America by Heart – Chapter 1, We the People (Part 2 of 2)
Well, I was better prepared for the second half of this God awful collection of tripe that Sarah Palin calls a “chapter.” “Better prepared” means that I’d pre-medicated with a little fermented sugar cane (rum). So, let’s not stop and think about it too much. It’s like ripping off a Band-Aid, just get it over with quick.
Welcome back to the blogging of the book. In this installment we’ll discuss the lack of racism in the country, except by the Obamas and their pastor, and we’ll examine the lyin’ Black Congressional Caucus and their attempt to trick us into talking about racism instead of the issues.
Page 18
The Declaration of Independence is “full of interesting nuggets. I highly recommend it.”
Page 19
More making the case that progressives are bad. This time she uses a quote from Calvin Coolidge who says that “to deny the principles of our founding isn’t to go forward (to “progress”) but to go backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.”
(So black is white, up is down, forward is backward… just in case you were wondering)
Ordinary Americans make sacrifices to defend their freedom “by resisting trading their freedom for the promise of cradle to grave government security the way so many countries of Western Europe have.”
(We Americans cherish the right to have insurance companies deny us coverage or refuse to pay, and we cherish the right to not be able to afford to go to college! Not like those damn Europeans!)
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“Americans don’t just cling to their liberties like spoiled children.” This is still talking about Western Europe.
(So if a parent takes care of their child’s health, and sends them to school, does this make the child spoiled?)
Those silly politicians who tried to promote health care “seemed to think we could be bribed by pie-in-the-sky promises; that we were gullible enough to believe that government could manufacture a new “right” to health care and we wouldn’t pay the price with our freedom…”
(Bribery by improvement of society. Nah, people don’t want improvement. We’d prefer to be miserable, and we’ll elect leaders who make us that way!)
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Ried, Pelosi, and Obama only got health care through because they engaged in sleazy back room dealing, just like what happened with the “infamous Louisiana Purchase.”
(A day doesn’t go by when I don’t regret the Louisiana Purchase. But, all Americans feel that way, don’t they?)
It’s really all about tort reform.
Page 22
As her Dad would say, “instead of retreating, America is reloading.” If anyone in Washington D.C. would get out of the “beltway” now and then, they’d realize that Americans are really serious about freedom. Government is bad. It doesn’t give people rights, it takes them away. Bad, bad, bad.
(We’ve got the best system of government in the world, but government is bad. Don’t forget that.)
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Remember when Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver got spit on by someone in the Tea Party mob? Remember when they hurled racial slurs at him and others? Well, she thinks it was all a lie because Andrew Breitbart offered a reward to anyone who got it on tape and nobody came forward. So there you go. Tea Partiers are NOT racist and this proves it. The liberals just made up a story to make them look bad. Yes, according to Sarah Palin the entire Black Caucus is lying about racial slurs being hurled at Congressman Cleaver, Congressman John Lewis and Congressman Andre Carson. They just made it up to make the non-racist Tea Party people look bad so people won’t take them seriously.
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This tactic of calling patriotic Tea Party Americans racists is just to keep people from talking about the issues. “This tactic is of a piece with the shameful tendency of the left not simply to declare their opponents wrong, but to declare them evil. Conservatives and liberals don’t have honest policy disagreements, this strategy says; conservatives are just bad people.”
(Let’s review. Liberals are bad people because they say conservatives are bad people. Let’s hate liberals because liberals are haters. Got it.)
A majority of Americans hate Obamacare. They did at the beginning and they do now. Does this make the majority of Americans bad?
(No. It means your pants are on fire and most Americans don’t think health care reform went far ENOUGH.)
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Slavery – we have to come to terms and admit it was wrong even though it was in the Constitution. “Confronting out history, of course, also means acknowledging how much progress we’ve made as a nation…”
(PROGRESS? But progress is bad! Progress is “progressive!” Progress means giving up liberty and freedom and taking us backward! I’m so confused!)
Some people just want to focus on America’s “sins.” They don’t want to remember things like the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act. They just want to remember slavery.
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Classic quote. “Americans are too busy raising their families, building their businesses, and looking after their neighbors to spend a lot of time fixating on the color of someone’s skin.” Americans just aren’t racist at all but the liberals keep saying that the Tea Party is racist to stop the conversation and end “legitimate debate.”
The other reason they call the Tea Party racist is because they really believe it. They believe that America as it exists is unjust and unequal. Look at Michelle Obama, she “never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections.”
“In retrospect, I guess this shouldn’t surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church listening to his rants against America and white people.”
(So white Americans aren’t racist. But black Americans are. America is just and fair and doesn’t pay attention to skin color unless we’re talking about the Obamas and Rev. Wright.)
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The left thinks that talking about state’s rights is a code for white supremacy. Are they saying that the founding documents are racist?
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Some founders were slave owners. People talk about the 3/5 clause saying that slaves were only 3/5 of a person. “If you’ve attended an elite college or even taken a high school history course, you have probably heard the infamous three fifths clause denounced as evidence that the founding generation was morally blind, thus all of their works are irredeemably tainted, just like the label on the Constitution warned.”
Don’t worry. Now we’re going to hear the “truth of our founding” from Sarah herself.
Page 29-30
The framers decided to put the decision about slavery off for future generations to figure out. They laid the foundation to get rid of it later. The south actually wanted to include slaves equally with whites. The north didn’t want to count slaves as people because then the slaves would give the south more votes. So they must have put the 3/5 clause in there because they didn’t want slavery, and they wanted the north’s votes to count more. See?
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Even Barack Obama in a speech recognized that the Constitution wasn’t wrong and that it holds equality embedded in it. We just had to catch up.
(PROGRESS???)
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Her only wish is that “President Obama would follow through on this hopeful view of America” and stop rejecting our founding, and going for the “fundamental transformation” of America.
Instead he should follow the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King didn’t want to reject the founders, he wanted America to “live out the true meaning of its creed.”
She remembers watching one of King’s speeches in school. The Civil Rights movement was the work of heroes. She felt like a patriot that day.
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King spoke about equality and “we weren’t there yet” but his dream was coming closer to reality. Not everyone wants to quote King these days… and that’s too bad. He was great and good “unlike other so-called civil rights leaders who claim to be his heirs and to walk in his footsteps, he didn’t doubt that America had it in her to be great.”
(I guess she’s talking about that guy that lied about the racial slurs. Yeah, John Lewis who marched with Dr. King after he’d been severely beaten by those non-racists she’s talking about.)
Selma Civil Rights March: March 21, 1965. The march led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in July 1965. From far left: U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), who had been severely beaten on March 7, 1965, while leading the “Bloody Sunday” march; an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Ralph Bunche, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Rabbi Heschel; the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. (photo from Dartmouth Dept. of Religion)
John Lewis, now Congressman from Georgia being beaten in March of 1965 by the Alabama State Troopers, in Selma.
Well, that’s it for Chapter One. I need to shower. Our next chapter will be entitled “Why They Serve.”
Palin should write children’s books or be a stand up comedian. But her take on American history sounds like she watched a lot of Disney movies then listened to talk radio
John Lewis was almost beaten to death by members of the KKK. About a month before the health care bill hearings and vote, one of the members of the KKK, one who was involved in the beating, gave a public and open apology to Rep Lewis.
Then as I watched the entire hearings on c-span (yes I love torture ha ha)….I saw as they spit on him and Cyburn, called them names and affronted them. They did the same to Barney Franks and his partner as they walked by. I saw members of our congress hang the galveston flag over the railings…calling out…to the crowd below, urging them on. Saw members of the congress stand up and cheer as security evicted the men who had been shouting and disturbing the proceedings (were they drunk?) My thoughts, how many cheered as Code Pink activists were evicted from the chamber for calling for an end to the war?
Needless to say…she knows NO history…has no idea what our country has gone through, the struggles and challenges. wonder if she realized the national guard had to be called out on more than one occasion…some to walk with the children into the newly desegregated schools? Or how many have died to ensure freedom and liberties on our very own soil?
This to me is the most important. That she and the other tea party folk do not rewrite our history. Like the new textbook…is it in Va?…where they claim thousands of Afro Americans fought on the confederate side .
My gosh folks, I just read through all the comments and I’m so impressed! I don’t know if you are all from Alaska or other parts but you all are quality, kind, polite, and educated… in some sort of order.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen another board of such good behavior!
On Facebook I discovered Mudflats and I’m now a big fan.
I live in Southern Calif and never thought about a visit to Alaska until now.
I sent funds yesterday; I vote for spending it on Fat Tire, but that’s my Colorado alcoholic beverage of choice. 😉
What CRAP!
AKM you are a brave soul.
I just sent you a donation, i hope you use it for wine to go with whine.
Sarah Palin and her ilk pick and choose quotes from Rev. Wright and MLK, Jr. just like they do the Bible.
Does she know that Rev. Wright proved his patriotism by serving voluntarily in both the Marines and the Navy? And that MLK, Jr. had a similar opinion of our nation’s foreign policy. MLK, Jr. spoke out against the war in Viet Nam, not just for its violence, but because it took money away from the poverty program.
“…ventures like Viet Nam continue to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.”
“…the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U
Thanks, AKM, for your incredible fortitude and humor. I don’t know how you do it.
I think she just blows that off.Have ya ever heard anyone but some of us mention that fact that he served in the military.The repubs and her would like no one to know that fact.
OMG, AKM—- How can you read this tripe without going mad and blind?
So far, this book sounds like something my hog farmer neighbor would be interested in….for slopping his hogs.
