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Sarah Palin Calls On 'Peaceful Muslims' To 'Refudiate' Ground Zero Mosque
Sarah Palin's first Tweet about the Ground Zero mosque
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Sarah Palin, never a stranger to controversy, decided to weigh in on the one raging over the plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero -- that is, a mosque and community center two blocks north of where the Twin Towers used to stand. In the midst of it, she managed to insult Muslims, those who aren't but still support the mosque and lay a George W. Bush-level malapropism on the masses. She's a multitasker.
Her Tweet, issued at 1:52 pm ET on Sunday (and pictured to the left) read:
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Obviously, her Tweet connotes that Muslims who are not peaceful are the ones who are supporting the mosque -- despite all evidence to the contrary -- but it equally egregiously mashes together the words "refute" and "repudiate" to create out of whole cloth the word "refudiate."
Refute, of course, means "to deny the truth or accuracy of" while repudiate means "to reject with disapproval or condemnation." Presumably, what Palin meant to do was to call upon "peaceful" Muslims" to repudiate the construction of a mosque anywhere near Ground Zero.
So, of course, Palin sought to correct her mistake.
She, in fact, erased the original Tweet and replaced it with the one above, which reads:
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
Palin called upon New Yorkers -- many of whom survived the attack on the Twin Towers and others of whom lost family and friends in the Twin Towers -- to "refute" the plan to build a mosque and community center in the vicinity of the towers because the pain of the attacks remains too painful to other people.
That, of course, didn't stop the controversy, so Palin didn't stop her Tweets. She went back to her initial framing of the controversy: that it's all about heartless Muslims versus the still-pained (Christian) Americans.
An hour after her initial Tweet, she added this.
It reads:
Peace-seeking Muslims pls understand. Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing
Again, she equates "peace-seeking" Muslims with those who would reject the mosque, and blames those who don't for causing unncessary pain and "provocation" to the non-Muslims hurt by the tragedy. She then places the onus for healing from the tragedy on those "peace-seeking Muslims," because it is obviously the place of "peace-seeking Muslims" to offer healing to the non-Muslims hurt by the tragedy.
And, for those who noticed her malapropism more than her offensive statements about Muslims? Well, she's got a Tweet for you, too.
It reads:
"Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
See, she knows it's not a real word, it's just that she's the modern-day Shakespeare, people.
She is trying so hard to coin "refudiate," in fact, that she's used it in the past. Watch:
Additional reporting by Brian Beutler.
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buddy66
July 18, 2010 6:27 PM
Buttons! Buttons! Print them up:
"Refudiate Sarah Palin!"
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Davran
July 19, 2010 9:28 AM in reply to buddy66
I'd buy a bumper sticker...
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Overreach THIS!
July 19, 2010 12:13 PM in reply to Davran
I'm in!
Would also buy,
Illiterate: Refudiate Sarah Palin!
- or -
Dumbshit: Refudiate Sarah Palin!
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July 19, 2010 12:42 PM in reply to Overreach THIS!
It's all a part of her strategery my friend.
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TM
July 19, 2010 2:36 PM in reply to Carl
Exactimundo. Don't misunderestimate her heart either. She has a lot of heart. And her heart has been stabbed all over the heartland. The pain in her heart is catastrophic. Don't stab hearts!
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Overreach THIS!
July 19, 2010 5:02 PM in reply to Carl
Not really, though. Sure, her base won't be negatively affected.
They don't know or hear much of words like repudiate. Sarah doesn't either, and it's not a very good (attempted) use of repudiate anyway.
2/3 of Americans think she is unfit for President, and this won't help with those 2/3.
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July 19, 2010 12:34 PM in reply to buddy66
Palin's operating on a whole different level than the rest of us non-intellectuals. She's an idiot-savant (minus the savant).
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Liberal Jesus
July 19, 2010 1:04 PM in reply to buddy66
Hello! I'm Sarah Palin and I'm so stupid I can't even beleeve it! I quit my job halfway threw my turm and went out and made a millen dahlers off a book that was ritten on a 4th grade levl. And now I'm makin money givin speeches that have no meat or potatos..jus alots of gravy! Lots of down home spun fixins that dont meen a thang! Man its grate to be this stupid and still make the kind of mony I can off of these rubes. And all U haters r jus jellus that you U cant find ur own privet bank of morons to soke! Get over it haters. My pubic luvs them sum Sarah and all I gots to do is slam liberals and talk up family values! Wat a grate cuntry to live in where even some-1 as stupid as me can make it rich!
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Commie Dearest
July 19, 2010 5:21 PM in reply to Liberal Jesus
Yep, that's it in a nutshell.
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candychicken
July 20, 2010 12:11 PM in reply to Liberal Jesus
hookd on fonix workd fer me!
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Apphouse50
July 18, 2010 6:28 PM
Until I got to know more about Michele Bachmann and Sharron Angle, I was sure Sarah Palin was the stupidest moron on the planet.
Now I realize it's a Triumvirate of Stupid. All hail!
