Even FOX Rebels Against Palin Media Shutout
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 9:00am
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Dude, first you lost ABC, and now you've lost FOX News, as evidenced by this testy segment with Shepard Smith yesterday. That's just gotta smart for a Republican when the official water carrier for the Republican Party openly chastises you for keeping the press away from Sarah Palin during her crash course in getting the appearance of foreign policy gravitas via photo ops.
The campaign had never intended to actually let the press pool into Palin's sessions with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, but Palin's aides indicated last night that designated reporters would be able to watch the Alaska governor greet the visiting dignitaries before heading into a closed-door session. Palin is also meeting with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger later today, where the same rules would apply.
This morning the campaign shifted course and said no print reporters would be welcome at the outset of the meetings, though a foreign policy aide might brief the print media later today. Cameras, however, would remain free to capture Palin's entry onto the world stage.
Does the McCain campaign actually think that a photo of Palin with world leaders (because you know that at best they exchanged a few inane niceties, nothing that could be considered substantive) will actually obviate the charge of being a lightweight on foreign policy? Clearly the answer is 'yes', but considering the press reaction, this could backfire on him big time.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving campaign.
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Aw, poor Fux...
Firstly!
This is laughable
To paraphrase LBJ, when you lose George Will and Faux News, you start losing the country.
And they say a picture is worth a thousand words...
But here's a Secret Transcript From the Kissinger-Palin Meeting
Do you think this is all an attempt to seriously downplay expectations for Palin for the debate? That while she's cancelling all these shows we're supposed to think she's incapable, while all along she's practicing for the debates. And when she finally does debate Joe Biden, she "knocks it out of the ballpark" again?
I mean please -- they shortened the debate times for one reason: They're going to fill it with zingers. She's going to have all her one liners ready and excoriate Joe Biden. He'd better be prepared.
And what gives with the Bono meeting? Are his record sales that slow?
And yet, Senator Obama gets derided for his "lack" of foreign policy experience - and then gets derided for his attempts to enhance the perception of his foreign policy experience by - you know - going overseas.
Who the hell cares about Palin? We are in an economic crisis and she's playing politician. Screw her. The media should shut her out and stop talking about her and taking pictures of her. Before long, no one will remember who she is. Come on media, stop giving her air time, the end!
Don Davis @ 5:
Still More Leaks from the Kissinger-Palin Summit
Yesterday, Campbell Brown on CNN
Free Sarah Palin!
"Tonight I call on the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment," said Brown. "This woman is from Alaska for crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is competent. And you claim she is ready to be one heart beat away from the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff. Allow her to face down those pesky reporters... Let her have a real news conference with real questions. By treating Sarah Palin different from the other candidates in this race, you are not showing her the respect she deserves. Free Sarah Palin. Free her from the chauvinistic chain you are binding her with. Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do. So let her act like one."
I'm beginning to think that the whole Palin episode is just a way for the Republicans to completely undermine the idea of a woman ever taking the office of Vice or full-blown President. There really can't be any other explanation for any of this because as time goes on, it just gets worse and worse...
RCE @ 6:
Good point. Even though they cut Acker off, they'd made their point for her. Palin will look sharp doing her impression of Fey doing her impression of her. Biden will look old and gray, like, well, McCain.
Palin sure does not represent strong women when she agrees to be seen, but not heard.
AP - September 24, 2008
NY - Early today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin arrived at United Nations headquarters on the East River in New York City.
After shunning reporters but seeking camera exposure, Governor Palin was seen pointing across the water at Queens. Nearby spectators heard Palin delightedly shout "OMG! I didn't know you can see England from here!"
I can see it now - Palin will say she's met with President Karzai, ergo, she has foreign policy chops.
All she has to do is repeat her Bridge to Nowhere line, and she's toast.
Maybe he's her pimp. That's why we can't see what Dr. Kissinger is gonna do with her.
Michelle Otis. Was that her name? Man, she brought a butter knife to a gun fight. Yikes. I guess when you walk on to the set of Faux as a conservative, you don't have to prepare. Wow. Talk about not having an answer. I don't think the talking points can keep up.