Even my old hog farmer neighbor thinks that Mizz Palin is about twelve eggs short of a dozen. His hogs agree, but they’ll eat anything….even their young.
Here’s an image of the book signing line in Des Moines. Once again, none of her fans are peeking inside the book. They’re holding it down at their sides like they kinda don’t know what to do with them. Wonder if they even have phone books in the house.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/11/28/us/28palin1_span/28palin1_span-articleLarge.jpg
Here’s a book signing by Clinton. Notice people have their books open; they are looking inside at the contents!
http://www.life.com/image/2068084
Maybe because the people who bought her book can actually read????
Looking for images of the Des Moines book signing and ran into “Going Reggae” which I hadn’t seen before! Great image.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/4129048598_a556f3b9a0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/%3Ftag%3Dsarah-palin&usg=__LuOmtfupqhIIOuU0tPu405oIEtQ=&h=500&w=328&sz=127&hl=en&start=33&sig2=tc7fnuOJLnDwdzexJPn3fQ&zoom=1&tbnid=MvxBG28klYSIRM:&tbnh=165&tbnw=147&ei=mvTyTNiZHYLWtQP6sZGwCw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpalin%2Bbook%2Bsigning%2Bdes%2Bmoines%2Bamerica%2Bby%2Bheart%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1251%26bih%3D664%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C754&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=694&vpy=215&dur=7745&hovh=277&hovw=182&tx=96&ty=183&oei=NvTyTKvHD43QsAONy_C1CQ&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:33&biw=1251&bih=664
What part did she miss about the “equal” part. Does she know what King was striving for? This woman is smoking some heavy stuff. She probably thinks she is Betsy Ross sewing up a bunch of delusion. Who actually believes this stuff? Is there any part of the book that makes her fans scratch their heads? I just don’t get it. I read some of the reviews on Amazon and am stunned. I get the part about loving their Republican rhetoric. I just do not understand the twists and turns of her point. She is truly full of s_ _t!!! I can’t get past the pety little digs and they wonder why people are turned off.
“King spoke about equality and “we weren’t there yet” but his dream was coming closer to reality. Not everyone wants to quote King these days… and that’s too bad. He was great and good “unlike other so-called civil rights leaders who claim to be his heirs and to walk in his footsteps, he didn’t doubt that America had it in her to be great.”
I really thought that she would go with the true inspirational book with this one. It was sure talked up as that.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that we should be thankful (hey, it’s that time of year) that she wrote this hateful diatribe instead of something positive and uplifting.
The crazy people who buy this book probably fall into one (or both) of the following categories:
1) Lunatic hater who believes the sun shines out the quitter’s you know what, hates Obama, progressives, traveling outside of the bible belt, Jewish people, non-white people, loves medicare & social security, hates socialism, etc etc. — you know the type, teabaggers.
2) People (like a friend that I have, chem engineer, VP at an oil company, sweet, funny, wonderful and obviously naive as can be) who believe this woman is “spiritual” and “strong” and a bunch of other things that simply aren’t borne out by reality. Totally naive.
There is nothing that she could say to group number 1 that could make them worse — they are the bottom of the barrel in terms of Christians & human beings. Their views are so narrow, their defiition of christianity so narrow, there is no room for reason or love for fellow humans in their little minds.
Group 2, though, there is a chance, with them, that this book will be the nail in the coffin for any benefit of the doubt that they’d given the quitter. I cannot believe that my friend would read this book and continue to believe that the quitter is spiritual or inspirational. Some people have a limit, morally, to what they will tolerate, and it sounds like this book may just cross that line.
So, let’s give thanks — to AKM for reading & translating, and for it being such a steaming pile of you know what.
Let’s give thanks to our fellow mudflatters too.
2) People (like a friend that I have, chem engineer, VP at an oil company, sweet, funny, wonderful and obviously naive as can be) who believe this woman is “spiritual” and “strong” and a bunch of other things that simply aren’t borne out by reality. Totally naive.
People project onto her what they want to see. IMO. They did the same with G W Bush.
Please update us on whether reading this book changes your friend’s opinion of SP. I want to believe the Group 2-er’s will finally see behind the curtain – but it would be nice to have some real life examples to back that up. I’m in Anchorage and nearly everyone I know thinks very poorly of her.
The sad thing about people who buy her stupid book, is that they are not too bright, and take her at her word. As to North/South Korea—-how many people know the facts and don’t realize she is dead wrong. And what is more scary, is that if she runs—–these are the stupid people who will vote for her. OMG——Help us!!!!!!
I saw a picture of her book signing in Des Moines on WHO TV—-didn’t look like too many people were in line.
It is going to take the Republicans to knock this woman out of politics.
It is more than obvious that she didn’t write this trash…..she simply didn’t have the time. RAM or one of the other idiots wrote this…and it is tanking.
“she simply didn’t have the mind (also, too).”
So true.
The news in Dallas just showed the line for Palin’s booksigning–No one was in line. They talked about wristbands(still available), called the crowd “sparse” and showed the bookstore and roped off line and Nobody in it. Ha!
This was @4:53 at halftime for the football game & the booksigning is at 6:00p.m.
Thank you for the update! It makes me slightly more positive about our move to TX… I have been very discouraged by the folks I meet & see out & about on many occasions. A lot like living in Alaska, come to think of it!
Rush Limbaugh playing at the post office. Nobama bumper stickers on cars of kids barely old enough to drive. Suburban housewives picking up their kids in their Escalades with “how’s that hopey changey thing working for ya?” bumper stickers. Kids talking about “ayrabs” and not knowing that it was voting day. Really, it is just like the area of AK that we lived in! Except the post office thing, the post office in AK would never have gone there.
Don’t sell TX short just yet. There are plenty of kind and gentle people there. But then there are also the people that really haven’t been asked to think about their comments or how it makes them sound.
You don’t say where you live, but I am sure that you will find pockets of like minded folks.
Luckily for me I have a like-minded husband and a busy life. I don’t worry too much about finding like-minded neighbors or other types of acquaintances anymore. Just getting through one day at a time and trying to put the icky people out of my mind. Reading the local paper makes me want to throw up, so I don’t do that very often.
I’m going to a book-signing on the 2nd that I hope will be uplifting and full of other like-minded people. That hour or two should keep me going for a while… Hopefully I will have a natural high from it that will get me through my husband’s company xmas party, though that may require an early exit.
Garland is more like Dallas(I’m only 2 blocks). It used to be like you describe but not now and hasn’t been for a long time.
It is quite diverse. My mayor is African American, 45%Hispanic pop, 55% all others ethnici
ties and there are many. Being white, I am minority. It’s good and I enjoy the diversity. There are those who turn their nose up to Garland because of the diversity but I really like and it makes for a good and interesting life. Sometimes, I see our politicians from other parts of Texas and don’t feel like I live in the same state. It’s a sweet place where I live–people just fit together like they should.
I lived in east of where I live now for a few years-100 miles away–and couldn’t take it. I was so glad to get out. Completely different and Sarah would have loved it. It was about 60 years behind and very racist.
Where I live…it’s the same…but kindred spirits are there…!
Football always wins out in Texas!
Football did win out.
The news @10 came on and said their were alot of people–but they showed a line inside the store, not outside. So I feel like they were giving the allusion of a larger crowd. Gotta keep the interest up for the Queen for future ratings. Otherwise, they’d have shown people outside(that probably didn’t exist.). Cynical, huh, but I am just disgusted with this bullying, verbal abuser pushed on us every day.
Meant “illusion” not allusion–(I went through chemo for BC a few years ago and sometimes I still have “chemo-brain”. It is very weird and surprises me.Sorry.)
Could some brave Alaskan put us out of our world-wide misery and just get her in a straight jacket already? The padded cell is waiting.
and now the Palin family claim the second coming of the Virgin Mary…Oye!
http://kaili-joy-gray.dailykos.com/
Page 32: She remembers watching one of King’s speeches in school. The Civil Rights movement was the work of heroes. She felt like a patriot that day.
SP was born in 1960, and the vast majority of MLK’s speeches were before 1965 (he was assassinated in April 1968 when SP was barely 8 years old). It is unlikely she remembers hearing MLK speak and if she does, she was too young to know what he was talking about.
No wonder it took her 5 colleges to graduate with a journalism degree… she can’t even write.
She should have tried Yale. Their standards don’t seem to be all that high! 🙂
And my apologies to all of you who went to Yale, deserved to go, and actually learned something before getting your degree.
SP tweet- Nov 27th:
Tomorrow-“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” we slay salmon. A bunch of ’em. (Watch the Left’s reaction to that, if harvesting halibut freaked them out!)
So, if the quitter becomes my president, she wants to freak me out- (oh, and it would). She seems be gleeful about it. How can someone so hateful of more than half the population think that they could be our leader? How can anyone say she is not divisive?
I hope this book is the deciding factor for many of the undecided people in the country-
Thanks for diving into it again, AKM 🙁
I learned to seriously dislike this women after I heard her say, “How’s that hopey changey thing working out for ya?” What a slap in the face to the president as well as over half the country. That she wants to freak the left out or speculate on half the nation getting “wee weed ” over something or other is so self-centered and juvenile. She is not a leader by any measure.
She probably hijacked that from the comment section on her FB page.
When somebody asks “how’s that hopey changey thing workin out for ya?”
I answer “Just fine. How is that permanent Republican majority thing working out for you?”
My thoughts were I liked it better than anything you or McCain would have had to offer.
