Sarah Palin's Bracelet: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means **UPDATED
Chalk up yet another tick on the board of things that Palin doesn't understand:
I hadn’t noticed it until I watched MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Tuesday, but it is a memorial bracelet; something familiar to veterans who have lost friends and family in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I wear one commemorating a friend of mine who died in Baghdad in October of 2006, and I know many other veterans — and some still in the armed forces — who wear these bracelets as a reminder of the sacrifices their friends made on behalf of the units in which they served and the country they swore to protect.[..]
This brings me back to my issue with Palin. The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive.
Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history.
Unfortunately, given Palin’s reputation and frequent public statements, I assume it is the latter.
Sarah Palin, please take off the bracelet. Be thankful you have no reason to wear it.
As a mother, I am flabbergasted by the symbolism of this on many levels. I understand wanting to keep something close to me to remind me of my son as he risks his life on the battlefield--a button with his picture, maybe one with the crest of his specific branch of the military or even the ubiquitous yellow ribbon. Remember how Jim Webb wore his active duty son's combat boots while campaigning? But to wear a bracelet that someone had to order that would clearly indicate it's a memorial bracelet for your child that's alive? Horrifying.
UPDATE: Looks like the original writer and I should have fact checked more closely. Per a comment at the original op-ed:
About Ms. Palin's HeroBracelet.
We sent her those bracelets during the last election. When we learned that her son, Track and Senator Biden's son were both being deployed overseas, we sent them both Deployed HeroBracelets with their son's names.
We've been providing Deployed HeroBracelets since 2004 for families to wear while their loved ones were serving. They can be made from sterling, copper, leather or bronze colored anodized aluminum (black is reserved for KIA).[..]
So she isn't out of line for wearing the Deployed HeroBracelet. There are ten's of thousands of families around the country wearing them right now. On the HeroBracelets web site, we've got hundreds of letters from families, many vowing to not take the bracelet off till their loved one comes home.
Chris Greta
Director HeroBracelets.org
www.herobracelets.org
It's just terminally stupid. Now, her being president, or in any governmental position that has reponsibility? That's horrifying.
"Speedway's" NOT dead?"
Uhm, yeah, "Track! He's NOT? Thank GOD! WHO knew? Least of all, me, his incurious mothe... I mean the Liberal MSM! Why didn't you TELL ME?!?!?""
This Palin person, regardless of sex, is the stupidist opportunist to try to become President.
Sweet Jesus, it takes a lot to make George W. Bush look like William F. Buckley. She makes Dumbaya seem like Shakespeare and Einstein rolled into one!
OY!!!!!!!!!!
remember at the time was silver. It was for the dead soldiers. I do think its poor taste for her to be wearing a braclet for a dead soldier or a MIA soldier. Can't this woman do anything without making a political issue.
Southern Yankee
Um,...no. I don't think she can do anything without making it a political issue.
They were POW braclets.I still have two of them.One man survived,the other did not. Gulf of Tonkin,the lie that got 58,000 americians killed in country,and of the 15 million men that went and got back,more than 120,000 killed themselfs within 2 years of getting home.What have we done,what are we doing now?
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Now I know why this site is called Crooks and Liars...
Nicole is the liar. Now, who is the crook?
Excellent comment. This is ridiculous.
another one. You trolls sure do love to go through registration just to whine over a CORRECTED article.
bring out the trolls.
She made a mistake.
She then realized her error and corrected it.
As opposed to what happens when you point out an error to:
Fox News
Hannity
O'Reilly
Coulter
Limbaugh
Republicans in the House, Senate, and other elected offices
just about anyone on the right.
Usually, they continue to say the same thing, changing a possible error into an outright lie.
If you'd like, give me a name on the right, and I'll probably be able to give you an example or two of him/her/them doing it.
Do we really need to bow and scrape and prostrate ourselves before every enlisted person AND their parents too? No thank you. Enough already with being supportier-than-thou.
Accessories are such crucial components of any fashionable political conversation. Let us be sure an follow up to make sure the RNC did not buy the bracelet. Then she will not only have to quit wearing it, she will have to send it back.
"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 remember when Obama was running and the Fox News assholes and the like were actually talking about his pin, or lack thereof.
In the local paper, the OpEd cartoonist made a drawing of the Founding Fathers with one of them saying, "hey, what about his flag pin" or some such thing.
