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    Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)

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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    She actually went through a vetting process? That's rich. And where is all of this going? Is she just going to continue to take jabs at everyone and have them continue to take jabs at her until 2012? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    I liked how her FB update uses BIG, smart-sounding words... "subsequent", "erroneously".

    You should see the responses she got to that, they were hilarious. One guy saying that he didn't even know that people at AP could read?!?? Another guy still referring to her as "Governor" . #sarahpalin
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/13/09

    @se7a7n7: You read them too? Reading the inane and often unintelligible comments from her "fans" is a passion of mine. Gosh, if I had a dime for every time one of them referred to her as "Governor Palin" after she quit, I'd be a very rich lady. I also love that the liberal socialists are all apparently frightened to death of a Palin 2012 run for President when in reality that is what we are all quietly hoping for (both for the entertainment value, and because it would guarantee an Obama victory). #sarahpalin
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    12:37 AM

    @misslinda: I had my commenting privileges on her fan page taken away within a few hours of becoming a "fan". #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    This woman is the Julia Allison of politics. I'm not sure who should be more offended by that. #sarahpalin
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    The only money they shelled out on vetting her was the 25 cent charge to print out her Wikipedia entry at the Wasilla library computer. #sarahpalin
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    Image of seyswho seyswho
    11/13/09

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: McCain and his camp have surely never heard of Wikipedia because it's on that infamous series of tubes known as the Internetz.

    It's more likely he had her write a 200 word essay entitled "Why I Deserve to be Vice President". Of course, 100 of those words were no doubt "also", "you betcha" and "y'all", so we can see where the process failed.
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    She was vetted?! #sarahpalin
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/13/09

    @flossy: And found to have had all her shots. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    Wondering if this could somehow lead to a libel suit by the RNC against Palin, which would cause her to accumulate more legal bills, so she would have to quit more jobs to write more books to pay for the legal bills, and the whole thing would get very meta. #sarahpalin
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    If the purpose of this book is to pay for legal bills, she should've titled it Going Broque. #sarahpalin
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Actually, with all those wardrobe bills she racked up, shouldn't the book have been called "Going Vogue"? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @AzureTexan: Her political career is an On-Going Joque. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: If only she'd hook up with Donal Logue, whereupon she'd be Grounded For Life. #sarahpalin
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/13/09

    @AzureTexan: She could strike a deal with Playboy and give us a Northern Exposure. #sarahpalin
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/13/09

    @A Message To Rudy: Alert me when the Palin headline is Gone and Croqued.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/13/09

    @MrInBetween: Wow, I completely missed the point of this thread, didn't I? Well maybe her career will go up in smoque. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: people who continue to support her are taking an On-Going Toke. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Teach the GOP to buy a (lipsticked) pig in a poque.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    sarah darling, this is why the poor are never nominated VP. so sorry no one told you. #sarahpalin
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    Great googly moogly! Could this woman whine any more?

    Thanks for setting my gender back decades, insipid twat. #sarahpalin
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    11/13/09

    @kappakappaspankme: The idiots (whom I have "hidden" on Facebook because I can't defriend someone I've known since I was 2) who think she is a "strong woman" and a good role model need to be SMASHED IN THE FACE.

    Ahem. Sorry for the yelling. #sarahpalin
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    11/13/09

    @SaraRueful: Yes. She certainly warrants Family Values mother of the year with a daughter who gets knocked up while in high school.

    For what it's worth, I have Fecesbook friends in my "tool box" too. #sarahpalin
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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
    She and Carrie Prejean should have a dumb-off. #sarahpalin
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/13/09

    @Hockeymom: Prediction: nobody wins. Us included. #sarahpalin
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/13/09

    In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
    They shouldn't get to keep any money from this--it should go to pay back all the resources used to extricate them from their own stupidity, and then the rest should be divided amongst all of us who had to listen to all the BS about them and by them while waiting for the weather report or some other far more important bit of news. They should also have to go do some anonymous community service while meditating on their unsuitability as "reporters." #eunalee
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/13/09

    @Novaload: No kidding. For months, they denied crossing the border. When they were freed, they used euphemisms like "touched the border". You can't be a little bit pregnant. You broke the law. Live with it. #eunalee
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    Image of OldSpinDoc OldSpinDoc
    11/13/09

    @Novaload: And what were the people these lovely ladies were 'reporting" on going to do when the story ran?
    I'm sure Harriet Tubman would have loved to read media accounts of her railroad while she was still shuttling people through it... #eunalee
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/13/09

    @OldSpinDoc: Indeed. The local 'contacts' were reportedly begging them not to go further toward the border; and their translator and others said the Korean equivalent of Sod it! and vanished--all concerned for their safety after the Clueless Chicks 15 minutes were over. The Clueless Chicks were not, of course, concerned about them. #eunalee
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
    It was strange during their imprisonment how they would flash her picture on the news and it's always that weird myspace-y picture. I mean, couldn't the family provide a more normal picture? #eunalee
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    Image of Betty Draper Betty Draper
    11/13/09

    @Maxichamp: I thought the exact same thing. #eunalee
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/13/09

    In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
    because you are not as interesting as your circumstances, no matter what Oprah says.

    PREACH!!! PREACH IT!!

    I think this simple truth is at the very core of why Gawker exists: Because some people take themselves way too seriously (ie: famous for doing nothing) which make them ripe for the snarking.

    Dudes, doesn't the Lings realize that there's a HUGE fascination regarding what the hell is going on behind borders in North Korea. (Hell, wasn't that why they were there to begin with?) Why do I care about the beauty of Ling Sisterhood(tm) when i could get a firsthand account of Dear Leader battshittery with bonus Clinton on Air Fuck One action? #eunalee
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    11/13/09

    @The Real JR: Maybe because The Sisterhood of the Traveling Lings sounds like it has box-office potential. #eunalee
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/13/09

    @rudi_freude:
    While a variation on the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" (The Ling-Ling Sisterhood) could be mistaken for a film about Dick Nixon's relationship to a couple of pandas.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    11/13/09

    @The Real JR: there's a HUGE fascination regarding what the hell is going on behind borders in North Korea

    Wait, what? Did they capture Carrie Prejean now? #eunalee
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    11/13/09

    @Niko Bellic: Niko. Niko, Niko. You're being inappropriate. #eunalee
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    11/13/09

    In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
    Korea 1
    China 0 #eunalee
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    Image of rosaluxembourgeoise rosaluxembourgeoise
    11/07/09

    In reply to Sheila McClear Sells Awesome Book
    Hot damn! #sheilamcclear
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