Sarah Palin Gets Uninvited From Canadian Hospital Fundraiser
I scratched my head the other day when I heard that Sarah Palin had been invited to be a celebrity guest at a fundraiser for Canadian hospitals. Palin has railed against the Canadian health care system and continues to spread fear and lies about health care reform and lead the right wing rallying cry to keep Americans enslaved to giant insurance companies.
I don't know what genius came up with the idea, but apparently, the backlash was so great that organizers had to rescind their invitation:
HAMILTON, Ont. - Sarah Palin has been given the boot as a celebrity fundraiser for hospitals in Hamilton, Ont., but she will come to town raise money for a local children’s charity instead.
Palin has brought the American health care debate to Canada and it is causing a storm of controversy as concerned hospital supporters have protested her appearance to raise money for two local institutions in April.
The former vice-presidential candidate was supposed to speak at a fund-raising event for the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton. But a backlash of negative publicity cancelled those plans. Read on...
You may recall Palin being punked last month by Canadian comedian Mary Walsh, who posed as a conservative reporter. Palin told Walsh, “Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.”
Which made her a perfect candidate to come to Canada to raise money for their hospitals? I'm still scratching my head on this one...
. . and progressives for that matter.
Rahm Obama
John "Forbes" Kerry . . "Some of our liberal friends have suggested we should kill the health care reform bill because it doesn’t have a public option."
Look over there! It's Sarah Palin!!!
WHERE DO THESE MINDLESS EVANGELICAL BROOD MARE'S COME FROM?
HELL!
[Please quit posting in all caps. We don't like to delete your comments, but will do so if you continue-Sitemonitor]
they have mates who are Mindless, all-knowing Males......
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
well, i rather thought it would be 'just desserts' to have all that palin fan money going to a 'socialist' hospital...
too bad about that loss... just sayin'...
"she will come to town raise money for a local children’s charity instead."
Leave no booking behind
Yeah, but, the kids won't be allowed to speak to her unless she speaks to them first.
On a related topic, it was reported that Sarah had a book signing at a Costco. When she had her hair done the stylist wasn't allow to speak to her and all of the fresh(?) tomatoes were removed until after she had gone. I guess that her handlers were afraid someone would buy some and throw them at her. An enterprising person would have opted to throw peas instead...still in the can!
Biggest phony on the national political scene today. I swear she's memorized about a baker's dozen conservative linchpin phrases, and that is about as deep as her thought process goes. The rubes just eat it up...
bread and butter.
which is the best description I've heard of her ability to toss catchphrases together, coating them with her dressing of smiles and "you betchas" but not have them add up to anything substantial.
I mean come on, "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit." Does she even realize how big of a jagoff she sounds like when she spouts shit like this.
Last night, it was getting pretty late at the bar, so quite a few people were drunk and loose enough to start talking about their politics. Two women were talking about how they had just graduated from nursing school, and one started to say that she was worried about our country becoming more government controlled and socialist (she said it pretty backwards as well). I replied in as politely a manner as a drunk person can with, "Bullocks, we're a corporatist state and we will be that way for a very long time." Ironically enough, an ambulance drove by as we were discussing this (we were outside having a smoke). She began to inquire what may happen to whomever was in that ambulance. I cut her off, rather rudely, to say that I know exactly what's going to happen. He's going to get a $2500 bill in the mail for not pre-approving his ambulance ride (which, thanks to privatized ambulance service, costs 10 times more than it should). Realizing that she was probably outmatched with not only facts (as opposed to buzz words like "socialism" or "government control") but probably in her ability to debate, she politely excused herself.
I guess the point I'm trying to get at here is that there are so many people out there who haven't the slightest idea how the country actually works, and they eat the bullshit people like Palin say right up. They also irrationally fear words that are just that: words! Why in the f*ck do we live in a country were fire and policemen are cheap and effective, while health care continues to spiral out of control, and all people think about reform is that it's socialism! Has the entire country gone insane? Why has the debate been swayed so far? How are these people able to get away with fooling so many all the time? Oh that's right... television. Turn the TV off America.
Has the entire country gone insane?
Yes.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Exactly our conversation last night as well....
Eisenhower warned the people in his farewell address
(captured beautifully in the movie 'whywefight')
of the Congressional Military Industrial Complex...(he was asked to take out 'Congressional') of the need to be alert and knowledgeable citizenry...
and guess what happened next....
Exactly. We are being manipulated into what to believe by the MSM. Let's not forget, the MSM is a for profit business too.
is intended to be a factual statement
Today, Eisenhower would call it the 'Congressional Military Industrial Media Complex'.
Ike was the real deal - a Republican who understood the real cost of war and who hated Imperial adventures abroad. He humiliated the Brits and French by refusing to support their war against Egypt in 1957, and reamed out JFK for invading the Bay of Pigs.