She is nothing but a bully. Disgusting.
abusive,too–to the whole country,and others, with her hate.
Those good looks are wasted…..
Strikes me that all any politician needs to do to run against her is to repeat her back to her, she seems actually contradict herself, on just about any major point you can think of.
Between the Palin book and the Buffalo Bills game – I’m going to be curled up in a corner with a wine bottle by by 5pm.
Red wine please for me. Cheers!!!
“Let history be heard.
All fine American women do not believe that Sarah Palin is the chosen one.
We have been awaken with laughter and tears, thank you very much John the McCain.
Strong women have paved the way for our right to vote.
Women of all ages work hard each and every day for equal rights with equal pay.
The need for those things are and will be our struggle.
Women of the future, don’t roll over for the cameleon whose only aim was
to sell ignorance and fear in a pretty box with a very large red bow.
Women should value their beauty and brains, but remember one trait is like no other.
The years come quick the hair gets grey but the wise women work to pave the way.
Enjoy your years of beauty but awake to your own wisdom. Life is quick but wisdom lasts forever.
[“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.”]
1928 American Poet-Maya Angelou
Early ripe, early rotten…- my Grandma (in response to me asking her -why wasn’t I allowed to wear makeup yet, or get to wear a bra yet, or get a car, or date even..!)
Grandma was a wise lady.
(((BuffaloGal)))
Hey, it could be worse…the Bills COULD be 0 and 11.
A slight sideways jaunt…
I ran across an article posted on HuffPo re: $P and ‘the Korea gaffe’ and what ‘we’, as a nation, should be taking away from it. (You remember her ‘mix up’ of North and South Korea on Beck’s show? [And the snarky, mean-girl, juvenile, finger-pointing, cr@p she posted on Fb to ‘excuse’/explain her gaffe? — “A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States” http://fb.me/LJ1YUjfz — wherein she cobbled *other’s* gaffes together *as if* those gaffes were actually said as she wrote them?])
It’s rather obvious that ‘we’, as a nation, are missing something crucial about the woman and the garbage [revisionist, or not] she constantly spews. I think part of the fascination us mudpeeps have with her is that we *KNOW* what a demented danger she is, and yet that she STILL has ‘the ear’ of [at least part of] our nation!
The HuffPo article said (in part):
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[snip] Does anyone outside of Palin’s relatively small group of smitten followers honestly believe that she is competent to act as an expert on Korean policy? That she knows the intricacies and risks of engaging with the North Koreans? That she understands the possible leadership struggle going on there? Do you think she has the first clue about the history of Korea over the last century? Do you think she’s ever heard of Syngman Rhee, the Bodo League massacre, the Battle of Inchon, or National Security Council Report 68, or that she knows about the decades of Japanese rule in Korea? Do you think she’s ever read about the role the propaganda efforts of the post-Stalin Soviet government played in the eventual armistice that ended the fighting?
Doubtful, at best.
Now, do you doubt for a second that Joe Biden could reel off a dissertation-level analysis of these issues from the top of his head?
That’s the real story about the Palin flub about North Korea that the media isn’t covering. It’s not that she misspoke, but that anyone cared what she had to say on the issue in the first place.
Sarah Palin, with her reliance on spouting talking points, simplistic approach to issues and complete lack of experience beyond a half term as governor of a state the size of Columbus, Ohio, is not competent to be discussing North Korea. (Columbus, Ohio’s population is bigger than Alaska’s, 769,360 to 698,743.) And shame on any media outlet that treats her opinions as if they’re worth anything.
The real damning Palin quote in the Beck interview is the one in which she worries if “the White House is gonna come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea’s gonna do.” Putting aside her usual butchering of the English language, she takes a complicated problem facing the United States (and the world) and reduces it to a talking-point political attack on the president.
Her comment reveals that she has no understanding that we are dealing with a North Korean leadership that may not be rational and may even be self-destructive. And one with the firepower to kill legions of South Korean civilians. To her simplistic, politics-driven approach, it’s only about how the Democratic president isn’t tough enough. (As an aside, she is talking about a president who has increased troops in Afghanistan, stepped up drone attacks on the enemy, and taken out more Taliban and al Qaeda leaders than George W. Bush ever did, but I digress… ) [/snip.]
(emphasis added. b)
full article here: “Why Sarah Palin’s North Korea Flub Matters” by Mitchell Bard — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/why-sarah-palins-north-ko_b_788647.html
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If she weren’t so darned ‘venerated’ by the media [who’re afraid (?) to call her out?; who’re too lazy(?) to call her out?; who’re too happy to have a cash-cow in her sensationalism to put a stop to her(?)] that’d be a great thing. As it is, though, all us mudpeeps share our incredulity on these pages that she is STILL around!
I mean, truly!, where does she get off posing as an ‘expert’ on e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g? WHY do otherwise sane people fall for it? Time and time and time again?
Hopefully, with AKM “taking one for the team” by distilling the tripe from ‘her’ latest book for us, and us mudpeeps helping AKM and each other find the gaping holes in ‘her’ words, we can expose to anyone who cares to take a gander, what an unmitigated fake, fraud, and hypocrite she is. And what a revisionist of history she is then, also too. I honestly would not mind in the least if she imploded — that might be mean of me to say, but there you have it.
Then again, if it weren’t her, sadly, it’d be someone else spreading the out-of-control crazy. (Cortez touched on this yesterday: https://themudflats.net/2010/11/27/america-by-heart-chapter-1-we-the-people-part-1-of-2/#comment-236986 )
It might just be me, but I’d prefer to have people considered “leaders” of my country who actually KNOW things. Bottom line: I’d be more than happy if I never heard from $P and like-crazy ever again. Ever! beth.
This is a perfect example of why she ONLY does interviews on Faux or other friendly venues and why she only takes pre-approved questions at her appearances. She’s great at memorizing and regurgitating talking points but she has no idea what she’s actually talking about. If a REAL journalist interviewed her, they would no doubt ask follow-up questions that she would have no clue how to answer.
Anything she writes on Facebook that has any policy base is written by someone else so she can’t defend or explain that either.
That’s why she will NEVER go on Rachel Maddow’s show.
I sometimes wonder how she thinks she could possibly run for POTUS if she cannot be interviewed by journalists who don’t work for Rupert Murdoch.
Maybe Chris Wallace would have the guts to ask her that very question…!
Since the first book was such a success and made much mullah for Sarah, her publisher and ghost writer, how come the same very seccessful ghost apparenlty didn’t wirthe this one?
Just asking.
Probably still in a nice quiet place, in a nice quiet room, in a nice quiet bed, looking at all the pretty colors on the nice quiet padded walls.
I’m just guessing here….maybe the first ghostwriter’s head exploded?
Thanks be to you, AKM, for your diligence and perseverance in this unholy endeavor. I can’t possibly stomach reading even the synopsis as written by our intrepid blogger, AKM. Bleah.
I’m in the midst of finishing a 5000 word article on some of Hitlers ‘buddies.’ Schirach, head of the Hilter Youth, said if you repeat something to a young child often enough they will believe anything. Sadly, Palin has a large number of small minds listeneing to her.
Blah, blech, yich. Kudos to you for reading AKM. I gotta go spit in the sink then brush. Twice.
5,000 words?!!!! about Hitler’s buddies? hang on Paula. we might have to send help by way of a gin and tonic. you poor dear.
Having a brewskie right now. 4 weeks of interview and it came to me today!
The reference is more than fitting…except Hitler had a brain, as diseased as it was.
5000 words! Do they have to be in any particular order, or can you, like, pick the ones you like out of a dictionary, put them between two covers, and toss them into the air? You know, kinda, like, make a work salad, also too?
I’m thinking Ms. Palin’s book has about 5 pages of information crammed into 200 pages!
WORD salad! It’s the keyboard’s fault! Michelle’s toned arms made me do it!
Next Chapter – “Why They Serve”
To keep from being prosecuted for vandalism and statutory rape?
LOL!!!!
Cutting the brake lines on a school bus goes beyond vandalism . . . children ride on that bus. Now multiply it by over a hundred busses, and it’s more like domestic terrorism.
True. But from a legal standpoint they would never have prosecuted for that unless the buses were driven with the kids on them.
Or the brake cutters were brown…
What does that mean??????????
The incident with which Track’s name is linked is the following:
http://frontiersman.com/articles/2005/12/06/news/news2.txt
“The boys are suspected of deflating tires in 44 First Student buses, breaking mirrors and unplugging 110 buses from their engine-block heaters, which caused the buses not to start in subzero weather on Nov. 29.”
He was supposedly the 16-year-old.
BS on Page 32! She was born in February 1964, making her eligible for first grade in September of 1971. King died in April of 1968. Whatever speech she heard from Dr. King was processed and canned like a salmon, in a way that she and her family could palate. Given her goofy views on racism, I’d have to say that THAT can of heroism hadn’t been stored properly in her pantry.
I was born in October, 1964. In my librul east coast, private school I don’t think anyone told us much about Dr. Martin Luther King until Mr. Anderson’s 5th or 6th grade history class in 1975-76. It may have been around prior to that time (for schools that chose to look at the subject of race) but we were studying other things in lower grades. I thought it was a fairly decent, thoughtful introduction to the topic, for a roomful of suburban middle school-age kids. Mr. Anderson made sure it was part of our bicentennial history focus. And yes, it was played to us with grainy filmstrips “I have a dream [beep] that one day my children [beep] may…” and 16 mm films, and school-issue phonographs in tweedy vinyl-covered boxes.
