.

  52. 52.

    El Cid

    February 8, 2010 at 10:44 am

    I think we should pay a lot of attention to what Joe Scarboy thinks, since he is such an even-handed, bipartisan analyst.

    And I think the main problem with Palin’s hand-notes, other than the ridiculous god-damned point that this crazy venal dumb liar has anything to do with national politics and the fact that she has followers even more disgustingly bizarre, is that they weren’t notes suggesting points she wanted to cover.

    She doesn’t and can’t ‘expound’ on a note saying “tax cuts”, she just repeats the phrase over and over in different ways.

    Again, it’s like a kid who never did the reading trying to do his story or book report based on the title, author, and table of contents.

  53. 53.

    Rick Taylor

    February 8, 2010 at 10:48 am

    It’s extraordinary how extreme the right wing reality distortion field has become. It should be obvious to anyone, left, right, or center, that whatever one thinks of his policies, Obama is a smart guy. He doesn’t just give wonderful prepared speeches; he was able to field questions from a adversarial audience of Republicans and more than hold his own. Sarah Palin has never been able to do anything like that (nor has George Bush for that matter), and she ended up demonizing Katie Couric for asking questions like what books do you read, or what did you mean when you said living in Alaska gives you foreign policy experience. And yet in the wingnut universe Obama is a young man over his head who can’t function without a teleprompter, and Palin would make a great President. I seriously don’t know how we got here.

  54. 54.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    February 8, 2010 at 10:50 am

    @Dan Robinson:

    She is a moron with good teeth and tits…

    At her age and with five kids, I doubt that the tits are still “good”. I would bet that they are more “the full fried-eggs-hanging-on-a-nail thing”  (as Peter Griffin would succinctly put it). Boobs don’t perk up quite like they used to after they get the mileage on them like hers have.

    I don’t know about her teeth but I can’t argue about the moron part, you got that right on the money.

    The only outrage I feel about this is that our MSM believes that she is news. She is not news, she is history. Her fifteen minutes of fame are over with but our American Idol media that calls themselves the “news” won’t let it die.

  55. 55.

    SpotWeld

    February 8, 2010 at 10:51 am

    I assumed that the hand notes weren’t so much a reminder of topics, but rahter a reminder of order in which her pre-prepadred Q&A questions were going to be asked.

  56. 56.

    asdf

    February 8, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Superman: Up, ditto, away.

    Nathan Hale: Liberty/death

    Sally Field: Like me, really,

  57. 57.

    El Cid

    February 8, 2010 at 10:54 am

    I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who would feel better knowing that someone stupid and uninformed and haughty and dismissive and hateful toward non-rural non-whites with education [would be a political leader], but such people will never, ever, ever, ever vote Democratic anyway.

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    February 8, 2010 at 10:57 am

    Why not just write notes on index cards? There’s no shame in speaking from notes.

  59. 59.

    60th Street

    February 8, 2010 at 10:58 am

    Y’know, I haven’t heard anyone really say it yet, but, It’s fun to ponder why Palin scratched out “budget” and wrote “tax” cuts instead.

    Both of these are signature Republican talking points, BUT, much has been said in public recently about the Republicans opposing their own issues when Obama has come out for them. Obama himself has been underscoring this and trying to driving it home to Americans in recent events.

    Could it be that she scratched out “budget” because Obama has recently touted freezing non-discretionary spending and this is an example of how he has successfully neutralized a time-honored republican talking point?

    Of course he has also touted how he has cut taxes, but it might be worth thinking about the potential effectiveness of the approach Obama’s been taking in confronting the talking points.

  60. 60.

    patrick

    February 8, 2010 at 11:00 am

    No, it’s equivalent to seeing:

    “lunch counter civil rights”

    written on MLK’s hand. She couldn’t figure out “tax cuts” the first time.

  61. 61.

    Steve M.

    February 8, 2010 at 11:02 am

    I’m outraged that she’s still probably going to be the next president of this fucking country.

  62. 62.

    Nutella

    February 8, 2010 at 11:02 am

    The hand thing looks stupid to me but I agree with those who are saying it may not look stupid to Palin’s fans.

    Sorry I don’t have the link, but there’s a video of a guy interviewing Palin fans waiting for her book-signing. He asks them what it is that they like about Palin. One says she would make a good president so he follows up by asking what good things Palin would do as president. After a long pause, the interviewee says ‘cut government spending’. He asks what government spending in particular should be cut, and after an even longer pause, interviewee smirks and says ‘all of it!’ and seems very proud of her clever answer.

    This kind of fan admires Palin’s stupid reply to Couric’s softball question about what she reads. They think it’s clever. And they think using hand scribbles to remember that she’s in favor of tax cuts is also clever.

