When it comes to your 9 and 13 year old daughters? Are you kidding me? Every. Single. Instance. is cause for vehement objections, especially allegations that their father was screwing them!
Because the other incidents happened during the campaign. She daren’t upset the apple cart by coming across as shrill and defensive. And the spotlight was already on her constantly. She had other fish to fry back then. Her daughters were apparently expendable.
IIRC, the other insults you mentioned didn’t make national news. I was reading about Letterman’s so-called joke on the online news sites at least a day and maybe more before Palin spoke out about it. Given that, I would think she’d be duty-bound to speak up and defend her daughters, whereas the other gags more or less flew under the radar and challenging them would only have given them publicity.
Well. OK, but who made it “national news”? Nobody made national news out of the others, whats different here? Which major or minor news outlets first called it “national news”? If I were to guess, I’d think maybe it was that network that rhymes with “sucks”.
The Fucks Network?
Exactly! I’m pretty sure that in early 2002 I heard a guy with a shopping cart mutter, “Bush! Fuck her! Lizard!”
And relentless criticism like that from severe wackos, was why it was completely non-newsworthy when comedian Steven Colbert make some mildly denigrating remarks in Bush’s presence at the White House Correspondents Dinner. In 2006.
Kidding, ya know. It took a comedian to get the mainstream media to talk about Bush with a little candidness.
There’s always insane people muttering things, but the Republican crazies are part of the “main stream” and get huge media coverage.
That’s not very nice. Say what you will about the Palins, but their lack of resemblance to camels is notable.
Camel toes? Alright, I’ll give you that.
Yes, and it would have been suicidal for her campaign to be seen as protesting jokes about her underage daughters and incest. That’s a vote loser right there.
Well needless to say I strongly disagree with you there. Sarah Palin was raked over the coals over how she paraded her children out like props, using them to further her career. She was criticized vehemently about being a bad mother because she dragged her Down Syndrome child around the country, and put her underage, pregnant daughter in the spotlight to potentially (and in reality) become a punching bag.
If Sarah Palin had stood up and defended her children from such malicious and uncalled-for nastiness, I think she would’ve been hailed as a fierce advocate for her children. Instead, she kept her mouth shut when they were getting the worst of it.
And now she goes off half cocked, denigrating her president by snottily calling him, “he who must be obeyed”, for saying that children should be off limits, when it was HER CHILDREN he was referring to when he said that!
Where the hell was she? Why wasn’t her voice being heard protecting her children? Why is she only just speaking out now?
She’s a fucking media whore, that’s why.
This is the thread that keeps on giving. For that alone I’d like to thank the thick-skulled wingnuts that keep it alive. I’d also like to propose a title change to something referencing “The Return Of The Killer Zombies,” for it has seen the return of two of my favorite posters: ETF and now, 'Mow ‘em Down’ Shayna…who’s obviously as sharp as ever if not more.
So please, kids (18 and over please) keep it afloat. Who knows what the future holds? The return of Mr S and Patriot X?
ETF: Glad to hear all is well by you. As for myself, my left wallet buttcheek hurts. Other than that, couldn’t be better.
I wish my wallet were full enough to make my buttcheek hurt.
Aww, thanks, RedFury. It’s nice to see you, too! Glad to hear all is well!
Hi ETF!
It was a silly little joke that should have been ignored. The righties, were desperate to bitch about something. This was a nothing. I think even Palin got off it. But the repubs have so little to work with ,they have to pretend any little thing is a huge problem.
waves Always good to see you.
If S. Palin was the one being criticised (your words) why would she need to “defend” her children? I don’t recall her children being the ones vilified. If anything she needed to stand up for herself, and her defend her decision to have her kids on the campaign trail. Besides, all the criticism was just bullshit. Did Obama get the same treatment for whenever his daughters were photographed during the campaign, or on the trail? Nope. Double standard #1,223…and counting.
And I wonder why she brought her children in the spotlight? Maybe it was because if she hadn’t have done so the wacko lefties would have vilified her even worse. At least she was able to say…“You know what? This is my family and we have our share of problems, but I am not ashamed or going to try and hide anything about my family, so fuck off”.
Letterman jumped the proverbial shark a few years ago. CBS just needs to pay him off and put him out of his misery. Seriously. Promote Ferguson to his timeslot and they would rule late night television.
You don’t remember the Philadelphia incident, do you?
Heh. Heh. Heh. Bad move, Ms. Palin.
You know, now that you mention it, I don’t recall seeing much of his daughters at all during the campaign. Probably wise, they seem like the kinda kids that people who have the regular sort of kids would steal.
You must have had your TV off…if you didn’t see them.
If the Err Apparent has a really cool X-Box game, whole weeks can be lost. Just sayin, is all, I don’t recall seeing that much of them. Whatever.