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Stephen Colbert Reduces Sarah Palin To “Media Troll” And “Self-Promoting Ignoramus”

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Its been said a lot, but every now and again it bears repeating. Stephen Colbert is a genius. Yes, his consistent amplification of absurd news items to a level of hilarious observation is a consistent part of his routine, but the fake dimwittedness very often results in a much smarter meta-commentary than a straight report could ever provide. Take for example last night’s “pep talk” to Morning Joe‘s Mika Brzezinski , who yesterday expressed frustration in having to discuss Sarah Palin‘s interview with Sean Hannity.

Some background: Yesterday Ms. Brzezinski seemed to take the position that, just because Sarah Palin made some comments somewhere, it wasn’t necessarily worth reporting. In advance to his pep talk, Colbert runs a clip of the clearly frustrated and disinterested Morning Joe co-host, before turning to camera to encourage Mika:

I know you think this story has no purpose other than keeping Sarah Palin’s name in the headlines for another news cycle. I know you think she has nothing to offer the national dialog and that her speeches are just coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.

I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who will abuse any platform to deliver dog-whistle encouragement to a far right base, that may include possible insurrectionists.

I know you think her reality show was pathetically unstatesmanlike and at the same time I know you believe it represents the pinnacle of her potential. And that her transparent desperation to be a celebrity so completely eclipsed her interest in public service so long ago that there would be more journalistic integrity on reporting on of the lesser Kardashians’ ass implants.

I know, i know that when you arrive at the office each day you say a silent prayer that maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin will at long last just shut up for just ten f*cking minutes. I know because I can see it in your eyes.

Well, guess what, Mika that’s the gig. And it’s only January of 2011, kiddo. And you have a minimum of two more years of this ahead of you. You want to stay in this game? You dig deep. You find another gear. You show up to work every day and get your hear and makeup done. You slap on a smile, get out there on TV and repeat what Sarah Palin said on Hannity last night right into the lens.

I have faith in you, kid. You can do it. See you in New Hampshire. I’ll buy.

After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.

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  • Alz

    It’s just amazing at how much Plain is a threat to liberals. They spend a huge amount of time with their babyish attacks and then they say she’s in the news too much!

    But the key thing is Palin is a threat to liberals.

  • The Real Royal King

    “I know you think she has nothing to offer the national dialog and that her speeches are just coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.”

    SIZZLE

    {Bonus points for “words picked at random from a Thesaurus.”}

    “I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who will abuse any platform to deliver dog-whistle encouragement to a far right base, that may include possible insurrectionists.”

    AND BURN.

    {The Walker Percy award for well-crafted phrases: “… dog whistle encouragement to a far right base ….”}
    This was truly great.

    “… a silent prayer that maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin will at long last just shut up for just ten f*cking minutes.”

    IT IS THE SUPPLICATION OF SO MANY OF US.

  • BatBoy

    Colby writes: After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.

    RE: “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean”

    Yes “One” does…I am sure “Many” do. .

    Most believe Colbert is a “Self Promoting Ignoramus” as he accuses others.

  • BatBoy

    The Real Royal King said:
    SIZZLE
    AND BURN.
    This was truly great.
    IT IS THE SUPPLICATION OF SO MANY OF US.

    Some of us have outgrown the cheap shot comedy, others of us haven’t!
    Maybe you have to be a “self anointed Intellectual” to appreciate this trash!

  • Davo

    Well, thank goodness………………Colbert has joined Mediaite’s Parade of Clowns. Now it’s nearly complete. We now have Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Howard Stern headlining the thought process for Mediaite. Gotta admit……………..with all the horrible choices out there for Mediaite to choose from, you’ve done a terrific job of culling them down to these masters of mind-boggle. America will be completely and objectively informed now. All we need is a little audio of the drum roll/cymbal crash to end each of these clowns’ dialogues here. Now, That’s ENTTA=-TAIN-MINT!

  • valkyrie101

    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin.”

    Wrong. The man was in character.

  • The Real Royal King

    BatBoy said:
    Some of us have outgrown the cheap shot comedy, others of us haven’t!
    Maybe you have to be a “self anointed Intellectual” to appreciate this trash!

    Actually, a number of universities, UT-Austin, Columbia, UT-Law, UNAM, Jesus-Oxford and a few others annointed me.

    Admittedly, humour is not only a matter of taste, but can also be one which calls us to very deep levels of thought. I can understand why you are humourless, and I don’t think less of you because of it.

    Davo said:
    Well, thank goodness………………Colbert has joined Mediaite’s Parade of Clowns. Now it’s nearly complete. We now have Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Howard Stern headlining the thought process for Mediaite. Gotta admit……………..with all the horrible choices out there for Mediaite to choose from, you’ve done a terrific job of culling them down to these masters of mind-boggle. America will be completely and objectively informed now. All we need is a little audio of the drum roll/cymbal crash to end each of these clowns’ dialogues here. Now, That’s ENTTA=-TAIN-MINT!

    I find little of Maher creative, and I utterly despise Stern. But, I do think Stewart and Colbert have some very good, powerful moments. The key to Stewart and Colbert, however, is that they remember they are entertainment. If Beckerhead ever realized that is all he is, I might find him enjoyable.

    Good comment, despite my reservations to some of it. You gave a clear voice to an opinion “out there”. Thanks.

  • SmartAlec

    This site has really taken a turn for the worse. I used to enjoy reading the comment section, but now with the multi-page format and trolls such as SarahP., ColorMeBadd, and the hate-filled comments from RRK and his countless aliases filling up the pages with unrelated comments, this site is the joke of political and media commentary websites. Add to that the one-sided slant – repeated negatives articles about Palin, Beck, Rush, glowing articles about Stewart, Colbert, & Olbermann, and rarely one about Pelosi, Schultz or Malloy. It used to be the best, now it’s the worst. Just ask around. Last post and visit here.
    See ya’, wouldn’t want to be ya”.

  • valkyrie101

    Davo said:
    Well, thank goodness………………Colbert has joined Mediaite’s Parade of Clowns. Now it’s nearly complete. We now have Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Howard Stern headlining the thought process for Mediaite. Gotta admit……………..with all the horrible choices out there for Mediaite to choose from, you’ve done a terrific job of culling them down to these masters of mind-boggle. America will be completely and objectively informed now. All we need is a little audio of the drum roll/cymbal crash to end each of these clowns’ dialogues here. Now, That’s ENTTA=-TAIN-MINT!

    That is because each of the people you mentioned makes a living off of commenting on (and mostly lampooning) media stories, which is in the ballpark of what mediaite does. Surely you do not come to mediaite for all your news when Newsmax is just a click away.

  • BatBoy

    Let’s play a game of “What Conservative said this….”
    “The rhetoric that comes from me is the rhetoric of rage…and, um, have there been violent images?…”

    Was it
    1. Glenn Beck
    2. Sarah Palin
    3. Bill O’Reilly
    4. Rush Limbaugh
    5. Non of the Above
    Answers in an hour!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”

    Oh well, of course not. He is after all a liberal trashing another conservative under the guise of “comedy”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    valkyrie101 said:
    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin.”

    Wrong. The man was in character.

    Funny that all the “characters” on Comedy Central are far left wing nuts who regularly tow the Democrat party line and trash everyone on “the right”.

  • ChrisNH

    Libs are stupid people. For example, they don’t know the difference between ‘Infer’ and ‘Imply.’ Proof of that is this commentary: Mika Brzezinski is good for only one thing.

  • moriarty70

    BatBoy said:
    RE: “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean” Yes “One” does…I am sure “Many” do. . Most believe Colbert is a “Self Promoting Ignoramus” as he accuses others.

    Now, let’s look at the key difference between the two.

    Colbert ADMITS to be self-promoting and his character marinades in his ignorance. He’s self aware.