This is just more of the same cry baby b.s. from the right. Oh, boo-hoo, the press asked me what the Bush Doctrine was and I didn't know. They were unfair to me so I'm taking my toys and playing in the corner by myself.
News flash, Palin: this ain't Alaska and you're not running for head dog sledder. This is the United States of America and we deserve to know if you can hack it under pressure. We deserve to know if you have two brain cells to rub together. That backwater bullshit of hiding behind your Wasilla High School buddies and using a Yahoo account won't fly in the big leagues. Your facing the heavy hitters now.
Remember, the Republicans have shown they can win with a women on the ticket. Her name was Dan Quayle.
Don Davis @ 5:
Holy crap Henry, you fat tub of lard! Less pastrami, more matzo!
I turned it off.
(Most) Americans don't get other cultures anyway: they look through the lens of America. She could spend a year overseas, and still not get it.
I've been in Korea for 11 years, and I still don't get a lot of stuff. It's THAT different.
She's gaining knowledge. Indeed.
Has anyone in the media mentioned how presumptuous it is for her to be pretending to be some kind of world leader?
It just seems like something that would fit with that lightweight posing near the foreign dignitairies. Maybe they totally used up the word "presumptuous" when they were bashing Obama during his goodwill tour.
Because a photogenec VP is really what America needs right now.
She's getting foreign policy experience. From the footage, she can see Hamid Karzai from her chair!
btdt @ 14:
LMAO
Edwin Hussein @ 20:
Great place, South Korea isn't it?
MoDo, who i normally can't stomach, actually criticized palin today...
let's face it, all the media personalities are pissed because their net worth is half (or less) what it was a year (or a week) ago.
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McCain's Manager being a fraud pusher.........
...a story that the MEDIA will shutout.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/sep/24/johnm...
Palin finally opens to press:
"You wanna investigate me? Roll the dice and take your chances. I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4,000
CubansRushins that are trained to kill me, so don`t think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badges and make me nervous."I can't wait until Palin meets Bono today and asks him what it was like to be married to Cher!
Karzai and Kissinger should be rightly pissed off at being used like this. It's a crap gig for both of them.
Eric Almighty - I agree. It's presumptuous.
I dont worry about it anymore.
While they may be prepping Palin for this debate, Biden has been ready for it for years.
And in these past weeks the McPalin campaign has given gifts of way more then enough "zingers" for Biden to underhandedly stick her multiple times over … all the while smiling like a gentleman.
They will spin it as sexist and all that but people with any type of grip on reality will see this farce for what it is.
They may try and compare Palin and Obama as lightweights but I’m thinking that after the debate it will be clear that Moose-stick doesn’t even register on the scale.
This is funny. Faux News, out of all the cable channels, is actually complaining about Palin? I don't even consider Faux News, news. It's a propaganda tool for the Repug Party. To hear of them bitching about Palin tells me they are in a free-for-all. Obama is leading in the polls and their heads are about to explode. Can you imagine if Obama wins? A African American? They will freak. I hope to God Barack wins.
I just want to know what got into Shepard Smith. He sounded like a real journalist there. You think Fox'll fire him?
WARNING: Palin Rant...
Sarah Palin is well on her way to becoming a gaffe riot! Did you catch her statement today attacking Obama/Biden about renewable energy? Clueless! Absolutely clueless!! And she's ready for the world stage? She's not ready for a corner stage at a back room bar in Wasilla! The overriding question shouldn't be "Is she qualified?" It should be "Where did she learn to walk upright?" She's the quintessential small town beauty pageant contestant. I'm surprised she doesn't end every statement with "... and world peace." If she had to think to ovulate she'd be childless! As I watch her I can't help but wonder — What were they thinking? And then the obvious hits me — They weren't.
Vote McCain/Palin. They won't waste time thinking!
