Palin on the Presidency, Family, Her Film, and Beef Jerky Rage.
~Hail to the Chief Pinup Girl
The Newsweek cover story on Sarah Palin and her agonizingly drawn out declaration of candidacy for the Presidency is here. The article spares no mercy, launching right out of the chute with Palin’s quote, “I believe that I can win a national election.”
So, what then, is stopping her from simply declaring, and putting the ‘lamestream’ media out of its collective misery? “Family.” It’s allllll about the family. Yes that same family that Palin claimed were consulted about the VP nomination, and took a vote, which resulted in an overwhelming, “Go for it, Mom!” The only problem with that sweet little all-about-the-family narrative is that it’s actually not true. It’s a falsehood. An untruth. A lie as big and vast as the great state of Alaska. Not only was the family not asked to vote, they weren’t even consulted. As a matter of fact, they weren’t told about it at all until Mom told McCain advisor Steve Schmidt to spill the beans to the Palin girls after she had already accepted the nomination. But why quibble over the details.
So this time, she tells Newsweek, it will be different. “If it came down to the family just saying, ‘Please, Mom, don’t do this,’ then that would be the deal-killer for me…”
An impressive three sentences later, the article goes on to note:
Yet Palin, who is 47, now hinted that her family would not try to dissuade her from entering the race. “My kids know that life isn’t supposed to be easy, and it’s certainly not fair,” she said. “And they know that, even on their end, they have to make some sacrifices for the greater good.”
So, the family needs to understand that life is hard, it’s not fair, and on their end they’ve got to make some sacrifices for the greater good (Greater good = me). So, if they’re going to tell her not to run because they want life to be simple, or fair, or because they don’t want to make sacrifices, they can talk to the wannabe presidential hand. Maybe it will have “LALALALALALA!” written on its palm in Sharpie.
Speaking of the family, there was a Blackberry emergency during the interview in which Piper (10) wanted to get her hair cut. Both parents were appalled by this notion. “What is she thinking?” quoth the next president, who then said to our future First Dude, “You need to tell her that – she’ll obey you…” That’s one hard-nosed negotiator and effective diplomat all in wrapped up in one. If she can resist be cowed, and rise to the challenge of a ten-year old and her coiffure like this, I can almost feel peace in the Middle East already.
Any hints from the family about how she’ll prioritize spending? The multi-millionairess who’s been raking in huge sums from her two book deals, $1 million a year from Fox, $250,000 per episode for her TLC show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, and garners six figures as a “speaker” on “issues” gave us a hint. We learn that the other day she got “ticked off” at Todd. Trouble in paradise? What did he do? I’ll tell you what he did. He had the nerve to spend a whopping… (wait for it) $2.69 for a Slim Jim. That’s right folks, that slacker spent TWO DOLLARS AND SIXTY NINE CENTS of Sarah Palin’s money at the gas station for a piece of beef jerky.
That’s why this country is in the mess it’s in today, because of crazy spenders like Todd Palin. If he becomes our “Shadow President” like he was Alaska’s “Shadow Governor” we’re in deep trouble. We’ll be ass-deep in processed dried meat, and headed for the financial cliff. He needs to stick to what he does best – hair cut permission and enforcement, and leave matters of the economy to his wife (who got a D in Economics.)
You can read the rest of the Newsweek article (complete with pinup girl Carhartt gallery) HERE, Learn all about how former Goldman Sachs mergers and acquisitions guy Stephen Bannon used more than a million dollars of his own money to make “The Undefeated” campaign film. Don’t worry though – he got a distribution deal with Walmart and expects to make back his money easily. Whew.
By the way, the Department of Energy must die.
And you can enjoy Palin’s thoughtful critique of the movie’s portrayal of her – “Wow…. Yaaay!” Or the memorable musing, “Do people not understand why McCain picked me?” which she said “with some exasperation.” Yes, people do understand why he picked you – they just haven’t forgiven him yet.
Can’t wait for the pictures of the two bathtubs on the deck with Sarah in one and Todd in the other. Is this the warm up for the Viagra endorsement?
kiksadi50 – let’s hope that the past 10 + years of insanity have had an effect and people can remember why we are where we are and how we got here.
I saw an interesting piece on dailykos today that made me think. The claim was pretty simple really. The reason the right wing has such disproportionate influence though they are a clear minority is because they have an absolute monopoly of talk radio. Think about it, I think the claim has a goodly amount of credibility.
I don’t know why, but the cover shot of Mrs Palin makes me think of Peggy Bundy.
Bill Maher recently warned people to not underestimate the stupidity of the American voters. The country that elected Reagan, Nixon, 2 Bushes, and can’t come up with a half way decent nominee for a presidential nominee for the Repub.party, is capable of electing this woman president. A lot of people HATE Obamma, & a lot of Indep., Progress., undecideds, and Dems. are really, really pissed at Obamma. Our country is so f.u. right now, that electing palin really does seem to make sense to a lot of depressed,discouraged Americans.
‘I don’t understand why I don’t get no respect’ said the woman posed in a multitude of beauty pageant shots.
Just read in the Frontiersman that the dam is about to break and the water level in Lake Lucille will go down four feet leaving more lakeside owners with feet of mud all around their dock. I feel sorry for some of the property owners, but not the Palins. Go ahead dam show the Palins who wins.
I don’t know what is worse, Newsweek giving $P another free media pass to strut her ‘stuff’, or her delusional belief that she has some chance of winning the Republican nomination and perhaps the presidency. Either way it’s all about the benjamins – Newsweek is cashing in it’s integrity for a ‘slow news summer’ ratings bump, and $P is happy to cooperate in – and no doubt profit from – this bizarre showcase.
It’s as if the editorial staff of Newsweek thinks it’s late summer 2008 once again and somehow didn’t notice that she’s a dried up has been who had her time in the sun, like a withered up piece of fruit still clinging tenaciously to the tree from which it emerged several years ago.
Now this is a really good movie trailer. Thanx ‘Baker’s Dozen’.
nem
I think the most pertinent thing to keep in mind here about PP (Palin Propaganda) is that the root of her wealth, her exposure and her ability to seed lies into the public discourse is Fox News.
The publisher of her “books” is owned by News Corp. Murdoch handed her a $7 million check for her two books within days of her resigning and then hired her at $1 million a year to be a “political analyst”.
Fox News picks up a facebook screed by a pseudo-celebrity grifting evangelical nut job and turns it into NEWS.
The best part of this whole bit of Punch and Judy on steroids and meth is that the supreme court has already ruled that freedom of the press does not include an obligation to publish the truth. Lies are fine.
It is just possible that Murdoch will fall. Let us hope he does. Nay let us do everything we can to make sure he does. Media Matters forced Glenn Beck off the air, let us join with them, expand with them, and force Fox into bankruptcy by intimidating their corporate sponsors.
I believe that the greatest threat to freedom, as we know it in America, is our current Supreme Court. The decision in favor of ‘Citizen’s United’ sold our Freedom to Corporate America and offshore interest to whom we owe bizzillions of dollars.
