Palin boosts the Birthers: 'I think it's a fair question'
Oy. Sarah Palin legitimizes the Birthers:
Transcript via Alex Koppelman at Salon:
HUMPHRIES: Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think enough members of the electorate still want answers.
HUMPHRIES: Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?
PALIN: I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations, past voting records, all of that is fair game. You know, I gotta tell you, too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign, didn't do a good enough job in that area. We didn't call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don't think that was fair to voters, to not have done our jobs as candidates and as a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we're seeing made manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly, if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama's past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that's a great point. That weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about, that Trig isn't my real son, a lot of people say, "Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid," which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we should reverse that and use the same type of thinking on the other one.
Steve Benen is spot on:
That last point about the bizarre notion that Palin's son is not her son was especially odd. The former half-term governor seems to think questions about Trig's birth certificate are a "weird conspiracy theory freaky thing" -- she does have a way with words -- but instead of arguing that all of the nonsense be taken off the table for everyone, Palin wants to see "the same type of thinking" applied to the president.
Palin tried to walk this back on her Facebook page:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.
No, you just suggest that the people who are asking and suggesting this have good reasons to do so. In other words, you just legitimized a bunch of far-right fringe cases.
As Brian Levin put it at HuffPo:
While many are pondering what exactly Sarah Palin’s approving radio comments on the birther issue and her subsequent “clarification” mean to her possible 2012 run, there is a more fundamental question: what does this bode for our democracy? The answer is this is yet another indicator that extreme is the new mainstream.
How much did she get paid for the interview?
People will say anything if the price is right.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
for free!?!
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Palin obviously does NOTHING for free.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I've always seen her as more of a glory hound than greedy, although she's probably both.
"Hey, look at me. I said something crazy and insane. Now the news media will give me even more coverage. I'm important. I'm special."
The woman has no shame and will do or say just about anything to keep that spotlight.
And are certainly brighter.
Obama has just reached a watershed in his presidency this week. He has devolved to the intellectual level of George Bush, while retaining his world class powers of speech.
Why is it so hard to imagine a Palin presidency?
We ever have world peace, international harmony, tolerance and equality for all, comfortable weather, and puppies and kittens for everyone, because you'd just curl up in a ball and die, wouldn't you?
I think it's a fair question.
If you're not cynical and angry by now then you haven't been paying attention (and I know you have).
Corruption favors the wealthy.
but there are limits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
One of the problems I've always had with the very hard Left is the almost innate hopelessness that comes with the territory.
"The corporate/military/energy/industrial complex controls everything and there's nothing we can do about it." Of course, that's not a quote, but it has been my impression since my first exposure in the early eighties.
I also don't really disagree - especially with the first half.
I'm just not ready to embrace the second half just yet.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
"Does your culture not hold that good will triumph over evil?"
"It does. But only if good is very, very careful."
-- Mr. Spock & Dr. McCoy, Star Trek, 'The Omega Glory.'
we need to stop pretending we are Democrats.
Obama: Jobs plan will 'jump-start' hiring
Bush has apparently hijacked Obamas brain.
I was not defending Obama, but it's EVERY post is nothing but doom and gloom.....it's tiresome. And you didn't address the point of my post, which had nothing to do with Obama.
I am still not convinced she is of the human persuasion, so I want to see her last vet checkup report at least!
Hopefully by now she's been spayed. I want to see proof of her rabies shots.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I want to she her high school diploma and her shot records. I need to check her birth certificate also, i don't believe she was born.
The interviewer thought he was gonna get a free autographed picture of Caribou Barbie.
Boy...guess he was surprised.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Rather than Sarah Palin legitimizing the Birthers, she delegitimizes herself even further. If that's possible.
The mainstream media follow her because she is a potential daily trainwreck waiting to happen.
She's irrelevant, except for the idiots that live vicariously through her, in much the same way they live vicariously through athletes, soap opera characters and trailer park reality show refugees.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
She understands people who “want their country back” while most people scratch their heads at the seeming gibberish.
Back from whom?
I didn't realize the country been taken.
I guess these people are the same folks that say we need to find Jesus. Geez, I didn't realize he was missing.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Did you see him get off the plane? This is the one great stain on the Reagan administtration, kept tightly underwraps.
It helps explain the fanatacism of Cheney et al as they work
to fix this before the world finds out at Rapture time.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Sarah's mother should be off limits.
/snrk
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I have a problem with the language you use fitley.....mental retardation is a condition one is born with and should not be used as hate or derogatory language....I have no problem with your use of "inbred" or "idiot", but as a person with friends that have intellectual disabilities, I find your use of the word "retard" very offensive.....and I bet if you thought about it you would see it that way too.....
all it takes is all of us
... Trig Palin's developmental disability is not the issue here.
