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Sarah Palin Fires Back Via Facebook Over N. Korea Gaffe: ‘Obama Said Stupid Things Too’

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During an interview on Glenn Beck‘s radio program on the day before Thanksgiving, Sarah Palin misspoke and said “we gotta stand with our North Korean allies.” Mr. Beck quickly corrected the former Alaska Governor and current reality-show star, but the damage was done. A viral video was born. Last night Palin took to her favorite scores-settling platform, her Facebook page, to fire back at the “lamestream media.”

Her post is a reasonable defense of public personalities who are not—shocker!—perfect, and the culture of gotcha! media outlets who catch every single gaffe and mistake and hyperbolically amplify it for entertainment or political gain. Palin’s North Korean gaffe was seen as more significant by some, because one of the more potentially embarrassing tidbits to come from Mark Halperin‘s and John Heilemann‘s book Game Change was the allegation that then VP candidate Palin “was not aware there was a difference between North and South Korea.”

Palin’s defense of her gaffe can be effectively summed up by, “Barack Obama says stupid things do, but why doesn’t the media jump on those?” Well, the media does mock Obama when he is deserving of derision (and sometimes when he isn’t). Palin also wonders why no media outlet seemed to make fun of then-candidate Obama when he claimed that he had been in all 57 states. Well, first of all, that particular gaffe was seen by many as a joke made by Obama, and secondly, he was mocked by the media. Watch the following segment from the now-defunct Not Just Another Cable News Show on HLN that ridicules that very comment made by Obama. Read the entire post from Palin after the following video.

Oh, and the readers of this post should know that the following segment was produced by yours truly, the writer of this post (who was a television producer in a different career). The Obama ’57 states’ below:


My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.

If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)

“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

- Sarah Palin

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  • Jackie_Treehorn

    So you’re less of an idiot because Obama made verbal gaffes also? No that just makes both you you extreme dumbasses.

  • valkyrie101

    Yes, this was a slip of the tongue. Countless leaders have done it. Only a big deal because now the blueblood republicans and their supporters in the lame stream media are trying to diminish Sarah.

  • More Liberty

    She’s right. Didn’t Obama claim there was 57 states? What a dumbass. He couldn’t even pronounce “Corpsman” as in navy corpsman. He was even reading it off of his trusty teleprompter.

    Obama’$ an idiot, so is Sarah.

  • Pablo

    Sarah Palin Fires Back Via Facebook Over N. Korea Gaffe: ‘Obama Said Stupid Things Too’

    Do you have to put much effort into completely missing the point, or does it come to you naturally?

    If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

    Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline.

    But if you insist, I’ll take your point too. Obama is an idiot.

  • BlackWidow

    There is no way Palin writes this crap. I hope she pays her ghost writers well.

  • NORBIT

    Compare the ORCHESTRATED media SMEAR of Palin’s error to the non-existent coverage of Obama’s statement on the “57 States”!

    The corrupt Mainstream (i.e. Democratic) Media continuously censors, omits, and crafts “news” stories with the specific purpose of manipulating, not informing, public opinion.
    They are a disgrace to their profession, with NBC & CBS being the worst of the lot!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Yes, Sarah, but everything that you say seems to have an air of stupidity to it. I highly doubt that YOU could go into a room full of democrat congressmen and trounce them as Obama did the Republicans.

    And, the reason why this has made such a big deal is that it hearkens back to the book Game Change, you know that one where every conservative jumped on Harry Reid’s comment but dismissed the areas where they said that you didn’t know shit? Well you proved it with this comment.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Run Sarah Run in all 57 states.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    And aren’t you not supposed to criticize a president during war times? That’s what Fox News told me!!!!!!

  • Mr B

    Sarah Palin just made you all look like fools, again. Funny how that keeps happening.

    Attacking Sarah Palin won’t make Obama a competent leader. He just doesn’t have it and you can’t hide that fact.

    Please do continue though. It’s been very helpful thus far. Who’s out next in 2012?

  • Pablo

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    I highly doubt that YOU could go into a room full of democrat congressmen and trounce them as Obama did the Republicans.

    Boy, those Republicans sure look trounced, huh? Obama’s ratings are climbing, and the GOP is exiled to a tiny minority.

    Let us know when you wake up, OK Lib?

  • Pablo

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    And aren’t you not supposed to criticize a president during war times? That’s what Fox News told me!!!!!!

    When was that?

  • NORBIT

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Yes, Sarah, but everything that you say seems to have an air of stupidity to it. I highly doubt that YOU could go into a room full of democrat congressmen and trounce them as Obama did the Republicans. And, the reason why this has made such a big deal is that it hearkens back to the book Game Change, you know that one where every conservative jumped on Harry Reid’s comment but dismissed the areas where they said that you didn’t know shit? Well you proved it with this comment.

    You refer, I assume, to the Photo-Op health care discussion, where Obama once again deceived the American people, and deliberately misrepresented the intent of Obamacare – that is, as the first step toward universal government coverage?

    Your monicker would make more sense if you showed more aptitude in using it!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Pablo said:
    Boy, those Republicans sure look trounced, huh? Obama’s ratings are climbing, and the GOP is exiled to a tiny minority.

    Let us know when you wake up, OK Lib?

    I was referring to the forum he had with Republicans. You know that one where he slammed their talking points with facts? Poll numbers and election results don’t change the facts, buddy. Furthermore, if you looked into things a little more, you’d realize that the gop is not what they seem either. not only did they make a number of proposals to the healthcare bill that they railed against, but they also ran on a number of LIES!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Pablo said:
    When was that?

    Then entire Bush administration!!!!

  • More Liberty

    BlackWidow said:
    There is no way Palin writes this crap. I hope she pays her ghost writers well.

    Just another examle of how Barry McTeleprompter and Sarah are the same. There is no way an idiot like Obama, who thinks there are 57 states, wrote any books. No wonder Harvard won’t release is academic records.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    NORBIT said:
    You refer, I assume, to the Photo-Op health care discussion, where Obama once again deceived the American people, and deliberately misrepresented the intent of Obamacare – that is, as the first step toward universal government coverage?

    Your monicker would make more sense if you showed more aptitude in using it!

    No, I refer to the open discussion where the gop allowed cameras to run and where they threw talking points at the president which he disarmed with facts when the REPUBLICANS were trying to deceive people.

    Maybe you should stop naming yourself after shitty Eddie Murphy movies.

  • BR

    Cant we just agree that Obama and Palin are BOTH idiots? The only difference is liberals agree with me when I say it about Palin but they call me a racist when I say it about Obama.

  • More Liberty

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    No, I refer to the open discussion where the gop allowed cameras to run and where they threw talking points at the president which he disarmed with facts when the REPUBLICANS were trying to deceive people.

    What facts? Facts like Obamacare will reduce the cost of healthcare? LOL…yeah that fact has been debunked as costs actually rise, and even unions ask for waviers from Obamacare.

  • skyfet

    This is dumb! an excuse to be dumb is that someone else is also dumb.Heck, sounds like dumb and dumber!

  • timzank

    BR said:
    Cant we just agree that Obama and Palin are BOTH idiots? The only difference is liberals agree with me when I say it about Palin but they call me a racist when I say it about Obama.

    C’mon people, neither one of them is an idiot. You don’t reach that level of success being an idiot. Rather they both have polar opposite belief systems too which you either subscribe or abhor.

    I happen to abhor Obama’s core beliefs which are antithetical to everything this country has ever stood for, was founded upon, or will ultimately help us prosper and survive. I don’t think he’s an idiot in the true sense of the word, I simply think his beliefs and policies are idiotic from a common sense point of view if we are to remain a free country.

    As for verbal gaffes, Is there any poster here who has never mixed up their words when speaking?

  • timzank

    skyfet said:
    This is dumb! an excuse to be dumb is that someone else is also dumb.Heck, sounds like dumb and dumber!

    You are intellectually bankrupt. But you’re funny. Keep rambling.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Nearly 400 damn comments (most from you left wing net sacks) over
    a simple gaffe by Palin on Thanksgiving Day. And the sad part is most
    of you sincerely think you accomplished something important.
    Biden can’t get through ten lines of a speech without a stupid gaffe.

