Ms. Palin’s just showing her concern for the less fortunate (the other than English-only reporters), who have less than a sporting chance of figuring out what the heck she’s saying.

What a stupid, wretched, miserable excuse for a human being.

What a stupid, wretched, miserable excuse for a human being.

Seriously, you really don’t need to sugar-coat it for us.

Yes I do. FDL doesn’t allow the first words that came to mind.

Do we know if she actually writes her own tweets? Maybe she has a ghostwriter for this, too…

“…think people who demand English-only reporters at their events should be able to, you know, actually write in English.”
It might be a good political move for her to actually be able to speak reasonably in her own language as well. That might be, however, too much to ask.

^5

Lemme see now, if English is a living language and the Constitution is written in English that would make the Constitution a living document, right?

She won’t make it as an English teacher.

Palin’s current beyond-usual freakout is entirely generated by Bristol’s re-engagement to Levi, induced most likely by the apparent bump and interim boyfriend who argued with Track for calling Bristol two bad four-letter words.

When all you’ve got is “Mama Grizzly” to build a campaign platform, and you keep your kids under protection for a shorter time than an actual mama grizzly, you go a little (more) loonie. Especially if the results of your loving neglect are so apparent, and so vocal (twice).

Sarah’s way off the rails, and likely not to find them again soon.

Popcorn please….

That would only be true if the Constitution incorporated itself :D

Or a Governor…

Almost certainly, but in this case the ghostwriter does a great impression of the high-school attitudes we’ve come to expect from La Palin.

Didn’t hurt Shrubya.

At least this time she didn’t compare herself to God.

Speaking of misquoting Shakespeare Sarah,

Shall I compare thee to Summer’s Eve?

She clearly did in this case.

Or a vice-presidential candidate…

Let’s face it, only La Palin and her little personality cult haven’t realized what a miserable failure she really is.

Wee-weed up??? As in pissed up? That doesn’t make any sense. Why am I not surprised.

Good point.

Only if Jesus sez so.

ROFLMAO!

Somebody told her to go piss up a rope and she tried.

It took you laughing to jog me brain as to what that is.

Gravity is a harsh mistress.

No offense intended, but is anyone getting anything of intellectual value from Blue Texan’s posts or are they just here for comedy? I mean, making sport of political figures is fun and all, but…

707!!

Do you not find intellectual stimulation in humor?

BT pretty much had to add the humor for us, since there’s nothing remotely intellectual or stimulating about La Palin.

Well there goes my plan to post early morning knock-knock jokes.

“Got to celebrate it!” is such a bold embrace of complete ignorance that it makes me queasy. Not only doesn’t she care that she uses gibberish, she actually thinks it’s noble.

When I first read this sequence of unfortunate tweets, Oswald Bates (Damon Wayans) came to mind.

I found Nailin Palin pretty interesting (h/t Larry Flynt) but that’s because I’m a crude kid.

Shows to go what a journalism degree is worth without an actual commitment to the craft.

BT tends to look for the more interesting foibles on the other side of the tent. The, now, much refudiated Sarah “the Bard” Palin brought this on herself. We are all just trying to figure out whether Palin has a ghostwriter and whether it it is the ghost of the Marx Brothers.

Quite a bit, actually, if the state of journalism is anything to judge.

What a doofus.

On second thought, my apologies to any doofi out there; you deserve better than that.

The narcissist defines whatever s/he does as the only thing to do, done to the nth degree possible.

That Ms. Palin knows there was a Shakespeare, let alone that he wrote passably longserving language, is a small victory in the small-minded world that is Sarah Palin; her ambition, greed and backbiting already take up so much of it.

Palin’s ghostwriter might be a salad shooter. She tears pages out of the dictionary, stuffs them into the contraption, turns the crank and Presto! out comes another $100,000 speech.

With apologies to Wanda Gershwitz and Otto, calling Ms. Palin stupid would be an insult to stupid people. She does know, however, how to take gobs of money and give very little in return. She’s so good at it she should give seminars to “defense” and “intelligence” contractors.

As Keith Olbermann is fond of saying, “That woman is an idiot”.

Yeah, she knows there was a Shakespeare. The dude invented those fishing reels, right?

You mean Shakespeare wasn’t the guy who invented vibrating javelins?

