Sarah Palin seems to have a special place in her heart for bloggers:
Ms. Palin directed most of her media criticism at liberal bloggers, whom she twice called, “those bloggers in their parents’ basement just talkin’ garbage.”
For the record:
Arianna Huffington graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She is a bestselling author who ran for Governor of California.
Markos Moulitsas served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He earned two bachelor degrees at Northern Illinois University (1992-1996), where he majored in Philosophy, Journalism, and Political Science. He earned a J.D. at Boston University School of Law.
Duncan Black earned a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1999. He has worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California, Irvine, and Bryn Mawr College.
John Aravosis has a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown. He worked on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy adviser for Ted Stevens. He also worked at the World Bank, the Children’s Defense Fund, and wrote for The Economist.
Faiz Shakir holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from the Georgetown Law Center. He previously worked as a Research Associate for the Democratic National Committee, a Legislative Aide to Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and a Communications Aide in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
I have a masters’ degree in film business from USC, produced major motion pictures and wrote a best selling book.
How would Sarah feel if someone called her an ignorant, freeloading bubble headed piece of trailer park trash whose daddy told the AP she spent the weekend scrambling to return her stolen clothes to the RNC?
Just trying to keep a sense of perspective here.
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hi Jane!
for the record, I don’t even have a basement.
In fairness, though I have a doctorate in psych, went to Wharton as an undergrad and teach in the MBA program there, my office is, in fact, in my basement.
Freshman year was the best three years of my life.
More! More! Seriously. The netroots haz legs.
But do they live in their parents’ basements?
For a sociopath, she sure can’t lie worth a lick…
Ms Jane!!
Whats the latest word on JoeLie?? Obama says all is forgiven??!!? I hope NOT!
it’s self identification Jane, she assumes, since the description describes right wing bloggers it also describes progressive bloggers
these right wing fools hold the mirror up to their own face and see everyone else instead of themselves
pitiful
for patholigical liars, once they tell their lie they believe it to be true
You’re dodging the question: Do you blog from your parents basement? Can you provide any HARD evidence of this? Have you ever in any blog (not just from your parents basement) discussed garbage?
Boxturtle (Blogging from my spare bedroom with a cat on my lap)
I am not technically a blogger (only a lowly commenter). And I only have a lowly B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. I am such a slacker.
I do have a basement! So there…(take that pun!)
Thanks Jane.
digg
Overheard in the background, “hey Mom, where’s the Cheetos?”
Basements on either Florida coast are not a good idea.
but seriously, who among us can claim to have
graduated fromattendedbeen enrolled at as many institutions of higher education as the Palinator?I heard on the radio this morning that obama wants joe to caucus with the democrats, a clear signal to let him have what he wants
this is an indication he does not want oversight of the previous administration
I do not beleive I am gonna be happy with barack
my parents have a basement, but it’s over 1000 miles from my apt. i’ve never blogged from there.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you Jane.
Made me feel better.
Hey TexBetsy, hope you are well.
but,,, but,,, I had a basement when I lived in France!
(Go Bears!)
Five colleges in six years before graduating is certainly an amazing record.
Maybe she means commenters like me. Never graduated college although attended many. I’m a moron.
I like her and hope she stays around. We won’t have anything to do once the thugs are in jail. Besides she’s cute.
I’m doing the same thing. Spare bedroom turned into computer lab with a wall full of programming texts and stacks of paper all over the place. The tigers love it. Oops, gotta go mind the split pea soup afore I burn it. Get down, Gigi.
doing a bit better than yesterday. still flat on my back though. may have to do some work stuff this afternoon though.
“How would Sarah feel if someone called her an ignorant, freeloading bubble headed piece of trailer park trash whose daddy told the AP she spent the weekend scrambling to return her stolen clothes to the RNC?”
*rotfl*
Make your own blog at blogspot.com and you too can be a bonafide blogger. It’s simple as Sarah.
Ah, la belle France…I’d give up my basement for a few months in France right about now…it’s about to snow here. Ugh.
“those bloggers in their parents’ basement just talkin’ garbage.”
Ah, Sarah, you are a fool. You are saying that bloggers in their parents’ basement took you down? Let us for a minute assume that this is true. What does that say about you? Taken down by the commie basement brigade! fool.
I wish I had a basement.
Never were the words “trailer park trash” more appropriate. You nailed her- sneakin out of Dodge with her boosted clothing and then lyin her ass off about it just seals the deal.
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Divinity
Doctor of Philosophy
and my parents have no basement.
