I’m as tired of Lady Starburst as anyone but this is funny.
The slow, dazed delivery has me thinking she’d feel much worse if she weren’t under such heavy sedation.
As always, the comments at Ben Smith’s blog are priceless
I wonder what would happen if Ben Smith transcribed Obama’s speeches the way he did to Palin’s? …..”Uhhhh”~Barack Obama
Bogus cheap shot from Journolister Smith. As my mom used to say, if you don’t have something nice to say…become a journolister. What the media elites really hate about Palin: her midwest/Alaskan and working class accent.
Sarah Palin was absolutely right on her History, and Jim Newell wrong on both history and politeness.:
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
I’d laugh at the comments if it wasn’t for the fact that such comments seem to be the only thoughts and sentiment that ever filter into the ears of our leaders. You know, since those folks are REAL America….
chopper
leave sarah aloooooone!
danimal
Those comments almost make me appreciate the trolls that infest this site.
Almost.
rob!
I’m glad to see Brick Oven Bill has found a new place to comment.
wobblybits
wow. not surprised but still wow.
Suffern ACE
jwb
@danimal: trolls are part of the training regime here, comrade.
beltane
Gawd, her fans are into the victimhood thing as much as she is. This is the first I’ve heard of the “working class accent” thing. What will their next defence of this moron be?
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
to be fair, you have to give palin credit, when her history tour started, she thought they would be going to branson missouri to see paul revere, live, with a fill-in line up of raiders of the lost plymouth rock.
beltane
@danimal: The trolls we had today were wearing on my nerves, and they were working in tandem. Is Balloon Juice the place they come to audition for a spot in the Dick Armey?
cathyx
What part of “The British are coming, the British are coming” didn’t she get?
beltane
@cathyx: The part about the British coming.
Omnes Omnibus
@cathyx: She said there was shooting and bell-ringing. What more do you want? Factual accuracy? Ha!
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
New Rule: All clips of Palin droning shall have Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 as the soundtrack.
Link provided for young scamps, whippersnappers & ankle biters.
piratedan
@cathyx: next up in Palin history, we find out that “one if by land and two if by sea” refers to a pizza order and whether it was delivered in 30 minutes or less.
cathyx
Doesn’t every elementary school history book have the short version of this event in it? She even has children who recently attended or are currently attending elementary school who were given this history, so she has no excuse for not remembering it. I hope she’s not homeschooling them.
MikeBoyScout
Palin’s comments about Paul Revere seem to be a clear violation of the Statute of Liberty.
Svensker
Link no workee? You fix?
Ooops, it fixee.
trollhattan
@beltane:
“Working class” would require her having “worked” at some point, namsayn?
The Griftocracy will
notcontinuously be televised.Cliff in NH
I’d love to see this site log IP addresses of comments…
Not visible to the public, but maybe a nice little icon stating that a ip address has posted with multiple alias.
Also too, it could possibly help scientists in the future to track web wide bloviating.
AliceBlue
Not only does she screw up the poem, she doesn’t have a clue about history. Revere’s ride (as described by Longfellow) never happened.
cathyx
@Cliff in NH: You sound like you work for the government.
Rick Taylor
Making a fool of herself so that liberals make fun of her and her fans can feel righteously indignant on her behalf is a feature; not a bug.
4tehlulz
Sarah will win the presidency with 420 electoral votes.
JCT
@AliceBlue: Who needs history, especially if it fucks up a good narrative.
And the commenters are just a laugh riot — remember, these folks think “we” hate Palin because we are scared of her. .
Cliff in NH
@cathyx:
Yea I thought about that just after I typed it.
I just hate PAID Trolls.
edit: not that they may be here, But there is certainly evidence that such a creature exists on the interwebs…
Mike in NC
As a former Bostonian, I’m surprised Queen Sarah didn’t say Paul Revere rode through Concord and Lexington on a giraffe and held the redcoats at bay with a flamethrower.
jk
Now that Palin has completed the first leg of her bogus history tour, Chris Matthews can take a well-deserved break from jerking off.
