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Sputnik and Spudnuts: WTF Was Sarah Palin Talking About?

by Tommy Christopher | 10:38 am, January 27th, 2011

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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin offered her thoughts on President Obama‘s State of the Union address to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Wednesday night, and while she cleverly zeroed in on the unfortunate abbreviation of the speech’s “Win The Future” theme, Palin’s analysis quickly went rogue with reality. Despite her proximity to its launch site, Palin displayed ignorance of Sputnik 1‘s significance (both in the speech, and in Soviet history), and offered a bizarre non-prescription for America involving something called “Spudnuts.”

In case you missed it, here’s the clip of Palin’s appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s On the Record:

Transcript: (via Fox Nation)

VAN SUSTEREN: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is still with us. And Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik moment that the president talked about. Do you agree with him? Do you — and is this our moment?

PALIN: That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated this Sputnik moment that he would aspire Americans to celebrate. And he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yes, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.

So I listened to that Sputnik moment talk over and over again, and I think, No, we don’t need one of those. You know what we need is a “spudnut” moment. And here’s where I’m going with this, Greta. And you’re a good one because you’re one of those reporters who actually gets out there in the communities, find these hard-working people and find solutions to the problems that Americans face.

Well, the spudnut shop in Richland, Washington — it’s a bakery, it’s a little coffee shop that’s so successful, 60-some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It’s just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop.

We need more spudnut moments in America. And I wish that President Obama would understand, in that heartland of America, what it is that really results in the solutions that we need to get this economy back on the right track. It’s a shop like that.

Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

Palin’s first mistake (or misdirection, if she’s no idiot) is in misplacing the US’ role in the President’s Sputnik analogy. Palin seems to be cautioning America against launching its own metaphorical Sputnik, a complete misreading of the meaning of “Sputnik moment.”

The Soviet Union’s launch of a satellite that was only slightly more advanced than Balloon Boy 1 is not the model of success to which the President’s speech urges us to aspire, but rather, the flood of research, innovation, and achievement that it spurred in a then-complacent American psyche. The negative consequences of Sputnik to the Soviet Union, then, would only serve to reinforce what the President said.

Even in twisting the meaning of the President’s analogy, though, Palin twists history to suit the view from her front porch. While it’s tough to pinpoint a single reason for the dissolution of the USSR, the space program isn’t one of them, at least not in the substantive way that Palin imagines. The Cold War arms race is the factor that most closely tracks here, and while the Sputnik 1 launch was a shot across the bow in that war, it was a drop in the arms race bucket.

Palin then goes on to suggest that what America needs is a “Spudnut moment,” explaining that there’s this successful small business in Washington state, and that America needs to do…what? Have lots of successful small businesses? Stop preventing successful businesses like The Spudnut Shop from being successful? Palin never really explains how this is supposed to work, but I think the equation goes something like this: “Sputnik moment” + “Something that sounds like Sputnik but isn’t”=WIN!

Still, a closer look at the story of Spudnuts reveals that the shining example she uses, The Spudnuts Shop in Richland, Washington, is part of a larger story that reinforces much of what President Obama said.

The Spudnuts Shop is, indeed, a successful small business, as attested to by recent profiles on Food Network’s Unwrapped and the Travel Channel’s Donut Paradise. In a way, they’re also the embodiment of the innovative spirit that President Obama is trying to rekindle. The shop’s founders saw the early potential of the Pelton Brothers’ innovative use of potato flour in doughnut-making, and got in on the ground floor with a franchise back in 1948. Spudnuts became something of a craze, eventually growing to over 600 locations in the US and elsewhere.

However, the good times didn’t last forever, and the Richland Spudnuts Shop is one of only about 40 surviving Spudnuts locations. The Pelton brothers sold the company in 1975, at which time those who had paid for franchises could no longer get the original Spudnuts recipe. The parent company went out of business a few years later, but a handful of owner-operated shops continue to use the Spudnut name.

The success of the Richland Spudnuts Shop, by all accounts, is due to the consistently hard work and exceptional service of its employees, as much as to the spud-rific goodness of its doughnuts. There was no “Spudnuts moment” for the Richland shop; there were 60 Spudnuts years (and counting).

The truth is, not everything fits neatly into a political metaphor, but if you look at The Spudnuts Shop’s history, their biggest obstacle to success came, not from government interference, but from a faltering corporate parent. When the Pelton Brothers sold the company, franchise operators were left stranded without a recipe, and those who survived improvised their own.

In fact, the only mention of the government in the Spudnuts Shop’s story is of the highway that was built in 1950, allowing it to expand from a wholesale-only business, into the icon of American success Palin has just made it.

Palin never articulates how America is supposed to duplicate that success, or how that differs from Barack Obama’s vision to Win the Future, but if nothing else, maybe she’ll help to sell a bunch of Spudnuts. Personally, I can’t wait to try one.

Greta Van Susteren, President Obama, Sarah Palin, SOTU, Spudnuts, Sputnik, Sputnik moment, State of the Union, Win the Future, WTF

writer

But what about her hair and makeup? Let’s watch.
greg454

Obama cuts Nasa’s budget and then mentions Sputnik? Really? And by the way, I will give him praise for at least cutting something in his damn administration. Too bad that’s the only thing he wants to cut.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/
The Lantern of Truth

RRKING here . Whenever he sees a chubby woman , Armwood always says ” She like potatoes , no matter how you fix ‘ em ” . Truthfully , they could say that about both of us , too ! Oh , well . More to enjoy .
mcf1757

I do not understand why she continues, crazies can you help me out??!
writer

Army, the necktie should be flipped over the shoulder before tackling the gravy.
Harry Flashman

Wow, Tommy, that a HUGE article just to ridicule a few words from Palin lauding a successful business that doesn’t need or want a government bailout.

You seem to have put a whole lot of work into trying to trash what she said, then in the last few paragraphs you actually support every word. A small sample:

“…..allowing it to expand from a wholesale-only business, into the icon of American success Palin has just made it.”

Huh?

You go the long way around the barn to discredit an admittedly somewhat loose political metaphor she used, then you turn right around and support what she said.

A lesson for you, Tommy. Keep your pieces trashing Palin short like the rest of the media who thrives on insulting her. I sort of glazed over and had to read this one twice. That’s when I realized you’d checked yourself.

If you’d kept it short, you could have just ridiculed her and moved on. Point scored.

Oh, well. I’m sure you’ll do better in the next one.
valkyrie101

They, and mostly FOX, created a monster. Between Sarah and Michelle Bachman, if a third party emerges, it will be worse than Ross Perot. And unlike Perot, a Palin and/or Bachman ticket would also bring lots of candidates all over the country running as third party candidates in house and senate races. That can only mean disaster for the Republicans because most tea partiers normally vote republican. And quite a few moderate Republicans know that, but there is no way to derail Sarah or Michelle because their followers simply do not care that they are not too up on things, as long as the platitudes keep rolling.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

WTF was Obama talking about? Shouldn’t that be the question you ask, instead of executing your Democrat strategy of distracting from Obama, by focusing on a women who holds no office?
ROCKSTEADY

Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

Watch all the Idiots in her audience try and defend thisTacky,Wacky Wasilla woman.
noekk

mcf1757 said:
I do not understand why she continues, crazies can you help me out??!

The money. She likes the money.
valkyrie101

Yes, exactly. And the main one doing that is FOX.
valkyrie101

Dronetek said:
WTF was Obama talking about? Shouldn’t that be the question you ask, instead of executing your Democrat strategy of distracting from Obama, by focusing on a women who holds no office?

