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John Cook
11/19/09

In reply to The Rachel Maddow Show, Brought to You by Going Rogue
FYI this was probably a cable buy--sold by Time Warner, which gets some of the ad inventory on cable nets it carries, rather than MSNBC ad sales. Still funny though!
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The Real JR
11/19/09

In reply to The Rachel Maddow Show, Brought to You by Going Rogue
Actually, when I watch Rachel, I'm sipping on Absinthe, supping on prosciutto and melon. But yes, spat all over the plasma. So much so my Roomba had a devil of a time trying to clean it all up.
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heywhat
11/19/09

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Bill O'Reily, Dr. Laura and Dick Morris are considered great writers now?
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contradicto
11/19/09

In reply to The Rachel Maddow Show, Brought to You by Going Rogue
How is Maddow being hypocritical? It's likely that she doesn't have any control whatsoever on who advertises during her timeslot.

Plus, it's not like only conservatives are buying the book. I'm sure plenty to tea-sipping liberals are buying it just for the laughs.
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onebadclam
11/18/09

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I thought Hooker Fancy was Dick Morris' favorite magazine.
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se7a7n7
11/18/09

In reply to The Rachel Maddow Show, Brought to You by Going Rogue
If you go to Newsmax.com and read any article, there is a little ad for Palin's book.

As an example, the story "Sarah Palin Tells Hannity: I Read Newsmax" literally has an ad for her book... [foxyurl.com]

But like I said, you can pick any article and it has the same ad.
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Maxichamp
11/18/09

In reply to The Rachel Maddow Show, Brought to You by Going Rogue
Dick Morris and Dr. Laura. 'Nuf said.
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adiam7
11/18/09

In reply to Palin's Campaign Chaperone Eviscerates Her for Lying in Book
Wallace deserve whatever is coming to her for the John Kerry smears. A man that serves his country is vilified for a man that wouldn't fly past combat. She in one of the fashion magazines saying she will now concentrate on writing novels an having kids. Wish you would have done that from the beginning.

Thrilla from Wasilla is my new euphemism for the obtuse that likes to kill moose
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hotpinklovesofa
11/18/09

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I love how Palin threw this woman under the bus, along with many others but, typical republican, she never gets off message and still manages to say good things about Palin's speech and supposed other interviews where she may have been coherent enough to not look like a total jackass. It would be quite a sight if the democrats could muster up the ability to stick together through thick and thin the way republicans do but that probably wouldn't work either. They're close enough to the republican party as it is. We need a third party and maybe that'll work for a few decades before becoming total crap too. Or maybe everyone should just go independent. I vote what I believe, I don't have to worry about sticking with this guy or that gal, I can just do what I think is best. Who knows, it might actually work. We're a very diverse country, how great would it be to have a very diverse Congress?
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Tremonius
11/18/09

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If you really want to glean something about the staffers for Magoo, or more directly, their audience, then just consider how they intended to "highlight her foreign policy savvy" by posing her in front of the UN. To Magoo and all his crew, this is as much substance as they could ever sweep together.
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mommy_dearest
11/18/09

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When I saw Palin claim the Couric interview was supposed to be all mom to mom, I knew it was crap. No one can honestly believe that the first big interview with a VP candidate is going to be fun and lighthearted. There were no interviews with Biden about picnics and butterflies. Although that might have been interesting.
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hotpinklovesofa
11/18/09

@mommy_dearest: Exactly. It's a nightly news broadcast not the Today Show and even then those interviews were serious. Katie Couric is a journalist who happens to be a mom not a mom who's just a journalist on the side for fun. It's such mooseshit.
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DoctorEcks
11/18/09

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rraarrrrrwww....CATFIGHT!
Sorry. That was juvenile and dumb. But why talk about these hags when we should be goading them into a catfight ASAP?! Isn;t that what what we want to see? I don't know about you, but the idea of reading Palin's book is about as appealing as watching Glen Beck. I wanna watch them wrassle!
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bluebears
11/18/09

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When I know that two people hate each other I MUST choose sides, at least privately in my own head. But I cannot do that in this situation and its slowly driving me mad. Damn you gawker!
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contradicto
11/18/09

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I see that Wallace defended herself, but I'm not seeing how she tore "[Palin] a new one."
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bluebears
11/18/09

@contradicto: agreed. Until she releases pictures of Palin smoking a bong on the Straight Talk Express I'm just meh.
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winaptistica
11/18/09

@contradicto: When she says her autobio is "a book based on fabrications", that's ripping a new one.
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contradicto
11/18/09

@winaptistica: No, it's not, particularly when you say that about someone who is a pathalogical liar. It's like saying it rains a lot in Seattle, or that Anderson Cooper is gay.
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maude_flanders
11/18/09

@contradicto: Bingo.

