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Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:00 AM

The Salon story that sparked a Palin-McCain feud

Palin asked McCain staff to lie about her husband's involvement with secessionists, and Steve Schmidt said no

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Friday, July 3, 2009 03:48 AM

The Hooters waitress hubyy paling around with terrorists

The shameless wanabe hooters waiters who accused us of not being "good American" , and "elites", was trying to cover her own family ghetto values. From her pregnant teenage daughter, to her thug hubby terrorist connections. She was very happy wearing designer expensive clothes, bags, shoes, etc. for free, then she will talk about "her platform to help struggling folks", maybe be serving us free soda and chips @ hooters. The blonde bimbos @ FIX news still believe this WT is "the hope" for the country.

Friday, July 3, 2009 04:31 AM

Why no mention of Cynthia McKinney

She is being held hostage by the IDF for trying to deliver medicine and toys to Gaza.

CNN's last update was on Tuesday.

What the hell is wrong with all of you? Is this NOT news?

Sanford's affair gets too many articles about nookie and McKinney's capture by Israel gets no articles.

Suppressed facts much?

Friday, July 3, 2009 04:36 AM

@Readerreader

You're obviously not THAT sorry you've "wasted" your time on Salon, since you find the time to set everybody straight on the facts regarding Palin's trailer-park clan. Give it up, dude, you don't come off as anything other than a groupie who uses proper spelling and punctuation (kudos for that). Now, jump back on top of your inflatable Sarah doll and get back to work.

Friday, July 3, 2009 04:39 AM

SARAH THE BARRACUDA

Sarah Palin is also a big liar. Who wants a President who will simply tell the biggest lie-right in the face of contradicitng facts and smile and wink while doing so? She's shrewed, no doubt-gutsy--hands down but stupid, very very stupid. There is no person able to commit more damage than a person in position of authority who is both stupid and arrogant. It is a lethal combination with the potential for huge destruction. LEave her in Alaska where her damage can be kept at a minimum.

Friday, July 3, 2009 05:02 AM

@ dhampton1000

“She's shrewed, no doubt-gutsy--hands down but stupid, very very stupid.”

That’s the quilifications for a great hooters waitress. Or better, FIX news bimbo reading falsehood junk with a smile and wink.

Friday, July 3, 2009 05:23 AM

Alaska Independent? They wouldn't get all that Fed money-are they sure?

Yes it is great to know that their default position is Deny, Lie, American Pie.

Friday, July 3, 2009 05:27 AM

republican superheros..

I was intrigued by your observation that Sarah Pallin is "uninformed and arrogant about being clueless". This puts you out in front of a feature of Republican discourse I believe many others have missed. I believe a goodly number of your vexsome trolls percieve being uninformed to be a virtue.

I am still holding out for a society where people speak civily to one another as i believe you are. Naturally I am put off by the almost deranged misogeny that is directed your way. The terminology of this self immolating republicanspeak sounds something like dispair at the seeming inability of their leadership to offer any semblence of coherent policy on matters public or private much less a model of inspiring leadership. At some level I think your embattled and humorless adversaries understand this a little too well. There is a shrillness and an almost manikin like comic book hero posturing that voices this primitive and reactive vocabulary of grunts and growls. Is this a desperate attempt to distract anyone who notices their miserable position in a faltering political movement? What can this bluff be but play acting? Is this campy regression unconciously extruded from the powerful courageous and resilient warriors of DC Comics? These bedraggeled remnants of the golden age of Gingrich and Reagan belong to a world of heros and villans that most of us left behind at the onset of puberty. Their name calling and child like attempts at bullying you must seem very grown-up to them.

Superman looses something when he shows up late to the rescue bitching about the traffic, wearing a beanie and mascara carrying a bottle of Yohoo clutched to his middle aged paunch.

Friday, July 3, 2009 06:30 AM

@Joan: "the vice-presidential nominee (Palin) -- AKA 'rogue diva'"

My God, Joan, what is your obsession with Sarah Palin? Could it be that she's drop-dead gorgeous? And you're... well... a tad jealous? Hmmm...

You know, Joan, if you were a REAL feminist concerned with REAL issues, you might want to take up the cause of the two American (women) journalists who were recently sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea. Now there's a story that the MSM has looked the other way on. And not even a PEEP out of you about it. I guess when you're Joan, being a feminist is something you only claim to be when you want to play the victim card. Like when you called Bill O'Reilly a "misogynist's nutjob" after he humiliated and annihilated you. Yeah, Joan, THAT'S why he reacted to you the way he did -- because he's a "misogynist." Uh-huh. I'm sure it's not because you tried to link him to a murder without a shred of evidence. That had nothing to do with it, right?

Friday, July 3, 2009 06:30 AM

Report on this joan...

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite emergency stimulus measures, small business lending continues to fall. In the just-ended quarter, the Small Business Administration's flagship program backed 30% fewer loans than it did a year ago, and 55% fewer loans than it did in 2007, before the recession set in."

It's not as fun as Palin gossip but it's actually important and it's on the hands of your favorite son.

Friday, July 3, 2009 06:41 AM

@R.Thompson

"In general, Alaskans are more tolerant than most of the rest of the country. Moving to the Lower 48 was a complete culture shock for me. For example, I didn't realize until I got here that gay people are not widely tolerated and accepted; that blew me away. It was like walking backwards in time. I was also surprised to find that "black neighborhoods", "white neighborhoods", "[insert ethnicity here] neighborhoods", those actually exist--you guys actually have those down here. Growing up, I thought that was just some TV or movie myth. I mean, I had never seen such a thing."

This bit reminds me of that old SNL sketch "Caveman Lawyer" where he always claims "your ways are strange to me" before launching into some quasi-eloquent argument. You thought social segregation was a myth? Please...

Then you go on to claim that, in Alaska, people sort of "agree to disagree" without taking it to political extremes, without taking it personally and exacting revenge. Do you think the reporting on Palin's propensity for just such a thing is a myth, too?

This "you guys" stuff is a laugh, too, as if Alaska is some place so different, so wildly "other" that, even though you apparently reside in the "lower" 48, you just can't come to see yourself as assimilated. If Alaska is so different, why is its governor so painfully common?

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