  63. 63.

    meh

    February 8, 2010 at 11:04 am

    @chopper:

    Your faulty assumption was that she, or anybody of the traveling hillbillies that she drags along bothered to read the questions ahead of time – that is, of course, assuming that they can read. My guess is that she didn’t bother, none of her “advance” team did either so she pulled out the easiest lines she new guaranteed to generate a nice crowd pop when she said them…all she knows how to throw are fastballs…

  64. 64.

    KCinDC

    February 8, 2010 at 11:04 am

    @El Cid, there were people who voted for Bush in 2004 but for Obama in 2008.

  65. 65.

    jenniebee

    February 8, 2010 at 11:06 am

    @Comrade Mary:

    Women, especially, don’t like her, not because she’s stupid, but because she holds such a high opinion of herself and such a low opinion of anybody who isn’t enraptured by Sarah Palin.

    This drives me nuts. You would think that this guy would take a minute to think before he committed such rubbish to pixels. Women aren’t turned off by a woman who has a high opinion of herself any more than men are. Hillary has a devoted following among women, and it’s not because of Hill’s quiet modesty and overwhelming self-doubt.

    No, women, especially, don’t like Sarah Palin because we know the game she’s playing and how destructive it can be. We understand that when Tweety keeps talking about how she’s “just dynamite!” that her gambit – using her sex appeal to garner political power – is working. Her MO is to cajole and charm men and to put anybody who doesn’t play her game (principally women, but some men who can stop thinking with their dicks, at least when it comes to their jobs) and who challenges her down hard, and when that stops working, run away. Men who fall for this shit just never seem to get it that they’re being played until it’s too late.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    February 8, 2010 at 11:06 am

    @Ash Can: I think that may work only in certain browsers. Sadly, it doesn’t work in mine.

  67. 67.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    February 8, 2010 at 11:07 am

    The palm of our last prez:

    America great
    pretzels terrorists bad
    heh heh heh

  68. 68.

    KCinDC

    February 8, 2010 at 11:07 am

    @60th Street, Republicans occasionally talk about budget cuts, but the problem with bringing them up is that some tiresome person always pops up and asks what specific programs you want to cut, and then the cuts suddenly get a whole lot less popular. Safer to stick to tax cuts.

  69. 69.

    Lee

    February 8, 2010 at 11:08 am

    Put it this way, since this is Black History Month, this is akin to seeing “civil rights” written on MLK’s hand.

    That nails it perfectly.

    I’m going to shamelessly steal it the next time I’m with my teabagging friends.

  70. 70.

    catclub

    February 8, 2010 at 11:10 am

    end of Comrade Mary’s quote from Lance Mannion:
    “It’s not easy to speak in public.”

    It’s also not easy to hit a 95 mph fastball or perform microsurgery, but the people who can do it well:
    a) work at it – impressively hard
    b) practice
    and probably most important
    c) take constructive criticism from others.
    The worst thing they do, for the efforts of others, is make it look easy.

    Likewise for public speaking. Who thinks Palin is up on any of these?

    Let me know the next time you would rather have your surgeon in the Sarah Palin mold or the Barack Obama mold.

  71. 71.

    catclub

    February 8, 2010 at 11:11 am

    Water Girl and Ash Can:
    It works in mine! Yippee!
    Esc RULES

  72. 72.

    Keith

    February 8, 2010 at 11:14 am

    This “outrage” meme is part of the “if it makes Dems upset, then it’s good” thing going around. By writing crib notes on her hand, it’s actually a *good* thing because it pisses off Dems, y’see.

  73. 73.

    patrick

    February 8, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Watching Palin flip through her note cards as she gave her speech the other night (I made it to the 3 minute mark — perhaps among the top 10% of Balloon Juice readers in Palin Persistence) I realized what a corner the republicans, particularly Palin, have put themselves in. You can’t mock teleprompter use while using a teleprompter, and teleprompters are a very useful tool..
    The good news for republicans is that their minions will forget all about the evils of teleprompter use in a few weeks when republicans figure its not worth the bother and start using them themselves again. The good new for democrats is the present amusement of watching republicans pause, squint at notecard/palm of hand while giving speeches mocking teleprompters.

  74. 74.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 8, 2010 at 11:20 am

    @Rick Taylor:

    I seriously don’t know how we got here.

    Anti-intellectualism has come on strong over the past decade or two. Stupidity is a virtue; intelligence is a vice.

  75. 75.

    Joshua Norton

    February 8, 2010 at 11:29 am

    On her other hand she wrote “Rush OK“.

    Apparently irony and hypocrisy are not in the conservative dictionary.

  76. 76.

    Rick Taylor

    February 8, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Even though it got far more attention, Sarah Palin writing on her hand was far less troubling than her recent remark that Obama could improve his electability by declaring war on Iran, which has got far less attention.
    __

    “Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do,” Palin told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday. “That changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years.”

  77. 77.