A song that sums up Matthews unrequited love for the Mooseburger Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkhOmKVW08
Dave
@Mike in NC: You forgot how he called in an A-10 strike on the British tanks that we’re rolling up the road to Concord. That’s History 101, man!
grandpajohn
@beltane: That dialect is supposed to represent the flyover states I think. Now I don’t fly but I know some of you do, the question is when flying from coast to coast, how many of you fly over Alaska?
dogwood
She is truly a dullard. But it is no worse than the goofy look on Herman Cain’s face when Chris Wallace asked him about his views on “right of return.”
There has always been a market for this type of candidate, but the parties used to have the power to keep them off the stage. The days of political parties as gatekeepers are over. Neither the DNC nor the RNC has any real power. Before the rise of cable news, networks wouldn’t have expended resources chasing the likes of Palin, Cain and Ron Paul around the country, but now they’ve joined the circus thinking it means survival. The majority of Americans will start paying serious attention to the next presidential election in September of 2012. By that time the kooks will be long gone.
beltane
@Mike in NC: Giraffes are African. A great Patriot like Paul Revere would never ride one. It is said he road upon his trusty dinosaur Dino. Why do you insist upon your misguided worship of Charles Darwin?
Triassic Sands
This video is what happens when you hire Michele Bachmann to tutor you in American History.
@4tehlulz:
She may decide to go for Prime Minister instead.
bkny
to hell with palin …. what i want to know is, did tunch take a chopper when he changed windows (or maybe just a limo)..
jk
Palin’s profound stupidity brings out the the worst from the Beltway idiots
Chris Matthews:
Mark Halperin:
PreservedKillick
@Dave:
Come on, you elitist liberals are making the same mistake as the MSM. She was clearly speaking of the *New Hampshire* Paul Revere, the one involved in the version of the American Revolution that started in New Hampshire. While the Massachusetts version was busy riding a horse (a horse? Seriously? Probably played polo and went to Harvard. The real one had a hummer) in a misguided attempt to warn the communist colonials of Lexington and Concord Massachusetts about…about…something, the real one was ringing bells and worrying about what every true American worries about – nebulous plots to take away their firearms. You will note that it was the socialist Europeans, even in those days.
And you are accusing *her* of not knowing her U.S. History. For shame. Also.
Jibeaux
The comments remind me of the Tina Fey line: “I hope the lamestream media doesn’t twist my words by repeatin’ em verbatim.”
Sinnach
People still think that Palin’s accent is real?
Go look up her Alaska gubernatorial debate videos. It’s not there.
The accent is a gimmick to seem more folksy.
trollhattan
@beltane:
Not “dinosaur,” a Jesus pony.
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/moredetails.aspx?showBleed=false&ProductNo=306193407&colorNo=1&pr=F&subFront=&subBack=
PreservedKillick
@Sinnach:
I seriously do not think there is anything about Sarah Palin that is real, except for her naked lust for power. That’s real.
Violet
Sarah turns down invitation to NH debate. Gotta keep that sweet, sweet Fox money coming in.
Quite soon? Not enough time to prepare because she’s too busy explaining that Johnny Appleseed rode to the aid of the Spanish in the Revolutionary War on white people, guns and flags?
Cliff in NH
@Sinnach:
Here it is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2831629878468947508#
ppcli
@PreservedKillick: Her bottomless well of vindictiveness is 100% genuine too.
jk
SarahPac’s new motto: “Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!”
Lojasmo
She’s clearly good WHITE working-class Americans.
hrprogressive
Really, these people would defend Palin if she slit the throat of a Girl Scout on stage.
They’d twist and turn into Gordian Knots justifying why little Susie Q. Christian’s death was good for the country, and why it’s the damn librul’s fault she died.
mr. whipple
How can you grow tired of the idiot? It’s the gift that keeps giving.
Tom
Did Palin ever go on Letterman? I forget. If she did, I hope Paul played “Lady Stardust” while she took her seat.
Jenny
@Sinnach:
@Cliff in NH:
Good catch.
