For the Quitter, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blames her upside-down approval rating among independents on one of her favorite foils: the media.
Palin, who serves as a paid commentator for Fox News, said on “Fox News Sunday” that “if I believed everything I read or heard in the media, I wouldn’t like me either.“
Let’s review.
The Quitter made these comments on Faux News, where she has her own show. Pretty sure they’re part of “the media.”
She’s also paid millions of dollars to write books approve galleys appear on the cover of fiction published by HarperCollins — also part of the media. And her latest book touts the fact that she’s a “New York Times” bestselling author. Yep, think all that stuff would generally fall under “the media.”
Also, the Quitter has a deal in place for a show on Discover, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” Not to mention the fact that she loves to go on Oprah and splash herself and her train-wreck of a family all over the covers of Newsweek and People Magazine.
Media, media, media, media.
The problem for the Quitter is that the more Americans see her on Faux, read her books, and see her on the cover of magazines, the more they dislike her.
Still, you’d think that she could express the teeniest, tiniest bit of gratitude to the media for making her what she is today — a celebrity multi-millionaire — instead of blaming them for her shitty poll numbers.
The party of personal responsibility, blah, blah, blah…



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Heh.
Seeking reality and facts from Palin again, are we, BT?? /s
Good to line it out and highlight the craven hypocrisy, cosmic disconnect, and just plain old every day garden variety lying bull hockey, I suppose.
Palin’s slavering minions don’t give a crap about facts. Sarah winks and wriggles, and the minions get all shivery down their spines. Added benefit: feeling attacked and vicitimized by horrible sinful heathen liebruls. Woo-hoo: a twofer.
There’s nothing rational about any of this. It is politics of emotional tribalism. And it works, at least for some.
Couple more years of livin’ the good life and puttin’ on the pounds the minions won’t like her any more.
I wish we could get someone to pay her to shut the fuck up.
Just ignore the ignoramus. I know her every utterance gets our blood pressure up. So why not practice a mass blogosphere shunning? We know she will never ever say anything that is not absurd and infuriating.
Playin’ the world’s smallest violin for the half-gov.
She will never go away just like Ann Coulter never goes away. Republicans have no taste in women.
Heh. I was just thinking about Coulter recently, about how we, blessedly, haven’t heard much from her in awhile.
It’s not really that she won’t shut up, it’s the media that keeps putting every word she says out there.
Oh, the media again.
Yeah, the mean ‘ole librul commie nazi media.
The same media that ensures she gets more play for saying stupid shit than folks that could actually make a difference for saying smart shit.
Gotta agree with her in a way.
The media is fucked up.
At least Coulter’s star seems to be on the decline. So far La Palin is like the Energizer bunny of low-information politics.
Because as long as she is given a forum for her utterances and as long as there are people who against all odds believe her utterances, then there have to be individuals willing to point out to others the idiocy contained in her utterances.
So even though WE know that she says nothing that is not absurd and infuriating, as long as there’s a market for her, there’s a need to refudiate her.
I saw a bumper sticker today that said “I don’t trust the liberal media.” sarah plays to that group. The media tags along hoping that they can be part of the t-party. Unfortunately for them, faux got there first and there is no room for any others. So, no matter how much they suck up to sarah or newt or any other of that group, the “liberal media” are just a punching bag.
I saw Coulter on something recently, can’t remember what it was, but yea, she’s been out of the spotlight lately.
I don’t know where to begin, Blue Texan.
I’ve written so many posts here and elsewhere about Palin. Some have covered this same territory. Months and months ago. I thought of writing about my neighbor on the anniversary of her actual resignation (July 27th) but more important things were happening.
She’s the most uncannily aware false complainer about being a victim in the history of American politics. She’s also the most profoundly sick pathological liar to be allowed first rank access to the American political scene in our country’s history. She’s also the biggest, most lame political joke of the 21st century.
But, more importantly, she attempted to kill her unborn son. Unless she faked the pregnancy of TriG, her actions during the second and third trimester of her most recent pregnancy point toward a person who did everything in her power, short of abortion, to create a miscarriage and the death of her potential child.
Had a prominent liberal African- Latina- or Arab-American politician done what Palin did in early 2008 to her fetus, a conservative prosecutor with political aspirations would have drawn up child endangerment charges on Palin soon after Palin’s explanation of “the wild ride” was published. And the woman would now be in jail, instead of complaining about being a goddam fucking victim.
[evil grin] She’ll never live that one down, will she? [/evil grin]
VERY well played sir. LOL
Sarah is like an inflatable doll much like Vitter would buy if he couldn’t buy the real thing.
Rutrow, looks like I may owe the good EDP a beverage.
What’re ya havin’?
Awesome. Now THAT’s award winning journalism right there folks!!!
Something in a pint of bitter, please.
Palin speaks to many of the republicans I know. They love her lack of smartness because they have that same lack of smartness. Most of them are only high school grads but did alright for themselves financially. They say “he don’t” instead of “he doesn’t”, and “should have went” instead of “should have gone”. They drive big american cars and only eat at chinese restaurants that employ non-chinese people so you can bet it’s not too authentic.
Palin is a Monet.
Enjoy.
Will do. Thanks.
Does that mean if you bite her on the butt, she farts and flies out the window?
I don’t think I could even find such a thing around here.
Give it try and see!
…ew. Just ew…
Palin farts… Comrade BT is there to blog about it…
But, more importantly, she attempted to kill her unborn son. Unless she faked the pregnancy of TriG, her actions during the second and third trimester of her most recent pregnancy point toward a person who did everything in her power, short of abortion, to create a miscarriage and the death of her potential child.
What? you’re more delusional than she is..,
Nah, it’s not the farts, it’s the verbal diarrhea that he has to address.