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fer
July 18, 2010 9:48 PM in reply to Apphouse50
The Triumvirate of Stupid!!! Oh, my gosh, I laughed so hard I had tears running down my cheeks. Perfect!
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Apphouse50
July 19, 2010 12:59 PM in reply to fer
And somewhere in here, "refooliate" needs to be employed.
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July 19, 2010 8:16 PM in reply to fer
Is there any better way to explain SP without getting nasty? She is the bottom of the barrell in American politics today, the next Lee Atwater.It doesn't matter how low you go, just how fast you get there that makes you a great member of the Tea Baggers
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glblank
July 18, 2010 11:29 PM in reply to Apphouse50
Axis of Ignorance
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Joekuh
July 19, 2010 8:57 AM in reply to glblank
+1
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toddincabo
July 19, 2010 9:59 AM in reply to Joekuh
x2
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AliceG
July 19, 2010 9:12 AM in reply to glblank
Pronounced "Asses of Ignorance" :)
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CityGuy
July 19, 2010 11:14 AM in reply to AliceG
Agree. And those who donate to Palin should get a Refund of their misspent money.
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ohyeathatsright
July 19, 2010 12:04 PM in reply to CityGuy
Perhaps they'll get a refudiate of their money.
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Davran
July 19, 2010 9:29 AM in reply to glblank
!
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justaJ0e
July 19, 2010 10:19 AM in reply to glblank
FTW!!!
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ZeraLee
July 19, 2010 5:35 AM in reply to Apphouse50
Another linguistic hanging chad.
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July 19, 2010 9:24 AM in reply to Apphouse50
Triumfeminate?
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JEP07
July 19, 2010 11:07 AM in reply to Daniel
try, um, feminazis, the REAL version...
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Peter Principle
July 19, 2010 11:12 AM in reply to Apphouse50
One frequently gets the sense that the absolute vacuum inside Palin's head is going to cause her skull to implode at any moment.
But it hasn't happened yet -- more's the pity.
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CityGuy
July 19, 2010 11:46 AM in reply to Peter Principle
But all's well that ends well. From the Bard of Avon to the Bimbo of Wasilla, methinks the English language has suffered!
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SoSad69
July 19, 2010 4:13 PM in reply to Apphouse50
LOL!! couldn't have said it better myself.
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Ahmedsaid
July 18, 2010 6:43 PM
Refute/repudiate. Anyone whose first language is English knew precisely what Gorgeous Gov. Palin meant.
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FlownOver
July 18, 2010 8:22 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Yes – she meant education is irrelevant.
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red cabbage
July 18, 2010 8:31 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Then how did you know what she meant?
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CVille Dem
July 18, 2010 9:20 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Did 1/2 governor Palin even know what she meant? Why should we assume that she did, since what she said made no sense?
I declare her statement to be invaliadated.
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Eric
July 19, 2010 12:43 PM in reply to CVille Dem
In other words, she's been invapudiated?
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Apphouse50
July 19, 2010 1:03 PM in reply to CVille Dem
Most likely she did not. She's merely a mouthpiece -- form whom, specifically, I'm not sure, and would love to know who feeds her these dopey "ideas," but I doubt Madam Bendystraws could debate any of the subjects on which she holds forth in a true debating session.
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slb
July 19, 2010 6:47 PM in reply to CVille Dem
In any event, she has refuriated me.
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Backcountry
July 18, 2010 10:34 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
The point is how ignorant do you have to be if you don't know the difference between refute and repudiate? This is someone who was supposed to have been one very tenuous heartbeat away from becoming the leader of the free world?
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tinsk
July 19, 2010 9:21 AM in reply to Backcountry
You know.. I was thinking about that "one heartbeat away" thing. I don't think we ever have to worry about Dick Cheney running for high office ever again. Since his LVAD surgery, he will live out the rest of his life without having a pulse (heartbeat).
So the question we have to ask is if a President doesn't have a heartbeat, is he really the President?
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stunvegas
July 19, 2010 1:20 PM in reply to Backcountry
We know Sarah is not an A student. But what frightens me is that a) no one around her knows the difference between refute and repudiate, or b) they are afraid to correct her, or c) they tutor he and she ignores the lessons.
None of these is a reasonable place, for someone who could have been the second most powerful person in the world, to be in.
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slb
July 19, 2010 6:34 PM in reply to Backcountry
I don't think she knows the difference between "refute" and "refuse," either, because I'm thinking it's the latter that would come closer to what she is trying to say.
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zonk
July 19, 2010 8:44 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Of course -
She meant to demagogue, but is too stupid to pull even that little bit of asshattery off without mucking it up.
Considering the disregard people like Palin hold for our nation's urban centers - from NY to Chicago to San Francisco, she can stick her concern trolling up her ass.
The only time hillbilly hatemongers like this idiot care about NY is when they can use it for political purposes, so she's got exactly ZERO right to talk about how 'raw' it is... All meth nation hicks like her do is suckle at our tax teat (all while crying about debt and taxes).
She doesn't get to talk about how 'raw' it is - she was 3000 miles away keeping an eye on Putin. She ought to stay 3000 miles away.