In an older generation could look to the US Congress. But it’s today. BabyBoomers have taken to lounge chairs or something similar. Apparently we have neither voice or commitment because we are afraid. Many of us produced (time, money), for Scott McAdams. Alaska Independents, Democrats, Non-Partisans who choose to vote the for Status Quo, Big Oil, resource extractors, mercantilists, exploiters are really afraid.
We have to leap, because we paused so long, into Now. “We are the powers’ that be !! “.\
nem
[scary movie music] da DA da DA da DA da DA (last thread it was BRAS the Revenge!
Now, just as you thought it was safe to go into Slicktoria’s Secret, comes “BRAS meets Lassie!!!”
Oh, the horror! Sarah has fallen into the well. “Help, Lassie, get help!” Lassie, realizing that help is too far off, and, being trained to be kind to those with an even lower brain function than Timmy, valiantly jumps in!!!!!!!!! She treads water while attempting to put a life jacket on Sarah, only to find it won’t zip up in front!!!!!!!!!! Sarah’s already taken on too much water up top! Lassie tries to drag her from the well, but Sarah’s overweighted. The over filled lingerie is heavier than the surrounding water, and it drags her to the bottom, where she suddenly turns into Gollum, bubbling, “Preciouses, my preciouses!”
Lassie leaves in disgust, cancels all further movie contracts and starts touring with Paul McCartney.
Oh, my god, the PHOTOS!! Is she running for president or washed up beauty queen? Why doesn’t she just cut a deal with Playboy or Hustler and get on with her bad self?
Like !!!
Snoozeweek PWND Palin! LOL This has to be a joke– and they go out with a whimper…
I’m older than sister Sarah, but I’ll assure you, had I had a photo-op as her recent one, my near 40 year-old daughter would have chastised me from one end to the other and it would have been well deserved.
I cannot imagine what Bristol, Willow, and Pipe think of their mother. She is a horses ass and a huge embarassment to Alaskans and U.S. citizens. Todd, it seems, is trying to to hold things together for the kids – but I’m sure he totally has nothing more than abhorrence of her! No wonder he has gone elsewhere to satsify himself.
Can you imagine First Lady Michelle Obama doing a similar photo shoot? It would never occur. Michelle Obama has so much more class than trailer trash Palin!
Palin cannot even measure up to First Lady Michelle Obama much less President Obama. The Palin family doesn’t even begin to compare to that of the Obama Family…
Where is her wedding ring? The self proclaimed model wife & mother doesn’t wear her wedding ring? I needed a good laugh today and it’s been one constant belly laugh; first the pictures, and now the wickedly funny comments! 🙂
Well, at least if Sarah falls into Lake Lucille, her “girls” will keep her afloat.
hahahahahaha Irish! But would those girls keep that photoshopped afloat too? That thang is ginormous.
Where is the cleavage? There is none. You can’t sport “girls” like that without a cleavage.
I posted the following at IM as well. This is just from a photogapher’s viewpoint….and I am a rank amateur.
Lol. Emily Shur had a laugh with these. I studied photography for five years and there are some real crackers in these photos.
The background is slanted in a couple of them. The picture of her with the moose antlers has a pole behind her with two wires attached to it. The wires look as if they are in fact attached to Palin. It makes her look like a puppet! Any photographer worth his/her salt will scan the background to make sure there is nothing behind the subject that will distract from the image. These are just hilarious. My tutors would have shot me for that pic of Palin in the fireweeds – it is all wrong. She looks lost!
The photos of her in the pink top looks overexposed to me. The lighting is not right and it makes Palin look ghastly. It focuses your attention on her evil devil eyes. Heehee.
Then there is the question of her stupid wardrobe. Who the hell matches grey with brown? Don’t get me started on the shoes or the boobs.
Finally, take a good look at her fingers in the first photo. Zoom in on them if you can. There is something radically wrong there. Too much blackberry use if you ask me. No wonder she is stuffing her fists into her pockets in some of the other pics. Her hands are not her defining features.
I have looked at Emily Shur’s website and I haven’t seen anything as sloppy as these pics. My take is that Emily is not a fan.
At least by the last shot someone finally told her to drop that hideous watch in the lake.
Sister Molly has the cleavage for both Sarah and Molly.
You know, for quite some time life vests were called ‘Mae Wests’ for the way they enhanced people’s chests!
Lake Lucille is not salt water. Yes, big tits help bouyancy in salt water, but not in glacierly cold fresh water.
nem
I’ve figured it out!
They look like the publicity shots for a bad television movie-of-the-week.
“She was an aging supermodel and desperate to hold onto her youth for just one more big photo shoot. She was convinced that this one would propel her back into the big time and onto the magazine covers, but she hadn’t counted on the young model who had just been hired by her agency. HER agency! How dare they! She’d show them! But just how far would she go for vengeance? All the way to…murder???”
Find out at 8 pm tonight on TTV (Tacky TV)!
(Or perhaps she’s auditioning for a job as a model for romance novel covers?)
Oh, Leenie, you are just too funny!!
Funny, yes, Lennie, but too similar to the descriptions of movies on LMN or Lifetime. Good one on ya. !!
When I saw the rest of the pictures this afternoon on Chris Mathews MSNBC show I was so embarrassed for her, for some reason embarrassed for myself. I don’t know what a water bra is, and I hear about a ‘bump-it’, have no idea wha t that really is. I can imagine in both cases, but really that is not the way to gain credibility, even now, 21st Century. Wasn’t thought much of in the late 20th Century either.
Let’s hope that this is the end of it.
nem
LALALALALA written on her hand in sharpie! akm you priceless
Can you just imagine what the right wingnuts would say if Michelle Obama posed for this kind of photo shoot?
Those wingnuts would love it. ‘Mine’s bigger’.
nem
Dear Sarah – whoever told you to pose like this for Newsweek is no friend. Just sayin’.
winner
No, she can’t actually. I am one of millions who will be found performing their civic duties with a depth of passion and action not seen for a very long time…
OMG, it gets better, Con Agra foods responds to Sarah Palins traumatic Slim Jim experience:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/exclusive_conagra_on_sarah_pal.html
It seems like Todd prefers the monster stick with double the beef!
He, he
That Con Agra statement is a hoot!
And yes, something tells me that Todd probably DID feel a deep need to go for the Biggie Double Beefstick (cough….compensating, much? cough….) But then, with a wife like Scarah, he probably lives in mortal fear of castratatrophic loss, and has gone into “hoarding mode”.
LOVE the first comment which reads, in part:
“Who gets fact checked by the makers of processed meat?”
Seriously, should PolitiFact have to use its resources on repudiating Sarah Palin’s drivel when there are important issues regarding Michelle Bachman’s foster children and her job as a tax collector (not to be confused with tax lawyer) to be resolved?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/11/sarah-palin/sarah-palin-says-price-slim-jims-has-risen-169-per/
Curiouser and curiouser. Not to forget Federal employees get ‘Cost of Living Adjustments’ (COLA). I’m guessing Bachmann even got a few adjustments, besides the loopholes, dairy subsidies, and stimulus help.
Let’s just wait for Rep. Bachmann to throw her tits out, also.
nem
Forgot this most important reality. Former Governor Palin washa found guilty of unethical practices while in office. All reports about he ignore this fact. She paid a fine ????. Doesn’t that acknowledge, if not quilt, culpability ????
