Palin is a Sitting Duck
I have to confess, I was worried there for a little while. When Rod Blagojevich hurtled on to the scene with his hair and his boundless delusional self-love, I started feeling like maybe my state wasn’t #1 anymore. And then there was Mark Sanford, who was all “holier than thou,” suddenly stealing all the headlines with his disappearing act, non-existent Appalachian Trail hike/Argentine tryst and his “rosy pink light” Harlequin Romance love letters.
But today, I feel vindicated. Alaska still proudly sits in the top spot.
Our governor has won the prestigious “Sitting Duck Award,” given out annually by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists to the “most ridiculed newsmaker in America.”
Whew.
Past president Mike Leonard, a columnist for The Herald Times of Bloomington, Ind.: “As a Hoosier, I feel that she’s done something that Dan Quayle could never do. Which was to make Dan Quayle look good. … After the election, the video of Sarah and the poultry processing factory … that pretty much says it all. The gift that keeps on giving.”
If we’re going to be put through all the drama, the craziness, and the scandal, the least we should get is an award for it. There isn’t an actual trophy of any kind, but I like to imagine it looking like the one above.
With an inscription on the side, someone should sell these for Mudflats.
Anyone who questions the judges as to their picking Palin for this award need only watch today’s resignation video.
The gift that keeps on giving.
And she’ll continue to give, even after she steps down. I don’t think she realizes this yet.
Oh, and she’s all about choices except if you’re pregnant and want an abortion than you don’t have choices.
I thought it was odd that she hadn’t come out and rebuked all the stuff that has been going on in the media this week about her. Except she did mention the way tripp, or trigg, or twigg or whatever the baby’s name is was treated like that was even true.
oh, and she’s not a guittin guitterer while shes quittin
how many times during the speech did she go back and add prayers and god to her sentences?
She is you betchin right to the bank. All those palin chasers will pay dollars to see her wink in person.
Ducks and Dodos and Turkeys, tweet tweet!
This just proves that everybody picks on her because she is smart and pretty, or is it snarky and petty. Another crazy week. She is going to really test the old addage that bad publicity is better than no publicity.
I didn’t bother to read all the above comments (which I normal do and am always impressed by the others) to see how many time this was already stated.
But, that turkey video IS ONE REASON SP WILL NEVER EVER BE PRESIDENT (along with way to many other things to count)
The “Turkey Massacre” video will remain for all time one of the funniest “politician in reality” situations ever broadcast on TV.
Listening to the Gov. give the blah blah blah word salad interview (while wearing the Burberry $$ scarf left over from the campaign) with the graphic killing going on behind her. At Thanksgiving……children were watching!!!!!
I’m still laughing now – and this is all from memory – I’m going to have to re-watch it!
If Sarah Palin has been awarded the Sitting Duck award for her ridiculousness as a “newsmaker”, and the Rubber Dodo award for her stance on Endangered Species protection, what kind of award would be appropriate for her part in the famous “fake President Sarkozy telephone call” conversation?
A replica of the mask worn by Voltaire’s “Man in the Iron Mask”?
Perhaps a dog muzzle?
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 PM
OK, since she’s a Sitting Duck, I’m taking my shot:
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Lol!!!! Martha you crack me up!!!
She finally came first in something. She must be so proud of herself.
I love the award and love all the comments. LOL What a great way to start the day. And that Dodo Award is fabulous. I hadn’t heard about that one.
Question, though. Does someone actually notify the winner of these awards, or do they just have to hear it in the news? Either way, I doubt that Sarah is happy. It’ll be interesting to see how long she can keep from quacking about the latest insult to her talents.
AKM musta been real tired when she wrote this post.
Anywho… wonder what Ducks Unlimited thinks of Palin desecrating their iconic image?
A big congrats to Sarah Palin for the win!
And my most heart-felt sympathies for the people of Alaska.
Now, if she would just take her prize and go away.
Psst… AKM… that duck is dead… an ex-duck, so to speak… just sayin’….
Lee323 Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Can you desecrate an iconic duck?
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New word: Duckecration?
”Sitting Duck Award”
That quacks me up.
7 BigSlick Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:55 PM
When is duck season?