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toddincabo
July 19, 2010 10:18 AM in reply to zonk
True, true, truer.
This stupid Hick is trying to cover up her ignorance by trying to make something "cute" out of it.
She's only kidding herself. Blatant
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Diomedes
July 19, 2010 10:41 AM in reply to zonk
Well said. As a New Yorker, that is always my first thought when Real American 'heartlanders' talk about national security, terrorism or anything related to 9/11. What the hell do they know? Nobody knows about or gives a rat's ass about where they live. Their families will never be the target of anything except more Federal government aid. Palin's an offensive idiot. (But we all know that. Sorry...I got all worked up.)
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draftedin68
July 19, 2010 10:49 AM in reply to zonk
VERY well said!
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PSzymeczek
July 19, 2010 2:16 PM in reply to zonk
Exactly right. Sarah needs to return to the obscurity she came from and stay there.
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Prefabfan
July 19, 2010 9:21 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Long past her sell-by-date quitter Palin, you refer to?
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larsvanness
July 19, 2010 9:26 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
Earnie, have you ever noticed how you bring out the best in the TPM folks who come out to refudiate you?
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Texar
July 19, 2010 9:35 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
"Refute/repudiate. Anyone whose first language is English knew precisely what Gorgeous Gov. Palin meant."
Make that "half-term Gov. Palin" She obviously quit her english classes, too.
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Liberal Jesus
July 19, 2010 9:43 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
No matter how stupid this woman is you'll always defend her. I have yet to hear you explain how a person who quit halfway thru a cushy Gov job could even handle running a country. So I ask you one last time 'Ahmedsaid'...How is quitting a job halfway thru a term a quality you admire in a President? How is it that she going to 5 different colleges in 6 years only to fail in journalism ( her language skills are suspect)is more qualified and better than a man who reached the top of his class in an Ivy league school? Only in your world is less education a better thing. I'm sure you'd rather have a heart surgeon who got his degree in some central american country over someone who went to John Hopkins. At what point does her ignorance of all things important become a issue to you? This woman is stupid...case closed. And her supporters must be likewise because how else do you explain it?
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sawgrass
July 19, 2010 11:15 AM in reply to Liberal Jesus
I think your heart surgeon analogy is too generous. There are some excellent heart surgeons from Central America. A more apt analogy would be a podiatrist who attended five different medical schools to perform heart surgery. Oh, and the podiatrist abandoned his last set of patients because, in his own words, he could better serve them by finding another job.
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stunvegas
July 19, 2010 1:33 PM in reply to Liberal Jesus
+1
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titan1nyc
July 19, 2010 10:47 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
gorgeous??? try STOOPID
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 11:17 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
To refudiate or infuriate, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to STFU or to retwitiate and removiate all doubt. Har har har.
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IProfess
July 19, 2010 11:37 AM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Ugg, you rock.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 11:48 AM in reply to IProfess
Har har har. Ugg have whole box of rocks ... and bag of gravel. Har har har. Ugg thank IProfess. Call me Ug for short.
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Turnaround
July 19, 2010 5:08 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
The people who knew "exactly what she meant" just don't know either word exactly.
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Model271
July 18, 2010 6:57 PM
"Palin called upon New Yorkers -- many of whom survived the attack on the Twin Towers and others of whom lost family and friends in the Twin Towers-- to "refute" . . . ."
Just thought this gem deserved to be repeated.
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jsdc007
July 19, 2010 8:04 AM in reply to Model271
As someone who lost close friends in the 9-11 attack (one gay, the other Jewish, both New Yorkers in the classic, best sense of the term), I find this fascist bimbo's garbage about how the "heartland" is soooo upset to be nauseating. These are the same people who hate everything that New York and New Yorkers stand for, and would probably have hated what both my friends stood for. Yet, they've embraced 9-11 as some sort of faux patriotic, nationalist proxy for their own wretched views and symbolized it as somehow standing for their own miserable, medieval bigotries and assorted phobias and "-isms." The only New Yorkers who probably agree with the bigot Palin are those who live on Staten Island, and, frankly, no one in the other burroughs considers them to be real New Yorkers anyways.
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draftedin68
July 19, 2010 10:56 AM in reply to jsdc007
Great comments!
The more we hear from Sarah The Stupid, the more we learn of how empty and shallow she is.
As someone once said: "Keep talkin', it feels good!"
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stefsstuff
July 19, 2010 12:03 PM in reply to jsdc007
I'm sorry for your loss jsdc. I actually tweeted her after she deleted her comments 3 times trying to get her point across, to inform her to mind her own fkg business, as no one in NY cares what she thinks or has to say. And btw, what makes her think that AK is the "heartland". UGH! I hate how much I hate this woman and her minions.
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ahumbleopinion
July 19, 2010 12:42 PM in reply to jsdc007
Christians have no room to feel superior to Muslims when it comes to murder in the name of religion. All religions have their extremists. It is up to the peace loving members of those religions to encourage understanding and respect, not to tolerate the hateful rhetoric of the extremists and in this case Sarah Palin is closer to the extremists than she is the peacemakers.