This is not an innocent person.
nem
Joe McGinniss says he knows why she quit.
That it will be in his book.
Wait a minute…….Let me listen a second to be sure…….Yep, I think its true. I am officially bored with Palin. I feel no need whatsoever to click over to the Newsweek article. Her opinions are about as relevant as the philosophical musings of Kim Kardashian. In fact, the entirety of Palin’s relevance is her ability to declare herself as running for President and then completely housewreck the Republican home. Put it this way, if someone finds the brake lines on Palin’s limo cut, I hope that Karl Rove and Mitt Romney have good alibis.
The slide show with the article – the photos of her in the pink shirt make her look really awkward and uncomfortable, and like she doesn’t want to be there, not even in her own backyard. Unsmiling. Lost. hunched over. fearful.
I am of Palin’s gender and generation. when I saw those photos of her inthe pink shirt I couldn’t put my finger on it at first, and then suddenly it came to me.
It was a memory of being 13 years old, shy and uncertain, sullen – there are dozens of photos of me like that at that awkward age, my dad having summoned me outside to pose for a photo to send to Grandma.
Palin’s whole Newsweek photo shoot is a dead ringer for the “personality photos” which high school senior girls have taken for inclusion in the school yearbook.
The somewhat awkward and self-conscious poses, the salubrious pastoral settings — even the coy facial expressions combined with hints of teenage concupiscence — are almost de rigueur for the high school senior girls’ “personality photo” shoots in our small town. Whereas this sort of photo shoot is poignantly sweet in 17-18 year old girls on the threshold of feminine adulthood, it’s simply embarrassing to see this photo display in a middle-aged woman with delusions that she can win the highest office in the land.
Newsweek did no favors to Mrs. Palin with this cover photo shoot. In fact, the photos are eerily honest in their portrayal of Mrs. Palin: she’s never emotionally or intellectually made it past the melodrama and dreams of high school. And it shows.
well said Lee and i agree,
Lee, I just posted a similar comment over at Malia Litman’s blog…I excused the girls for being self-absorbed as they’re just 18 and said sarah is closer in age to the moms of these girls. Of course us moms of those girls are too busy getting things ready to send our self-absorbed girls off to their first year of college. Something sarah will most likely never experience…
Not sure I agree with your comment Lee323. I was a Junior (HS) Prom Queen candidate. Didn’t win anything, but I surely didn’t have to show my tits or waistline. We gave great parties the week leading up to the Prom, and everyone had a good time. No reported rapes. (My parents would have heard about that.)
This expose’ is too offensive for anymore words.
nem
Dang she just looks so outdoorsey with the carharts and waterwings shoved under her shirt…
If anyone would know about “Other People’s Money” it’s Sarah Palin. Her entire “career” since she quit her job has been one long beg-a-thon. By the way, the SarahPAC website is still begging for donations for the disbanded Palin family vacation. –shakes head–
Shouldn’t she look at her own ‘sugar daddy’ and try to defend her cozy relationship with the Murdoch empire?
Ugh, and he really is a sugar daddy. His current wife is young enough to be his grand-daughter.
Super post!
Her syrup she dishes out is thicker than the granulated sugar her supposed “sugardaddies” dish out. Icky bugs get stuck in her goo.
Why is it so important to mention her child’s present problems on a blackberry to a reporter? A distraction? To disarm reporter from asking unfriendly questions? And poor Todd, paying top dollar for a jug of milk and a jerky like that; no wonder these poor blokes need those PAC donations shuffling in. Guess they’re affected by the high cost of living too.
She’s right too, to teach her kids that “life isn’t easy”. Even her daughter teaches that in her multiple $$$ book. Hardships come for the Palins too. And those photos, it’s a hard life to have to work like that posing for a camera, all that grinding sweat and tears, that work ethic at display. But it’s a sacrifice that someone has to make. Only a servant’s heart knows for sure.
Just for comic relief, I went and took a look at the book standings. Here goes!
Bristol’s: #1311
Rogue: #202567
Heart: #10,405
By contrast, Obama’s children’s book is doing pretty well. Particularly as it has been released for a fair amount of time.
#3614 (overall)
#2, #5, #26 is various other subcategories.
I only looked at the printed book numbers, not Kindle.
The photographer is either 12 years old. Or she hates palin. Or both.
Those have to be the most unprofessional shots I have ever seen…
LMAO… even funnier that they got published…
Is this a spoof? cuz I’d have murder in my eyes if someone did that to me… honestly is seems that layout was deliberate and meant to embarrass her, (which I’m sure it didn’t, as she’s too self absorbed to even be embarrassed.)
The water boobs are the funniest though… sp thinks we are too dumb to realize that the size of her boobs, (like the size of her “pregnant” belly) change and we just don’t notice…
Says alot about her, that she thinks Americans are just that dumb.
Hats off to sp… letting her true self show… even if she wasn’t aware of it.
She must have been wearing that valley trash T shirt under the sweat shirt.
I just read somewhere that the photographer is a big fan of the president. stoopid sarah walked right into her web. She had her pose like the gals in the calendars at your favorite garage that all the mechanics drool over, but at least most of those girls have cleavage to go along with their inflated boobies.
This photo reminds me of photos taken years ago for Grain Belt Beer. All she needs to have behind her is a hay-stack.
What really needs to be in her photos is an outhouse.
Imagine Gerald Ford posing like that. Kind of puts it in perspective, huh?
Bring it on Sarah. Obama’s second term is assured.
Imagine Hilary, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Dole, Jan Brewer, Michele Bachmann, or any other serious female politician. None would stoop to selling their sexual side like this. Sarah has a high school prom queen mentality. And her followers have a junior high male mentality.
Sarah Palin as Newsweek cover girl — again
By Jonathan Capehart
http://www.washingtpost.com (postPartisan)
I disagree with his fashion sense and evaluation of the photo. I agree with his analysis of Sarah’s presidential aspirations. Or whatever they are.
Does anyone else find themselves thinking of the movie “Soap Dish” when Sarah lands in the spotlight. Again.
Palins = Media Whores, one and all
A reminder of how important her children are in formulating her political participation agenda… “““““““““““`
In fact, this decision comes after much consideration, and finally polling the most important people in my life – my children (where the count was unanimous… well, in response to asking: “Want me to make a positive difference and fight for ALL our children’s future from OUTSIDE the Governor’s office?” It was four “yes’s” and one “hell yeah!” The “hell yeah” sealed it – and someday I’ll talk about the details of that [/snip]
— from her “Independence Day: Alaska” QuitSaladScreech; 3 July 2009
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/full-text-of-palins-resignation-speech.php
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Since she’s been relentless in her Fb- and screech-schooling of POTUS about all things having to do with running our nation, and now, specifically Fb-schooling POTUS, Boehner, et.al., and every-day rill Amuricuns about the national debt, I’m concerned that *I* am missing something; I’m concerned that her numeracy and mine are at odds with each other. And here’s why…
As far as I know, she has five (5) children. (Well, 6, now, with her new DIL courtesy of Track, but the QuitScreechSalad was in 2009 – pre-Britta.) She *specifically* says in that screech: “It was four ‘yes’s’ and one ‘hell yeah!'” — by my count, yup, that makes 5 responses…correlating perfectly with the number of children she has: 5. *BUT* her youngest was only 15-mo at the time! She truly and honestly asked him, her special needs prop, the question she says she asked and she wants us to believe he answered in the affirmative? Or even understood what she was asking –at all– to give *any* answer? Seriously?