Here she is on Charlie Rose in October 2007, a full year before her nomination, with no accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbSlc4XGGnk
danimal
@hrprogressive: If those liberal soshalists had conducted blood sacrifices on themselves and their leadership, I wouldn’t have had to take the precious gift of life from little Susie Q. Christian. Susie died due to their selfishness.
lahru
Not to worry
her people know what she meant to say
they groove on visuals not audibles
Parah Sailin
Paul Revere was warning the British not to be grabbin’ our guns and socializin’ our medicine.
Lurleen
@PreservedKillick: as others have said, she wants to be a king maker. So I guess that leaves out Bachman? (sp?)
They and the MSM are looking for a GWB that has been courting legions from Iowa and South Carolina to beg someone to get in.
My bet is Christy, not Perry. Perry is too easy. But then again, that might mean it’s Perry. Who knows with the Republicans. It’s supposed to be Mitten’s turn. Perhaps they will let him have it, much like Dole.
Cliff in NH
@Cliff in NH:
Hey check out that question about giving gay couples equal rights starting at 8:10 in…
She says that voters should be able to override the supreme court!! on equal treatment under the law.
TenguPhule
Somewhere in Alaska, a brothel is missing their whore.
jl
@Dave: I like the part best where Paul Revere outdrew British gladiator Bill Dawes and shot him fair and square, then rode Mothra over the Brit troops shooting them while they ran away.
That was so cool to learn about in HS, when I was doing heavy duty mescaline.
I don’t know why Palin didn’t mention that part.
Davis X. Machina
Sarah Palin’s continued popularity, such as it is, is just an inevitable result of there being 300 million Americans.
If one in a hundred is an un-institutionalized, frank psychotic, is completely, utterly, ‘I am a cucumber’, barking mad, that’s enough crazy people to completely populate the states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Or Iowa, or Mississippi, or Arkansas or Kansas.
The law of large numbers is scary.
Lurleen
@Tom: No.
Davis X. Machina
@Jenny: Same thing with C+ Augustus. When he was governor of Texas, he sounded like he was actually from Connecticut or someplace like that….
CJ
@Jenny:
The difference is astounding.
Cliff in NH
@Jenny:
I don’t care about the accent, but the positions…
She sounds just about the same to me so far (still watching during Maddow commercials), except that she is clearly now making what was a slight accent extraordinarily strong for political reasons perhaps?
Spaghetti Lee
Oh God, those comments. Cult behavior is an ugly thing to witness.
Didn’t know about the accent thing, but it fits with everything else about her-fake and/or staged.
Kobie
@PreservedKillick: Too.
Kobie
@PreservedKillick:
FTFY. I don’t think she gives a shit about power. If she had power, she’d actually have to do something besides spout off mangled platitudes, wink at the camera and cash five-figure checks.
Rekster
@MikeBoyScout: That is TOO funny!
MikeBoyScout
I hope to home school my Murkin children about Murkin history with her Tragical History Tour – our Family Crusade video, available from licensed xtrian retailers in a store near you.
Linda Featheringill
Sarah is aging [as are we all, of course]. Several recent pictures look like women do when they are fighting like hell to turn back the clock or at least stop it.
In all fairness, I must admit that I look like an old hag, largely because I am an old hag.
MonkeyBoy
What a lot of Palin fans don’t realize is that “professional” wrestling has a lot fans but that doesn’t make it legitimate or is it evidence that the whole US loves professional wrestling (as opposed to regarding it as a contrived freak show).
I would suspect there is a large overlap between these fan bases.
Cliff in NH
@Cliff in NH:
She also wants women who were RAPED to bear the rapists baby.
13:13
edit: even if her daughter was raped. 14:00
PurpleGirl
That was the second video clip I’ve seen with her talking about Paul Revere. And she says the same stupid stuff in both.
In Keith Olbermann’s voice: That woman is an idiot.
hilts
@Sinnach:
Larry the Cable Guy also has a fake accent
h/t http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59508-2004Sep3?language=printer
Isn’t Sarah Palin nothing more than a female version of Larry the Cable Guy?
jrg
@dogwood:
Yeah. Just like they were in ’08. Wait…
Svensker
@Jenny:
It’s weird. She sounds actually fairly intelligent and on top of things. I wouldn’t think it was the same woman.