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Matt Jones
July 19, 2010 1:05 PM in reply to jsdc007
The biggest thing most of Caribou Barbie's followers are bummed out about (with respect to NYC and 9/11) is that there was anything left. Most of them would secretly love to see a nuke go off in Times Square - then they get the world war / crusade they've always wanted, *and* get rid of a bunch of "snooty liberals"!
Don't worry - they'll make sure to put a tiny little plaque commemorating everyone who died on the side of the 3000 foot tall "Jeebus with a sword" statue they'll put up in the crater. :)
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slb
July 19, 2010 6:42 PM in reply to jsdc007
Amen.
Funny about Staten Island -- that was a Tory stronghold at the time of the American Revolution, and I guess it has never really changed.
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fname
July 18, 2010 7:03 PM
There are certainly no racist elements in the Tea Party party. Nope. They just don't want Mosques built. In NYC. Or in suburban Southern California.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mosque-20100718,0,2447625.story
For a country founded on the principles of freedom of religion, this is stunning turnaround. Should we not build churches near the Murrah Building?
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tinsk
July 19, 2010 9:31 AM in reply to fname
Or in Murfreesboro, TN where the tea party types are out to prevent a mosque from being built there too.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/murfreesboro-tennessee-mosque-plan-draws-criticism-residents/story?id=10956381
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July 19, 2010 3:28 PM in reply to fname
It wasn't freedom of (or from) religion that our founding fathers wanted, it was freedom to choose your sect of Christianity. See, they were Christians and wanted a Christian nation but not tied to one sect of Christianity.
Did I do that right?
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kawika49
July 18, 2010 7:05 PM
Is it something like refusiate?
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July 18, 2010 7:09 PM
I don't know what to say. I want to laugh at her, but millions of people take her seriously. The fact that she's so stupid that she makes up words doesn't hurt her in their eyes, it only enforces the notion that she's not "one uh dem typ-i-cal east coast elitist faggots". I would say that the solution to this problem is education, but these are the people who think that education is a system of liberal brainwashing. It's so sad. These people are so stupid that they can't realize how stupid they are; they think they're brilliant.
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chameleon
July 18, 2010 7:16 PM in reply to Steven
Yeah and they make up about 22-27% of the country. Not to worry. Let them believe in her. They need something to massage their sorry asses. They've destroyed the republican party and they'll destroy their movement. Believe me, if it weren't for the whore media and cable news these folks would have gotten very little attention because they are lunatics. Their candidates haven't fared very well in the recent elections and they will be of no consequence other than the fact that the media gives them so much attention.
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OhioMan
July 19, 2010 8:05 AM in reply to chameleon
I suspect there have always been groups of nutjobs making crazy statements. It's just that with today's media and the innertubes, the wackos can consolidate and support each other. The 22-27% hence represents a theoretical maximum for the movement. Everyone knows about them now. There's nobody else to recruit. It's all downhill from here.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 8:31 AM in reply to OhioMan
We are in total agreement. And this Palin woman is a box of rocks.
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Lovelynina
July 19, 2010 9:49 AM in reply to chameleon
Let's face it--and you folks have put it so well that it hardly needs further comment--Sarah Palin is that rare political animal: she is at once an ignoramus, an opportunist, a cynic, a fast-talking charlatan, and a self-deluder. She may truly have convinced herself that she is channeling the populist sentiment; we know she is merely on the lookout for the lowest common denominator of thought. In her tireless quest to unload her brand of political snake oil, she can certainly well display her gift of gab; exasperatingly, the more she speaks, the more opaque her thoughts are, and the harder it is for us to follow her--ultimately she rejects both rational thought and any real examination of her true opinion. The deeper we examine and the more we challenge, the filthier and more vituperative her anti-intellectual rhetoric becomes. She reminds all of us of the 12-year old that tips the chessboard when she loses, then sticks the piece in your eye and calls you names for being smarter than she. Absence of both maturity and humility should be insufferable in a human being, and yet her defiant ignorance and self-conviction of brilliance seem to encourage rather than repel political and personal followers.
What, then, is attractive about her to so many? It is people's hate, pure and simple. She and the rest of her rancid Tea Party have nothing substantive to offer, except an outlet and a legitimation for prejudices and general lashing out. This is nothing short of Groupthink; a valve to sublimate racist fears of the President, fear of personal economic collapse, fear of the "other" at the border clamoring to beat the doors down. What is most frightening is that the future will write about our time in the way we write about mass hypnosis in Weimar Germany or during the McCarthy era, and that despite the recognition of these political perils, we appear powerless to stop it from running its course. Is this melodrama? Sadly I don't think so.
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larsvanness
July 19, 2010 10:42 AM in reply to Lovelynina
As you have said, so many folks here have put it so well but your comments are perfectly appropriate none the less. As with the big lie that is repeated often enough that some will come to believe it so it is with the truth. Thankyou for taking the time to comment here.