People are so goddamned stupid, that a few wrote in COMPLAINING about the cartoon because they just didn't get the satire/absurdity about the pin.
It was quite funny. And sad.
Lets all get exercised over something really crucial.
Like the crazy black preachers they both have been exposed to.
"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
It won't fly. Nobody is that persnickity about symbols. I still get the colored hankies all wrong.
God forbid he actually die and we have to watch her memorialize him in public. It would be near martyrdom.
"Hi son. Still alive?"
"Yeah ma."
"Oh. Well, Alrighty then! You just take care of yourself. Make sure you clean your gun every day and don't forget to walk tall and proud when you're on patrol!"
"Okay, ma."
And this is funny because???
Apologies all 'round.
...apology, no acknowledgment, no statement AND the bracelet will disappear. Contemptible, ignorant and horrifying this carbon based life form is involved so deeply in our political system.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
So... after your viscious attack on Sarah Palin... where is your personal apology?! MORON!!!
the act of saying a prayer for the dead or to carry a memento morituri for somebody that is STILL alive is considered a way of casting a jinx. At worst, it is considered a way of casting a death spell.
Indeed, throwing someone out of a family usually involves saying 'You are dead to us.'
to have to be careful with those things, and you don't want a self-fulfilling prophecy on your hands...
Maybe my environment was a superstitious one, with the belief in brujeria and all, but it was what it was, and that's one of the things that stuck with me all this time...
I've never seen change without a fire
My grandmothers see signs everywhere.
everything, but also if you said something like "Oh, the weather's very bad today, just watch, we get out on the highway we're going to crash," you'd be told not to say that because it was somehow going to happen just as predicted. I'm sure there are some Mexicana and Chicana grannies that are cringing if they noticed Palin's bracelet... :S
I've never seen change without a fire
in Bavaria, but some of my formative years were spent in Kentucky. That and reading 'Silver John' tales by Manly Wade Wellman.
Of course, nowadays most people are exposed to the anime versions. Where the chew toy asks the snarker to pray before the big event, and the snarker starts reciting the Buddist 'Prayer for the Dead'.
At that point the paper fans come out.
Going into the military to stay out of jail isn't "selfless".
out of wedlock the father has to quit school and the grandma has to quit her day job just to support.
"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
WHAT?!?!?!?! Where is your evidence that he wasn't destined for jail? Are you just trying to start a rumor?
didn't come out of the closet while serving in Iraq? Perhaps he is dead to her. Maybe that's a long shot but it's the only excuse that I can see for this...wait that isn't true. You know she's propably just ignorant of the significance of the colours and went with the one that matched her outfit best. With Sara you can never underestimate her ignorance.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Or should I say bigger? She's going to need it if she needs to write definitions of those big wordy thingies.
about "Hopey and Changey" wasn't about Indians and diapers?
"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 thinks hopey and changey are the 8th and 9th dwarfs.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Its snow white of you to share.
"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 liked it :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
white dwarfs.
"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
It's best that I don't go there on that subject, it would get me deleted faster than you can say.... well just about anything.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Easy, Cheesy, and Sleazy.
Who's stupid now?!?! You bought into a typical liberal smear. Try using your brain for once... you might find that your lefty ideas are a complete failure!
I wondered what that bracelet was all about. I did notice it in the close up pictures. I was not aware they had such bracelets for these wars.
During the viet nam war you could buy a bracelet and they would send you a random name of a service member. I still have mine and just a few years ago, thanks to the computer, I was able to connect with a reporter in this person's home town. I knew the person whose name was on my bracelet had been shot down and later killed. The reporter helped me find his son and I offered him the bracelet if he would like to have it. He didn't want it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
This isn't a story from The Onion? Wow. Just when you think her stupidity reaches its peak, she just keeps getting dumber.
might not be a me4morial bracelet. From the website they had "deployed hero bracelets" that were copper.
https://www.herobracelets.org/xcart/customer/...
Hers looks copper in the photo not black anodized. She's an idiot, but I'm hoping shes not that big an idiot!
...it does look copper to me.
(good chactfecking)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
act of idiocy. Like not properly burning a flag which brushed the ground.
"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 pondering the same thing.
