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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    We love her because we don't know what she stands for. But it's what we believe in, that's for sure.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Goddamn, Pareene. Nailed it.

    Maureen Dowd is a tired, weak, shatteringly insecure hack who hasn't had an original thought of her own in 20 years and who recycles the latest talking points of Drudge, etc., after she blends them with her own stew of innuendos, slander, lies and general misrepresentation. Plus her hair is ugly.

    Also, I think the left needs to own this narrative: "speak for real Americans," "protect the rights of real Americans," "stand up for Americans," and take back those words from these insane Christianist ne0-fascist zealot ideologue mouthbreathing submorons, you feel me?
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    11/23/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Ironically, Dowd and Palin are of the same ilk--token females who aren't the best person for the job(s), but are given the job in order to maintain the patriarchal status quo: "See? Silly girls don't know how to get the job done!"
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    11/23/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: That is ***exactly*** right. Women who toe the party line, of whom the ruling white males get to say, "but, we have a woman."

    #tips
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    11/23/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Palin would probably say to Dowd : Least I got a man, honey. Have you seen Todd?
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    11/23/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: "And look how dumb she is. You want us to hire more?"
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: HA! And if Dowd were worthy of her position, she'd reply: Have you seen Levi? Naked?!?
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    11/23/09

    @CumaeanSibyl: Yep. I suppose it is some form of equality when stupid women have positions of power and authority.

    #tips
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Douthat: "Both (Palin and Huckabee) came from lower-middle-class backgrounds, and joined a soft-edged social conservatism to a strong populist streak. "

    What does "soft-edged" mean here? That they are to be applauded for not literally stoning the gays and adulteresses to death as the Bible says? That they ferociously oppose affordable health care for the poor but say so in such a sunny way?
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: Yeah, I haven't seen anything soft-edged about Palin or Huckabee at all. Just because they don't shout their backward fundamentalist views at the top of their lungs doesn't make them any less backward or fundamentalist.
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: Applause.
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: They couldn't possibly stone all the adulterers, because that would wipe out most of their own party. I would totally give up the right to gay marry if I could stone Newt Gingrich, John Ensign and Mark Sanford. Hell, I'd settle for just being able to stone Sanford.
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: It's the lipstick on the pitbull if you will.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    That video needs more Carl Monday.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    I'm thinking if Obama started speaking and/or thinking like Sarah Palin, then he in fact would need a CAT scan, because he very clearly has had a stroke.
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    11/23/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Someone needs to do a Freaky Friday-styled movie about these two. Maybe those 30 Rock people, if they're not too busy.
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    11/23/09

    @Colander: All kinds of scary, but yet, hilarity would ensue.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    I'm not sure why Palin is supposed to be brilliantly managing her book tour when the second day on it she pissed off a crowd of frozen Hoosiers by scooting early, thereby underscoring the fact that she's a quitter who knocks off early when the going gets tough. But then, I don't understand most of what twinkle tits Mo is saying more of the time.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    I'd be happy if Obama would shoot Maureen Dowd from a helicopter.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    I hate how they've turned that thing into a vehicle for angry white people.

    Also, I'm not a big fan of Harleys!
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    11/23/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: BMW motorcycles are the best. Quiet, reliable, stylish. Everything the Harley is not.
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    11/23/09

    @Swifter: Damn skippy.

    (Denton needs to launch a moto-focused Gawker blog.
    Jalopnik for bike people!)
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    11/23/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: "angry white people" = republicans
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Look, every place in America where Sarah Palin has a book signing will be, by default, the dumbest/craziest place in America.

    Until tomorrow, when she has another signing, in another city.

    Just like the Water cycle, the Nitrogen cycle, and the VH1 Celebrity cycle, the Sarah Palin Crazy cycle helps nourish the Earth and replenish its natural reserves of crazy.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Maureen? Did you perhaps notice at any point that Obama won, and Palin lost? Why the fuck should he be taking tips from her?
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    11/23/09

    @MissNormaDesmond:

    Because the Palin wing of the US viscerally, completely hates him. Not just like "man I don't want to vote for that you," we're talking "I want to kill you." Dowd's theory is that some of the down-homin' that Palin is famous for would ingratiate Obama to that wing, which, hah.

