The Beastie Boys did a better job…
Sarah Palin was in Boston today, and she said Some More Unintelligible Things, Mowgli-style:
The deadpan look on the the reporter’s face is priceless! It looks like she’s mind-yelling: “ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!” à la Sam Jackson:
Words fail her.
[via Eclectablog]
Comrade Kevin
I wouldn’t mind having a Big Kahuna Burger right now.
Yutsano
The look seems closer to “WHAT THE FUCK ARE MY PRODUCERS TRYING TO DO TO ME? I’ll never make a fucking national anchorship this way! Morans!”
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Is there a film that has more quotable dialogue? I’m thinking that even Casablanca falls short.
elle
I can only suppose the media covers her for the train-wreck effect….
Lysana
I see your Samuel L Jackson and raise you a SNL Celebrity Blogger moment. And as a Masshole, I dedicate it to Sarah Failin’.
Johnny Coelacanth
Anticipating the wingtard reaction, all I can come up with is “Oh well, Obummer sounds even worse when he doesn’t have his teleprompter, hur hur hur.”
Yutsano
@Johnny Coelacanth: Sigh. It’s just getting too easy any more isn’t it?
boss bitch
@Johnny Coelacanth:
their favorite one is when Obama said there were 57 states. he said this during the primaries and the man was obviously dog tired, but in their minds its the same as all the dumb stuff Palin has said.
Ms.B
There’s so much more to guffaw at, but, besides the fact she has no idea about the difference between Longfellow’s poem and what actually happened that night, the laugh-out-loud for me has been: “…send those warning shots and bells.”
That’s hard to do! On a horse. I think.Is it not?
Paul Revere, on a horse, shootin’ and ‘a ringin’ bells. Or, hmm, “sending bells?” What’s up with that? Is this some Revolutionary War technique we have failed to know until now?
Johnny Coelacanth
@Yutsano: Yeah, when all that is left to you are shibboleths and rigid ideology, it’s hard to be unpredictable.@boss bitch: Indeed. They were also making hay out of the fact that he wrote “2008” instead of “2011” recently, signing some guest book somewhere. Wake me up when he says “Put food on your family,” “peance and freeance” or “is our children learning.”
Amir_Khalid
(Facepalm.) This Palin woman knows less about American history and civics than most schoolchildren. This much is obvious to me from the other side of the planet. That the media still treats her as a serious contender for your Presidency, when most of the public has learned better by now, is worrying.
Oh, if any of the Aussie Balloon Juicers are out there: Do Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann ever remind you of Pauline Hansen? Because that’s very much the vibe I get from these two women.
PPOG Penguin
@Amir_Khalid: Kiwi, not Strine, but I also commend Rick Giles to your attention. He’s more of an up-and-comer, but man, he has the word salad thing down pat.
Valdivia
I love that when print media try to quote her they have to use countless ellipsis to make her sound semi coherent and it still doesn’t work. The fact that she is being followed and quoted like she knows or is saying anything meaningful is so insane to me. Ugh, going to be a long summer.
lacp
@Ms.B: I think “sending bells” is something nasty you find in the Urban Dictionary.
bkny
somehow i doubt that chatterbunny has much more depth to her than palin.
Valenciennes
First I was just going to make a whiny complaint about this woman being in such relatively close proximity to my precious, delicate person, but then I watched the video and, uh. Wow.
The Tim Channel
With sunrise just a couple hours away in America, I wanted to make sure everyone rising reads the latest on the Anthony Weiner saga. Turns out it was a Republican dirty trick, but that’s hardly gonna be a shock to anybody here.
Details:
http://thetimchannel.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/case-closed/
Enjoy.
AxelFoley
Damn, that broad is dumb.
Chris Wolf
Jeff Spicoli explained the Revolutionary War better than Sarah Dumb & Tall described Paul Revere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8BODTA3Kn8
Lysana
@Ms.B: The Longfellow poem was more accurate than Palin was. Let’s not slander a dead poet with a living failure.
Martin
@boss bitch: My mom brought that up and said “How can he be so stupid as to think there are 57 states?”.
I sighed. “He clearly confused ‘states’ with ‘primaries'”
She said “How on earth can there be 57 primaries when there are only 50 states? No, he really is that stupid.”
I sighed again. “50 states plus DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, the Texas caucus because someone thought it was a good idea to have both a primary and a caucus in Texas and split the delegates so it counts as two separate races, American Somoa, and finally voters abroad like soliders and diplomats that get all lumped together and treated as one separate race. 57. They count 57 races, they allocate 57 sets of delegates. During the primaries they focus everything on the 57 races that send delegates to the convention. Clearly he was thinking of races but said states.”
“Oh. Well, I still think he’s stupid.”
It was a much more minor slip of the tongue than even most Dems realize.
Joseph Nobles
@Martin: Oh, man, much better explanation than I’ve heard of that. And don’t knock the Texas Two-Step! I enjoy telling folks that I voted for Obama three times in 2008.