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slb
July 19, 2010 6:54 PM in reply to Lovelynina
Well said.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 11:45 AM in reply to chameleon
Ugg ask Chammy to refudiate that remark. Ugg have box of rocks that smarter. Har har har.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 12:27 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Oops sorry Ug - I refudiate my statement - your box of rocks much smarter than Sarah. Har har
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 12:53 PM in reply to chameleon
Ug acceptiate your apology. Har har har.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 2:09 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
LMAO. I can't even find something more clever to respond with. Ug the best!!!! I'd go to Ug's cave for drinks..
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 3:06 PM in reply to chameleon
On the rocks? Har har har. Show you Ug etchings? Har har har.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 3:35 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
LMAO. Definitely on the rocks. Omg Ug. You are an absolute delight. Y
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fla_kracker
July 19, 2010 9:12 AM in reply to OhioMan
Yep Twitter is not the medium someone who produces malapropos with every mouth full of air she breaths should choose
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toddincabo
July 19, 2010 10:25 AM in reply to Steven
Yeah, They want someone they can have a beer with....while the Country goes down the shithole around them.
That hangover is a mo-fo.
Look around !
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labman57
July 18, 2010 7:29 PM
She and GW Bush plan to co-write "The Joe Six-Pack and Hockey Mom Guide to the Englush Language" -- all new with over 500 never-before seen words, coming to a libary near you.
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q188r
July 18, 2010 10:27 PM in reply to labman57
Don't you mean "libary" ?
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q188r
July 18, 2010 10:29 PM in reply to labman57
oh my bad - disregard - i just re read your post you DID mean libary ha ha
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sammy baby
July 19, 2010 1:06 PM in reply to labman57
Typo in your post. I think you meant to write "liberry."
You're welcome.
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Hummon
July 18, 2010 7:48 PM
I can't get over all the parallels between her and Shakespeare.
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fla_kracker
July 19, 2010 2:19 PM in reply to Hummon
That's a shot that sticks loved it
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The Decider
July 18, 2010 8:07 PM
I've always thought that combining ideas in a unique way was the very essential of creativeness. But no one tops me for Deciderishness!
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Ginny in CO
July 18, 2010 8:24 PM
Sarah's twitiness is boundless.
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PSzymeczek
July 19, 2010 2:54 PM in reply to Ginny in CO
And Twitter is the perfect place for such a twit.
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Backcountry
July 18, 2010 8:25 PM
And this ... is what some idiots think should be president?
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labman57
July 18, 2010 8:33 PM
Tea party klan folk and other conservative groups are adamant that there is no mosque erected near Ground Zero, because any symbol suggesting that most Muslims are peaceful, God-loving members of society conflicts with their attempt to portray all of Islam as a violent, malevolent cult bent on destroying all of Western civilization.
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Backcountry
July 18, 2010 8:34 PM
Now, John Wilkes Booth was an Episcopalian.
I see there are six or seven Episcopal churches within mere blocks on the White House and Ford's Theater -- the very scene of the dastardly assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
These churches must be torn down.
Doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Episcopalians, pls refudiate
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ChrisB
July 18, 2010 8:45 PM in reply to Backcountry
LOL ^possibly my favorite comment on this site, ever.
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PSzymeczek
July 19, 2010 3:00 PM in reply to Backcountry
Hear, hear!
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candychicken
July 20, 2010 12:21 PM in reply to Backcountry
voted best!
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cindyperry2009
July 18, 2010 8:43 PM
Hard to be so stupid Sarah
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aacme
July 18, 2010 8:53 PM
How close to Ground Zero is too close? NYC? NY state? How about anywhere in the US? Right. I think that's what she has in mind.
2 blocks away is 'somewhere in NYC' to me.
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Moloko+
July 18, 2010 9:03 PM
There is an important distinction dealing with exclusivity.
Palin is among those "religious exclusivists" who believe that her particular religion (evangelical Christianity) is to sole path - rather "a" path.
If you want to know at least one thing that Sara Palin has in common with "non-peaceful" Muslims....it is religious exclusivity.
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dustbunny44
July 19, 2010 9:01 AM in reply to Moloko+
Too kind.
Palin et al believes government must not trod on the rights of anyone to rip you off.
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sleek
July 18, 2010 9:07 PM
Archie Bunker lives - and goes by the name Sarah Palin.
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jonez
July 18, 2010 9:23 PM in reply to sleek
that's an insult to Archie.
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pol
July 18, 2010 11:42 PM in reply to jonez
Hee-hee!
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July 18, 2010 9:22 PM
Someone has already bought Refudiate.com.
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justaJ0e
July 18, 2010 9:40 PM
Hmmm, "stabs your heart, as it does most throughout the heartland?"
No.Not so much really.
However, YOU Sarah tend to irate my bowels, as you would most higher vertebrates throughout lower intestineland.
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ZeraLee
July 19, 2010 5:48 AM in reply to justaJ0e
She does put the gall in gall bladder.
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FreeRider
July 18, 2010 9:57 PM
Peaceful Muslims, we were hurt by what some Muslims you never met did. To satisfy us Christian Xenophobes, please pretend you don't exist and have the right to peacefully assemble in, around or near anyplace we in the heartland might find hurtful to our hearts.