I wonder what Ike would have thought of people like Glenn Beck and Rupert Murdoch. Not much, I bet.
you've got a lot to learn about how to pick up drunk nurses ... ;-)
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Sure it is weird that she would stump at an hospital event that is exactly opposite to her corporate rant, but to her it's just more 'Sarah' here and 'Sarah' there and her incredible megalomania appetite. She'll speak anywhere there are cameras.
can book her. They want their cut too.
Another useful idiot, sort of like Kirk Cameron.
Obushama's image makers took. Trying to create a community organizer "real person" type image.
I know you really hate the guy, but I still have some faith left in the man. Don't ask me why, faith isn't logical ;) And actually, wasn't the whole thing to make Obama look like some magical, larger-than-life figure? Conservatives always take the "real person" road, it works on their constituents. The larger-than-life works on anyone who watches TV and follows celebrity news.
look where it's gotten us.
Sat, 12/19/2009 - 08:43 — AGold
A lot of presidents have to reinvent themselves after their first year, sometimes first term.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Sat, 12/19/2009 - 08:36 — AGold
Another useful idiot, sort of like Kirk Cameron.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcX2mW0fEeI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I very much dislike Sarah Palin; however, it should be noted that the quote attributed to her in this post: "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit." is not accurate. If you watch the video of the prank you'll see she didn't say those words so the quotation marks should be removed.
Is what it sounds like....
Canadian common sense conservatism.....
is snow tires...and less wars.
From what I've heard from my Canadian friends, our batshit-style conservatism is starting to make very worrying inroads into the Great White North. Which is why I'm not all that surprised that Ms. Know-It-All Shrieking Cow From Alaska was invited to bring her "close the public system" brand of "common sense" to a hospital fundraiser there. I'm sure there are more than a few people who would be very happy to see our virus spread.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Couple of insurance corporations that wouldn't mind seeing it either.
watch the health care debate with pity....
And they are not impressed when told what "they need" by someone of Palin's profound ignorance...
...choke at the stupidity of it!
What's to debate?
and ignite a populace uprising against the Goldman Sachs Health Insurance Extortion Racket occupying the White House.
What do we have left to lose besides everything.
...right = left moral equivalency bullshit?
I understand that you are pissed at Obama, but stop with the doomsday generalizing, true Progressives are clearly different than conservatives.
this is the way things are coming together and I think she's correct.
This is about complete and total abuse of power now in case you haven't noticed.
About insiders occupying Government who could care less about us "sheep" and all our whining and demands.
The left and right are like the rims of the Grand Canyon...
The people are all the rocks in between with the extremes a chasm apart...
The left is the North Rim because it is higher and you can see farther into the distance from there....
I can almost see Hamilton,Ontario from my place. really..
Chaulk up having Mooselini come here to "support" Canadas health care as just another bad fucking idea by someone. Kinda like having a certain golfer come up to teach us family values and monogamy.
Or republicans...
Tiger never claimed to be a moral paragon, that I know of, so I'm not particularly interested.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I used to live in Hamilton. It's steeltown and NDP territory (New Democratic Party). The NDP is socialist enough to be illegal in the USA. I'm not surprised local citizens complained. I would have had I been there.
Rule #!-- don't mess with Canadians' health care; we like it.
far left loon >.<
it's rule one through ten inclusive. The next rule after that deals with proper queue etiquette at Timmy's.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
regarding the ramifications of her continued incendiary and ignorant remarks.
...as does Rush, Beck, Makin, O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter....
don't kid yourself.
That's why this simple bitch only does friendly territory speaking venues and interviews. You keep believing that crazy like a fox crap.
I think that this women has been in over her head intellectually the moment she was in the public spotlight.
but it works.
She's selling.
And I ain't buying.
Palin doesn't know ( or care ) , she is too damned dumb but the rest you mentioned know very well what they are doing .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
“Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.”
profits over people that is the capitalist agenda.
bet this woman considers herself a christian
this is a moral issue health care but obama did not want to take on religion.
here it is folks you cannot call yourself a christian and a capitalist.
I know you think you can and do but it only shows your ignorance.
mega profits off the sick and needy?????????
goes against everything jesus taught.
but then most of what christians teach goes against everything jesus taught. but not all.
the greatest danger to america are the palins of the world.
check history on that one. it is always the fundamentalist ideas that warp a nation into its loss of freedoms.
few understand the idea of new souls and old souls level of consciousness.
palin has a very low level of consciousness.
what we call intelligence is really intellect and has very little to do with a person's level of consciousness.
few will understand my words very few.
6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Matthew 6:24-25 KJV
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
. . .