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Now.
http://www.gamevance.com/?lp=140&a=230&aid=ci
No comment from Mr Murrow or Meg yet? Perhaps they need a hand:-
Obama Fails To Win Prestiguous Award – Beaten By Palin Yet Again
After last years recognition of her environmental efforts and, despite the campaign of harassment by the main stream media, it came as no suprise that the media awarded Sarah Palin a top award, also. Given the controvesy over the ACORN operatives under inditment for rigging election votes, Obama should step down and bow to the will of the people as reflected by these polls.
“No one can doubt that Obama has less presidential experience that Sarah Palin. Everyone knows that she has pardoned one turkey whilst Obama has not yet released any information on his policy towards unfairly convicted poultry” said a representativeof Sarahpac.
congratulations….
Governor Quack-Quack has gone silent on her Twitter. Is she getting advise from someone other than Meggie? Word is that she had someone from DC with her that week she was in New York. Republican Party? Gosh, this must be Killing her not to be lashing out at the world. Vanity Fair writes a scathing article and not a peep? She must be concocting something huge.
Is a goose also part of the duck family…?
Because someone needs to cook this Goose…. and SOON!! Well done… Please.
Thanks for the laugh Martha. Every time that woman opens her mouth I think of Marge Gunderson.
Well, well, well….let’s just take a peek at the flock that Palin is now pallin’ around with. These are some of the past winners:
1992 – Millie, Barbara Bush’s canine book author “that earned $889,176 in royalties, yet never saw a penny of it.”
1995 – Kato Kaelin, O.J. Simpson’s often clueless houseguest, was named the best subject for a newspaper columnist without a clue on what to write.
1996 – Joe Klein, who confessed to writing “Primary Colors.”
1997 – Joe Camel, who was banished from the advertising world a few days after the conference ended.
2000 – Baseball’s John Rocker
2001 – The FBI
2002 – Attorney General John Ashcroft
2003 – Martha Stewart
2004 – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
2005 – Columnists in general for ethical lapses
2006 – Syndicated columnist Ann Coulter “for cheapening political discourse in America .”
2007 – U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “We gave it to him, but we can’t remember why.”
2008 – Former President Bill Clinton
Gaps are years when, for whatever reason, we didn’t pick one.
http://www.columnists.com/index.php?ID=79
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Certainly Palin has plenty in common with that Quackjob, Anne Coulter, eh? Both have worked tirelessly to “cheapen political discourse in America.”
…..or what about that Quacko, Kato Kaelin? Palin’s middle name is “clueless”….and columnists and bloggers everywhere can always find something to write about her when they have no clue what to write, eh? Like us. LOL. The duck that keeps giving….
I just noticed in the Dodo Award text, this line:
“Palin has since filed a frivolous lawsuit against the Bush administration to have the threatened listing overturned.”
Maybe that is why she likes to call the ethics complaints against her “frivolous” also?
Yeah….Runners World magazine thought they bagged a running duck…not a sitting duck.
I personally thought that she had the votes for the “Preening Duck” Award.
Can you desecrate an iconic duck? Maybe so. Maybe so. Prolly could be done by photoshopping Eddie Burke’s head into that duck nest she’s a-sittin’ on.
Oooh! Alaska should be so very proud of our governor and all of her accomplishments and achievements too. This is the second bird award she has won, also. The other one even has a real trophy.
“Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award“
She hasn’t “quacked” because she is a hard working, “REAL” American, busy, progressing the hole she is going to fall into.
It keeps getting better and better !!!! Martha does have the Palin speak down !!!
Thanks for keeping it real.
After the runner’s world spread without the staples in the middle, and such an informed sounding discussion “like crap, ya know I really like the sweatin’ to the oldies thing”. “Ya know, I could beat that Obama dude, like man, he spends too much time in the office and I’m like training all the time.”
This has redeemed her, I feel SO proud to be an Alaskan.
And how about the Huff Po article about women that hate Palin envy her. I almost spit up my Cheerios over that one. I cannot imagine living THAT life, I would love having the kind of women friends she surrounds her with.
Prolly laid an egg when she learned she got No !, first time ever in a competition, she will be so pleased.
@#16 ds55:
I think you might be right. That photo-op was possibly the funniest and most ironic thing I have ever seen. She was lampooned endlessly for that. I’m sure it probably contributed to the “Sitting Duck” award.
Yep, Sarah deserves the award for that turkey slaughter interview alone.