Go Ahead... Keep laughing at them, but know that 46% of the voters in our nation are evangelical, they, and the majority of Americans only watch FOX, and/or Christian broadcasting, and/or the corporatistly controlled MSM - They do not read/watch us.
“Go Ahead... Just Keep “Allowing” - Keep Denying The Realities - It’s Not Like It’s Actually Getting Worse - Much Worse - Blatantly And Faster.”
It’s not like there is any possibility that...
“We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose This Thing” Right?
“You Don’t Want It To Be True...”
But Deep Down, You Know It Is Our Shared Reality.
Maybe she talked about hockey with Karzai. Hockey's big in Afghanistan, right? And the season does start soon.
Shepard Smith is probably the least partisan guy Fox has, though that bar isn't exactly set very high...
spindip @ 34:
it's like during katrina, shep was apoplectic until they helicoptered him away for a xanax and a 'reality check' (as in don't forget who signs yours).
Pretty cool.
Now she can put the photo of her meeting with Henry Kissinger on her wall. The moose-murderer and the mass-murderer.
All snark aside, of course.
JoeSixPack @ 17:
It's getting laughable,...
'Here's a good point critiquing the McCain campaign, comment?'
"OBAMA!! WHAAAAAAA!!!!!"
Shep Smith is about the best and only good thing they have at fox.
They made up for that segment this morning when they had some guy on who has done "in depth research" on Obama and Ayres. He was throwing out a lot of "looks like" and phrases like that about their relationship. At the end of the segment that blond guy with the idiot son, finished up by restating that Ayres was a known terrorist.
I guess that's their idea of "balanced"
This whole thing with Palin has become sheer comedy. Everyone is dancing around the fact that anyone of us could have been introduced to these heads of state, smiled, chitchatted and moved along. As if that somehow makes us worldly and smart. It's just a freakin' joke.
Worst possible scenario, the economy crashes and Palin is President of the US
But she can see Russia from where she lives.........Cough Cough!
Everybody keep a lookout.
Tonight is the NBS Premier of the new show "Lipstick Jungle".
Expect to hear the McCain campaign criticize NBC for unfairly attacking Palin based upon the show's plot. :)
spindip @ 34:
Cavuto is on the failed FOX Money channel. Maybe he will replace Smith.
Mugsy @ 44:
Oops, that should read "NBC" not "NBS".
She is now a graduate of the Sally Struthers Correspondence School of Foreign Policy! She can haz foryn policy experienz and is now an "Expurt!"
jakflorida32169 @ 35:
This is exactly what they want.They want people to bash the shit out of her in order to get the sympathy vote. It's already working ......amongst liberals even !
Don't count on Palin winning a debate with Joe Biden -- not matter how much cramming she's done.
The Conservative Arguement about the Bail-Out is, "Blame immigrants!" "It's all their fault!" Jesus, most data shows that immigrants rent, not own. Now Malkin and her ilk are blaming immigrants. Will this madness end?
Someone over at Kos last night called Palin, "Snowjob Squareglasses".
Centrocitta @ 49:
Tortoise and Hare. As long as he prepares and doesn't assume she's no contest he'll mop up with her.
Centrocitta @ 49:
But you can count on fox and probably other cable news shows claiming that she did.
so, she gets a few pictures taken with some repubic friendly leaders and she now has foreign policy creds? WTF.
to follow that logic, i had my picture taken with bernie parent so i guess i now have hall of fame goalie skills.
Mike @ 36:
From my point of view here in North Georgia, where my neighbors call me anti-American because I support Obama, it looks scary but think of it this way; those 46 percent evangelicals don't like to lose their sons in Iraq, their houses and their jobs AND pay a trillion or more to bail out those that already ate their lunch and their 401k. Calling themselves evangelical is like putting on perfume when you did not take a shower to make yourself presentable. They are not all that committed, their purse is closer to them than their bible. 80 percent of all people think this country is on the wrong track, that include at least 26 percent of those evangelicals.
Go out and register new voters, let people know that you support Obama and why. Stick your neck out. We can win if we all give it everything we got.