Yes, exactly, and the main one doing that is FOX.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Tommy, you and Megan McCain should hook up. Now there’s a match made in PDS heaven if I ever saw one!
skyfet

Please, tell me, explain to me, and defend this ignorant crap from Sarah. Africa (country vs continent), Korea ~(North or South), now (Sputnik vs Spudnuts). I’m waiting for you guys to start with the spin, maybe it’s a trick question like what kind of Newspapers do you read? or a lamestream media (Fox) fault for putting her in that position?
possibly

Sarah Palin is a stupid, stupid woman.
skyfet

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Tommy, you and Megan McCain should hook up. Now there’s a match made in PDS heaven if I ever saw one!

Wht attack the messenger for Palin’s ignorance. Don’t be an ignoramus!
writer

2012, I’m sure that when Tommy calls Sarah ignorant, he means it in a good way. (I wonder who does Tommy’s makeup?)
AngelPeters

Ms Palin, this isn’t said with malice. Your lack of education is a problem and it ‘s makes for poor role modeling to our younger people.
writer

Give us a community organizer or give us death!

(Well, okay. Not literally.)
writer

Flattery will get you nowhere. But dinner and a movie might.
Harry Flashman

Note the above lefty comments then look at my post from another thread:

“The left doesn’t dare debate the content of what Palin says or what she stands for.

It’s easier to snicker ansd sneer at small, out of context soundbytes of something she said, point at the way she’s dressed (check out the thread in another item about her on this site today – what is she WEARING? one lefty commenter cries), call her stupid, criticize her family, and scream to the whole world how much they hate her.

Ziegler nailed it. MSNBC won’t have a debate in a fair and equal manner about this woman. They can’t. They would lose, and lose badly. So…they keep pointing and sneering.

Great article. Lefty convulsions in 3….2….1….

By the way, I noticed that the media and the left in general (but I repeat myself) are doing the same thing with Palin’s “WTF” comment that they diid with the “blood Libel” comment.

They focus on the one phrase and ignore the content of all the other words around it.

It fits nicely into their strategy. Ridicule anything they can and avoid discussing what she’s saying. It’s transparent – and it’s getting old.”

Keep it up lefties. I love being proven right.
TangledThorns

How Obama use patriotism and call for a Apollo Moment? Oh wait, Obama hates patriotism. Sarah Palin has the right ideas while Obama is stuck in the 1960s.
writer

Dang, Robert. Now you’re not even bothering to alter 2012′s name when you use it.
valkyrie101

You should have known that the network that brought you Tracy, Bart, short skirts and knockers, Jim Carey, and the most profane (and possibly funny) of all the FOX offerings, the Family Guy, is not good company to hang out with if you are on the right and have no sense of humor. Now they have an imminent split of the Republican party, just a few tea party promotions away. Killer.
writer

Now tell us about the Mormons, “2012″.
Anne 1

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
YOU leave my beloved KING ALONE YOU STPID LIB!!!!!

Oh Mr. King , I’m afraid your brain has fallen and can’t get up . Tsk . Tsk.
writer

The King thinks he’s fooling everyone. Humor him.
ROCKSTEADY

Dronetek said:
Democrat strategy of distracting from Obama, by focusing on a women who holds no office?

The Tacky,Wacky Wasilla woman does not need anyones help to distract from anything.Palin is a source of amusement.
writer

Exactly, King. You pout and have a tantrum all you want, little fella.
Liberal Tormentor

You can call me Liberal Tormentor now. I appear to be living rent free in their heads. It’s getting mighty crowded with Me, Palin, Beck, and Rush. But hey, it’s a party!! I’m off to the police station to update my restraining order.
writer

Since he’s not Robert, I’m sure “2012″ would agree that Robert Stephenson is a very ugly man.
iris

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
NOT ROBERT!!! WHy SO PICKY , YOU DON”T MIND WHEN ITS DONE TO OTHERS SO WHAT THE HECK!!!!

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iris

asshat also too
writer

I mean REAL ugly!
ROCKSTEADY

Harry Flashman said:
They focus on the one phrase and ignore the content of all the other words around it.

What “other words”. She just babbled like she always does .What I got from her babble is where to go to get a good doughnut.
valkyrie101

writer said:
I mean REAL ugly!

LOL
Seeing 20l2 From My Window

Liberal Tormentor said:
Now you are obsessing with other men’s handsomeness!!!! Well, in that case I’m sure your closet is JUST FABULOUS!!!!

DO we REALLY have to put up with this HOMOSEX TROLLING ON THIS SITE!!!????
minorityreport

Sarah Palin is the clearest example why the American educational system MUST be over-hauled. she has to be the dumbest bimbo in the history of dumb bimbo. Her gig is so over and she is so dumb, she does not even realises it. she can spew all her unintelligent hate all she wants on faux news but she is done. She is the betamax of politics. Even Greta had this priceless look on her face like” Sarah I love you girl But what the f**k are you talking about”
even though she was given an extra 24 hours after the SOTU speech to offer just a thought(not a rebuttal) she still came to the show reciting that 2008 campaign script. That Pseudo-All american speech is played out.
You can ask Sarah Palin how the climate is in America and she will rely you-” I love the good ole American weather, with the patriotic sunlight and the hard working rain. The snow was there during the founding of this great nation and it in the fore-front of our liberty. The big government is like the unpatriotic hurricane season and it wipes away all our personal properties and causes destruction. But I still love the hurricane season for killing all those illegal aliens and blacks during Katrina”
Liberal Tormentor

minority reprot says:

But I still love the hurricane season for killing all those illegal aliens and blacks during Katrina”

Statements like this are NOT the way to persuade people who disagree with you. Stop being ridiculous.
The Lantern of Truth

RRKING returns . Namecalling , huh ? Well , at least I have someone to defend my honor . When a disgruntled customer at the salon or a total stranger says to me : ” Bobbi , you are a putrid , overweight , wig wearing , obnoxious , child ‘ s lunch swiping , church donation taking , pretentious , foolish , ridiculous , dense , unfashionable , poorly – dressed , crazy , nasty old coot !
Armwood will stick up for me and say : ” Poorly dressed !!! He is most certainly not !!! ” . Now , that ‘s loyalty .
minorityreport

Liberal Tormentor said:
minority reprot says:

But I still love the hurricane season for killing all those illegal aliens and blacks during Katrina”

Statements like this are NOT the way to persuade people who disagree with you. Stop being ridiculous.

Thats not me speaking it is the Sarah Palin in me. We all have that little Sarah Palin in us that we just wish would just shut up . My new year resolution is to exorcise the sarah palin in me. What is yours?
wayback

Everyday since 11-02-2008 has been a WTF moment in Amreica. Lets hope in 2012 if someone asks you, “Did Obama win?” -you can answer NFW!!
Liberal Tormentor

Palin has never said anything even close to that so stop slandering her. You appear to be the racist, NOT her.
minorityreport

Sarah Palin is the clearest example why the American educational system MUST be over-hauled. she has to be the dumbest bimbo in the history of dumb bimbo. Her gig is so over and she is so dumb, she does not even realises it. she can spew all her unintelligent hate all she wants on faux news but she is done. She is the betamax of politics. Even Greta had this priceless look on her face like” Sarah I love you girl But what the f**k are you talking about”
even though she was given an extra 24 hours after the SOTU speech to offer just a thought(not a rebuttal) she still came to the show reciting that 2008 campaign script. That Pseudo-All american speech is played out.
You can ask Sarah Palin how the climate is in America and she will rely you-” I love the good ole American weather, with the patriotic sunlight and the hard working rain. The snow was there during the founding of this great nation and it in the fore-front of our liberty. The big government is like the unpatriotic hurricane season and it wipes away all our personal properties and causes destruction. But I still love the hurricane season for killing all those illegal aliens and blacks during Katrina”
The Real Royal King

Stunningly Stupid Sarah. How could anyone be as utterly ahistorical?
The Real Royal King

… and Greta O’Van Susteren has to be embarrassed to interview her.
The Real Royal King

The Real Royal King said:
… and Greta O’Van Susteren has to be embarrassed to interview her.