It amazes me how many folks here throw epithets with plays on "retardation" around.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
... criticizing Sarah Palin's intellect as opposed to making a joke at Trig Palin's expense, then you're not as sharp as I thought you were.
her party without using a perjorative term derived from the developmental condition of less fortunate human beings.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
... espouses a theory even 42% of the remaining Republicans don't believe. Danger! Will Robinson. Danger!
Boy, I sure hope the Democrats will defend us form this menace. In fact, this is so terrifying that we all must pledge undying loyalty to the Dems no matter what they do.
Cause the alternative is so scary (and so shiny)....
Corruption favors the wealthy.
good grief...
... roughly the same 28%ers who remained loyal to Bush.
They're irrelevant and unchangeable.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Palin certainly didn't seems to think it was fair to have questions about her baby floating around during the campaign. Neither did Obama since he called for it to stop. Shame Palin can't show the same courtesy. Where is her birth certificate, BTW, and why does no one feel the need to see it?
"...I got my birth certificate right here...!"
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U_DH1UV7fAY/Sw_mzHI...
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Nobody really cares where weasels are born.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to a weasel from south of the Rio Grande, senorita.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
He was so dull, so phony, so transparent it was like a comedy show.
Hopefully Palin won't attain similar Reaganesque shrewdness.
I think it's about time that someone got deleted.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
"tard".....c'mon fitley.....that's just shameful
all it takes is all of us
.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Yeah, shure, you betcha!
They're all nuts!
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
If Sarah adopted her daughters child the birth certificate would reflect that Sarah is his mother and Tod the father.
It proves NOTHING except his time and place of birth remains the same!
Donaldd
PALIN: I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations...
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Ya mean like Joel's Army, Exorcists and Alaskan Secessionists too?
Ya betcha (wink).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I was thinking the same thing. I seem to recall much caterwalling and gnashing of teeth at the very idea that anybody dare question Tahd's past associations.
You gotta give the Reps one thing, they are absolutley immune to any notion of hypocrisy.
Well, it's also hard when Obama called off the Dem attack groups and media from going into her family's (Todd's) past, while McCain and Palin didn't do the same to him and we got the whole Bill Ayers thing. Meanwhile, Todd and Caribou Barbie's association with a seccessionist group went largely unreported.
Shoot the secessionist link will be a great asset for her if she does run. All these whacko's are all in that camp so it's a badge of honor for her.
That the wrong question was asked regarding Trig. I believe someone should have asked who is the father and demand a dna test to prove it if she contended that Todd was. Of course, the test would have to be conducted by someone not chosen by her.
..high school diploma.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Obama should be ineligible for president because...
He broke his oath that he took (as a senator) ...to uphold and defend the constitution.
he broke his oath)...when he voted for the patriot act re-authorization. (and immunity for Chimpy's wiretapping buddies)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Obama should be ineligible as President for breaking(allegedly) an oath he took as Senator.
Yep. You're a dumbass.
...spy on you, that you have no recourse? ...because of Obama!
Obama took away my god given right to sue telecom corporations and I'm on a vendetta...
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
without recourse and we continue to voluntartily give them access without a second thought?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
folks are spying on us all because "Obama" (and the rest of congress) gave them acesss...with a second thought
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Because far too much of America was scared of the big bad terrorists after 9/11 and never once thought to question anything that was being done, as long as 'we' were safe.
I was one of those critics who pointed out, 'It's not just what Bush/Cheney would do with that power, it's who comes after them.'
Oh, but Obama would never do that! Obama's one of the good guys!
We were sold down the river by Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, Harman, Feinstein, and other Democratic notables, because the GOP waves the big 'soft on terrorism' club and they flinch every single time.
to f wit you as badly as the private companies who have already been pouring over your data and dissecting you every which a way, my little pretties.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Anal probes will be free of charge.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
guitar and the pirate hat.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
don't give dumbasses a bad name by comparing them with Milquetoast.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
i'm pretty sick of palin. she's a fool for the fools. she's just going to be a cheerleader to keep the extreme RIGHT and evangelicals interested/distracted.
Whether Palin is Trig's birth mother or not is not one of my concerns about her. My concerns are focused on her presentation of herself as average when she is not; on the lies she tells without conscience; on her fleecing of her admirers by charging for everything; and by her lack of knowledge and ability to function as CIC.
is F*CKED UP!
Thanks but no thanks for that birth certificate to nowhere.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
on the meter!
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
from your porch?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Palin is the republican anchor to keep the ship of fools in tow for the next election.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Is it called the Treasure Coast because like you, the Spanish thought ships should be towed by an anchor?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Yes, I didn't say the Spanish were great sailors and hell, I don't know nothin' about berthin' ships.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
they don't need no anchor. An if'n they're anchored, it doesn't matter if the Captain is drunk as long as the tanker ain't leaking.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Aye Aye, Captain. Does that sound all nautically, or just naughty?