    Svensker

    February 8, 2010 at 11:30 am

    @Max:

    I can’t believe he really thinks this Obama is the Teleprompter president thing is a winner.

    Made the mistake of visiting a chat board this morning that has lots of wingers and that’s all they were talking about — Obama is an affirmative action president who only gets by because of a teleprompter. Whereas, Palin is smart and only gets by with A FEW NOTES written on her hand.

    I really don’t think I can be in the same country as these folks.

  78. 78.

    kid bitzer

    February 8, 2010 at 11:37 am

    “this is akin to seeing “civil rights” written on MLK’s hand”

    very, very funny.

  79. 79.

    chopper

    February 8, 2010 at 11:41 am

    @patrick:

    this.

  80. 80.

    SFAW

    February 8, 2010 at 11:41 am

    Stupidity is a virtue; intelligence is a vice.

    Just remember the Rethug mantra:

    Extremism in the defense of stupidity is no vice.

  81. 81.

    Ed in NJ

    February 8, 2010 at 11:45 am

    @Steve M.:

    I wouldn’t bet any money on that.

    It amazes me to see people worried about Palin being elected president. No one in power on the left is going to respond to any of her idiocy, for that would just give her attention and relevance that she doesn’t really have, except for the fawning media. But what is happening, I’m sure, is that Dem operatives and potential Repub opponents are quietly taking note of the ever-increasing inconsistencies and inanities, and will hit her hard when the time is right. She won’t know what hit her or how to respond, and no notes on her hand will be able to rescue her. It will be ugly.

    Personally, I don’t see her ever running. Teasing that she might is much more lucrative.

  82. 82.

    twiffer

    February 8, 2010 at 11:47 am

    @Comrade Mary: couple of things about that snippet. first, yah, sure, lots of people have public speaking issues. if you are going into a career path where you have to do a lot of public speaking, such as politics, you fucking take classes. also, you use note cards. no one is really going to care if you need notes (well, unless you try and make the use of notes or a prompter a negative). but writing on the back of your hand says one of two things: either you aren’t prepared/organized enough to remember note cards or you are trying to pretend you don’t need them. neither speaks well.

    i dearly hope, though i suspect i’m wrong, that most people aren’t suspicious of intelligence. i want a president whom i believe is smarter than i am. i want the people governing the country to be fucking geniuses. never have and never will understand the apparent anti-intellectualism of this country. why is being smart a bad thing? isn’t that what one is supposed to aspire to?

  83. 83.

    careful1

    February 8, 2010 at 11:48 am

    @Ash Can: Thank you!

  84. 84.

    PTirebiter

    February 8, 2010 at 11:50 am

    My reactions to Palin vary, but when it comes to her rank and file supporters, laughter is the only useful response.
    From the Founding Bloggers comments:

    An imbecile IS running our country into the ground. I find Sarah’s speeches inspiring…
    …Being a patriot means holding people who want to wield power to a high standard and making them earn respect. There is no room in America for cults of personality.

    If the self-irony section of the brain has been identified, this person’s last statement must be text book flat-line.

  85. 85.

    matoko_chan

    February 8, 2010 at 11:50 am

    Well…….she is going to need to grow a few more hands if she is going to run for president….I don’t see how she can debate Obama with follow-on questions.
    She couldn’t even handle Katie Couric with follow-on questions.

  86. 86.

    SFAW

    February 8, 2010 at 11:52 am

    But what is happening, I’m sure, is that Dem operatives and potential Repub opponents are quietly taking note of the ever-increasing inconsistencies and inanities, and will hit her hard when the time is right.

    Yeah, sure.

    While you’re waiting for that to happen, how’d you like to get in on the ground floor of this great investment opportunity I got? It’s called the Brooklyn Bridge, and the money you can make off the tolls will keep you rolling in dough for awhile.

    I mean, really, outside of Alan Grayson (and Carville when he ran Clinton’s campaign), who in the Dems has shown any interest in hitting them hard?

  87. 87.

    El Cid

    February 8, 2010 at 11:55 am

    @KCinDC:

    there were people who voted for Bush in 2004 but for Obama in 2008

    I know that, and although I may be wrong, and it’s just a guess (or I’ve forgotten the polling if I have seen it), I seriously doubt they were the fans of Palinism and Stupidity-As-A-Virtue.

  88. 88.

    Rick Taylor

    February 8, 2010 at 11:58 am

    I was wrong about George Bush, but I’m going to go out on a limb anyway and say there’s no way Palin will be elected. She can give good speeches when she’s in front of a friendly crowd; she falls apart in any other setting. During the last election, McCain’s handlers did everything they could to keep her away from the press. It was bad enough doing that with the Vice Presidential candidate; you couldn’t get away with that with the Presidential candidate.

  89. 89.