… well, Greta sold her soul some time ago. Perhaps, she’s not embarrassed. I’m embarrassed for her.
Mr.Papshmer

A couple of things, Tommy.

1) Sputnik was not launched in Russia, so you stupid attempt at degrading humor only shows your own ignorance.

2) Balloon Boy? You obviously weren’t around, were you? Sputnik was the first artificial satellite _in the history of the earth_, and to lower that achievement to the Balloon Boy episode simply exemplifies the depths to which you’ll sink in your PDS.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Poor Tommy, I understood what Palin was saying. Maybe that lib gene blocks your ability to understand a very simple statement.
On the other hand you seem to understand a guy that thinks there are 57 states. He thinks the courts are supposed to redistribute income and ObamaCare is going to reduce the deficit. LOL
Color Me Badd

I am not kidding when I seriously say that I think Sarah needs to be drug tested. She has a few people around her who are involved with meth and I really don’t think there is any other explanation for her behavior than some sort of meth bender.
Color Me Badd

gordonbloyershow said:
Poor Tommy, I understood what Palin was saying. Maybe that lib gene blocks your ability to understand a very simple statement.
On the other hand you seem to understand a guy that thinks there are 57 states. He thinks the courts are supposed to redistribute income and ObamaCare is going to reduce the deficit. LOL

Probably because you are on meth too.
Liberal Tormentor

Seeing 20l2 From My Window says:
Liberal Tormentor said:
OK OK OK OK!! Don’t everyone panic. I do not approve of using others names without some alteration so it can be noticed, but there is someone on this board who insists on using the actual name (I won’t name names) so I will tell you the secret. Just put whatever name you want in the public display box and update the profile. If one insists on doing it then everyone should be able too.LUV,ANONYMOUS

You STUPID LIB!!! Now YOU SPOILED IT FOR ME!!!, I HATE YOU!!!!!

I think the problem of liberal posers has been dealt with. You’ve had your fun now run along and take you MDS meds.
da-wdc

Palin seems to be cautioning America against launching its own metaphorical Sputnik, a complete misreading of the meaning of “Sputnik moment.”

The Soviet Union’s launch of a satellite that was only slightly more advanced than Balloon Boy 1 is not the model of success to which the President’s speech urges us to aspire, but rather, the flood of research, innovation, and achievement that it spurred in a then-complacent American psyche.

Exactly. Spot on. Palin didn’t bother to think about what Obama was saying. Just a knee-jerk reaction from her. This is the President of the United States giving a major speech, Palin should give him more credit, instead of assuming he’s saying we should be like the USSR, which was not at all what he was saying.
Dsiscokid

I admire SP, but she needs to take a break from trying to use the cutesy, folksy metaphors and lay low for a few months, IMHO
ROCKSTEADY

gordonbloyershow said:
very simple statement

The Tacky Wasilla Queen is good at SIMPLE.Her whole lemming followers are very Simple.Palin is a simpleton.
Dsiscokid

You never get into a wrestling match with a pig (i.e.- the lib. media). You will get dirty and the pig will love it
da-wdc

gordonbloyershow said:
Maybe that lib gene blocks your ability to understand a very simple statement.

This is about the 10th time I’ve seen you reference “that lib gene” and I don’t even read this website all that often. Why bother repeating nonsense? You may as well be insisting over and over that a flying unicorn stops people from agreeing with you.
minorityreport

It is very ironic to see white people expecting the world to thank” a few white men” that helped to stop the same slavery that was started and perpetuated by “many white men”. signed by some few “white men” that declared a slave as 3/5th of a human.
Sarah palin and her supporters here are mostly descendants of slave owners. How fu*ked up is humanity when a race decides that there are superior to another race? when we are all created by the same GOD!!!!
There is a present and historical precedence to this:
White man wants the rail wail built: Get some Chinese and some black slaves
white man wants to test the syphillis vaccine: inject it on some negroes
white man goes to war: station blacks as human shield
white man wants cheap oil: invade some arabs in the middle east
white man wants to test the atomic bomb: use it on the japanese
CAN I CONTINUE?
Dsiscokid

Totally of the subject, but when one responds to someone else’s post, how do some of you guys get the statements in the “grey boxes”?
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Minority Report, have you sought treatment for your white rage?
DaTruth

@Tommy Christopher: What I find astonishing is that anyone (like you) with any sense whatsoever of history could in any way decouple the so-called “space race” with the “arms race”. The entire history of the space race is that it occurred within the greater context of the ongoing arms race and the cold war. Do you think we just shook hands with the Russian counterparts and said “hey, let’s see who can get to space first”? If you’re going to posit that venturing to space and putting satellites in orbit was for strictly peaceful purposes, you really need to go back to school and get a clue. Come on, man. Use your head. Take off your ideological blinders, because your own commentary is now embarrassing to read.

And by the way, the “Sputnik moment” in the speech you seem to want to defend has been roundly –and humorously– criticized by none other than Jon Stewart. If Obama’s lost Stewart on this one, he’s lost, lol.
da-wdc

Dsiscokid – select the text you want to quote, then hit the “Quote” link and it’ll appear in the box where you’re writing your post.
Dsiscokid

minorityreport – CAN I CONTINUE?

I’ll take the bait. Is it “the white’s fault” that the murder rate, prison rate, abortion rate, child birth out of wedlock rate and general crime rate is extraordinarily high within the Black community? How is it “Whitey’ fault?”
Green is not a good look for you, my delusional friend. You talk about that we are all created by God (which we are- Acts 17:25 -26), yet blame every problem on society on one particular race? Do you perceive yourself as an individual first (a man) or as a collectivist (a black man)?
Dsiscokid

da-wdc said:
Dsiscokid – select the text you want to quote, then hit the “Quote” link and it’ll appear in the box where you’re writing your post.

Thanks da-wdc!
Dsiscokid

minorityreport – Perhaps we can agree to disagree agreeably
minorityreport

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
Minority Report, have you sought treatment for your white rage?

NOPE!!!! I LUV WHITE FOLKS. LIKE THEY SAY” WHEN YOU VIEW WHITE AMERICA, YOU LOOK AT IT LIKE THE UNCLE THAT MOLESTED YOU AS A KID BUT PAID YOUR WAY THRU COLLEGE”
U GOTTA LET SOME SH*T SLIDE…LOL
Mr.Papshmer

minorityreport said:
NOPE!!!! I LUV WHITE FOLKS. LIKE THEY SAY” WHEN YOU VIEW WHITE AMERICA, YOU LOOK AT IT LIKE THE UNCLE THAT MOLESTED YOU AS A KID BUT PAID YOUR WAY THRU COLLEGE”
U GOTTA LET SOME SH*T SLIDE…LOL

Most “normal” people don’t view America by race. Those who do are racist assholes to be loathed for what they are.
writer

Thank you, Tormentor. My closet is fabulous. But it wasn’t before having the King give it a critique. The man is another Bruno when it comes to fashion.
Dsiscokid

minorityreport – WHITE AMERICA

Exactly where is this mythical place?
Dsiscokid

minorityreport – LIKE THEY SAY

Who are “they”?
minorityreport

Dsiscokid said:
minorityreport – CAN I CONTINUE?