Notice the only dirt the media can find on Joe Biden is to say that he made a gaffe when he said it's patriotic to pay more taxes if your income is 250,000. And that wasn't a gaffe. In fact, Biden needs to stress this fact every day until November 4. I'm sure he will get in in during the debate too. In fact, I hope he finds a way to mention it several times during the debate.
pissed@53, You got that right. Kerry slammed Bush. And the rights reaction? Bush held his own. I don't know what debate they were watching. But Kerry kicked Georgie's ass. I am beginning to think these people are truly insane and beyond help.
I just crapped my pants..Was that actually Fox Noise taking issue against Palin!
If this is the case...she is DOOMED
Don Davis @ 10:
Seriously, if Palin is not creaped out at this meeting she must not be human.
Radically Moderate @ 58:
creeped!
You know how it works in the debates. The Democrat has to be absolutely perfect every single second, without a single "um" or pause. The Republican shouldn't drool much. The Republican didn't drool at all! We have a winner!
uncle wally @ 37:
It is at Camp Julien.
Already the McCain camp is lowering the bar for McCain and Palin. How low can they go? Why don't they submit questions in writting and not show up at all?
Does anyone else find using leaders of other countries as a foil for our inexperienced and ignorant political candidates insulting to them? I'm just shocked at the poor judgment of the McCain campaign. Actually, it's pretty degrading for Palin too - to be paraded around for various photo ops.
The media makes me laugh about Joe Biden's "gaffes". When he said Obama was good looking and clean, Joe was projecting his own admirable qualities onto Obama because Joe knew months ago that he was going to be the VP pick. This was all part of the Dem campaign strategy. How stupid does the right-wing media think we are anyway?
i wonder why world leaders would bother meeting with her. also are karzai and uribe the best that would step up?
Yes, Joe Biden as the running mate has been in the plans for a long time. Joe Biden got some real good info on the Bush Administration way back in Spring 2005.
hedgehoggy @ 11:
That's what I conjectured a few days after the convention. The right-wing, xians really do want to put women back in their place - say, the 3rd century. They are seriously jealous of the way the Muslims keep their womenfolk under the thumb.
Regardless of meetings with foreign and domestic leaders (and former leaders), Sarah Palin will remain what she's always been - an uneducated, unworldly, narrow-minded, religio-botic (I made up that word), superficial, arrogant, pretender. So, now that I think about it, she's the perfect candidate for the Repugs........heaven help us.
Centrocitta @ 64:
One of the highlights of the primary debates was when whatever moderator brought up what Biden had said about Obama being clean and speaking well. Obama stepped in and said that Biden was a friend of his and a good person. Obama didn't have to do that, he could have left Biden blowing in the wind. But instead he did what a friend and a gentleman would do and defended his opponent. That's what a man of class does.
Poetic Justice Indeed! Kick them out!
It's hard to have a sympathetic ear for anything involved with the FauxNews Network. . . whatever nasty thing that happens to them, they earned and deserve. Their deliberate lies and propaganda should have their broadcast license revoked as a dis-service and failure to serve the public interest.
Exactly. They are both men of honor. I can't wait to vote for them. In 2006, I heard Joe Biden say, "We can't get rid of the president", in response to why the Democratic Congress can't end the war.
Well, I think Joe made that statement because in Spring 2005, he got some real good info about goings on inside the Bush Administration and I really do believe that Joe made up his mind at that time that he was going to be a major player in getting rid of George Bush and his criminal neocon associates.
RELATED STORY..... FOX NEWS FILLS IN PALIN INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS WITH CROTCH SHOT OF BILL O'RIELLY
unable to find other useless and disgusting news, the FUX news team of reporters has jammed its 24 hours of comedy with
BILL CHECKING OUT THE SAGGING REPUBLICAN POLES
why bother meeting with them? all she has to do is look at them from a distance (like seeing russia from alaska), and claim she has foreign policy experience. WHEN will the palin ads start? there is plenty of material to start slamming her! e.g., what is she trying to hide?: no press conferences, no press interaction at public appearances, not opening up to the troopergate affair, more of the same closed, secret gov't; etc.