Notice she didn’t say: “and one *was* ‘hell yeah!’,” or “*with* one ‘hell yeah!’,” or “and one *even* ‘hell yeah!'” — she definitely tells us she got five! separate! responses from her children. Ummm, for the reason explained above, though, I’m truly having trouble computing…
So, you see why I’m concerned? She, the expert in all things numerical and otherwise, is telling me — and POTUS, Boehner, and everyone else — how I (we) ought to view the economy, the national debt, taxes, and all else, *but* I just can’t seem to get a handle on the key to PalinNumbers (where she derives them from, how she uses them, etc,) so I’m really at quite a disadvantage.
Possibly she shared with the nation (or at least, Alaskans) the key to PalinNumbers when she talked –as she said she would– about the details of the “hell yeah!” response. If so, I missed it. Any ‘pups have that key they’d be willing to share with me so I’m not quite so ingornant about what it is MissyQuittyPants is Fb-ing us re: the national debt etc.? Ta in advance. beth.
We all know that Sarah’s has no clue about how the ‘national debt’ works. Someone is writing that stuff for her…if she was asked specific questions about it, she’d FLUNK big time and she knows it.
During my 20 + year government career, I do not remember once sitting my children down and asking them for career advice. I just always figured that as the adult, it was my responsibility to make those decisions.
AKM, I absolutely love the way your writing has become more acerbic, biting and downright funny over the time you’ve spent writing this blog. “If she can resist be cowed, and rise to the challenge of a ten-year old and her coiffure like this, I can almost feel peace in the Middle East already.” You nailed it! Thank you for continuing to expose this lying grifter for who she really is, in a most entertaining way! *doffs hat*
I just figured out that Palin’s plastic surgeon is using her as a demonstration model to make himself forever famous and rich – he’s working out the kinks and getting some free advertising while he is waiting to get his patent approval for those “blow up boobs”. Wonder if they come in both air and water filled models? And where does he hide the valves? Under the arm pits or in the nipples?
Gray water, gray shirt, gray heart, gray matter… but the close-up H2O boobies are hysterical!
Oh, I can’t read the article, but I did look at the photos. As they say, a photo is worth a thousand words, and those photos speak volumes about how un-presidential she looks. There is nothing in her demeanor that shows a strong confident woman. While some are clearly going for the pin-up look, others of those photos make her look sad and very vulnerable. I can’t believe that she posed for those photos and then actually agreed to let them be printed.
She really is pathetic.
I won’t click on the Newsweak story, but I did look at the photo gallery at Daily Beast. I have important work to do, and don’t want to waste my energy on that LOSER.
Jonathan Capehart’s take on the Newsweek shots and interview:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/sarah-palin-as-newsweek-cover-girl–again/2011/03/04/gIQA0xqo8H_blog.html#pagebreak
In particular he draws attention to her laughable, simplistic and naive quote about the debt ceiling.
“Do people not understand why McCain picked me?” which she said “with some exasperation.” Yes, people do understand why he picked you – they just haven’t forgiven him yet.”
….and for those late to class – her Newsweek photo spread leaves no doubt as to why she was so….erm….appealing to Senator McCain as a running mate. Pander pander pander!!
There,but for an all too familiar M.O.,goes McSame’s next wife Sarah.
I’m not exaggerating: After yesterday’s teaser story on the Mudflats for this story, I had a nightmare wherein I had to be the cameraman on Palin’s reality show and had to listen to her and her inane family 24/7. I skimmed this story to spare myself a second fitful night of sleep in a row.
Two things particularly caught my attention in this article. One, how Bannon gives himself an out for having an Establishment, Elite, Goldman Sachs background by saying OTHER people in this circle aren’t as smart as his grandfather who had a third-grade education. That’s really all you have to do to woo the rabid rightwing…crack a joke about the “elite” and you’re in like Flynn, even if you are clearly a member of the elite. –shakes head–
Second, I find it interesting that there are two people running around Iowa on Palin’s behalf, on their own dime…and STILL haven’t met her even after she flew in to Iowa on a private luxury jet. Other candidates actually pay their workers. I guess this is one way Palin will be running an “unconventional” campaign.
Here are my responses to the Palin Pin-up Presidency Gallery:
“Oh dear Lord…”
“Are you freaking kidding me?!”
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!”
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“What?! This is…just….what?! Hahahahahahaha!”
“Oh give it UP, girl. Although, she does strike a good pose, I’ll give her that!”
“This is just kinda creepy now though….hahahahahahahhaa!!!”
Geez she really is a piece of work,, isn’t she? “The media is sexist!!!” A few months later….”How’s this for Northern Slopes for you, boys??? *wink* *wink*
The woman is delusional and crazy. No candidate in their right mind would pose like she did for Newsweek. Just insanity. Michelle Bachmann must have spewed coffee all over her laptop this morning looking at these photos…..just before letting out a belly laugh.
Palin can kiss the nomination good-bye (if she ever was even CLOSE to getting it) – these photos just sealed her fate as airhead pouty celebrity with delusions of the Presidency. She’s good at Vogue-ing (as any decent beauty queen should be) but come on, she can’t possibly expect anyone to take her seriously after this. And Newsweek? You mean the mag that just ran the world’s tackiest and most disgusting cover of Diana at 50? Yeah. THAT Newsweek. Great decision making as usual by Palin.
Those poses……are “Look at Meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! See how relaxed I loooooooook!!!!! See me stretched out on the wharf and imagine meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! See how ordinary I look; see how average-american I look; See, see, Sarah look intently as a winner! See her hair blowing in the winds of change!!!!!
Puke!
Okay muddies, it is a pretty morning. Right now, this moment. The bird noise is just exciting. The coffee perfect. Every rose, columbine, choclate Lilly, forget-me-not, iris, has bloomed out every possible bud they have.
I’ve read this blog entry, but not the newsweek spread. Nor have I read or even “scanned” the comments. Ah and I’m confused. Maybe it is my current surroundings effecting my preceptions. I don’t know. But I have to ask. Is that a photoshopped graphic? Did someone put Sowah’s head on
that pose? It ain’t real, right?
Good god. I’m sittin here listening to the POTUS…
I’ve just realized that this is a real photo spread by the WGE.
cough, cough
snort
giggle
bhaaa, bhaaa
(puts hand over mouth & wanders back into the woodlands… thankful I never voted for Sowah & that she quit.)
Her outdoor clothes are always so shiny and new. I don’t believe she wears fishing chest waders or Carhartts in any actual life she may be attempting to portray.
Carhartts are de rigor in bush Alaska – but they sure don’t stay nice and new long. The ones Sarah is wearing look like they’ve just come off the rack.
My sister lives in NY. She said about 5 years ago Carhartts were really popular “hip” clothing. She had me send her some.
So here is typical confused Sarah, is she gonna appeal to the regular folks who were Carhartt’s as their daily work wear, or is she appealing to the city fashionistas?