I’ll take the bait. Is it “the white’s fault” that the murder rate, prison rate, abortion rate, child birth out of wedlock rate and general crime rate is extraordinarily high within the Black community? How is it “Whitey’ fault?”
Green is not a good look for you, my delusional friend. You talk about that we are all created by God (which we are- Acts 17:25 -26), yet blame every problem on society on one particular race? Do you perceive yourself as an individual first (a man) or as a collectivist (a black man)?

We had this arguement before and you too retarded (yes Sarah Palin. I said it RETARDED) to understand why all these vices are too prevalent in the black community.
I realize that at a point, personal responsibility has to trump over systemic and institutional racial victimization. But you have never been in black shoes or been thru the sh*T blacks had and still have to go through
After all the sh*t that whites did to blacks in South Africa, Nelson Mandela and other blacks in South Africa forgave those racist bastards and today South Africa is better for it. Do you think if the situation was the reverse, whites would forgive? Hell naaaaaaaah. Just ask Saddam Hussien and OJ Simpson. God forgives, white people dont..(LOL that has to be the KKK slogan)
writer

I have worn black shoes many times. The brown ones don’t go with my tux.
minorityreport

Mr.Papshmer said:
Most “normal” people don’t view America by race. Those who do are racist assholes to be loathed for what they are.

is that a bullseye target on your picture profile????? LOL !!! fool did you not hear what happened in Arizona???/
All signs of that nature BANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

minorityreport says:

Michelle, does Barack know you are using the internet?
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Minority report says:

is that a bullseye target on your picture profile????? LOL !!! fool did you not hear what happened in Arizona???/
All signs of that nature BANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AZ had NOTHING to do with that, so why do you continue to push the lie?
writer

God forgives, white people dont.

Hating white people does not count as racism. Lump all of those bastards in together.
Dsiscokid

minorityreport said:
We had this arguement before and you too retarded (yes Sarah Palin. I said it RETARDED) to understand why all these vices are too prevalent in the black community.I realize that at a point, personal responsibility has to trump over systemic and institutional racial victimization. But you have never been in black shoes or been thru the sh*T blacks had and still have to go throughAfter all the sh*t that whites did to blacks in South Africa, Nelson Mandela and other blacks in South Africa forgave those racist bastards and today South Africa is better for it. Do you think if the situation was the reverse, whites would forgive? Hell naaaaaaaah. Just ask Saddam Hussien and OJ Simpson. God forgives, white people dont..(LOL that has to be the KKK slogan)

Have you ever heard of Zimbabwe? How is the persecution of white farmers helping that nation? SA was a horrible situation. But back to the US, Google “Christian-Chastain Murders Knoxville, TN” and see how some innocent folks were brutalized, yet not a peep from Main stream news (left or right) The whole “systemic and institutional racial victimization” is a cope out for NOT taking personal responsibility. Communism looks good on paper, but enslaves more people than any vice known to man (apart from man’s sin nature).
writer

Power to the People! Kill whitey!
The Lantern of Truth

RRKING speaks carefully . Armsy and I are cool with the race thing . I ‘m the one who introduced him to Johnny Mathis . And we have one of Johnny ‘ s records , too . So , I ‘m officially a soul brother . Bobbi out .
writer

Wait. Saying ‘kill’ was politically incorrect. Just rough him up a bit.
The Lantern of Truth

writer said:
Power to the People! Kill whitey!

RRKING frightened . EEK ! That ‘s just what Armando yells when he wants to scare me when I have the hiccups !
valkyrie101

Dsiscokid said:
Communism looks good on paper, but enslaves more people than any vice known to man (apart from man’s sin nature).

No, actually it does not look good on paper. And the notion of man having a “sinful nature” is also a crock.
writer

King, when Army threatens to ‘beat you like a pinata’, there’s two ways to take that.
Dsiscokid

minorityreport said:
realize that at a point, personal responsibility has to trump over systemic and institutional racial victimization.

When will this “point” come to pass. BTW- As I totally disagree with you on so many levels, that is one great thing about America, we have Freedom of Speech.
The Lantern of Truth

writer said:
King, when Army threatens to ‘beat you like a pinata’, there’s two ways to take that.

RRKING on home life . Never boring around the King/ Armwood apartment , except when he reads his Nancy Drews books out loud and I ‘m trying to watch ” Cheaters ” . Ooh , I could give him such a slap !
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

da-wdc said:
This is about the 10th time I’ve seen you reference “that lib gene” and I don’t even read this website all that often. Why bother repeating nonsense? You may as well be insisting over and over that a flying unicorn stops people from agreeing with you.

You need to keep up on the news. You need your lib gene removed too.

Scientists Find ‘Liberal Gene’

Study conducted by researchers at UCSD, Harvard
By ERIC S. PAGE
Updated 5:16 PM PDT, Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Researchers have determined that genetics could matter when it comes to some adults’ political leanings.
According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard University, “ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4.”

The study was led by UCSD’s James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Scientists matched the subjects’ genetic information with “maps” of their social networks. According to researchers, they determined that people “with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults.” However, the, subjects were only more likely to have leanings to the left if they were also socially active during adolescence.

“It is the crucial interaction of two factors — the genetic predisposition and the environmental condition of having many friends in adolescence — that is associated with being more liberal,” according to the study.
“These findings suggest that political affiliation is not based solely on the kind of social environment people experience,” said Fowler, who is a professor of political science and medical genetics.
The researchers also said their findings held true no matter what the ethnicity, culture, sex or age of the subjects were.
First Published: Oct 27, 2010 5:04 PM PDT
writer

The people in the next apartment have gotten used to the screaming.
Dsiscokid

valkyrie101 said:
No, actually it does not look good on paper. And the notion of man having a “sinful nature” is also a crock.

Why wouldn’t “free housing, guaranteed job, free healthcare, free schooling, etc.” look good? Oh that’s right, “somebody” has to PAY for all these FREE things (i.e.- “The Rich” or “The Oppessor” or “The Bougeious”). Communism, socialism, Marxism, “Liberalism” (An Oxymoron- Central Planning has never “liberated” anything but liberated one’s private property into a “collective”.
Dsiscokid

Communism – A bastion of unintended consequences since 1850
Dsiscokid

Dsiscokid said:
And the notion of man having a “sinful nature” is also a crock.

Communism is an atheistic political system. One major reason it fails the world over is that it violates Nature’s Law and the God of Nature. It violates at least three of God’s Commandments -”Thou shalt have no other gods before me”, “Thou shalt not steal”, and “thou shalt not covet” (Exodus 20). Man was created to worship – whether it is to worship the God that made him, or to worship the things that man himself makes, creates, makes up
gvass

This woman is bullshit artist, plain and simple.
Phocus2

Hard reading articles written by people with limited intelligence. If Christopher fails to grasp the Spudnut tie in, few would be surprised. Slant is getting old, predictable, and well, boring.
writer

Tormentor, you never seem to mind when the King has innumerable posts concerning fashion and makeup. Surely you’re not saying that only the King is allowed to speak of such things.
gvass

America is waiting for Palin’s STFU moment
ndanielson

Trying to keep up with the greatest nation on the planet is what broke the USSR. Palin knows it. SDI broke the USSR, Palin knows it. 0bama thinks appeasement will win over enemies. There is your true clown.