That ain’t nuthin’. Check this out:
here’s the link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..lenews_wsj
Sure am glad we let the Pukes and Centrists pick our nominee, aren’t you?
I’ve thought about it, but work gets in the way (lousy excuse). By the time I read the blogs I love, I’m too tired to say anything even I’d want to read… *g*
I think we can safely take it as read that even the commenters here at the lake outrank S.P., meaningful-credentials-wise. I’m sure there’s a Pale-in-comparison joke in there somewhere…
Kos has a new post up about the Liarmann situation. Sounds like Obama is leaving Senatorial Prerogitives to the Senate.(and spineless Harry Reid)
Sorry my linky no work.
I might be able to. UCSD, UCLA, Oregon State, St Pete Junior College. Always wanted to be a professional student and go to my grave owning Sallie Mae and Bank of America a ton of money.
My conservative friend is very depressed by the election.
He’s equally impressed by Palin.
It leaves me incredulous.
I hope she remains the face of the Republics for a long time.
ok. I admit it. I have no degree. But I did stay at a holiday inn once in 1977 in Memphis. ok. I admit it. That is a lie. It was a motel 6.
And, anyone in the media who disagrees with her version of things is ‘a stinker’. This is from someone who needed five different colleges in order to accumulate enough credits to complete a degree. Sarah, honey, as one of ‘the lesser lights’ where I went to school, I can tell you that all you need to succeed in college is to do the following: Show up to class, pay attention, and do the homework. That…is…it. The only people I ever knew who needed as many venues to finish up as you did admitted to me over the years that it is extremely difficult to finish college if you spend all your time partying and miss class because you are still drunk at 8 a.m. So, as Jane says, throwing dirt at liberal bloggers is not the way to make your case.
edit –
owningowingOh, Sarah Sixpack must be talking about me. I do blog in the basement, not my parents though. And I do not eat cheetos, because of their (unnatural) trans fatty acids. I do talk garbage because I talk about the garbage of neo-cons such as Sarah.
Of course, there are some other basement bloggers who should be considered. There is “Young Trig”, talking about hunting moose at 3:00 am.for instance.
If Palin knew that such a word exists, she would claim that she means the metaphorical basement.
not to mention Josh Marshall’s doctorate, also in economics from Brown.
I have 300-plus quarter units in engineering and computer science. Four – well, it’s really three-and-a-half – colleges. And no basement.
(The half is because the junior college district opened a new campus and moved all the technical classes to it, and then they treated it as a completely separate school. Those of us whose classes were moved had to apply for admission at the new location. @#$%^&*!)
Bwahaha: Jane, I’m worried about your health if you keep holding back.
Next time I go home to see my folks (in the house we moved into in ‘64) I guess I could try and bring a laptop into the crawlspace.
Basements? What are these “basements”? I grew up amidst ranch houses in SoCal: no one therabouts had basements. Aside from visiting my grandma in Ohio and The Wizard of Oz, I never even saw basements.
Which really bummed me out when I learned about fallout….
Rushing you warm, feel better thoughts and wishes from Hutto.
Not that Dems have been terribly reliable on foreign policy, but consider the source before you go ballistic.
Even funnier is that Sarah may actually believe that the Palin-McCain juggernaut was brought down by teenagers blogging from there parents garages. Nelson and Milhouse in a conspiracy to bring down the Republican Party and introduce international Islamic Marxism led by a the messiah born of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa!
Hah! Ha!
quite the trajectory!
silly me: I stuck with Cal Poly SLO from start to finish.
(hi, Betsy!)
Obama wants to keep spying on Americans, but look– over there– Sarah Palin!
edumacation doesn’t automatically equate to wisdom, friend!
Sarah who now? Palin? Oh, oh, that Tina Fey chick from Alaska? Is she still around? Huh. So what’s for lunch?
It’s not the WSJ editorial page, it’s from their news section. Are you saying they just made it up?
This is so not fair to her rightwingnut supporters! Not all bloggers are in their parents’ basement, Sarah, yours are in their kids’ attics adjusting their tinfoil hats for better wifi reception.
Palin’s press people refuse to even acknowledge there are Alaska bloggers. And they’re certainly not going to acknowledge we’ve had an impact upon national perception of her fitness for higher office, eh?
As to our educations, two of us are college professors (including ET), two have long experience in government, two are very successful business people, and none of the rest hide in their parents’ basements.