It's a bad angle, and any polished metallic bracelet would have a coloration to it, but I'm not sure from the pictures that this isn't the copper one, which is not in fact meant as a "Memorial" bracelet, but rather for active soldiers.
Of course, it may be the black one. But I can't say one ay or the other.
the photoshopping involved in the liberal blogoshpere's false smearing of Sarah for yet another act of love for her children.
"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
Here's a different angle.
It looks black with a metallic edge
There is another picture at the link above that shows the bracelet from a third angle. Sure looks black to me.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
for his selfless service to his country."
No they shouldn't. War's obscene. This guy didn't do a 'sacred duty.' And what have his parents got to do with it? They made arrangements with a judge to keep the little asshole delinquent offspring out of jail?
Quit thanking them in reverent tones. This is an undeclared, illegal war/occupation, with millions of lives destroyed. The whole über respect for these guys because Viet Nam vets felt badly treated is offensive and sick making.
me-oww!
It sickend me the way the Bush cabal always hid behind the troops.
ANY questioning of the prez, his staff or anything they ever did was immediatly equated with hating on the troops.
All about the troops ... if you hate the war you hate the troops.
Using the legitimately wrong bad treatment of Vietnam vets for their own political gain.
Gaaaaad I hated that time. You could never question anything the government ever did because if you did you were directly spitting right in the face of the very person you OWE your freedoms to mister.
Ugh ... flashbacks are better then living it but jeezus at the time that obvious equating that the populace just ate up was sickening.
... before I used it and it is an astoundingly appropriate word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal
in the same sense that Nazis were trained to salute "heil Hitler." It's just a way of declaring one's blind obedience.
And did you notice that NONE, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA of the Republicans who supposedly supported the troops were interested in investigating how said troops were sent to their deaths based on proven lies? Of course not; no Republicans actually support any U.S. troops. Ever.
...that the bracelet is black? It appears to me to be made of copper, reflecting the black of the sleeve on her upper arm. I'm perfectly willing to be proven wrong, but I'd rather heap scorn on Palin appropriately than vilify her for an imagined slight. Anyone able to produce a photo or screen cap that definitively shows that the bracelet is indeed a black memorial bracelet rather than just one made of reflective metal?
I posted a similar comment above. I included a link to the "deployed hero" bracelet, a copper one.
We must have been writing simultaneously. I must say that I wish this sort of jump-to-nasty-conclusions would stay where it belongs: on right-wing blogs whose only acquaintance with facts are when they're chucking them in the wastebasket. We oughta be better than this.
you cannot overreact too quickly. This was, after all a post based on a column written by a Yale graduate student.
"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
There are several angles of the bracelet in the posted photos and it definitely is black. It's not copper.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
"Commemorating Track’s service ...."
It is exactly what the kooks would do. Rewind to 2004 where the GOP had many people wearing a bandaid with a purple heart on it?
They are as shameless as they are feckless.
UGH!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Most likely you already know this, but that was an attempt to mock Senator Kerry's Purple heart.
But yeah, as much taste as trying to hit on the widow at her husband's funeral.
Yup, Klassy with a "K"
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
She should wear a black bracelet mourning the loss of her mind.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
derision that this topic is taken seriously.
"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
Can one lose something they never had in the first place?
(I'm convinced I NEVER had any marbles and called off the search)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I have all my marbles in a big jar. I won everyone of them from little snot assed boys who thought a little girl couldn't play marbles. Ha!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
A sack of marbles clobbers just as good as a bag of hammers
and gives you a life exemption from having to grow a pair.
"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
Weee! I'm free of the agricultural world of pear growing.
Hell yes I kept the marbles. I was little but I played for keeps.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I was sure I left my marbles with my "real American values" and common sense.
All - MIA. . .
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qE2vJdDw4
"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
Maybe it is just another something else on her left hand to remember something she should be able to remember anyway.
It’s not demagoguery - It’s enhanced political marketing
It is probably her son's place to set her straight... not, I'm betting, that she gives a rat's ass what he has to say on the matter (just a hunch).
I'm pretty much filled to the brim with patriotism as a pseudo-religion.
Better than religion as pseudo-patriotism.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Either way, it's a poisonous mix.
an arrogant condescending bitch in mild christian sheep's clothing.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
I was running low from yesterday. Thanks, inane blogposts!
for the option to ignore common-taters.