Something else Palin believes: “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.” GE is definitely pleasing our enemies once again. Just as they sold goods, through the back door, against the embargo, to Iran. Just as Madeline Halfbright and BJ Clinton gave N. Korea nukes, right under the sheep’s noses. GE is doing it right up front, today! And the sheep talk about Palin. Wow.

The biggest failures of history seem to be liberals. But then, who listen to liberal professors of history, anyway?
D Right One

OK, let’s play devil’s advocate. How about we go for a totally Right America. What does that look like? It looks like Switzerland and maybe Austria. Neither has a great history IMHO. Are there totally liberal countries. Probably most of Europe. This country is still slightly more or less conservative. No one in the foreseeable future will change that. Not Obama, Reagan, Clinton, etc has changed the country by more than a degree in either direction. For us to laugh at Palin because we use her as a laughingstock isn’t fair. Neither is ridiculing the govt. Unless you can do better.
Old Duffer

LOL, I have met the idiots, and they are you and your ilk. What really has you urinated, is that with just three letters, Sarah Palin has now forever defined Obama’s WTF SOTU speech.

Of course, you will always have Biden’s BFD to fall back on
ndanielson

GE’s Jeffry Immelt is getting more sweetheart deals than Halliburton ever got. I am still waiting for the answer on how many no-bid contracts Halliburton could have actually beat out. How many companies exist that do what Halliburton does?

GE forced a whole nation into giving up incandescent lightbulbs, so that they’d be forced to buy their mercury filled bulbs. Not a peep from the enviro-sheep. A hundred watt bulb in the winter??? Well, how much electricity did that waste? 99 watts of heat, is 99 watts of heat. Stupid sheep.
Mr.Papshmer

gvass said:
America is waiting for Palin’s STFU moment

You certainly don’t speak for America, so STFU.
ndanielson

ndanielson said:
GE’s Jeffry Immelt is getting more sweetheart deals than Halliburton ever got. I am still waiting for the answer on how many no-bid contracts Halliburton could have actually beat out. How many companies exist that do what Halliburton does?

GE forced a whole nation into giving up incandescent lightbulbs, so that they’d be forced to buy their mercury filled bulbs. Not a peep from the enviro-sheep. A hundred watt bulb in the winter??? Well, how much electricity did that waste? 99 watts of heat, is 99 watts of heat. Stupid sheep.

Now GE sells avionics and jet technology to the Chinese. While their former $14 million dollar a year CEO joins 0bama’s white house. Wow. Let’s talk about Sarah Palin. And sputnik. That’s “moving forward’ in sheep land.
ndanielson

Old Duffer said:
LOL, I have met the idiots, and they are you and your ilk. What really has you urinated, is that with just three letters, Sarah Palin has now forever defined Obama’s WTF SOTU speech.

Of course, you will always have Biden’s BFD to fall back on

It sure got them wee-wee’d up, yes?
writer

Tormentor, this is totally unfair. The King goes out of his way to pique our interest in fashion and makeup, then you chide the rest of us when he’s successful. What a bitch!

(BTW, Robert. You’re still not fooling anyone. LOL)
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Writer, I’m guessing this is the type of thing Grammie was talking about when she said he was kicked on Olby watch for using serveral different identities and posting 10,000 posts. Like I told him, IF everything he says about himself is true, he’d have to be about my father’s age and I just can’t image my dad being this childish. I actually feel sorry for him (but not as sorry as I feel for his wife).
ndanielson

As socialism once again turns to riots, chaos and tyranny, the sheep go after Sarah Palin. Wow. Smoke and mirrors is all this administration and government run news outlets knows:

Bloomberg: The White House is prepared to step up its criticism of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key Middle East ally, if his government intensifies its crackdown on protesters, said an administration official.

Frances Fox Piven must be so happy with 0bama and the “protesters” in Egypt. Wow.
ndanielson

By the way, sheep, the president of Egypt has fled his country to the UK, to escape the collapse of his socialistic Utopian government. Seems Margaret Thatcher was on to something so many years ago. Egypt just ran out of other people’s wealth.
ndanielson

ndanielson said:
By the way, sheep, the president of Egypt has fled his country to the UK, to escape the collapse of his socialistic Utopian government. Seems Margaret Thatcher was on to something so many years ago. Egypt just ran out of other people’s wealth.

Too bad there is no 2nd Amendment rights in Egypt. They had “rights” to other people’s wealth, though.
ndanielson

D Right One said:
OK, let’s play devil’s advocate. How about we go for a totally Right America. What does that look like? It looks like Switzerland and maybe Austria. Neither has a great history IMHO. Are there totally liberal countries. Probably most of Europe. This country is still slightly more or less conservative. No one in the foreseeable future will change that. Not Obama, Reagan, Clinton, etc has changed the country by more than a degree in either direction. For us to laugh at Palin because we use her as a laughingstock isn’t fair. Neither is ridiculing the govt. Unless you can do better.

You overlook one small detail: the left never sleeps, the left never rests, the rest is never satisfied. The left never gets enough of someones wealth, for the greater good. Wake up.
PBerg

It was great this morning, listening to analysis of Palin’s blubbering, that it was noted—-Palin knows since the tucson tragedy, HER political career is finished, so now she is out there merely raving to the small number of her cult base, in order to keep the money flowing in to her PAC, which she uses for whatever she wants.

As much as I looked forward to her attempt at a run for President, because I need the laughs, It will be good to see this redneck, low class bimbo slowly dry up and blow away.
Nachi

She’s a beautiful example of Repugnuts.
writer

On the plus side, I don’t see how it would be possible for Robert Stephenson to get any uglier.
writer

Uhhh, we wants duh publik oppshunn. Duuhhh.

follow@democrat06
writer

Duhhhhh. Duhhhh. Publik oppshunn.

follow@democrat06
Scrapette Jones

Wow, I was watching it on Greta’s show last night and I could have sworn Palin said why not have a Spunk Net moment — I took it to mean private spunky entrepreneurs — I thought she mentioned like Google or the like — I was emptying out my dishwasher and just paying enough attention to get the jist of it. Seriously, yeah, the literal take she came away with about Obama’s Sputnik moment was a bit intense, but that’s her. She’s intense AND literal. Speaking of which, I love Ben Stein’s take on the Sputnik Moment – he said it was lame because we don’t have the same student population or environment that existed in 1957, ie, practically ideal for that sort of call to action. I thought, good point…and equally too literal, eh? lol
valkyrie101

Dsiscokid said:
Why wouldn’t “free housing, guaranteed job, free healthcare, free schooling, etc.” look good? Oh that’s right, “somebody” has to PAY for all these FREE things (i.e.- “The Rich” or “The Oppessor” or “The Bougeious”). Communism, socialism, Marxism, “Liberalism” (An Oxymoron- Central Planning has never “liberated” anything but liberated one’s private property into a “collective”.

Dude, we won the cold war. Communism (that is, Marxist-Leninist thought) was defeated on both the merits of its theories and in practice. By your estimation of what communism is, we are all communists every time we go to the library or make a fire or police call. Not to mention our “communist” military.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

This lady is truly warped and YES she does think her audience is stupid…and surely they must be.

$arah PLEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, you’re putting us to sleep.
Jaynie59

We already knew Palin wasn’t an idiot. This article confirms Tommy Christopher’s status for those who were wondering.
ndanielson

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 20l0 From My Window) said:
ndanielson said:
You overlook one small detail: the left never sleeps, the left never rests, the rest is never satisfied. The left never gets enough of someones wealth, for the greater good. Wake up.