    The bottom line is that the only way Obama becomes best buds with the moose-slaying set is if he figures out the secrets of Sammy Sosa's radiant skin.
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    11/23/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Right. As you point out, though, this is a relatively small segment of the population who are never going to like him, no matter what he does. He could restore the U.S. to vibrant prosperity, regain our status in the international community, and bring peace and justice to all humanity, and they would still hate his guts. Moreover, they're people whose goodwill he obviously doesn't need, since he won handily without them. But Maureen thinks he needs to snuggle up to them why? Well, because she's an idiot, mainly.
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    11/23/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: That still wouldn't work cause he's married to an angry black lady which I think that's still illegal in certain parts of 'merica.
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    11/23/09

    @MissNormaDesmond:

    Dowd's from DC. Demographics are always viewed as malleable by the weird cretins in that place. After all, if they didn't believe in the power of message and spin to Change The World (TM), they'd all go nuts. Never shove a DC analyst or columnist into the Total Perspective Vortex.

    #tips
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    11/23/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Better question is why Dick Fucking Cheney would be giving Obama advice on how to win the war in Afghanistan. That bastard must have his balls stored away in some basement, because they are way too huge to carry on a daily basis. Did he forget who had 7 years to "win" the war?
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Do any of them understand that Sarah jogs? Could any of them possibly emulate that? Because that would do a lot more for their quality of life than anything that's going on in Washington, DC.

    And, yes, what I mean is: they are all goddamn fat (except for the Nazi grandma, who scared me).
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    Gotta wonder about people who wear camouflage to a bookstore.
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    11/23/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Hey, if it's good enough for church...
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
    This. This is why people from Michigan can't stand Ohio.
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    11/23/09

    @Mediahohoho: I thought it was because they drive slow in the left-hand lane of the highway.
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    11/23/09

    @kneetoe: ...and they come to a complete stop at the end of entrance ramps. Entrance ramps!
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I LOVE Susan Mendik, I don't know why.

    She seems very cool. Plus, the golf thing -- plus 10.
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I just read Bess Rattray Vogue piece on her adoption of her baby in some article that was admonishing Madonna for her adoption of her children from a country that doe snot meet Bess's standards. She has some fucking nerve with all that is known about Ethiopia as a corrupt nation and adoptions in particular. There have been many reports about the specific problem of adoptions in Ethiopia. The State Department spoke about Ethiopia specifically in their address on World Adoption Day last week. She picks the worst but easiest country to adopt from but she criticizes Madonna for doing the same thing in a much harder environment. Madonna could have picked up a kid in Ethiopia in 5 seconds flat, but she fought long and hard for the baby girl that she connected with in Malawi and for that this woman decides to bring up Madge's $800 haircuts and celebrity? How many points can we deduct for hypocrisy ?

    [www.vogue.com]

    [www.cbc.ca]
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/23/09

    @adiam7: I'm an adoptive parent and I've often heard that about certain Ethiopian situations as well.

    But frankly, neither of them get a gold star from me. There are kids right here who need homes too. Think global but act locally.
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    11/23/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: Congratulations on being an adoptive parent! I gree totally on kids in America or in Madge's case England that need homes. Madge seems to be involved in a large scale in helping the situation in Malawi so that's where my gold star for her comes from. If you help anyone anywhere it counts for something right? Ethiopia is such an incredibly corrupt nation, they get billions for food aid and are now -again- facing famine but they sell hectares of farm land to India , China and Saudi Arabia. The land is always in the Oromo region, where those people are opposed to the government and are being systematically killed. I was under the impression that Ethiopia was arid and drought prone, thus their frequent famine problems. I was shocked to learn how much farm land they had.

    [farmlandgrab.org]

    [www.ethiopianreview.com]
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