Sarah Palin goes to New York, tells Hannity: Socialism, here we come
By John Amato Tuesday Jun 09, 2009 10:00amDon't you love when a network bills an interview as an "exclusive" when the "exclusive" person has been interviewed about a gazillion times? Anyway, Sean Hannity has the exclusive and the super duper sized guest he nabbed is Sarah Palin in New York. Wow, what a catch. And guess what? She thinks America is headed towards "Socialism." I mean, I'm in shock! And yet she actually admits to using socialist practices by giving money to Alaskans from oil companies.
Hannity: Socialism?
Palin: Well, that is where we are headed. And we have to be blunt enough, candid enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads, nationalizing many of these services....yes, that is where we will head....And Americans have to be paying attention and we have to have our voices heard and ultimately it has to be our will, the American people's will imposed on Washington instead of the other way around.
Sarah, I hate to break it to you, but we just had almost a two year election over this stuff and you and McCain LOST. You can't even get a GOP fundraising dinner together because Newt Gingrich was nervous if you showed up and you want to talk about financial policies?
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared at a major Republican congressional fundraiser Monday night, ending a will-she-or-won't-she mystery that overshadowed the event and frustrated the GOP. Palin - the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee, who was initially scheduled to headline the annual Senate-House dinner - left organizers hanging as late as Monday afternoon after she was told she wouldn't have a speaking role at the event.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich urged the Republican party loyalists Monday evening to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.
Palin's appearance Monday night was the latest twist in an unusual public flap between a potential 2012 presidential candidate and the Republican congressional leaders who run the party's fundraising committees. In March, organizers replaced Palin as the keynote speaker with Gingrich after she wavered over accepting the invitation.
Republican officials involved in the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Palin was invited to sit at a head table but was told she would not be given a chance to speak for fear that she might overshadow Gingrich.
Palin balked at that arrangement but did not make clear whether she would refuse to attend, the officials said. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, made a personal appeal over the weekend for her to attend and invited her and her husband, Todd Palin, to sit at his table.
Meanwhile, it seems that Evita Palin is getting on some GOPers' nerves.
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As she said 'We told you so" but we can add that WE told them so that Palin is STUPID months ago...It's a time line thing, but facts remain the same...
Per the transcript:
"Well, that is where we are headed. And we have to be blunt enough, candid enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads, nationalizing many of these services....yes, that is where we will head....And Americans have to be paying attention and we have to have our voices heard and ultimately it has to be our will, the American people's will imposed on Washington instead of the other way around. "
What in holy hell does that even fucking mean??
This stupid bitch makes Britney Spears looks like a genius.
I really hope she runs for president in 2012! She may divide the country even further but it'd be a great way of isolating the rabid wackos from the moderate and thinking right wing of the nation. Let the Joe the Plumber crowd have their Palin love fest while the the rest of us focus on real issues.
she makes no sense at all...she's just an attractive 40 something small town gal...thats it. she's good for ratings...thats all.
WTF !! is wrong with palin?
this C--t is dividing up the
oil revenue between everyone in
alaska....hypocrite!! that's socialism.
she gave everyone in alaska, man,woman and child
over $3200.00 in oil revenue and alaska is the largest
welfare state in America. they get back more
tax dollars than they send to washington d c.
such trivial matters will only confuse and agitate her tiny tiny brain.
Perhaps causing it to explode with all the force of a soggy firecracker.
But Sarah never lets FACTS get in the way of a little hypocritical political opportunism. The irony of her statement about socialism is absolutely guffaw-inducing(and what's wrong with socialism anyway? It kills me how the right takes words and tries to make them dirty). But she is clueless that most of the country is laughing at her. If she tries again in 2012, she will be absolutely demolished when her opponents start using facts against her.
The filthiest word I can think of is conservative!
"Oh my god, look at what conservatives did to our fair country!"
Stomach just cannot handle these two at once. Maybe I can find an air sickness bag here somewhere . .
Palin/Gingrich 2012! Or Gingrich/Palin 2012! Either way we win!
Palin/mule f'er from Georgia would be more amusing.
can spell socialism, let alone define it.
Not Alabammy?
Or Beverly Hillbillies?
Notice how the camera favors Hannity while Ms Palin's famous LensCrafters look is kept in an unflattering profile.
Sean's ego always wins out. Lookin' GOOD, too!
Not even Californey?
on the whole proximatey to foreign countries thing
she's not exactly a quick learner
what the word 'proximity' means, but at least she didn't say 'close proximity' the way most other pols and various dunderheads do.
She doesn't appear to understand what 'socialism' actually is either. Yet, she's gov. in a state that has more socialist type programs than any other.
