# Palin: Open Mouth, Insert Foot, part 9,754,773 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937 "2008-11-03T22:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/21 "2008-11-04T01:09:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Oh, but it’s just a title, a message-board formality, designed to attract attention and get people to read the thread and get the true details. Oh, you mean like a rhetorical device? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/22 "2008-11-04T01:12:52Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I guess it’s no surprise that Palin is utterly ignorant about science; but who the hell’s writing her speeches? Intellectually, it was a Rhodes-side Bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/23 "2008-11-04T01:15:45Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Strike that. Your thread title isn’t so much “knowingly false” as simply incorrect. What you’re doing here is attempting to define the terminology used in a way that is different from the way it has been used your opponent, thereby seeking to invalidate the entire discussion. Good luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/24 "2008-11-04T09:07:42Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I’m sorry, but I have seen Bush use that trick so many times. He put or smashed 9/11 and Iraq together in his speeches to make it sound they were related, many people then fell for it and you know what that got us. There has to be a Large Political Hardon Collider joke in here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/25 "2008-11-04T17:39:09Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Of all the stupid shit that woman has spewed over the last few months, that’s the one that pissed off this biology major the most. Palin can’t stand the drosophilia buzzing around her head all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/26 "2008-11-04T19:06:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > ## Geezer > > Dingbat My favorite was “Unstable/Unable” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/27 "2008-11-04T19:08:13Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > ## Geezer > > Dingbat Heh. Great one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/28 "2008-11-04T19:22:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Oh, but it’s just a title, a message-board formality, designed to attract attention and get people to read the thread and get the true details. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/29 "2008-11-04T22:37:13Z")
OK, what the OP mentioned may have been standard boiler-plate fear-mongering bullshit, but it wasn’t dumb. But [this](http://wonkette.com/404082/palin-to-black-person-todd-i-live-with-racial-discrimination-too)? THIS is mind-numbingly dumb. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937/30 "2008-11-05T01:34:37Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > OK, what the OP mentioned may have been standard boiler-plate fear-mongering bullshit, but it wasn’t dumb. > > But [this](http://wonkette.com/404082/palin-to-black-person-todd-i-live-with-racial-discrimination-too)? THIS is mind-numbingly dumb. Wow. That is _delightful._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-open-mouth-insert-foot-part-9-754-773/470937.md?page=1)