"Mammon" is a proper noun, the name of a Babylonian god. Therefore it should be capitalized. :)
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I realize that, but it's not so if you want to quote the citation correctly. It was probably part and parcel of biblical derogation.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
one that seeks earthly power and wealth in order to convert or kill "teh heathen", and to wrest sekrit control of the world from teh iloominutti and freeh masonjars
I guess even the Canucks can't swallow what she's offerin'
Even with syrup
You betcha...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
that's her "target market".
Cant even wash her crap down with a half case of Molson Canadian beer eh ? I dunno about some of my fellow Canuckistanians. Someones paid to have Chimpy Mc Bush speech them a couple of times here too.
We have our own conservatives that put profits over people, and plenty of American lobbyists visit Ottawa. Harper probably loves that.
far left loon >.<
for the fetus once it's born. That's a switch for Sarah.
every U.S. child born pay their default debt of around $450,000. Much of which will be laundered, sliced and diced, and end up in her bank account in the end.
Ever look at some of the TV coming from Canada, especially the wheat belt. They like dark side humor, but de Alaskan diva was too much for even them?
But unfortunately her followers are even dumber and more simple minded than she is , you have to be smarter than she is to realize just how ignorant and dumb she is . Meanwhile she's getting rich . A really sad and I would say frightening statement for this country . Be afraid alright ... of these people , they are are more dangerous than any foreign terrorist group .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
we have a right wing prime minister who would like nothing more than to dismantle our health care system
And as long as we don't get stupid and hand him a majority, he'll be feeling a little lonely without Bushes ass around to rest his lips against.
Shocked I emailed them...
"I would recommend that whoever came up with this idea to be sat down and giving a good talking too. Palin is so far out there, ignorant of Canada and as a life long quitter she is a very poor role model. "
Can anybody come up with any good legal reasons why Palin could be barred from entering Canada? Well, besides being stupid. I mean the kind of thing I/we could send to Canadian Border Services. Something at the very least to get her the Amy Goodman treatment and have her laptop scanned, hassled and even better refused the right to enter Canada. I really can see Alaska from my front porch as we speak.
I had to laugh when I saw the shirt that the "Queen of the Dunces" was wearing in Hawaii. "America Love it or Get the Hell Out!" This coming from someone who is married to a long time secessionist. What an idiot. God damned Sunshine Patriot. In my opinion she is nothing but a shameless opportunist, no more, no less. She is going to ride this horse as far as she can and make as much as she can. She has about as much chance of achieving higher office as I do of being named the Sultan of Brunei.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
to keep us "enslaved". The democrats in the Senate and Obama (Rahm Emanuel) will do that dirty work for her.
I'm never voting for a democrat ever again. Bye Bye public option. Get ready to be truly enslaved to big Health Care.
will give her the same warm welcome they gave Amy Goodman.
me-oww!
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINmbqb4Z18
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I loved watching Due South! The song is gorgeous too.
Oh sure. Hand health care over to the death-dealing insurance companies so they can turn a profit. This Bush-in-drag neocon is as clueless as Bush when it comes to just about everything. Another reason to hate McCain. For dragging this whatever she is into the public scene where she can indulge her fantasy of becoming the country's first female president. I'm not opposed to having a woman president. Just not her.
The invitation was a real opportunity for Palin. No doubt she would have used this as proof of her expertise in health care, foreign policy, Canadian single-payer insurance, you name it - with plenty of photo ops to use in her campaign.
The people who invited her were morons. Glad they backed down.
I'm so glad they came to their senses. This news just made my day!
She's going to raise money for a local children’s charity? I wonder what her cut is. I don't think she will do this out of the goodness of her heart.
VietVet67 - you're damn right she wasn't doing this for nothing. Sure would like to know what she is getting paid. When all is said and done I just cannot get over how stupid she is. And in spite of it she is getting wealthy. Only in America.
Palin got the nomination because of a meeting she had with a bunch of right wing pundits on some sort of conservative cruise junket to Alaska. Among them was William Kristol, who went ape-shit for her and started promoting her within the party as an ideal VP candidate. You will remember Kristol was Dan Quayle's chief of staff - he sure knows how to pick 'em.
I live in Hamilton Ontario and if that fucking moron comes near I'll organize a mob to pelt her with eggs and tomatoes.
I'll fly back to join you.
far left loon >.<
mikerush - her hairdo always reminds me of that line in "The Longest Yard." Burt Reynolds says to Bernadette Peters - "Nice hairdo. Ever find any spiders in it?"
Canada is great and everything but how long is it gonna last? I want off the continent! *seeking eurowife
I agree. I think Canada is one of the best places in the world to live, but I fear it's going to be changing if Canadians remain as apathetic as their American neighbours.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the French for not voting Conservative. Keep Conservative majorities out of Parliament!!!!
far left loon >.<
It's simply amazing that the Canadian Health Care system would turn down the funds that would have been raised from Sarah's appearance.
Oh well, someday they'll learn (maybe).
You yanks can keep her we don't want her up here!
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