And that is the story of how neocon PR warlord Nicolle Wallace won the begrudging respect of MSNBC liberals." Bullshit. Screw them both.

She wasn't going to let a brat like Palin humiliate her, period, not for the good of the party or anyone else. That's all it is. If common sense and the refusal to bend over for a joke like Palin deserves "grudging respect"...talk about setting the bar low. She's not doing anything particularly courageous, but she IS confirming an ugly truth (and an unsurprising one).

Honestly...she's preserving her job and I suspect she knows Palin is bad for the party too.

(Palin is horrible for the party...I want her to run and I want her to show non-crazy voters--I'm assuming they're the simple majority of the electorate--to see that the growth of toxically stupid, out-of-touch, fundie, outrageous nutjobs in the GOP and in the MSM is bad for the country, not just for Dems. I want her to run, humiliate herself and the GOP, and then go AWAY.)
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A Message To Rudy
11/18/09

@contradicto: But it's the coming-from-one's-own that makes this more than your average acknowledgement of what we already know. Republicans are usually pretty good at closing ranks, such as when they first all (seemed to embrace)d Palin. This isn't saying it rains a lot in Seattle. This is an umbrella salesman saying he hates all of the rain in Seatte.
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contradicto
11/18/09

@A Message To Rudy: I am not seeing it. I am seeing the tone of this post varying wildly with what actually happened.
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heavenisforlosers
11/18/09

@contradicto: It would've been ripping her a new one... if it hadn't been on the Rachel Maddow show.
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contradicto
11/18/09

@heavenisforlosers: Yes, it's more like rubbing it together to cause more friction.
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maude_flanders
11/18/09

@heavenisforlosers: Okay...actually, given that it IS on for Maddow (awesome)...perhaps.

Perhaps none of the gems in the Fox primetime line-up would give her a chance, eh?

Still, wouldn't it have been really and truly "courageous" if she'd shot for the widest audience possible and looked to the "Today" show or Oprah or something (in other words, snapping close at Palin's book tour heels)? Maybe she couldn't book them.

Here's the thing--how many of the people buying Palin's book watch Maddow?

It's only "courageous" to the extent that somehow the GOP and anyone in her former circles hears this. I'm sure this will get a spot on Drudge or on Fox or something, but I dunno, it might not. If they never cover the interviewthe strongholds of Palin's support will never know their Alaskan hocky MILF an immature liar, not a genuine victim or a fighter. She's not alienating anyone if she goes to a network staffed by people (with the exception of Joe Scarborough, maybe)/watched by viewers who dislike Palin and says, "You guys are all right to suspect her."
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heavenisforlosers
11/18/09

@maude_flanders: Yep... she was preaching to the choir. Hopefully, she'll do more, if not only for my love of this crazy hillbilly feud.

Following it is like eating potato chips. You just can't stop. Or is it more like watching a train crash in slow motion? You just can't pull your eyes away no matter how gruesome? Hmm....
I think I'll go with eating potato chips while watching a train crash in slow motion...
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maude_flanders
11/19/09

@heavenisforlosers: It's like watching a train wreck because it seems 60% of the GOP is like this, and the country will keep having assholes like this running for office and seeking power.

I want them all to go live on a private island; I don't want ANYONE like this holding legislative office, anywhere, in any capacity, in any jurisdiction, but that's bound to happen, because these fuckers are the well one of our parities is tapping into. Palin shouldn't be trusted with anything more important than seating arrangements or dishes for a church potluck.

She is a small, lingering sample of everything wrong with democracy, and the worst members of a voting audience...defiantly, proudly obnoxious and stupid, and an ignorant religious zealot (or hell...just ignorant, but the religious angle makes it especially foul).
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heavenisforlosers
11/19/09

@maude_flanders:
You're exactly right. This is ignorance in voting at its best, no?

If they all were to be sent onto a private island, could we at least make it into a reality TV show? I think I would then be able to die a happy man.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/18/09

In reply to Palin's Campaign Chaperone Eviscerates Her for Lying in Book
The proof of Palin's lack of intelligence, vision, common sense, having a clue and general ability to function as a human being or any kind of professional is in being stupid enough to go after any of the vile, conscienceless, morals-free Bush/Cheny staffers and factotums. They will cut her.
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Tremonius
11/18/09

@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The strategy is, when drug kingpins only work with pushers and junkies, then they lower the credibility of witnesses at the outset. Same with Simple Sarah; who would believe all those shills for the old lying conniving fool?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/18/09

@Tremonius: Verrrrrrrrrrrry sneaky

#tips
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