It may be sexist, it maybe patronizing, but this lady is so damn CUTE

[KickTheBobo]

Palin's hooker boots really got me. I mean, boots are one thing, but the stiletto heels are another.

KH looks like she's on her way to this:

Man, Chloe Sevingy sure has gone downhill.

[Pete Velcro]

I love how SP is clawing to stay in the spotlight by making bland pronouncements like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/palin.rga/


She's the Michael Phelps of politics in that she's yesterday's news and doesn't know it yet. The analogy only goes that far, though. Phelps is talented; Palin got lucky.

[daveB from Oakland]

She's the Michael Phelps of politics in that she's yesterday's news and doesn't know it yet. The analogy only goes that far, though. Phelps is talented; Palin got lucky.

She's talented at throwing red meat to crowds of angry, psychotic rednecks.

[Sarah]

I'm convinced she's a sociopath, and I'll be very, very glad when she fades back into obscurity.

[<<<<<]

Ugh, she's spent more time in front of journalists since the election than before.

I'm torn though.  She annoys the hell out of me, sure, but I'm also convinced that she hurts the Republican party more than she helps it so a part of me wants her sit around and blab some more.

[chrisfoll577]

Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012.  So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.

This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.

I said don't believe everything, you munch.  Anyway, stories with anonymous sources should always be read with a hypercritical eye.

It's not like these are anonymous nobodies
these are leaks from inside the campaign itself.  I haven't seen anything they've leaked that seemed out of character for Palin.

For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax.

Good call, TE.

[Chris L]

For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax.

Good call, TE.

That article makes clear that the identity of the source was the hoax, not the story itself.  Fox News originally reported it, not MSNBC. 

[chrisfoll577]

For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax.

Good call, TE.

That article makes clear that the identity of the source was the hoax, not the story itself.  Fox News originally reported it, not MSNBC. 

Good catch, I guess in my mid morning punchiness I overstated the case, the article does state that it's just about identity and not the story itself. 

Though this story causes me to suspect that the journalism surrounding the Palin postmortem has gotten beyond sloppy.  I believe that some reporters are just falling over themselves to report the latest bit of Palin news without doing the appropriate legwork to verify.  Though Palin's not helping herself either in the media by refusing to bow out gracefully.  I'm just uncomfortable with all these 'anonymous' sources and refuse to regard them as valid evidence of Palin's ineptitude as I would her cringe inducing Couric or Gibson interviews. Republicans are the established experts on the political dirty trick, and I find it amusing that people who are filled with hate for Palin are so willing to believe whatever's on the news, just because it has the air of truth. 

Edit: I guess I'm not the only one to misunderstand the hoax thing either.

[Kim Kelly]

Did anyone else get a letter from the Governor's office of Alaska? It was a letter signed by "Sarah" (just Sarah!!) urging me to visit beautiful Alaska.

Weird. I was hoping it would be a thank you note for that one time I donated fifty bucks to Planned Parenthood in her name and had the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card sent to McCain's campaign headquarters.

[Trembling Eagle]

Though this story causes me to suspect that the journalism surrounding the Palin postmortem has gotten beyond sloppy.  I believe that some reporters are just falling over themselves to report the latest bit of Palin news without doing the appropriate legwork to verify.  Though Palin's not helping herself either in the media by refusing to bow out gracefully.  I'm just uncomfortable with all these 'anonymous' sources and refuse to regard them as valid evidence of Palin's ineptitude as I would her cringe inducing Couric or Gibson interviews. Republicans are the established experts on the political dirty trick, and I find it amusing that people who are filled with hate for Palin are so willing to believe whatever's on the news, just because it has the air of truth. 

Ah, the plight of the equivocator just lost when you can't sit back and blame both sides. What a peculiar malady equivocation syndrome is, I wonder if I could get a grant to study it? 

[daveB from Oakland]

The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.

Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think  they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.

[Trembling Eagle]

The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.

Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think  they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.

Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.

[dave from knoxville]

The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.

Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think  they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.

Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.

In fairness, her handlers had not prepared her for that question.

[Fido]

Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.

I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:

"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'

And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."

Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

[Trembling Eagle]

Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.

I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:

"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'

And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."

Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?