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 20l0 From My Window) said:
They are the EVIL oNES , They STEAL YOU CHILDRen in the darK OF night, thEY DENT your FENders, THEY tURN YOUR traschcans over when you”re NOT LOOKING!! If you Don’T WATCH THEM they DRINK ALL YOUR BEER and WhaTEVER you do , DO NOT LET THEM KNOW WHERE THE WINE IS!!!!

And they are down with it because they are illiterate on so many levels.
writer

valk, since our taxes pay for the military, saying that the military is ‘communistic’ is quite a stretch.
valkyrie101

writer said:
valk, since our taxes pay for the military, saying that the military is ‘communistic’ is quite a stretch.

Indeed.
ndanielson

writer said:
valk, since our taxes pay for the military, saying that the military is ‘communistic’ is quite a stretch.

Liberals are “communistic” on the military for forcing gays upon it. Then the capitalist lawyers will make bank because of all the “discrimination’ lawsuits sure to follow. Open and out gays in the military should be made to wear pink fatigues and kept on domestic duty for their entire “out” career.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

gordonbloyershow says:
“According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard University, “ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4.”
The study was led by UCSD’s James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Scientists matched the subjects’ genetic information with “maps” of their social networks. According to researchers, they determined that people “with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults.” However, the, subjects were only more likely to have leanings to the left if they were also socially active during adolescence.
“It is the crucial interaction of two factors — the genetic predisposition and the environmental condition of having many friends in adolescence — that is associated with being more liberal,” according to the study.”

TRANSLATION: Gordon Blowhard’s parents were mean-spirited, self-righteous, reactionary pricks AND Gordon had no friends growing up. THAT EXPLAINS a lot.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

Tommy –

The space race, culminating in the Strategic Defense Initiative in the US, was a large contributor to the fall of the USSR. George H.W. Bush once claimed during his presidency that SDI was a ploy to get the Soviets to spend more than they could afford to to try to keep up. That claim was laughed at so hard that he didn’t stick with it, but the threat of a ballistic missile defense system, relying on the advances made in the space program, did cause the USSR to over-invest in missile stockpiles and contributed to her collapse.

As far as what Sarah Palin meant, obviously she meant that government policy needs to encourage small business ownership and success, rather than focus on cutting edge technological advances that can only be capitalized by large corporations. She is an idiot, and the way she expressed herself here was silly, but she’s not entirely wrong. One of the best things about the healthcare overhaul is that the exchanges will allow small business owners to purchase affordable health insurance, which has been a barrier to self-employment for decades. There is room for and a need for both small business development and investment in technology, and the differing viewpoints on the topic offered by Palin and Obama are mostly just where they place the emphasis.

Dave
ndanielson

And there we have GBR, knowing so much liberal garbage about people he knows nothing about. Gordon, when did GBR meet your parents? And why would you allow such an obvious menace to society around them??? GBR, a self proclaimed expert of the pseudoscience of psychoanalysis. Wow.
The Real Royal Queen

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
I actually feel sorry for him (but not as sorry as I feel for his wife).

Thank you for your concern. It is a very tough life I have, I never know who’s coming to bed at night – The Real Royal King, Ted, SarahP., Liberal Tormentor 20I2, or one of the hundreds of other personalities that live inside my KingyPoo’s head.
ndanielson

ndanielson said:
And there we have GBR, knowing so much liberal garbage about people he knows nothing about. Gordon, when did GBR meet your parents? And why would you allow such an obvious menace to society around them??? GBR, a self proclaimed expert of the pseudoscience of psychoanalysis. Wow.

Hey GBR, how ’bout that CPUSA, that Beck exposed? Hey GBR, I hear that Soros has that “check in the mail” to you as you bleat. He needs all the recruits he can get, but he must be getting damn desperate to have you on his payroll. Just keep waiting for the call. Have you put your number on any posts yet? That might help him get in touch, you know?

GBR, is the CPUSA a good thing or bad thing for America’s youth?
Nacho

Great article, Tommy.
ndanielson

Nacho said:
Great article, Tommy.

I encourage you to read it at least twice. Palin bashing has such a fun after effect on liberals.
ndanielson

ndanielson said:
I encourage you to read it at least twice. Palin bashing has such a fun after effect on liberals.

ndanielson said:
Nacho said:
Great article, Tommy.

Oh, and don’t forget to watch the video, again.
timcajun

Sarah, we love you and always will! Just keep saying what your handlers tell you to say, even if you don’t understand it! All liberals thank you!
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Tommy wrote: “Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.”

How many reactionary intellectuals do you know? How many of Palin’s supporters on here come across as much more than idiots? It’s obvious that Tommy reads these comments, so it’s safe to say that when he writes, “her audience is made up of idiots,” he knows a bit about them.

FYI: I know of two reactionary intellectuals: Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. Palin, like Beck, seems somewhere around average with a proclivity to say idiotic things. Sometimes they say the same idiotic or deceitful things, and it’s nice to see a conservative take Palin and/or Beck to task although it has not happened enough.

I’ve e-mailed George Will and asked him to step up like William F. Buckley did in early ’60′s and take reactionary Beck down a few pegs. It could happen. More likely, I dare say, than Beck being fired by Murdoch, no matter how many signatures are collected by Jewish Funds for Justice.

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/01/27/oy_vey_400_rabbis_call_glenn_beck_trayfe_demands_fox_news_reign_him_in.php
writer

Sssssssssssssssssss.

Boooooommmm!!
The Real Royal King

timcajun said:
Just keep saying what your handlers tell you to say, even if you don’t understand it!

I share your fondness for Sarah Spudnuts, and I actually think she makes more sense when she doesn’t understand what she’s saying.

And, “common sense solutions” …. Can’t hear that too often!
writer

Who is this Sarah Spudnuts person?
The Real Royal King

GlennBeckReview said:
Tommy wrote: “Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.” How many reactionary intellectuals do you know? How many of Palin’s supporters on here come across as much more than idiots? It’s obvious that Tommy reads these comments, so it’s safe to say that when he writes, “her audience is made up of idiots,” he knows a bit about them. FYI: I know of two reactionary intellectuals: Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. Palin, like Beck, seems somewhere around average with a proclivity to say idiotic things. Sometimes they say the same idiotic or deceitful things, and it’s nice to see a conservative take Palin and/or Beck to task although it has not happened enough. I’ve e-mailed George Will and asked him to step up like William F. Buckley did in early ’60’s and take reactionary Beck down a few pegs. It could happen. More likely, I dare say, than Beck being fired by Murdoch, no matter how many signatures are collected by Jewish Funds for Justice. http://www.newshounds.us/2011/01/27/oy_vey_400_rabbis_call_glenn_beck_trayfe_demands_fox_news_reign_him_in.php

I applaud the rabbis for this effort. I also think any efforts to reduce Gle(n)n to nothing more than a carnival barker should be applauded. For you capable efforts, I applaud you. By now, we know there is nothing too indecent, too unethical to make Messrs. Murdoch and Ailes take action. So, we simply let Gle(n)n prove to all the world that’s there’s simply no there there.
writer

I am deeply offended at anti-Semitism, depending on where it’s coming from. The Nation of Islam, for example, should never be mentioned when the topic comes up. Especially if they’re not present.
writer

Oh, and Al Sharpton causing riots that result in Jewish deaths. That doesn’t count either. Damn that Glenn Beck.
ndanielson

The Real Royal King said:
I share your fondness for Sarah Spudnuts, and I actually think she makes more sense when she doesn’t understand what she’s saying.

And, “common sense solutions” …. Can’t hear that too often!

