(2008-09-30) — Despite CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s aggressive, sharp-elbowed and sometimes sarcastic treatment of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a series of interview segments this week, Gov. Palin tonight called Ms. Couric “a personal hero of mine.”
“Katie’s a trailblazer,” Gov. Palin said. “She stepped into a man’s world to do the serious news after years of Today Show fashion and cooking segments, gushing interviews with Hollywood celebrities and lighthearted banter with the weather guy. Of course, she got ridiculed for her lack of serious experience.”
“They said she wasn’t ready for the big desk,” Gov. Palin added, “but she persevered, and now she’s just a heartbeat away from stepping into Dan Rather’s shoes. I, for one, think she’s ready, and I will defend to the death her equal right to do so.”
When a reporter noted that Dan Rather is basically retired, the Republican vice presidential nominee smiled and said, “Is that so?”
92 responses so far ↓
1 baragirl // Sep 30, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Sarah should have politely asked perky Katie to arm wrestle,heh heh. I’ve never seen the News people and “night time entertainers” so eager to be nasty.They don’t seem to understand that for the majority of Americans ,Sarah comes off looking Great ,but Katie and Letterman look like {Deleted}!!
Wow ,I love that word.”[DELETED]“
2 camojack // Sep 30, 2008 at 9:57 pm
When a reporter noted that Dan Rather is basically retired, the Republican vice presidential nominee smiled and said, “Is that so?â€
Heh, heh…
3 baragirl // Sep 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Have you noticed how my personality has changed ,since I lost my REAL name. I’m not just a sweet old lady ,anymore, I’m edgier and I have Attitude.
4 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 30, 2008 at 10:14 pm
re:3
who are/were you? Maybe I am lost in the dust. Scott is blazing away at speeds once unknown to mankind so I don’t get a chance to read everything.
5 gafisher // Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32 pm
baragirl, Everyone’s [delighted] with the New You.
6 gafisher // Sep 30, 2008 at 10:36 pm
And who knows; maybe someday, with practice, Katie will speak to audiences as large as Governor Palin regularly draws.
7 MajorDomo // Sep 30, 2008 at 10:50 pm
gafisher:
Yeah, when propaganda becomes fashionable.
8 Darthmeister // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Secret foreign money floods into Obama campaign which won’t make their records available for public inspection.
Talk about buying an election … and with illegal foreign campaign donations. Bet the lamestream media won’t get within a mile of this story which first surfaced when sHrillary and Oblahblah were going at it.
… those small donations have added up to more than $200 million, all of it from unknown and unreported donors.
Ritsch acknowledges that there is skepticism about all the unreported money, especially in the Obama campaign coffers.
“We and seven other watchdog groups asked both campaigns for more information on small donors,†he said. “The Obama campaign never responded,†whereas the McCain campaign “makes all its donor information, including the small donors, available online.â€
“While FEC practice is to do a post-election review of all presidential campaigns, given their sluggish metabolism, results can take three or four years,†said Ken Boehm, the chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center. [my note: plenty of time for Oblahblah to slime his way to the White House]
Already, the FEC has noted unusual patterns in Obama campaign donations among donors who have been disclosed because they have gone beyond the $200 minimum.
Under campaign finance laws, an individual can donate $2,300 to a candidate for federal office in both the primary and general election, for a total of $4,600. If a donor has topped the limit in the primary, the campaign can “redesignate†the contribution to the general election on its books.
In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good†from Austin, Texas.
Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving†and his profession as “You.â€
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,†from “Nando, NY,†gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving†and his profession as “You,†just as Good Will had done.
Aren’t liberals such wonderful and honest people so willing to spend and hate their way to national unity? They’ll certainly set a new tone in Washington with their political monopoly, won’t they?
Apparently McCain and Palin are exercising far more responsible oversight, restraint and transparency than the moneygrubbing Obama campaign, but that probably won’t shame Obama sycophants since they are so blinded by their hate they believe conservatives cheat at the same level the average liberal is willing to cheat so they are completely justified in commiting not only outright voter fraud vis a vis ACORN and the corrupt Democratic machine but also campaign finance fraud if it gives them the unfettered opportunity to turn America into a collectivist velvet gulag … for our own good, of course.
And I wonder how much of this money comes from far left billionaire George Soros who has laundered tens of millions of dollars through Democratic 527s and various front groups as well as through faux contributors like those listed above?