  • stoogedudes

    timzank said:
    C’mon people, neither one of them is an idiot. You don’t reach that level of success being an idiot. Rather they both have polar opposite belief systems too which you either subscribe or abhor. I happen to abhor Obama’s core beliefs which are antithetical to everything this country has ever stood for, was founded upon, or will ultimately help us prosper and survive. I don’t think he’s an idiot in the true sense of the word, I simply think his beliefs and policies are idiotic from a common sense point of view if we are to remain a free country. As for verbal gaffes, Is there any poster here who has never mixed up their words when speaking?

    Timzank, while I disagree with you about Obama’s beliefs, I give you kudos for acknowledging that neither of them are idiots. I don’t think they are idiots either. Again, you have to be smart in order to achieve the level of success they have achieved.

    We all say stupid things occasionally. It’s called human nature.

  • timzank

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Nearly 400 damn comments (most from you left wing net sacks) overa simple gaffe by Palin on Thanksgiving Day. And the sad part is mostof you sincerely think you accomplished something important.Biden can’t get through ten lines of a speech without a stupid gaffe.

    It’s painfully obvious it’s not about a simple gaffe, every human being makes them (dems/repubs/indies/etc), it’s about the fear of this woman (or anybody else that espouses personal responsibility) actually gaining traction and proving liberal theology is truly for the weak minded ad the weak willed. These people want the government to tend to their every need, no personal responsibility.

    Unfortunately societies that subscribe to that set of values never prosper and are not free.
    These guys don’t like being free, they like being told what to do, when to do it, etc. That way they are absolved of any ecision making. They are like children in that sense.

  • skyfet

    Imagine when you are in school and you messed up your answers, and you were put on the spot and you said but ‘timzank” is dumber. That’s is just stupid, maybe that’s why some people are not just made for the top job. I’m just saying.

  • Calvin

    Oh, and the readers of this post should know that the following segment was produced by yours truly, the writer of this post (who was a television producer in a different career). The “57 states’ section starts at 4:00:

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but the narrator is a guy who does a lot of voice over stuff for Glenn Beck. And Brian Sack and Stu Burguiere, who appear on this clip, both do stuff (Stu is actually Glenn’s producer) on Glenn Beck’s show. So Colby once worked with Glenn Beck staff. Interesting.

  • notsofast

    Obama when he claimed that he had been in all 57 states. Well, first of all, that particular gaffe was seen by many as a joke make by Obama”

    MG, you guys have your heads soooooooooooooo far up Barry’s ass, you could eat what he had for lunch.

    skyfet said:
    Imagine when you are in school and you messed up your answers, and you were put on the spot and you said but ‘timzank” is dumber. That’s is just stupid, maybe that’s why some people are not just made for the top job. I’m just saying.

    Imagine when you are in school and you messed up your answers while the teacher accepted ANY response even incorrect ones from the other students and you were put on the spot and you said but their answers were wrong and you accepted them . Maybe some teacher’s should be fired. I’m just saying.

  • Pablo

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    You know that one where he slammed their talking points with facts?

    What facts are those, Lib? “I won” maybe?

  • CosmosDan

    I think the media should just start having a separate section called “Look who said stupid shit today” and eventually everyone will get to be in it. That way we can just ignore it as we ought to.

  • Pablo

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Then entire Bush administration!!!!

    You should be able to find tons of quotes then, right?

  • notsofast

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    And aren’t you not supposed to criticize a president during war times? That’s what Fox News told me!!!!!!

    Now you are making it up again!

  • skyfet

    @notsofast
    The Teacher is an employee, follows the guideline that is set. I don’t accept the procedure of everything goes, no fail. Fail is fail and pass is pass. That’s how School was when I was there.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    Now you are making it up again!

    No, he is right, Sean Hannity said that a few years back.

  • TangledThorns

    Sarah Palin 1, Mediate 0. Sarah Palin pwns the LSM again!

  • SmartAlec

    I had a dinner at my house for Thanksgiving and invited a “CCCorpsman” from each of the “57 states”. It was a real teachable moment.

  • TonyClifton

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    And aren’t you not supposed to criticize a president during war times? That’s what Fox News told me!!!!!!

    No, that’s what Keith Olbermann told you Fox News said.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    everybody is missing the glaring truth of this, well every one except colby hall.
    with obama, we all know it is just a simple gaffe or mistake, he has proven his intelligence over and over again despite what his detractors here say.
    with palin, it is clearly just an example of the level of her actual knowledge in foreign affiairs. it’s amazing how she can connects with people…there was a good article in the daily beast by mark mckinnon about that.
    but to have her in a place of power? c’mon man.

  • Eric

    The only problem is this: Obama has said stupid things like 57 states – she says stupid things almost every time she speaks.

  • timzank

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    everybody is missing the glaring truth of this, well every one except colby hall.
    with obama, we all know it is just a simple gaffe or mistake, he has proven his intelligence over and over again despite what his detractors here say.

    Is that from “The Onion”??? Or maybe even SNL?

  • writer

    Chili, we get it. Verbal gaffes are evidence of stupidity only when a conservative makes the gaffe.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    The over-covered 57 states thing may have been a joke, but both parties have 56 primaries which are listed as “states” on their respective websites, so I’ve never really understood why it was such a big gaffe. Do the voters in Guam, American Samoa or the Virgin Islands not count and why don’t the parties get a knock for calling them “states”?

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    As a quick illustration of my above comment, here’s a clickable map of the GOP “state” party organizations and as an FYI, the Dems don’t count the “Northern Mariana Islands”, instead their 6th are “Democrats Abroad”.

  • @ThankGod4karma

    The author of this post, Colby Hall, claims, “Well, first of all, that particular gaffe was seen by many as a joke make [sic] by Obama…”

    Really? Really!? In the video (http://bit.ly/dQzbPL), an obviously exhausted Obama has to give it thought before he says “…57 states.” Does Obama know that there are 50 states in the USA? Of course he does! But, one might be led to wonder if the fact that he was seven full states off was more of a Freudian slip than a gaffe, and that he possibly inadvertently revealed which entity he was perhaps really wishing to lead, as, given his purported intelligence, certainly he knows the number of member states in this entity as well… http://bit.ly/fZHOb2.

  • Pablo

    Magister said:
    The over-covered 57 states thing may have been a joke, but both parties have 56 primaries which are listed as “states” on their respective websites, so I’ve never really understood why it was such a big gaffe. Do the voters in Guam, American Samoa or the Virgin Islands not count and why don’t the parties get a knock for calling them “states”?

    Probably because he said he’d been to them. 57 states, but not Alaska or Hawaii. 1 more to go.

  • fenngibbon

    The “57 states” thing was not a joke. I’ve seen Obama make jokes and he either smirks or chuckles when he does. If you look at the clip where he makes the 57 states gaffe you can see that he’s neither smirking nor chuckling as he says it..

  • sarainitaly

    “Well, first of all, that particular gaffe was seen by many as a joke make by Obama”
    HAHA Now I’ve heard it all. Who, pray tell, thought that was a joke?

    I can’t believe yet another article on Mediaite that fails to mention that she correctly referenced North Korea mere seconds before she slipped up.

    Scandal: Palin Mixes Up Koreas 8 Seconds After She Gets It Right

    On Glenn Beck’s show earlier today, Sarah Palin accidentally said North Korea when she meant South Korea:
    Some of Palin’s usual antagonists are going nuts over this slip of the tongue, but they don’t point out that she correctly identified North Korea as our enemy literally 8 seconds before the mix-up: “We’re not having a lot of faith the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is going to do.”

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/scandal-palin-mixes-koreas-8-seconds-after-she-gets-it-right_519587.html

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    I was referring to the forum he had with Republicans. You know that one where he slammed their talking points with facts?

    The only problem with your comment, IT DID NOT HAPPEN. You are just repeating the lib media spin. Anyone that watched that exchange knows had his ass handed to him. He looked like a fool when he made that snide comment ot McCain. Ryan knocked him out with his questions and comments.
    You have that lib gene that just hears things that didn’t happen.