    Palin, acts the victim, claims to be doing it for the best of America. If she sneezes it gets in depth coverage from everyone then she turns around and claims “they’re trying to shut me up”. I believe the response to that can best be put by Jon Stewart in the other article.

    I guess what I’m saying is, Ms. Palin, put your hand down, no one is going to nail it to the cross.

  • BFD

    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean. ”

    1 – I agree, this is how Stephen truly feels.

    2 – I disagree, it did come off as mean.

    3 – This was commentary not comedy.

    4 – I loved every minute of it.

  • BFD

    Also, this topic should be under the Columnist banner imo.

  • The Real Royal King

    moriarty70 said:
    I guess what I’m saying is, Ms. Palin, put your hand down, no one is going to nail it to the cross.

    The crucifixion imagery has been particularly strong in the last couple of weeks, hasn’t it?

  • murf

    LOL , well look who is up with a big bowl of Palin Derangement Puffs for breakfast !

    The Real Royal King said:
    “I know you think she has nothing to offer the national dialog and that her speeches are just coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.”

    SIZZLE

    {Bonus points for “words picked at random from a Thesaurus.”}

    “I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who will abuse any platform to deliver dog-whistle encouragement to a far right base, that may include possible insurrectionists.”

    AND BURN.

    {The Walker Percy award for well-crafted phrases: “… dog whistle encouragement to a far right base ….”}
    This was truly great.

    “… a silent prayer that maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin will at long last just shut up for just ten f*cking minutes.”

    IT IS THE SUPPLICATION OF SO MANY OF US.

  • WillP

    “talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.”

    This is so sad, but true. I would venture to guess that Sarah Palin has read less than a handful of books since finishing college. Her verbal skills are TERRIBLE. It is actually interesting and humorous for me to watch her give interviews. She repeatedly mispronounces words. In the interview last Tuesday the mistakenly pronounced words were pundit, purport, and heroism which was the funniest because she pronounced the first two syllables as you would pronounce hero by itself. And then what she tries to do which is a clear projection of insecurity is she tries to use more elevated words to appear intelligent. I remember in October 2008 she couldn’t stop saying the word manifest for example. In her interview with Hannity on Monday she used the word futile two times. This is when she might consult a thesaurus as Colbert suggests or more likely one of the policy briefs prepared by her PAC she just scans through reading. I haven’t even touched on her sweeping generalizations over America which is another laudable source of humor for anyone who follows her. Anyways, Sarah Palin is not going anywhere. She’s made over 10 million dollars since resigning as governor. She will never be president, but she’s going to make as much noise to remain in the spotlight as she possibly can.

  • The Real Royal King

    murf said:
    LOL , well look who is up with a big bowl of Palin Derangement Puffs for breakfast !

    Thanks for repeating this very good comment without substantive objection. It spares me the trouble of doing so.

  • Goldie

    Finally the PERFECT coverage of Sarah Palin, this should re-air on EVERY network & cable news show every time they are tempted to report on her.

    It will be here, I plan to mute the tv and replay this instead of whatever the ‘news media’ is reporting on the most recent dumb ass comment she has made. Will keep tweeting it out so others have the same opportunity.

    Thank you Colbert, a great American doing a service to his country.

  • Whit99

    Brzezinski: You’re spot-on.

    Colbert: Bravo.

  • The Real Royal King

    WillP said:
    “talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.”

    This is so sad, but true. I would venture to guess that Sarah Palin has read less than a handful of books since finishing college. Her verbal skills are TERRIBLE. It is actually interesting and humorous for me to watch her give interviews. She repeatedly mispronounces words. In the interview last Tuesday the mistakenly pronounced words were pundit, purport, and heroism which was the funniest because she pronounced the first two syllables as you would pronounce hero by itself. And then what she tries to do which is a clear projection of insecurity is she tries to use more elevated words to appear intelligent. I remember in October 2008 she couldn’t stop saying the word manifest for example. In her interview with Hannity on Monday she used the word futile two times. This is when she might consult a thesaurus as Colbert suggests or more likely one of the policy briefs prepared by her PAC she just scans through reading. I haven’t even touched on her sweeping generalizations over America which is another laudable source of humor for anyone who follows her. Anyways, Sarah Palin is not going anywhere. She’s made over 10 million dollars since resigning as governor. She will never be president, but she’s going to make as much noise to remain in the spotlight as she possibly can.

    She clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant when she read it. If ignorance doesn’t bother one, that rather makes her comments less offensive.

  • The Real Royal King

    Goldie said:
    Finally the PERFECT coverage of Sarah Palin, this should re-air on EVERY network & cable news show every time they are tempted to report on her.

    It will be here, I plan to mute the tv and replay this instead of whatever the ‘news media’ is reporting on the most recent dumb ass comment she has made. Will keep tweeting it out so others have the same opportunity.

    Thank you Colbert, a great American doing a service to his country.

    Can you imagine, if she actually ran for office again, the molehills, mounds and mountains of electronic media available to her opponents? She makes commercials for her opponents.

  • Penguin60

    “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”
    Unless you’re cluless.

    If Palin is “ignorant” as Bernstein says, just how would anyone describe Mika?

  • skyfet

    The writer said it highlights how Colbert feels about Palin. Darn it, that’s what we’ve been trying to say to these jokers here. It’s so comical and hard to believe that they actually think of her as a reasonable national leader. It’s madness!

  • Goldie

    To The Real Royal King:

    Excellent commentary, wish I could have given it a thousand thumbs up.

    Yes it is the supplication of many.

  • skyfet

    Penguin60 said:
    “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”
    Unless you’re cluless.

    If Palin is “ignorant” as Bernstein says, just how would anyone describe Mika?

    Simple, Naive. But not ignorant or moronic, nor believing she can run the darn Country.

  • Penguin60

    WillP said:
    Her verbal skills are TERRIBLE. It is actually interesting and humorous for me to watch her give interviews.

    I had to read this again, I thought you were talking about Biden. HA!

  • murf

    The Real Royal King said:
    Thanks for repeating this very good comment without substantive objection. It spares me the trouble of doing so.

    No need to reply substantively to a comedy clown , but do indeed keep chewing ..

  • CJJ2

    __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    What? Oh, this is the content of any left-leaning media outlet that tries to be relevant without mentioning Sarah Palin.

    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  • murf

    Penguin60 said:
    I had to read this again, I thought you were talking about Biden. HA!

    I thought it was Pelosi myself .

  • murf

    SmartAlec said:
    This site has really taken a turn for the worse. I used to enjoy reading the comment section, but now with the multi-page format and trolls such as SarahP., ColorMeBadd, and the hate-filled comments from RRK and his countless aliases filling up the pages with unrelated comments, this site is the joke of political and media commentary websites. Add to that the one-sided slant – repeated negatives articles about Palin, Beck, Rush, glowing articles about Stewart, Colbert, & Olbermann, and rarely one about Pelosi, Schultz or Malloy. It used to be the best, now it’s the worst. Just ask around. Last post and visit here.
    See ya’, wouldn’t want to be ya”.

    Worth repeating.

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    “one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”
    Unless you’re cluless.

    If Palin is “ignorant” as Bernstein says, just how would anyone describe Mika?

    Not ignorant. She is a masterful linguist which is a very reliable predictor of intelligence. She does tend to the flirty and flighty, even the naïve at times.

  • Penguin60

    skyfet said:
    Simple, Naive. But not ignorant or moronic, nor believing she can run the darn Country.

    I don’t think she can run our Country either. What amuses us on the right so much is how all of you libs dangle on everything she says. It’s a hoot. Maybe Mika is right, stop talking about her and she’ll go away. And I think you can use all 4 terms for Mika.

  • Goldie

    The Real Royal King said:
    Can you imagine, if she actually ran for office again, the molehills, mounds and mountains of electronic media available to her opponents? She makes commercials for her opponents.

