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Unless you (God) know more than I (Sarah Palin) do?
Do Christ-people really talk like that?
"I knew that the option was there. ... I thought again, for that split second, 'OK, now I know, too, why, when that fear strikes you, because of the unknown' . . . I understood then, too, why a woman would consider [abortion] an easier path . . . "
Subtext: I, Sarah Palin, am incredibly brave where many women are not.
Palin said she wrote the letter (to inform her family after Trig was born that he has DS) "as if it were the words of our creator."
Subtext: I, Sarah Palin, am not just incredibly brave, but it's as if I am God.
"My decision certainly wasn't a political decision."
What about carting Trig around to public events with lots of press and cameras? Is that a political decision? Are you trying to tell the world something by doing that, or are you just "bein' a mommy" (wink).
In response to accusations of using Trig as a polticial prop to remind the public of her incredibly brave, God-like decision: "I'm proud of this diverse and full and very colorful family that I'm a part of."
And finally, Palin explains why people like her oppose sound sex education of our kids and support abstinence only education (that has been proven to be ineffective):
"Oh gosh, bring on the grandkids. I can't wait."
11/20/09
I truly don't understand how people like Bernard Goldberg don't get beat to death on the street. It's one of the great mysteries of the universe.
Why hasn't Bernard Goldberg been beaten, to death, on the street, in broad daylight, to the indifference of some fancy educated elitists on their way to get their babies aborted at the church of satan.
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Now if you'll excuse me, it's Friday; time to start drinking.
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Will you marry me ?
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In the words of Jon Stewart, "Go fuck yourself."
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a) don't have big families
b) aren't religious
c) aren't compassionate
d) abort Downs Syndrome children
He's an ignorant fucking bigot. Like O'Reilly.
11/20/09
I've been watching all this Palin craziness over the past few days with probably too much fervor, but I've learned one really interesting thing:
It's completely OK to call people who trend toward the Left 'East Coast elites', and godless, and selfish, and out of touch, and mean, and snide, and (gulp) educated, and non-Americans. This kind of mass character assassination goes without question. But the minute anyone assesses ol' Prudhoe Bay Barbie based on her geoographic and, gulp, educational status, it's all vicious attack and slander.
And you know what? That's OK. Because we educated, forward-thinking, urban folks have already won. We won a lonnnnggg time ago. We're on the top of the hill. So it is probably pretty petty to lob insults down at the lowly shufflers too up their own asses to try and improve upon their own willful idiocy. We'll always read more books, see more plays, watch better TV, have bigger ideas, engage in more interesting conversation, meet more diverse people. We'll always die with a far greater wealth of stories and experiences than Palin's frothing, inward, inbred cult ever will. We're better at being alive. Plain and simple.
And of course there are people who do lead 'regular' and totally fulfilling lives in 'Middle America' with genuine class and smarts and integrity. It's just that those folks don't worry about these silly comparisons. They understand the spectrum of America, they're content with their lives and their choices. And bully to them! They are not the Urban Elites' enemy in the slightest.
It's these jealous, grasping simpletons who constantly complain about 'libtards' and their wine-swilling who we really ought to fear, but ultimately pity. What disappointments their lives must be. How embarrassed they must be by their own circumstances to keep tossing dog shit over the fence into the greener grass.
Sure we'll get angry at these fools when they say "Liberals are more likely to abort fetuses with Down Syndrome", but we really should mostly be pitying them. Because it's the only emotion they merit. And it's what irks them the most. And that's kind of fun.
Us: 1, Them: 0. Forever.
11/20/09
Now, that these two dickwads figured out long ago that there was good money to be made in riling up the rubes by pretending to bite the hand that fed them (the *sigh* liberal media) is the supreme irony here, because they both know full well that every word proceeding from their mouth is a lie designed to inflame the suckers in front of their seedy carnival tents, rubes they'd no more share their $100 Kobe steaks with than a beggar on the street.
They're cynical. They know everything they say is a lie. They appeal to people's basest fears. They're dangerous.
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I just think that in Palin's case, she doesn't really get that she's a complete liar. She doesn't seem to see that going on some national book tour and being on 'SNL' and all the myriad things she's done and is, shudder, likely to do that earn her millions of cynical dollars immediately place her in a completely different strata than those she's cheaply identifying with.
Palin is rabidly and perilously-blindly obsessed with fame and power, but only has this one shaky pedestal of JoePlumberism to stand on. It can't hold her for long. The look of shock on her face when it all crumbles is going to be priceless.
11/20/09
Sarah Palin believes that her success is her just reward from Gawd for giving him a shout out when they took second at states in basketball and later at the pageant. She is sure of every word she speaks, even when she's not quite sure what it means. She speaks a completely coded language known to few who aren't part of a "prayer chain."