I have to say, that even though the Anchorage Daily News has had decent reporting and a couple of very good and critical editorials on Palin recently. they’ve adopted a policy of using our Alaska blogs for source stuff, then crediting the place we found it, seldom if ever giving a hat tip to us. They haven’t directly referenced my blog since I questioned on of their senior editors for sending an op-ed critical of Ted Stevens to his office before its publication, and then turning the comments to the op-ed off, at his office’s request.
Hey! I used to live in Los Osos. I almost went to school there. But I did make it to Cuesta Community College. I used the art department as my studio.
Unnamed sources…to the Wall Street Journal? Hmmm! Why am I willing to take tghis with a bit of scepticism less than a week after the election.
File this under the category of “American is a center-right country.”
Are there many basements in Alaska?
What about Regent University? that bastion of wingnutia mcthought? seems like a bunch of foreigners in that list with their liberal ways and France-loving sensibilities!
Godless every one of you! :) Jesus didn’t go to Harvard!
Hi Jane–Don’t you know that none of that Educational Stuff matters? She was a newscaster and a beauty pageant contestant. Not to mention, she can see Russia from her place in Alaska.
I have never understood the mania for placing letters after one’s name or honorifics before it. I like being just Hugh.
Well, I hear that Jonah Goldberg did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
-G
Is our basements learning?
I have TWO master’s degrees — an MA in journalism and a MAT in social studies education. Moreover, I only attended one school as an undergrad and was only three credits away from graduating in three and a half years.
This says it best.
Palin – the Devil in disguise
all your basements are belong to us.
Ya think that Rupert Murdoch would actually distinguish between his “news” and “editorial” sections?
Very true.
And worthy of an Oxdown diary.
Sarah’s been razzle-dazzled by all the haute coot, sure
Palin is as dumb as a box of rusty hammers.
I can’t believe for one minute she actually knows what a blog is!
And yes, even me, the lowly foul mouth mechanic has an Associates Degree in Applied science, Automotive Technology.
THHHHBBBBPPPPP!
We have a basement. The back third is a concrete bunker. The guy who built the place was gun collector – including machine guns – who was a bit strange. My music studio, our pantry and the laundry room are in the concrete bunker. I keep my weapons locked in the furnace room.
Hah!
Also worthy of an Oxdown diary.
That’s why she’s got to remain the face of the Republic Party.
Wow. Don’t hold back Jane!
Love the post.
Have you finished your internship at No Quarter already?
If this story is true, then we’ll put the screws to President Obama.
Until then, there’s a lot of leaky smelly crap floating around….some about Obama and more about Palin.
-G
Well, Jane. I had no idea about your sordid Hollywood past. I love your IMDB credit on “Natural Born Killers” as an “(uncredited) Female Demon”. I’m shocked, simply shocked, that no Freeper has picked up on, what from their perspective is, a distressingly appropriate description. Except that you do get some justifiable credit for your work these days.
Sarah Palin should aspire to be a basement blogger.
I have never blogged from the basement, but I will make sure I do sometime. I am an engineer with an MBA, own my consulting business and typically blog from my ground floor office (I also blog from bedroom, kitchen, playroom and living room occasionally).
BTW the only “garbage” I have ever talked about when blogging is Sarah Palin.
now she knows what pandering to the base meant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11…..th.html?hp
Link to interesting NYT piece about the diminishing political power of the south- if the article is right- Palin is history.
U betcha!
Pravda must have gotten this part from McCain
This seems to imply that those who support Republicans or Clinton-style Democrats are pragmatists. I know of no evidence for such a conclusion. Mostly I remember these types being silent or enabling the excesses and disasters of the Bush years.
Okay, I just got here. Haven’t read comments yet. (((Jane))) This is fabulous. Especially:
Tulane
Southwestern Louisiana
City College of San Francisco
Heald College (drafting back when it was for dudes)
Rudolph Schaffer School of Design (SF)
Bloomsbury (PA) University
Modesto Junior College
Cuesta Community College
S.F. Art Institute
Santa Rosa Jr. College
Indian Valley Jr. College
College of Marin
no degree-just lots of learning
Oops I forgot I have also talked about other garbage (Lieberman comes to mind)!
Urrrrrrgh!
Is that where you learned not to buy cheap tools?
Well, call me a “hater”. Our household sports four degrees (that’s academic degrees, not celsius) and no basement, a cheetos-free life. I do live in the same town as my parents.
Go Bears!!
I forget where I read that Palin really has it in for anyone who has any college degree that outranks hers. A real chip on her shoulder about all that.
Is the 700 Club hiring?