    No, I can’t imagine her running for office. I doubt she ever had any intention of running…elected office is to much work, quitting elected office and running nothing but her mouth since her brain doesn’t seem to work…is her calling to make millions.

    Will her cult following be upset when they realize they have been duped…doubt it because she will blame someone else and continue to be the professional victim…they will buy it hook, line & sinker.

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    I don’t think she can run our Country either. What amuses us on the right so much is how all of you libs dangle on everything she says. It’s a hoot. Maybe Mika is right, stop talking about her and she’ll go away. And I think you can use all 4 terms for Mika.

    Maybe so, Penguin, but you have to admit that the right, at least the Republican right, has been much more stinging in its on-going barrage of criticisms. I think those of us who are not Republicans find Palin much more a diversion, an amusement, than a threat.

  • Hugo Daun

    Colby Hall probably should have wrote:
    …one ALMOST doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.

    I make this suggestion ONLY because it seems that some folks have difficulty with the nuance of your actual comment, especially when it is taken out of context.

  • valkyrie101

    Dronetek said:
    Funny that all the “characters” on Comedy Central are far left wing nuts who regularly tow the Democrat party line and trash everyone on “the right”.

    Liberal yes, wingnuts, no. Still, when Colbert is in character that is not the same thing as he in straight mode.

  • TangledThorns

    Wow, the libs are circling their socialist wagon against Palin. They already failed in keeping her quiet.

  • klemjohansen

    Can I get that on a T-shirt?

  • BatBoy

    The Real Royal King said:
    She clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant when she read it

    Tell us King…You are the “Intellectual” in this crowd. How do you know what someone else knows?
    You “Intellectuals” are always tells us how smart you are and the rest of us aren’t. So please show us your “Intellectual” ability and tell us how you definitely know that Sarah “clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant.”

    We want facts, not your usual BS. (That does not mean Bachelor of Science)

  • Penguin60

    The Real Royal King said:
    Maybe so, Penguin, but you have to admit that the right, at least the Republican right, has been much more stinging in its on-going barrage of criticisms. I think those of us who are not Republicans find Palin much more a diversion, an amusement, than a threat.

    Why all the press if she is not considered a threat? Greene sure didn’t get the press and he was quite an amusement. I don’t consider her electable, maybe it’s the absolutely palpable hypocrisy from the left that has raised the right’s ire. (in regards to the Tuscon shooting)

  • The Real Royal King

    BatBoy said:
    Tell us King…You are the “Intellectual” in this crowd. How do you know what someone else knows?
    You “Intellectuals” are always tells us how smart you are and the rest of us aren’t. So please show us your “Intellectual” ability and tell us how you definitely know that Sarah “clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant.”

    We want facts, not your usual BS. (That does not mean Bachelor of Science)

    In any event, I have no BS. BA, MA, MAR, JD.

    In answer to your clumsy question, it isn’t at all difficult to tell. It’s a question of verbal delivery, body language and thematic context. A normal person, knowing what Blood Libel is, would have cringed a bit, offered up an apology for using the offensive term and never have used the term to describe a perceived victimization mounting to no more than some hurt feelings. It’s self-evident, and, as I said, it humanizes Palin a bit. She may have been a fool for using a word she didn’t understand, but her self-pity and maliciousness were diminished.

  • skyfet

    Penguin60 said:
    I don’t think she can run our Country either. What amuses us on the right so much is how all of you libs dangle on everything she says. It’s a hoot. Maybe Mika is right, stop talking about her and she’ll go away. And I think you can use all 4 terms for Mika.

    You should tell Sarah that, she said she’s not going anywhere. I tell you this, she’s more of an embarrassment to the GOP than to anyone else. The more she talks, the more irresponsible they are for considering her as a national leader. The left probably want her around, to run, and to be defeated by BO. But I tell ya, Republican’s don’t want her near the 2012 ballot. She is a liability for the GOP, maybe the GOP leaders should have the balls to criticise her. I’ve seen them doing so recently, but it’s still very subtle. People like Newt, Pawlenty and Christie. For 2 yrs, the establishment gave her a free ride, this is the outcome. The more she goes on the more realistic she’d bring the party down with her in the next election.

  • Goldie

    TangledThorns said:
    Wow, the libs are circling their socialist wagon against Palin. They already failed in keeping her quiet.

    Now now, your fascism is showing.

    While most Liberals don’t listen to her, they don’t deny her the right to alienate the independent voters in the center. If those voters have to listen to her constant whine of victimization they will reelect Obama in greater numbers than 2008.

    BTW how does anyone attempt to ‘keep someone quiet’ that only speaks on Facebook, Twitter & Faux News?

    She limited herself out of fear of tough questions, then cries attempted censorship, and you fall for it…you are just the perfect groupie for her.

  • murf

    While it is true a lot of us conservatives , may not think Palin is presidential .. ( she certainly is NOT stupid . at. all . like the leftists will have you believe) .. She is also WAY more mainstream in her policy positions than the 20%er’s like on this site will have you believe..

    -Obamacare ( repealed )

    -Immigration ( SB 1070 )

    -Off Shore drilling

    -GZ Mosque debate

    - Smaller more fiscally responsible govt

    You see , those are just a few of the policy/positions I listed above , the majority of Americans side with Palin , not the 20%er’s ( liberals ) . Let that soak in for awhile .

  • Pablo

    BatBoy said:
    Tell us King…You are the “Intellectual” in this crowd. How do you know what someone else knows?
    You “Intellectuals” are always tells us how smart you are and the rest of us aren’t. So please show us your “Intellectual” ability and tell us how you definitely know that Sarah “clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant.”

    I would love to hear what Kook knows about the term that Shmuley Boteach, Abe Foxman and Alan Dershowitz don’t.

  • BatBoy

    BatBoy said:
    Let’s play a game of “What Conservative said this….”“The rhetoric that comes from me is the rhetoric of rage…and, um, have there been violent images?…” Was it1. Glenn Beck2. Sarah Palin3. Bill O’Reilly4. Rush Limbaugh5. Non of the AboveAnswers in an hour!

    No libs bit on this….one of the few smart decision they ever made.

    Answer 5. Non of the Above
    “The rhetoric that comes from me is the rhetoric of rage…and, um, have there been violent images? Of course. Rush Limbaugh choking on his throat fat – that you know, to me, is not a threat – I can’t – I wish I could, but I can’t reach into his throat and jiggle up his throat fat so he suffocates – I can’t do it. …Liberal radio host Mike Malloy

    Don’t you just love the “Intellectual Honesty” the left displays?

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    Why all the press if she is not considered a threat? Greene sure didn’t get the press and he was quite an amusement. I don’t consider her electable, maybe it’s the absolutely palpable hypocrisy from the left that has raised the right’s ire. (in regards to the Tuscon shooting)

    I’m not sure you analogy holds. Greene was not a national figure. His local media is decidedly rightist, so there is no unfairness. In the context of all of the exceedingly nutty things Palin has done, from the clothes and accessories, to the speeches, to the retake Michigan initiative, to the debate silliness, to the election night debacle, to her strong defense of abstinence only whilst seated next to her pregnant daughter, to … well, in just goes on …. Greene was localized silliness. Palin is national, indeed international silliness. I have friends in Poland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico who chortle over her as much as we do.

    Is there a palpable hypocrisy? I don’t know. I do know that Palin has cloaked the right in a mantle of victimhood and turned it into a cottage industry. Seems rather weak and dismissive to me.

  • The Real Royal King

    murf said:
    While it is true a lot of us conservatives , may not think Palin is presidential .. ( she certainly is NOT stupid . at. all . like the leftists will have you believe) .. She is also WAY more mainstream in her policy positions than the 20%er’s like on this site will have you believe..