Cliff in NH
@PurpleGirl:
You will Love this one then:
http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/worst-persons-of-the-day
LOL (I love his new newsroom already!)
hilts
@Linda Featheringill:
When Sarah Palin’s looks decline to the point where she can no longer cause erections lasting more than 4 hours for guys like Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity, our national nightmare will end.
Served
Sarah Palin as a surgeon, or any other occupation.
This could be a recurring sketch on SNL, and it would be even more devastating than the original round, because it’s true.
Jewish Steel
Weren’t all Americans subjects of the crown at that time?
Technically correct, but collectively…
Lee Hartmann
Doug J: please tell me that your statement was a reference to David St. Hubbins’ reaction to Nigel leaving the band:
“Well, I’m sure I’d feel much worse if I weren’t under such heavy sedation.”
PurpleGirl
@Cliff in NH: Yes, I saw that. I liked how the staff all said “That woman is an idiot” together while he mouthed the words.
PeakVT
@hilts: The difference is LTCG is trying to make people laugh.
Cliff in NH
@Cliff in NH:
OMG I agree with Palin on something (assuming she still stands by this answer)
@ 29:40 How to reduce the dropout rate (as high as 40% in alaska)in highschool.
More Voc ed, Excite students (I know its generic, but its true.)
rikyrah
she is one stupid heifer.
Roy G
I think she needs to start with more basic US History, namely, ‘Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?’
Of course, she’d probably get it wrong, unless she was prepped and had it written on her redneck teleprompter.
hilts
@PeakVT:
Palin would fit right in with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
The most nauseating thing about this week’s Palinpalooser Tour was hearing all these idiots on cable praising her for incredible political skills.
kamalokitty
A long time ago, I read some article, probably from Sullivan, where she was debating with some dude up in Alaska, who was all numbers, facts, and, you know… real stuff. And she said to herself, does anyone really care about this stuff. (Because she didn’t know any … er. .. facts.)
Do you suppose she’s right? She goes off on these patchwork, word salad, um-er, summations of “history” yet I get the feeling she doesn’t care, because her peoples don’t care.
So what the fuck, right? Paul Revere was all about the arming of the bells, or something. And we all laugh and roll our eyes.
But she wins. She doesn’t care.
karen marie
@Lurleen: Christy couldn’t be elected president in a million years. No, he’s not going to run. Shit, he can’t even walk 100 yards from a helicopter to a softball field.
karen marie
I just re-listened to Palin’s Revere Revisionism again, and I have one question.
Did I miss something in school? I thought the revolution was over taxes and political representation, not a desire of the British monarchy to turn the colonists into paraplegics by “taking away our arms.”
Steeplejack
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
C’mon, “Kicks” was a great song. Although “Just Like Me” would probably be a more appropriate theme for Palin’s (non-)campaign. (Bonus: go-go girls!)
Ruckus
@TenguPhule:
One set of internets is on the way.
MikeJ
@Steeplejack: Don’t the others in the band (at about :35)remind you of the dancing of Freddie and the Dreamers?
Cliff in NH
HoleeS..t
comment starts around 58:00, and continues to sarah
Sarah also said that alaska should lead in renewable energy (including nuclear)
What happened to her? Suck those emissions Sarah!
El Cid
Also, too, with the Martin Luther King, he was having to pick up from all those letters on the church door and that’s why he was goin’ around not wanting to stand on the buses.
So when he climbed up on the Washington Monument and said that the government had to tell people down South that they had to do what the federal government told them about how whites and blacks were going to live together, that was soshullism!
The people there they were trying to over, overcome that type of division, and it was bad, it was very bad, and good we don’t have that today.
But they were figuring their own way forward when all those people on that bridge attacked the firemen, and then when those firemen turned the hoses on because they didn’t want to use their guns, because we’re armed, we’re an armed people and we’re not ever going to give that up, that’s when the librul media suddenly decided they were going to go down there and make everything all worse by showing all the bad stuff and the people angry and they were never there for all the times that the good people, they lived beside each other, the different people in the mills and the beaches and with the plants they were growing, they were working together black and white to get past all that.