I want my Bear Stearns stock, my WaMu stock, my GM stock, My AIG stock, and all the other things I invested in to repair my 401K losses in Enron. Bring good old Mr. Invisible Hand back to replentish my coffers.
palin with a critter of the night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwn3BfhaBqE
notice the camera shot...they only shoot palin from the left. she's reading the script behind hanity....too funny!!
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Let's hope she's right about ONE thing in her whole pathetic life. She has the mind of a bumper-sticker.
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She got on my nerves a LONG time ago. She is a complete idiot. Don't cha know?
... who's either stupid enough to plagiarize a four year-old speech by Newt Gingrich ...
... OR give credit to Gingrich, thus admitting that neither she nor her speech writer were able to come up with anything original ...
... OR who gets spoon-fed talking points by Sean Hannity and STILL makes a mess of it.
Aaaaaaah! Teh st00pid! It burns! It burns!
it looks like Sean is sheepishly waiting for Moosehead to stop talking so that he can present her with an engagement ring that he has in his hands. Unfortunately, the Alaskan Sports Journalist and Russian Watcher is telling him that she is going to have to turn him down because his brain and his dick are too small and he's too polite to interrupt. A gem.
Oh, and before I forget. . . . . . Fuck you, Dick Cheney.
... the 'gosh, I'd like to sleep with this beauty' look that some conservative males get when they lay eyes upon Sarah Palin really creeps me out.
I don't find her attractive at all.
Probably because I've been privileged to be around educated women for most of my life.
...eight grade diploma. During the campaign, my mother, a retired high school history teacher, who never curses or gets loud or angry with anyone, would mute her television whenever Palin was on.
Texas Federation of Republican Women.
http://www.tfrw.org/photo_gallery/TFRW%20at%2...
the bovine neanderthal 4th from the left looks kinda cute.
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yeah...it's prolly purty dang ripe in there.
Oh come on. She's so pretty. Even though she is a fucking airhead.
This hail mary failed miserable for these desperate fucks last year. And now this dumb bitch is the GOP hope for 2012? They better get ready for 2016.
The TheHill article goes on...
Those are the dumbasses of the party. I mean the real dumb dumbasses. Blue-collar conservative voters are the ones who do not yet realize that the Bush/McCain/Palin policies are the ones that caused this economy to collapse.
Sadaam was the 9/11 mastermind, Obama's a terrorist, wrestling's real, Elvis lives...
Leave Elvis out of this.
Thanku, thanku ver' muschhhh......
Lemme get double cheeseburger, extra pepperoni...and one of them peanut butter pies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_hkIN38qnY
There in nobody more pathetic and deserving of derision than a blue-collar, working class citizen in a democracy whose economic model is unfettered, laissez-faire -- a.k.a., little or no regulation -- capitalism. Their primary delusion is that they will gain in some way -- typically financially -- if they support the captains of industry and their corporatist vassals in seats of power. That's one hell of a guiding fiction given the overwhelming evidence that undermines it.
Ditch the link to The Hill post about GOP Senators. Those two reporters could just be making all that up. No one quoted by name.
If Cornyn really wants Sarah and Todd Palin to sit at his table, invite Greta to sit there too.
Do not make the mistake of 'misunderestimating' her.
Reagan, and after him, the Chimp, demonstrated you don't have to be smart to run the country. All you need is sufficiently criminal associates.
"Reagan, and after him, the Chimp, demonstrated you don't have to be smart to run the country" into the ground.
you're talking, Ricky.
Dreyfuss did running Parador.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVv43DJdrQ
Remember when she thought that Africa was a country????
you tiny island bound marsupial?
It would be nice if the world could ignore whatever these two cretins were talking about.
It would be nice if that simpering idiot Hannity was just some anonymous shlub drooling over some anonymous airhead.
I think you just described a night out with the Trumps.
Explaining how to get a degree in communications from a Community College in only 6 years
What a shame that people posting here are so sexist and disrespectful as to refer to Sarah Palin as a "bitch". If only we could be more sensitive and politically correct like the Republicans, who decried all the sexist, hateful language used by the "liberal elite" to attack poor Ms. Palin... and saved all their sexist, hateful language for attacking Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Cindy Sheehan, the Dixie Chicks and anyone else who stands in their way!
Works for me.
palin is a hypocrite. in my opinion, she's not an intellectual and a mascot for evangelicals. she will be used if you will to raise money for the rnc with her "celebrity" like status.