    -Obamacare ( repealed )

    -Immigration ( SB 1070 )

    -Off Shore drilling

    -GZ Mosque debate

    - Smaller more fiscally responsible govt

    You see , those are just a few of the policy/positions I listed above , the majority of Americans side with Palin , not the 20%er’s ( liberals ) . Let that soak in for awhile .

    If you seen the new polling data on HCR? It seems to be enjoying some rather strong support now, even amongst Republicans. As the provisions have kicked in, Americans seem to be finding some provision with which they agree. Even Bill Frist, long a great protector of the Middle 20th Century style of healthcare has come around. Your list seems terribly stale.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    In answer to your clumsy question, it isn’t at all difficult to tell. It’s a question of verbal delivery, body language and thematic context. A normal person, knowing what Blood Libel is, would have cringed a bit, offered up an apology for using the offensive term and never have used the term to describe a perceived victimization mounting to no more than some hurt feelings. It’s self-evident, and, as I said, it humanizes Palin a bit. She may have been a fool for using a word she didn’t understand, but her self-pity and maliciousness were diminished.

    Shit. That’s it, Kook? That has exactly nothing to do with the meaning of the term. Yes, you have BS and there’s a bucketful of it right there. What’s it like being dumber than Sarah Palin, Kook?

  • BatBoy

    The Real Royal King said:
    In any event, I have no BS. BA, MA, MAR, JD. In answer to your clumsy question, it isn’t at all difficult to tell. It’s a question of verbal delivery, body language and thematic context. A normal person, knowing what Blood Libel is, would have cringed a bit, offered up an apology for using the offensive term and never have used the term to describe a perceived victimization mounting to no more than some hurt feelings. It’s self-evident, and, as I said, it humanizes Palin a bit. She may have been a fool for using a word she didn’t understand, but her self-pity and maliciousness were diminished.

    Thanks for the BS Reply

    I am curious…in which of those long list of degrees did they teach you how to hate and be hateful? You sure learned your lessons well.

  • writer

    I suspected that Mike ‘had’ to discuss the Palin interview, when I saw that red dot trained on her forehead.

  • writer

    Make that ‘Mika’. (What kind of name is that, anyway?)

  • murf

    The Real Royal King said:
    If you seen the new polling data on HCR?

    You mean the heavily sampled democrat AP poll that came out a few days ago ? yes .

    The majority of polls tilt towards repeal , nice MSNBC talking points btw.

    My ” stale ” list were only a few of hot buttons issues from the past two years , I can provide more.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Sarah Palin, living rent free in the heads of (almost) every liberal in America.

  • Penguin60

    skyfet said:
    maybe the GOP leaders should have the balls to criticise her.

    I hope they do when it comes to policy. When’s the last time you saw substantive criticism of Palin’s policy or political beliefs? Bernstein says she’s “ignorant” didn’t know maps. Really? And that’s mild compared to most.

    “I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who will abuse any platform to deliver dog-whistle encouragement to a far right base, that may include possible insurrectionists.”

  • murf

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Sarah Palin, living rent free in the heads of (almost) every liberal in America.

    ‘ The rent is too damn high ‘ !

  • writer

    While driving my Ferrari in the Hamptons, a team of terrorists abducted me and took me to a warehouse, where a camera was set up and I was forced to comment endlessly about Sarah Palin. I was able to fool my abductors by blinking out a message in Morse Code, concerning the size of Brisket Palin’s thighs.

  • skyfet

    BatBoy said:
    Tell us King…You are the “Intellectual” in this crowd. How do you know what someone else knows?
    You “Intellectuals” are always tells us how smart you are and the rest of us aren’t. So please show us your “Intellectual” ability and tell us how you definitely know that Sarah “clearly had no idea what “Blood Libel” meant.”

    We want facts, not your usual BS. (That does not mean Bachelor of Science)

    I don’t understand why you are putting intellectual in an apostrophe. It’s not a slur you know. I know the Cons have tried to turn words like elites and intellectuals into a smear word, but it’s disgraceful. I don’t know how people can aspire to not increase there knowledge, rather what we have is look at those in the best schools, snotty etc etc.

  • skyfet

    Penguin60 said:
    “I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who will abuse any platform to deliver dog-whistle encouragement to a far right base, that may include possible insurrectionists.”

    Ahh, those are the words you’ve chosen. Is that what you really think? I won’t repeat those words for someone I’m in their corner.

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    Make that ‘Mika’. (What kind of name is that, anyway?)

    Polish. You should go out sometimes and leave your confined area and mix with different cultures. Not all white people are from the same background. Europe is a big place if you must know.

  • writer

    skyfet, I prefer not to mix with white people. They’re all violent.

  • Penguin60

    Goldie said:
    Now now, your fascism is showing.

    That didn’t take long.

    The Real Royal King said:
    In the context of all of the exceedingly nutty things Palin has done, from the clothes and accessories, to the speeches, to the retake Michigan initiative, to the debate silliness, to the election night debacle, to her strong defense of abstinence only whilst seated next to her pregnant daughter, to

    Thanks for making my point. Clothes? Accessories? Daughter? This is the extremist lunacy that actually makes people empathize with Palin.

  • murf

    writer said:
    While driving my Ferrari in the Hamptons, a team of terrorists abducted me and took me to a warehouse, where a camera was set up and I was forced to comment endlessly about Sarah Palin. I was able to fool my abductors by blinking out a message in Morse Code, concerning the size of Brisket Palin’s thighs.

    Whew ! Glad your alright , it’s a good thing you watched all the DTWS , and read all the gossip rags on our beloved ‘ Brisket ‘.

  • writer

    To stay informed on Brisket, I joined the King’s ‘Thighwatch’ website. Besides daily updates on what the vile little beast is up to, there are several helpful fashion and makeup tips.

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    skyfet, I prefer not to mix with white people. They’re all violent.

    You don’t have to mix to know there are different cultures. I hope you can point to Iraq in the map. Being ignorant should be a shame not a pride.

  • writer

    skyfet, is pointing to Iraq on a map something you do regularly?

  • bobmoses

    LOL. If one of Palin’s obsessive and hateful media critics would shut up about her for “10 f*cking minutes”, maybe they wouldn’t look like such pathetic hypocrites.

  • murf

    writer said:
    To stay informed on Brisket, I joined the King’s ‘Thighwatch’ website. Besides daily updates on what the vile little beast is up to, there are several helpful fashion and makeup tips.

    Let’s just hope Thunder Thighs understands we are not degrading or attacking her , but observing and wishing nothing but the best .

  • writer

    Exactly, murf. I must often express my abject hatred of the entire Palin family, in order to prove that Palin’s claims of being treated unfairly are totally without basis.

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    skyfet, is pointing to Iraq on a map something you do regularly?

    Well! if you support the war in Iraq you should be able to do so. If you can’t we can forgive you that you are unaware of the locations of foreign policy you support. Maybe a local map would make you happy. Do you need a map where you can find Americans who have Polish background?
    A lot are in Chicago. Find that in the map, if you can.

  • writer

    skyfet, I wasn’t aware that I was such a fan of the Iraq war. As for all these maps you want me to point at, I guess I could, but I’m really not seeing the sense in it.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Colbert is 1000000% right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    skyfet, I wasn’t aware that I was such a fan of the Iraq war. As for all these maps you want me to point at, I guess I could, but I’m really not seeing the sense in it.

    Well the lesson of this is next time you ask what’s the background to a name, not what kind of name is Mika? It’s like you are alluding that the name is dodgy or trying to use it as a smear.
    What’s the background to the name Beck? German
    Olbermann? German
    Hannity? Irish
    O’Reiley? Irish
    etc, etc, not say what kind of name is this or that, trying to dismiss it as foreign or irrelevant. It’s just rude. That’s all.

  • Cecelia

    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”

    Yes, how could one think that he was being “spiteful and mean” when the takedown is done in an elegant and smart style contrived by a team of professional writers?