9 Darthmeister // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:21 pm
… push
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11 J. Cougar Melancholy // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:32 am
Without the words in front of her, Palin can’t speak off the cuff. She thought the Couric interview was a take home test. She’s like a housewife who won a contest and she’s embarrassing the party. That’s why so many conservatives are asking her to step down. I’m looking forward to the VP debate, but I’m gonna cringe for everyone when she opens her mouth.
Oh well, if McCain does win, she’ll make a lovely Marge to his Grandpa Simpson.
I can see Russia from my little pink house, y’all!
12 mig // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:07 am
No you are confused JCM… It’s the Democrats that want Biden to step down.
13 mig // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:30 am
Best E-mail of the day:Love those Marines!!!!
SPRING 2009
One spring day in 2009, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he had been sitting on a park bench.
The old man spoke to the Marine on guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.”
The Marine replied, “Sir, Mr. Obama is not the President and does not reside here.”
The old man said, “Okay,” and walked away.
The following day, the same old man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama”.
The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is not the President and does not reside here.” The old man thanked him and again walked away.
The third day, the same old man approached the White House and said to the very same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.”
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have come here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I’ve told you each time that Mr. Obama is not the President and does not reside here. Do you not understand?”
The old man answered, “Oh yes, I understand. I just love hearing your say it!”
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow Sir.”
14 gafisher // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:59 am
Has anyone seen Katie Couric without the lipstick?
15 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:21 am
I’m still waiting for the zinger from Katie Couric or some other liberal moonbeam that based on higher authority, it is now revealed that Sarah’s daughter is not only ‘with child’ but the real father of her baby is an alien who landed his flying saucer space ship, kidnapped the girl and the baby was conceived on the far side of the moon (where the ‘mother ship is parked in hover mode.)
The Mainstream Media expects people to believe the smear campaign they’ve mounted against any and everything of conservative nature - but Katie’s news flash is far more believable.
Katie Couric interviewed Joe Biden on Sept. 22nd and almost overwhelmed him with a rapid series of fastballs, every single one comprised of 100% cotton candy.
With her innate sense of fair play guiding her she repeated her questioning of Sarah Palan with only one slight modification, instead of being made of cotton candy, these were baseball sized steel ball bearings.
Much to her chagrin, Sarah fielded each and every question like the professional she is.
It wasn’t just the questions but the way that they were asked, leaning forward in a prosecutorial manner badgering a witness in the courtroom.
It was supposed to be an interview, not an updated version of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
I doubt that with her background that Sarah is about to be intimidated by a powderpuff like Katie.
More than likely Sarah simply views Katie as nothing more than another moose, to be dealt with - so life and her Vice Presidency can continue on.
16 Hawkeye // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:42 am
Clearly, “irony” is not a concept that’s lost on Maestro Scott Ott.
17 NeaL // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:58 am
I was just noting on one of my message boards, yesterday, that McCain’s opening remarks athe the first debate had to do with Ted Kennedy’s health. Much like Palin’s first words to the people of the United States gave credit to her predecessors, Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton.
I just don’t see that kind of willingness to even acknowledge Republicans coming from any of the Democrats. Politically, I don’t know if this would be a strength or weakness, but it does say a lot about personal character. Scott’s deductive satire is right on target.
And I would agree with Governor Palin: Dan Rather has not been properly retired.
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20 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 9:30 am
THE ALASKAN BEAUTY QUEEN IS AN AIR HEAD. SHE MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE IN THE FAR NORTH BUT IS NOT ACCEPTED DOWN HERE. IF SHE IS AS DUMB AS SHE SOUNDS AND MCCAIN WINS WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE.
21 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:16 am
I love the way libs think that simply saying someing makes it true. I guess saying it in all caps makes it really true. Such nuanced reasoning…
oh, and ignore any titles like Governor (with the highest approval rating in the country), Mayor, mother of five, career ender for corrupt pols in both parties, and the woman who told the oil companies they were no longer in charge of her state to name a few.
I feel sorry for them. Such a blind need to hate can’t be healthy.
22 Maggie // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:24 am
Baragirl,
I know who you are….no change really :>)
Ms RW…I’ll send you an email.
Gafisher re # 14….funny……
Skylark re#20…..Governor Sarah Palin was”dumb” enough to beat the sittingRepublican Gov Merkowski (sp?) machine….Hmmmm?
23 J. Cougar Melancholy // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:28 am
She’s one hot mama in way over her head. Part of me is actually pulling for her and part of me is itching to say, “I trolled you so!”.
24 ep29030 // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:43 am
We Are So Stupid!