What is even more sickening, while in NY she who shall remain clueless was given an award for being such an advocate for special needs children. I guess the committee for choosing honorees never bother to see that she cut funding for special needs kids on one of the few days she was playing governor of Alaska
I knew I'd seen this before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dypR5s39wRI
but the Western Union lady seems to actually know something about geography.
“I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in a South Africa and Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”
Oooops! sorry wrong bimbo ...
Who the F cares?
Seriously, why wouldn't she be invited to be on his show, what other show would invite her to be on. Two mental midgets arguing about some phony Socialism meme, seriously. If Palin still had any credibility, wouldn't she be on with Katie Couric?
i remember during the campaign mcLiar saying sarah palin is one of the top energy experts in north america. i wonder what the analysis of mcLiar's body language was when he said that. i missed that analysis from fixx news. he was blinking a lot when he made the statement.
I'm sure Miss Sarah was one of the experts who decided the future of the energy industry at big DICK Cheney's secret meetings at the start of the bushie administration.
if only the other 80% of americans could totally forget the past eight years the way these two and their kind have seemd to do. but we have to be blunt enough, candid enough with Americans to let them know that WE FRIGGIN REMEMBER how and why we are in the state we are in. and it is a bad B word...BUSH. say it you idiots, BUSH.
watching this little clip was like watching two kids pretending to be adult and informed, and scariest of all, leaders.
Sarah Palin for anything is rediculous. The host is rediculous. This must be the wrong quantum time line people...
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
Some dipstick ran off the path and mangled a butterfly for sure.
You betcha! Looking at how government screwed up everything we'd be better off making sure corporations run everything.
in place of Sarah Palin. She makes lots more sense, and she's not hateful at all
Who ever told SP she had a brain? Good grief! Seeing her face absolutely makes me sick. Much confidence, little competence: a dangerous sort.
your sister speaking in her place, the interview would be much more interesting and enlightening and I'll bet your sister's speech features better grammar and sentence construction. My husband's a special ed teacher and the children are truly special and sometimes offer very profound insight.
You're right about the confidence without competence, or as I like to say, arrogance and stupidity are an awesome combination.
Michelle Malkin has the same look.
As a matter of fact, it's pretty much endemic among the anemic blondes who cross and uncross their long gams on Fox TV shows.
i wouldnt kick her out of bed for voting pro-life
I can say the F bomb, but not the v***** word?
they're just being careful. i didnt think the comment was that bad...perhaps a bit on the crude side...or maybe the moderator likes Coulter's bobbing adam's apple :)
I thought it was a compliment. She likes to paint herself as all kinds of tough.
Can anyone please tell me who paid for Palin's trip to Washington? I mean, she's already had to reimburse the state of Alaska for previous travel expenses. After all the BS heaped upon Obama's head for taking his wife to a play in NY, I'd like to know who footed the bill for this Republican fundraiser.
Was he wearing a bib to catch the drooling over her? Hannity makes me sick. He is the most un-American fool to spew his hate over the airwaves.Yuk.
Ignorance and stupidity come to NY. Of coarse hannity is always a stupid lying sob. Like all things fox.
republicanism is a mental illness!
cuz we see how bad Socialism worked for China, right?
Besides, if it weren't for the idiot Cons and their bullshit economics, we wouldn't even be talking about nationalizing anything. But, thanks to them it may just be inevitable.
And when is someone going to tell the Cons they're the ones who drove our country into the ditch. If they're not going to help pull us out, then shut the fuck up!!
Read Pravda:
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
It really reads like something that the John Birch Society would have published 30 years ago.
Was what you just copied and printed fact, or opinion?
If it is fact, you must provide the proof.
Finally since conservatism absolutely ruined our country.
And what single part of the Great Society actually worked?
Just one: Taxes increased.
Is this the kind of dictator you like? (Again, from Pravda)
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
You have one, right?
www.thatguysbutt.dolt
It is really obvious why Hannity wants to interview her and it's not because of her wisdom and insight. Sarah sets women's causes back about two thousand years. I want him to ask her about the Bush Doctrine so she can get back to us with it. I will bet the eskimoes could use some of the stimulus package but they don't count. Sarah, please just take a walk in the Alaskan woods. There are some wolf cubs who want to thank you for what you did to their parents.
and noone showed up.