    How could you watch his vehemency culminating with “shut the f- up”, and still wonder for one minute if this screed belies the entire premise of the Rally to Restore Sanity?

    How could anyone ever watch that and ponder if what essentially animates the entire media trope of “destructive rhetoric” as partisan cudgel, is indeed, a demand that anyone ever engaging in conservative polemics shuts the f- up?

  • Pablo

    writer said:
    skyfet, I prefer not to mix with white people. They’re all violent.

    Especially the old ones.

  • writer

    An old white man approached me in the grocery store the other day. I had to taze his ass.

  • Penguin60

    skyfet said:
    etc, etc, not say what kind of name is this or that, trying to dismiss it as foreign or irrelevant. It’s just rude. That’s all.

    You must have a block on the king’s posts then.(how do you do that?) Talk about rude.

  • PaulV

    Explain all the hate expressed by Colbert and endorse by you? CNN has placed Palin in nthe cross hairs. Why can’t Colbert talk about all the hate and distortions of the left done by his fellow left wingers? Does it just nort fit inro his message (proproganda)?

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    An old white man approached me in the grocery store the other day. I had to taze his ass.

    Dis you ask him what kind of name he has?

  • skyfet

    Penguin60 said:
    You must have a block on the king’s posts then.(how do you do that?) Talk about rude.

    You are lost. If you have a beef with the King, go and pick it up with him. I don’t know what you are talking about.

  • writer

    Guess I should’ve thought of that before I tazed him.

  • valkyrie101

    PaulV said:
    Explain all the hate expressed by Colbert and endorse by you? CNN has placed Palin in nthe cross hairs. Why can’t Colbert talk about all the hate and distortions of the left done by his fellow left wingers? Does it just nort fit inro his message (proproganda)?

    This is the woman who’s favorite line in 2008 was something about Obama paling around with terrorists, and now she is upset because what goes around, comes around. I admire her, but, to use her own expression, it is time for her to man up. Though I do admit that her recieving death threats is way over the top. Still, like Rush, Beck, KO, Marilyn Manson, or any other celebrity who is out there being outrageous, that comes with the territory.

  • IndyGal2011

    Yes, Colbert is a genius. He nailed it. This woman is nothing more than a media troll who can’t stand to be out of the spotlight. She’s like an addict who just can’t help herself.

  • Alz

    Cecelia said:
    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.”

    Yes, how could one think that he was being “spiteful and mean” when the takedown is done in an elegant and smart style contrived by a team of professional writers?

    How could you watch his vehemency culminating with “shut the f- up”, and still wonder for one minute if this screed belies the entire premise of the Rally to Restore Sanity?

    How could anyone ever watch that and ponder if what essentially animates the entire media trope of “destructive rhetoric” as partisan cudgel, is indeed, a demand that anyone ever engaging in conservative polemics shuts the f- up?

    A good little article on the Left that came out today: “Tucson and the Kamikaze Left” at
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/tucson_and_the_kamikaze_left.html

  • Penguin60

    skyfet said:
    I don’t know what you are talking about.

    Didn’t think so.

  • Alz

    valkyrie101 said:
    This is the woman who’s favorite line in 2008 was something about Obama paling around with terrorists, and now she is upset because what goes around, comes around. I admire her, but, to use her own expression, it is time for her to man up. Though I do admit that her recieving death threats is way over the top. Still, like Rush, Beck, KO, Marilyn Manson, or any other celebrity who is out there being outrageous, that comes with the territory.

    But she was right and you lefty’s are wrong!

  • Color Me Badd

    I love you Stephen!

  • Color Me Badd

    Alz said:
    A good little article on the Left that came out today: “Tucson and the Kamikaze Left” at
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/tucson_and_the_kamikaze_left.html

    A “good little article” written by Richard Viguerie?? I know why teabags are so stupid, they read the same 10 teabag writers and nothing else. Richard Viguerie writing an article about the Tucson shooter is like Joesph Goebbels writing an article about the “dangerous jews”. Would never take that seriously in a million years.

    It seems like everytime the teabags try and prove a point they use the same few sources, World Nut Daily or Newsbusters. Break out of that echo chamber and read other stuff.

  • Pablo

    This is the woman who’s favorite line in 2008 was something about Obama paling around with terrorists, and now she is upset because what goes around, comes around.

    Well, yes. Obama’s colleague and mentor, Bill Ayers, is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. He has another terror supporting pal in Rashid Khalidi. Your point?

  • Pablo

    Color Me Badd said:
    I know why teabags are so stupid, they read the same 10 teabag writers and nothing else.

    Teabags are inanimate objects. Why are you so stupid?

  • skyfet

    Pablo said:
    Teabags are inanimate objects. Why are you so stupid?

    I think he means teabaggers. I don’t use the term, but I think that’s what he meant.

  • Patrick

    With the departure of Glynnis MacNicol, Rachel Sklar’s increasingly infrequent contributions, and the decision to publish that “Jon Stewart is a Traitor Because He Didn’t Blame Limbaugh for Loughner” article by that batshit-crazy version of Mark Ames (Potter, was that his name?), I was wondering if Mediaite was abandoning the relentless, hyperbolic, rhetorical fellatio of Messrs. Colbert and Stewart that since 2003 or so, has been more or less a di rigueur practice in the liberal media. Such thoughts prove to be unfounded, as with this article and the one previously praising Stewart for his analysis of Palin’s Hannity interview, Colby Hall has grasped the battle standard of Colbert/Stewart worship and planted it firmly in the Mediaite camp. I for one am looking forward to further articles discussing Colbert’s “genius” and Stewart’s unimpeachable status as arbiter of civil discourse (that is when he’s not hiring choirs to tell people he disagrees with to go f*** themselves).

  • StewartIII
  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    writer said:
    skyfet, I wasn’t aware that I was such a fan of the Iraq war. As for all these maps you want me to point at, I guess I could, but I’m really not seeing the sense in it.

    Well the lesson of this is next time you ask what’s the background to a name, not what kind of name is Mika? It’s like you are alluding that the name is dodgy or trying to use it as a smear.
    What’s the background to the name Beck? German
    Olbermann? German
    Hannity? Irish
    O’Reiley? Irish
    etc, etc, not say what kind of name is this or that, trying to dismiss it as foreign or irrelevant. It’s just rude. That’s all.

    It’s probably the Polish joke phenomenon. I’ve never understood that. The Poles prize education and learning and have produced brilliant scientists, engineers, writers, artists, doctors.

    As for Olbermann, yes, the name is German, but he is of Austrian heritage. As one of German heritage and one with a German wife, that pleases me greatly.

  • Penguin60

    Color Me Badd said:
    Would never take that seriously in a million years.

    Sort of how we feel about your every post. LOL

  • The Real Royal King

    The Real Royal King said:
    It’s probably the Polish joke phenomenon. I’ve never understood that. The Poles prize education and learning and have produced brilliant scientists, engineers, writers, artists, doctors.

    As for Olbermann, yes, the name is German, but he is of Austrian heritage. As one of German heritage and one with a German wife, that pleases me greatly.

    … and, I expect Beckerhead is Plattdeutsch.

  • jjay7381

    Hahaha this is brilliant.

  • The Tea Weasel

    Falin is the Lindsay Lohan of politics. The victim who brought it on herself. She could have lost, gone back to Alaska to shoot the balls off of Caribou, but no, she suddenly decided tundra life wasn’t all that. Now she has delusions of grandeur coupled with a shortage of ability and intelligence. She attacks the very people she needs to cuddle with and attracts the very people she should run screaming from.

    I’ll give her one thing. She is cackling like a lunatic all the way to the bank. I think all her posturing about a possible run for President is one giant pricktease.

  • writer

    skyfet, I’m now aware that asking ‘what kind of name is Mika?’ is a smear. In a restaurant the other day, a waiter asked if I wanted dressing on my salad. I asked ‘What kinds do you have?’ He was very offended.