That Ms. Palin knows there was a Shakespeare, let alone that he wrote passably longserving language, is a small victory in the small-minded world that is Sarah Palin…

It’s nice to know she learned something from the Cliffs Notes to Macbeth.

She is a grifter.

The dumber she appears the more the faithful love her. Why? Because, she’s just down home folk…like they are. Or as we know them white trash.

This is funny cause she’s real dumb.

Wee-Weed, sounds like the quitter bought a truly small bag of cannabis.

Emulating the Decider Bush deception by trying to appear to be down home folk when you are really just wealthy and dumb.

OT: It’s wonderful to call out Republicans filibustering unemployment benefits on Daily Kos but taboo to point out that Ben Nelson is supporting that filibuster and that those benefits would have been paid for before Scyphozoa Reid let them all go on vacation. Bad ju-ju apparently to look at that.

I was going to mention that. All of the stupidity of Bush without the handlers making her look all “folksy”. What some people used to see as the Bush “charm” has been made apparent to all but the most obtuse to be just stupidity and intellectual laziness.

So I suppose calling Ben the “Nebraska Kneebiter” isn’t going to fool anyone, right?

Refudiate? I see this as an instance of a Palindrome, not to be confused with a palindrome.

Having grown up in rural MT I’d say the people I grew up with generally don’t find her rich lifestyle and constant panhandling are somehow masked by her inability to use the language she claims everyone else should learn. Rather, she seems the classic vision of the femme fatale (minus the fatale) gold digger of the 20s and 30s.

Alright. I admit my ignorance and Google didn’t help. Please enlighten me so I can go back to lurkin’.

Palindrome

Nice.

A “Palindrome,” eh? Not bad, not bad…

Like Bush, the baglady will get more and more handlers as time goes on to refine her folksy messages.

One thing Google won’t help you with is your ability to get puns. Shake-spear(e)… “vibrating javelins”? Get it? I keep, I say I keep throwin’ ‘em but you keep missin’….

No, this is an indirect reference to a phrase Obama used last August – check out Urban Dictionary. There it has become a political entry (point up the phrase if you hate libruls…) From context, when Obama used it, it meant “don’t get your undies in a bundle”.

Thanks. Doh. (Hangs head in humility and shame.)

At this point I am inclined to go with Jane’s term, “Meshugganah” (my emphasis on the second paragraph).

So I suppose calling Ben the “Nebraska Kneebiter” isn’t going to fool anyone, right?

It might even draw out some Nelson apologists. Criticizing Dems, any Dems, no matter what will be frowned upon….

David Dayen has a fresh cross-post available: Warren/CFPB Fight About Bank Exposure?

Knew we’d get there eventually. Cheer up! A whole host of people don’t get my humor. :)

Panties in a bunch. Knickers in a twist.

Okay, Groucho says “viaduct” and Chico says “why a duck?”

I’m trying really hard to work “why a moose?” into this discusssion and I’m not having any luck.

Have some pie of mousse. Why a Moose? Easy

The thing that Palin misses about our living language is that when a word is misused famously, it doesn’t join the language in a good way. We still use “(series of) tubes”, “the Google”, and “the Internets”, because they were famously mangled phrases. But we do it in mutual shared snarkdom. As we will whenever we want to refudiate something.

Yep, “refudiate” has instant legs. She’s going to rue that one. (Interesting that so many examples come from Alaska Republicans). Texas and Alaska: Big in area, big in Republicans, HUGE in mangled language.

Or maybe she’ll just “ruegret” it. ;)

{Can’t.Stop.Chortling.Snorting.Laughing}

Away, you three inch fool.

Sincerely, Bill

Son, Ah say, son, put that down befoah ya hurt yerself.

From the extremest upward of thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot, a most toad spotted traitor.

Sincerely, Bill

Pray you, stand farther from me.

Sincerely, Bill

Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon!

Sincerely, Bill

I could go on for a fortnight, but this is enough to tell me SP is not fit to utter the word Shakespeare, in any context, on any forum.

Careful….there may be lurking trolls that will refudiate that…

Sarah’s way off the rails, and likely not to find them again soon.

Bristol should have refudiated Levi — twice.

See how that works? You’ve already created the definitive example, soon to be in the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement. “there may be lurking trolls that will refudiate that”. Yep, I like it.