Well, it is a step up from their previous claim that Palin had foreign experience because you could see Russia for Little Diomede Island—where most Alaskans and probably Palin as well have never set foot. A few thousand more of these baby steps up and she'll have more foreign policy credentials than a fifth grader!
FOX is telling every little bitty news story they can find in order to not talk about the economy.
54 willie
So if I get my picture taken with a pregnant women
Does that make me pregnant?
apparently mccain believes we're stupid enough to think that there is no difference between someone who consults others and someone who needs others to tell her what to think.
This is a page right out of the Charismatic Evangelical playbook, getting your picture taken with celebrities and world dignitaries in an attempt to make yourself appear legit. TV evangelists do it all the time. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh, Sarah?
Palin IS qualified to be Vice President!! She's just not qualified to run for office.
ysbaddaden @ 75:
Well, it is contagious...
fastfeat @ 7:
I tell you I'm so sick of that guy, first meeting with Bush, then aligning himself with Pat Robertson for ONE. Europe hates this Palin woman and what does he do, he agrees to be her butt boy for an hour. Is it really worth that much to him to be called "Sir". Was there really that much of an egotistical competition to obtain the same title as Geldof?
I can just picture the "crowd" Palin would draw were she to go to Berlin and speak!! She's a real draw. yeah, right!
If all the press gets is a stinking picture, why not just photo shop Sarah with every leader of the world. All this meeting foreign leaders for a few minutes is a joke. It is nothing more than a receiving line introduction. Frankly, until she starts to answer questions, the media should refuse to cover her at all. How about a countdown, i.e., 40 days and still no questions answered, 41 days, 42 days, etc.
chama @ 13:
hedgehoggy @ 11:
Palin was hand selected by radical right-wing extremist James Dobson and his cronies. This is not about getting woman into the White House. It is all about getting one of their own into the White House, someone who is maleable and compliant. These are Dominionists. Women have a subserviant role in their view. The primary goal of Dominionists is to politicize faith, to merge faith with patriotism, to reconstruct our history, our stories, to fit their world view and their goal for a new world order. It is a facist/totalitarian movement.
There is no mystery.
Did you know that Sarah Palin ate General Tso's Chicken? Yes, she did at China #1 Buffet. (She thought it was "Like strange and foreign and gross" and then made a joke about eating dogs, but that's besides the point).
This proves that Sarah is ready to lead us to war against China!
Karen in CT @ 31:
Really?
Karzai = former Chevron executive, selected to "govern" Afghanistan to further ensure compliance with the U.S. for the pipeline, that Karzai?
Kissinger = corrupt Nixon lacky, whose ineptitude kept us in Vietnam much longer?
The are the Republican loyalists. C'mon.
79 Fanon Says: ysbaddaden @ 75:
54 willie
So if I get my picture taken with a pregnant women
Does that make me pregnant?
Well, it is contagious…
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Can you get it from a toilet seat?
"Does the McCain campaign actually think that a photo of Palin with world leaders (because you know that at best they exchanged a few inane niceties, nothing that could be considered substantive) will actually obviate the charge of being a lightweight on foreign policy?"
Keeping the press out would have allowed them to claimed whatever they wanted about the meetings. Instead we know that she met with them for about 30 seconds and pretty much the most important thing she said to any of them is 'How old is your daughter?'
pissed off patricia @ 51:
Priceless.
It is interesting that the only two world "leaders" they could line up are neocon puppets. Well, not so much interesting as predictable. I suspect both of their Swiss bank accounts got a deposit recently.
Things must really be grim if ol' Henry (Gollum) Kissinger has to be extracted from the shadows of Mordor to prop up Mrs. Palin's "experience."
CafeenMan @ 52:
The Republicans seem to have low expectations of her and even lower standards. All that is required of her for anything is that she "hold her own". Pathetic.
Centrocitta @ 55:
Biden also said he opposed the AIG bailout, while Obama was in favor of it.