It’s actually a badge of honor in Alaska how bad and beat up and dirty your Carhartts are – there’s a contest at the state fair, even.
The blinding albedo off of $arah’s “outdoor clothes” always gives it away for me; now I’m wondering about the Republican Woman’s Uniform – the red blazer – I bet her’s isn’t real, either.
Yeah, but there’s a time and a place for Carhartt’s. You wear them when you’re doing dirty work out in the yard, or when you’re out huntin’ or fishin’. She’s panderin’ to some kind of weird crowd wearing them in this shot, and it just doesn’t seem genuine. Jeans would’ve worked a whole lot better. This reminded me of living in a small fishing village in southeast many years ago. The radio station’s newest reporter came out and began wearing her red rubber boots everywhere, even when it was clear and sunny and when she was far from salt water. It was a kind of “Look at me, I’m a real Alaskan” statement, and didn’t go over real well with the locals. These shots of La Palin are just the same.
She doesn’t want Michele Bachmann to copy her style. There is only one word Uff da!
Three words: “Does it kick???”
I look at this picture and the first thing I see are those really ugly boats on her feet. Who wears shoes like that? Then I see that huge watch. Almost no one I know wears watches these days..especially someone who carries 2 crackberries…and the few who do wear them, wear small ones. This thing looks like one of those that has a compass etc. built in. Then I notice she is wearing Carhartt pants…..for God’s sake…WHO wears Carhartts? And finally I notice the shirt that looks like something a kid would wear. Nothing matches or coordinates about her outfit. I think that is very appropriate..as nothing about this woman makes sense either.
I read at the article..couldn’t understand how anyone who spent any time at all around her came away liking her.
Laughing at her making Todd tell Piper she can’t cut her hair…there’s that OBEY word again. Why can’t the kid pick her own hair style? And why can’t her mother tell her no if someone has to? This brief insight into their family life speaks volumes about them, doesn’t it?
Yup…she surely could win the biggest joke of the year award.
Really hard to believe THIS — http://bit.ly/qn4GdE — morphed into this — http://bit.ly/naMaWI — in the space of a few short days…
…if you suppose as I do that the photo shoot was done right after the aborted RV bus tour in June — funny…she called this her “jury duty”.
Hey, Sarah, the jury’ still out on your stale cheesecake.
Maybe you Valley residents can confirm. If the photo shoot was in June, when does your fireweed bloom? Here in Homer, it blooms from mid-July (just the smallest buds on ours now) through August. The shots that show Sarah with fireweed looks like it would have been taken at the end of July around these parts. Is the fireweed around Wasilla really that far advanced?
OMG! AKM said “ass.” LOL Great article.
I know! Some words sum it all up, really. Good job, AKM! Awesome commentary, as usual!
My favorite line: “If she can resist be cowed, and rise to the challenge of a ten-year old and her coiffure like this, I can almost feel peace in the Middle East already.” Why would a rational adult think that any likely voter would see her response to Piper as presidential? If she can’t handle being a mom and making the tough decisions, how the h*** could she handle being president? Sheesh!
Okay, I couldn’t resist looking at the photos. She looks emaciated. According to Blind Allegiance, she has bad eating habits (as does Todd if he is sneaky beef jerky). These pictures do not show a healthy person.
The one physical thing that always seems to stand out to me is her angular face. Seems to be getting more box-like the older she gets. But, that’s beside the point. The photos (more at the Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07/11/sarah-palin-s-newsweek-cover-shoot.html) do her justice if you’re looking for a chief of lazing around on the dock doing nothin’ or standing in the wildflowers messing with your pockets. So, she criticizes the President (and everyone else) and his policies and the dire national economic state, and then poses for photos doing absolutely nothing! Oh, yeah! I think that’s pretty representative of exactly what she would do if she were elected to ANY political office…flat out NOTHING! (But, of course, pose for pretty pictures. Have to have those!) Ahhh…but the photo I do really like is the one standing by the tree under the moose antler 🙂 There are these two strings that emanate from her back going upwards, like puppet strings. Perfect, just perfect. She’s a puppet…for Todd, for secessionists, for her own greed. Perfect.
At one point, the New York Times got a hold of her actual schedule as a governor. It was very sparse, other than fun, ceremonial types of events where she got to cut a ribbon, give a short speech, present someone with an award, etc.
Do you think Sarah and Todd will read THIS article in Newsweek?
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/how-to-build-a-winning-team.html
They seem to value intense blinded-by-the-light loyalty more than they value honesty and competency, though — and that’s why she WON’T win.
Won’t win anything except a fatter bank account, anyway. I’ll bet she’s still grifting donations ‘way past 2012.
She is a middle-aged women – granted well-preserved by the ‘miracles’ money can buy – but still a middle-aged woman who really is looking her age. Am I the only one who found this whole photo shoot just – well bizarre?
I don’t see a sexy woman, I just see a middle-aged woman who looks more Peggy Hill than anyone else to me, looking quite frankly – ridiculous – in those pictures. She really is a SNL skit in the making.
Can a middle-aged woman not look sexy? I’ll give Palin this, she’s very attractive and she’s taken good care of her looks. Maybe because I’m a middle aged woman I’m a little sensitive to some of the jeering about her age, because for the most part I can’t stand her.
“looks like she put her big boobs on for that photo shoot”.
I wonder if she signed an endorsement deal with ‘Vi*gra’. This issue of News Week will be available in a plain brown wrapper at Tea Party branches nation wide. I wonder if they did a test shoot with erect nipple inserts first?
I vote for a Palin /Bachmann stretch mark contest. Winner take all…
“looks like she put her big boobs on for that photo shoot”.
I wonder if she signed an endorsement deal with ‘Viagra’. This issue of News Week will be available in a plain brown wrapper at Tea Party branches nation wide. I wonder if they did a test shoot with erect nipple inserts first?
I vote for a Palin /Bachmann stretch mark contest. Winner take all…
Hmmm, didn’t she once complain about the sexist lamestream media? No wonder the likes of Howard Fineman, Jonathan Alter, Michael Isikoff,and Fareed Zakaria have jumped the Newsweek ship. Sarah, striking a serious and thoughtful pose does not make you a serious and thoughtful person. When I think of serious and thoughtful, these images come to mind:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/02/situation-room-pics/
I think the big problem they had with this photo shoot is that she doesn’t actually DO anything. Most politicians have shots taken of them hard at work, solving problems, talking with constituents, meeting with committees…
When you don’t DO anything for a living except grift, there’s just not a lot to take pictures of!
looks like she put her big boobs on for that photo shoot.
I get it. Someone said something about Michelle Bachmann’s sex appeal and Sarah simply couldn’t stand it. She just had to go Michelle one better and strut what little stuff she has left. Sadly, the photos make her look desperate; the only time you should look young is when you really are – chasing after it by posing as a wide-eyed innocent at forty-seven simply plays up how old and wrinkled you really are.
Gosh, Sarah, you just made Michelle Bachmann look like the grown-up. Didn’t think anyone could do that. Congrats, you silly ole girl you.
Ding ding ding! You’ve hit the nail on the head. Sarah can always be relied upon to sink to the occasion!
Wow
Mama Grifter has a huge noggin (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).