But it's true that the bracelet isn't nearly as enlightening as the remedial hand notes and probably isn't worthy of our time & effort.
therefore. No one's saying she can't wear a bracelet at all.
I've never seen change without a fire
Hey Nicolle rarely gets it wrong. You need to count all the times she has been spot on and professional in her reporting. like this [piece where the clarification was posted immediately.
She has a whole lot more integrity than the so called "pro" journalists.
I'm not familiar with Nicole, but... Geez...
Sarah's s.o.p. = use kid(s) as prop(s) for sympathy.
Pathetic.
Nicole has updated the post. Turns out this is much ado about nothing and she says so. Good for you, Nicole. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
that our circular firing squads have hair triggers! Now, about that Michelle Malkin..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0
"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
black. That's a relief, then.
I've never seen change without a fire
She is so fuckin' stupid. My wife almost had a heart attack when she saw the video of her looking at her hand.
third post on this site, now I'm getting nose bleeds. Bad ones. Seriously! Stop the madness.
If you look closely I think the bracelet says "Read your palm"
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Okay, you win! You can pick up your signed photo of sarah palin in the lobby. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
reminding him he has an opposable thumb. God help us all!
I've never seen change without a fire
technology when he uses the teleprompter, and Sarah's crib notes are 3rd grader shit! :)
I've never seen change without a fire
Colbert had such a good time with sarah's goofiness. His writers probably took the day off yesterday because reality had already written his comedy for him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to be amused or terrified by that. :-/
I've never seen change without a fire
...the left I love, the one that so often distinguishes itself from the right by doing the "right" thing - owning up to mistakes and correcting them. Kudos, Nicole...
Exactly! Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes a big person to admit they've made one.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The problem with the original post was not that the author believed Palin to be at odds with bracelet protocol. The problem is that the author actually believes there IS a bracelet protocol.
gives a damn what a politician wears or doesn't wear on their wrist or their lapel unless it is worn to deliberately insult someone else.
"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
says there is a protocol. The original poster (which is not me; I've reposted it) was not wrong.
It's not hard to grasp, is it? There are memorial bracelets denoted by the color. This is not one, but from the photos/videos, it looked black and the original poster assumed as much.
However, it was a mistake and one that we've attempted to correct, not whitewash or deny like on right wing sites.
People can wear whatever bracelets they want for whatever reasons they want. I tend to wear them at concerts to show respect for the bar tenders.
bracelets if I wanted to just for the hell of it, but that wouldn't stop teenyboppers from interpreting it as my suggesting I am open to any sex act. Likewise, Sarah can wear whatever color of bracelet she wants to, but it doesn't change the fact that black is strongly associated with KIA/POW and had her bracelet been black some people may have gotten the wrong idea.
I've never seen change without a fire
The question I responded to was the issue of whether there was a protocol.
There is and I've given you evidence of such.
If she had been wearing a black bracelet in honor of her living active duty son, that would be a violation of the protocol of those bracelets.
It's a different issue as to whether she can wear them. She is physically able to wear whatever she wants. No one is denying her that right. However, whether she SHOULD is a different story.
having to worry about thread like this.
That's really poor logic on your part.
I'm flattered by your assumption of my power of Palin's behavior, but that's frankly besides the point again.
If she thinks it's right to waterboard her children as a form of discipline (the subject of our upcoming 7:00 pm post), should she be able to do it without worrying about threads like this? Of course not. She's a public figure and as such, is subject to scrutiny. That's the cost of a public life.
No one is impinging on her right to wear anything she wants at all. In fact, when actually looking for an image of this bracelet, I saw many websites gushing over her choice of jewelry, fashion, eyewear, etc.
The issue--which is now a non-issue due to the clarification of the manufacturer of the bracelet--is whether someone should choose to honor their living active duty servicemember in a manner reserved for KIA/POWs. Not if they could do it, but whether they should and what that tells the world about their understanding of the sacrifices made by other military members and their families.
My grandfather was a high-ranking Air Force General. He took the sacrifice of going into combat very seriously and also carried with him the burdens of those who served under him who were killed. He knew all their names, wrote to all their families. He spoke about them as if their deaths were just months earlier. His combat experience haunted him for the rest of his life.