So many posts say, "Even [name of conservative supporter person or network] disagrees with McCain!" The post usually concludes with, 'this new McCain strategy is so dumb, it is even backfiring for McCain with his conservative supporters.'
This is not effective. You can't slag FOX 90% of the time but cherry-pick its views the few times they coincide with ours. Why? It makes Dems look weak. Especially when the conservative pundit's 'rebellion' is inevitably made out of self-interest.
It goes like this: Dems (ideologically) object to Palin's hiding from media because a) we know she can't hack it b) we want her to trip up in public and c) it isn't fair or appropriate for VP candidates to hide from the press. FOX (self-interestedly) objects because... they want to live in a world where Palin ignores everyone in the entire media world except FOX. By bullying Palin publicly (saying she should go on their show), they hope she will appear... at which point they will give her an absurdly sycophantic interview.
The moral of the story is that quoting conservatives to “prove” McCain is doing a bad job is a bad strategy. It looks like Dems will align themselves for the day with morally bankrupt nitwits just b/c they happen to be saying something that has an element of schadenfreude to it. Who cares what they’re saying? We need to stop quoting them as evidence, it’s absurd.
She meets with foreign leaders but not with the president of the US? Why does Palin hate America?
palin would probably call the PM of Britain Charlie.
CMINCA @ 91:
Yeah, but Biden has been consistently in favor of proper regulations of these and was speaking from his heart and from what he knows his constituents are thinking, as well as most of the American people. Obama was right in that Joe should have waited before giving his gut opinion, and that is why it is good to have Obama at the top of the ticket. Both are good, clear, and pragmatic thinkers, but Biden has that habit of saying what he is thinking (kind of like a Joe Sixpack) without considering the alternatives. The hypocrisy that Obama pointed out was how McCain can get in front of a crowd and pretend to be a populist who wasn't in favor of the bailout when he's been a consistent deregulator. So Biden has more credibility on the issue, although he should have consulted with the campaign's economic folks and Obama before doing that. In the end, Joe is reasonable, and not like Bush who insists on going with his gut after saying something like that. Joe is willing to admit when he speaks too soon or makes a mistake. I'd much rather have someone in office like that. Now THAT is like me...someone who sometimes regrets being a little too jumpy, but can be reasoned with and is a rational person (at least I consider myself like that).
P.D. @ 33:
Yeah--I'd actually pay for cable (for the first time in *years*) and tune in to Faux News (for the first time ever) to watch the wingnuts' heads pop. And, better yet, if the Rethugs come up with nothing but splinters (from scraping the bottom the barrel too hard) to run against Obama in 2012 and he wins by a Reagan-1984 landslide, I'll buy a huge TV to watch the neck-stumps explode.
Ben @ 95:
I didn't think that Joe needed to stay on message or in step with the campaign. After all, Obama claims he selected Joe because he had some differing views and that Obama knew Joe was not afraid to bring up differing views to him, that Joe would put forth different sides for Obama to contemplate.
As predicted, McCain waited until Obama had his press conference, then copied Obama's ideas and put them forth as his own. He's really despicable.
moniker @ 93:
The Republicans are trying to keep Bush out of the spot light and away from the candidates. Remember, McCain/Palin are running on the platform of "not like Bush" mavericks.
Love when Faux is always at a loss of words when they get slapped around again about the incompetent, ignorant Pallin.