I am amazed at how we (Americans) have taken the “Palin Bait” offered up: we debate whether she’s qualified to be #2, while we have let go of debating the qualifications of Obama to be #1. Said another way: if you believe that Palin lacks experience to be #2, you have already decided that Obama-with even less experience-is not qualified to be #1. If Palin isn’t qualified, then you have to vote for McCain. Ain’t logic a strange thing at times?
25 nylecoj // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:01 am
Fred,
in re#15.
Much to her chagrin, Sarah fielded each and every question like the professional she is.
You can see a clip of some of that interview at
LGF
As you can see she did very well. Maybe there is hope for Thursday even with Gwen Ifill ‘moderating’.
Not getting to see much of the crowd reactions to her visits and only seeing things like these interviews was beginning to make me nervous.
26 Maggie // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:27 am
nylecoj….re#25
My favorite Couric question to Gov.Palin was…..what magazines do you read to learn about the issues of the day?
(paraphrase)
I would have said: Katie,we have a lovely little reading room in back of the house with the cutest little half moon decoration on the door.Tod keeps it stocked with currents events magazines and paperbacks.People Mag. is my favorite.Katie did you know that Clay Aikin
came out of the closet? etc
27 nylecoj // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Maggie,
That would have been funny, that is surely what Couric was looking for.
28 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Maggie, too funny! I’d bet Katie Couric doesn’t think you gen get People Magazine in Alaska.
Anybody want to have a pool on the number of women the lamestream media are going to say Joe Biden won? I figure they’ll want a majority, but not so big a lead that their fraud will become too obvious to women who occasionally speak to other women. I’d hazard a guess at 54%.
Greta did a poll during her show last night of how many think the media has already decided that Palin lost the debate. Of the more than 20,000 responses the answer was 98% “Yes.” I know this is hardly a scientific poll, but 98%?
Why do the Democrats need to protect voter fraud and have the mainstream media enslaved to them if their policies are so desirable?
29 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:06 pm
“gen” is a little known spelling choice for “can”
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Is there even such a magazine?
31 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:21 pm
To Shelley and Maggie. From what I have read Palin speaks in double talk. Her thinking has to be in doubt when she can’t even put a logical sentence together. In reading about the Gov debates in Alaska, her answers were frequently followed by the moderator saying ” that didn’t answer the question” and “that statement of yours was unresponsive to the question.” Mc Cain’s mantra “country first” is a bigggg lie. He put politics first when he picked a novice, inarticulate woman to be his VP. She is out of her league and needs to return to Alaska where the issues might a little more simple for her simple mind !!!!!
32 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm
And there we have it folks, Syklark’s strongly held opinion is based on what someone else said. No need there to find out for oneself. Let hatred and those who share it be your only guide.
33 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Since I am not a reporter and don’t follow the candidates around, I believe it is reasonable to read what others have seen and heard first hand. Perhaps Shelley doesn’t read at all but gets all her info in person. I doubt that greatly.
34 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I watch her speak, I don’t read about others watching her speak. Television makes that possible, much like it did in 1929 when President FDR addressed the nation following the stock market, according to Joe Biden.
I also correctly spell my name.
35 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:53 pm
How much you want to bet that “Skylark” gets its first-hand “info” from the NYT and CNN?
36 Mack // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:01 pm
JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 30, 2008 at 1:09 pm Good post yesterday.
I like the way McCain is walking the tight rope between nailing the Dems to the wall and taking it in the shorts. Personally I am so mad right now it defies words. As Michael Reagan said last night, his show, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, and Shaun Hannity (SP) can get clip after clip from many hearings where the very DEMOCROOKS now in charge of oversight shot down every attempt at curbing and controlling Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae.
They were opposed in lock step by the Republicans. one of which outright asked how many of them were on the payroll of Fannie May. But NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN? None can seem to find this footage? Hannity had it on his show again last night.
Still the New York Times, and not one of the networks can find the time to address it. They do have time to blame Republicans. Lie, spin, and of course attack Sarah Palin. Not a word against Obama who received over $400, 000.00 dollars from this herd. Not a word against Barney “Let me tell you about my bordello” Franks, Not a word against Chris “I also ran for president” Dodd. Even when there is video showing them on their respective committees ignoring the problem and even blocking any effort at correcting it before the train wreck.
I am mad as hell. The MSM is at the center of it and by their refusal to even try to seem truthful have perpetuated more misery than Hitler and Stalin combined.
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The Senate version of the so-called “bail-out” is 451 pages long and weighs 5 pounds.
So, here’s one that definitely needs to go to the dumpster.
If those people can’t do what is right for the country without getting their palms greased…..grrrrr…..