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aq
July 18, 2010 9:59 PM
I personally enjoy that she compared herself to being a modern day Shakespeare... Yep. She has that great of a grasp of the language she lives.
Probably thinks Don Quixote was written in English too.
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Yash
July 18, 2010 10:14 PM
fuck off, Sarah Palin
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 11:54 AM in reply to Yash
Har har har. Bible Spice should go fuckiate herself. Har har har.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 4:27 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
LMAO. You are on a roll today Ug
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jimbobuddy
July 18, 2010 10:29 PM
Shakespeare can see ground zero from his mosque.(Let's just mash it all up)
;^)
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q188r
July 18, 2010 10:30 PM
did shakespeare also write my pet goat? i forget
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drkrick
July 18, 2010 10:37 PM
The "heartland" just wants something to fear and complain about. On 9/10/01, most of them hated NYC more than bin Laden and Atta did.
But let's make a deal. No mosque near the WTC site, since it was the location of a mass murder by Muslims, but also no Christian churches near any sites of murders by Christians in the name of their conception of God. That will clear out all of Europe, the Middle East as well as large chunks of the Americas. Does that work for you, Sarah?
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drkrick
July 18, 2010 10:38 PM
The "heartland" just wants something to fear and complain about. On 9/10/01, most of them hated NYC more than bin Laden and Atta did.
But let's make a deal. No mosque near the WTC site, since it was the location of a mass murder by Muslims, but also no Christian churches near any sites of murders by Christians in the name of their conception of God. That will clear out all of Europe, the Middle East as well as large chunks of the Americas. Does that work for you, Sarah?
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labman57
July 18, 2010 10:55 PM
Palin claiming that her faux pas was a Shakespeare-inspired, intentional creation of a new word scores a 9.5 on the bullsh*tometer.
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Kuyleh
July 18, 2010 11:12 PM
She can't spell "please"...Good, I needed another reason to despise her!
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bdog207
July 18, 2010 11:20 PM
Palin and most other right-wingers opposed to this mosque should get their facts straight.
The building will be open to the public and will include a pool, gym, performance art area, and other public amenities. Yes, there will be a prayer room within the building, which I guess technically makes it a mosque. But it's not exclusively for Muslims, it's intended for the entire community around the area.
Let's also not forget that this building will be some 2 blocks from ground zero. If they consider 2 blocks to be "sacred ground", then what about 3 blocks? 4 blocks? I have a feeling this has more to do with Islamophobia than anything else.
As a Muslim (one who has served in the military) these attacks are quite offensive. Innocent Muslims lost their lives on 9/11 as well and Muslims mourned with the rest of the nation about the tragic events of that day.
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Rockridge
July 18, 2010 11:38 PM in reply to bdog207
Well said.
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ahumbleopinion
July 19, 2010 12:16 AM in reply to bdog207
Thanks for "refudiating" the half (wit) governors ignorant and hateful comments.
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ZeraLee
July 19, 2010 6:06 AM in reply to bdog207
So like a conservative to oppose something that could lead to peace and understanding.
These are the peace-loving Muslims offering an olive branch, who she is slapping in the face.
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Joekuh
July 19, 2010 10:19 AM in reply to ZeraLee
They'd rather the Muslim offer them the pointy end of an AK-47 so it'd justify their jaded view of the Muslim world. Truly sickening and reprehensible action.
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justaJ0e
July 19, 2010 10:16 AM in reply to bdog207
Most prejudice is simply a reaction to fear based on an ignorance of another person or group.
Sadly, Caribou Barbie and her ilk are in the World Wide "Fear and Ignorance" distribution business.
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slb
July 19, 2010 7:12 PM in reply to bdog207
Indeed. These guys don't realize that 2 blocks in NYC can cover a lot of territory. I'm not a Manhattanite and never have been, but I love the place and visit as often as I can manage. One of the things that I tell people that I like best about Manhattan is that just about anything you want can be found within two blocks of wherever it is that you are. So why shouldn't you be able to find an Islamic community center within two blocks of the WTC site? That's very New York!
(Not to mention that I think there was a mosque or an Islamic center not too far from the Park Place site that is proposed for this community center until very recently, when they lost their lease, so it's not like this is something totally alien to the neighborhood.)
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bluestatedon
July 18, 2010 11:30 PM
"Now I realize it's a Triumvirate of Stupid!"
Throw in Chicken Sue Lowden and you've got the Four Horsegirls of the Dumbpocalypse.
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OhioMan
July 19, 2010 8:11 AM in reply to bluestatedon
I'd pick Virginia Foxx or Marsha Blackburn or even Sharron Angle before Lowden, chickens or no. And isn't it amazing how many crazy women they have on the right? Jeez, we don't have ANY on our side (do we?). How unfair.
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Signalman
July 20, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to OhioMan
Some here may disagree, but I must submit my fellow Georgian, Cynthia McKinney, for consideration.