Ya know what...Never freaking mind the whole media bruhaha over getting shut out of this 'meeting' and whatever the hell outrage I'm suppose to feel about that.. That's bullshit, straight up but not for any reason anyone might want to raise with me on the specifics of the republican handlers managing that sideshow..... Let's lookee at this another way... Here's a woman who is recent to this line of work as a politician, a woman with a questionable past that her repub/McCain handlers are working 24/7 to keep people from focussing on... And I'm suppose to buy into the idea that this woman, lightweight that she is, will somehow become an 'expert' on 'foreign policy' issues simply by sitting down once or twice and chatting about kids with some person from another country whether they be that countries leader or not and getting her picture taken while this little 'meet and greet' is happening... Really???? Nevermind what kind of idiot they take me for... What kind of idiot do they want me to be to accept that this will equate to being any kind of expert on dealing with foreign policy issues... People? Newsflash, that ain't how one becomes a expert on dealing with serious international foreign policy issues... IF THAT was the case... Hell, I'm a freaking expert... Make me VP or Sec of State, I went around the world once, met a lot of people from other nations and interacted with many other cultures in a favorable way.. Seems like my resume' is at least as strong at this point as Palins..... Does anyone besides me see the total absurdity of this whole charade with Palin meeting foreign leaders, getting her pic taken and the meme that this will 'burnish' her foreign policy cred???? Have we all taken leave of our common sense???? This is all BULLSHIT!!! More smoke and mirrors and that's it, sorry I'm not buyin..... JD
Jack Damage @ 100:
Her handlers seem to be using the strategy from the movie "Legally Blonde". Sarah goes to Washington. Sarah wows everyone. Such tripe. Gimme a break. It is such a slap in the face to the intelligence of Americans.
Even FOX Rebels Against Palin Media Shutout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c
Ok, I hear the reporters screaming for access..
I hear the McCain campaign manager screaming that access is now granted, it's all just a misunderstanding, so wtf ?!!!
But I didn't hear is Palin's own voice in this matter. If she is such a "hockey mom", she wouldn't be that fearful to interject her opinion in this matter.
But she is silent. So is she the VP or what ?
Looks like this "hockey mom" can't even voice her opinion without her underlings trampling all over her.
After watching that segment, i'm beginning to understand why the term "dumb blonde" was coined.
I love the Fox bimbo's first words: Look at all the headlines calling this a crash course for Sarah Palin as if she didn't have any foreign policy experience.
Nothing as if about it - she has no foreign policy. Screw seeing Russia from her house, has the woman stepped on Canadian soil yet?
Well that was lame. Sounds like the gal on left was really aching to work in that "celebrity" junk somehow...
Palin is Cheney with lipstick
From NBC's Mark Murray
The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll will be released at 6:30 pm ET,
but here's an early look at one set of numbers:
Forty-nine percent say that Palin is unqualified to be president if the need
arises, compared with 40 percent who say she's qualified.
By contrast, 64 percent believe Biden is qualified to be president, versus
just 21 percent who disagree.
The blond idiot was completely pathetic in her responses.
of coarse the mccain girl gets to smear at the end with no response.
I have to disagree with your police work, there, DickStick. I am thinking a Dan Quayle - Sarah Palin reference is in order. Cheney was too knowledgeable on foreign and domestic policy matters. Palin, as recently as this summer, was obviously not bestowed with decades of service in various Administrations. Dan Quayle was young and relatively un-savvy. Perhaps I'm digging to deep into the "Past GOP Token VP Candidate" bag here. If nothing else, I think a Sarah Quaylin comparison could be reason for avoiding substantive and other questions asked by the press.
And DLR could mean dealer plates.
Republican shills: beyond hypocrisy, beneath contempt.
CMINCA @ 100:
This raises an interesting issue: Has Sarah Palin ever met Dubya? (Remember, he wasn't actually at the RNC). Has she ever met ANY U.S. President? If not, when was the last time that a Vice Presidential nominee had not even met the sitting President, a President who is a member of the same political party? When was the last time a Vice Presidential nominee had not met ANY U.S. President? She wants to be a heartbeat away from an office with which she has never had ANY direct contact? Wouldn't it be delightful to create a clamor for Sarah Palin to meet George W. Bush?
The liberal media wants it both ways. They will attack like wolves, but they also want full access to Palin. If they continue to treat her in a disrespectful and unfair manner, there will be limited exposure. Attack Obama with the same passion, before you complain about this. Get over it.
Unfair and biased journalism only makes it difficult for all the good journalist.
In the VP debates, something tells me Biden will have his hands full with Palin.....and not part of her body.