    PTirebiter

    February 8, 2010 at 11:58 am

    @Comrade Mary:
    It’s not that she needed crib notes that’s laughable, it’s that she wrote them on her hand. It’s tantamount to dotting your i’s with hearts or doodling President Sarah Palin over and over again on a PeeChee folder.

  90. 90.

    kgc16

    February 8, 2010 at 11:59 am

    @Svensker: I really hope there are fewer of those folks than we think. That said, I agree with other not-concern-trolls who think we shouldn’t be so quick to pray that Lady Starbursts runs for president. I’m trying hard to keep my faith that a greater number of the voting population still respects maturity and intelligence (and I even dare to hope those numbers are increasing), but we should never let ourselves underestimate the power of teh stupid when it comes to the monkey-mind.
    And anyway, where are we going to go? Some of us may be able to leave, but I don’t have the money or the youth to immigrate to another country. I’m stuck here unless my son in Japan wants to support his parents and two younger brothers. ; ) (Sigh.)

  91. 91.

    Rick Taylor

    February 8, 2010 at 11:59 am

    I really don’t think I can be in the same country as these folks.

    Sometimes I think I couldn’t be in the same reality with them. Maybe it’s a matter of overlapping quantum universes or something.

  92. 92.

    kgc16

    February 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    @SFAW: Bumper sticker!

  93. 93.

    kgc16

    February 8, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    @Rick Taylor: That is actually a comforting thought.

  94. 94.

    SFAW

    February 8, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    Maybe it’s a matter of overlapping quantum universes or something.

    I heard that if we get them to combine a Moebius strip with a Klein bottle, they’ll collapse on themselves and disappear.

    Ah, if only it were so. (said in a wistful tone)

  95. 95.

    Brian J

    February 8, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    @Rick Taylor:

    Considering that the answer to everything with these people is some combination of tax cuts and bombing some country, it’s troubling but hardly surprising. Bombing Iran is just their current fantasy.

  96. 96.

    Soul On Ice

    February 8, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    Lincoln in 1863: fourscore, birth of freedom
    Reagan in 1987: Gorbachev, tear, wall, down, jellybeans
    Clinton in 1988 DNC: keep it short, don’t go too long
    Tancredo, anywhere, anytime: white, uber alles

  97. 97.

    Redshift

    February 8, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    @Ed in NJ: Oh, I think she’ll actually run for the nomination, just long enough that she can blame GOP elites for why she didn’t win, rather than her own laziness and incompetence. Renewed victimhood will extend how long she can continue to milk the rubes.

    But other than that, I agree.

  98. 98.

    catclub

    February 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    kgc16 and svensker:
    “I really hope there are fewer of those folks than we think.”

    Don’t worry then.
    600 people at the convention! That level of idiocy is actually uncommon – but FOX shows them every time they peep their heads above ground. So you think there are more.

    There were NOT 2 million teabaggers in DC, even if FOX says there were.

    The term ‘bunch of loudmouths’ is exactly right.

  99. 99.

    Tom65

    February 8, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Frankenstein: fire bad

  100. 100.

    OniHanzo

    February 8, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Don’t know if anyone’s seen this yet but expect the rah-rah torture crowd to become butthurt and defensive over this one:

    A GI waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter in their suburban Tacoma, Wash., home because she couldn’t recite the alphabet, police reported.
    Joshua Tabor, 27, allegedly admitted to police he used the torture technique because his daughter was terrified of water and he was furious she didn’t know her ABCs.

  101. 101.

    brantl

    February 8, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    She lost 1 pound of brains, the rest was unmitigated ass.

  102. 102.

    Bob L

    February 8, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Good thing her other hand wasn’t visible. It said;

    “Breath in
    Breath out”

  103. 103.

    gnomedad

    February 8, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    A GI waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter in their suburban Tacoma, Wash., home because she couldn’t recite the alphabet, police reported.

    “Enhanced education.”

  104. 104.

    jcricket

    February 8, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    @Ed in NJ:

    Personally, I don’t see her ever running. Teasing that she might is much more lucrative.

    See Gingrich, Newt.

    That’s how he gets press mentions, invites to shows, plugs for his latest “initiatives” or books/treatises, etc.

    If she does run, she’ll end up crushed. Watch what’s happened to her in the polls – the more the general public sees her, the more public opinion sours, outside of the 25% base. McCain, Romney, Jindal – We hate all of them, but the public doesn’t share the same kind of disdain they do for Palin.

    I feared her during the speech, and then was relieved as the polling made it clear that everyone saw her for the grifter/opportunist she is.

  105. 105.

    feebog

    February 8, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Sorry, but I just can’t see Sarahcuda running in 2012. She has discovered the Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train and is going to ride it for all its worth. This is a woman with just average intelligence, extremely limited life experience, and an overwhelming need to stay in the public spotlight while conning the folks who adore out of the maximum amount of cash possible.