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Samsohn
July 19, 2010 1:17 AM
My father passed away in the attacks on September 11, 2001 and I believe that it is ridiculous to deny Muslims the right to build a masque (which this is not - it's a community/spiritual center). In my opinion, our religious intolerance in such situations is the most dangerous thing for our national security. Fundamentalists of all sorts will always exist and if we provide them reasons for disillusionment then we will never create the possibility to live in a peaceful society. Anyone who is opposed to this center must try to understand this.
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Richard L. Adlof
July 19, 2010 1:23 AM
Nailin Palin seeks to have peaceful Muslims shun a symbol of peace and freedom . . .
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FlownOver
July 19, 2010 1:35 AM
The Palin theory: If you can make up "facts," you can certainly make up words.
As Dean Wormer almost said, "Greedy, conniving and ignorant is no way to go through life."
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TJ21
July 19, 2010 2:02 AM
The Ground Zero mosque was approved unanimously by the city council which represents the place and people most directly affected by the attack.
Its disgusting that anybody is using it to score political points, in a racist way, in an illiterate way, and in an embarrassing way.
When are we going to stop taking this intellectual lightweight seriously?
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Yash
July 19, 2010 4:00 AM in reply to TJ21
Well clearly, New York City isn't a part of "real" America - even if "real" Americans will still try to claim the 9/11 tragedy for political points.
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Willa Standing
July 19, 2010 3:11 AM
She just keeps on absurdicating.
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Got Kids
July 19, 2010 4:10 AM
George Bush had gay marriage to whip up into a froth for eight long years. Why shouldn't Sarah Palin have war mongering muslims to use as her foil?
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OhioMan
July 19, 2010 7:59 AM
These ARE "peaceful Muslims", you silly twit! My God, how stupid IS this idiotic woman?
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Viva!America!
July 19, 2010 8:05 AM in reply to OhioMan
How true.
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lapinbrim
July 19, 2010 8:19 AM
John Mccain should forever be held accountable for foisting this dangerous buffoon on America. His lust for the presidency was so overpowering that he was willing to put the country in the hands of this infantile imbecile.
Well, at least she acts as a sort of fly paper, attracting the truly ignorant. Now, if we could just find a way of tossing her and followers in the trash...
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BrightLightsBigCity
July 19, 2010 8:32 AM
Governor Palin should learn to read, write, and speak the English language. I recommend she return to 7th Grade English class and "remediate" herself.
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Joe
July 19, 2010 8:49 AM
If they do a remake of "The Jerk", we know who will star in it...
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dustbunny44
July 19, 2010 8:56 AM
Repubs misunderestimated effects of their policies on people's microeconomies.
Refudiate weeweeheads.
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salvarsan
July 19, 2010 9:00 AM
We can only hope that Palin will disgrace herself more thoroughly. Who'd want to use 'refudiuate' then?
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bluestatedon
July 19, 2010 9:08 AM
"Lower Intestineland"
A perfect name for the country that GOPers and Teabaggers inhabit. Or should I say infest.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 12:22 PM in reply to bluestatedon
You mean "infestiate." Even caveman know this. Har har har.
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Mark P. Kessinger
July 19, 2010 9:13 AM
Why the sudden concern for NYC by Ms. Palin? During the Presidential campaign, we in New York (and other large cities) were not considered by Ms. Palin to be part of the "real America."
In any case, it is not for her, or anyone else outside of New York, to determine what is "too real" or "too raw" for the neighborhood. No one experienced the raw reality like those who lived in that neighborhood at the time; and their elected representatives (the local community board) have overwhelmingly approved the Mosque.
Go back to moose hunting, Sarah.
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farnsworth
July 19, 2010 9:59 AM in reply to Mark P. Kessinger
This not concern for New York or for New Yorkers. This is concern for how she can leverage an attack on New York into votes from the hicks here in Flyover Country.
It is cynical. It is clever, since it will work despite how despicable it is. It is just the kind of crap I would expect from this pathetic little woman.
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slb
July 19, 2010 7:41 PM in reply to Mark P. Kessinger
Interesting how these guys are all in favor of an expansion of local control over things until the locals decide to do something they don't approve of.
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Liberal Jesus
July 19, 2010 9:20 AM
She lives on the edge of Retardoville, having just moved there from Stupidtown!
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Reefdancer
July 19, 2010 9:22 AM
Uh, isn't condemning Islam divisive? Refudiate that.
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Langx
July 19, 2010 9:22 AM
You know Palin is in trouble when she has to use the Socialist, Marxist Shakespeare to explain her own stuptardedness.
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barrelhse
July 19, 2010 9:23 AM
I hope everyone is using the FLAG ABUSE function for our resident huckster. (not Palin, the other one)
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slb
July 19, 2010 7:38 PM in reply to barrelhse
Who, sailorboy's latest incarnation? Um, no. Using the "flag abuse" link just because someone says someting you disagree with is in itself an abuse. It's for postings that violate the site's terms of use. I reserve it for the myriad messages advertising e-vending sites and for messages whose content I feel crosses the line from spirited debate into abusive and objectionable.
If sailorboy wants to make himself look foolish by drooling all over the likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, it's no detriment to anyone but himself.