Shepard Smith always fascinates me. He reminds me of Laura Palmer's father (Ray Wise) in Twin Peaks, before his hair went completely white.
Zenrage @ 107:
A friendly warning to her:
hello @ 118:
Ack. That was meant to read, if she sets one clunky foot in my yard, I'd go Deliverance on her ass. And I meant that jocularly.
Come on, People!
Sarah Palin is THE perfect GOP Vice Presidential replacement for the "not-really-Executive Branch", "everything-I-do-is-Top-Secret" Tricky-Dick Cheney. From being THE TOOL behind the "unitary president's" throne in two GOP terms that Cheney is, to the Corporate-owned "dummy-on-the-knee" that Sarah Palin would become, the perfect Yin-Yang.
With her husband off in the Alaskan wilderness for three months of the year, don't you think that Sarah would be the PERFECT buddy to go out drinking with? (Compared to Cheney, who you couldn't trust with a gun in his hand?)
Of course, the MSM has been very slow to be critical of the GOP's answer to, and vote magnet for, all those disgruntled (PUMA) Hillary supporters, in spite of the evidence already exposed that she would NOT be a good "single heart-beat away from the Presidency". Sort of like our current dry drunk, coke-head President, augmented by the all-powerful Darth Cheney.
You know McBush is on the wrong track if this kiss-ass organization is pissed at McBush.
David762 @ 120:
The Dummycrat party should at least elect someone that can win the General Election. Look at who you Democrats have tried to elect. Please, it's an awful history.
Let's see:
1960 - Kennedy (The last quality Democrat to run for office)
1964 - Johnson (sympathy vote)
1968 - Humphrey (hahahaha)
1972 - McGovern (hahahaha)
1976 - Carter (won by default, but again what a joke)
1980 - Carter (enough said)
1984 - Mondale (enough said)
1988 - Dukakis (Nice helmet)
1992 - Clinton (The only reason he won, Ross Perot received 18% of the vote. Clinton only won by 5.3%. Bush would have receive a majority of the Perot votes.)
1996 - Clinton (This was a Republican gaffe with Bob Dole. Perot only receive 8%. Clinton was riding high on an economic boom which he had nothing to do with as we found out the last year of his 2nd term. Bust.)
2000 - Gore (enough said-self proclaimed global warming czar, that isn't profiting from his efforts: wink wink. AND didn't do anything while VP).
2004 - Kerry (that is the best Dems can do? As much as you bash Bush, you couldn't beat him, twice.)
2008 - Obama (while he appears to be a formidable opponent and contrary to what the polls say he will not win. Unfortunately white voters tend to say they will vote for him, but will not. The vote will still be close, because Obama will probably carry the highest percentage of black votes in the history of any election.)
You look who you Dummycrats have tried to elect. What a joke! How can anyone complain about Bush when you can't even beat him....twice!!!
44th 1960* John F. Kennedy* (Democrat) Richard Nixon (Republican)
Harry F. Byrd (Democrat)
45th 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) Barry Goldwater (Republican)
46th 1968* Richard Nixon* (Republican) Hubert Humphrey (Democrat)
George Wallace (American Independent)
47th 1972 Richard Nixon (Republican) George McGovern (Democrat)
John G. Schmitz (American)
48th 1976 Jimmy Carter (Democrat) Gerald Ford (Republican)
49th 1980 Ronald Reagan (Republican) Jimmy Carter (Democrat)
John B. Anderson (none)
Edward Clark (Libertarian)
50th 1984 Ronald Reagan (Republican) Walter Mondale (Democrat)
51st 1988 George H. W. Bush (Republican) Michael Dukakis (Democrat)
52nd 1992* Bill Clinton* (Democrat) George H. W. Bush (Republican)
Ross Perot (none)
53rd 1996* Bill Clinton* (Democrat) Bob Dole (Republican)
Ross Perot (Reform)
54th 2000*† George W. Bush* (Republican) Al Gore† (Democrat)
Ralph Nader (Green)
55th 2004 George W. Bush (Republican) John Kerry (Democrat)
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