    If she runs she is going to be exposed; the ignorance, the pettiness, the inconsistencies will eventually become obvious to all but the most devoted of her followers. And if that happens, the Gravy Train stops, and she goes away.

  106. 106.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 8, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    @Ed in NJ:

    It amazes me to see people worried about Palin being elected president.

    I’m not worried about it, I just don’t think it’s 100 percent out of the realm of possibility. There’s no limit to how stupid this country can be as a whole. That said, I don’t think she’ll run in the first place. At least not seriously. She might make a token run as an excuse to do fundraising, but that’d be about the extent of it.

    @Brian J:

    Considering that the answer to everything with these people is some combination of tax cuts and bombing some country, it’s troubling but hardly surprising. Bombing Iran is just their current fantasy.

    What would happen if Iran enacted the Bush tax cuts? Could wingnuts still push to bomb it?

    Yeah, they could.

  107. 107.

    JoJo

    February 8, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    but some men who can stop thinking with their dicks, at least when it comes to their jobs) and who challenges her down hard, and when that stops working, run away. Men who fall for this shit just never seem to get it that they’re being played until it’s too late.

    I wonder if that’s why Sully sees through her. Being gay, he obviously isn’t affected by the ‘starburst’ factor.

  108. 108.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 8, 2010 at 12:52 pm

    @gnomedad:

    “Enhanced education.”

    Line of the day!

  109. 109.

    Dylan

    February 8, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    When is this going to end? When are we all going to realize this woman is mentally ill, and its cruel to parade her in front of crowds like this to whip up fascist fervor, occasionally flossing her little mongoloid to appease the Scott Roeder wing of the GOP? It hasn’t ended yet, and I’m afraid it might never end.

  110. 110.

    kgc16

    February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    @catclub: Thanks! Facts are helpful. And it’s true, the tea folk get a disproportionate amount of attention. I waited for the liberal press to make a big point of that piddling 600 number. It was mentioned, but I never heard any analysis of what that number meant with respect to the relevance of the “movement.” Of course, I might have missed it. Unlike Ms. Palin, I don’t read all the newspapers and magazines.

  111. 111.

    fraught

    February 8, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    @60th Street: I’m thinking that she thought that budget cuts would be interpreted by her listeners as cutting Medicare and Social Security since so many of them were in that age range. “Tax cuts” sounds good to someone making $300 a week and to whom taxes mean withholding money from their paychecks. This was not a room full of Paul Krugmans.

  112. 112.

    Joey Maloney

    February 8, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    @Tom65:

    Buffy: tree pretty

  113. 113.

    ericblair

    February 8, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    @Bubblegum Tate: I’m not worried about it, I just don’t think it’s 100 percent out of the realm of possibility. There’s no limit to how stupid this country can be as a whole. That said, I don’t think she’ll run in the first place. At least not seriously. She might make a token run as an excuse to do fundraising, but that’d be about the extent of it.

    Besides the fact that everything Palin has done fits with the theory that she’s trying to cash in for as little work as possible, who in the Republican party owes her anything? That’s how you get the nomination. Being a born grifter doesn’t make contributing to the favor bank real easy. She’s not going to stump around Iowa for months, not for herself and certainly not for anyone else, and it looks like she’s managed to rip off and/or piss off a number of key internal constituencies.

    I’m guessing feinting at a run every once in a while to keep the interest and money inflow going, then possibly some desultory support of whatever candidate throws the most toys her way, and then riding the rubber chicken circuit until she’s doing Elks lodges in West Bumfuck.

  114. 114.

    Edward G. Talbot

    February 8, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    -Giuliani in 2008 a noun, a verb, 9/11

    #famouspalms

  115. 115.

    Eric U.

    February 8, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    I guess the “Obama uses teleprompters” thing is a typical Rovian attempt to attack Obama’s strength. If there is anyone in recent American political history that could wing a decent speech, it’s Obama. If someone hacked one of Bush’s teleprompters to display a porn novel., he would only figure it out when there was a word he didn’t understand.

  116. 116.

    IndieTarheel

    February 8, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Neil Armstrong: this sm step man lg leap mankind

  117. 117.

    frankdawg

    February 8, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Chuck Darwin: fittest/benefit
    Karl Marx: capital=bad – workers own
    FDR: infamy – live forever
    Walt Kelly: Enemy = us
    Dickey Nixon: NOT crook!
    Julius Caesar: came saw conquered
    Nikita Krucheff: us bury them
    Gandhi: hit me – I win
    Ted Roosevelt: shh – big stick
    Wm. T. Sherman: war=hell
    James Monroe: Europe stay away
    Boy Blunder, Boy George, W left hand: see other hand
    Boy Blunder, Boy George, W right hand: see other hand
    Note, this was Roves Idea, it kept W out of the way while the growns ups discussed how best to f-up the nation.

    This is addicting!

  118. 118.