Make no mistake. Change isn’t easy. It won’t happen overnight. There will be setbacks and false starts. But, let me be clear: common sense solutions are something liberals would not understand, and they are actually concepts that liberals cannot understand while towing the sheep line.
ndanielson

The Real Royal King said:
I applaud the rabbis for this effort. I also think any efforts to reduce Gle(n)n to nothing more than a carnival barker should be applauded. For you capable efforts, I applaud you. By now, we know there is nothing too indecent, too unethical to make Messrs. Murdoch and Ailes take action. So, we simply let Gle(n)n prove to all the world that’s there’s simply no there there.

Do you applaud GBR’s efforts to avoid stating his opinion of the CPUSA?
The Real Royal King

ndanielson said:
Make no mistake. Change isn’t easy. It won’t happen overnight. There will be setbacks and false starts. But, let me be clear: common sense solutions are something liberals would not understand, and they are actually concepts that liberals cannot understand while towing the sheep line.

What’s a sheep line? Is it like a conga line?
writer

Oh, and Jesse Jackson calling NYC ‘Hymietown’. Free pass on that one, too.
The Real Royal King

ndanielson said:
Do you applaud GBR’s efforts to avoid stating his opinion of the CPUSA?

The right to speak also includes the right not to speak. If this were 1935, a question about CPUSA would be relevant. In 2011, it is not. It is much like asking someone if they have a dial telephone or asking directions to the telegraph office.
writer

To be safe, just tell the King if someone is being anti-Semitic, and he’ll tell you whether or not you should be offended.
valkyrie101

ndanielson said:
Liberals are “communistic” on the military for forcing gays upon it. Then the capitalist lawyers will make bank because of all the “discrimination’ lawsuits sure to follow. Open and out gays in the military should be made to wear pink fatigues and kept on domestic duty for their entire “out” career.

Freedom is communism? Odd.
valkyrie101

writer said:
Oh, and Al Sharpton causing riots that result in Jewish deaths. That doesn’t count either. Damn that Glenn Beck.

Yes. Niether Glenn or Sharpton are, or should be held responsible for what someone who goes off does, even if they were a big fan of either, because both love MLK Jr., and both endorse non-violence.
writer

Just saying, valk, that while the King is offended by anti-Semitism if he thinks Beck is being anti-Semitic, there are other people where he seems to pay it no mind.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Wanna have some fun with liberals? – and watch them scurry like rats at a construction site?

…Just yell the name “Palin”, or include it in post somewhere.
It’s the funniest thing!!
valkyrie101

writer said:
Just saying, valk, that while the King is offended by anti-Semitism if he thinks Beck is being anti-Semitic, there are other people where he seems to pay it no mind.

I’m with Rush and Beck, satire is satire and people should just not take it so personal. Mel Brooks ripped nazi like nobody’s business years ago. That being said, there is such a thing as civility. Does someone walk into church and go f-wording around? There is such a thing as the right time and right place for satire.
writer

Now that you mention it, valk, I can picture the King walking into church and doing that.
valkyrie101

writer said:
Now that you mention it, valk, I can picture the King walking into church and doing that.

No wonder he gets so many thumbs down.
The Real Royal King

NORBIT Jr. said:
Wanna have some fun with liberals? – and watch them scurry like rats at a construction site? …Just yell the name “Palin”, or include it in post somewhere.It’s the funniest thing!!

It’s the funniest thing, Junior. I was thinking something similar. With so many prominent Republicans and Republican and Independent voters floating away from her of late, I said, you know, they’re just like turds in a sewer line rushing out of the toilet.

Great minds, we are ….
ndanielson

valkyrie101 said:
Freedom is communism? Odd.

Forcing gays upon the military is freedom? Even odder, huh? The military is not a right it is a privilege, at least used to be anyway. Should the military be free to choose who is privileged to serve? Apparently not, huh? Liberals think everything is a right. That is what is going wrong in America.
writer

“… they’re just like turds in a sewer line rushing out of the toilet.” RRK

Now tell us about going to church, King.
valkyrie101

ndanielson said:
Forcing gays upon the military is freedom? Even odder, huh? The military is not a right it is a privilege, at least used to be anyway. Should the military be free to choose who is privileged to serve? Apparently not, huh? Liberals think everything is a right. That is what is going wrong in America.

You will be surprised to know that they also permit woman in the military, and even Texans.
proudpatriotusa

Half-term, half-wit Sarah Palin’s career would be over in half an hour in a jumble of word salad gibberish were she ever to appear on “Meet the Press”, “Face the Nation” or “This Week.”

Palin also doesn’t have enough palms and Sharpies to appear in that press conference she’s never had since her 2008 nomination.

“Fox News: Sarah Palin is an idiot ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BXMv64EfU
ndanielson

valkyrie101 said:
You will be surprised to know that they also permit woman in the military, and even Texans.

Why wouldn’t they? And the why wouldn’t the military extend the privilege to woman and Texans. It is their prerogative.
LarryB

What a surreal conversation. You have Palin trying to sound intelligent while unintentionally providing some of the best comedy on television. Then you have Greta straight-faced, nodding as if she is being schooled by a learned historian.
There are so many of Obama’s policies and actions that can be effectively criticized by anyone with half a brain, but Palin is just not intellectually capable of getting the job done.
proudpatriotusa

Someone needs to ask Palin why she speaks in such crazy English.

You’d think she’d have been embarrassed to listen to herself speak on TV and wanted to do better.
idesign

I love how Sarah Palin gets you libs all wee weed up…..

She’s like sunshine to Dracula……LOL
valkyrie101

ndanielson said:
Why wouldn’t they? And the why wouldn’t the military extend the privilege to woman and Texans. It is their prerogative.

Why not limit the right of Texans to serve because, you can’t understand a word they say. That could be dangerous during time of war. Don’t you agree?
valkyrie101

And Christians, they are the worst fit for military service. Is it right having people serving who believe that dinosaurs walked on the earth with Adam and Eve? Should the military trust such people with complicated machinery?
milynily

By the look on Greta’s face, I think she was having a WTF moment.
Pokerdude777

It’s sad when you see a headline of a story on here and you KNOW immediately who wrote it.
The Real Royal King

idesign said:
I love how Sarah Palin gets you libs all wee weed up….. She’s like sunshine to Dracula……LOL

I think it goes back to the old maxim, “A fly is as likely to land on poop as pie.” We’re just curious to learn if Sarah Spudnut has landed on the poop again. She so often does.
The Real Royal King

milynily said:
By the look on Greta’s face, I think she was having a WTF moment.

Wasn’t that the truth?
George Sore-ohs

So Palin is saying the USSR was defeated by Sputnik costs? Huh?

Another bit of good news for the Republican party she continues to look stupid to the middle ground which means she will not get too far in her run for Prez. The best news BO can have is if she runs. Nice lady but keep her away from being on the ballot. If she wants to run God Bless her but she will not get far.

The Republicans need a candidate who can win the right as well as a large part of the center. She is not the one. The center thinks she is a flake and wont turn out to vote for another amateur in the white house.
hgovernick

idesign said:
Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

Oh? From the article:

Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

This means you, idesign… village idiot.
hgovernick

Repost, corrected:

idesign said:
I love how Sarah Palin gets you libs all wee weed up…..

She’s like sunshine to Dracula……LOL

Oh? From the article:

Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

This means you, idesign… village idiot.
hgovernick

proudpatriotusa said:
Half-term, half-wit Sarah Palin’s career would be over in half an hour in a jumble of word salad gibberish were she ever to appear on “Meet the Press”, “Face the Nation” or “This Week.”

