Who has privacy anymore? Why should someone who is talking in front of every crowd that she can find, a person who expects privacy.
Did Palin mention Rev. Wright ? Did she talk about Obama "palling around with terrorists’.
She has earned no quarter. She is fair game.
I never got particularly up in arms about the Bennett/gambling contretemps; I did get a bit of a snicker over Mr. Book-of-Virtues dropping so much money on what is (at least colloquially) accepted as a vice. 
You could have read Doonesbury for the past week. Mr. Trudeau appears to be having some fun with it.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer asshole. I’m fucking tired of Sarah Palin and her will-she-won’t-she coyness. I’m tired of her preaching family values, when she uses her children to suit her needs. I’m tired of seeing her mentioned on the news. Write moar crappy books and fuck off.
So she’s a good christian, so fucking what? You can be a christian without screaming it constantly from the rooftops.
What is the standard menu? Where is it listed, that I might learn it?
I absolutely disagree with your inclusion of gambling as a standard menu item. Perhaps if Bennett’s religion had some tenet against gambling, you could make the claim that by pious representations he was a faithful XXXXX he was implicitly claiming he avoided gambling. But he belongs to a faith that routinely raises money by Friday Night Bingo Nights.
(and since you value consistency, will you ever admit that your claims that if Virginia banned same-sex marriage it would see a wave of unprosecutable domestic violence, or “extra wringer” barriers.
Since you value consistency, and all. That “established fact” never actually happened, did it?
Again, though, he’s Catholic. The odds are not bad that he belongs or has belonged to a parish that has run a Friday Bingo Night to raise money. Sorry – but your vision of gambling as a generic, widely accepted vice just doesn’t jibe with reality. It’s about the best example of a strawman that there is.
We Catholics love gambling. 
Yes, true enough. But this is because there is wide-spread agreement on the issue of beastility. The largest single Christian faith in the US, and the one to which Bennett belongs, has no problem with gambling. So while I agree that no matter what list you look at, you’ll see beastility listed. But I do not agree that gambling is in the same boat. If a man can spend Friday night at his parish’s Bingo Night and Saturday at his parish’s K of C hall’s annual Casino Night, then there’s no way you can say he’s coy about his inclusion of the idea that gambling is a vice.
Yes. And surely you can show me where Palin claimed never to have had the habit, this example?
Would’ve been funnier if it was Todd.
So because someone is in the public eye, a politician in this case instead of an athelete, actor, author, speaker, musician, journalist, etc., they have no right to privacy. By that logic, it would then be fine to dig through Boehner’s trash, or Pelosi’s, or Obama’s and dig up every bit of dirt one could find no matter how unsubstantiated.
Now I get it. Because she disagrees with you politically and said bad things about Obama, it’s okay.
I certainly know that there are tons of Obama books out there. Some good and informative. Some simply getting more mileage out of him being a secret communist muslim black panther militant alien used car dealer ballet dancer from Saturn. What I am saying is that simply because Sarah Palin is the political version of Paris Hilton (minus the sex tape so far) does not mean that she has given up her privacy any more than any other public personality.
Also, a heroin addict who worked as a drug counselor without ever revealing to his employers that he had an addiction history would be fired, pronto.
It’s another example of inanity to claim that Church Bingo Night is the equivalent of dropping millions of dollars at Vegas casinos (Bennett’s total losses have been estimated in the $8 million range). And while Bingo Night is, I believe, supposed to raise money for good works, the same cannot be said for feeding the bank accounts of Vegas casino operators, whether or not one believes they are all pillars of the community. Re hypocrisy:
“Bennett was not prohibited from gambling (although the Catholic Church states that believers should be stewards of their money and use moderation) but some felt it conflicted with his public image as a leading voice for conservative morals. Criticism elevated in the wake of Bennett’s publication, The Book of Virtues, in which he argued for self-discipline— an attribute at odds with problem gambling. Bennett and Empower America, the organization he co-founded and headed at the time, opposed the extension of casino gambling in the states.”
Personally I can do without Sarah Palin being exposed, or exposure to Sarah Palin, or exposure by Sarah Palin, or any other entendre (single, double, etc.) involving the verb “expose” and Ms. Palin.
The allegations in the book are kind of entertaining in a, “if all that shit is true, there are some sphincters that will never untighten up there in Alaska” kind of way. What will be truly entertaining depends on how she responds to the allegations.
Unless she goes on Fox ‘News’ and calls McGinnis a lying cocksucker and sues him for libel, then she’s in it up to her neck. And then the fun will begin.
Or, maybe someone who does their best to demonize and persecute homosexuals but turns out to be renting boys on the weekends. But that’s just another case of IOKIYAAR. Standard practice, really.
It’s all he ever does.
-Joe
How about “death by”?
-Joe
Oddly, I can’t find a mention of it anywhere on the National Review website.
Well then how was he supposed to know about it? And she’s not mentioned on the www.foxnews.com front page. How was he supposed to know? HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!?!?!
-Joe
I was more affected when I learned that she was shooting wolves from helicopters. What kind of human being does that? Everyone has been a bit of a hypocrite at times even though we are not in the national news projecting ourselves as above-it-all. But hunting via vehicle is so unsportsmanlike and Cheneyish and shooting random wolves is ignorant and coldblooded.
She thought it was The Thing.
Psssst … no one will report on it much because no one gives a shit about Palin any more. She two nutsos old news, eclipsed by Bachmann who has been eclipsed by Perry.
Yeah, condemning herion addicts while never admitting you were one, legislating against homosexual behaviors while having gay sex in stalls, and preaching against the immorality of sex outside of marriage without mentioning tat you were once a sinner, all count as hypocrisy. But who cares about a has-been celebrity’s hypocrisy? Other than readers of Us?
“An attribute at odds with problem gambing.”
Yes. If I lost $8 miilion gambling in ten years, that would absolutely be problem gambling.
If LeBron James lost $28 million gambling in ten years, he might not even notice. (“Honey? Did I leave $8 million in my other pants?”)
The amount of money lost proves nothing. The amount of money lost as a percentage of one’s total income is important, not simply the raw number.
A Vegas blackjack table with Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, Phil Mickelson, and Peyton Manning playing might gain half a million dollars in one night, and not one of those guys would feel the pinch.
Over ten years, Bennett is said to have lost about $8 million in total. But while he’s not in Lebron James’ territory, he did earn about $50,000 per speech during the same time period, and his yearly income was said to exceed $10 million. If he’s dropping $800,000 per year at the casinos while he’s bringing in $10 million, I don’t agree that’s problem gambling.
In fact, the very Wikipedia article you refer to has a hyperlink at the words “problem gambling,” which brings the reader to an article about the specific symptoms associated with [Problem gambling - Wikipedia](problem gambling.)
Do you have any evidence that five or more of these symptoms applies to Bennett?
What is it?
Or were you just trying to be tricky, slipping in “problem gambling” in your quote and hoping no one made the distinction between that and recreational gambling?