    IndieTarheel

    February 8, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Barbara Walters: If u twee what kind

  119. 119.

    licensed to kill time

    February 8, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Those types always confuse pointing and mocking with “fear”. The “fear” thing is strong in them. I wonder why that is – do they think it’s the only effective way to lead? Through fear?

    It would be irresponsible not to speculate &etc etc.

    That said, I was disgusted to find the Palin Plague infecting my teevee this morning. It was everywhere! Ack! Ack!

  120. 120.

    IndieTarheel

    February 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Keanu Reeves, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Anthony Spiccoli: woah

  121. 121.

    Sentient Puddle

    February 8, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    @Lance Mannion, by way of Comrade Mary:

    Sarah Palin doesn’t make anyone feel dumb. In fact, she makes a lot of people feel too smart. Particularly liberals.

    Too smart? No. Sarah Palin does not make me feel “too smart.” The only time I ever felt “too smart” was when I was prepping to brew some beer, saw some unwashed socks in the laundry basket, and thought to myself “Hey, I can ferment this!”

  122. 122.

    licensed to kill time

    February 8, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    The Fly: Help meeee

  123. 123.

    artem1s

    February 8, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    @Joshua Norton:

    OK, gotta clean the keyboard now.

  124. 124.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 8, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    @ericblair:

    Very good point. Plus, she can always play it up for the teabaggers: “I tried to run, but the good ol’ politics-as-usual boys wouldn’t let me be a mavericky real American for you! But maybe if I had a little bit more money….”

  125. 125.

    D-Chance.

    February 8, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    Sarah! jots down a half-dozen words on her hand for a 40 minute speech. Yes, the audacity!

    Compare that to a man who needs a full set of teleprompters for a short talk in a sixth-grade classroom.

    Martin Luther King never used a teleprompter, either, Cole… just to keep with this special month.

  126. 126.

    matoko_chan

    February 8, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    @D-Chance.:

    Sarah! jots down a half-dozen words on her hand for a 40 minute speech. Yes, the audacity!

    well…..you and the rest of the teabaggers and WECs are ignoring the fact that Dimbo Palin is going to have to survive a nationally televised debate with (quelle horreure!) follow-on questions in order to become president.
    She s going to have to grow arms like Shiva to have enough hands for that.

  127. 127.

    Mike in NC

    February 8, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    Palin’s war with Iran palm notes: (1) War pays 4 itself (2) Go Israel! (3) Welcomed as liberators (4) Drill baby drill (5) Bring on Rapture

  128. 128.

    Shell Goddamnit

    February 8, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Well, I *am* outraged; I’m outraged anyone takes this mook seriously. Stupid baggers.

  129. 129.

    Tony J

    February 8, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    FWIW, I can’t see a scenario where Palin even – wants – to enter the GOP Primaries, not with the shitstorm of negativity she’s bound to recieve from her rivals. But I – can – see her trying to leverage her popularity with the Teabaggers to lock up the VP spot on a Republican ticket. After all, if her job is simply to keep the Base fired up and eager to vote, then she has a clear field to run the campaign she wanted to in 2008, before that nasty McCain reined her in and prevented the greatest political comeback since Lazarus was voted Gravedigger for the Bethany district.

    Sure, it’d be a disaster of seismic proportions, but keeping the gravy-train going requires that she give her followers what they crave come election time, i.e. the opportunity to vote for her. It’s either let the Teabaggers force her to enter the Primaries as a write-in candidate – which would split the GOP down the middle and make her a candidate for a one-way trip in an unmarked SUV driven by Dick Cheney – or she makes it known that she’s willing to settle for another run at the VP spot, and guarantees the Teabagger vote.

    They lose, big time, but she’s still still cool with Der Base, and so she still makes money.

  130. 130.

    a1

    February 8, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    Sarah! jots down a half-dozen words on her hand for a 40 minute speech. Yes, the audacity!

    Oh D-Ouche, why must you lie? That wasn’t during the speech (which was written in Lite-Brite on top of her podium).

    This was because she couldn’t answer 1) pre-arranged questions posed to her 2) by a sympathetic interviewer 3) in front of an adoring crowd, 4) which she didn’t have to agree to in the first place!

    Besides, what kind of F’n R***** [1] doesn’ t know to answer “tax cuts” in a forum like that?

    I can’t wait to hear the teabaggers excuses when Sarah Palin is asked to count to 9, and takes off her shoes.

    [1] Republican

  131. 131.

    Chris Tucker

    February 8, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Hitler’s palmnotes:
    Lebensraum good!
    Teh Joos Bad!
    Ein volk/Reich/Fuhrer!
    (buy candy for Eva!)