Martin
@The Tim Channel: The best part is the email to Brietbart:
This guy’s life is imploding due to god knows how many bad decisions detailed there, and rather than focus on actually getting his shit together, he’s playing Republican 007. I hope he lands in jail.
mick
@lacp: like a “rusty trombone”?
The Tim Channel
@Martin: Indeed. By the looks of the stats on my website concerning this breaking story, I’d say it’s gonna be a rough day or two for the Republicans, even if they do swing wildly to a totally different story.
Enjoy.
Donut
@Valdiva@13
Long summer???? Ha! This primaries have just starred Settle in. We may still have another 9-10 months before the GOP nominee is determined. Gonna be long year, I’m thinking.
JPL
Sarah also gave a history lesson while sightseeing at the Statue of Liberty. What a farce.
@The Tim Channel: I hope you are right but as of now, my local media is still covering it as a legit story implicating Weiner.
stuckinred
JPL
Palin said
She’s not running.
Steamboat
@Amir_Khalid: The parallels to Pauline are endless and uncanny. Now Palin is on a “One Nation” bus tour? It’s like Sarah started reading a Hanson biography, but quit before finding out how it ends.
alwhite
@Martin:
I assume Dimbart was behind this dirty trick, saw it wasn’t going to play out the way his past bullshit has & threw this stupid assclown under the bus. Had the Acorn video exploded Dimbart had emails or video of Keefey that would have magically appeared.
aimai
This is the movie scene that comes to mind: How Do You Fuck That Up.
Southern Beale
Today in our failed media experiment ….
Donut
@Donut:
Long summer???? Ha! This primaries have just starred Settle in. We may still have another 9-10 months before the GOP nominee is determined. Gonna be long year, I’m thinking.
Linda Featheringill
Ah dear. Dum de dum dum.
You know, real politicians have someone brief them about the places they visit so they can talk intelligently with the locals.
On the good side: I have sprouts this morning from the seeds I planted last weekend. Three little bitty cucumbers and two lettuce babies.
It is magic, isn’t it?
stuckinred
@Linda Featheringill: If you can keep the varmits from eating them!
shortstop
@Martin: Aha, thank you. Although I realized the second he said it that he meant primaries, I always only came up with 56 (forgot Texas).
shortstop
@Martin: I’m small enough that I found myself wondering last evening if his ex-wife knew about this yet and if so, how much fun she and her lawyer were having right now.
Cat Lady
@The Tim Channel:
Unless the details of the whole sordid affair are about giant bears, you mean “grisly” not “grizzly” on your recap.
/pedant
The Tim Channel
@JPL: My local media is you guys…..lol. I’m not sure how the rightwing noise machine is going to distract, avoid or ignore this breaking news, but I’m sure they’re going to try. On the other hand, it looks pretty well documented that it wasn’t him, and rightwingers risk total repudiation if they continue forward IMHO.
I’d rather not focus on this rather miniscule flaunting of common sense and decency when their ex-Prez is running around bragging about how he tortured people and would love to do it again. Wake up America.
Enjoy.
rea
@Martin: And here I though he was thinking of Mrs. Kerry and her ketchup
Legalize
@Johnny Coelacanth:
Couple that with Obama thinking we have 57 states.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
Mommy? Who’s that stupid lady?
Sly
Honestly, because of that awkward word salad, I don’t know if she’s referring to the attempted seizure of the arsenal at Concord or not. I’d be willing to give most people the benefit of the doubt, but I’ve heard more coherent statements of historical fact from 14 year olds.
Anyway, you tend to want to do stuff like confiscating weapons when you’re occupying a strategically valuable settlement and your enemy is gathering its forces nearby. The revolutionaries did the same thing on Long Island when it was (briefly) under their control: special committees were created to find and disarm known loyalists. And the whole point of the Concord mission was to seize cannon, not regular firearms. The same kind of cannon that the Continental Army later seized from Ticonderoga and used during the Siege of Boston, so the British were kind of prescient in wanting to keep artillery out of the hands of the rebels.
But Joey Joe Joe Jr. thinks that the Kenyan wants to take his AR-15 from his cold, dead hand, so of course the Queen is going to speak to her constituency. Abusing history for the purpose of ideology is, I guess, the least complicated way to do that.
chopper
@JPL:
Say it ain’t so, Sarah, there you go again pointing backwards again.
Marc
@Sly:
You’re overthinking this. Palin wanted to pander to the gun nuts. She vaguely remembered the ride of Paul Revere, figured that the Brits were just like the Feds, and came up with something that she thought was clever. No obscure history was involved or even dreamed of.
gnomedad
@stuckinred:
… and force us to buy health insurance.
Tom65
This is why she nevers gives interviews to anyone but Greta Van Sustern or Sean Hannity. She’s out of her heavily-scripted comfort zone now and this is the obvious result.