I am offended. Sitting duck is just so, so, lower 48. I prefer sitting Ptarmigan. Those newspaper columnists better watch out. They are going to have to face the bleating, honking wrath of Meg Stapleton. Nevermind her number one stalker John Ziegler.
Spellcheck.
I still thought Blago had way more human traits than palin
From someone born and raised in IN, I am proud to finally have that duck turned over to someone so deserving. Dan Quayle has long been an embarrassment to our state. Although, Michael Jackson kinda made up for it…wait, he had a trial…SEE, our state has its demons. Oh and Notre Dame is the center of my hometown and we all remember the fuss about President Obama speaking there this spring. But our other Hoosier native David Letterman sure can take Caribou Barbie to task. Just when you thought Indiana was just another Midwestern state, you find out there are some really famous people from there; and they are not at all bad spellers like Danny boy who moved to AZ no less. He and McCain surely are buddies by now.
Sitting duck. I like that.
I have said this time and again it is just wrong to go into someones private e-mail especially in a case where the person is so vindictive. Look how Palin had fits when someone went into her account and read her e-mails. The GOP did the same to the Johnsons taking down their pictures ect,wrong ,wrong,wrong
Quack! Quack! Quack! (in the voice of a duck)
Lol! No more tweeting….just some quacking! From now on I will regard her tweets as quacks.
Congrats Gov. Palin! Quack!
No comment…..Really????? You must be busy trying to clean up all the other messes you made this week.
Prizes are nice, but I hope she is also a lame duck.
Go Martha! I love the Palinspeak, er, screech in all CAPS. You’ve got her pegged. 🙂
When is duck season?
Great one AKM I knew she would win hands downif only because of her panel that lets things slide for her
OK, since she’s a Sitting Duck, I’m taking my shot:
The whole “McCain & Palin Authorized the Search of Emails to Find the Leak” story is just SO on the mark for Sarah! It’s the FIRST thing she wants to know if someone has crossed her – WHO? She’s walking right into the trap that will assist greatly in her undoing, a trap of her own making. She can’t let anything go!
Here’s what the fly on the wall reported back to me, buzzing wildly:
“JOHN? ARE YOU THERE JOHN? THIS IS SARAH!”
“I’m not deaf, Sarah – I’m just old and I can’t jog. What do you want?”
‘I WANT THE HEAD, AND THE BLOODY HANDS AND FEET OF THE PERSON WHO TOLD ON ME! YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD PROTECT ME! YOUR CAMPAIGN STAFFERS ARE EVIL, LIBERAL, BLOGGING, SNEAKY, JEALOUS AND I’M HOPPING MAD!”
“Oh, that stuff again? What’s it worth to you for me to give the OK to start the witch hunt? I’m kinda tired from wading in the creek right now. Witch hunting is exhausting.”
“OH JOHN YOU BIG JOKING YOU KNOW WHAT! ARE YOU TEASING ME?”
“No, wouldn’t dream of it. I’m as serious as a heart attack.”
“HEART ATTACK? DID i HEAR YOU SAY YOU WERE HAVING A HEART ATTACK? DAMN, WHY COULDN’T YOU HAVE DONE THAT DURING THE ELECTION? i WOULD BE QUEEN OF THE WORLD BY NOW!”
“No heart attack! Now I really want something in return for the witch hunt, you bi1tch. What’s it gonna be?”
“I’ll GIVE YOU MY NEXT BORN GRANDCHILD. I HAVE TOO MANY KIDS TO KEEP UP WITH THESE DAYS ANYWAY. I HAVE JUST ENOUGH OF THEM TO BABYSIT THE OTHER ONES PLUS THEIR OWN AND IT GETS CONFUSING AROUND HERE ABOUT WHO IS DOING WHAT. ALSO, TOO THE GIRLS ARE GETTING TOO PRETTY AND I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT, ALSO, TOO BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING IN MY WAY NOW.”
“Oh no – not more kids! They’ll just start blogging and they might turn liberal. I’ll just do it as a favor this one time so that you don’t throw me under the bus right away, OK?”
“OK JOHN! WANNA GO JOGGING???????? HAAAAAAHHHAAAA!”
sitting duck without the eyes to see………… x x
that is our beloved guv.
So very proud!
as long as that duck is 100% genuine moose nugget,
then I’ll agree!
Congrats to Sarah! You finally WON! Yes, #1, YOU YOU YOU! Beating out Blago and Sanford no less. Oh, happy day!