My parents had my brother and I bussed (voluntarily–before mandated bussing) to the predominantly African American part of the city that I lived in when I was in grade school. They did this because we lived in a lily white neighborhood and they felt that it was important that we (as a family) be proactive in the ideas of integration, as well as being exposed to different cultures. Because of this experience, I knew a great deal about MLK and Malcolm X and many other great men and women that no one in my neighborhood was talking about (in anything other than hushed whispers). This would be 1968-70. Most of our neighbors were dealing with the horrors of sons being drafted for the Vietnam War. I will say that I received a far better literary education at my new school than I ever would have in my old one and I was, for the first time in my life exposed to the concept of what it means to be “a lady” and carry oneself with dignity at all times in spite of the color of one’s skin. I learned first hand what racism is on both sides of whatever fences divide us. Racism is learned. And if you can honestly say that you have not a touch of it in you, I would like to know what planet you live on.
Later, I lived and worked in New Mexico where racism is rampant in terms of both hispanic/white and Native issues.
I worked at the IHS hospital in Gallup and often heard the slurs that come from white people on the streets as well as people asking me why I would want to work there (this was during the height of both the Hanta virus and Aids). I had wondrous experiences there that will stay with me for my entire life (esp trying, and miserably failing, to learn Navajo words while the elders mercilessly laughed with me at my pathetic attempts–who knows what I was actually saying).
I worked for an ambulance service in Albuquerque and spent years of Friday/Saturday nights in the barrios. I did Home Health on the Pueblos. I know what poverty and hopelessness and homelessness looks like (black, brown, white, etc). I also know what dignity in the face of all of this looks like.
I have not lived in Alaska long enough to truely understand the depths of the racism that exists here but I know that it exists (at least in the white/Native sense). I see it in comments in the newspaper. I live in an area where there are very few African Americans and no hispanics and I miss the culture and the food. Many of the Native Alaskan people where I live look white and one would not know they are Native without asking.
Don’t even get me going on the religious aspects of this.
What I do know is that what’s her name is lying. After the e-mail about the lynching X-mas ornament and the things that I hear openly, and proudly, voiced in my tiny part of this huge state, I know that she knows that these things are out there and being voiced loudly. She cannot be so blind as to not know of these things. Not once has she addressed her followers to stop it. She just denies it. How can one outright deny the gauntlet that our members of Congress had to run on that day? That denial is the face of evil. Her very words display her racism.
The issue that I feel most eludes her is that there is not a level playing field. There ARE injustices and inequalities in this country. Admitting this does not make it any less of a country. It does not mean that I hate my country. Travel the world a little and one will rapidly understand why Americans love their country as they do. The point is to look honestly at the things that are wrong and to be able to discuss why some people ascribe to certain policies and others don’t. IMHO the playing field NEEDS to be levelled and we all need to do our part. And it isn’t going to be easy. And it may be very painful. It cannot happen if our eyes are squeezed shut and we just remake history in the way that feels good to us.
I made fun of GWB the entire time that he was in office and I can remember mouthing the words “he’s not MY president”. So I am guilty of some of the same behavior in terms of disrespect of the office. But the vileness that has been spewed across this country in response to President Obama is an outrage. No one can tell me that it has everything to do with policy and nothing to do with color. He has tried, to his detriment (with his base), to compromise on policy and what he gets in return is blame and name calling and all manner of evil. She is the mouthpiece and princess of this hate.
I used to say that she is an idiot but I know that no one can be that blind and that stupid.
I am desperately trying to breathe light and love into the world and wash my hands of her stench but I find it very hard to do. When her external “beauty” is gone, and she can no longer get what she wants by winking at the leering men (who say “she’s hot”, with their hand down their pants), I hope that her ill-gotten riches can buy back her soul.
take a deep breath, …in.. out…in ..out… excellent rant… 🙂
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….and she is NOT “hot” …. ( have a phrase, ” I wouldn’t touch that……. but shall refrain )
Your phrase, unsaid as it is, fits $carah Palin perfectly!
I have read many of your comments since I started visiting this blog, and I now understand where all the ‘good stuff’ that’s inside of you comes from. I commend your parents for their decision to teach you about acceptance and compassion. It’s clearly a lesson you learned well and took to heart.
The difference between us saying that GWB “is not my president” and them saying it about Obama is that GWB was installed by the Supreme Court, not elected. It reflects on the lack of legitimacy of his power, not necessarily on the person himself. Later, I came to detest his policies, but never claimed to hate the man himself.
I have never called a person “evil” before, because I see that as a religious construct rather than a psychological one. Palin behaves badly, venally and may even be mentally ill, but I don’t see her as evil. (That being said, I am almost ready to declare that John Kyl is “evil” because of his holding up the ratification of the START treaty. How a person can put our country at risk militarily, embarrass our President and create a situation where terrorists might have access to WMDs and do it for political gain is unfathomable to me. That’s when I start re-thinking my stance on “evil.” Probably a discussion left for another day).
i love Love MY Dogs!!!!
With all my heart: Thank You.
Palin is so full of s— that I can smell it from here!
Oh, my head.
How are you able to do this & still write coherent sentences? You must have super-powers. At the very least you should be in the pipeline for sainthood.
As it happens I am currently writing a book about the Founding Fathers-who she seems to have co-opted (all of ’em, they’re all the same aren’t they)- and when I read her thoughts about that group I really want to bang my head against the wall.
And one more thing: if I hear “don’t retreat, reload” one more time…feh
this what balls to the wall crazy looks like. Sarah Palin is a lunatic. the people who support this lunatic are responsible for the harm the lunatic does.
all i really want to know is whether the U.S. Military is hosting this sourassed sow on any base within or without the contiguous United States.
there is nothing i can do to protest the appearance of Palin or Beck on privately owned property but i can raise hell about former AIP traitors and present Seven Mountain infiltrators presence on property maintained by tax dollars.
Palin and friends are simply the water carriers and the human faces for what, in truth, wears no face but which, never-the-less, is like death, reflections of ourselves
[[bubs, if ‘the military’ is selling her books at PXs/BXs, ‘the military’ can’t deny her space to sign ‘her’ books at the post/base if they don’t deny *other* authors space to sign their books, too. They [‘the military’] isn’t going to do that — who would they ‘choose’ as ‘acceptable’ authors? Mitch Absolom? Pat Robertson’s kid, Franklin? Dick Gregory? Nancy Pelosi? Too slippery a slope to even attempt [and probably smacking of Constitutional abuse, to boot, also too.] And they can’t not sell her book, because she is a “best selling author” — they sell and profits go towards the programs run for military folk and their families [ie concerts, sports leagues, etc.] Like it or not, people buy what she writes. beth.]]
ok i won’t raise hell. you are right. i will be good.
…but they don’t have to ‘be at home’ do they? they could close the base and pretend they on maneuvers or in Afghanistan or somewhere so our troops don’t have to endure the screeching.
Maybe put up a giant “Gone fishin’ ” sign on the front gate? 😉
*THIS* is what I *love* about this site! Someone can make a point, another person can make a counterpoint, and NO ONE gets bent out of shape! The sharing of information here is phenomenal! — the ONLY thing that tops it is the incredible grace, humor, and good vibes sent and received.
All the mudpeeps daily keep me grounded and ‘in reality’…ain’t *no* telling where my pissedoffedness at $P would otherwise take me. 😉
Yup, *THIS* is why I looooooooove the ‘flats! {{{{bubbles}}}} beth.
Every day I learn and every day I laugh because of my visits to the ‘flats.
Okay, sometimes I growl a little too, but then I keep reading and I always feel better!
Beth, that’s true … up until she crosses that threshold between “Maybe I’m gonna run for President” and “I’m running for President”. Candidates for elective office are not allowed to conduct campaign activities at PX/BXes.
The question is, how long are the FEC, the IRS, and the other agencies involved in oversight of campaign finances going to go along with her “Maybe I’m running” BS? She’s already campaigning – anyone with the brains of a doorknob can see that – but she’s still getting air time on Fox “News” without consideration of equal access for other likely candidates; her publisher is paying the expenses for her book tour, which would be considered an “in-kind” campaign donation if she were “officially” running; and no doubt SarahPAC will buy a bunch of copies of her new book.
I’ll say it again: when no other LE agencies could nail Al Capone, the IRS did.
What is Seven Mountain?
Mikey Weinstein of the MRFF -Military Religious Freedom Foundation would be very interested in that as well…..they are the ones that are going after those nuts in the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The cadets there get harrassed by Christian cadets- James Dobson(sp?)
Family Group-can’t recall- They are a creepy organization….our military is supposed to be free from any particular religion, and Mr. Weinstein is to be admired…you can get his newsletter by email- just google his name or MRFF…you will be shocked…at least, the Air Force Academy is doing something…remember when Franklin Graham was un-invited to some ‘do’ at the academy??? Mr. Weinsteins’ group is having an effect- he graduated from there-as well as his sons- so he can recall when it was FREE of this fundamentalist type of Xtian (to be differentiated from regular god-fearing Christians…He formed this group because he believes in the integrity of the Academy and the military….and does not like this taint in something he reveres.
thanks!!! will check him out. interesting.
What evidence is there exactly that the Founders had any interest in getting rid of slavery, let alone tabling it for future generations?
If they were interested in freeing slaves, why would they have put in the provision that a runaway slave would be unable to be freed by the laws of another state?