Goopers have needed to work hard at the national level to hold the religious right and the south- which in many cases are one and the same. The demographics of that group are white and uneducated- which has required goopers to adjust their message to short words and sentences that are literaly meaningless….
Seemed to be workin for em for a while- but they may have gone a “Bridge Too Far” to the point where educated regular people can’t stand em any more…so what’re they gonna do?
Gingrich? He’s got a Doctorate!
ding, we have a winner!
I office upstairs in my house, and from here, all I can see is gardens and birds, not Russia.
Naw, it’s where I learned to really hate Automotive engineers.
Let’s see… my mother had a basement for a while, my father and his wife had a basement. They’re all dead. I don’t have a basement. It’s not likely that either of my daughters will have a basement. Shhh… the Republicans will be billing us for our immortality.
I disagree.
Obama was silent on whether Liarman should keep his committee chairmanship; as he should be.
The president must not enforce his will on congress. We’ve had eight years of a near omnipotent executive, and that’s enough.
As for his expressing his view that Liarman should continue to caucus with Dems, can you blame him for wanting a larger majority?
Oh, yeah. Associate of Arts and Associate of Science, Bachelor of Arts in communications. Just couldn’t keep my pretty little head around that science thingie any longer.
Wouldn’t that be like totally everybody who went to college?
Yeah Jane but did you ever field dress a moose, play the flute or sink a jumper from the top of the key?
Huh?
Didn’t think so!
I have a bachelor’s in engineering from Yale and no basement.
In other news, by the time the official vote is certified, Obama may have won Virginia Beach, home of Pat Robertson:
He already won the other six cities in the Hampton Roads area, which all have a very high military population.
No basements here in Arizona….. snakes and other critters do not need to be attracted….
I have a diploma in nursing (from the olden days) and a RN and also have a BSSE – Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering….. my parents don’t have a basement and neither do my adult kids……
I, too, am only a lowly commenter. I wish I had a basement, or still had my parents for that matter. I’m only a working stiff with opinions, not even as well-salaried as good ol’ Joe the Plumber. McCain had nothing to offer me, and I felt Sarah was an insult to my gender, at the very least.
I’m a second-class human being in my own country, thanks in no small part to Bible-thumping *pro-America* twits like Sarah Palin. I don’t get wingnut welfare or RNC-sponsored clothing for special events: just my bills and a weekly trip to Wally World for the necessities. Again, SP and Mr. Maverick had nothing to offer me. I don’t count, to them.
To the DFHs, garbage-spewing bloggers, and now to Change.gov, my voice counts. I appreciate Jane, Arianna, Digby and the others for giving me a place to feel at home. Caribou Barbie can just stay in Alaska for all I care.
Sarah could be the new Tammy Faye!
You give her too much authority if you have to spell it out in a defensive way.
Oh, and Rachel may not be a blogger, per se, but isn’t she a Rhodes Scholar?
You know the old Takes One To Know One.
She doesn’t know.
I don’t care what that trailer heather has to say.
Just find the dirt on her that will keep her away from DC.
to 59: My nephew in Alaska assures me the real Palin became governor is that she’s a “hottie.”
–from a 66 yr. old grandmother-type blogger with a Ph.D. whose parents are dead, who wears her own clothes, blogs from her own home (which is minus a basement), and prefers nightgowns.
Help me, help me! I’ve got basement envy!!! (Also too much caffeine. You recognize it when I get like this. Sorry . . . .)
(((barbara)))
Spiro Agnew was the same way. Called them “nattering nabobs of negativism.” The Nixon administration hated people who were educated.
Has anyone told Ms. Palin that it’s really OK to keep the underwear? Really. consider it a foundation for the future/
I swear I put a [g] on that message. Oh well, it was implied, you knew that. [gg]
Damn, I’m gonna hafta go back to school to top that list. Gee, mebbe I could stiff Sallie Mae…
How the hell can a good commie communicate without a basement?
correction to 104 : “The reason Palin became . . . “
In private life I omit the letters (save for fdl)…even at work, I request encourage staff to use my first name.
The letters are useful in public advocacy about health/enviro/human rights issues — that and direct patient care are the only spheres where I do use the letters….
‘Cause writing at FDL falls in those spheres, I’ve ended up using the letters for my “post name”…leading to the odd result of more folks here calling me “doc” than used to do so when I was in major teaching hospitals…
Of course, I’d prefer “kirk”…
[I’m hoping future incarnations of Wordpress would allow writers to have separate “post name” and “comment name”, but I imagine WP has a lot of more pressing needs….]