  • Judge Mental

    @ThankGod4karma said:
    The author of this post, Colby Hall, claims, “Well, first of all, that particular gaffe was seen by many as a joke make [sic] by Obama…”

    Really? Really!? In the video (http://bit.ly/dQzbPL), an obviously exhausted Obama has to give it thought before he says “…57 states.” Does Obama know that there are 50 states in the USA? Of course he does! But, one might be led to wonder if the fact that he was seven full states off was more of a Freudian slip than a gaffe, and that he possibly inadvertently revealed which entity he was perhaps really wishing to lead, as, given his purported intelligence, certainly he knows the number of member states in this entity as well… http://bit.ly/fZHOb2.

    No need to be coy about Obama’s slip. He was thinking of the 57 Muslim nation-states. (The lazy posters here won’t click on your link.)

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Eric said:
    The only problem is this: Obama has said stupid things like 57 states – she says stupid things almost every time she speaks.

    There must be something wrong with your hearing? Obama says stupid things almost everytime he speaks.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: When Muslims go wild on 9/11 then want to build a memorial as close if not on sacred ground as what happened in Israel to their temple in Jerusalem. Ozero backs its being built and Palin doesn’t. Go ahead left nut, D-baggers follow your messiah and continue to get shellacked from independents and conservatives on the issues.

  • sarainitaly

    http://hotair.com/?s=Obamateurism+of+the+Day+

    “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” –Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010

    “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009

    “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” –in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009

    “It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.” –confusing German for “Austrian,” a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

    “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)

    “I’m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.” –speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008

    “Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008

    “Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

    “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

    “How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida

    “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

    http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm

    “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

    “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
    Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965.

    Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/21/barack-obama-gaffe-machine/

    • Obama told Larry King on CNN — asked about that anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton YouTube ad, a doctored version of a spot created for Apple computers — “We don’t have the technical capacity to create something like that.”

    Obama did not know what he was talking about. Any professional media consultant can manipulate images on video. Turns out the creator — unmasked last week as a political operative who worked for a firm overseeing the technical side of Obama’s Web site — made it at home on a Mac.

    The Tribune dug this up: Obama, in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, writes of a story in Life magazine that influenced him — about a black man trying to bleach his skin white. No such article could be found in Life or Ebony.
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/316024,CST-NWS-sweet28.article

    “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes—and I see many of them in the audience here today—our sense of patriotism is particularly strong” ~ Obama, Memorial Day

    Obama admits to hearing controversial remarks while in Wright’s church, yet tells CNN “If i had heard these states from Rev Wright, I would have walked out”. Yes? No? Which is it?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2Yv-rnJEo&feature=player_embedded

    “Well, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

    “I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”

    yea….and SHE’S the idiot?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    YES

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    when obama makes a mistake it’s when he says something stupid…
    when paling makes a mistake it’s when she says something smart.

  • skyfet

    @Just4thefax
    So you’ve accepted the term bagger dor yourself. I can see that you’ve been using it consistently nowadays.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    @notsofast
    The Teacher is an employee, follows the guideline that is set. .

    Nope! Not true at all- all teachers are different. Sorry libby, not everyone is the same as YOU wish people were.

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    when obama makes a mistake it’s when he says something stupid…
    when paling makes a mistake it’s when she says something smart.

    Says the Obamobot.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Pablo said:
    Probably because he said he’d been to them. 57 states, but not Alaska or Hawaii. 1 more to go.

    Your link and Colby’s embed marks only the second and third time that I’ve seen the gaffe and I’ve still not bothered to listen to or comment upon the Palin thing because I don’t really consider either of them too terribly important.

    Of course if I did, I could fluff the Obama thing off onto being a count of primaries or state delegations and I might point toward the word and “respect” contortions we used to do between Mainland China and Taiwan (“One China“), but as far as I can tell from the blog reports, Ms. Palin simply misspoke and I haven’t bothered to play the clips and prior to this comment, I haven’t said a word about it.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    No, he is right, Sean Hannity said that a few years back.

    Prove it!

  • SarahP

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There must be something wrong with your hearing? Obama says stupid things almost everytime he speaks.

    gordonbloyershow said:

    Gordon bloyer show – So do you. Incidentally, isn’t it good to hear Palin man-up and admit she said something stupid? Now, she needs to take the next step and admit she says stupid things all the time. First step toward recovery – I wish her well.

  • Just4thefax

    skyfet said:
    @Just4thefaxSo you’ve accepted the term bagger dor yourself. I can see that you’ve been using it consistently nowadays.

    Fact: People ram facts up your ass all day and you keep begging for more accepting it from all angles. Okay only in your case point taken you’re a B-bagger that loves D-baggers!

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    This is ridiculous. Anyone who is anyway honest knows that Sarah Palin is not intellectually curious, not well educated and does not hav e the ability to speak substantively about issues. Her followers are people who are just like her. Obama is a scholar, a former law professor an author who actually wrote two books and someone who is a policy wonk. This is apples and oranges. Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate was an embarrassment to America around he world. Those of you who traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign know what I mean.

    What’s really funny is to see the spit among conservatives. Those who are embarrassed by her and the less sophisticated bunch who fall for her, Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It really shows an emerging class conflict within the Republican Party. It will be interesting to see ow it plays out.

  • SarahP

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: People ram facts up your ass all day and you keep begging for more accepting it from all angles. Okay only in your case point taken you’re a B-bagger that loves D-baggers!

    Fact: You are talking out of your ass.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Allen/100000077637523 bohratom

    First I have to say Im not a Palin fan but I do believe the main media goes out of it’s way to make her look bad. If you listen to her entire comments first she talks about N Korea and if President Obama will sanction their aggressive action. Then she makes the gaff about N Korea being our Allied. NO doubt it was slip of the tongue and people should listen to the 10 or so youtube clips of Obama’s slip of the tongue, hillarious to say the least.

  • disenlightened

    armwood said:
    This is ridiculous. Anyone who is anyway honest knows that Sarah Palin is not intellectually curious, not well educated and does not hav e the ability to speak substantively about issues. Her followers are people who are just like her. Obama is a scholar, a former law professor an author who actually wrote two books and someone who is a policy wonk. This is apples and oranges. Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate was an embarrassment to America around he world. Those of you who traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign know what I mean.

    What’s really funny is to see the spit among conservatives. Those who are embarrassed by her and the less sophisticated bunch who fall for her, Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It really shows an emerging class conflict within the Republican Party. It will be interesting to see ow it plays out.

    You do know that people laugh at you behind your back, don’t you?

  • writer

    Interesting, armwood, that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is ‘stupid’ and ‘not intellectual’. If nothing else, no one can say you’re suffering from humility.

  • Pablo

    Magister said:
    Of course if I did, I could fluff the Obama thing off onto being a count of primaries or state delegations

    Well, except that he was talking about places he’d been to and not counting primaries or state delegations.

    it isn’t a big deal, it’s a simple slip of the tongue. We all make them, and we’re all more prone to make them when we’re tired and talking a lot. That, like Palin’s misspeak, is not indicative of the speaker’s knowledge. Anyone who listened to the Palin clip knows better and anyone who thinks Obama doesn’t know how many states there are is not thinking clearly.

    This is just a matter of evenhandedness, and Mediaite was one of the first outlets out of the gate trying to make Palin look like an idiot by presenting the gaffe as something they (or, Mark Joyella) knew to be untrue. Fortunately for Sarah, she’s learning to handle such nonsense quite well.

  • ititiiti

    Sarah Palin so dumb she makes other people famous due to it – Katie Couric, Tina Fey, Christine O’Donnell
    http://tinyurl.com/2w6jbtj

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    disenlightened said:
    You do know that people laugh at you behind your back, don’t you?

    Only ignorant ones ones who make idiotic comments like you just made. Why don’t you respond intelligently to my post instead of trying to make an infantile joke. But I forget you don’t like to use your mind. It takes a little work.

  • sarainitaly

    armwood said:
    Obama is a scholar, a former law professor an author who actually wrote two books and someone who is a policy wonk.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B0zSVmc9Rfg/S1-NyP7Q2SI/AAAAAAAABiw/tC5rqarLCqE/s1600-h/totus+meeting.jpg
    http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/totus-sixth-grade.jpg

    What ever makes you think Obama is a policy wonk?