  132. 132.

    asiangrrlMN

    February 8, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    First of all, Palin is not running for prez because that would be, like, you know, hard work. Could she get elected if she decided to run? Outside realm of possibility. But, she would have to expose herself as the stupid dim-bulb that she is, and even her monstrous ego could not take the constant crushing it would get when she has to wing it on a daily basis.

    Secondly, you guys are killing me with all the famous twits. They are hilarious!

    @jenniebee: Agreed. I have no issues with women who have high (if earned) opinions of themselves. Palin is doing a disservice to women in general by using her MILF/GILF quality (as some men have said) in order to get ahead. As with any token proffered by the GOP (see, Steele, M.), she is clearly not qualified for the job.

  133. 133.

    Sentient Puddle

    February 8, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    People keep saying Palin won’t run for president because it involves real work. And indeed that’s true if she were thinking rationally. But that’s a dangerous assumption when it comes to Palin. I could easily see Palin running, and thinking that all she needed to do was give speeches for pre-screened crowds and go on Fox every once in a while. And yes, she’d crash and burn hard, but I don’t think she knows that that would happen.

  134. 134.

    DBrown

    February 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Governor Palin’s ??? WTF?! That dumb asshole thinks that loser earned a tile is three off as soon as $$$ light her eyes? That worthless piece of trud is not a Govenrnor and lost the right to that tile when she cut and ran – too dumb for primetime Palin, or quiter Palin but that’s about it.

  135. 135.

    matoko_chan

    February 8, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Well….I think the Israel pin and the Bomb-Iran thing are loozers for her. Jews loathe her like they loathe all WECs and Pre-tribs and there aren’t that many of them anyways, and Americans are pretty f*n’ sick of our soljahs dying in Iraq and Af-Pak.
    I don’t get that a’tall.
    Is she really that schtupid?

  136. 136.

    WereBear

    February 8, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: Too true.

    As with any token proffered by the GOP (see, Steele, M.), she is clearly not qualified for the job.

    Having a qualified token would undermine the point they are trying to make…

    Then again, their white males are notably deficient, too.

  137. 137.

    Svensker

    February 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @D-Chance.:

    Sarah! jots down a half-dozen words on her hand for a 40 minute speech. Yes, the audacity! Compare that to a man who needs a full set of teleprompters for a short talk in a sixth-grade classroom.

    Yup, that’s exactly what I was hearing on the winger chatboards this morning.

    Such a nice follow up, tho, with that reference to Black History Month.

    Yes, of course, it is OBVIOUS that Sarah Palin is so much more erudite than Barack Obama. Obvious. Sarah also knows what the word “erudite” means. Obviously. Of course.

  138. 138.

    SFAW

    February 8, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    Compare that to a man who needs a full set of teleprompters for a short talk in a sixth-grade classroom.

    I had forgotten that W used a teleprompter when reading “The Pet Goat”, although I was a little surprised about that in two ways:
    1) That the teleprompter would have “make a deer-caught-in-the-headlights face when yore aide whispers in yore ear” included in its text
    2) That W didn’t actually read the words “make a deer-caught in the headlights etc etc” aloud.

    So, thanks very much from the reminder.

  139. 139.

    ChrisB

    February 8, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    I’ll play too:

    Winston Churchill: Blood Toil Tears Sweat
    Thomas Hobbes: Solitary Poor Nasty Brutish Short
    Muhammed Ali: Float Butterfly Sting Bee
    Moses: No God Before Me, Keep Sabbath, Honor Mom and Dad, . . . .
    ET: Phone Home

  140. 140.

    asiangrrlMN

    February 8, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    @mr. whipple: I would like to second this. I never look at the ads. I have my mind trained to skip over them. Now, all I can see is that damn bouncy bouncy alligator, and ESCAPE does not work for me.

    @Sentient Puddle: OK, I will concede that she might actually start running, but when she realizes it’s not all glitz and glamor, she will quit. Just like she’s quit every other goddamn thing in her life.

    @WereBear: Hm. You are quite correct that all of the GOP candidates are pretty damn deficient. I think the reason they keep failing with their tokens, though, is because they don’t truly understand the whole diversity thing. They see Hilary Clinton and think, “Must get a woman.” It doesn’t matter what woman. Any woman would do. If they were serious, they could have gotten a more worthwhile candidate like Snowe (I didn’t say a good candidate, just one more worthwhile than Palin), but no. They were thinking they needed a woman with pizazz and the ‘wow’ factor.

    Same with Steele. Ooooh, the prez is black. Let’s pick a black guy as our head. Doesn’t matter which one. Any one will do.

    Which, come to think of it, actually reinforces your point that they are all idiots.

  141. 141.

    licensed to kill time

    February 8, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Palin is always looking into the teabagger/Fox mirror on the wall and getting confirmation on that “Fairest of Them All” thing so no wonder she thinks she’s the shiznit could be Preznit gonna save ‘Murka gal.

    And the mirror works both ways, so her fans get that confirmation thing, too. It’s a Fairest of Them All Loop.