Yet another shining example of what a total and utter idiot she is
When she is pressed on issues, she can’t even put together a single coherent sentence without even her biggest supporters going, “Huh?”
When Palin is rarely “pressed” on issues (mostly she speaks within her comfort zone to an audience comprised solely of her most slavering – and wealthy – of fans), Palin stumbles and blurts out word salad. But that works, too, bc her minions can victimize themselves even further to the godless heathen attacking Liebruls. Pretty much everything can be pwnd into a win-win for the Sarah lovers… mostly by twisting it into how the godless heathens are doing eeeevul to precious godly Sarah. ahem.
She (edit: Ann Coulter) gave the rebuttal to Al Franken’s Netroots Nation (Ending) Keynote Address on Fox News. Unfortunately, (sic) the AF NN10 youtube gave out before she could expose herself much.
Amen to that!! Think if we take up a collection she will do it? She will clearly do anything for money, and $$$ is about the only thing her little brain is capable of understanding.
We’ll never know if Palin was attempting to force a miscarriage of her child or not, but we do know for a fact that Palin behaved very irresponsibly in several instances during this “later life” pregnancy. It’s a well-known fact that women who get pregnant at that age have to exercise more precautions than when younger. Her irresponsibility has been totally glossed over by the so-called “family values” crowd, who readily drank the Kool Aid of how fantastic it was that Palin was “willing” to continue the preganancy of her Downs Syndrome child.
I know a number of liberals who did the same thing, but Palin is venerated as if only “godly” conservatives would do that. Not true. And again, Palin’s abject irresponsibility during this late-life pregnancy is completely ignored. Typical IOKIYAR rules.
Have you read any articles on the “wild ride”?
Here are links to some of them:
one
two
three
the original
I’m sorry. I used to believe she had merely acted irresponsibly. I feel now that she really did want to end the pregnancy early. She was in her 40s and had had two miscarriages, along with four previous live births. It went, IMHO, beyond selfishness in the sense she usually exhibits it.
Geez… that must’ve been enlightening… /s
Let’s face it, though, Palin can blurt out just about anything, and her followers will get said tingles up & down their spines, and all is then well within their Palin-world. None of us in left blogistan will ever relate to this grifter shill, but to be redundant, within the first 30 seconds of her initial speech at the ReThug convention, I KNEW that they had discovered a winner. I cannot define it further than to say that I knew instantly that my rightwing fundie family would be slavering and worshipping at her feet. And they are, and they DO send Palin lotsa money, too. And so there ya go: a real winner. Send cash here….
I trust your judgment and follow your posts, but I was just giving that tiny ray of the benefit of the doubt. You’re probably correct, but since none of us is in Palin’s head (shudder and thank the dog for that!!!!), we will never really know for sure. But at the least: incredibly irresponsibily, and NO ONE on the right has ever made a peep about that.
I agree with you that if ANY Dem had done the same thing, but esp a minority Dem, these self-same people would be screaming and pointing and calling names.
IOKIYAR.
And, as I stated above – this is important:
To whom are you your refudiations aimed? When her utterances are reported on progressive blogs, it’s mostly progressives who read them and shriek with horror that this woman is still given a national forum. But it does nothing to refudiate. Because the people who made her rich don’t give a damn about what’s posted here. Writing to cable news might have a bigger effect.
Although it may seem like BT is preaching only to a small choir when he posts on the Half-term Half-wit, you might be surprised at the distance a good blog post can travel beyond the bounds of left blogistan.
It may not penetrate the Faux Noise folks, but it does penetrate to others who aren’t quite as hopeless.
Which is rather the point of the refudiaiton.
I believe the reason she behaved in what appeared to be such an irresponsible way for a 44 year woman with a high risk pregnancy is because she was never pregnant. I realize saying that is a bannable offense at Kos, hopefully at the Lake not so much. She had a big round pregnant belly on April 13th, the picture was touted as the proof she was indeed pregnant,
http://www.palindeception.com/calendar/days/041308.html
then appeared on stage at the governor’s meeting at noon on April 17th looking much the same,
http://www.palindeception.com/calendar/days/041708.html (pictures 3 & 4)
but then claimed she was able to get on a plane a couple hours later and no one noticed she was huge with child because she “never showed very much”. She can’t have it both ways. If she wants to produce a picture with a big belly that she says proves she was pregnant, she can’t say she wasn’t showing very much a couple days later. The only way a woman goes from looking like the pictures, back to “not showing very much” is if the belly in the pictures is a prosthetic. Not even “tight abs” can suck a belly like that back in again. Why would she do something that crazy? That risky? Right Wing Christian Pro Life Street Cred.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/07/two-videos-about-babygate-sarah-palins.html
Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with Justin Krebs’ 538 Ways to Live, Work, and Play Like a Liberal hosted by David Swanson
Your days in the spotlight are already numbered anyway, sweetie!
Palin Babygate: Mitt & Liz 2012
Why is ANYBODY even talking about this woman?
We have Snookie now!
So pull that dogsled over and get yer big fat…… Oh… Oh that big fat…….
Just shut up and disapear.
Snookie’s in the tanning bed w/ Grampy McCane. And Snookie Rules
LOL!!!!! :) Me too.
I agree that Palin has some idiosyncryses that, for some reason, appeal to a certain demographic. But I think an awful lot of her “popularity” is due to the fact that that demographic just happens to consist of conservative, older white men and that that demographic just happens to be in charge of much of the media.
Dunno about the name “The Quitter.” The name for Palin that keeps occuring to me whenever I see her name mentioned these days is “The Grifter,” somebody who’s very bitter and who feels entitled and who’s always got a moneymaking scam going.