I'm sorry to keep coming back to the same theme but it just seems like something gets posted about Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich or whoever and then we spend five or six hours venting and calling them names. We need to do better. I like John Amato, but we have to call him out when he isn't elevating discourse but rather just trying to get a rise. I believe too much time not intelligently discussing an issue is harmful, heck ask any sane member of the GOP. In this case, look at the incredibly important point that has been missed. That has been missed for months now! Are progressives really socialist? Is this socialism only justified because we "won the election" as John says? It seems crystal clear to me that a national health program is completely and totally consistent with traditional capitalism. A private health insurance program is completely consistent with corporatism and monopolies. Adam Smith, the original capitalist, abhorred with every inch of his body the idea of corporatism and the reality of corporatism is what seemingly inspired him to write about what a fair and balanced capitalist system would look like. He made no bones about the fact that public needs like education had to be provided or assured by the government. The reason is simple, capitalism is a great system, but raw capitalism, like anything else, has its faults. Therefore one of the original principles of capitalism is that certain societal necessities which are deemed important enough require a government role. For instance, if all education were private, urban areas would thrive, that's where all the money is, rural ares would fail, because how can you make a profit in a school with 6 students? So we have to ask ourselves, why aren't we pushing back and arguing that we are in fact capitalists. Republican politicians are being crass corporatists which makes for a great threat to capitalism, as if the lat eight years were not enough proof. We like Adam Smith, they like Milton Friedman. Big difference between the two and outside of the most elite of republicans, most Americans would choose Smith over Friedman. Listen I know I will get all sort of names thrown at me but I believe that, one agai the road to once again becoming political losers starts with this dribble and anger. Think about the issues.
You are sadly mistaken if you think you can ignore these dolts.
The conversation you want to have about these things is not with the people on this site - they get it. Have these conversations with your random Fox watcher, that will move things along.
I'm reading what the people are saying on this site. I'm not sure they get it. The Fox people will never get it. Progressives and all the people in between are better off with a higher level of discourse.
Other than laying out criticism after criticism of Obama, I did not hear one single idea or thought from her as to what she would do to solve the economic problems of our country. Just one viable idea would have been nice to hear. There was nothing. In other words, vintage Palin. Offering nothing of any substance.
Please get this beeyatch outta my state. It's bad enough living here in New York as it is, I don't need this dipshit here polluting the air. Every time she opens her mouth, it's like the Love Canal all over again, toxic waste.
but i think its time to shut them down
alaska is the biggest nanny state in the union
time to cease all monies flowing to them
maybe then this stupid bitch will finally stay home and take care of her whore daughter and illegitamate grandchildren
just WHO is taking care of that very special specials needs baby.....maybe she's giving Bristol some extra-parenting-skills time....
the scary thing is IS: there are way too many people with waaaaayyyyyyy too much money (more money than sense have never been truer)..who are chomping at the bit to get that dipshit into the White House. In case we can't think it can't happen....just remember 2000......2009.
Alaska IS the largest welfare state in the Union.
Further evidence that this bimbo is a flaming idiot.
I don't think these two idiots could scrape together a half dozen I.Q. points between them.
Yet,there they are, on television, and running a state governemnt. Either I am completely missing something here, or this country is seriously f**ked up?
Governor of the socialist state of Alaska has no room to talk.
Why are republicans that hate government grow up to be so attracted to public service jobs?
Can't they get and hold jobs in the private job market?
than to funnel our money into their pockets? The triumph of pure capitalism.
Consistently wrong. Consistently colloquial (to the point of being farcical and absurd). Consistently opinionated, and consistent in not making fact-based statements.
Sarah Palin should do a little bit of historical research. She blames the fact the that US Government borrows money from China completely on the Obama administration, like it's a brand new phenomenon as if it just started with this new presidency. Maybe she should do a little bit of research into how and why it is that China became such a big investor in the US. Would Sarah Palin be surprised or shocked that her buddy Dick Cheney said that "deficits don't matter" and that the Bush administration took the country from surplus to the biggest deficit it has ever seen in just a few short years? Or would she downplay it or even make some justification about it?
Sarah Palin complains that she wants fewer (surplus) dollars so that she, as governor of Alaska, will havet less spending to do. Well, then, why the fuck is she at all interested in being in politics when our form of government is supposed to be about public service and providing public services? She has no right being there if she is dead set against those very principles. And all of the republicans/conservative who are so fond of the a "death to big government mantra": if they don't like being public servants in the government working for the people, then they have no right being there. If they are so dissatisfied with a system that apparently they truly detest and would like to destroy, then maybe they should be excluded from it. There will never be a self imposed exodus from the system by those who hate it and want to subvert and destroy it. But an externally imposed moratorium on politicians who want to destroy the government can come from the voters and I hope the voters have enough sense that they will someday root out this kind of politician: the anti-tax, anti "big-government" (the fact that we do have a big government comes from the fact that we live in a big complicated country. That is simply a fact that we have to live with. Hating the fact is not going to make it go away. So much of the way republicans and conservatives think is simply not based on reality but rather on magical thinking. It's very strange indeed) anti-government government.
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