    Palin is a scholar, a former Governor, and she wrote two books…what’s your point?

    ” Those of you who traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign know what I mean.” Whatever do you mean?

  • SarahP

    disenlightened said:
    You do know that people laugh at you behind your back, don’t you?

    People laugh at you to your face but you don’t understand the difference.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    1) Number one if you had ever sat in one of his law school classes and had the background to understand what he was saying you would have no need to ask that question whether he was a scholar or a policy wonk.

    2) Sarah Palin has not written any books. she had a ghost writer, Obama did not. Where have you been?

    3) If you traveled you would traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign you would know what I mean. Obviously you did not travel abroad and speak with many non Americans.

  • BlackWidow

    armwood said:
    Only ignorant ones ones who make idiotic comments like you just made. Why don’t you respond intelligently to my post instead of trying to make an infantile joke. But I forget you don’t like to use your mind. It takes a little work.

    Armwood, I love when you are here and can put these people in their place. You need to understand that some are just NOT able to respond except to joke or call names. Feel sorry for them. They know not what they do.

  • writer

    Now we know you’re kidding, SarahP. The sensitive and compassionate left would never laugh at people they consider inferior to themselves.

  • BlackWidow

    sarainitaly said:
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B0zSVmc9Rfg/S1-NyP7Q2SI/AAAAAAAABiw/tC5rqarLCqE/s1600-h/totus+meeting.jpghttp://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/totus-sixth-grade.jpg What ever makes you think Obama is a policy wonk? Palin is a scholar, a former Governor, and she wrote two books…what’s your point? ” Those of you who traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign know what I mean.” Whatever do you mean?

    Sara please Palin is A SCHOLAR. Please She has a ghost writer for her two books and also one that does her Facebook. You know sara you are way to intelligent of a person to buy all this bull.

  • rr98411

    Usually avoid Sarah Palin bashing post but two things caught my eye…

    The quote – “Barack Obama says stupid things do, but why doesn’t the media jump on those?” – the only link I found (via Yahoo!) was back to this article. Where did the quote come from… besides this article?

    I even corrected the spelling – “…do, …” to “to” and found no hits. Kinda cute though, an article that focuses on a misspeak, only to have a spelling error…. in a quote too.

    Wow, this is fun…

  • disenlightened

    armwood said:
    Only ignorant ones ones who make idiotic comments like you just made. Why don’t you respond intelligently to my post instead of trying to make an infantile joke. But I forget you don’t like to use your mind. It takes a little work.

    I honestly thought about replying intelligently, but to what? Obama wrote 2 books? Obama is a scholar? Obama is a policy wonk? You’re a globe trotter? Your comment was vapid and shallow, and you take yourself far too seriously.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Pablo said:
    This is just a matter of evenhandedness, and Mediaite was one of the first outlets out of the gate trying to make Palin look like an idiot by presenting the gaffe as something they (or, Mark Joyella) knew to be untrue. Fortunately for Sarah, she’s learning to handle such nonsense quite well.

    Mediaite makes bank from Palin posts. They are easy to promote via search and social networking; They have a built-in readership with predictable results and as the new folks find their voices, coupled with the fact that Colby probably wants to end the year on an uphill traffic trajectory, they are likely to increase.

    Of course if Sarah had scheduled her products to serve the blogosphere rather than herself (Book for Christmas; Television show for the fall; Dancing finale for sweeps, etc.), there wouldn’t be so many mountains made of molehills, but right now and post-election, there really isn’t that many subjects who can feed the “regulars” and attract the much more numerous passerbys.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    writer said:
    Now we know you’re kidding, SarahP. The sensitive and compassionate left would never laugh at people they consider inferior to themselves.

    Be sensitive to stupidity. That would be a naive choice. People like Palin, Beck and Limbaugh are dangerous. There simplistic analysis of politics combines with a pseudo religiosity and half truths as well as outright lies needs to be attacked and exposed. There is a large audience of their rhetoric among people who are not as successful as they had hoped they would be and feel inferior and resentful because of their lack of success coupled with their lack of understanding of globalization. Fox News makes billions selling an angry formula of resentment and ready made enemies to these people. This combination can be and has been lethal. Aware, patriotic Americans must speak out against this corruption of our political process. Thank goodness, some are speaking out.

  • disenlightened

    armwood said:
    Be sensitive to stupidity. That would be a naive choice. People like Palin, Beck and Limbaugh are dangerous. There simplistic analysis of politics combines with a pseudo religiosity and half truths as well as outright lies needs to be attacked and exposed. There is a large audience of their rhetoric among people who are not as successful as they had hoped they would be and feel inferior and resentful because of their lack of success coupled with their lack of understanding of globalization. Fox News makes billions selling an angry formula of resentment and ready made enemies to these people. This combination can be and has been lethal. Aware, patriotic Americans must speak out against this corruption of our political process. Thank goodness, some are speaking out.

    You’re completely unaware of how little sense this paragraph makes, aren’t you, armwood? But, the words look so nice together, don’t they?

  • writer

    In other than the political arena, labeling anyone who disagrees with you as ‘stupid’ would be seen as arrogance.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    disenlightened said:
    I honestly thought about replying intelligently, but to what? Obama wrote 2 books? Obama is a scholar? Obama is a policy wonk? You’re a globe trotter? Your comment was vapid and shallow, and you take yourself far too seriously.

    Again you simply repeat what I said but you do not address or challenge any specifics. Why are you so lazy, or is it true like another poster wrote you are not intellectually cable of carry out the process you say you thought about? Either way you chose laziness over the attempt. Some people live their lives that way.

  • Pablo

    Magister said:
    Mediaite makes bank from Palin posts.

    Sure. But you can do that without being dishonest, and that goes for everyone who’s reported that particular lie.

  • writer

    armwood, we understand your position. Anyone who politically agrees with you is smart and intellectual, anyone who disagrees is stupid and dangerous.

  • Pablo

    If armwood were half as bright as he fancies himself, he’d realize that he’s a living, breathing logical fallacy.

  • cjd ohio 1

    specific- policy wonk, that is your opinion, not a fact. which you are entitled too.

  • sarainitaly

    armwood said:

    armwood said:
    Obama is a scholar, a former law professor an author who actually wrote two books and someone who is a policy wonk.

    1) Number one if you had ever sat in one of his law school classes and had the background to understand what he was saying you would have no need to ask that question whether he was a scholar or a policy wonk.

    2) Sarah Palin has not written any books. she had a ghost writer, Obama did not. Where have you been?

    3) If you traveled you would traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign you would know what I mean. Obviously you did not travel abroad and speak with many non Americans.

    Obama was not a law professor.

    He was a lecturer at the U. of Chicago law school between 1992 and 1996. In his first years of teaching, he had only one course.

    He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996 and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

    Ghostwriter, Obama – that’s debatable. Ask Chris Matthews.

    If I traveled abroad? I live in Italy, dude. I travel all around Europe. The only people who thought she was a joke were the same people that thought Obama was a genius. *eyeroll*

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    writer said:
    armwood, we understand your position. Anyone who politically agrees with you is smart and intellectual, anyone who disagrees is stupid and dangerous.

    …or they lack the liberal gene.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Armwood is just pretending he is intelligent!
    He thinks he is impressing someone!

  • gar

    Armwood, I know you have a crush on this president and I hate to burst the bubble but he didn’t write Dreams From My Father, Ayers did. Did he contribute to the book like Palin did, certainly. Why should’t people question his intelligence when he can’t speak anywhere without his pacifier the ‘teleprompter’? Why doesn’t Obama go on Fox and show the American public how dangerous and evil they are? Best forum to get his point across. I’ll answer for you. They would tear him a new asshole. Without the softball questions ahead of time he’d fail and he knows it.You remember how he said doctors would take out tonsils and cut off legs to make some extra cash. It gets hard without the pacifier. Like you he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is or his college transcripts would be made public. I resent the fact when I’m looking for a better future for my daughters that my intelligence and love for my country is questioned because I disagree with you.

  • SarahP

    writer said:
    Now we know you’re kidding, SarahP. The sensitive and compassionate left would never laugh at people they consider inferior to themselves.