38 J. Cougar Melancholy // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It’s really easy to blame the lamestream media for your party’s shortcomings and glaringly obvious poor choices.
39 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I READ A TRUCK LOAD OF PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE ONES LIKE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NEWLY DEFUNCT NY SUN. I WATCH ALL THE CALBE NEWS STATIONS WHEN I HAVE TIME AND PRIDE MISELF ON BEING VERY WELL INFORMED. I AM AN INDEPENDENT AND VOTE FOR THE PERSON NOT THE PARTY. SARAH PALIN IS STILL AN AIR HEAD AND NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK IN SENTENCES. !!!!
40 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Very well informed? I doubt it. Very excitable? Obviously. My how our VP candidate scares the left.
41 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:08 pm
No I am not scared, I just don’t like my intelligence being insulted by McCain’s picking this AIR HEAD !!!!!!
42 Maggie // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Skylark re#31
According to your comments ,Gov Palin ought to make a great Dimocrat….I’m just sayin…….
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Please, genius, give us an example.
44 Maggie // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:37 pm
SL re #41
According to your statement I ask,how do you know when your “intelligence” is insulted?
I’m just askin……..
45 danimal // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Skidmark - Just vote for the Marxist and stop torturing yourself over VP personalities.
I haven’t voted [for] a Presidential candidate since 1984 because none since have been worth voting for. I’ve been voting [aginst], and I’ll crawl over broken glass this time to vote against Barack Obama.
But if you like, I can make my justification as vapid as yours and vote against the VP with the bad hair plugs.
46 NeaL // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I think it is great that Gwen Ifill is moderating the VP debate, tomorrow. I can think of no greater opportunity to expose the bias of the mainstream media before the television viewers of the United States than to have this conflict-of-interests front and center. I hope Ms. Ifill shows her true colors and taints the debate as much as she feels she can get away with. The voting public will see this and, if for no other reason, elect McCain/Palin to spite the media.
I’m enjoying this air of impending doom and gloom and stories that even Republicans are regretting McCain’s VP choice. It will make it all the sweeter for tomorrow when Governor Palin field dresses Biden like a bull moose and drapes the entrails around Ifill’s shoulders.
47 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:27 pm
POST TURTLE
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who’s hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘Post Turtle’”.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, “When your driving down a country road, and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’”.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain, “You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, and he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put him up there to begin with”.
48 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:29 pm
-UGH-
49 MajorDomo // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Skylark: I WATCH ALL THE CALBE NEWS STATIONS WHEN I HAVE TIME AND PRIDE MISELF ON BEING VERY WELL INFORMED. I AM AN INDEPENDENT AND VOTE FOR THE PERSON NOT THE PARTY.
I notice that you seem only to know about Gov. Palin. So how is it that you’re so well-informed? Tell us what you know about Obama’s ties to Saul Alinski (you do know who he is, don’t you? Or maybe you can shed some light for us ignorami on just what a “community agitator…er…activist….er…organizer” is ? Perhaps, in your highly-enlightened state, you can explain how Gov. Palin’s opponent doesn’t know history well enough to know when FDR was president? Ronald Reagan had a phrase for the likes of you: “It’s not that Liberals don’t know anything; it’s that they know so much that isn’t true.” Now pull your thumbs from your galluses and sit down.
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I haven’t heard anybody say that they are going to stop the government from Coercing lenders to lend to those who will not be able to make the payments, which is what brought all of this on.
51 Skylark // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I’m leaving for a “Jazz For Obama” in NYC and I don’t have aymore time for this back and forth. I think McCain is not smart enough in this day and age to be president. The fact that he picked this light weight to get his campaign energized is criminal He should be prosecuted for putting the country in this potential danger having her so close the the presidency. Obama is a lot cleaner than most of the politicians. Don’t forget McCain and the Keating 5 !!!!!!!
52 MajorDomo // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Nor shall we forget Obama and ACORN
53 MajorDomo // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Heh heh! When you put a Governor on a balance scale with an Organizer on the other end, which way does the scale tilt?
Guess he’s gone to be with his kind where he will obviously be more comfortable.
54 pauls // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:24 pm
#51: Would that be the same Keating 5 that McCain was exonerated over? And the other four were Democrats?
55 NeaL // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:31 pm
@Syklark #51
Don’t forget “articulate, bright, and nice-looking.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgTMjtWMv0
As for the Keating 5, McCain and John Glenn were absolved of any wrong-doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
So what’s your point?