Just asserting something does not make it true, unless you are SP. GAAAK indeed.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington
And yet…and yet… he owned slaves; at the time of his death, they numbered 316 on his estate. Granted, his will provided they all be freed upon Martha’s death, but he still was a major slave-owner. Seems politics got in the way of his personal beliefs and The Father of Our Country just went with the status quo. Pity, that. beth.
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/index.cfm/ss/101/
We have yet to hear from one person who even remembered the Twit in a college class. I now know why.
It’s funny that she is constantly saying the “who what where when” of journalism that she learned while getting her degree, Funny because I was the editor of our little Catholic school news sheet in 8th grade, and I was told in 8th grade to stick to the who what were when of the issues. So I suspect it may have been in some other venue than her universities that she encountered that.
Exactly and to the point above. All the friends will come out if she runs. Save the Earth!!!
and or foes.
“Page 29-30
The framers decided to put the decision about slavery off for future generations to figure out. They laid the foundation to get rid of it later. The south actually wanted to include slaves equally with whites. The north didn’t want to count slaves as people because then the slaves would give the south more votes. So they must have put the 3/5 clause in there because they didn’t want slavery, and they wanted the north’s votes to count more. See?”
Who did she plagiarize that idea from, because it certainly is not her own original.
I suggest she watch “1776” or maybe better actually go see a real play or musical. get the girl some culture. She has enough money. She’s been to New York enough times, she hasn’t even bothered to take in a show? Been to a concert by the resident symphony orchestra? Goung to catch a professional productiuon of “The Nutcracker” this season? How about attending a performance of Handel’s oratorio, “Messiah”?
Yeah, I thought not.
It is quite a common viewpoint and not to be confused with modern voting rights or ‘personhood’ as Sarah has done.
It was about Congressional representation which is based on population. Not voting population because at that time (I believe) States appointed Senators & Congressmen. The more warm bodies you had in your state the more representation you got to have. The 3/5 rule was for head count only.
The rights of the common man to vote depended on race, status and sex, only white men of property could vote. Some theorize that over 50% of white males were unable to vote in the 53 years after the Constitutional Convention before 1840 because they weren’t rich enough.
Free black men got the right to vote with ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 but most Southern states made laws effectively limiting those rights by requiring literacy tests and payment of a poll tax.
Palin is in Dallas today and there was just a small snippet in the Dallas news. Guess the crowd will be the bots who already know. She was in the Dallas area (Plano) last for a book signing and the store went out of business shortly after.
and rightly so…..Bwahahahahaha.
nice to see you Sallyngarland. missed you.
Thank you. I had a quite a time with an abcessed tooth for awhile(gone now) and generally just didn’t comment much for awhile. But, I’ve been reading and thinking about all of you.
“and the store went out of business shortly after”
Wow, she really DOES destroy everything she touches!
It helps me to regard Sarah’s “writing” as fiction. After all, she (and her ghostwriter and advisers) are making this stuff up as they go.
Thank you for doing this. Just make sure and detox from all of this. Palin is really a piece of work, and you are right, her ghostwriter is really angry, so is Mrs Jonah Goldberg. Well If I was married to pantload Goldberg I would be really really angry too.
Isn’t Jonah Goldbergs’ mother Lucienne Goldberg……the lady who talked Linda Tripp into convincing her buddy Monica Lewinski into saving that blue dress???????? If so, apples don’t fall far……!
A little something to clear out an overdose of the Book of Palin: HBO OnDemand, hope some of you have access, Fran Lebowitz “Public Speaking.”
Thank you for the tip and reminder. It was very good!
The more I read her drivel and outright lies (bless you, AKM, for torturing yourself this way!), the more I think she may just have made a big mistake with this book. The original concept, as I understood it, was to collect quotes and inspirational writings from historical figures, and add a few comments, presumably to show how they inspired her. If she had done that, it might have gone a long way towards improving her image and making her seem like a more positive person who learns valuable lessons from history. Instead, she has chosen to continue the vindictive spewing she started in the first book.
The big difference is that much of the first book focused on her personal story. While it was clearly fictionalized, it is much more difficult to prove that it was full of lies because the people involved aren’t talking and much of the argument devolves into a ‘he said, she said’ situation. She still clearly wields power over many Alaskans who are afraid of the reprisals for which she is so famous, and few of the people directly involved are willing to stand up and call her a liar.
In this book, however, she is quoting, distorting and misrepresenting material and people that have been long documented and studied by scholars much more educated and intelligent than she is. We may not be able to argue about a conversation she had while half-governor, but we certainly can argue about her blatant lies regarding historical figures.
Certainly her ‘bots will swoon in delight over her deep understanding of our American history because they have as little knowledge of documented history as she does. However, for those who may have been on the fence or willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but who are educated and literate, this may prove to be the tipping point that convinces them of her complete incompetence and willingness to distort the truth for her own purposes.
All of the reviews of this book that I’ve seen have been negative, and the turnout to her book signings is significantly less, in both quantity and enthusiasm, than last year. Perhaps we are FINALLY seeing the beginning of the end. We can only hope!
I have been thinking the same all weekend. Both about the original purpose of the book, and about the lower numbers at the signings. I can only hope you are right and she will soon slip into oblivion.
Anyone who is educated and literate tipped a long time ago.
Anyone who is educated and literate tipped a long time ago.
AKM .. reading this post of yours, I am at once horrified, disgusted, amazed and just plain scared.
I read her FB pages, and I focus on the Palinbots’ comments (that’s what I blog about) and there is a ray of hope, in that the same people who don’t have a clue or an interest in History ALSO won’t read her book with normal reading comprehension skills.
If they go over the ‘words’ and ‘turn the pages’ until the get to the end, they will think they ‘read’ her book and not much of what she says will have given them a ‘thought’ … they will be left with a few vapid phrases and ‘convictions’. The one I see popping up most so far, is that the Pilgrims left Europe to escape Socialism.
They have no interest in Civil RIghts or the Women’s movement — not then, and not now– so I suspect they will skim over those parts.
Meantime, one thing I have learned: There is no point in even trying to point out a ‘fallacy’ or making a logical argument based on facts to Palinbots… they rise each morning convinced that Sarah is being persecuted and that they are ‘ watching her back’.
I admire your work ( work it is) because someone should do it; you must have been a very bad girl in your previous life and this is your punishment.
Speaking of bribes (pg 20). $P conveniently forgot the $1200 “Resource Rebate” she tacked onto the permanent fund in 2008. Extra $1200 for every man, woman, and child who received the pfd that year. I don’t know – a bribe? Nawwwwwwwwwwwww…..
Sounds like “redistribution of wealth” if you ask me. I suspect that even Joe the Plumber would understand that one.
http://www.adn.com/2008/08/08/487182/legislature-passes-1200-rebate.html
it was rather more complicated than WGE merely tacking it on that year’s PFD.
The idea originated with a Haines Leg, SP tooted it up and the LEG passed it after much difficult talk…
Since I don’t apply for nor recieve a PFD because I think it the wrong idea for the right reasons I watched this particular piece of foolishness unfold with some concern. The minority in the Leg was bowled over by all the feel-goody majority and not near enough was done to settle anything substantive as regards energy… everyone just got a few bucks to ease the pain of their fuel bills and that was that…
Bribe, no.
Anaesthetic, yes…
A review (or sorts) from Chicago:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/2927296,sarah-palin-american-by-heart-review-112810.article
Wow pretty harsh ~ especially loved the “verbal waterboarding” comment! Lest we not forget that those precious cubs a Mama Grizzly so fiercely defends she later eagerly casts aside after a couple of years.
Well, Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase. And he is on the outs among conservatives (witness the Texas Textbook Massacree), is he not?
Yes, they dislike Jefferson. Talk about revising history – Texans are good at it. Of course, they’ve been blind to Georgie and now Big Hair Perry, so the damage has already been done there.
I miss Molly Ivins .. Governor Goodhair
Well, he had a black (common law) wife and several black children. I let my daughter ,who is 8, watch his documentary. I can’t wait until they study Jefferson and she asks about his seccond wife. Oh the scandal it will cause in her tiny Idaho school.
Being a staunch believer in the separation of church and state, and in thinking for oneself certainly doesn’t ingratiate him in that crowd.
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” –Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.
They are editing out Jefferson now, but watch for other founding fathers to be removed later. There are more inconvenient truths out there that they hope our kids don’t learn.
Oh Gawd. AKM, I certainly admire your stamina (or ability to drink heavily without passing out). I have to go wash my eyes out with bleach after reading her dreck.
Go outside, breathe deeply, give Buf an extra bikky and think some happy thoughts. And eat some pie. It’s the perfect antidote.
Namaste
I’m glad you’re doing this, I wouldn’t have the strength to do it on my own. I’m praying this woman really doesn’t have that many rabid followers and that like most all RWNJs they’re just really loud so it seems like she has piles of minions..
So far, from reading your accounts of the book and a few others–she seems to seriously need long term mental care. Also, she must really despise Canada, we’re everything she’s pretty much equated with the devil and other various ills and evils in her odd little mind..
Hello fellow NBer! (Saw you on twitter recently) Nice to see another Canadian mudpup.
I’m still struggling around trying to decide how to keep an eye on the WGE while not getting sucked into her tailwind.
Life is infinitely richer and ,yes, freer without her babble around to clutter up the horizon. There are so many things which need doing to knit us back up again and she’s plopped her flaming britches right smack dab in the way…
This morning it strikes yet me that she has could have another lucrative job- she and her ghosties…
So far here, her arguments and conclusions provide examples of almost every formal and informal logical fallacy known to humankind. A gathering and dissecting of the tripe ( AKM has touched on many of them) might result in a really fine textbook.