Librarian
Among the many myths of that event is that Revere never said “The British are coming.” That would have made no sense, because the colonists considered themselves to be British.
amk
AP fact-checks mitten’s I wanna be prezinent speech.
Lying MF’er.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ga0jZW9OwPXExbrFKGo6mzA8zF0Q?docId=39841424edc24812ae9cd592c7362d1c
quaint irene
So she insisted this had nothing to do with campaigning, but was a trip to highlight the historic sights of America. And she manages to even fuck that up!
How hard is it to check out a copy of ‘A Child’s Guide to US HIstory’ out of the library and memorize a few intelligable sentences for each place she planned to visit?
Marc
@quaint irene:
That would be booooring. Why would she clutter her beautiful mind with facts?
shortstop
@Marc: I think that’s about it.
mds
@Marc:
Yeah, the Brits were just like the Feds, SP. Golly, why did we even bother having a revolution, if we were just going to form our own government afterwards? Why, those traitors who drafted an illegal “Constitution” even ended up suggesting regulating militias, gun-seizing tyrants that they were. And don’t get me started on that monster Washington, using federalized military force against the Whiskey Patriots in order to collect taxes and centrally fund the national debt.
… Hmm, perhaps someone should try to slip an inflammatory summary of the Whiskey Rebellion to the Palin and / or Bachmann campaigns. Having them attack tax-and-spend violent leftist George Washington on television might help keep them close to the 27% Crazification Factor level of support.
Chrisd
Ring those bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KmivFbTTM&feature=related
Citizen_X
I think we need “send those warning shots and bells” as another tagline.
handy
Check out the brains on Sarah!
BeccaM
It is the sheer breadth and depth of that woman’s ignorance that astonishes me.
It’s for damned sure she just coasted through school and didn’t learn a thing.
trollhattan
@Martin:
Also, too, he no canna bowl, that Obama feller. Hardi-har.
I’d not heard the 57 thing laid out like this before. The interwebs can still eddycate me!
4jkb4ia
Antisocial behavior with links, part 2 This is actually Sully linking to Jill Lepore on “Paul Revere’s Ride” and John Brown. I knew it was around the Atlantic somewhere.
pablo
Sarah loves her Revere history a little more…
invisible_hand
could you post a transcript, for those of us who are hearing impaired?
Frank W.
I’m gettin’ so sick and tired of her droppin’ her damn ‘g’s every time she’s speakin’ and yammerin’ on about some horseshit she thinks she knows. I’m tired of her inserting her god-damned jingoistic terms randomnly into her ignorant observations: “I would like a — freedom — order of fries — forefathers! — and a small — all Americans deserve — rootbeer. Hold the ketchup — what makes this country so great — and throw in a — maverick — apple pie.”
cyntax
@invisible_hand:
Via Thinkprogress by way of TBOGG:
And thanks ABL for dropping the Beasties and Pulp Fiction into the same post: awesome.
shortstop
@invisible_hand: Here you go:
DonkeyKong
Later in the interview she added.
I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.
Rick Taylor
And yet this won’t hurt her. She’s not going to run for President; she’ll do much better being the voice of the Tea Party right pronouncing judgements on the various other Republican parties. Liberals will laugh at her mangling history, and her fans will take that as more evidence of their elitism and lover her all the more. So who’s really the fool?
mds
@DonkeyKong:
Now who can argue with that? I think we’re all indebted to Sarah Palin for clearly stating what needed to be said.
Bubblegum Tate
@invisible_hand:
Believe it or not, what @stuckinred posted is the verbatim transcript.
The Tim Channel
In other Sarah news, she is reported to be a menace on the highway, speeding in residential areas and nearly running over some guy on a bike. I also read today where it’s rumored she killed some sweet old lady at an Alaska children’s agency by setting the place on fire. Burnt up all the adoption records from the place. Implication seems to be that there were records on Trig in the file cabinets there. Trig is the handicapped prop baby she uses when inappropriate. The one that Andrew Sullivan is so interested in getting the birth certificate on.
There was some nefarious motives/conspiracy also inferred by the reportedly difficult effort to obtain fire report (public record) from this incident.
I can’t wait to see how it all works out.
Enjoy.
El Cid
From comments on the YouTube video above:
“The Sarah Palin Short Bus Tour”
El Cid
@mds: The version I feel like I’ve been hearing in American politics for decades:
‘Oh yeah? Well, I’m stupid, my daddy was stupid, my grand-diddy was stupid, and by god, if I got anything to say about it my kids gonna be stupid too!’
‘And if you don’t like it, well you can get the hell out of this country!‘
evinfuilt
@mds:
Gabby Palin is right!
evinfuilt
@The Tim Channel:
Actually, I haven’t seen a pic of Trig at all on this tour. Ignoring all else, I wonder why his propness hasn’t been out and about lately, and instead she’s dragging poor Piper everywhere (and she looks damn tired of that.)
Valenciennes
@Donut: That’s absolutely hilarious.
Graham Jones
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
oh brother, where art thou?
most quotable movie of all time