Congratulations to Newsweek on the great scoop. Not a minute too soon!
Huge noggin? Lights are on, but nobody’s home!
I just wrote a letter to Newsweek and I suggested that a better article would have dug into some of the real issues surrounding Sarah Palin. The photo of her amid the flowers really annoyed me for some reason; it looked as if she had never done anything like that before. She seemed more comfortable in the pin-up poses.
What size shoes does she wear..looks like clown feet in clown shoes and what’s with the Carharts? Sexy??? NOT!!!
“Not only was the family not asked to vote, they weren’t even consulted. As a matter of fact, they weren’t told about it at all until Mom told McCain advisor Steve Schmidt to spill the beans to the Palin girls after she had already accepted the nomination”
That’s our Sarah all-over, always workin hard to create impulsive folklore and demand that the Family fall-in line and “obey” the narrative. That’s why Bristol sings from the mountain tops that her mom is so awesome and a whiz.
Qualities we all look for in a President.
That picture is, um, quite….titillating?
I have no other words for what ig going on at Sarah’s chestal region. How long after she reads all these blogs until Our Lady of Perpetual Victimhood fires up another Facebook post about the big bad sexist media again?
Read the entire article online yesterday and was sooooooooo not impressed. It was so sugary that I wonder if the poor author got diabetes after he wrote it. I am sorry Alaska that she still lives in your lovely state but don’t want her down here with the rest of us. When will she ever just go away??
I’m in Arizona – and PLEASE, don’t send her here. We’re way over our bat-shi# quota already.
Is it just me, or is she playing down the celebrity thing for a more pensive, serious look—while still dangling the sex angle?
You’re right.
I got that from the antlers photo.
She’s looking demure in that photo, like a come on.
Oh no…in the article Sarah Palin threatened John Boehner with her personal disappointment. If that doesn’t make him abide by the wing nut rules, nothing will:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/07/sarah-palin-threatens-john-boehner-with-personal-disappointment-and-other-economic-news.html#
you can’t fix crazy.
you should see the other photos — all poorly conceived
i suppose we should thank newsweek for catching the crazy on film. oy.
I did, and all I can say – is eeewww. How can that woman think those photos are suitable for a Presidential candidate?
She’s setting the women’s movement back decades. Sex sells, but do we really want to buy THAT particular product? I think it’s past its sell-by date.
For those who haven’t yet seen the entire cheesy spread, here you go. Don’t be drinking or trying to swallow anything, though. It could be dangerous to your health. We already know she’s dangerous to people’s sanity.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07/11/sarah-palin-s-newsweek-cover-shoot.html
I never got the memo that flag pins are okay on pink hoodies but not on grey ones. The antlers shot is hysterical with the power poles in the background.
and super serious face pout on Palin! I think that one is my favourite for sheer comedy value =D
Joni Mitchell said it so well in 1995.
Sex Kills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAjL6bvDskc
I pulled up behind a Cadillac;
We were waiting for the light;
And I took a look at his license plate-
It said, “Just Ice.”
Is justice just ice?
Governed by greed and lust?
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must?
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills …
Sex kills …
Doctors’ pills give you brand new ills
And the bills bury you like an avalanche
And lawyers haven’t been this popular
Since Robespierre slaughtered half of France!
And Indian chiefs with their old beliefs know
The balance is undone-crazy ions-
You can feel it out in traffic;
Everyone hates everyone!
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills …
Sex kills …
All these jackoffs at the office
The rapist in the pool
Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries-
Little kids packin’ guns to school
The ulcerated ozone
These tumors of the skin-
This hostile sun beating down on
This massive mess we’re in!
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills …
apologies for exclamation point abuse, there ^^
What-no parking lot?
Here is my theory of this article and cover: Newsweek knows that the Carl Bernstein story about Murdock is IMPORTANT. But, they also felt that Americans would not buy the magazine to read it. So, knowing that Sarah on the cover has historically sold magazines, they put her on the cover in the hopes that when the buyers read a few paragraphs about Sarah they will just give up and go on to read the true cover story. Here’s hoping it works!
A few years ago, there was a week when the cover story on the European, South American, and Asian editions of Newsweek was on global warming, while the North American edition ran with Mark Foley and the congressional page scandal. Sex sells better than science!
I think I read that Foley has prostate cancer. Karma?
Um, do you say that about everyone with cancer? Geesh.
You apparently missed the question mark at the end of karma. It was stated as a question for what should be obvious reasons,and to answer your question,why no,I don’t say that of everyone that has cancer.To paulabflat-when I checked on this site earlier I saw your comment after mine and was puzzled by the response. Now I see Mark’s comment,that mystery is solved. I don’t comment here to alienate or antagonize anyone,and if that is what anyone concluded,I apologize.
oh. now.
look to your own.
absolutely no offense intended.
Completely bizarre that a news magazine would print a photo like this with a story about a potential candidacy – if they are serious, that is, about the possibility of her running….which makes me wonder. Is this some kind of joke? It is so obviously posed to look like a ‘beauty’ shot – ?? I would love to know the back story on why and how they printed this article. Unless you totally love her, it would seem to trivialize her viability of a candidate. I don’t see how it would come anywhere near convincing anyone that she is suitable for anything in the way of a presidential nomination and makes her look kind of ridiculous.
Bizarre, indeed. I’m put in mind of Scott Brown’s nekkid centerfold. Gross and highly inappropriate.
At least Scott Brown was a young man when he posed, unlike the 47-year old Palin. BTW, she is getting slammed for the Newsweek article on Jansing &Co on MSNBC right now. Love it! Pawlenty is slamming Bachmann for no legislative record and the hosts/guests are slamming Palin because she needs relevance now that Bachmann is beating her up 🙂 Love it!
The hope that we have is the more these two women put themselves out there, the more the public, not their fan base, will learn about how inept they are. Bachmann seems to only have fund-raising as her big political plus. Palin, however, just continues to prove how unpresidential she is and how unqualified she is for any political position. Pictures and articles like that aren’t going to serve her well – they only continue to remind us that John McCain was a thoughtless candidate who desperately picked her. And we can all be thankful that neither of them are anywhere near the White House.
Meanwhile, women politicians who are actually working their tails off get no coverage. Our governor Beverly Purdue (North Carolina) is doing her best to keep this state from getting taken over by the rightwing radicals in the State House, for example. She’s having to veto one monstrous bill after another. She could use a little more national attention about these efforts.
Cammie –
That’s what gets me so angry about both Palin and Bachmann.
There are so many smart, well-educated, competent, hard-working women in politics these days who are being completely overlooked because everyone is gawking at these two train wrecks. Women have worked like crazy for decades to be taken seriously as respectable and viable candidates, and these two bimbos come along and, in a few short years, destroy all the progress that has been made by the women before them. They drag us all back to the days of being viewed as nothing but fluff-headed eye candy that can just be patronized, patted on the head, and sent back to the kitchen or bedroom where we REALLY belong.
Amen, Cammie and leenie17.
“Completely bizarre that a news magazine would print a photo like this with a story about a potential candidacy” True, if it were still a news magazine. But the media is no longer about investigating, analyzing and reporting news. It’s all about what sells. Anything with Palin’s name will sell to her bots. It will also sell to a bunch of normal people who are continuously amazed that anyone takes her seriously. And of course it the pictures will sell to her base of 14 year old boys.