  • NORBIT

    But it’s Colbert who’s obsessed with Palin, and not the other way around!

    When was the last time any of you heard Palin speak of Colbert?

    LOL!!!!!

  • Penguin60

    The Tea Weasel said:
    She is cackling like a lunatic

    Funny, I was thinking the same thing about your post.

  • The Tea Weasel

    Penguin60 said:
    Funny, I was thinking the same thing about your post.

    Yes, Falin does make me laugh. She is a bit of lunatic levity in today’s political scene. Unfortunately, some people see her as worthy of the highest offices. The only beneficiaries of that thinking are the Democrats.

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    skyfet, I’m now aware that asking ‘what kind of name is Mika?’ is a smear. In a restaurant the other day, a waiter asked if I wanted dressing on my salad. I asked ‘What kinds do you have?’ He was very offended.

    Ahhhh, very funny. You should be a comedian. Instead of you to graciously accept the correction, you are still digging. Next time you here a foreign sounding name ask them what kind of name is that.

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    It’s probably the Polish joke phenomenon. I’ve never understood that. The Poles prize education and learning and have produced brilliant scientists, engineers, writers, artists, doctors.

    As for Olbermann, yes, the name is German, but he is of Austrian heritage. As one of German heritage and one with a German wife, that pleases me greatly.

    Germans and Austrians are like the same people, just different country. A lot of Austrians served in the German Army.

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    … and, I expect Beckerhead is Plattdeutsch.

    Perhaps it explains his fascination with the Nazis. Not sure, just saying. ahhh

  • valkyrie101

    Pablo said:
    Well, yes. Obama’s colleague and mentor, Bill Ayers, is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. He has another terror supporting pal in Rashid Khalidi. Your point?

    I thought you said that Jerry Wright was Obama’s mentor?

  • writer

    Will do, skyfet. You’re a life saver. Not the candy in a roll. Damn! Being offensive again!

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    Will do, skyfet. You’re a life saver. Not the candy in a roll. Damn! Being offensive again!

    No you are not being offensive, you are just saving face. Don’t worry, I understand.

  • writer

    The PC police were about to arrest me for asking about the name ‘Mika’. I dropped your name, skyfet, and they let me off with a warning.

  • Color Me Badd

    SmartAlec said:
    This site has really taken a turn for the worse. I used to enjoy reading the comment section, but now with the multi-page format and trolls such as SarahP., ColorMeBadd, and the hate-filled comments from RRK and his countless aliases filling up the pages with unrelated comments, this site is the joke of political and media commentary websites. Add to that the one-sided slant – repeated negatives articles about Palin, Beck, Rush, glowing articles about Stewart, Colbert, & Olbermann, and rarely one about Pelosi, Schultz or Malloy. It used to be the best, now it’s the worst. Just ask around. Last post and visit here.
    See ya’, wouldn’t want to be ya”.

    Bye! I will try not and miss you.

  • skyfet

    writer said:
    The PC police were about to arrest me for asking about the name ‘Mika’. I dropped your name, skyfet, and they let me off with a warning.

    Still saving face, don’t worry I understand.

  • writer

    Give me some credit, skyfet. It’s hard saving face with one hand pointing at a map. Can I stop now?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.

    One must be a pathetic Colbert fanboy, then.

    This “new tone” sounds a lot like the old one.

  • gobarbara

    That makes me feel better.

  • Bad Wolf

    The ultra, right, neo-cons remain desperate for a symbol of their self-righteousness.

  • BarneyFranken

    If Colbert really had a sense of irony, he’d realize that doing this bit about Palin in-and-of-itself helps keep her in the news cycle.

    Its not irony- its ridicule- thinly veiled ridicule at that.

    Colbert dropped the faux-conservative shtick years ago and went unabashedly left.

    To me he’s even left of Stewart, who doesn’t do his ridicule quite so sneeringly.

  • The Tea Weasel

    BarneyFranken said:
    If Colbert really had a sense of irony, he’d realize that doing this bit about Palin in-and-of-itself helps keep her in the news cycle.

    Its not irony- its ridicule- thinly veiled ridicule at that.

    Colbert dropped the faux-conservative shtick years ago and went unabashedly left.

    To me he’s even left of Stewart, who doesn’t do his ridicule quite so sneeringly.

    OMG you totally get it lol.

  • OxyCon

    Colby watches Comedy Central and is like all excited and like ecstatic and stuff cuz Stewart and Colbert were like OMG Palins sucks and stuff and Colby was like OMG I’m gonna write some like gnarly posts about Stewart and Colbert rockin the Palin hate like OMG. /blech

  • Nacho

    NORBIT said:
    But it’s Colbert who’s obsessed with Palin, and not the other way around!

    When was the last time any of you heard Palin speak of Colbert?

    LOL!!!!!

    Colbert was addressing Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski.

    Why do you guys like to make everything about Palin? Talk about obsessed…

    Get with the program, Nitwit.

  • CosmosDan

    BFD said:
    “After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean. ”

    1 – I agree, this is how Stephen truly feels.

    2 – I disagree, it did come off as mean.

    3 – This was commentary not comedy.

    4 – I loved every minute of it.

    You nailed it. {to borrow and Colbert term} It was a brutal no holds barred slam. I guess I’d say it was commentary AND comedy because I had to stop it and control my laughter before I could hear anymore.

    While I agree it’s wrong to blame Palin for the shooting because of the unfortunate coincidence of political metaphors, I’m beginning to wonder if the right isn’t making it far worse by constantly exaggerating the amount of blame that she actually got.

    10,000 google hits and similar nonsense.

  • oPad

    The Tea Weasel said:
    OMG you totally get it lol.

    LOL, thus reaching the pinnacle of his potential. ; )

  • CosmosDan

    writer said:
    An old white man approached me in the grocery store the other day. I had to taze his ass.

    Did you aim for that specifically as he was shuffling away? Shame on you!

  • CosmosDan

    BarneyFranken said:
    If Colbert really had a sense of irony, he’d realize that doing this bit about Palin in-and-of-itself helps keep her in the news cycle.

    He clearly said it’s a mandatory part of the job, like it or not. While doing that he also delivered a rather brutal backhanded assessment of her.

    Stewart and Colbert have said they were constantly surprised at how often other media folks from the other networks tell them they wish they could what Colbert and Stewart get to say. I’m thinking there’s more than one political pundit listening to Colbert for just the cathartic value of this bit.

  • redleaf

    Colbert’s monologue should be enshrined in the take-down hall of fame.
    I swear, I have no idea what Conservatives see in Palin. That’s why people of sane mind can’t stop talking about her.
    Romey?I get it.
    Huckabee? Absolutely.
    Pawlenty? Sure.

    Palin? It’s not only baffling, but it calls into question the intelligence of her fans.

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

    Colby Hall is as pathetic as the fast-declining Colbert, whose humor is getting shopworn and derivative. Having a half-wit like Mika as a foil does inject an element of mock-seriousness, as Joe Scarborough actually has more chops than the silly-boy Colbert and thus the twerpy nerd gets polished by association with Joe vicariously, through Mika.

    I wonder what Colby and the commissars at Mediaite are going to concoct to justify the moronic rant Cong. Cohen spewed about the GOP and the Job-Crushing, or is it Job-Killing?, Health Care debacle.

  • Goldie

    redleaf said:
    Colbert’s monologue should be enshrined in the take-down hall of fame.
    I swear, I have no idea what Conservatives see in Palin. That’s why people of sane mind can’t stop talking about her.
    Romey?I get it.
    Huckabee? Absolutely.
    Pawlenty? Sure.

    Palin? It’s not only baffling, but it calls into question the intelligence of her fans.

    The more batshit crazy her spewing the more money her groupies send her…they claim she reflects them & their world view. That speaks volumes.