56 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:37 pm
NeaL, this “well informed” troll has heard mention of the Keating 5, and not knowing anything about it just tossed it out there hoping to hit something truthful. I’m still trying to figure out why McCain should be prosecuted for picking the most popular Governor in the USA, if one believes Obama will win. The only reason for hating her like this is the fear that because of her Obama won’t win. The crime would be Uh-uh-bama not getting to steal the White House. That thought drives them mad.
57 Darthmeister // Oct 1, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Let’s face it, Katie Couric is simply Sarah Palin without the brains. What a two-bit journalistic hack. I think her earlier colonoscopy must have damaged her brain in some way.
A recent Michael Silence analysis reveals the question of “experience” was raised 13,538 times by the media in one month concerning Sarah Palin. The question about Barack Messiah Obama’s “experience” was raised 15,038 … over a period of 18 months!
Naw, there is no media bias.
BTW, if the candidate for “change”
stealswins the election, I wonder if Obama will change the American flag to have 57 stars or 58 stars?58 J. Cougar Melancholy // Oct 1, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Skylark,
You’re in NYC too?! I want to buy you a Zima!
It’s gettin’ interesting in here! Whoo Hoo!
59 Darthmeister // Oct 1, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Shelly, libtards in their venomous hatemongering rage simply don’t understand the term “exonerated”, particularly where conservatives or Republicans are involved. In their Amerika, all Republicans and conservatives are guilty until proven innocent beyond any unreasonable doubt within the minds of liberals on a day-to-day basis as it suits their political agenda. One day John McCain is a “maverick” and a “reformer” when he opposes President Bush or the Republican Party, but as soon as McCain becomes the Republican Presidential candidate he is evil incarnate … a LIAR!!! … a Repuglican pimp for Halliburton … vomit … spew … blah, blah, blah.
Just as Robert Byrd went from being a Grand Dragon in the KKK to a mainstream Democrat in the U.S. Senate, if Sarah Palin were to put a “D” behind her name the liberal Democrats would embrace her as a progressive, forward looking but pro-life (which makes her pro-choice in that she chooses life, right?) Democrat. There are already pro-life Democrats today but they pretty much stuff that under a bushel basket if they want to stay under that “big tent” Donk umbrella. But once you’re off the liberal plantation …
60 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Fear. Exactly.
And what is it, exactly, that they fear? What makes them cringe?
They fear the wrath of their leader, satan, if they allow faith, hope and love [1Corinthians 13] to prevail.
A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes
will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.~~Proverbs 29:1
61 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Little Green Footballs (LGF) has further evidence that Cynthia McKinney is WACKO, if you require further proof.
62 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I found that quote on line: from a classic Bob Hope Movie “The Ghost Breakers†The dialogue goes like this:
HOPE: “Then maybe you can tell us what a Zombie is?â€
DOCTOR: “When a person dies, it seems that a Voodoo Priest has the power to bring them back to life.â€
GIRL WITH HOPE: “Why that’s horrible.â€
DOCTOR: “It’s worse than horrible, you see, A zombie has no will of its own. You see them sometimes, walking around blindly, dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.â€
HOPE: “You mean like democrats.â€
63 danimal // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:53 pm
re: 57 - Darth, The fact that the formerly perky Katie still has a magnificent rack keeps her on the boob tube.
re: 58 - I’ll bet Scott is smiling now that his dating service is up and running. Zima and Jazz for Obama… Have fun, kids.
64 Beerme // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Well, I find it interesting that Palin is considered such a lightweight, while Obama is considered to carry such gravitas. Perhaps these folks are confused and are mistaking Tina Fey’s caricature with Palin?
Oh, and the fact that JCM wants to buy a Zima for his bud the agitated, speling-challenged CAPmeister (who is heading to an INDEPENDENT Jazz for Obama rally…really!)…well THAT speaks volumes. Little pink citrus-flavored malt beverages, y’all!
65 Darthmeister // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Beerme, I like your joke … “while Obama is considered to carry such gravitas” … buwhahahahahahahahaha!
The man has done absolutely nothing to substantively change people’s lives. The man couldn’t even change his own whacked out pastor after twenty years!
Reminds me of this disturbing video: Singing and praying to … Obama!
I knew Obamessiah’s political movement would turn into a full-fledged cult. I guess things will indeed “change” once the Messiah in Chief rides his donkey across the palm branches into the White House. A lot of appropriate imagery here. He certainly won’t be my president since he’ll represent the other of John Edwards’ two Americas … theirs being the other AmeriKa we abhor.
Since 9/11/01, the liberal Democrats schemed, lied, engaged in divisive partisanship and sowed the wind … I give Obama three and a half years before they and their AmeriKa begins reaping the whirlwind.