Okay maybe Palin isn't an anchor, maybe she's just a canoe with a hole in it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
who missed her ride on the Minnow. (Cue Liberalicious)
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
When she was on Oprah she said she wished Levi could join her family for Thanksgiving. She was all concerned about his future and all. Then I read she was running in some race on Thanksgiving Day, which she of course dropped out of before the finish. So I want to know if her family was with her at the race site and did Levi join them for dinner. I think it's a fair question
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
her divine personna many years prior to the campaign. She was hoping to wait until the 2012 convention.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I was hoping some Palin fan had been keeping up on the latest breakingest news on her facebook page or maybe heard her twittering.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
who campaigned as One Tough Grandma. Maybe Srah could run as
One Dumb Twit. (Can't wait for the corrections)
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Leave that "i" alone and don't even think about using that "a"
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
what if my wandering fingers get the "itch"?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Don't scratch the "itch". You might catch something. You don't know where that twit has been.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I guess...when you concider that this is coming from someone who knows nothing, I guess it would seem fair to ask a question that has been answered again and again and again and...
Republican don't want a truthful answer, they just want something that will support their bullshit.
Sarah Palin said "I think." Holy fucking shit, that alone should cause everyone to stop dead in their tracks.
Oh we know she has an awesome sense of humor so we didn't think she was serious.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... when she heard someone humming 'Hail to the Chief' as 'Dumb-dumb-da-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-da-dumb-dumb.'
for helping me through my effexor withdrawal with all the chuckles today. i needed it!
I think her real appeal to the rapture folks is that the men are just hoping to see her naked as she floats up to heaven. Horny rascals.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
::: reaches for the brain bleach :::
I hope it's only her wings that are flapping in the breeze.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Now I need to go to HuffPo and see if they have any nekkid supermodel or Megan Fox stories posted.
over at Air America too. At least they linked to Air Miss California's two.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
would be considered a past associate?
if Sarah Palin was dropped on her head as a baby.
how high she bounced!
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
She bounced just about as high as that deflated basket ball that the honorable bush had that time at the white house.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
with some oddly named unborn embryos waiting to be formed.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I think it is GRAND that Palin wants to clear up questions that Trig is her SON. In fact, I don't think Trig's liniage is debatable at all. Far from questioning her parenting skills, In Trig's case, it is my humble opinion, Sarah Palin is a GRAND mother to the child!
Over at The Daily Beast there is a story quoting her own father on why she only lasted one semester in Hawaii. Seems she didn't like all of the Hawaiians and Asians that were there. "So, she came home." It must drive her bananas that Barack Obama is president.
She was bananas before Obama became president.
We didn't do our job during the campaign, then I quit as Governor--- VOTE for ME!!
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Just like McCain, with his "I have some great ideas about the economy, and I'll tell you them as soon as I'm elected." Fools.
Don't forget how McCain knew how to get Bin Laden, though he would not elaborate until he became president. And now that he lost he still hasn't told us about his plan to catch Bin Laden. Is he not putting "country first" by telling us now because he's still sulking he lost, or was he full of shit.
He's a sulking pile of shit.
1) crashing multiple fighter jets at tax payer expense
2) setting an air craft carrier on fire which killed and injured his fellow shipmates
3) gave Sarah Palin a national platform
4.) Left his wife for a younger, prettier, and richer model, thereby displaying the GOP's "family values."
Has anyone seen Palin's high school diploma or GED certificate ?
for fear of alienating some of her base. She's a proud member of the "gleefully stupid" minority.
She's so precious. What a gem. Palinstein is the new judge of fairness in questions. What a doll.
Palin needs to go back home, look up the Toad and "Drill baby, drill".
then all I have to say is "Palin is to politics is what Picasso is to house renovations!"
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
I think its sad that the Repiglicans are in love with stupidity, and their leaders are Palin, Bachman, Virginia Foxx, Joe the plumber, and Joe "You lie". As a Dem. my only question is who do they pick in 2012, or are they hoping they can find the cave Dick "five deferments" cheney is hiding in, and prod him to run by offering him to do away with the congress if he becomes president.
The last sentence pretty much sums up the whole mess... extreme is the new mainstream.
And yes anon, I noticed too..they are absolutley immune to any notion of hypocrisy.
I really hope she runs for president. LOL. She would throw a wrench into the Republican primary, at least.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and all that idiotic tea party crap out there is all a distraction. Just like Terry Schivo and all the other side stories that are big stories only to the people it directly involves. We stop talking Health Care. We stop talking the economy. We stop talking global warming. And you know what? That's just the way this right wing wants it. They are like spoiled little children who have learned how to put the spotlight back on them.
Jeanne
I'm glad to see Mrs Palin thinks that "past associations" of public office holders and "what their beliefs were" are fair game for an election campaign, and I welcome the spirited discussion of her association with the beliefs of pastor Thomas Muthee ahead of the 2012 presidential election. Oh, how I welcome it.
So says The Loser/Quitter/Idiot.
NOBODY 2012
Sarah Palin and the birth certificate conspiracy. It's like beating two dead horses at the same time.
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