I despair for these people. They got one of their own in the White House, finally, in 2001 and now it's the End Times when someone who is clearly not one of them -- not even the same religion as them, they insist on claiming, as if that were up to them -- holds the office. And yet they seem completely divorced from the actual meaning of the doctrine they supposedly espouse.
Just like Jesus putting GWB in charge in time for 9/11, He has a destiny for His special barracuda, Sarah. And if that plan happens to include a few houses and some little luxuries, she's earned it. If she fails politically (governing is hard!), she can just rack that up to her favorite shibboleth, the liberal media, and make a second, third and fourth career out of bitching about that. And all the while, the media will follow her like a desperate, horny dog.
11/20/09
Anyway I liked this thread. You both are warmly "hearted" for awesomeness.
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Because to be honest, I kind of just wanna help her get her own talk show, let her taste what it's like to have that kind of success, and then convince her that the money and influence she has from that show is "real" power and that she should stay as far the fuck away from politics as possible.
I mean, why run for president, Sarah? The pay sucks, people hate you all the time, and you don't get to talk nearly as often as you would on your own show!
Plus it would give conservatives solace in the argument, "Oh, if Sarah had only run in 2012 things would be different," and banter amongst themselves that they wish she would. Luckily she could just say something like "I'm not running because I have a more important job than bein' president: keepin' the president in check!" and the crowd would freak out and then she gives away snowmobiles with boxes of guns inside them or something.
Meanwhile, everyone here at Gawker (read: important people) gets fresh material to mock every day.
And balance is restored to the universe.
11/20/09
But seriously, he picks a set of criteria that possibly the single most emblematic liberal family in America specifically violates, point for point. You suck at this, Bernie. Really.
I didn't finish watching the O'Reilly clip because I didn't want to throw up.
11/20/09
a) scared of them
b) never seen them before
c) homosexual, which wouldn't be a problem, he just chooses strange subject matter for his arguments
Maybe the same could be said of Bernie Goldberg.
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I loved the last words of Jon Stewart from the extended Lous Dobbs interview. About he's tired of being called un-American just because he is from NY-NJ. I'm going to transcribe them and keep them close to my heart as well.
11/20/09
I still wonder how anyone got to the age of Medicare eligibility without acquiring at least as much wisdom as one might attribute to your average ninth grader.
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She is just doing all these things that are perceived as religious and conservative, because she is a politician trying to position herself into that slot. This is why it's OK for her to pose in skimpy clothing and wink during election debates. No conservative Christian would do any of that shit. The person trying to sell herself as one might, if she thinks it may sell.
So, it was not possible for her to abort her child, not because her beliefs are so strong, but because she'd have no way of selling herself if she did it.
Oh, I forgot: she is just a servant of the people of Alaska. Yeah, right.
11/20/09
I think she's so deeply religious in a "magical thinking" sort of way that it's hard to believe she can operate that way. I don't think her mind actually conforms around reality -- she just skips across it like a stone, if the stone were thrown by Jesus.
11/19/09
Of course, when someone's right in your face on the playground calling your mother a whore, you can't really get away with pretending they don't exist. I think Goldberg could've let this one go.
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All the theories and arguments were suddenly very very real, in a way they had never been before.
There is only one answer to the question of what would you do when the amnio results come back, and the answer is choice.
I was lucky. Everything was fine.
I didn't have to choose.
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The special Olympics swim team pratices at the Y that I go to and I admire and respect their parents and coaches more than I can say.
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I had other tests, such as the NT scan along with bloodwork and a level II u/s to check for possible spina bifida - a choice that may have gone differently for us. Like you, I had all standard results and my son has neither disorder.
Yet, throughout the period of time I had chosen to not have amnio, I'll bet you can take a guess as to the political leanings of every woman who tried to pressure me into it. They were loaded with advice that I had to "hurry", "before it was too late".
Too late for WHAT? We all know. Amnio must be performed between the 17th and 20th weeks. The test protocol was designed solely for that period in gestation.
What reason is there for amnio other than to make that very same choice? Why were these certain-politico leaning women pushing it on me when they should oppose the test altogether? Why did PALIN have amnio at all when any later stage Level II u/s could have told her the same thing about Trig's development? Operating in an environment of choice - all of them.
PS. To aid those unfamiliar with prenatal testing: Nothing amnio tests for can be cured. Only one disorder can possibly be treated in vitro, but at a much later stage. (Spina bifida). Amnio is not ideal for indicating it. You really need different tests.
11/20/09
One word: Choice
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