The only time America was more divided than this was during the War Between the States. I just don’t see how libs think they can hate their way to national unity. What a pipe dream, and a very dangerous one at that.
66 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Darthmeister #65 - ” I just don’t see how libs think they can hate their way to national unity.”
You know, I am sorry to say that I am disappointed. Perhaps I’ve been on the liberal free wagon too long. Like a booze hound that forswears alcohol and goes “On the wagon”, it hasn’t been all that easy. Reading liberal attacks on America the comments of fellow Conservatives who respond to these [expletive deleted] is painful.
Then I read where some well meaning Compassionate Conservative writes, “I feel sorry for them. Such a blind need to hate can’t be healthy.â€
It’s hard for an intelligent person to believe, but to them, the only difference between hate and bread is that one word is comprised of four letters the other of five. Hate is their daily bread, they not only need it, they thrive on it. “Gimme another slice of that hate, I’m still hungry.â€
They have an insatiable appetite for hate, they hate Republicans, they hate Conservatives, they hate religion and they especially hate Christianity! They hate anything and everything that is not unethical, immoral or illegal. since those three make up the tripod base for their church of “Godless†to rest on.
They hate everything from their parents to their families and weirdly enough, they hate themselves the most.
A perfect example is Sarah Palin. Since she is the shining example of everything they are not. she’s nice, kind, understanding, forgiving, clean, articulate, brave, honest, successful and worst of all (from their point of view), she’s highly intelligent.
Perhaps her worst sin is that she has not only achieved her current level of success without the aid of any of their “entitlement” programs, she has the unmitigated gall and effrontery to give God the credit for everything she has been ‘blessed’ with; including her ‘downs syndrome’ son.
And from what various Christians have written in their posts to SF; I perceive that for the most part they are far too intelligent to get down on the liberals level and wallow in the mire and muck where they dwell.
I can assure you from personal experience that the air up here atop the liberal free wagon is refreshing exhilarating and above all, clean. Something they can never claim.
67 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:50 pm
“hate their way to national unity…”
I’ve never heard that better put.
Sean interviewed Governor Palin (former Mayor of Wasilia if you’re a fact-phobic lib, or beauty queen if you can’t even admit that truth) today on his show. If you’d like to hear her put several sentences together quite successfully you can listen at Hannity.com. Or I guess you can read about it somewhere and let others tell you what to think.
68 danimal // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Darth - Poor kids in that video will never learn to think independently and critically. They are destined to “Mao the words” of their keepers.
And I’d say that the scheme goes way back before 9/11/01 and way beyond lying and devisive partizanship. More like 11/22/63 when the last moderate Democrat President was slaughtered and “…ask not what your country can do for you…” was replaced with “get on the couch and wait for the welfare check” (paraphrasing LBJ).
69 Shelly // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Don’t you love Krauthammer? Tonight on Special Report, referring to Ifill moderating tomorrow night, he basically said this:
“If Obama is elected she’s won the lottery, and if not she’s written Dewey beats Truman in book length.”
There are zero ethics or standards in journalism today. Having someone with a serious financial stake as the “objective” moderator shows how laughable and unprofessional these dolts are.
70 danimal // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:09 pm
The Doobie Brothers warned us 30 years ago.
…
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him…
71 mindknumbed kid // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:19 pm
re#66 - Their hatred is for Jesus Christ. The rest comes “naturally”…
72 Beerme // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:20 pm
danimal,
Re: 63, Ha! Love might just bloom under the Obama symbol in the park…
73 mindknumbed kid // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:24 pm
That Skylurk is an “independent” solid blue stater. That entire region gets their steady diet of kool-aid straight from the tap. They think they are enlightened, but they are sitting in utter darkness.
Jesus Christ is the Light, pass it on…
74 mindknumbed kid // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Beerme - Already bloomin’….bloomin’ idjits!
75 gafisher // Oct 1, 2008 at 9:44 pm
They did it. The [deleted] [deleted]s really did it.
…………………………(apologies to Charlton Heston)
76 gafisher // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Remember this as the day John McCain lost the Presidency.
Senators Voting “Nay†on Federal Intervention in the Financial Markets
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
15 Republicans voted no; 10 Democrats voted no
40 Democrats voted aye; 34 Republicans vote aye
77 Darthmeister // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Excellent debate questions for Joe Biden that will NOT be asked by a liberal journalist
danimal, welcome aboard.
Fred, saliently put. I bow with respect in your general direction.
Shelly, Saracuda remarked to the unremarkable but perky Katie Couric that journalism sure had changed since she graduated in journalism back in the 1980s.