As someone who requires TWO sump pumps to keep my basement above water, let me tell you that basement-possession is over-rated.
Ha! I live in Morro Bay. Work in Osos and took just enough computer class at Cuesta that if I had a basement -(and parents)- might qualify me as a menace!
only if she bought herself a girdle…
Could be she was thinkin about the 101st keyboarders, those uber-republician- patriots who do in fact live in their parents basements and firmly believe that it is a far far better thing that they do than actually join the military where their pale bodies might just be subjected to harm-and sunlight.
I used to live on Nipomo in the sand dunes. I loved it there. BigBrother lives there, also.
I am a blogger, an Alaska blogger. I am now blogging from my basement. So, there!
Prof. ET
ps – my mom is 2,000 miles away…
{{{barbara}}}
My bold Sarah if you as evidenced from your press interviews could formulate an answer to a question that showed original thoughts like we do here every day (which is part of the reason that we are so disorganized everyone wants to be heard)
Rather than reciting badly…very badly GOP Talking Points you might have a point.
Besides Sarah I am not the one running up my
Mom’sthe GOP’s credit cards on a impulse buy shopping spree!I’m guessing Sarah you shop under stress, it seems like a tell. If you win the Presidency Saks would be wise to build a new location outside the White House.
I don’t want a basement, just more storage space on this level.
a fairly exhaustive undergarment pun thread happened yesterday.
use one name with firefox and another name with internet explorer or safari, and you can stay logged in as both.
I’ve been trying to find a tasteful way to bring in Bill Clinton’s (?) old “drag a twenty dollar bill through a trailer park” remark, to no avail.
Funny!
I find this entire thing about colleges and degrees and knowledge elitist.
Think that was Carville–
ET-
Saw your open letter to Sarah last week on the Progressive Alaska blog.
It was a thing of beauty.
“drag a twenty dollar bill through
a trailer parkNordstroms”Blue Texan is upstairs!
McCain To Campaign For Saxby Chambliss; Will He Have Company?
I only use the most refined lubricants in my political garbage disposal.
Sniff.
Strategy 101.
Now then, to review, the man who just won the Presidency exploited the internet and the blogosphere as well as any person or business enterprise ever has, compelling millions of motivated bloggers to rally to his cause.
The Loser, Ms. Palin, has just disparaged ALL bloggers as ignorant basement dwellers, while seemingly implying that she intends to run against this well-proven political engine in the next election cycle.
Sarah: The world changed while you were shopping. The king-makers are the people you just insulted – be they Republican, Democrat or Independent.
You have no idea what really matters where appealing to Americans is concerned. Catching stones with one hand while throwing them with the other looks quite, well, desperate, and un-Presidential.
Welcome to Gameoverville, just down the road a piece from Wasilla.
Trailer park heaven
It’s a real good deal-o
- Frank Zappa
Hang on! I just got my degree. Thanks Photoshop!
Undergarments are highly overrated.
Sincerely,
barbra
*lol*
My, my!
Hurray for intellectual elitism. According to my wall, I have an associates, 2 bachelors, a masters, and a C.Phil (UCSD made me pay $50 and register that one). Plus I have spent the past ten years teaching adults principles of American Gov. among other things. I don’t have a basement. Does having a computer in my bedroom (surrounded by empty diet Pepsi cans) count?
Here is hoping the GOP runs a Palin/Santorum ticket in ‘12
Aw Jane. Don’t let all Sarah’s brilliant accomplishments bother you one single tiny byte. Blink and click your little heels together to make her go away. Now, wasn’t that easy?/s
no charge
speaking of which, do the RNC gurus really want the unnerwear returned?
sick. just sick. i don’t know why she should have to put up with the indignity of it all. *g*
B.A. – History
Doctor of Inane Letters.
oh – and a J.D. for whatever that’s worth….
You really need to do something about that addiction. P.A. I can send you a meeting schedule.
Jane, you’re really barking up the wrong tree here citing academic credentials to a republican. Given the republican disdain for all things intelligent, knowledgeable, and learned, you’ll only verify in their minds [cough] their ignorance-based assessment. Intelligence, knowledge, and academics only have value to a non-republican.
I dunno why Palin’s panties are in such a wad anyway. It’s not like she paid for ‘em.
more than we wanted to know.
AB magna, MS, decades of family experience, gray hair, titanium knees
NEXT?
ouch
I went to Antioch and Yale. Does that count. At least a third of the way there by Palin’s metric.
until the repugs need a doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, shrink, etc.