Machiavelli was a nasty lil creature but used these devices of style much more carefully… whatzername is sly and hits emotional hot buttons in folks disenfranchised in so many ways but she isn’t smart about stopping short of exposing her fundamentally flawed center.
The idea that what we wanted when we elected Mr Obama to the Presidency was a fundamental transformation of America and that that was bad which underlies all this horsepunky so far is what I’m waiting to see her take on.
Is she going to skip over 30 years of deregulation, initiated by her Saint R Reagan, which transformed us into the mess we have been struggling to get out of?
Is she going to skip right on by the biggest illegal immigrant we have ever housed ? The legal fiction that an on-paper-corporate citizen has parity with flesh and blood Americans ? Better than parity with all the transformations in the last 30 years putting capitalists/entrepeneurs on a pedestal…?
Is she going to run the sick right-to-work logic past everyday folks and assert that they are better off when up is down and down is up- the logic implicit in that set of foolish appeals to emotion ?
I’m guessing she will since her treatment of racism is below sophmoric…
I don’t think Sarah has the intellectual depth to address your questions. Actually she seems more over her head now than even during the election. I had no idea she was so snotty, shallow and uninformed. Albeit “cheerfully” uninformed.
Since when has her lack of intellectual depth to address fully and honestly anything stopped her flapping her lips?
She’s the one biting big questions off here in this dumb book…
though it’s looking more and more like she’s biting her own behind to me…
Just ask her questions about her book. Do you remember when Oprah had the author of “A Million Little Pieces.” He was essentially reduced to a million little lies. Time is a ticking and questions need to be asked.
This book is about her heart, according to the author (using the word loosely). Her heart is inspiring readers to be Haters (using her language). She defends and denies racist behavior and demonizes those that recognize it when they see it. Apparently, she and her brood are the only victims in the country.
Her heart is black and full of hatred.
no. her heart is not black. her heart is evil. evil is not same as black. she and her heart are the same. ugly. i have different perspective about the color of evil. Black is the foundation color of a People and for me Black is beautiful. it is warm. it is the the signature color of the universe and is vibrant; full of mystery and it matches everything.
i know you didn’t any harm with your analogy but….it is a an unthinking reference that many people use and then wonder what it is they said that shut down discourse with others.
no harm. no foul.
bubbles — “Black…is warm. it is the the signature color of the universe and is vibrant; full of mystery and it matches everything.”
That is quite wonderful. May I quote you very often?
yes!!!
Black is not only the foundation color of a people, black is the color of the deep reaches of outer space and of the soil that nurtures the plant. Black is a beautiful color, essential to life.
And velvety. Without black I could not see the stars.
Beautifully stated bubbles. Have I mentioned recently how delightful you are? And, no harm, no foul (with apologies to the ducks among us).
Righto…..much better, I like it…!
Bubbles,
What a lovely thought and I loved the way you wrote it. Nice!
AKM, I don’t think that was like ripping off a Band-Aid; it had to have been more like getting a full body wax! If you decide to not finish the book, no one would hold it against you. Protect yourself.
Sunday shows: ‘Proud’ McCain compares Palin to Reagan
By POLITICO STAFF | 11/28/10 9:45 AM
He calls the former Alaska governor “an incredible force in the American political arena.”
How did we all get stuck in this reality tv show?
I just read that…the man has no shame and I wish Nancy Reagan would call him out and tell the nation that Sarah Palin is no Ronald Reagan.
Isn’t Nancy dead?
nope, but very reclusive.
I’m showing my age. Can’t keep track of who is dead. Good thing I have the interwebs as a back-up brain!
Remember she was at a bill signing for President Obama that palin and her flying monkeys did not approve of
“How did we all get stuck in this reality tv show?”…i’m thinkin’ more like the ‘TWILIGHT ZONE”…..
Twilight Zone indeed! Good comparison.
He must be needing a new house. Or has completely lost his mind. This is a cruel joke. If the Republicans start supporting her, they will prove once and for all that they don’t have a plan B.
This is a bit off topic, but while $P was Gov of your fine State, did she pardon or commute a sentence for anyone? I’m curious.
Great job live blogging the book. Even your synopsis makes me want to hurl it across the room.
I can’t remember her doing so. Right after she quit, I went to the State’s website and looked at what she passed and most of them were fluff pieces.
It makes me want to hurl. period.
Quitter Twitter is not drawing the crowds to her booksignings that she did before. Reported she signed 500 books in IA. Some people complaining about the security and lack access compared to Newt and other authors.
I read that she had that whole black curtain thing going again. Reporters were allowed to take pictures, but no questions. People getting that thing signed were not allowed to bring purses, phones, cameras, even coats into the area.
Her daughters were wandering around the store giving autographs. Guess the mama wants them to meet rill Mericans but doesn’t want rill Mericans close to her with their stuff because they might be rill Merican terrorists. Yep, that’s love.
Well at least black curtain is apropos to her persona
Maybe she just hopes her girls will meet someone and she can marry them off – less competition.
What do you think DWTS was all about?
She didn’t write the book! I wouldn’t want to answer questions on something that I didn’t write. Some of the vocabulary is not hers. I don’t think she could use some of the words in a sentence. Geesh!!!
Was wondering about the numbers showing up for these events. She might think that any press is good press, but the bad press surely has a negative impacts on her following.
Gee, I wonder if her security team is doing the Grope to make sure no one brings a contraband article close to Saint Sarah.
I would by a copy and let it set where mice and rats could imbibe some of Quittypant’s patriotic slop, I just can’t find it in my heart to hate rodents that much. I’ll work on that before Christmas. Hope everyone survived Turkey Day and made the trip home safely.Thanks once more for a place to find sanity on the web.
AKM, you could damage yourself – either your brain or your liver – if you read much more. There can’t be enough rum in the world to help this book. Please save your beautiful mind. And thanks for making life easier for us.
Who knew palin has a new job as as history book re writer?
Good God, does this woman have no shame???
No, she doesn’t, which is amazing considering all that she has said and done that would shame most of us. I guess we were raised with morals, compassion, and a sense of right and wrong.
Her “literary work” reminds me of the essays “penned” today by middle schoolers who attack the internet with a vengenance to crank out a book report about an hour before it’s due.
Except that the middle schoolers aren’t so snotty and nasty.
OK, does her family or does it not receive free health care subsidized by the federal government?
I’m so tired of her accusations of socialism, cradle to grave entitlements.
Does her family receive cradle to grave free health care?
Can someone answer this? I think it’s about time for the public to know.
In the custody documents for Tripp (Bristol V Levi) it is mentioned that there is no need for him to contribute to his HC costs because Tripp is covered.
Somewhere in their wealth of references/resources, Palingates has copies of that pleading.
At the very least, I would presume the family avails itself of some (if not many, or all) programs run by the government to help them with the medical and developmental care of the youngest child. And from the limited numbe of pictures I’ve seen of the little tyke in the past year*, he looks as if he is going to need such assistance, literally, “from cradle to grave.”
I’d be curious to know what government-run assistance the youngest is getting. beth.
*many fewer than in his first year when he was a pudgy little cutie…now, he is still a cutie little chubernunks, but his pretty severe Downs is too evident to ignore.
Didn’t it previously come out that the family is entitled to ,medical benefits because of Todd’s 1/8th Inupit(?) ancestry? I can’t see the Sowah not using them.
He is Yup’ik. TWWWSTLIJ (the woman who was supposed to live in Juneau) made a great point of the fact that they had a “Yup’ik Grandma” during her campaign for Governor. In a positive observation, I did notice onetime in a clip of their kitchen that they had some “kid made” dance fans or masks hanging on the refrigerator.
Todd and the kids (and grandkids) are Indian Health Service beneficiaries, and can go to ANMC in Anchorage (assuming they have Certificates of Indian Blood, or CIB’s). Whether or not they avail themselves of those services is another thing entirely, and honestly, is not germane to anything and is nobody’s business, not least by dint of HIPAA!
Mark Springer
Bethel
to Mark Springer. i beg to disagree.i believe it is my business to comment or ask the question about whether they are using Indian Health Services when the Palins are White when it benefits them to be White but Yupik when they need to use benefits meant for native people. it is the height of hypocrisy to then insist on denying others who need health coverage they have secured for themselves and their descendants.
i saw the same miserable beings emerge back when it was thought that leveling the playing field by supporting and helping businesses owned by people of African descent. suddenly we discovered we had long lost cousins, aunties ,uncles and men and women who suddenly thought we would make excellent and rewarding spouses. just saying
I am 1/8 Norwegian. In my opinion, Sarah Palin’s kids should be eligible for Native Health Care like my kids should be eligible for retirement benefits from the Norwegian Permanent Fund Dividend.
In other words, the system is being abused, and they should standardize the requirements. Better yet, just extend benefits to all of us and then nobody has to trace their bloodline back to 1920 and find a “Native Grandma” like the Palins.
Her husband, her children and her grandson are eligible for free health care through Indian Health Services. Her pregnancies were also covered by that system. I know that Tripp used it, but do not know if any of the others did.
Let me say this about that.
A lot of people are implying that there is some double standard between the Palin children receiving Indian Health Service benefits because they are Alaska Native through their Dad’s side, and the positions their Mom takes on the Health Care Affordability Act.
In the first place, Alaska Natives and American Indians receive health care from the Federal Government as a component of the Trust Responsibility between Native Americans and the United States of America. It originates in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution and is based on the recognition that Native Americans and Alaska Natives GAVE UP EVERYTHING so that we could have fine homes overlooking lakes and 4-lane highways and the gold in them thar hills.