    Inferior or not I regularly laugh at you.

  • writer

    And SarahP, don’t think I don’t appreciate it.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Pablo said:
    Sure. But you can do that without being dishonest, and that goes for everyone who’s reported that particular lie.

    I really didn’t consume tons of media yesterday. I did reload this site a few times and I read the original post, but what I saw was an easy grab of something Oliver Willis had pumped via his outlets that Mark had wrapped back into something a bit more substantive to fill-out a clickbait post.

    Perhaps a good “opposite” of that method was a Yahoo! featured piece about Axl Rose that started substantially, then drifted-off into what may be par for a normal blog, but I feel cheapened the Yahoo! buzz box.

    As I said in my previous comment, I expect the Palins to remain frequent through the end of the year because she stands alone as a traffic-generator — both pro and anti Palin bloggers have Google alerts set to her name and no other political figure can draw traffic from both sides of the aisle — and not only is this site now mostly manned by new voices, there’s the added pressure of trying to maintain the dramatic upward slope the election and Palin-rain have given to the last couple of months.

    It’s all for the buck and I’m sure she’ll ride it for all it’s worth.

  • labman57

    Wow.  Once again, Palin shows an inability to take responsibility for her own mistakes and shortcomings, and instead shows a need to seek out a scapegoat.

    I suspect that Palin actually realizes that we are allied with South Korea and at odds with North Korea, but she only appears to understand the distinction and history of the two nations at an extremely superficial level — South Korea are the “good guys” and North Korea are the “bad guys” — and therefore she can easily get the two confused.

    If someone were to ask her to explain the historical significance of the 38th parallel, it would be a sure bet that you would see that familiar “deer in the headlights” look for which Sarah is so famous.

    Palin has repeatedly demonstrated an inability for cogent, rational, substantive extemporaneous speaking, largely the result of her brain being on auto-pilot as she relies almost exclusively on memorized shallow, often snarky talking points during her speeches and (exclusively softball) interviews.

    Bottom line. Palin won’t waste her time with ANY interviewer who will not guarantee
    1) advanced screening of all questions
    2) no followup questions without her realtime permission.

  • roxsteady

    Sorry dear but, you’ve had way to many. This is what we call a pattern. This makes her queen of the idiots!

    “Dumb Sarah Palin Quotes and Gaffes”
    “But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” –Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Nov. 24, 2010

    “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.” –Sarah Palin, Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Nov. 22, 2010

    “Who hijacked term: ‘feminist’? A cackle of rads who want 2 crucify other women w/whom they disagree on a singular issue; it’s ironic (& passé)” –Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message, Aug. 18, 2010

    “Dr. Laura: don’t retreat…reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence “isn’t American,not fair”)” –Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message coming to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes, Aug. 18, 2010

    “As we work and sightsee on America’s largest island, we’ll get to view more majestic bears, so now is a good time to draw attention to the political equivalent of the species.” –Sarah Palin, referring to Kodiak Island in Alaska, even though Hawaii is America’s biggest island, July 19, 2010

    “Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.” –a Tweet by Sarah Palin, which she quickly removed after being ridiculed for inventing the word “refudiate,” July 18, 2010

    “Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.” –a second Tweet by Sarah Palin, which she also removed after misusing the word “refute,” July 18, 2010

    “‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!’” –a follow-up Tweet by Sarah Palin, proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010

    “[Barack and Michelle Obama] have power in their words. They could refudiate what it is that this group is saying.” –Sarah Palin, on the NAACP charge of racism in the Tea Party movement, The Sean Hannity Show, Fox News, July 14, 2010

    “We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn’t appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.” –Sarah Palin, Facebook note, June 30, 2010

    “I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.” –Sarah Palin, speaking at the Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas, June 26, 2010

    “This is Reagan country (applause). Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California’s Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State.” –Sarah Palin, blundering on Reagan’s education while speaking at a fundraiser at

    California State University-Stanislaus. Eureka College is in Illinois. (June 25, 2010)

    “What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented … The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.” –Sarah Palin, on solving the Gulf oil spill crisis, Fox News, June 15, 2010

    “Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven’t learned enough to dismiss common sense.” –Sarah Palin, on opposition to offshore oil drilling, Facebook note, June 13, 2010

    “Here’s an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don’t need them to look at.” –Sarah Palin, Fox interview with Greta Van Susteren, June 12, 2010

    “Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!” –Sarah Palin, Facebook note, June 8, 2010

    “Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.” –Sarah Palin, blaming the Gulf oil spill disaster on “extreme environmentalists,” Facebook note, June 2, 2010

    “I think it’s appalling and a violation of our freedom of the press.” –Sarah Palin, speaking about the negative media coverage of Republican congressional candidate Vaughn Ward, Boise, Idaho, May 21, 2010

    “We’re all Arizonans now.” –Sarah Palin, defending Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration, May 15, 2010

    “Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant — they’re quite clear — that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments.” –-Sarah Palin, arguing that Judeo-Christian belief was the basis for American law and should continue to be used as a guiding force for creating future legislation, interview with Bill O’Reilly, May 6, 2010

    “We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?” –Sarah Palin, admitting that her family used to get treatment in Canada’s single-payer health care system, despite having demonized such government-run programs as socialized medicine that will lead to death-panel-like rationing, March 6, 2010

    Sarah Palin, on writing notes on her hand during her Tea Party convention speech: “I didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I’ll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m in good company.’” (March 5, 2010)

    “They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire … I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards,’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there.” –Sarah Palin, attempting to rationalize why it’s okay for Limbaugh to use the word “retards” but not Emanuel, FOX News Sunday interview, Feb. 7, 2010

    “Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It’s a disturbing trend.” –Sarah Palin, pushing a conspiracy theory that “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of coins by the Obama administration (the change was made by the Bush administration in 2007 and was later reversed by Congress, before Obama took office), West Allis, Wisconsin, Nov. 6, 2009

    “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama’s health care plan, Aug. 12, 2009

    “Left Unalakleet warmth for rain in Juneau tonite. No drought threat down here, ever but consistent rain reminds us: ‘No rain? No rainbow!’” –one of many Tweets by Sarah Palin that William Shatner recited as poetry on “The Tonight Show”

    “I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out.” –Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn’t be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009

    “How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.” –Sarah Palin, July 4, 2009

    “It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: ‘Sit down and shut up,’ but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out.” –Sarah Palin, announcing her resignation as governor, July 3, 2009

    “Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me – sports… basketball. I use it because you’re naive if you don’t see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket… and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.” –Sarah Palin, announcing her resignation, July 3, 2009

    “Only dead fish go with the flow.” –Sarah Palin, quitting, July 3, 2009

    “Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction. This is all thanks to our U.S. military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech – in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.” –Sarah Palin, misunderstanding the First Amendment, June 16, 2009

    “That was fun!” –Sarah Palin, conducting an interview after pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving while other turkeys were slaughtered in the background, Nov. 20, 2008

    “I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.” –Sarah Palin, on running for national office in the future, FOX News interview, Nov. 10, 2008

    “John McCain and I, we love you and thank you for spending a few minutes to talk to me.” –Sarah Palin, talking with Canadian radio prankster posing as French Presideny Nicolas Sarkozy, Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)

    “Ohh, good, thank you, yes.” –Sarah Palin, after the Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler’s “Nailin Paylin,” Nov. 1, 2008

    “We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we’re confident that we’re going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?” –Sarah Palin, suggesting we are at war with Iran, FOX News interview, Nov. 1, 2008

  • SarahP

    writer said:
    And SarahP, don’t think I don’t appreciate it.

    I just assumed you did.

  • Just4thefax

    SarahP said:
    Fact: You are talking out of your ass.

    Fact: No that’s passing gas in your face so if you don’t like the smell of it next time try kissing someone else’s ass!

  • Just4thefax

    armwood said:
    Only ignorant ones ones who make idiotic comments like you just made. Why don’t you respond intelligently to my post instead of trying to make an infantile joke. But I forget you don’t like to use your mind. It takes a little work.