  142. 142.

    asiangrrlMN

    February 8, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    @ChrisB: I love the ET one!

    @licensed to kill time: Too true. It’s a mutual-gratification society, better known as a circle jerk.

  143. 143.

    kathy

    February 8, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    @gnomedad:

    kanye: ima let you finish.

  144. 144.

    Egilsson

    February 8, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    @D-Chance.:

    See, that’s a lie. When you are reduced to telling stupid lies like that, then you ought to reconsider your views.

    You won’t, but you are still a liar.

    Wasn’t Obama asskicking McCain x3 and then smoking all the republicans at their retreat enough beating for you?

  145. 145.

    Ruckus

    February 8, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    @JoJo:
    One doesn’t have to be a gay man to see this.
    And at least in my case even if I’m only thinking with the little brain she isn’t worth the time of day. In fact, I believe that she actually causes shrinkage.

  146. 146.

    binzinerator

    February 8, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    H.M. Stanley: white guy = livingstone

  147. 147.

    bob h

    February 8, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    I can see her sitting down for meetings with Putin in the WH and having to look at her hand.

  148. 148.

    Svensker

    February 8, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    @Bob L:

    Ha ha ha. Winsky.

  149. 149.

    chrome agnomen

    February 8, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    julius caesar: et tu b

    m l king: dream

    kipling: valley death 600

    larry craig: come here often

    reagan: wall gorby down

    chief joseph: no fight

    mccain: pow c#nt mav

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    February 8, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    @chrome agnomen:

    kipling tennyson: valley death 600

    Fix’d.

  151. 151.

    rasta

    February 8, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Delurking to implore youse peeps to use Luntz tactics.
    Death Panel Palin…say it out loud..Death Panel Palin!
    Not Sarah Palin.. BRAND HER WITH HER LIE! Death Panel Palin!
    Once you say it ..Death panel Palin was on Fox Sunday.. Death Panel Palin stumped for Gov. Perry. It rolls off the tongue.
    PLEASE! Use DEATH PANEL PALIN.

  152. 152.

    MaryRC

    February 8, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    @gnomedad:

    No, no, for Paul Revere it would be:

    2 IF BY LND
    1 IF BY C

    1 IF BY LND
    2 IF BY C

  153. 153.

    Kobie

    February 8, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    @Violet: I gotta agree with you (re: 50). As much as we like to laugh at Palin, there is a significant part of the electorate that thinks she’s just the greatest thing since cheese on toast.

  154. 154.

    typicalteabagger

    February 8, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    Yeah, well Obama can’t even TALK without using a teleprompter, and he’s a Chicago style crook and Acorn killed my grandmother and WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE and he’s a Muslim atheist communist nazi Marxist fascist and I’m not a racist, he’s the racist and I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!

    Sarah Palin is the smartest, bestest person in the world and if you don’t agree it’s because you’re just jealous of her beauty, money and superduper intelligence.

  155. 155.

    Jess

    February 8, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    Hamlet: 2B/2B

  156. 156.

    Dictynna

    February 8, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    @Rick Taylor:

    And yet in the wingnut universe Obama is a young man over his head who can’t function without a teleprompter, and Palin would make a great President.

    Republican presidents haven’t been REAL presidents for a while. They are just figureheads now. No matter how scanty the qualifications of wingnut candidates, their base knows that someone is pulling the strings from offstage, and they don’t need to worry what the puppet does…all they need to do is enjoy the show.

    With Democrat candidates, it is different, at least for the moment.

  157. 157.

    Comrade Darkness

    February 8, 2010 at 11:50 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I think it’s less that she’s not up for the work (Because the getting dragged around early caucus states part would be interspersed with adoring crowds shouting racist shit for her to smile at and later pretend she didn’t hear) than that she is incapable of submitting to coaching. Someone spending several hours a day telling you to change! She’s a textbook narcissist. Can you imagine her faulty wiring tolerating that?

    Ms. Doesn’t know why Korea is two countries doesn’t stand a chance shy of serious handling. With astute handling, maybe.

    I still have hope that she pulls the republican party into two. It’s a self-protective system, but she’s still giving it her best shot.

  158. 158.

    low-tech cyclist

    February 9, 2010 at 10:13 am

    Who is outraged? We’re all hysterical. This is funny stuff. I think it is awesome that the lead wingnut in the country is such a dim bulb that she has to have “budget tax cuts” on her hand to remind her what she stands for. Put it this way, since this is Black History Month, this is akin to seeing “civil rights” written on MLK’s hand.

    There’s a reason why we’re condescending!

  159. 159.

    Mangalore

    February 10, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    “and if you don’t agree it’s because you’re just jealous of her beauty, money and superduper intelligence.” — And don’t forget the ‘superduper’ intelligence of her lemmings, er I mean followers.

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