[Keith Olbermann]That woman is an idiot![/Keith Olbermann]

Just keep in mind that as horrid as she is we cannot lose sight of the mediocrity of her opponent in 2012. Obahmarahma and his running dog lackeys are already positioning her as their version of 1984‘s Bernstein.

Why would someone celebrate their ignorance? I guess the question answers itself. But if having Sarah Palin as President would mean the emergence of a real and viable mainstream liberal/progressive political movement in America, I say bring her on. Obama amounts to nothing more than Bush’s third term and is horrible for any liberal/progressive mainstream ideas.

Yeah, and it’s such a shame: there’s only one internet channel today, even at FDL!

I don’t think they have to do any positioning. Gallup confirmed she’s got the best favorables among the GOP 2012 field thus far.

is anyone getting anything of intellectual value from Blue Texan’s posts

What you get out them intellectually may say more about you than Blue Texan, no?

IF that happened – that SP became POTUS (shudder) – it would be *nice* to think it would “cause” a liberal/progressive political movement, but I sure wouldn’t count on it. Seriously, after W, we got Obummer.

I shudder further to think what we’d get after Palin. Not so sure it would be a good thing for progressives.

There’s an amusing show on tv that comedically covers some of the worst tv shows eacy week. When I watch it, I cannot believe how incredibly stupid some people are on these shows (sounds condescending, I know, but if the shoe fits…). I realize that “reality” tv is more contrived than not, but many of the people on these shows sadly make lichens look like intellectual giants.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the Republicans really did hit a winning formula with W and Palin: they make a large portion of the masses feel “comfortable” enough to vote for them. They identify with W (great guy to drink a beer with!) and Palin, so they vote for them.

Sad but true. Not that Obama, for all of his “smarts,” has done much of anything to win anyone over to whatever “side” it is that he’s on.

I’m just afraid that fear of her will make the left lose sight of how bad are the current gang running things. I can just see the left obsessed with defeating her and then realizing in 2013 that once again we got the booby prize. If we stay focused perhaps the left can push Obahmarahma to actually accomplish something after this November by defeating as many dems as possible with third party candidates as spoilers (a message-sending vote), but not if we are obsessing with the Beauty Queen.

Mr. Obama imagines himself as not having a side; his personal demons drive him to avoid taking sides, which is, of course, taking the side of the most powerful or vociferous. I think he’s smart enough to know that.

This has been going on for a while. Remember “I like Ike”? Never mind what you think of his policies, as long as you “like” him, that’s enough.

FWIW, I really think those on the left should worry about Jeb Bush and Scott Brown.

“Dumb” sells. Dumb and Dumber, Michelle Malkin, and that Fox broadcaster with degrees from Stanford and Oxford who nightly gives us her interpretation of a “dumb housewife”.

The thing is that both of them are tainted by the failure of his brother (Bush) and the failure of a relative unknown with very little experience (Brown), albeit from a different party. At least they are with me, what the hell the rest of the country will decide is beyond me, I stopped predicting rational decisions long ago.

Jeb will almost certainly make a run, he’s got most of the old team, including Bush’s Brain, behind him already. Brown was more lucky than strategic. The Rs get to run as the anti-Palin as well.

Shortly after, someone with a high school education probably pointed out that “refudiate” wasn’t an actual word . . .

BT, don’t you mean that someone probably pointed out that “refudiate” ISN’T an actual word? With your misuse of tense, you are implying that it now is an actual word.

Now call me old fashioned, but I think people who write for a living should be able to, you know, actually use good grammar.

(golf claps)

Touche!

Oh, I think it is now an “actual” word, thanks to Sarah. It will be used far and wide for months to come. Besides that, it’s hilarious.

What a stupid, wretched miserable excuse for national media. If it were not for them, every utterance from this numbskull would not make headlines. In fact she would be baking pies in Wasilla, just like many stupids around the country – not that there’s anything wrong with baking pies and I’m sure many smart people bake pies. The point is she would be out of the spotlight and not hurting anyone with her stupidity. One could say this is a stupid, wretched, miserable excuse for a country that so many people would hang on her every word… but I’m not willing to go that far yet.

The tense, as well as the mood of the verbs used matched within the same clause, which is actually good grammar and syntax.

In case you’re wondering, that would be the conditional or subjunctive mood.

Now I feel better. It sounded right to me.

you are implying that it now is an actual word

The implication of whether it is currently an actual word is undefined in the sentence and is left as an exercise for the reader.

