something...uh..."malodorous"

amongst us....

Sorry, but try and get your facts straight, as you delve into your pseudo-psychiatic blather...

It wasn't "Michelle Obama" wearing a peace sign t-shirt.

It was one of his young daughters.

Is it so hard to get something so simple...right?

Why would the state foot the bill for defending her from ethics complaints anyway? It seems to me that if you are accused of breaking state law and not indigent, the defense costs are up to you.

"Is there a word for a hypocrite who's too clueless to realize she's a hypocrite? " Joan Walsh

Yes there is and it's also a name... it's Joan Walsh!!

Joan could spend time and do in depth research on Palin ethics investigations but did not see the necessity to do more than glance over the case history or what Bill O'Rielly was actually speaking against Dr Tiller for.

Like the pay and staff expenses of the 34 (and counting) Whitehouse Czars, that are illegally being put in place without Congressional oversight or accountability, Joan does not mention the costs of 80% of the Governors staffs time to deal with these allegations. $8,000.00 in travel expenses?,per diem? really how does this compare to Chris Dodd and the friends of Angelo schemes? How does this compare to the tax investigation of Charlie Rangle? Aren't they bigger fish to fry? Why does Joan remain silent on those issues and allows them to be quietly swept under the rug along with Speaker Pelosi's allegations about the CIA lying to Congress? Hypocracy that's why. Joan do you still consider yourself a journalist?

The harder they go after Sarah Palin the stronger and louder the voice she will have. So have at it Joan hit her with your best hypocritcal shots. Palin used the same tactics when she resigned as chair of Alaska's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,how did that "crazy" and "bizzare" move work out for her? I believe she took on the Republican Governor and the Special Interest corruptive forces that had taken control of Alaska and against the predictions of all the expert pundits she won. So tell me why should we believe any of these expert pundit anti Palin positions now?

Since I gave a shout-out to bbd, I have to give credit to you too:

Munchausen by Cable = The need to constantly provoke the press so that people feel sorry for you.

Another great one. Colbert will be getting you guys to write for him.

Let me try to help you:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/key-reason-palin-gave-for-quitting-appears-to-be-false/

The key paragraphs in this report are "In response to our questions, the Governor’s office provided us with a detailed breakdown of the millions Palin has claimed has gone to defending against ethics complaints. It does list roughly $1.9 million in expenditures.

But Murrow, the spokesperson, acknowledged to our reporter, Amanda Erickson, that this total was arrived at by adding up attorney hours spent on fending off complaints — based on the fixed salaries of lawyers in the governor’s office and the Department of Law. The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing. The complaints are “just distracting them from other duties,” Murrow said.

In other words, while these lawyers might have been free to do other legal work for the state, the ethics complaints have apparently not had the real world impact Palin has claimed, and didn’t drain money away from cops, teachers, roads and other things.

Similarly, TPM reports that there are only three ethics complaints outstanding against the Palin administration in any case — which, combined with the above, casts serious doubts on one of her chief stated reasons for quitting."

Now what was Joan "lying" about?

Hate is the only thing keeping them from seeing Obama so expect the MSM top play up Palin as much as possible.

People who have no love are prone to hating. A lot of these Palin Haters just need to get laid.

Imagine if Joan Walsh woke up one morning not hating Sarah Palin.

Someone please make love to Joan Walsh.

You noticed she used the word "probing" and you ALL know what that really means.

clueless hypocrite = hypoditz. Good one, I like it. I was trying to come up with something that incorporated 'chutzpah', but your creation has made me give up.

It has not been "demonstrated" etc., etc.

You are wrong. It has not been "proven" that ethics investigations cost the state 1.9 million. Those are figures put out by Palin herself with no back up documentation. Try again.

"As I have continued to say time and time again the conservative mindset continues to completely baffle me! We have a woman here who has proven not to be remotely competent but the adoration from the religious nuts continues. I am certain given a chance they would put her in the office of President and be happy with her ignorance."

They love her cause she's anti-gay and anti-abortion and anti-intellekshul and wishes to issue a new US Constitution, King James version.

Nothing else matters to the wingnuts.

Let's harp on him for a month.

So the next 8 years are NOT going to be a repeat of the past 8 years?

I was not aware that Nader, Barr or McKinney was in the White House.

Pay attention to Sarah and pay no attention to Obama and pretend that he is not Bush III.

Investigative Journalism! and a clearly expressed editorial opinion! yay!

Thanks for this piece and here's hoping the corporate/mainstream media picks up this important story.

"So the complaints didn't cost Alaska "millions," they weren't filed by outside Democratic operatives, and most of them weren't frivolous. Is Sarah Palin going to keep telling these lies on her self-pity tour?" - joan walsh

and

"She's Lying" - current headline to this bs story from joan

Two Points;

1. It has now been demonstrated that the investigations did indeed cost 1.9 million (ethics investigations alone). Add the cost to respond to the 150 FOIA requests, and the number gets bigger.

2. joan lies when she call Palin a liar. Maybe, early on joan was simply in error. Since joan refuses to correct her mistake now that the facts are available, joan has become the liar.

Palin haters have fallen right into her trap.

Palin has been investigated, repeatedly, and cleared.

Leaping onto the "millions" figure (the basis for Palin's supposed "lie") and rushing out with another hit piece has left them vulnerable, looking like the idiots they are, when time passes and the facts come out.

It's the hate that they cannot get over.