    About 1/4 of the GOP will only vote for Simple Sarah, even, or more like, especially after her Pettysburg Address, thereby insuring the reelection of President Obama…most likely by a landslide.

    For that, I thank them.

  • CosmosDan

    I just have to post this other Colbert bit about schools. Another gem.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/stephen-colbert-wake-county-schools_n_811048.html

  • SarahP.

    David Mangan said:
    Colby Hall is as pathetic as the fast-declining Colbert, whose humor is getting shopworn and derivative. Having a half-wit like Mika as a foil does inject an element of mock-seriousness, as Joe Scarborough actually has more chops than the silly-boy Colbert and thus the twerpy nerd gets polished by association with Joe vicariously, through Mika.

    I wonder what Colby and the commissars at Mediaite are going to concoct to justify the moronic rant Cong. Cohen spewed about the GOP and the Job-Crushing, or is it Job-Killing?, Health Care debacle.

    Dave – get a grip. You lost the argument as soon as you attacked the messenger. A better question is, how are you going to justify your moronic rant?

  • Alz

    Color Me Badd said:
    A “good little article” written by Richard Viguerie?? I know why teabags are so stupid, they read the same 10 teabag writers and nothing else. Richard Viguerie writing an article about the Tucson shooter is like Joesph Goebbels writing an article about the “dangerous jews”. Would never take that seriously in a million years.

    It seems like everytime the teabags try and prove a point they use the same few sources, World Nut Daily or Newsbusters. Break out of that echo chamber and read other stufhtml

    Sorry, the article is spot on about liberals and how they have been going berserk:
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/tucson_and_the_kamikaze_left.html

  • Alz

    redleaf said:
    Colbert’s monologue should be enshrined in the take-down hall of fame.
    I swear, I have no idea what Conservatives see in Palin. That’s why people of sane mind can’t stop talking about her.
    Romey?I get it.
    Huckabee? Absolutely.
    Pawlenty? Sure.

    Palin? It’s not only baffling, but it calls into question the intelligence of her fans.

    But how do you explain Obama? His background is sketchy at best (as a reminder, make sure you include his Chicago years).
    He hung with a lot of losers. Ayers, Rezko, the somehow Rev Wright, etc.

    He was Senator of Illinois but only for running for President. In other words he did nothing for Illinois. At least Palin had the sense to allow someone else to come in and serve the people – far more selfless than Obama.

    As a Community Organizer, have you ever seen the results of his work? I have because I grew up on the South Side. He was a zero. You never saw anyone parading around any of his successes because there were none.

    Palin is far, far better than Obama. If Palin was in, the economy would be moving much faster. She would have focused on making things better instead of Obama focusing on taking control away from people with the Healthcare Bill, etc.

    The question is why do you support the Left?

  • Morgan

    Colby Hall wrote:> After watching the following clip, there is no question how Mr. Colbert truly feels about Ms. Palin, though the method by which he reduces the former Alaskan Governor turned Reality TV star to a “media troll” is so meta and smart, one doesn’t feel that Colbert was being spiteful or mean.

    I tried watching the video but had to give up or puke. Is this the kind of no talent stuff liberals watch? These nobodies really have to work hard to try to come up with something original only to come up flat. No, it wasn’t spiteful or mean. I feel sorry for them–waking up every morning and trying to think of something interesting to say. They are lucky to have Palin. She should be good for some laughs for their audience, which is so meta and smart–they only have to drop her name, which is their cue to laugh.

  • WHarropson

    Colby Hall Your headline tells us more about you than about Sarah Palin. I thought Colbert was spectacular in his delivery and cudo’s to the writers. It was one of his best. Now how could I come to that conclusion and still see you as actually have taken the left luny bait. This peice was great not because Palin is an Ignoramus, she’s not, it is because you have to believe that of her and your reaction shows who you are, and like the disgusted blond lady is ready to come unglued. Palin is the cause of none of this, the media hate for her is.. If you just watch it again, there is a subtlety that Steve is known for. Even if he doesnt like Palin he is baiting you big time. I loved George Bush as well for mostly the same reason, He was a good honest man with awkward moments and liberals had to portray him as satan. It’s dementia and it is fun to watch. Read your headline again. watch the video again.

  • Michael_T

    redleaf said:
    Colbert’s monologue should be enshrined in the take-down hall of fame.

    What a superb piece of comedic writing.

    I’m constantly amazed that cable shows like Stewart’s & Colbert’s have such superior writing to Saturday Night Live. I have to think some of the blame has to be Lorne Michaels inability to spot (or attract) first rate writers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    murf said:
    No need to reply substantively to a comedy clown

    Oh, I thought you were talking about Palin. But then you wrote “comedy clown”. Sarah’s not funny, she’s just ridiculous. But she certainly is a clown.

    Sorry but by her own admission, she doesn’t see herself as a serious politician but instead prefers to align herself with professional blowhards like Rush and Hannity. And Sarah, we agree. You’re not a serious politicians. Now if only Murf got the memo.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    WHarropson said:
    Palin is the cause of none of this, the media hate for her is.

    Oh, that’s right, Sarah’s the VICTIM here. Sorry, if she truly hated the media, she would avoid it instead of whoring herself and her family out to it. Face it, her problem is that she has to keep apologizing for her inane ramblings by making equally inane ramblings. Maybe if she could get her collective message down pat (even on a show that’s sympathetic to her) instead of blaming all her missteps on her aides, she might seem like a valid political person. Oh, and if she didn’t align her personal ambitions with other media whore blowhards and not serious politicians.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Morgan said:
    I tried watching the video but had to give up or puke

    I thought you were talking about Palin’s appearance on Hannity.

    But, of course, you couldn’t stand watching Colbert. He used big words in their grammatically correct context and that’s not something you’re accustomed to hearing. Especially from Palin.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Alz said:
    At least Palin had the sense to allow someone else to come in and serve the people – far more selfless than Obama.

    Yes, she knew she wasn’t qualified and that reality TV queen was more her inline with her expertise.

    Alz said:
    You never saw anyone parading around any of his successes because there were none.

    That’s funny because Sarah Palin currently has 33% support in her own home state. That means a full 2/3 of the people she governed over would not vote for her. The same isn’t true for those on the South Side of Chicago toward Obama.

    Alz said:
    Palin is far, far better than Obama

    Yes Palin is far, far better than Obama at providing comedy fodder.

    Alz said:
    If Palin was in, the economy would be moving much faster

    Yes, if Palin was in, the economy would be moving much further to Saudi Arabia, China, and India. Or maybe she can do economically for the rest of America as what she did for Alaska. That is to take more from the federal coffers per capita than any state in the nation while paying the second lowest tax rates. Problem is Palin had those evil blue state federal tax surpluses to pay off her electorate with, whose going to pay off the rest of America?

    Alz said:
    The question is why do you support the Left?

    The question is why do you support a person who doesn’t even align her own ambitions with real politicians but sees herself more as professional blowhard like Hannity and Rush? You can hate Obama and the LEFT (that actually supplemented the money that Palin handed out to her fellow Alaskans) all you want. but to support Palin just proves that, according to fake conservatives like you, that the likes of George W. Bush was just too erudite for you and you need someone who can talk to you in the dumbed down language you can understand.

  • bob_bobber

    Palin at the very least provides much comedy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdE9CsxCTXI

    Should handle every loose end.

  • lane

    Strong women don’t shut the ‘f’ up when they’re told to. They speak louder. Conservative women are going to dominate the political scene in the next decade. Strong women get things done and don’t whine about it. Weak whiners like Colbert might want to get used to it now.

    Just for clarification. If you post a Tweet or Facebook post, you’re not a media troll. The idiots covering your every post for a story to attract viewers their boring coverage otherwise loses, that’s media trolls. Anyone who doesn’t understand the difference, may in fact, be ignorant. Or obtuse.