Yep, it sure has, whatever was left of journalistic ethics has been further flushed down the Obama toilet
78 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:17 pm
To the little birdie who has been sitting on the telegraph wire attempting to poop on Palin, well, let me just say I listen to talk radio quite a bit while sitting here at the computer. Every radio show I have listened to has had the same talking points called in to the station. It even sounds like the same person.
Do you think we are so naive to think the Democratic party, via the Daily Kos, has not released the bumper sticker messages to be called in to the radio shows and slapped onto the Internet. If you think that, then you are dumber than you sound.
I have gone to the street with the truth. I get all sorts of distant stares and angry returns from the liberals because they have never heard the truth. Not talking points, but statements backed by fact.
I would be ashamed to say little barbs about talking in short sentences. Get real. Forget your Obama rallies. Study debate.
Like I said, I can get out in my power chair and go to the OB’s rallies and get face to face with the liars and hiders of the truth. I’m sorry more can’t do the same.
I’m a real, died in the wool journalist, not a blogger per say and yes, Journalism has died. The media has become as much as a Marxist as OB1.
Nuff said.
79 everthink // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm
“Remember this as the day John McCain lost the Presidency.”
Oh no, he lost his ONLY chance in 2000. He seems to have lost whatever honor he may have ever had then too.
ET
80 Mack // Oct 2, 2008 at 1:43 am
Today I miss Santini.
He would write a parody song to the tune of “Miss American Pie” called “The day American Journalism died.” That would be today.
John McCain on the other hand needs to strap on his guns and come out blazing. Talk radio, Fox News, and the blogs have done another Dan Rather. The DEMOCROOKS have tried to sweep their involvement in this mess under the rug. They lie early and often. The alternative media is exposing the lies. People are catching on. People who otherwise don’t get involved are ticked.
After this election I do believe people are as angry at the MSM as I am. The ywill really be fed up by November. The DEMOCROOKS lie, but the media refuses to challenge them on it. The media aid and abet the lies and it has brought the country to a crisis that would have been avoided. So something like 700 times as big as ENRON is being politicized and spun by the MSM in support of the CRIMINALS to the loss of the responsible citizens.
I am going to have to watch the fur fly as people like Katie and the herd try to “Fake but accurate” their way out of this one. As for the trolls. You missed the gravy train. The MSM will have real trouble selling advertising space for the ice franchise in hell after this. The best you can hope for is being irritating on conservative blogs. Leave it to a troll to see the lady, Governor Palin, as a body and miss the brain.
Never forget the number one rule of modern combat. “Never Underestimate your opponent.” Keep trying to minimize her.
81 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 2, 2008 at 6:25 am
Heh.
McCain left Maureen Dowd standing on the tarmac yesterday.
I hope there is video.
82 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 2, 2008 at 6:27 am
day-before-yesterday
83 Fred Sinclair // Oct 2, 2008 at 6:36 am
This in last night 23:40 hrs (11:40 P.M.) from Virgil -
I talked to Letty yesterday, she is still trying to get things done insurance wise and all. Brian was driving toward Houston and was following a truck with plywood on it, a piece of plywood flew off and hit his car. He was in the BMW convertible, he could have been decapitated. When he got back home a workman across the street was backing his truck up and ran into Brian’s car wrecking the other side. Brian also lost a truck to the storm, without insurance.
Also, someone was throwing debris on a transformer, I don’t know what it was doing so low, but when the electricity was turned on it blew the transformer. They will be without electric for awhile longer. They have their share of troubles. They do have water for the toilets and are using a generator. Letty may be up here by this weekend if not sooner.
Pray for them.
Virgil
84 egospeak // Oct 2, 2008 at 7:49 am
Permit me to disagree ever so slightly with those speaking of the death of journalism. I would suggest that it died decades ago. Does anybody remember the reporting of the Tet Offensive? A massive American victory portrayed as a massive American defeat? The difference today is that there is no longer even any pretense of journalistic integrity. What has so recently died is not journalism, but the pretense of journalism.
Regards,
85 onlineanalyst // Oct 2, 2008 at 7:59 am
Maybe some of the insular scoffers had better learn about Alaskan Foreign Policy". Location, location, location gives a governor of a state that is a first-line defense on ICBM threats and that provides twenty percent of America's oil plenty of gravitas.
* Little pink igloos, JCM.
86 gafisher // Oct 2, 2008 at 8:24 am
Darth Re#57: “A recent Michael Silence analysis reveals the question of “experience†was raised 13,538 times by the media in one month concerning Sarah Palin.”