When repugs are not whoring they are looking for a whore. Education is dangerous to this age old profession.
um, u did remember to turn your head. yes?/s
Oh my; not to put too fine a point on it, aye Jane?
Hah! that’s beautiful- must forward to some like-minded (evil) friends. Made my day.
And I am a working class autodidact,who dropped out of school in eighth grade to support herself, and who has since experienced every class except the wealthy or prestigious. It’s been a few decades since I saw my parent’s basement, but I do occasionally blog in unfashionable clothes.
Despite my blue-collar resume I am still capable of thinking rationally and analyzing the political situations that effect my daily life, and the circumstances of other lower-class Americans, whose lives are either exploited or neglected by the political elite.
It does not take an advanced degree to recognize lies, corruption, rigid dogmas, social manipulation, or stupidity. A comparison of resumes is less valid than comparing the intent, logic, and veracity of ideas. In 2008, McCain and Palin showed a propensity for ill-intent, poor logic, and untruthfulness. That’s hardly the fault of the mainstream media, the blogging elite, or even the bloggers in pajamas. It’s the result of inflated egos that thought dogma would trump substance.
i always did feel much better if i saw a mail-order degree on a professional’s bling-wall, not to mention a motivational calendar! swoon ;->
didn’t read comments yet-missed the thread darnit…was off writing oxdowns
here’s the fox link
transcript and video.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449884,00.html
I watched that whole damn interview on FOX with Greta just knowing Palin was going to show her how to field dress a moose. It never happened. What a waste of an hour. All we got was Sarah slicing up something that looked like wieners in a pan while Todd sat silently in the corner with the baby looking shifty eyed.
i used my high-fallutin’ degrees to become a stay-at-home mom/subsistence farmer-type.
i know first hand not to toss compost up-wind.
Karl Rove.
mostly a lowly and inarticulate lurker, but just for the record — B.A., M.A., M.S. (Stanford, UCB, SFSU).
no basement of record.
Welcome! Dive right in. The Lake’s positively percolating with joy upon your arrival. ;->
my view on her comments–
‘money doesn’t make the man’
‘can’t buy love’
‘can’t buy character’
‘can’t buy a good reputation’
‘peter principle’
‘you are who you are’
‘be water’-Bruce Lee h/t ( )
you betcha
a bit of wisdom the repigs would do well to acquire
I’ve prepped and cleaned weasel skull, museum-ready, with dermestid beetles.
We have a full basement, in every sense of the term.
I could see a Red-shouldered Hawk perched contentedly in the woods edge just outside our bedroom yestidie.
Question of the day: Is Sarah jealous because she can’t have a basement in the tundra? Does she even know why?
Who cares about institutional branding and “where did you go to school?”. I heard that Palin had a 1600 on her SAT’s back when 1600 was the top score. Seriously, isn’t that worth something? Granted she did not go Harvard. She seems a lot smarter than Joe McCarthy.
shhhhhh. a lesson learned by personal experience might be more enjoyable, and actually stick. wouldn’t want to spoil
theirour fun, now, would we?Howard Fineman on Keith Olbermann’s show:
Scored big on SAT’s.
Scored big at Saks and Niemans.
hey adie-how’s tricks? been back at the lake a few days now.thanks.
getting ready to sign off for now, starving..my lunch has been sitting in the living room for over an hour, hope the dog didn’t get it.and they’re showing west wings on bravo.
and marshen—that was only the first part of the palin interview, ,second tonight
http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord/index.html
bbl
Ladies and Gentlemen, leftdcin72 – new Editor-in-Chief of The Onion.
Blog infrequently. Not from my basement. That is reserved for my international cottage industry. One quarter to half a mil from the Chinese government per annum beats Sarah P’s underwear allowance any day. Have a Ph.D. in physics from NYU; other degrees from no lesser institutions. God’s honest truth. Both my kids earned Ph.D.s and teach at university level. I guess I can’t move to Alaska, but golldarnit, I wore my Alaska T-shirt just yesterday.
Depends on what one does with it, eh?
Precisely nails to the point of this exercise.
Besides, She threw first, Mom! Honest!
Indeed, those elitist, undereducated types are really annoying!
Are all of the banking industry CEO’s from trailer parks?
Interesting as I saw something that purported to be her High School transcripts and included SAT scores that didn’t add up to 850 total.