    Fact: N-please you do post stupid!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Game Changes sourcing for that spurious allegation is as shallow as the rest of the fast-paced DNC agitprop that basically misrepresented the general tenor of a lot of “facts” deemed as such by the lamestream MSM. And a lot of the book is based on gossip and innuendo rather than “journalism.” This is Jon Meacham style history, you know, the guy who single-handedly sank Newsweak through a staccato drumbeat of garbage and lies.

  • SarahP

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: No that’s passing gas in your face so if you don’t like the smell of it next time try kissing someone else’s ass!

    Fact: Just4thfax likes the smell of his own ass.

  • SarahP

    sarainitaly said:
    Obama was not a law professor.

    He was a lecturer at the U. of Chicago law school between 1992 and 1996. In his first years of teaching, he had only one course.

    He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996 and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

    Ghostwriter, Obama – that’s debatable. Ask Chris Matthews.

    If I traveled abroad? I live in Italy, dude. I travel all around Europe. The only people who thought she was a joke were the same people that thought Obama was a genius. *eyeroll*

    Actually, he was. Lecturer / professor in this case is a distinction without a difference.

  • Just4thefax

    armwood said:
    1) Number one if you had ever sat in one of his law school classes and had the background to understand what he was saying you would have no need to ask that question whether he was a scholar or a policy wonk. 2) Sarah Palin has not written any books. she had a ghost writer, Obama did not. Where have you been? 3) If you traveled you would traveled abroad during the 2008 campaign you would know what I mean. Obviously you did not travel abroad and speak with many non Americans.

    Fact: If there was substance in what he said about law? One why has he had his law license revoked and why isn’t anything he said or wrote in school being released when asked for. Why don’t his lawyers let them be released? Dumb Shit!

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: No you’re the Mediaite twerp!

  • Just4thefax

    SarahP said:
    Actually, he was. Lecturer / professor in this case is a distinction without a difference.

    Fact: Again no release of anything the Manchurian stated in school being released to the public and the blind sheep continue to follow!

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    writer said:
    armwood, we understand your position. Anyone who politically agrees with you is smart and intellectual, anyone who disagrees is stupid and dangerous.

    That’s an simply way to dismiss my comments without actually addressing them. If you think Palin is intellectually smart I feel sorry for you.

  • cjd ohio 1

    policy wonk, is a opinion , not a fact

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    sarainitaly said:
    Obama was not a law professor.

    He was a lecturer at the U. of Chicago law school between 1992 and 1996. In his first years of teaching, he had only one course.

    He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996 and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

    Ghostwriter, Obama – that’s debatable. Ask Chris Matthews.

    If I traveled abroad? I live in Italy, dude. I travel all around Europe. The only people who thought she was a joke were the same people that thought Obama was a genius. *eyeroll*

    He was a law professor. A Senior lecturer is a law professor. You do not understand the titles. They are all law professors. There are various titles from adjunct professor to instructor to full professor. You are clearly wrong. Ask some of your friends who work in academia.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    gar said:
    Armwood, I know you have a crush on this president and I hate to burst the bubble but he didn’t write Dreams From My Father, Ayers did. Did he contribute to the book like Palin did, certainly. Why should’t people question his intelligence when he can’t speak anywhere without his pacifier the ‘teleprompter’? Why doesn’t Obama go on Fox and show the American public how dangerous and evil they are? Best forum to get his point across. I’ll answer for you. They would tear him a new asshole. Without the softball questions ahead of time he’d fail and he knows it.You remember how he said doctors would take out tonsils and cut off legs to make some extra cash. It gets hard without the pacifier. Like you he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is or his college transcripts would be made public. I resent the fact when I’m looking for a better future for my daughters that my intelligence and love for my country is questioned because I disagree with you.

    You are wrong. He wrote it.

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    armwood said:
    That’s an simply way to dismiss my comments without actually addressing them. If you think Palin is intellectually smart I feel sorry for you.

    I know you think you are smart and I do feel sorry for you.

  • M Colins

    “Palin’s defense of her gaffe can be effectively summed up by, “Barack Obama says stupid things do, but why doesn’t the media jump on those?”

    It is always amusing to read quotes from the irony challenged media such as Hall which prove Palin’s point better than she ever could. In response to her argument she is unfairly portrayed, he constructs an imaginary answer for her, puts in it in quotes as thought she actually agreed she said something “stupid” and portrays her unfairly which is exactly what Palin describes.

    He then goes on to answer his own question posed by fantasy Sarah:

    “Well, the media does mock Obama when he is deserving of derision (and sometimes when he isn’t).”

    The sheer volume of un reported on gaffes by Obama and other Democrats demonstrates exactly the opposite of what Hall is claiming and illuminates the ridiculous double standard he operates under.

    To Hall and sympathizers in the media, Obama is self evidently a genius (lack of proof of this notwithstanding) so any bobble or misspeak he makes is just that and “much ado about nothing”. Conversely, Palin is an imbecile and any such slip-up is confirmation of her low IQ and must be widely disseminated among the self congratulatory types whose greatest joy is feeling superior to one who by any measurement is fairly accomplished.

  • disenlightened

    SarahP said:
    Actually, he was. Lecturer / professor in this case is a distinction without a difference.

    Actually, there’s a huge difference between a lecturer and a professor. A professor has years of experience, works full time and has tenure – meaning, basically, a life time job. A lecturer is nothing more than a part time classroom instructor.

  • disenlightened

    armwood said:
    You are wrong. He wrote it.

    It’s time for your nap now, armwood. Be sure to unplug the hot plate. You know how angry Mrs. Pollywog gets when you start those fires.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    gordontheblowhardwithashow says:

    “Anyone that watched that exchange knows had his ass handed to him.”

    When’s the last time you were aware of reality? You operate in an alternative reality, the alternative reality, that has been created by Fox. That’s your you think I “lie;” in your reality facts are lies and the lies put out by Beck and the rest of the Fox propaganda machine are “facts.”

    Here’s a right wing fact: Palin claimed on her FB post, “that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue,….” Palin corrected herself. That’s her “fact.”

    I have listened to it, and it was Beck who corrected her. This is hardly an issue, but it points to how reality is split by the media or the actors. In Palin’s case, the actor is the media. Quite a nice set up.

  • timzank

    Take a look at the header above, the story about the football announcer & his on air gaffe. Is he no longer qualified to call football games because of the gaffe? That would appear to be the new “Palin” standard, right?

  • gar

    Armwood, why would Ayers say he wrote the book at the request of Mrs. Obama? Many in the mainstream say the writings match Ayers to perfection. Actually after looking at some articles Obama wrote before the book most found him incapable of writing anything that could get published. Despite being named president of the Harvard Law Review – more of a popularity than a literary contest – Obama has, most unusually, never written anything under his name. Sometime between 1992 and 1994, Simon & Schuster canceled the advance it had offered Obama to write “Dreams.” Obama had not been able to finish the book on his own. Ayers could help. He provided an informal editing service for like-minded friends in the neighborhood. BTW Armwood this is no disgrace having a ghostwriter. It’s quite common. Wearing the blinders is your problem, not mine.

  • AngelPeters

    Sarah, it really would behoove you to take responsibility of your OWN STUPIDITY. Don’t go blaming the press for your f-ups. Makes you look like a whimpy female.

  • Newsjunky

    timzank said:
    Take a look at the header above, the story about the football announcer & his on air gaffe. Is he no longer qualified to call football games because of the gaffe? That would appear to be the new “Palin” standard, right?

    No, of course not. Palin wasn’t qualified for any sort of public office before this “gaffe” – which, by the way, wasn’t a “gaffe”. She really doesn’t know the difference between North and South Korea.

  • sarainitaly

    armwood said:
    He was a law professor. A Senior lecturer is a law professor. You do not understand the titles. They are all law professors. There are various titles from adjunct professor to instructor to full professor. You are clearly wrong. Ask some of your friends who work in academia.

    Why don’t you read the statements from U of C? He was NOT a professor.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

    You are clearly wrong. As usual.

  • nrgetick

    Mr B said:
    Sarah Palin just made you all look like fools, again.

    ha ha ha is that what just happened…no sarah never makes a fool of herself,,ha ha ha, ask her what she thinks about the tarp bail out:

    “But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. A

    And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. ALl those things under the umbrella of job creation.