    Mika is solid and should control the news she presents. That’s here responsibility.

  • Alz

    A Kim Bo said:
    Yes, she knew she wasn’t qualified and that reality TV queen was more her inline with her expertise.

    That’s funny because Sarah Palin currently has 33% support in her own home state. That means a full 2/3 of the people she governed over would not vote for her. The same isn’t true for those on the South Side of Chicago toward Obama.

    Yes Palin is far, far better than Obama at providing comedy fodder.

    Yes, if Palin was in, the economy would be moving much further to Saudi Arabia, China, and India. Or maybe she can do economically for the rest of America as what she did for Alaska. That is to take more from the federal coffers per capita than any state in the nation while paying the second lowest tax rates. Problem is Palin had those evil blue state federal tax surpluses to pay off her electorate with, whose going to pay off the rest of America?

    The question is why do you support a person who doesn’t even align her own ambitions with real politicians but sees herself more as professional blowhard like Hannity and Rush? You can hate Obama and the LEFT (that actually supplemented the money that Palin handed out to her fellow Alaskans) all you want. but to support Palin just proves that, according to fake conservatives like you, that the likes of George W. Bush was just too erudite for you and you need someone who can talk to you in the dumbed down language you can understand.

    You make little sense. I know you will keep trying to explain Obama’s problems away. I stand by what I said and the logic behind it.

  • njoy-d-ride

    Actually, “pissing on Palin” seems to have become something of an obligation for the liberal elements of the media. Maybe if they would “at long last just shut up for just ten f*cking minutes.” she wouldn’t be in the next “news cycle”.
    Just remember, Karma’s a b*tch.

  • screwauger

    This from someone with a friggin birth defect. Are we sure that lazy ear isn’t the result of some other deep seated cognitive dysfunction such a a bulging brain tumor?

  • RichS

    BatBoy said:
    Thanks for the BS Reply I am curious…in which of those long list of degrees did they teach you how to hate and be hateful? You sure learned your lessons well.

    MAR? Where did you get this from?

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    Polish. You should go out sometimes and leave your confined area and mix with different cultures. Not all white people are from the same background. Europe is a big place if you must know.

    Mika is a Russian name, it means God’s child.

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    Dis you ask him what kind of name he has?

    Tell me why its bad to ask what kind of a name Mika is? My ex-mother in law always used to ask what kind of a name x was. She was born in Hungary, a minor aristocrat. Her husband, my father in law, was in the diplomatic corps and was the Commerical Secretary at the Hungarian Embassy in Lisbon at the end of the war and was involved in the negotiations with the Allies for Hungary’s surrender. He would also ask what kind of a name x was. Do you think they didn’t have the social skills that you have?

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    Germans and Austrians are like the same people, just different country. A lot of Austrians served in the German Army.

    They aren’t “like the same people” they are descendants of the Germanic tribes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    njoy-d-ride said:
    Actually, “pissing on Palin” seems to have become something of an obligation for the liberal elements of the media.

    That’s funny because even the conservative likes of Karl Rove, David Frum, and even Dick Cheney seem to PISS ON HER or just ignore her as any sort of serious politician. That’s okay, even she doesn’t see herself as a serious politician either. She’d rather see herself closer in line with the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh instead. And the rest of the thinking world just see her as a more self-involved version of Snooki.

  • skyfet

    RichS said:
    Mika is a Russian name, it means God’s child.

    Nah to my correction, her surname brzezinskiy is Polish, her first name has different origin. native American – wise raccoon, Russian – God’s child, Hebre -Female version of Michael, Latin – belonging to the Lord (short form of Dominica).

  • skyfet

    RichS said:
    Tell me why its bad to ask what kind of a name Mika is? My ex-mother in law always used to ask what kind of a name x was. She was born in Hungary, a minor aristocrat. Her husband, my father in law, was in the diplomatic corps and was the Commerical Secretary at the Hungarian Embassy in Lisbon at the end of the war and was involved in the negotiations with the Allies for Hungary’s surrender. He would also ask what kind of a name x was. Do you think they didn’t have the social skills that you have?

    It’s funny you use your in-laws from the old country to justify this behaviour. Perhaps the way they would ask someone the origin of their name. I don’t think they were as dismissive as he was when he said what kind of name is Mika?
    I also find it interesting that you’ll use the older folks i this fashion, God bless them but they are not necessarily a good example of tolerance. Looking back at brief history of the US, 40 to 60 yrs ago, a lot of the older generation were bigots to the core, without thinking much of it. Would you take that example for yourself and children simply because the older folks did it? I remember Olbermann saying on TV when MLK was killed (why disturb my football for a n***a), his words not mine. Many of us know what our folks would say in doors, but we dear not repeat it outside. Can take the best of manners from them, and ignore the ignorance. So my friend, your example of in-laws is flawed on this issue.
    We can ask for the origin of the name in a polite way, not be dismissive or rude. It’s all about how you phrase your words, that’s all.

  • lane

    The Tea Weasel said:
    She is a bit of lunatic levity in today’s political scene. Unfortunately, some people see her as worthy of the highest offices. The only beneficiaries of that thinking are the Democrats.

    Be very afraid. Much the same taunts were made about Ronald Reagan. He’s an actor, he’s an idiot. Then he was president for two terms, and beloved now. Here’s why. People want a president that is a strong leadership, who speaks to them, and who they like. Palin is no where NEAR ready to be President. However, when you have that natural charisma and connection to working people like Reagan and Bill Clinton, those are the folks that become president. Not many people can get people to stand in line to sign a book or listen to a speech. She’s on a short list of charismatic politicians. She’s only around 50, so it’s the future not now. Then again, I said that about Obama when he ran, and he still won with no experience. There’s always surprises.,

  • my dogs gone

    Alz said:
    It’s just amazing at how much Plain is a threat to liberals. They spend a huge amount of time with their babyish attacks and then they say she’s in the news too much!

    But the key thing is Palin is a threat to liberals.

    This is a real hoot. Palin is parody. She threatens no one but Todd and now we hear he may have another playmate. Palin is jsut an amusing caricature of the uber-right. It is a shame that she devalues patriotism, Christianity and conservatism while being oblivious to her own actions.

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    Nah to my correction, her surname brzezinskiy is Polish, her first name has different origin. native American – wise raccoon, Russian – God’s child, Hebre -Female version of Michael, Latin – belonging to the Lord (short form of Dominica).

    True, without the “y” that you added ski is the Polish meaning son of, in her case it should be ska where she being addressed by a Polish speaking person. For Mika to be a Polish name it would be a diminutive of her first name.

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    It’s funny you use your in-laws from the old country to justify this behaviour. Perhaps the way they would ask someone the origin of their name. I don’t think they were as dismissive as he was when he said what kind of name is Mika?I also find it interesting that you’ll use the older folks i this fashion, God bless them but they are not necessarily a good example of tolerance. Looking back at brief history of the US, 40 to 60 yrs ago, a lot of the older generation were bigots to the core, without thinking much of it. Would you take that example for yourself and children simply because the older folks did it? I remember Olbermann saying on TV when MLK was killed (why disturb my football for a n***a), his words not mine. Many of us know what our folks would say in doors, but we dear not repeat it outside. Can take the best of manners from them, and ignore the ignorance. So my friend, your example of in-laws is flawed on this issue.We can ask for the origin of the name in a polite way, not be dismissive or rude. It’s all about how you phrase your words, that’s all.

    Dismissive? Now you can tell someone’s tone of typing? I was using them because they were diplomats, you understand that they were highly schooled in tact, don’t you? I could have used other examples because I here people ask what kind of name my last name is all of the time and I don’t take offense. I think you are being extremely dismissive of my in-laws since you do not know them but you have assigned attitudes to them that are bourne out of nothing but your desire to make a point.

    I hope you aren’t Polish.

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