Somehow, I would be very skeptical that she scored a 1600 back when that was a perfect score. If she had, that info would have been trumpeted loudly and prominently by both Palin AND McCain
On second thought, maybe Africa IS a country, and she has one over on us.
Besides, she reads all the stuff people put in front of her.
stuff. hate the use of that word. stuff.
and stuff.
Doin’ o.k., thanks, and you?
Thanks be, gotta run and rake leaves. Not my favorite project, but our friendly neighborhood twitter-birdies (juncos, titmice, chickadees, goldfinches in winter drabs, house finches, cardinals, bluejays, robins, white-throated sparrows migrating thru – they all “help”)
Unspoiled nature should be a right and a treasure, not a luxury.
Someone, please pass it on to dumbya & shooter.
gotta go. thanks for cheering my day pups!
Whirled Peas to All
“I heard”? Do recall that she has demonstrated herself to be a pathological liar, part of a campaign populated by many others.
I’m reminded of the elder John Sununu, who had a reputation for having a very high IQ, and commentary by our mentally-challenged DC press corps was often prefaced with a “he’s a really smart guy…” Some years later, it came out that this “IQ Test” was a self-test in the back of OMNI Magazine that he’d done on a plane trip, and spread the story around himself.
Anything these people say should be presumed to be a lie unless independent documentation is available. Especially if, like the “1600 SATs” it seems really implausible on its face.
RNC to Sarah, you can keep the clothes with the moose shit on them.
Palin is the perfect republican. She cannot tell the truth and she cannot accept that she could do anything wrong. It is always someone else’s fault.
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1600 on the SAT’s not what I’ve heard; several unsubstantiated reports are floating around on the web. This one looks possibly credible: http://buzzfeed.com/scott/sarah-palins-sat-scores
re 179
OK–just found a report that that was photoshopped, so who knows what they were.
The education of Sarah Palin:
HPC must’ve been a really bad scene.
I am guilty of blogging unkind, and entirely true, words about Governor Palin. Perhaps my Honors degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology from The University of Edinburgh led me astray?
Plus, I blog from a fourth-floor apartment. I guess that’s only five floors from a basement.
Bachelor of Arts. 3.5 years. Same school.
2 BAs, one American and one French (the Sorbonne, no less); 1 MA, French; a Ph.D, French from the school where the great Annales historians teach, and a Fulbright year at the London School of Economics.
I have a basement, which I share with the other condo owners. The garbage we spew includes the exhaust fumes of their BMWs, Mustangs, Lincoln Town Car, etc.
For the communicating of real garbage, one has to go the the building next door, the office buildings which is home to Clear Channel, toward whose windows I have aimed my biggest Obama 08 fan.
I blog from the computer in my home office. And for the record, BA in Political Science, law degree from the University of Kansas (Law Review editor), and non-degree coursework at the George Washington Univ. School of Political Management.
And Sarah, I only attended two colleges to get my degree, and that’s only because I had to work my way through college and I had to move for my job.
http://punditmom1.blogspot.com
If Sarah is going to continue to talk directly to the American people without a “filter”, she has to at least pledge to tell the truth.
B.A. Latin American Studies from Cal (Go Bears!) which combined with my years of traveling the world as a software salesperson and marketing communications director gives me more foreign policy experience than Governor Palin.
I really do hope that she tries to hang on to some type of leadership role in the Republican party. It would be so satisfying to watch the religious right and the neocons rip the thing to shreds while more and more moderate Republicans find their way to independent status. They could be wandering in the wilderness for a good long while!
I LOVE this article! I forwarded it to many friends, all of whom have at least a bachelor degree. (And are well past living with their parents.)
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She said she left HPC because she couldn’t take the heat.
Got my BA @ Yale ‘07. Deeply entrenched in the blogosphere. Don’t live with my parents. Don’t have a basement. Love Sarah Palin’s feeble attempts to remain relevant.
And let’s not forget, Rude Pundit’s a professor.
Wasilla Hillbilly attends five colleges…did she graduate yet?
Sarah Palin says such things because she is what’s known as “a dick.” She called Obama a socialist, despite the fact that her state redistributes corporate wealth, because she’s a dick. She went on and on about Obama’s “relationship” with Ayers and his anti-Americanism, despite her own connections to secessionists, because she’s a dick. She started running for the 2012 nomination before the votes were cast in 2008 because she’s a dick. She abused her power in Alaska for a personal vendetta because she’s a dick. Is she a sociopath? I have no idea. But she certainly is a dick.