I see this as an instance of a Palindrome, not to be confused with a palindrome.

One of Palin’s most valuable qualities is her ability to inspire others to create new words. Also:

1. Palin-Drone: Murderous drag queen of dubious pedigree, hand(-job)-selected by the Gay Old Pedophiles (GOP) as butt boy extraordinaire to ‘Senator’ McBane. Notoriously misogynic and thoroughly misanthropic (due to gender and species xenophobia, respectfully), Palin-Drone prostitutes its own knocked-up 17-year-old spawn as anodyne for witless, anti-choice right-wingnuts. In a fortuitous twist of irony, Palin-Drone is ostensibly the same anti-Christ its own sycophants have been programmed to dread.

I don’t think Juan Cole would object to my quoting from his comments at length; his hammer blow on Ms. Palin’s literary nail tack is perfectly struck (emphasis mine; original links and emphasis omitted):

“Refudiate” is, of course, not a word, and a case could be made for making Ms. Palin pay her parents back for all the money they spent on her education.

The phrase ‘stab you in the heart as it does ours’ should be ‘stab you in the heart as it does us’– she has incorrectly switched from a direct object of the transitive verb ‘to stab’ to a possessive modifying heart; in the first parallel phrase, ‘heart’ was the the object of a preposition.

The further errors in the tweet have to do with substance. A tiny fringe cult destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, not Islam in general (a religion of 1.5 billion human beings which could well be the religion of 3 billion human beings by mid-century). A monument to Usama Bin Laden or al-Qaeda would be in poor taste. A mosque, built anywhere in the United States, is not.

The classical Islamic law of war forbids sneak attacks. It forbids the killing of non-combatants. It forbids the killing of women and children. War is a collective duty declared by the duly constituted authorities, not an individual duty, and so not just any Ahmed or Moustafa can wake up in the morning and declare war on, say, Europe. See Khaled Abou El Fadl.

Al-Qaeda cultists reject these principles of Islamic law and they have been roundly condemned for doing so by all the major Muslim authorities– the rector of Al-Azhar Seminary in Egypt, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq, television preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar, Tahir al-Qadri in Pakistan, etc., etc., etc.

Finally, forbidding the building of a mosque in New York is inconsistent with the ideals of the Founding Generation of the United States of America, who explicitly mentioned Islam among the cases when they spoke of religious freedom

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Would someone please tell me what happened with the earlier post by blue texan with this exact headline..it seems to have disappeared and replaced with this????

If you read and write about politics full-time and are thus forced to subject yourself to the political media — as I am — what’s most striking aren’t the outrages and corruptions, but the overwhelming, suffocating, numbing stream of stupidity and triviality that floods the brain. One has to battle the temptation to just turn away and ignore it all. Every day, day after day, is consumed by some totally irrelevant though distracting melodrama: what Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

All of the GOP are nutjobs to some varying degree. Who cares? Focus on what is going on in this country. Obama and the Democrats had full control of our government and did absolutely nothing with that opportunity to help 97% of our country.

Not Bill, but Lewis.
Through Sarah’s Looking Glass we find her inspiration:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Jabberwocky – L. Carroll

Do you really think she’s smart enough to bake?

Only with an Easy-Bake oven, the one that uses a low-wattage light bulb for a heat source – so that it doesn’t burn a child’s fingers or start the house on fire – to make those tiny sugar-flour-water coasters that substitute for baseball cards and doggy snacks.

I think you mean moosey snacks…

At least this time she didn’t compare herself to God. – B.T.

If only GOD looked that good in Nipple Zips …

Stupidity isn’t Palin’s problem. Hubris is. The fact that she can’t step back and say, “Yes, I suppose I mangled that word. But clearly my meaning is….” is the worrisome part. Some part of her knows that if she admits she didn’t use proper English, she’ll be seen as capitulating to liberals. That’s the scary part.

I think Sistah Sarah better start paying Weird Al Yankovic royalties for using his song ‘Dare To Be Stupid’ as her life’s mantra. She’s fulfilled nearly every verse in the song.

Good Grief, if she, with her limited intellect and abilities, has so many fanatic supporters, what must that say about their abilities and intellect?

Always a wizard with words, Sarah Palin enriches our English, colors our colloquy, and invigorates our vernacular.