    This bailout is a part of that.”

    ha ha yea sarah makes us look like idiots,,..,idiots because we give her a soap box to shill from

  • nrgetick

    AngelPeters said:
    Sarah, it really would behoove you to take responsibility of your OWN STUPIDITY. Don’t go blaming the press for your f-ups. Makes you look like a whimpy female.

    ha ha remember this interview

    http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/pagespage/2009/07/palins-whine-zone.html

    maybe palin should consider taking her own advice,.,.

  • nrgetick

    @gar”Obama had not been able to finish the book on his own. Ayers could help”

    ha ha maybe rev wright was editor in chief and the book was actually published by Amahandjob ….you know, just as long as were making shit up.

  • Hawk11

    sarainitaly said:
    Why don’t you read the statements from U of C? He was NOT a professor.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

    You are clearly wrong. As usual.

    From Wikipeida…

    A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

    From factcheck.org

    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html

    March 28, 2008
    Q:
    Was Barack Obama really a constitutional law professor?
    When I was in law school, I addressed all of my course instructors as “professors,” regardless of their rank or formal position in the school academic hierarchy (tenured professor, assistant professor, adjunct professor, lecturer, etc.). Was Obama exaggerating or factually wrong in referring to himself as a “constitutional law professor” at the University of Chicago Law School even though his official title was lecturer?
    A:
    His formal title was “senior lecturer,” but the University of Chicago Law School says he “served as a professor” and was “regarded as” a professor.
    Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as “a constitutional law professor,” most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, “I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.” A spokesman for the Republican National Committee immediately took exception to Obama’s remarks, pointing out that Obama’s title at the University of Chicago was “senior lecturer” and not “professor.”

    Recently, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has picked up on this charge. In a March 27 conference call with reporters, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer claimed:
    Singer (March 27): Sen. Obama has often referred to himself as “a constitutional law professor” out on the campaign trail. He never held any such title. And I think anyone, if you ask anyone in academia the distinction between a professor who has tenure and an instructor that does not, you’ll find that there is … you’ll get quite an emotional response.
    The campaign also sent out an e-mail quoting an Aug. 8, 2004, column in the Chicago Sun-Times that criticized Obama for calling himself a professor when, in fact, the University of Chicago faculty page listed him as “a senior lecturer (now on leave).” The Sun-Times said, “In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter.” The Clinton campaign added that the difference between senior lecturers and professors is that “professors have tenure while lecturers do not.”

    We agree that details matter, and also that the formal title of “professor” is not lightly given by academic institutions. However, on this matter the University of Chicago Law School itself is not standing on formality, and is siding with Obama.

    Due to numerous press inquiries on the matter, the school released a carefully worded statement saying that for his 12 years there he was considered to be “a professor.”
    UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.” From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
    Contrary to what the Clinton campaign claimed, not all professors have tenure. For instance, academics with the title of “assistant professor” typically work for between five and seven years before being reviewed for tenure.

    Furthermore, Obama was not merely an “instructor” as Phil Singer stated. As a “senior lecturer,” Obama was in good company: The six other faculty members with the title include the associate dean of the law school and Judge Richard Posner, who is widely considered to be one of the nation’s top legal theorists.

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  • Pablo

    GlennBeckReview said:
    I have listened to it, and it was Beck who corrected her.

    No, it was Stu, you blithering GlennBeckReviewing moron. Which is aside from the fact that she referenced NK correctly within seconds right before and right after she misspoke. That’s pretty fascinating that you can’t tell apart the voices of your demented obsession and his radio producer.

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  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    Prove it!

    Can you prove he did not say it?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYJjdQ3AEGU

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Can you prove he did not say it?

    You know that’s impossible, right? Proving a negative?

  • esd2000

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There must be something wrong with your hearing? Obama says stupid things almost everytime he speaks.

    And some people sound stupid “every time” they make comments here. So what’s your point you fake Cub fan?

  • gar

    Nrgetick, great rebuttal, but when you have the time go into Jack Cashill and his indepth look into who wrote the book and check out how Ayers interviewed with the Chicago Daily Observer and admitted to writing the book. Simon and Shuster did pull back the advance. I guess the genious couldn’t write the book in the 2 years between 92-94 before miraculously being able to get it published in 1 year. A small piece from Cashill, I bought Bill Ayers’ 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for reasons unrelated to this project. As I discovered, he writes surprisingly well and very much like “Obama.” In fact, my first thought was that the two may have shared the same ghostwriter. Unlike Dreams, however, where the high style is intermittent, Fugitive Days is infused with the authorial voice in every sentence. What is more, when Ayers speaks, even off the cuff, he uses a cadence and vocabulary consistent with his memoir. One does not hear any of Dreams in Obama’s casual speech.Obama’s memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama’s path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home. Doesn’t mention anything about Wright or I’mahandjob but maybe you know something I don’t.

    Obama’s memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama’s path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.

    In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.

    For simplicity sake, I will refer to the author of Dreams as “Obama.” Without question, he contributed much of the book’s raw material, especially the long-winded accounting of events and conversations, polished just well enough to pass muster. The book’s fierce, succinct and tightly coiled social analysis more closely matches the style of Fugitive Days, a much tighter book.

  • truthrose1

    Palin is one of the dumbest people I have seen on TV. She gets dumber with each face book posting.
    What is even dumber than her are those who defend her stupidity.

  • jjay7381

    Why can’t she just come out and say “oops, I meant to say South Korea” like a normal person rather than go on a page long tirade? This woman is allergic to proper reactions and it’s REALLY getting annoying.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    gar said:
    Armwood, why would Ayers say he wrote the book at the request of Mrs. Obama? Many in the mainstream say the writings match Ayers to perfection. Actually after looking at some articles Obama wrote before the book most found him incapable of writing anything that could get published. Despite being named president of the Harvard Law Review – more of a popularity than a literary contest – Obama has, most unusually, never written anything under his name. Sometime between 1992 and 1994, Simon & Schuster canceled the advance it had offered Obama to write “Dreams.” Obama had not been able to finish the book on his own. Ayers could help. He provided an informal editing service for like-minded friends in the neighborhood. BTW Armwood this is no disgrace having a ghostwriter. It’s quite common. Wearing the blinders is your problem, not mine.

    I doubt that you took time to read his books, I did before he was president. Do you believe every rumor you read? Ayers is the right wings favorite target so you attack him. That is silly. Do some solid research before you post!

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Pablo said:
    You know that’s impossible, right? Proving a negative?

    You ever heard of a lie detector?

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    Hawk11 said:
    From Wikipeida…

    A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

    From factcheck.org

    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html

    March 28, 2008
    Q:
    Was Barack Obama really a constitutional law professor?
    When I was in law school, I addressed all of my course instructors as “professors,” regardless of their rank or formal position in the school academic hierarchy (tenured professor, assistant professor, adjunct professor, lecturer, etc.). Was Obama exaggerating or factually wrong in referring to himself as a “constitutional law professor” at the University of Chicago Law School even though his official title was lecturer?
    A:
    His formal title was “senior lecturer,” but the University of Chicago Law School says he “served as a professor” and was “regarded as” a professor.
    Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as “a constitutional law professor,” most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, “I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.” A spokesman for the Republican National Committee immediately took exception to Obama’s remarks, pointing out that Obama’s title at the University of Chicago was “senior lecturer” and not “professor.”

    Recently, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has picked up on this charge. In a March 27 conference call with reporters, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer claimed:
    Singer (March 27): Sen. Obama has often referred to himself as “a constitutional law professor” out on the campaign trail. He never held any such title. And I think anyone, if you ask anyone in academia the distinction between a professor who has tenure and an instructor that does not, you’ll find that there is … you’ll get quite an emotional response.
    The campaign also sent out an e-mail quoting an Aug. 8, 2004, column in the Chicago Sun-Times that criticized Obama for calling himself a professor when, in fact, the University of Chicago faculty page listed him as “a senior lecturer (now on leave).” The Sun-Times said, “In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter.” The Clinton campaign added that the difference between senior lecturers and professors is that “professors have tenure while lecturers do not.”