Great response Jane. I believe…..oh damn…..my mom is calling me. I gotta go upstairs. L8tr
I’ll add my voice to this:
Summa cum Laude graduate in Greek and Latin from UCLA. Received the highest honors that an undergraduate at my school could have received, if I’m not mistaken. National Merit Scholar.
Co-owner of a marketing research business.
Member of the California Democratic Party Platform Committee.
And I live in a nice apartment with my girlfriend. One of my parents has a basement. The other doesn’t.
Betcha didn’t know that, also.
Also.
as in: “I’ll sew my own clothes from now on.”
ohhhhhhh, that is way cool!!!!!!
ummmmm, moose chili!!! hot dogs with velveeta!!
didn’t you see her on greta last night?
she cooks from scratch in her suits
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look for this dialogue tonight, or something similar—
“no need to change clothes to be in the kitchen, doncha know, makin alaska’ food for my alaska’ family, i have lotsa clothes! my favorite clothing shop knows how, will take care of, knows how to, getting that stain out, ya know? they’re such great, wholesome americans, these women.real alaskans. they know how to get a stain out, you betcha!”
part two tonight. 10eastern.
what is cracking me up is they are talking about how america loves her so much the ratings are so high! when they aren’t taking into account how many of us are waiting for her to say something else to ‘enlighten’ us.
Certainly looks more explainable than 1600
I’ve often thought that we need a bloggers’ directory with bios to counteract the right wing smear campaign of progressive bloggers. This is a nice start.
How would Sarah feel if someone called her an ignorant, freeloading bubble headed piece of trailer park trash whose daddy told the AP she spent the weekend scrambling to return her stolen clothes to the RNC?
I’ve got no comment, I just wanted to put that quote on this page again.
Zinga!
The grammar police will be at you to add a hyphen to “Bubble-headed.”
Markos probably doesn’t have a basement. He lives in Berkeley. We don’t need no stinking basements in California. Except where it might snow.
I have no basement
but I have a BS in Mathematics
Masters in Music, Masters in Performance
Worked in every major Opera house in the world. You bettcha
Awww who cares what Palin says….she is an idiot.
I’m sitting in my office in the 3rd floor condo, fashionably dressed in rmy green slacks and a ruby colored turtle neck. I have 4 photographs in an exhibition
http://www.slideroomgallery.com/current.html
I am a parent and grandparent of 6.
Jane forgot Andrew Sullivan, who writes today, he will not stop going after Palin.
Sullivan’s bio:
I’ve owned a housecleaning business for over 14 years now, am a single Mom, and I’m smahtah than Sarah Palin any day of the week!
Sarah is just miffed that, for the first time, ‘Obama’s Online Army’ was able to defeat the GOP’s “smear machine” AND use youtube to create some of the funniest videos showing McCain/Palin as they really are.
To defeat the GOP smear machine, Obama had his own ‘fight the smears’ operation and then, when we received copies of emails etc we were able to go viral with the snopes/urban legend info when they were simply repeats from a few months back or brand new b.s. being put out there.
Sarah, see you again in 2012 !
Well I say leave it up to Atlantic Monthly conservativesoul Andrew Sullivan on Palin. No one on the left trashed her half so much, nor a third so relentlessly (and it might serve as a salutory innoculation to think on how he continues to be obsessed with her tiniest peccadillo), and the worst stories told about her came out on FOX news.
But Palin is a basketball player; she talks trash. Personally, though, when she gets onto her high horse, doesn’t that mouth kinda look like Heath Ledger’s Joker? I think Doonesbury should create a character with just that ugly lipstick grimace that coms to two sharp points on either side at the bottom.
The tide is turning, Jane; just a little over a week ago, they were saying that Barack Obama wasn’t fit to be President of the United States; I even got one email from a conservative co worker demanding that people know that Obama never really went to Columbia or Harvard or taught at the University of Chicago. Misuenderstimation: the byword of the right.
Wow! I’ve always wished I could have been a Dunite! Their story fascinates me. Do you ever get back this way for a visit with Big Brother?
I hate to see too much emphasis on academic credentials because it leaves too many people that have none (me) feeling like we’re not invited to the party. You start leaving out the poor and the disabled and the working class and you basically become the right wing.
Let’s not become the elitists that we’ve been accused of for so long.
Palin is not an idiot because she doesn’t have an excellent education or an alphabet to follow her name. She’s an idiot because she chooses to be one.
And, yes I have a full basement which is finished and I don’t blog from there. But, my son did when he lived at home. It didn’t make him stupid or less relevant. It made him out of my way. ;)