And it’s not that it was wrong when Kennedy signed the Equality laws, no, that was right, that was a very good thing because we should of course have the equality no matter what your race or color or how tall you are or any of that.
But if we could take just some of that energy of Martin Luther King, who I admire too, and make it so we could be together in the sorts of things we care about, the kind of stuff you and I do everyday like go to church, and that, yes, that is what we could all do and go to church together.
Maybe if we had all done that and lived simple and learned from the land then Martin Luther King wouldn’t have had to take all the people in his church and he took so many out of there that they didn’t even have room to all sit at the lunch counters and that became a whole big issue, too, where they felt like the right thing to do was to sit there until somebody, you know, the lunch place was owned by white people and though they may have been, I’m sure they were very good people, they just didn’t show the kind of respect to Martin Luther King’s church people because they hadn’t been shown that it’s right to treat everybody equal.
But just think what we could have done if you kept that in your heart, and looked out to what the people who live here every day and night value, they have values, and those are important to them.
Cliff in NH
@Cliff in NH:
Oh boy, she defended the bridge to nowhere that she was for/against/whatever @1:03:00
“I’m not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation that they .. blah bah don’t cancel it
WyldPirate
@beltane:
Goddamn but ya’ll are a bunch of whiny-ass, thin-skinned babies.
It’s ok though. Keep hittin’ that crack pipe and telling yourselves Obama and the feckless Dems are doing a good job. Meanwhile, I’ll keep reminding you silly, deluded fuckwits every inch that Obama gives in to the Rethugs as they both collectively trash the country for the kleptocracy that owns all of their asses.
dogwood
@El Cid:
Brilliant!
Cliff in NH
@Cliff in NH:
Oh Fuck Yea. You go Mr Halcro, Nice closing.
“would you hire Ms. Palin?”
“HeHeHe, Oh, I’m sure I could find a place both (the other dude) and Sarah, probably at the kids table at thanksgiving dinner… (weasel words oh yea I would draw on their experiences and ideas .. blah blah)
WyldPirate
@hrprogressive:
Yes, and some of you people would defend Obama if he skull-fucked a kitten. What’s your point, Mr. Pot (or is that Mr. Kettle)?
Oh right. You didn’t make one.
Doug Harlan J
@Lee Hartmann:
Such a fine line between clever and stupid.
Viva BrisVegas
@Roy G:
Despite living 10000 miles away, I know the answer to this one. It’s Mrs Grant.
El Cid
@dogwood: Thank you, it’s hard to think about how to do the writing when you’re just like the pioneers in the Old West when they had to stop with all the fancy things that so many people are used to, and they got back to the simple life, and they could move and wander and because of that you have America.
magurakurin
@WyldPirate:
so what’s the plan boss? Vote for Nadar? You are the one who is feckless. Obama, with all his faults and weakness, is at least a real human with his hands on the lever of power. All the firebagging brigade has is ponies and rainbows. Who is YOUR candidate that will slay the kleptocracy? What is your road map to the change you so desperately feel Obama cheated you out of? I hope it is more than pathetic whining on a Tier 3 blog. or is it?
WyldPirate
@Spaghetti Lee:
Yeah..Kinda like reading this board when anyone dares to criticize President Immaculate Perfection…
The only difference between the Palin worshipers and Obots is that Obots usually express their delusions in complete sentences.
WyldPirate
@magurakurin:
My Plan? I’ll vote for Obama for lack of a better choice. What I won’t do is waste a millisecond of my time working for his re-election unlike all the miles I walked and doors I knocked on in ’08.
What I won’t do is put lipstick on a pig and pretend I like the fact that he is pissing away lives and billions needlessly in Afghanistan. I won’t pretend that he has done something magnificent with the ACA. I won’t pretend that he is as big of an enabler of the Wall St. thieves as Bush or Clinton, etc.
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
Nooooo! My eyes! The memories!
Must cleanse the palate with this.
Djur
“Journolister”? What?