    We agree that details matter, and also that the formal title of “professor” is not lightly given by academic institutions. However, on this matter the University of Chicago Law School itself is not standing on formality, and is siding with Obama.

    Due to numerous press inquiries on the matter, the school released a carefully worded statement saying that for his 12 years there he was considered to be “a professor.”
    UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.” From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
    Contrary to what the Clinton campaign claimed, not all professors have tenure. For instance, academics with the title of “assistant professor” typically work for between five and seven years before being reviewed for tenure.

    Furthermore, Obama was not merely an “instructor” as Phil Singer stated. As a “senior lecturer,” Obama was in good company: The six other faculty members with the title include the associate dean of the law school and Judge Richard Posner, who is widely considered to be one of the nation’s top legal theorists.

    The problem is so many of the crew who post hear and believe anything that a right wing pundit says they have no factual basis for any of their opinions. They rant. Do you think any of them have been inside of a law school, let alone attended one. Anyone who is in academia or has been to graduate school knows what a professor is and the various titiles they carry. We are witnessing another example of the dumbing down of America. That is why it will be interesting to see how the split between establishment Republicans and the Tea Party, “No Nothing” wing of the Republican party plays out.

  • stoogedudes

    gar said:
    I hate to burst the bubble but he didn’t write Dreams From My Father, Ayers did.

    gar said:
    why would Ayers say he wrote the book at the request of Mrs. Obama? Many in the mainstream say the writings match Ayers to perfection.

    Wow. Just wow.

    When Ayers said Michelle Obama requested for him to write the book, it was to a conservative blogger who was pestering him. He turned around and to get her to shut up and to tweak her (yeah, I know, that’s El-Rushbo’s word), he said, yeah, I wrote it. He was joking. No one has any proof that Ayers wrote that book. Many in the mainstream say all kinds of shit. Doesn’t make it true. It seems to be nothing but Grade-A bullshit. Even far-right bloggers admit that they think Ayers was joking.

    http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/10/07/ayers

    What you write sounds like it comes from Jack Cashill at World Net Daily, a wacko, fringe, far-right website.

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  • gar

    Stooge, you send me to Salon. WOW!!! I see the light. An ACTIVIST intimidated by a female his size .Throw her off the tract. Tweaking the stupid right so Obama takes the hit. Weird sense of humor, don’t you think?

  • gar

    Armwood, please show me once where I attacked Ayers. I’m giving him credit for ghost writing a book. Maybe somebody should ask Obama the question. The lamestream media didn’t or doesn’t have the balls. I’ll rest. Between you and the Stooge I should Know when to surrender.Need to put a smile on my face and read a book to my daughter.SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT IT WON’T BE DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.

  • nrgetick

    “SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT IT WON’T BE DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.”

    is it going to be decision points then,lol..,.,,.I heard breitbart wrote that one so it must be true

  • Nacho

    She sure has thin skin.

  • Just4thefax

    nrgetick said:
    “SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT IT WON’T BE DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.” is it going to be decision points then,lol..,.,,.I heard breitbart wrote that one so it must be true

    Fact: Once the one term wonder gets booted in 2012. The historians will put an Astrid next to president because he never proved he was eligible to hold office on any of the 50 states ballots. Only Hawaii election official said a live birth wasn’t proof was fired by the democratic governor. He sued and won a payout settlement from the state for wrong doing. I still wonder how the messiah got a social security number from Connecticut when he stated he was born in Hawaii.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johns/1681497708 Michael Johns

    Sarah Palin said:
    For that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking

    Are you serious, Sarah? A “hard news story”? It was on a few blogs – the mainstream media never reported on it.

    Headline from the Conservative FreeRepublic:
    SARAH PALIN WANTS CHRISTINE O’DONNELL ON DANCING WITH THE STARS

    Headline from the liberal Huffington Post:
    Sarah Palin REPORTEDLY Lobbying To Get Christine O’Donnell On ‘Dancing With The Stars’

    The Conservative site reports it as fact and the Liberal site doesn’t. If Sarah wants to slam right-wing blogs sites, that’s fine. Just don’t classify the rumor as a hard news story.

    I can’t stand Sarah, but the hubbub over her North Korea gaffe was ridiculous. She misspoke… that’s it. We all do it from time to time. That doesn’t mean she isn’t an idiot, though :)

  • sarainitaly

    Obama’s title at the University of Chicago was “senior lecturer” and not “professor”.

    “His formal title was “senior lecturer,” but the University of Chicago Law School says he “served as a professor” and was “regarded as” a professor.”

    He was NOT a “professor”.

  • TrollJuice

    It is not that she made a mistake, it is that she clearly does not understand the issues.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    You ever heard of a lie detector?

    Yup. You ever heard of a geiger counter? How about a breathalyzer? I mean an inhalator!

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    gar said:
    Armwood, please show me once where I attacked Ayers. I’m giving him credit for ghost writing a book. Maybe somebody should ask Obama the question. The lamestream media didn’t or doesn’t have the balls. I’ll rest. Between you and the Stooge I should Know when to surrender.Need to put a smile on my face and read a book to my daughter.SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT IT WON’T BE DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.

    This is an unbelievable claim. Can’t you ascertain the difference between an obvious joke and a serious statement. Does your political ideology so blind you to the nuances in normal human speech?

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The only problem with your comment, IT DID NOT HAPPEN. You are just repeating the lib media spin. Anyone that watched that exchange knows had his ass handed to him. He looked like a fool when he made that snide comment ot McCain. Ryan knocked him out with his questions and comments.
    You have that lib gene that just hears things that didn’t happen.

    You obviously did not watch the event. Once again you let Rush Limbaugh think for you. Whatever he says you think! How pathetic.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    gar said:
    Armwood, please show me once where I attacked Ayers. I’m giving him credit for ghost writing a book. Maybe somebody should ask Obama the question. The lamestream media didn’t or doesn’t have the balls. I’ll rest. Between you and the Stooge I should Know when to surrender.Need to put a smile on my face and read a book to my daughter.SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT IT WON’T BE DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.

    I am disappointed you obviously do not read much.

  • writer

    armwood is not arrogant. It’s just a coincidence that anyone who disagrees with him politically is also not as smart as him.

  • BlackWidow

    writer said:
    armwood is not arrogant. It’s just a coincidence that anyone who disagrees with him politically is also not as smart as him.

    writer I don’t get that message from armwood. Might just be your insecurity showing through.

  • writer

    BlackWidow, of course you don’t see any arrogance in armwood’s postings. It’s purely coincidence that everyone disagreeing with him isn’t quite as smart as he is.

  • TrollJuice

    sarainitaly says:
    November 27, 2010 at 5:53 am sarainitaly(Quote)
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    Obama’s title at the University of Chicago was “senior lecturer” and not “professor”.

    “His formal title was “senior lecturer,” but the University of Chicago Law School says he “served as a professor” and was “regarded as” a professor.”

    He was NOT a “professo

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    You have been posting this Bs for days! What the he)) is wrong with you?

  • Bill Mahwer

    This is a perfect example of why Palin cant be the nominee for the Repubs in 2012. She accidentally misstates something and it is international news that gets printed all over the place.

    Obama accidentally says he is a Muslim and the press ignores it.
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1150540,CST-NWS-faith08.article

  • skyfet

    @Just4thefax
    Keep your sexual perversion and fantasy to yourself. What the hell does the B stands for in the bagger. You are starting to sound more like Limbaugh. Use your own brain and don’t be a sheeple.

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  • Just4thefax

    skyfet said:
    @Just4thefaxKeep your sexual perversion and fantasy to yourself. What the hell does the B stands for in the bagger. You are starting to sound more like Limbaugh. Use your own brain and don’t be a sheeple.

    Fact: All your comments take it up the ass right? B-bagger!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    GlennBeckReview said:
    “I have listened to it, and it was Beck who corrected her.”

    Pablo says:
    “No, it was Stu, you blithering GlennBeckReviewing moron. ”

    If I’m a “moron” because I didn’t recognize the voice of the person who corrected Palin, what’s that make people who actually support the half-Governor and jackass of all one-liners/master of nothing? Drooling retards? Pablo, is your keyboard wet?

    Just4thefax, you really are a drooling, brain-dead retard. That’s a fact!

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