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adiam7
11/18/09

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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

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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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Glib and Bitchy
11/18/09

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This is a patented right-wing rhetorical tactic. . .
Oh that tactic is fully in the public domain and exactly what Tina Fey did to come up with her "I can see Russia from my house" line -- God bless her. It began as Palin's lame claim to foreign policy cred ("They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.'') and, well, the rest is history.
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Whittaker
11/18/09

@Glib and Bitchy: Yeah, that isn't analogous, let alone exactly the same thing.
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Glib and Bitchy
11/18/09

@Whittaker: OK, I'll bite.
Wallace combines Palin's words with even dumber ones, heightening the sense that the Thrilla from Wasilla is totally off her rocker.
How is that different from what Tina did (regarding Russia)?
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Sanson
11/18/09

@Glib and Bitchy: If you have to hold your national leaders and political heroes to the same standards as late-night satirical television, you may want to rethink your criteria.
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BlinkyMcChuck
11/18/09

@Glib and Bitchy: I do it all the time and I am not paying them a dime.
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Glib and Bitchy
11/18/09

@Sanson: Wallace is neither a political hero nor a national leader, at least in my bleeding heart liberal progressive book. All I'm saying is that we should be honest and recognize that the right wing doesn't hold a monopoly on the (very effective) "rhetorical tactic" Jagger described.
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Guggenheimlich
11/18/09

@Glib and Bitchy: It's not really the same because that was a SNL sketch. The joke is the exaggeration of Palin's ridiculous statements. It doesn't try to turn that exaggeration into reality.
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Glib and Bitchy
11/18/09

@Guggenheimlich: Next thing, you'll be telling me
The Daily Show is just comedy. Let's just say we have a different view of the "reality" of the 2008 campaign. (Not that any of this changes my original point that the Left likes this "rhetorical tactic" as much as the Right. The Left just tends to lie less.)
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Helio
11/18/09

@Sanson: While I may not hold my "late-night television" to the same standards of my national leaders, it would be nice to not be disappointed over and over again by the latter. The standards are close but I hold one in much higher regard.
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Mediahohoho
11/18/09

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It's like watching a cage match between Pol Pot and Stalin--you want them both to lose.
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lionboy
11/18/09

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"Eviscerating" Palin's lies is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. Nearly everything that crawls of her twisted head is pure crap. From probably telling Todd she was on the pill when he first knocked her up to telling Couric that she read "all of them," she's proven incapable of uttering any verifiable fact about anything. She's worse than Balloon Boy's Dad but is totally getting away with it. You can line up people to refute her claims that circle completely around the world and she will still be the Second Coming of the GOP. Exposing her lies is the equivalent of pointing out the rotation of the earth. It will be labeled Liberal Propaganda. #sarahpalin
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heywhat
11/18/09

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Ok, so Sarah Palin must really not be running for President in 2012 because she is burning a hell of a lot of bridges and making some powerful enemies. Aren't these the people that really run the party? It's one thing to thumb your nose at the establishment and take shots at Democrats but this is really pushing things. I know these people were in charge of a losing campaign but Sarah isn't doing herself any favors with this book. Maybe she'll get all mavericky and go truly rogue and start her own party. #sarahpalin
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Astroblack
11/18/09

@heywhat: It doesn't matter. she knows she's got a legion of true believers who will discredit any criticism of her as part of a conspiracy against her. People don't cheer for Palin or believe in the "truth" of FoxNews because they are discerning and intellectually rigorous. They do it purely out of passion and she hits all their buttons. And there are enough cynics in the Republican party who know better, but will go along with her as long as she's got a popular following, no matter how much dumb shit comes out of her mouth.
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Btwbfdimho
11/18/09

@heywhat: Good point.
Imagine Hillary writing a book about Mark Penn and the mismanagement of her campaign, who cares about that crap?
Sarah Palin: a bridge to nowhere.
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BitterDiva
11/18/09

@heywhat: I think that's exactly what she wants to do.

Why is John McCain being so restrained and gentlemanly about this unhinged hillbilly bimbo? He's always been mean as a snake but very funny and certainly has nothing to lose at this point so his decorum is baffling and out of character.
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Helio
11/18/09

@heywhat: I am almost certain this is what she wants. They already registered a tea party in Florida. Perhaps she'll jump on that bandwagon.
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willwriteforfood
11/18/09

@BitterDiva: Yeah, it's not like he's ever been restrained and gentlemanly when talking about women. Not even his own wife was out of bounds when his temper and tongue got going. Someone should get him drunk, ask him about Palin and make sure the tape recorder is turned on.
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Airvault
11/18/09

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This book will be the end of her.

"Waterloo! Finally facing my Waterloo..." #sarahpalin
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fatmonalisa
11/18/09

@Airvault: I read that as "Finally felching my Waterloo"

I'm filthy #sarahpalin
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CumaeanSibyl
11/18/09

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#sarahpalin
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lostarchitect
11/16/09

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Why do her emails read like a 14 year old's myspace comments? Literacy in America may really be dead. #sarahpalin
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ArmCandy
11/16/09

@lostarchitect: She was a journalism major. Of everything she does, she is supposed to be best at writing/communicating. #sarahpalin
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lostarchitect
11/16/09

@ArmCandy: Good Lord. Really? #sarahpalin
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ArmCandy
11/16/09

@lostarchitect: Yes, though not very successfully. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Isn't it terrifying? #sarahpalin
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