Those of us who do have respect for the military understand this, but maybe you've been too busy showing your bracelet to bartenders to worry about things like military protocol.
Sarah Palin is not even in the military.
Stop changing the goalposts.
Her son is in the military. She wears a bracelet to honor his service.
She doesn't need to have served to respect military protocol. I didn't serve and even I understand it.
And I've noticed that you keep moving the goalposts while accusing me of moving the goalposts.
But according to your latest goalpost, Sarah Palin should get her hair cut.
Could you explain how I've moved the goalposts when I've responded to you and re-directed you back to your original point that there is no protocol for the color of the bracelet worn to honor a service member?
Or are you just trolling for fun?
[Nicole, I banned this poster. I looked at the last 3 hours of his/her posts, and in addition to being pure disruption, I'd say this is someone who has been banned by us in the past-Sitemonitor]
Banned someone for engaging in a dialogue with the blogger herself?
At the risk of being banned,
roddy1984
The site monitor has looked at the history of Capers' posts and decided that dialogue was not his/her intention.
Not your best day, okay. But you've done and continue to do great work. God bless you for it.
Admiringly,
roddy1984
meh. Forget it. Not worth my time.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
for customers. When doing so, I refer to sites like this:
http://www.craftsnscraps.com/jewelry/ribbons.... , which catalog color associations. As you can see by looking, the military associations with the color black are very specific. Again, Palin can wear what she damn well pleases, but it doesn't always mean that it's smart for her to do so.
I've never seen change without a fire
https://www.ustroopgear.com/productcart/pc/vi...
of a person and the traditional colors of mourning have no connection in your mind. Interesting.
I've never seen change without a fire
If you spend your life and valuable time on this Earth trying to dig up dirt on someone for no other reason than your own ignorance and your own meaningless life, occasionally you (meaning Nicole and all her fellow leftie nut jobs) will dig deep enough in the crap to find yourself down in the slime and muck. Congratulations for finding your true self.
deliberately lying to those who put their trust in you. Congratulations right back at you, as your obvious right wing nut case membership means that you are an expert on muck and slime. Have you been here 30 minutes yet?
that is the right-wing movements of today. Is it hard for you to look down your nose at others while you're in the gutter? ;)
I've never seen change without a fire
Mmmmkay?
"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
about colors. As much as some people want to deny it in here, if the bracelet *had* been black, that would have been a huge faux pas, and a breach of the protocol set by the makers of the bracelet who gave it to Palin.
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0
We all are grateful Ms. Palin's son served without harm and Ms. Tebow's son grew up successfully. But do they have marble countertops with American flag inlays?
"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
Thanks for the correction, Nicole.
Sarah and her bracelet remind me of Bullwinkle J Moose and his "nothing up my sleeve" routine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6-yHc8gpA&fe...
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCycxJUXFuk&fe...
;)
First the author of the article doesn't even fact check before she posts something really and truly horrible - not just about a political figure, but about a woman and mother. Then more women come out and prove that womens' worst enemy is other women.
are EVERYWHERE when mommy gets criticized unfairly.
diffused of any meaning
OK which one of you Palin Haters is first to post an apology to slamming her over this?? You people are pathetic.
Pathetic teabagger.
God made you so stupid that you don't even understand what a video camera is, or that one would be recording you during your ridiculous attempt at a speech. You got $100K for that? Shame on you for taking it. You obviously need a lot more practice, and some more schoolin' as you would say. I am very sorry that you got slammed here because people thought you were again exploiting your poor children for your advantage, but I'm sure you will buy them all a little something with your $100K. Are we okay now? Yours truly, savannah43
I'm glad you discovered the truth and owned up on your mistake, not anything that any of the trolls converging on this thread would ever do. They smell blood right now apparently. Hang in there.
A bunch of right wing sites linked us, conveniently about 10 minutes after the update when up.
I appreciate the increased traffic (thanks, guys, for the hits!), but know better than to care about the opinions of those who didn't even bother to read the post to see that we corrected it as soon as we heard.
Of course, you would never see sites like Malkin's correct their story with any integrity.
Ok. So now you expect us to forgive you for making a mistake (a very large mistake for a so-called journalist, whom you would expect to research a story BEFORE writing it), but you jumped all over George Bush for trying to open a locked door. You are such a hypocrite!
should fill Pamper elsewhere. When you right-wing whiny noobs....(it just registered) own up to all your mistakes and deliberate lies, then we'll talk, until then STFU, troll. Mommy Palin can wipe your ass later.