Health Care is part of the deal. If you are Native American or Alaska Native, the US Government recognizes that you are descended form the people who gave it up, and that there is still a connection and they continue to pay the bill to you.
The kids we are talking about are not Alaska Native because of their Mom. Please don’t forget that.
Also, everyone who has pluralized opposition to the Health Care Affordability Act as justification for wondering out loud whether someone is or is not taking advantage of their IHS benefits seems to imply that it is not just the author of the book currently being discussed who is publicly opposing the Act.
It is totally unfair to say that. Noone is paying attention to what children may or may not be saying or thinking and the last time I checked this was STILL a free country so if they want to say “Mom, I agree,” then SO WHAT?
But back to my point. The IHS is a function of the Federal Trust Responsibility to Native Americans and Alaska Natives. I don’t think it is anyones business where they go for medical care any more than its anyone’s business where I go for mine or you go for yours.
Alaska Native, no matter who they are, or “how much” someone thinks they are by way of blood quantum, are still Alaska Natives and they receive what they are entitled to.
The Indian Health Service is not “socialized Medicine” any more than is the VA . It is single payor, or used to be until health corporations started billing insurance. In fact, I am willing to bet large that someone’s private health insurance made plenty of payments to ANMC. Might still be…
I know this won’t end the discussion but my pocket is out of 2 cents on it.
Quyana,
MS
Mark — I think the ‘problem’ people see is $P speaking out relentlessly against “Obamacare” [even “makin’ things up about it” (death panels, anyone?)] without bothering to learn *what* it entails…how it will save money, across the board!, and all that. The preception is: She has hers, to hell with everyone else; *her* family is covered, why should she worry about anyone else’s family! That’s quite bothersome.
It’s not a question of where she [or anyone] gets healthcare, it’s about her working herself (and her ‘followers’) into a tizzy to *deny* others MUCH needed healthcare, when she, herself, sits fat and happy with coverage. *THAT* is the ‘problem’…and the hypocricy of it. beth.
Mark- the reference link for eligibility I made is current for that consortium so some of the exceptions still exist in some groups…
That being said I don’t care a lot about whether whatzername’s family uses Native Health Service nor whether she herself has.
It does matter that she has stood square in the way of meaningful reform for all Americans.She hasn’t a clue about the issues even facing Alaska …
IHS has made Alaska’s life a lot easier in bush communities since all locals can be treated at rural facilities-often at quite reasonable costs. Whether people want to deal with it or not, we’d be in a world of hurt here without it…ALLof us.
And yes, it grew out of the special nation to nation relationship between the fed and the native peoples.
It underwent a profound change after 1975 when the self-determination act allowed tribes to contract to provide their own healthcare.
She has never to my knowledge even publically considered what the costs to have any kind of healthcare in rural Alaska would be without the health consortiums… she has NO knowledge of anywhere else and doesn’t understand what we have in this state so why does she think she has any business inserting herself in the conversation at all?
She reminds me of the stupenagles who think they know how to run a solid waste facilty because they put their trash can out once a week.
Doesn’t even matter to me that she comes across as a hypocrite on this subject- Congress is full of those on this subject. What does matter is that she shoots her mouth off without ever thinking through what she should know… as governor she had statistics and costs, etc at her fingertips none of the rest of us poor slobs have never had and most of us know more about the healthcare issues facing this country than that dim bulb WGE.
She refuses to deal with the issues
Cooler than cool…!
In the custody documents for Tripp (Bristol V Levi) it is mentioned that there is no need for him to contribute to his HC costs because Tripp is covered.
Cradle to grave health care for her children. For her children’s children. For their children. And on & on & on.
My sister is a doc at ANMC (Anchorage Native Medical Center). She has seen the Palin children there many times. Per sis, there is no requirement that one be a certain percentage native to qualify, one only has to be able to prove that they have native blood. Toad is native, that is well-known, and supposedly documented, living relatives of native descent, etc. Therefore, any child that is in any way related to him by blood receives or will receive the awful socialist health care.
And yes, the grifter family does indeed take advantage of it. Unless they are having a child, of course, in which case they go to the shoddy little hospital down the road from their place instead of the state-of-the-art facilities at ANMC.
Of course my brother (who does special cancer work for ANMC at times) and my sister are ivy-league-east-coast-educated types, and they may not want a doctor like that…
Does Sarah qualify for the free government health care via her marriage to a corporation member?
http://www.anthc.org/ps/anmcelig/upload/703B.pdf
in certain circumstances, yes. as I don’t know what his tribe has decided about spouses she may not qualify beyond a narrow range…
Nice. Thanks for the Info.
Geez, I guess we need a whole-hog post on Tribal Enrollment, what ANCSA is, IHS Beneficiaries and all that stuff.
TWWWSTLIJ (see above post) is NOT and IHS Ben. I am non-Native, my wife is Yup’ik and for about a month way back in the 80’s spouse were made IHS Bens. I had a card. Then one day IHS kinda realized they had, um, insert verb (here)ed up and told us to turn in our cards.
It used to be the case also that a non-Native woman who was pregnant from a Native mand could get IHS services to term, but I dont think that is the case any more (nor has been for a long time).
Being a Corporation shareholder has NOTHING TO DO with health care, since I could inherit shares form my wife and still not be a IHS Ben.
Getting a Certificate of Indian Blood is based solely on ancestry, whihc has to be laid out in the application.
I would guess that the HOTWWWSTLIJ is a member of Dillingham’s Federally-Recognized tribe and his kids should also be enrolled as a matter of course. The only way Tribes can survive is by having a membership roll.
TWWWSTLIJ could only become a tribal member through adoption by the Council, which is a very rare occurrence in the case of non-Natives and implies little beyond possible access to BIA-funded programs, but not IHS.
So, AKM, how about getting someone who knows what they are talking about int his regard to post a little tutorial for the edification of your far-flung readership. It might alleviate some of the sound and fury over nothing.
Quyana,
Mark Springer
Bethel
Mark, I know of one recent case of a non-native carrying a Native child who was able to utilize ANMC services during the pregnancy and birth. She is no longer eligible for care there, but the child is. However, I agree that a tutorial would be helpful.
Regardless of what Mark says (and others may say too), this issue does matter.
First, I think anyone who prefers to use the term “Obamacare” is a pinhead. If someone wants to talk meaningfully about Health Care Reform that is fine and great, but using “Obamacare” is hateful and ignorant (and no, I’m not saying Mark said that, she uses the phrase in the book, right?).
Second, what are native benefits but a version of her hated “Obamacare/Health Care Reform” or “Bushcare” or “Insertcurrentpresident’snamecare?” They are paid for with government dollars. So, does she love it for herself and her family but hate it for others? I would say that’s the case as with most every single thing in her little pea brain.
So, how does one campaign against “Obamacare/Health Care Reform” while their family receives similar benefits (actually much much better benefits)? If teabaggers want their elected reps to forgo their cushy healthcare benefits while serving, what on earth do they have to say about the palin family’s IHS benefits?
I haven’t asked my sister about them showing their faces at ANMC for a long time, but I imagine that they have been keeping a mighty low profile, medically speaking, for some time. Of course that would also mean that Trig is not able to get the outstanding care that he could at ANMC.
This issue is central to the teabagger platform, she is the shining star for teabaggers, ergo this issue is very very important.
She shouldn’t have any care through Native Health. My aunt (who is non-native) married my uncle and she has to pay for all of her own health care. But I wouldn’t put it past Palin to slither into the system.
I think I saw her driving her motorhome into the Yukon Territory to get Canadian health care.
Only if she’s being seen for a pregnancy, she’s not covered unless she’s pregnant.
IF his tribe chooses to include spouses she can be covered…
And yes, mostly she is limited to pregnancy coverage if the tribe does not include spouses… with a couple exceptions to stop acute infections in a household…
I would like to know if she STILL uses this free health care for her kids now that she is loaded? I could sort of see her using it when they were only making $200,000 a year. If she is still using it I think it would make her quite the greedy hypocrite. I’m sure she could have been covered by the state when she held office. I would also be curious to know if she chose FREE care over buying through her government job.
It is my understanding that because of Todd’s Native blood (what little there is of it), the family gets to use the Native health care system. Sarah was talking, back in 2008, about her little “Eskimos.” At the time, I was unsure whether she was bragging or simply using the connection to establish her Native creds.
If anyone remembers differently, please set me straight.
Aha, while I was writing, my little blurb, I see wiser voices interjected facts. Thank you.
thanx LEW2500,
Perhaps more people will study the history of Alaska. There is so much more truth out there than is taught in schools. It would be a very good thing if out of this crap comes an education about Alaska’s history, geological history, cultural history. I am still trying to find a positive.
I just got the children’s book by President Obama written to his daughters. Excellent book and plan to give the book to my grandkids for christmas. Excellent book for 5 – 10 yr olds. The money from the book goes to kids of parents that are killed in war. He doesn’t get a penny. Support the troops.
Great idea for gifts!
We sure wouldn’t see Sarah donating all the proceeds of her book to benefit the families of our war dead or severely wounded. Not Sarah. What’s sad, is that she probably has a higher net worth than the Obamas. Nothing is ever enough for Sarah.
Charity, Sarah, charity – look it up. You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept, Sarah.
Blessings to President Obama.
My thoughts, too, ks sunflower, including the blessings for President Obama and his family.
