What a hypocrite. She even had to take a shot at Biden.
And she is also a liar. When her daughter called someone a faggot for that person’s saying, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing soo hard right now” and “hahahahaha the show fails, i think, just opinion but so do other people.” Sarah Palin had this to say:
Andrew Sullivan:
So a hypocrite a liar.
You can get away with saying stupid things every now and then if you also say smart things. Obama says smart things all day, and occasionally brilliant things, so when he says something stupid he gets the benefit of the doubt. Even the gaffe-prone Biden has a favorable ratio of smart to stupid things said.
Palin builds up no such goodwill. If she’s capable of saying smart things, she manages to suppress that ability almost completely. I’d have forgiven the North Korea slip if her answer had demonstrated any understanding whatsoever of the situation. If you had asked for her opinion on the current events between North and South Suckitstan, she could have given the same answer, up to and including the uncertainty about which Suckitstan is our ally.
What’s with the “57 states” bit? Did I miss something?
Really? That was like the biggest talking point during the election. Obama said he visited all 57 states or something like that.
Dear Ms Palin,
If you don’t want “the media” to say mean things about your family, keep them off the goddamn television. I assure you, we will all be happier.
Thank you.
She’s being a tad unpleasant about it, but I have to be fair and give it to her. She just misspoke.
Yes, but her response was to make fun of Obama (and Biden) for misspeaking.
And she lied about her daughter’s homophobic comments.
Classy.
I don’t care who you are, if your damage control reaction when you have a minor brain fart is to dump at length on someone else instead of just shrugging it off and letting the yuks die down on their own, you’re a narcissistic ass.
There’s a substantial distinction between accidental misspeaking and betraying ignorance or confusion about a topic.
I suspect it isn’t even a brain fart. In the book Game Change, one of the specific examples of Palin’s ignorance given is that she didn’t know why the Koreas were split.
However, even if it were a brain fart - which I admit is possible and lord knows I have them often enough - her reaction has been shockingly devoid of class. I didn’t know anything about her daughter calling people fat faggots or anything until I read this thread. It does make me question Ms. Palin’s judgment and morals in raising a child who would talk like that, but it’s possibly my own biases are coming into play here.
And, well, what DoctorJ said.
You left off my favorite, which I think should be used as tho it were a title: Sarah the Quitter.
Without commenting on the morals, ethics or anything else of calling somebody a fat faggot or whatever, I would question the intellect.
Surely the kid knows she is being watched? Surely she knows that such a comment is going to be found out and is going to play badly Right? Right?
I mean, I watch very carefully what I say in a different forum and on facebook so that I don’t piss off the wrong people, and I am an insignificant little twat that nobody is watching.
What more a family that has been through a VP campaign - shouldn’t they know better by now? And if they don’t, after almost two years, haven’t they been pulled aside and had their ear bent on appropriate public communication by now?
She’s 16 FFS, and I don’t think she suffers from Tourettes right?
I missed it too. Just started seeing it pop up around here, of all places, in the last few days. What’s the context?
57 states thing, from Snopes. And you guys, it’s kind of weird you haven’t heard about this. I heard about it, and I was living in a village in the rural Balkans at the time.
Maybe you repressed the horror show that was the presidential election?
I don’t have tv, none of the races in my district were competitive, and I voted by mail long before election day.
I only heard about it from Snopes myself, as I used to have a Snopes RSS feed. I was beginning to think that all urban legends were going to be about Obama, so I wound up deleting the feed, and never got around to putting it back.
OP, where was this “Thanksgiving message to all 57 states” posted/printed/said out loud? Believe me, I’m not defending Palin or even thinking of doing so. I’d just like to read it for myself.
I love the flag pin on the snopes page and would love one =)
And Palin is an ignorant bitch. Back when the whole fooferaw about the reporter renting the house next to hers I looked at where her house was.
Did it totally fucking excape her tiny little mind that she is within shouting distance of a fucking HOTEL? He could have rented there as well … and I am damned sure that the hotel was full of reporters most of the time anyway.
It’s a horrible thing to do to a 16 year old kid who had no say in the matter, but being in the spotlight has not been kind to Willow Palin.
There’s faggot-gate…
There’s the party where she broke into a house, got drunk out of her mind and trashed the place…
There’s the “sneaking the boys upstairs” routine in Sarah Palin’s Alaska…
There’s the rumors of heavy drug use…
There’s probably some other stuff that wasn’t big enough to get out into the world…
Bristol had unprotected sex with her high school and ended up pregnant. Hey, it happens. But Willow is probably making Palin reconsider all the publicity she gives her family… maybe not.
It’s on Fox Nation. I don’t normally go there (understatement), but I was also curious about it. It’s a 2 paragraph commentary in its entirety.