Palin also doesn’t have enough palms and Sharpies to appear in that press conference she’s never had since her 2008 nomination.

“Fox News: Sarah Palin is an idiot ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BXMv64EfU

Thanks for the link. I’ve downloaded that video with the help of a Firefox browser extension called “download helper”, and will be using bits and pieces of it (according to “fair use” copyright law) to help promote the message of your post, of which I completely agree.
ixtoc

…again more sludge from the Wasilla Think Tank…
timcajun

NORBIT Jr. says:

…Just yell the name “Palin”, or include it in post somewhere.
It’s the funniest thing!!

Palin, she is the funniest thing!
tom0063

“The Soviet Union’s launch of a satellite that was only slightly more advanced than Balloon Boy 1″

If your sneer at the achievement of humanity’s daring pioneers in space were any more pronounced, one would fear you might suffer permanent facial damage. Pity what you’ll look like as the years go by.

The fact that US scribblers still have such a shockingly obvious inferiority/superiorty complex about the vastly diminished Cold War rival speaks sad volumes.

Thank goodness our President has a more perceptive and sober appreciation for the realities of history.
clindhartsen

*sigh* Palin seriously had to use part of my hometown as a prop for some argument about how we need more happy small business moments, not more massively innovative scientific moments?

Yes, most of the people there are probably happy to have a hometown callout, but seriously, Spudnuts, not Sputnik, I just don’t get why people like her. I really don’t.
ndanielson

hgovernick said:
Repost, corrected:

Oh? From the article:

Now, I have good friends, whom I respect a great deal, who insist that Palin is no idiot. Out of deference to them, I’m going to go ahead and assume that Palin just thinks her audience is made up of idiots.

This means you, idesign… village idiot.

Actually, cupcake, they do know that people like you are her audience, but…not exclusively . And, they are not entirely incorrect, as it is not just idiots like you that make up her audience…but, many are just as amused by idiots like you, as they are of Sarah Palin. You are half the fun of Sarah Palin’s stardom. Keep on bringing it. You are probably just the butt of their jokes when you are not around. Leave them. You are unworthy.
ndanielson

clindhartsen said:
*sigh* Palin seriously had to use part of my hometown as a prop for some argument about how we need more happy small business moments, not more massively innovative scientific moments?

Yes, most of the people there are probably happy to have a hometown callout, but seriously, Spudnuts, not Sputnik, I just don’t get why people like her. I really don’t.

You poor pathetic soul. Sarah Palin called out part of YOUR home town? How could she!? How will you face tomorrow? Maybe you shouldn’t? Just sayin’….
Rockycomet

The more I see and hear of Sarah Palin the more I relize how self destructive she is. Time to find another likely Republican with an chance.
WHarropson

WTF” speech — short for “winning the future,” Took me a while but I finally got it.
Rockycomet

Yeah, but I don’t think its “Win the future was Sarah Palin talking about?”
http://gothicromance.net fransway

WTF… who knows what the bogus babbling bimbo was braying about.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

The Real Royal King says:
“I applaud the rabbis for this effort. I also think any efforts to reduce Gle(n)n to nothing more than a carnival barker should be applauded. For you capable efforts, I applaud you. By now, we know there is nothing too indecent, too unethical to make Messrs. Murdoch and Ailes take action. So, we simply let Gle(n)n prove to all the world that’s there’s simply no there there.”

Beck has been proving that for two years now, probably longer. He knows how to push the buttons of the uninformed reactionaries and feed them plenty of red meat, and there are enough of them around willing to shovel money his way until he finally loses his vision (unless that’s just another one of his lies used to explain his ugly glasses). For the pushers of right-wing propaganda, that’s good enough.

I don’t know if there is anything too indecent that Beck COULD say to bring about his dismissal. Beck doesn’t use the N word. That MIGHT do it, but even that is doubtful on Fox Propaganda. He has not DIRECTLY called for the the assassination of anyone although Beck did call for the murder of radicals last summer. If that did not get him shown the door, really, probably nothing will.

Beck is the cornerstone of Murdoch’s 21st Century corrupt propaganda machine. He may be losing money for Murdoch, but his gift is golden for the reactionaries doing the level best to shove this country of our back into the 19 Century of Robber Barons and Corporate control of worker’s lives.
timcajun

ndanielson says:

You poor pathetic soul. Sarah Palin called out part of YOUR home town? How could she!? How will you face tomorrow? Maybe you shouldn’t? Just sayin’….

Maybe you shouldn’t, maybe you shouldn’t!……….. The “tea party” is the party of peace, love, and civility!
Nacho

For a good time, watch the video clip again.
idesign

Meanwhile, Obama doesn’t know the difference between Iraq and Afganistan….LOL

Who is the idiot?
labman57

Wow. Once again, Palin shows an inability to take responsibility for her own failures and shortcomings. This is yet another one of Palin’s fatal flaws — she is totally incapable of ever admitting that she made a mistake in a tweet, Facebook posting, speech, or during an interview.

“Hello, America. My name is Sarah Palin, and I am so blessed that my sh*t don’t stink, don’t ya know.”

In Palin’s infamous Sputnik moment, Sarah was trying to take a Six Degrees of Separation approach to explaining causal relationships in major historical events. This is what happens when you have a simplistic, comic book-level understanding of world history.

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 T-ball) 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.

On the other hand, her continual need to rationalize and justify her frequent faux pas with irrational and fabricated backstories illustrates why she is regarded as the Tommy Flanagan of national politics.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

Spudnuts are donuts made from potato flour instead of wheat flower. I had them when I lived in Idaho and they taste great.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

skyfet said:
Please, tell me, explain to me, and defend this ignorant crap from Sarah. Africa (country vs continent), Korea ~(North or South), now (Sputnik vs Spudnuts). I’m waiting for you guys to start with the spin, maybe it’s a trick question like what kind of Newspapers do you read? or a lamestream media (Fox) fault for putting her in that position?

Sarah never said Africa was a country. North Korea was a miss speak, for over a minute prior to this Sarak was explaining her views on the problems between North and South Korea and our Allies in South Korea. Not as bad a slip as BHO confusing Iraq and Afghanistan or only visiting 57 of states in the US or defending his Muslim faith.
Dianekhelene

Hey Genius… I’ll tell you what the MUSICAL CHAIRS were all about during the State of the Union Speech. One of your Tea Party Whack Jobs shot a congresswoman after being encouraged by your Giffords district in the crosshairs Hillbilly clipart and so……… now follow me here it gets tricky… THEY (Congress) were showing THEIR (Congress Again) support for Gabby Giffords (shot by Tea party whack job) by sitting together to show their (Red Blue traditional Congress colors) support. I can spell it slowly W-H-A-C-K-J-O-B (space) L-I-K-E (space) Y-O-U…. wait ultra simplified. Crazy person like U, shot nice lady and Congress shows they are unified. You’ll never get it. !
Dianekhelene

You can’t fix stupid.
Rockycomet

Idesign wrote;
Meanwhile, Obama doesn’t know the difference between Iraq and Afganistan….LOL
Who is the idiot?

Your inability to realize that our President would be the foremost aware of the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan given that he has our hero warriors committed in both places makes it apparent your unwilling to give him any credit what so ever. Went you make an error in speaking that’s forgivable. When you put forward a bizarre premise comparing a rallying call to meet the future as we did when Sputnik was launched to a failed potato donut chain now that is idiotic. I think her sharpie ran out of ink or she ran out of space on her palm on this one.