Palin is exactly like a 2 and 1/2 year old that has been given a play house that looks like the W0hite House. Mommy & Daddy tell her every day that she is running to be president, that she will be elected, and that she will be the president of the United States. The 2 and 1/2 year old really doesn’t know what the president does or what is knowledge is required, but she knows she will be the president. She runs around and says she is running to be president all day long not knowing what it means!
The bizarre and scariest thing is that a once credible magazine print this drivel !
🙁
That is funny.
and Tina Brown is out of ideas
they gave her Newsweek because someone has to end it
Oh..this is just so much to process on a Monday morning before work. My brain will be shut down in seconds. I will be totally useless for the rest of the day.
Seriously…her comment about her movie: ” I was blown away by it”…..ahahahahaaaa…that’s because it was full of hot air, Twinkie.
She has so perfected the art of grifting……………………..I so want her to go away.
Must now go brush my teeth to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
Gone with the Wind! Actually, they just used one of those personal fans you hold in front of your face.
ewww…..are you seriously kidding me?? Photo-shop anyone? It’s incredile this moron allows a photograph of her posed like that with the “howdy-doody” shoes. The color of her shirt and the color of her pants are at war with each other. Her head looks gigantic compared to her photo-shopped body. Her face looks like a big square thing and if she was trying for the ‘casual” pose she failed bigtime. The pose looks painful. Her obvious intention to put the “girls” out there is pathetic…yes, we know sarah, you’re wearing your booty bra and you’re trying so hard to look hot at 47 even though that has absolutely nothing to do with POTUS. Her right arm is wierdly skinnier then the other one and I keep seeing a huge ass shark jumping out of the water and gulping her down – swimming away and the world is at peace again. (sigh)
You must really hate sharks,huh? Have a care for a dumb animal eating machine. Sharks suffer indigestion and nausea,too,as your shark is about to find out.Just kidding.
Why don’t you invite her to the Sea of Iowa to do some shark viewing? You know she’d come if you waved an Iowa Carcass in front of her!
OH MY GOD! Sarah Palin has huge feet! Who knew?
And why John McCain picked her? I always thought it was because she had a nice ass. Have I been wrong all this time?
Well, it sure wasn’t for her enormous intellect!
Here’s a really hot, sexy, right-wing chick!
http://www.politician-pictures.com/margaret-thatcher.jpg
Besides that, Ripley, it’s an ugly photo. Her body is entirely misplaced. Her right foot seems to be amputated and her right arm appears atrophied. The head is too big for the body. And the wardrobe? Who came up with that? It’s a photo shoot FAIL, regardless of who is posing.
None of the pieces of her self seem to fit together in this photo.
Yes, this pose looks extremely unnatural and uncomfortable. You would have to twist and hold your right leg up into this position to sit this way – such a weird angle. I just had a fantasy vision of a bunch of us posing like this and getting our pictures taken – a gallery!!
Since our deck is still in tons-o-splinter mode, I had to try this sitting on the bed so I could get the dangling foot just so. I think I pulled something.
You gave me a good Monday laugh, Jimzmum!
what is that floating in the water in the background? Todd? Is that you?
I think the photographer may not be a member of her fan club.
What? Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie don’t like her? Say it ain’t so!
Seems to me the only thing that matters to the fans who might look at that photo is that the padded, push-up, gel-filled, industrial grade bra works its magic…. Everything ELSE is secondary to them hooters and that come-hither, librarian-look, sex appeal she uses as her siren call to the mentally deranged.
Ugh.
She just looks like she’s glaring at me, but then I HAVE a brain, and I KNOW how to use it, unlike her fans.
don’t you see? her outdoorsy show was about how she THINKS fishing/climbing/shooting of innocent animals is done. not how it actually IS done, of which she ain’t got a clue. in this here picture she’s throwing in all of the metaphors. if you look the kitchen sink’s in there. this is how she thinks men think a sexy AND smart woman would think. i’d tell her to think again, but, who knows where that would land us?
Car-harts–check
running shoes–check
hip sweatshirt–check
This wardrobe says who she thinks she is or at least who she thinks her constituency wants.
One of my cousins is a model and this picture looks like a model pose to me. Or maybe it’s Scarah’s idea of what a seductive model pose would be.
Wow, she has no shame, eh? Going for that pinup girl look after she b*tched and moaned to Newsweek about the runners photo? Well, she’s got to use something. If no brains or experience, use your breasts. Who taught her these morals, her church?
I guess since she’s 47 now, and the freshly-f*cked-fertility-mother-with-shiny-new-infant look is not plausible anymore. Piper just doesn’t draw the crowds, and 18 year old boys aren’t lapping at her heels. So she needs a new look. Just what it is lately, I’m not sure. Retired porn star? Butch straight girl with lezzie gal-pals? Regardless….padded bra to the rescue!
But what about the PAC? Details, details…..it will all work out in the end. There’s gotta be a way to keep the money already fleeced, and still have the public clambering for more. (Even if it’s a demographic smaller than a postage stamp).
I’d love to make a thoughtful comment about this. But, I cannot.
Imagine, if you will, our president posing, shirtless (or in a tank top) on the dock of a dead lake, in a clear appeal to women so that he can garner their vote simply by appealing to their sexuality.
I can’t either.
OK 🙂
After the pic..which started this thread..it was also my view..yeah folks..just lets start a whole new ballgame..and everyone who runs for public office..MUST..I say MUST..belly-up-to-the-bar..and pose in that stance. If not a water bra..then fer the gentlemen..a water-thong..so to speak. That pose..and devil take the hindmost. Indeed if every candidate refuses to be posed and photographed..then someone start a website with every woman or man..running in..2012..is photoshopped..THATpose. That dock photo..with the resulting..carnival approach to..(forgive moi..;)..how we da peeps really..’Size Up…our candidates..could go viral..after about another dozen or so..photoshopped mugs are..added. (Stewie..before this ‘flight’ is over..I’m gonna need another barfbag..iff’n you please…
Please don’t even go there!!!
After looking at some of the candidates (or potential candidates) we’ve had for President, do you REALLY want to see most of them in anything more revealing than a three-piece suit? And even that’s a little TMI in some cases!
Huckabee or Newt in a thong? Ron Paul? Donald Trump? CHRIS CHRISTIE???
Eeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!! My eyes, my eyes!!!
(Now, Thune or Huntsman…maybe! 😉 )
“don’t even go there..?…”..oh m’dear..that IS..the WHOLE reason..I brought that up!!!!! I hope the exact pose..with ..photoshopped faces..on ..’herselfs’ ..’winsome pose’..shoots down that whole article, that ..’person’..such as she is..and makes a total ..Buffoon of ..THAT POSE! Oh I as I, have..malice a forethought..in my entire suggestion. Do I wish a plethera..of the real candidates and their body poses.. oh lordy no!. Just ..their faces..on that..photo…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
Whew! You had me worried there for a moment!
That photo is bad enough but the thought of those others…well, I WOULD like to keep my dinner down, please!
How about photoshopping McCain’s face onto Sarah’s bod? Or Cindy’s? Or Megan’s?