If you use all the rocks you have in these glass houses of yours, you'll have none left for when you have adulterers and gay people you need to stone.
Just sayin'! ;)
I've never seen change without a fire
I am a loyalist to this site, my favorite in the world, but it doesn't take a troll to notice that the article was "updated" not "corrected."
This is the problem with going after the peccadillos of Palin, as opposed to her horrendous policies. I don't give a crap about her bracelets.
with Palin's name on it and the words "if found, please do not feed, call 555-5555"? I mean, my dog is smarter than Palin and she uses one of those.
hmmmm.
Are the number of people posting some pretty vile insults on the intelligence of Sarah Palin ... and yet being completely and utterly wrong on the central issue altogether.
There is a chocolaty deliciousness to the irony of people screaming about how stupid someone is while being rather stupid themselves. Like the common internet twit who mis-spells words even as he tries to correct the spelling of others.
Soooooo.
Sarah Palin ....
Made millions of dollars from her book, did you?
Has enormous political influence, do you?
Has a sweet gig with FoxNews, do you?
Gets free tv air time any time she wants, do you?
Has FoxNews building a new tv studio in her home, are they for you?
Can write something on Facebook and have it repeated all over the world, can you?
And yet Sarah Palin is the dumb one?
*LAUGH*
Is a clueless troll tha has to register just to post gibbering nonsense. That thinks money and FauxNews equals intelligence. You are beyond the lowest of idiots and fairly pathetic, to think you are getting the last word. Go cry to your mommy.
You need to grow up and face reality. Avoiding your ignorance by attacking someone for trying to inform you of the truth is just plain stupid!!
you whiny trolls arte just idiots. Pathetic idiots. You have absolutely NO credibility or familiarity with anything remotely nearthe truth. Grow the hell up and take responsiblity. Nicole did, why can't babies such as yourself do the same? Oh that's right, whiny babies need Mommy Palin to wipe their smelly asses. STFU, troll.
Not nice knowing you, worthless troll.
Fact check? Maybe you shouldn't make a big deal out of every damn little thing.
should STFU. She took responsbility and corrected it...I can safely say for sure you RW trolling asswipes have no concept of that.
This is the USA, the place the elected GWB twice! You think qualification has ANYTHING to do with becoming president?! You may as well placed a sack of cow crap in that chair, we would have had 2 less wars, and a surplus. So now Palin is running... Lets just piss on the constitution instead and call it a day.
"Can write something on Facebook and have it repeated all over the world, can you?"
it may be repeated but with fingers pointing and laughing at her.lolz
Why are heroes only military types?
Why can not scientists be heroes?
Shouldn't Einstein be regarded as a hero?
Joe Biden has the same bracelet Palin does! Horrifying! I guess Joe's a teabagger as well.
OK, Nicole, you've got me. Why on Earth should anyone thank Track's parents for his service? I don't say that because his parents are Sarah and Todd Palin, but because I see no reason to thank parents for the service of a child. I served in the US military and, frankly, I never wanted anyone to thank me (let alone my parents) for my service. And no one ever has. So what? I did what I did (served in a purely defensive position that could not plausibly be used in an offensive, i.e. imperialistic way).
The truth is that most American military personnel over the past forty to fifty years have not really protected the US or fought for our (or anyone else's) freedom. As a result, I neither vilify those who serve, nor thank them for their service, just as I didn't care if anyone thanked me. But even pretending that parents should be thanked is a stretch I can't imagine trying to make.
Thanking those who have served is rapidly becoming one of those knee-jerk public acts that mean next to nothing when one looks at the public policies that "support" that service. Besides, if no one had volunteered during Bush's tenure, his war of choice in Iraq would have been impossible without the re-establishment of a draft. The fact that an incompetent fool was commander-in-chief should have kept any rational person from signing up. And I can't bring myself to thank the misguided people who did sign up for making it possible for Bush to do his thing.
If others want to thank people for their service, I have no objection. But thanking parents seems ridiculous. Unless you're going to thank siblings, grandparents, friends...where the hell does it end?
it's in the article she quoted by Eric Robinson. Click the link
me-oww!
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