It’s a legitimate question, but the idea that Governor Palin is too inexperienced in Washington really puts the issue upside-down — what we need in government isn’t people who know how things work in Washington; we need leaders who know how things work in places like Grand Rapids, Sioux City, Peoria, and of course Wasilla.
87 gafisher // Oct 2, 2008 at 8:38 am
I’ve really enjoyed seeing the uptick (so to speak) in trolls here lately.
You can tell when they’re scared — it makes them squeal more.
88 gafisher // Oct 2, 2008 at 9:25 am
The Health Question
“ABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama told reporters in St. Louis today that he has fallen off the wagon and smoked cigarettes in the last few months.”
Barack Obama engages in what has been called the most dangerous health choice possible, cigarette smoking. This presents a terrible example to America, especially kids, but also raises very serious health issues, especially given Joe Biden’s frightening history of potentially deadly aneurysms.
John McCain has had several skin lesions removed and is regularly checked for a recurrance, but is currently in good health; Sarah Palin appears to be in exceptionally good health.
89 Maggie // Oct 2, 2008 at 9:40 am
Cuzin Beerme…re #64….Good morning.
2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 throws a lot of light on the subject, with special attention to verse #11.
……and for this cause ,God shall send them a strong delusion,that they should believe a lie.
90 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 2, 2008 at 10:47 am
egospeak re:84
I agree where I may, disagree where I must and I do agree with you on the Tet Offensive.
It makes me step back and think when I dare qualify myself as a journalist because I have never been syndicated or feel more like a storyteller than a hard hitting politician. The title doesn’t wear well on my chest.
I didn’t graduate from University of Missouri Columbia, Northwest or any other top J schools. Still I worked as a columnist for a large California paper, was the general manager of a flyspeck of a college radio station and owned a newspaper that would be laughed at by the top Ohio papers-but I did what I could.
One thing I do have no school could teach is time-hard worn with many failures mixed with sucess. In the numerous years of wearing many badges from a nurse to truck driver, chef then to a fighter for neurological health, time has been the teacher.
So let me get to the point. When journalism was at the period you spoke of, truth and dignity started to die. Hollywood jumped in with satire, not fired at the truth, but at its enemies. Laugh In, the Smothers Brothers and others who I laughed with started to chip away at the foundation of confidence.
Later Pee Wee Herman replaced Superman and Sky King. Boy Scouts were trashed and looked at as if they were geeks from Uranus.
Nixon was raped. Not that he was a great man, but every step he made was turned into a laughing point. If he talked about his wife’s coat, it was a mockery on the television. Meanwhile, what was turning us towards a socialistic country was hoistened, such as the War on Poverty-which we lost.
Carter was given a red white and blue stage for running America into the pits of the biggest recession since Eisenhower’s administration. Reagen who blind sited the media gave hope for America and still does, but was ripped by the networks, though he was a beloved man. His funeral stopped us in our tracks as we recalled the pride we once held.
Conservative thinkers and writers arose from the background but the war on idealism perforated their energy. Books like Robert Bork’s “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” should have been required reading for College Prep high school students instead of the trash they were spoon fed.
Ask any young college student about the Kent State shootings and see what the answer is. Time allowed me to be in the area during those violent days and I watched what the SDS was doing to the campus. But who will tell the younger generation. Not the media.
Now Sarah Palin is being skewed and raped by Hollywood. The journalists can’t help by telling the truth because they sold their souls years ago. The blogs are powerful, but I am afraid not as powerful as the media that is slapped onto the faces of the sleeping zombies across America.
Sorry about the length, but as a community activist of another color (like the horse) my gut has been churning, my heart saddened and my hope darkened. I need to hear stories of men and women making a political difference-but other than talk radio, where is the message.
Is there a chance to turn America back? Not sure. I feel that is a job for every countryman and woman. No prayers in schools, no Ten Commandments, no valor (sorry Glen Beck), no time to go to the streets.
Remember, becoming a socialist does not take energy, but becoming a conservative is dam*ed hard work.
91 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 2, 2008 at 10:49 am
Then I lost my post. Oh well, what is an hour of energy.
92 MajorDomo // Oct 2, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Good, Mrs. RW. I can remember the Goldwater campaign, in which the big-name talking heads of the time, chief of whom I remember is Sam Donaldson, saying after a Goldwater speech “What the Senator said was,….” and then proceed to twist Goldwater’s comments into what he wished Goldwater had said. It took a little help from RINO Rockefeller (trigger-happy), but taken together it wrecked Goldwater’s campaign.
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