Can't Be Bothered
@WyldPirate:
uuuughhh. Just fuck off and die already. Seriously. We have a nice thread going of making fun of Palin and you lay your billionth ZOMG Obama!!!1!11!! shit. Can you stay on fucking topic?? We get your schtick. It’s beeeeyond fucking tedious at this point. Go drop trou and jack off to the idea of yourself somewhere else. Nobody gives a flying fuck. It’s boring. You’re boring. You suck. Fuuuuuuuuck.
Nickws
@Svensker:
Yes, very interesting.
If I had to guess I’d say Palin wasn’t originally the gibbering idiot we think she is, but she’s merely someone totally incapable of handling pressure. So she was pretty composed before middle 2008 yet has been a mess ever since.
Actually a much better way of viewing her laughable unsuitability for high office than “she’s just a dumbshit”.
Chris
@WyldPirate:
Welcome to Balloon Juice. I’ve been reading Obot vs Firebagger wars here since… well, at least as long as I’ve known this website. Beyond BJ, the progressive base is chock-full of people who’re anywhere between disappointed and white-hot mad that he hasn’t delivered what they’d hoped for. (Put me down for the “mildly disappointed” category myself).
On the right, the only Palin-related wars are over which side goes highest when she says “jump.”
To the entire right wing base, Palin is a goddess who can do no wrong. There are people who feel the same way about Obama, but there’s no universal, knee-jerk Cult of Obama covering the entire base in the same way that there is for Palin. Argumentum ad BothSidesDoItum = fail.
JR
Sarah,
There is help for those addicted to Xanax. It isn’t too late!!
Benzodiazepines are harsh drugs that make you lose contact with reality, like knot knowing who is buried in Grant’s tomb.
Just trying to help!
fasteddie9318
@Svensker:
Nah, I can’t go there, sorry. I can buy that the accent isn’t there or isn’t as artificially pronounced, but TEH STOOPID is right there, lurking beneath the veneer of her pre-determined talking point for that interview (“doing all they can do defend America” or whatever bullshit it was). If Charlie Rose had pressed her even a little to go past the talking point, she’d have been toast. But also, too, asking non-softballs is not Charlie Rose’s style.
Bubblegum Tate
@beltane:
That she was totally correct about Revere.
WyldPirate
@Chris:
chris, you seem to be a reasonable person so you deserve a non-derisive response.
It seems that the examples you cite just here (and they are elsewhere all over the progressive blogs) contradict the very claim you make.
There is a “cult of Obama” in the progressive movement that is just as virulent as the teatards and talibangelicals. I don’t think it is as large as Paloin’s right wing cult of personality, but it is alive and kicking on our side. But to say their is “universal support” of the Palin freak show “across the base” is ludicrous. Palin’s poll numbers alone refute that claim.
I will agree that the left’s Obama nutjobs don’t get nearly the attention that the Palin freak show mob does, but to say one.
WyldPirate
@Can’t Be Bothered:
Fuck you. Who died and made you thread monitor you stinking piece of anal retentive dog shit? There are numerous people here who have “gone off topic”.
You’re pissing and moaning about criticism of Obama is the exact mirror image of the same shit many here are complaining about reading on the right-wing nutjob sites defending Palin’s indefensible stupidity.
Palin may be fucking stupid, but at least she didn’t escalate in Afghanistan needlessly and cause the deaths and maiming of hundreds more American servicemen because of his action and the pissing away of hundreds of billions of dollars.
and before you start with some inane garbage like “we wouldn’t have got Osama w/o 80K extra troops” tripe, save it. The support elements for the operation the Seals pulled off could have EASILY been accommodated with a 20% of the troops that are currently in theater.
fasteddie9318
@Bubblegum Tate: Well of course she was. In Wingnut History, being detained and interrogated by the Regulars is the same thing as ridin’ around ringin’ those bells and firin’ off those warnin’ shots, also too, to warn the British not to be takin’ away our guns.
eemom
ever try to read one of these threads from the bottom up? Trippy.
‘course, when you got something as predictable as Wyld for the feature attraction, not as much, but I lol’d when I got to Can’t Be Bothered. Well said, sir/madam, well said.