Richard Nixon? Or, since she loves him so much, the Gipper. 🙂
Over Michelle’s dead body!! That’s HER man!
There was a picture of him shirtless, though, taken in Hawaii. I don’t think he posed for it.
I think he was on vacation with his family, at the beach. It was proper attire and I am pretty certain it was a candid shot.
Or his jockeys.
Your point is well taken except the “dead lake” bit. There are many things to hold her accountable for, but Lake Lucille’s issues are not Palin’s fault. In any case, there are fish in the lake, and the city has been working hard to restore it to health.
Mixing facts and fiction about Palin just gives credence to her supporters and, in this case, hurts a community that’s suffered enough Palin grief.
Meanwhile, her master, the evil Lord Murdoch, is watching his empire crumble. New allegations of corruption include attempts to hack the phones of 9/11 victims. Hey, Bible $pice – remember that saying about being known by the company you keep?
Funny, I was reading the New York Post this am and there is nothing at all on the hacking scandal.
hahahaaaaa
What about the Wall Street Journal (also owned by Murdoch)?
Well, DUH!
She’s nothing but the political pinup c*ck-teaser. I mean, isn’t that how she’s been running for the last 3 years?
Doing at 47 what you should have done at 20 is just as cheap and revolting, but you can forgive a 20 yr old for their immaturity. What next, Playboy?
Penthouse.
Nope, both too classy. It’ll be Hustler.
*smack*
You’re right about that!
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a whole big cartoon series based on a naked Sarah Palin, somewhere. *shudders*
Where is Larry?
Bet he can’t stand Sarah. Larry Flint always called a spade a spade, and hated liars.
You can bet the Republican men will flocking to the Newsweek stands to….ahem….READ the ARTICLE on Palin. Tongue in cheek naughty photos?! WHAT photos?! hahahaha
What a silly silly woman. This is all she was ever good for – being a pin-up gal and a clothes horse. Poor thing. She’s just sunk all her chances at being taken seriously and she has NO IDEA.
That didn’t take long!
Newsweek.com to be eliminated.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/newsweekcom_will_cease_to_exis.html
OK, she’s even more delusional than we thought. She couldn’t win a national election unless she was running for “the woman least likely to ever win a national election…ever!”
>>unless she was running for “the woman least likely to ever win a national election…ever!”<<
I would happily donate my time to work on that campaign, tirelessly going house to house, ( with cookies in hand ) spreading the message, far and wide.
Buffalogal, you’d better hop to it then. The Carl Paladino folks might be lining up behind Bachmann. She’d end up splitting the TeaParty PILF vote.
She couldn’t win a national election unless she was running for “the woman least likely to ever win a national election…ever!”
…and she’d still come in Number Two.
Actually, I can think of a national election that she would win hands down.
How about the election for the title of ‘National Embarrassment’?
I realize she’s got some pretty stiff competition, but I still think she’d blow away the rest of the field for that job.
Ok – It’s 5am and I’ve spent the last few hours doing kitty search n’ rescue for one of the crew that’s been missing since the July 4th fireworks madness. So maybe it’s just me being incredibly tired , as well as drained due to mosquitos feasting on my blood supply but ……
Seriously ( and might I add, Omigawd ! ) that photo on the dock ! Really ???
Everytime I look at it I bust up ( so to speak) laughing again. The shirt and pant combo is bad enough but….. Oy ! The Sneakers!
Heading to bed with “Hail to the Chief” rolling through my head. ( and still chortling )
You too?
I am known in my family and among my colleagues at work for being particularly fussy about color combinations and that outfit just doesn’t work. The colors don’t go together nor are they particularly flattering for her or for the background of the photo.
And those shoes!!! I second your “Oy”!
They immediately draw your eye, which is obviously NOT the goal in a photo that’s supposed to make her loyal fans go all breathless and tingly.
We all know that Palin has the fashion sense of a lima bean, but the photographer should certainly have known better and suggested a change of clothes.
(p.s. Hope you’ve located your wandering fuzzball by now!)
Kitty has been recovered. As bedraggled as she looked stuck up on the top of a neighbor’s garage roof, she STILL looked more pleasant than Palin did in her photo-op.
Just looked at it again and am laughing and wondering if someone was punking the heck
out of her.
( ha! )
Good to hear you found Kitty… didn’t think you wanted to go thru having another litter with the Mama Devil Cat !! 🙂
I love “fashion sense of a lima bean.” ^_^
Welllll, have you EVER seen a lima bean looking fashionable?
It’s one of the few vegetables I won’t even consider eating…ever. So, whenever I need to compare something to a vegetable that has absolutely no value to me whatsoever, it’s the lima bean. 😉
we are of one mind concerning limas, leenie
*shudder*
and ick ick ick, also, too
(Although I must admit that my aversion to eggplant seems to have been based on faulty data, like never having it properly prepared, perhaps. I had some in New Orleans, lightly breaded and fried, served with a spicy creole sauce, that was melt-in-my-mouth DE-licious.
She’s the pin up, all right. I’d print those pictures and have the kids play “pin the tail on this horse’s a$$”. It’s summer, you know.
How can anyone take her seriously with these pictures. She looks more like a celebrity than presidential material. This is the same woman who will be bitching because someone will say something about her sexual use and she will get offended.
…which is what she wants, cuz then she can play the victim again with the sexist LSM !
Shame on Newsweak….scraping the bottom of the barrel….no wonder they are going under.If they print what she said in real word salade time, I am sure we would see a different picture.Nothing new ,same ole,same ole,no solutions,and of course we know she had to have the questions before.Interesting that this is out now,when Rupey is in nasty trouble,hoping to distract,book failure,film failure,we are unto you Sarah.Come on Bailey ,let the public see the real e mails,she is so sure the LSM will give her a pass just to talk to her royal clueless.
LOL…perfect. And don’t forget the dartboard, also, too, with extra points for hitting her water-bra enhanced chest.
The dartboard sounds perfect.
So why can’t Piper get a haircut? Gol, life sure is unfair. And hard.
Well, here’s a thought. Sarah and Piper can get matching haircuts. At 47, it’s about time for SP to get a different hairstyle that looks a bit more professional if she really wants to be taken seriously. She constantly looks like she is still trying to be 16 – hair, clothes, poses for the magazine. And there is no way I would vote for any 16 year old for president of anything.
Although, emotionally and intellectually, she’s still probably 16.
Please don’t insult 16 year-olds – they are emotionally and intellectually more mature than Piranha Sal.
Here here!
The last 16 year old that I had an interest in was pretty exceptional, however, at the time I was 17. She of course could have blown $P out of the water with a single grammatical and intelligible sentence. She became a teacher. 45 years hence I worry some if she is able to survive.
well if she gets it cut she’ll have to wash it more often than every other week…
OK. This is the second thread where MY shtick has been stolen. I’M the one that complains that she doesn’t wash her hair! ME ME ME, it’s all about ME! 😀
:), I knew that would get a rise out of you!
Did jcinco mean a rise or a rinse?
I must insert this now. Just found thru MoveOn.org ?, George Carlin, light years ahead of many.
Please post here.
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The discussed post !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=acLW1vFO-2Q