Keeping their socks on in those movies is gross enough, but those glasses…
Squabbling about whether each and every item brought up about her is true or not misses the point. She showed herself provincial and stupid enough for all stories to be believable. Some people thought she was qualified to be president. What does that say about them? She is a joke.
Stupid people need representation too, you know.
And yours would be diarrhea of the fingertips?
Favorite quote:
“It’s time to drill, baby, drill. What are you waiting for, Congressional approval?”
Do you live in some bizarro world where people read from bottom to top?
Only if God is in her SatNav.
He is a hoaxer, and certainly he didn’t hear any such comments when he was inbreifings with Palin- as he was never a staffer and never in any briefings. But Cameron is being rather coy about this and some of the statements have been proven false (the “coming to the door in the towel”), this it seems quite possible Eisenstadt also scammed Cameron.
Well, it does provide direction from the heavens in a disembodied voice…
If by “quite possible” you mean “highly improbable” then I agree. Otherwise, not so much. Let’s review:
Cameron is known to have many contacts inside the Republican party.
Cameron is likely to have contacts within the McCain campaign.
Fox News, the organization Cameron works for, is likely to fire workers who make shit up, if only for the sake of public relations.
It is standard journalistic practice to require multiple sources before running a story.
Cameron says that he had multiple sources on the Africa story.
The Huffington Post, a left-leaning organization, says its sources confirm that Cameron’s sources are not Eisenstadt.
Eisenstadt says he was Cameron’s source on the Africa story.
No one else says that he was Cameron’s source on the Africa story.
Eisenstadt is known for making shit up.
Now, which of the following do you think is more likely:
Eisenstadt made up the Africa story and was one of Cameron’s sources despite not actually working for the McCain campaign and none of Cameron’s sources ever clued him in that Eisenstadt didn’t work for McCain and Cameron decided to run with the story with only Eisenstadt as the source on the story.
or
Eisenstadt is lying when he says he was the source of the Africa story.
If Cameron was hoaxed then he didn’t make shit up.
Had Cameron said Eisenstadt was not his source?
Nor have I seen anything where Cameron said he had multiple sources.
Generally around here, Fox is hardly noted for having high Journalistic integrity.:dubious: Indeed, they have been accused here many times of “making shit up” for all intents and purposes.
If Sarah Palin is that unimportant and stupid, why does this thread go for 4 pages?
She either has impressed you or you’re scared shitless.
She has not impressed me. But it does scare me that someone like her even got that close to the White House, without just being on a tour.
Please, please, please spread this meme in your right-wing community. Liberals are deeply afraid of Palin, so she is the best choice in 2012. Please.
It’s fair to say that she has impressed me shitless.
For lack of a better thread to throw this clip in… Sarah Palin manages to sound dumb as a post in another interview. The first 90 seconds of this are absolutely cringe-inducing.
(linked to huffingtonpost because that’s the only place I can find this clip that doesn’t require you to click to get a popup window. MSNBC, your sites suck.)
Here’s a transcript:
Here, of course, is the exact wording of Katie Couric’s question which Sarah Palin seems to think maligns Alaska:
“When it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the world?” followed up with, “What ones specifically. I’m curious that you…” and “Can you name a few?”
I’m so very glad she was not elected.
As to this question:
I’ll own up to it: I’m scared of her. I’m scared and angered that a ticket with her on it got so much of the popular vote. Now, before you go getting smug about what a formidable opponent she must be if we’re scared of her, I’d also like to point out that I’d be scared of a toddler with a gun for the exact same reasons. It’s not something to aspire to.
Toddler/Gun '12!
Fine. That leaves:
Cameron is known to have many contacts inside the Republican party.
Cameron is likely to have contacts within the McCain campaign.
It is standard journalistic practice to require multiple sources before running a story.
The Huffington Post, a left-leaning organization, says its sources confirm that Cameron’s sources are not Eisenstadt.
Eisenstadt says he was Cameron’s source on the Africa story.
No one else says that he [Eisenstadt] was Cameron’s source on the Africa story.
Eisenstadt is known for making shit up.
And I say, though Fox is willing to spin news items, they don’t make shit up. Take, for instance, the towel incident. Palin did greet the McCain advisers covered up in just a towel. The way it was worded made people think that she opened the door for them while wearing just a towel. It appears that they had already been let in, and she peeked in and greeted them while only wearing a towel, and told them she would be ready soon. And I don’t think they’d fire a proven liar due to their high ethical standard. I think they’d fire a proven liar to avoid a public relations firestorm.
And you still haven’t answered my question. Which of the following two statement are more likely to be true:
Eisenstadt made up the Africa story and was one of Cameron’s [del]sources[/del] contacts despite not actually working for the McCain campaign and none of Cameron’s [del]sources[/del] contacts ever clued him in that Eisenstadt didn’t work for McCain and Cameron decided to run with the story with only Eisenstadt as the source on the story.
or
Eisenstadt is lying when he says he was the source of the Africa story.
All of a sudden, when Fox News runs a story you like, it’s now a model of Journalistic Integrity.:dubious:
As for the Towel “incident”
"*Steve Schmidt, the campaign’s chief strategist, defended Mrs. Palin in an e-mail exchange with The Times concerning, among other articles, a Newsweek report that at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. Palin had greeted Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Salter in her hotel room while “wearing nothing but a towel, with another [towel] on her wet hair.”
“The towel story categorically is not true,” Mr. Schmidt told The Times in the course of telephone and e-mail exchanges over the weekend. "*
Thus the towel story is made up shit.
Then as for NAFTA "• *Did she not know that NAFTA was an agreement among the U.S., Mexico and Canada?
“Answer to all of this is no, except she was victim of hoax perpetrated by Canadian talk radio re Sarkozy,” Mr. Black said. “Even then, she said nothing wrong in the call. We think she did an excellent job and added a lot to the ticket. ‘We’ includes John McCain.” *
You have a very simplistic understanding of the criticism of Fox News if you don’t see why this particular story is more credible coming from them than from someone else.