Sarah won’t get this, either, but to hope or pray he is anything but wildly successful as our president would be extremely unpatriotic.
Yes and remember he gave his prise to charity also.More than any of the millionaires in congress have ever done.I give great credit to those millionaires who said yes they thought they should pay higher taxes.They all know attorneys to find the loopholes in the tax codes.
Love that book- made me cry. Amazing to see someone put their money where there heart is. I guess there is a bit of hope (no pun intended) in the world.
re page 34. She listened to MLK speeches in school one day. King was assassinated (in our non racist country) when Palin was 4 years old. She’s talking about history class, right?
Oh, my. If Sarah & her ghostwriter(s) don’t like the Louisiana Purchase what will they say about the purchase of Alaska. Acccording to Horace Greeley “The treaty had been secretly prepared, and signed and foisted upon the country at one o’clock in the morning. It was a dark deed done in the night…. “
Good point!!!!!!!
The “Louisiana Purchase” she is referring to was the “purchase” of Senator Landrieu’s vote in favor of the Health Care Bill last year. The Senator (a Dem) was able to get a nice earmark for her state by virtue of the fact that the Repubs made it possible for her to strike a very nice bargain. You know – the way the system generally works.
I vaguely remember – correct me if I’m wrong- the earmark had to do with Katrina relief/rebuilding..something that had been promised in the aftermath, but never happened during the Bush Years…
I am so tired of the Palin lies. Let’s revisit a few……
…I’m so glad to have been cleared of any wrong doing in the Troopergate Investigation. (wrong)
…It wasn’t our responcibility to report our cabin to the Mat-Su tax assessor. (theft by omission)
…That’s why I built a gas pipeline. (huh)
And now she tries to wrap herself in the flag an tell all how patriotic she is? What a laugh.
Maybe she forgets that the Antichrist comes wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible maybe she should rethink what she tries to say and do.It makes her look really really bad.
“America By Hate” Reflections on lyin, hatin and quittin. Taking America back, way back.
Perfect…!
AKM – if you insist on finishing this gawd awful book, perhaps you should seek out a room like this. It might just save your sanity :
http://tinyurl.com/2c3rwj4
I made the mistake of reading the final chapter over on Amazon. I fully expect you will feel the need
to rip the book to pieces by the time you get thru the entire thing and finish that chapter.
Gak.
I hope the paper is of sufficient quality to be recycled appropriately in an outhouse somewhere.
Gagging.
But, at the very least, her idiocy and ignorance is out there in black&white – and more garbage on the record.
I’d like to call her out on the part where she “remembers watching one of King’s speeches in school” – the dates just don’t match up until I realized she might be talking about films/videos, not speeches as they happened. She’s younger than my son who was in high school then, and I don’t remember them spending much, if any, time on Civil Rights at Bethel Regional High School in the Lower Kuskokwim School District.
Oh, I forgot, all those colleges she attended might have touched on Civil Rights.
Knowing her penchant for stretching the truth, I doubt even if she was forced to watch MLK in class, that she sat there with rapt attention, feeling so patriotic. Remember, her dad said she came home from HI be-cause she felt uncomfortable there.
I did the same….2010-46 =1964 birthdate….. had to be a film clip….chortle.. and was this the First Time she felt REALLY Proud to be an American ??? Yup, I’m sure there were lots of opportunities to understand the Black Man’s Suffering in Alaska then… uh.. what was the racial percentages back then ??
It’s like listening to my daughters when they were 14–talk all around a topic to get out of trouble,,,,
I have to quote Bill the Cat again….” GGAAAKKK !!”
I am hoping that Joe McGinniss got interviews with some of Sarah Palin’s teachers. I’m sure that they’ll be able to verify her deep interest in the Civil Rights Movement.
Her attitude about government not being allowed to “spoil” American children by providing college fits right in with her own offspring’s choices to avoid higher education. They can always say that they were plenty smart, but just couldn’t afford it. And their mother is really rich, so they can say that they just couldn’t qualify for scholarships because of her astronomical income. And somehow the G.I. Bill doesn’t apply either………………and the Dancing With The Stars money had to go to paying a nanny……………and the abstinence speech money had to go to travel expenses.
You see, a college education like those Europeans get would just mess everybody up!
Yes, she called it a “grainy film” or something like that.
If she had learned much about racism and the civil rights movement, she would not have made some of the comments she made on the campaign trail, nor condoned comments made by the crowd at some of her appearances. She doesn’t even need to leave her hometown to witness racism. In general, Wasilla is a wonderful place, but to believe racism does not exist here is to have no eyes or ears or to be so totally self-absorbed you don’t realize what’s going on around you.
Thank you, AKM, for blogging this. I think this might be harmful to your health, but … thank you.
The valley of Sarah’s youth was mostly white, as were all the kids in her grade school white, with a few natives in the mix, not many people of color to this day…but it’s changing fast, and we need the ‘respect of diversity’ to become mainstream: we now have newcomers from all parts of the world, all colors and religions… and respect goes a long way. Her lack of it in her first national speech at the Republican convention, spoke volumes to her nature. And people who buy into that mean mentality are setting themselves up for real problems.
She and Beck are trying to co-opt King in order to cover up the core racism of their so-called “movement.” There is only one sentence of King’s which they are familiar with, and that is the one in which he says that people should be judged by their character and not by the color of their skin. They want to turn his intent on it’s head and use it to notify people of color that they will not be given any slack because we will judge them by their characters, [which of course, are lazy and shiftless.] In other words they are using King to justify negative racial profiling! Gotta love it! This is so twisted and evil I can hardly believe it. Of course, by arguing that calling the tea party racists is hateful, they want to shut down all criticism of them. Look at their signs. Listen to their people whine. The tea baggers are racists. Never before in my living memory have I seen a President treated with so much disrespect, from day one of his term. Sorry if this offends you Sarah. Sorry if this offends you Beck. You are racists. If you want to quote Martin Luther King, study his writings, life and speeches first. Otherwise, hands off.
I like that a “fright film”.
Thanx AKM, I thought I could just go on from all the comments from the first half of this chapter. 200 some. Consequently I can’t take anymore of this.
In truth, isn’t there some way to convince the mainstream media to quit on the coverage. Just shut her off. Please oh please advise. nem
I’m hoping for an arrest for sedition and treason. undermining American foreign policy and telling lies ought to qualify.
I am amazed that she has not been called out for what she is attempting, directly or as a result of her monumental idiocy, which is to aid and abet, if not suborn, domestic terrorism. I would like to ignore her and wish the media to do so; but she must be watched while being ignored.
I read in one of the posts yesterday (no criticism of the poster since I am well on my way to the title of “King of the Typo”) the phrase “loose canon” and it struck me as resoundingly accurate.
Loose canon – wow, I love it. A typo with a twist on the intended phrase and yet it still fits.
Somewhere there is a barbie to made!
[Sarah Revise History Barbie], she comes with a plastic toy gun, moose, and optional brain.
The more that I read, the sadder I get. Thanks McCain and a Happy New Year to you sir!!!
Now, we can tell the little girls in the world to forget about getting an education or learning about history. We will write a new one to match our lovely red lipstick (with powerful man dust*** the glittery one that deludes the mind).
Just be pretty, that is a sure fire way to win the world over with a simple wink (insert another word for catostomidae starting with an “s” and ending with a “r”).
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste!!!” (United Negro College Fund- 1972)
Sounds like women need to start saving our history and the work that they left behind before crazy pants writes a new book featuring herself as mother nature.
The media makes too much money off Sarah to just shut her off. They make money if she lies, if her lies are found out, if her lies are never found out, if she succeeds, if she fails – they just make too much money to go back to being honest journaists. I’m sure there are individual jurnos who still haveintegrity, but the corporate heads who write the checks and make the decisions on ‘what to air’ are just too greedy – and Sarah is just too big a cash cow.
Can’t finish reading!!!!!! Not enough gin!!!!!
Even the dog left the room!!!!
HAND ON FOREHEAD!!!! ——EMERGENCY—– CAN I READ FURTHER???
omg– Like a fright film – can’t stop watching!!!!
I couldn’t read your report past the paragraph about page 19:
Ordinary Americans make sacrifices to defend their freedom “by resisting trading their freedom for the promise of cradle to grave government security the way so many countries of Western Europe have.”
That part you quoted read wrong for her style of writing. So, I started searching, and guess what. Almost a direct cut from a 2007 publication featured in heritage.org. This publication was written by J. Munkhammar. Chapter 2 bingo’d on Google, and it is in PDF format. It is called “The Urgent Need for Labor Freedom – and the World.” It is just too close. She – or her ghostwriter – pared a paragraph to that sentence and no cite.
I am finished with this. Too many lies, and nobody in the national media ever does anything about it.
I need to insert myself here, also. Didn’t we go thru this western european thing the last time, WTF!!
My daughter has to submit all her English papers to a website that checks for plagiarism (sp?). I wonder what would happen if we submitted the chapters of this book. And is there a way to let these other authors know she is lifting their stuff?
How did you find this? I googled the phrase and the only thing that came up was *this* page!
There’s a marvelous website that teachers use: http://www.turnitin.com. It’s a plagiarism checker. You put a paper into the system, and in about five minutes, it pops out a report indicating whether parts of the paper are from other sources. Everything is color-coded and numbered, so it’s easy to see what was plagiarized and what the original sources were. I’d volunteer to do it myself, but there’s no way I’m buying that book.
That is the website I was talking about. Just couldn’t remember the name. Perhaps those brave souls who are reading the book could take turns uploading chapters.