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thomas1
July 19, 2010 9:28 AM
that woman is an IDIOT!
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davcbr
July 19, 2010 9:30 AM
Think back as to why those planes were flown into the towers. Basically, it was the response of an insane ideologue to the stationing of a foreign presence in the sacred land of Islam.
Kinda puts her on par with OBL.
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Small Stakes
July 19, 2010 9:31 AM
I'm not sure if I should be offended or elated by this news. I am offended by her bigotry and un-American principles. On the other hand, I'm glad that her extremism is indirectly fueling support for another 4 years under a Democratic president.
Keep handing over the voters, Tea Partiers. Sooner or later, the only people who won't have an inherently "un-American agenda" will be yourselves. Fortunately, that's not enough people to get you traitors into power.
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Texar
July 19, 2010 9:32 AM
"Now WHO can argue with THAT?" --line from Blazing Saddles
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July 19, 2010 9:36 AM
Now that Palin has become cozy with Shakespeare she may qualifly for the Annual Upper Class Twit of the Year. Let's hope she makes it to the final round where she successfully shoots herself.
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Small Stakes
July 19, 2010 9:41 AM in reply to Bernadette
If TPM had a "Like" button, I would have clicked it.
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Forrest
July 19, 2010 1:44 PM in reply to Bernadette
Don't you have to have class to be 'Upper Class'?
She's decidedly lacking in that department.
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latichever
July 19, 2010 9:38 AM
Neologisms, made-up words, are are diagnostic sign for schizophrenia.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 12:01 PM in reply to latichever
Yes, but Ugg recogniate not all schizophreniates neologiate. Har har har.
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tinsk
July 19, 2010 9:38 AM
Let's just hope she, Todd and any Palin offspring are done procreastinating. There's not enough money for all that special ed funding in the school system for any more of their kids.
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latichever
July 19, 2010 9:39 AM
And I'm guilty of a language mash-up too. "are are" should be "are a."
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pmb50
July 19, 2010 9:53 AM
Dumb is in her DNA Please run.
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osage
July 19, 2010 9:57 AM
TEABAGGERS ARE JUST EXTREMISTS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR WITH NO REAL POWER IN MAINSTREAM NATIONAL POLITICS
Keep in mind that "Teabaggers" are making "inroads" against their fellow Republicans. They lost in Pennsylvania's 12th District to a John Murtha Democrat; a seat Republicans once believed to be ripe for the picking as the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee had high hopes to win it. After all, the district was the only one in the nation carried by John Kerry in 2004 and John McCain in 2008, President Obama’s approval ratings were twenty points lower here than the national average, and Republican candidate Burns was a favorite of the teabaggers. So, the National Republicans dumped a million dollars into the district. The result? Democrat Critz defeated Republican Burns by a decisive 53 percent to 45 percent margin. Democratic turnout in all four states holding primaries that day (Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania) far exceeded that of the Republicans (so much for the energized, teabagger base and depressed, progressive base).
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osage
July 19, 2010 9:59 AM
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL/TEABAGGERS AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political power they've enjoyed for decades, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots, racists, sexists - teabaggers) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate/exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional/vulnerable/uninformed voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and casting out the demons they empowered and the karmic reality that they don't have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and "advocate" the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.
The survival of today's shrinking Republican Party is so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America's increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom "caught between the devil and the deep blue sea" is appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.
Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the irrationalities of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the reckless/lying exhortations of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity are costing them their viability.
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Ahmedsaid
July 19, 2010 10:04 AM
As always, bold, brilliant, beautiful Gov.Sarah Palin is right on the issues, right for America, poised & prepared for the Presidency in 2012.
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cindyperry2009
July 19, 2010 10:12 AM in reply to Ahmedsaid
hahahahahahahah
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marcusmarcus
July 19, 2010 12:37 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
hahahahahahahahahaha
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Commie Dearest
July 19, 2010 6:53 PM in reply to Ahmedsaid
You're not really that stupid, are you?
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Vince Ramos
July 19, 2010 10:08 AM
Palin actually originated the word "refudiate" last week, when she asked the Obamas to "refudiate" the NAACP. I'm guessing that this will be added to the misbegotten lexicon of English words like "irregardless," and well be stuck with it forever.
I'd like to suggest the word's homonym: "Refeudiate" When the Palins and the Johnstons keep mixing it up on the cover of Us Magazine.
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justaJ0e
July 19, 2010 10:18 AM in reply to Vince Ramos
Nice.
Perhaps Faux "News" will give her a game show -
"Family Refeudiation"
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SavannahGA
July 19, 2010 10:28 AM in reply to Vince Ramos
A teabagging relation of mine informed me at our July 4th bbq that she would no longer use one of her favorite phrases, "that doesn't jive with" whatever it is because why should blacks get to put their ghetto talk into her conversations.
Had a lovely time explaining to her within earshot of rest of family how the expression is actually "that doesn't JIBE with something," as in fit together. None of the dreaded blackspeak involved, honey.
I only have to be around her & her brood a few holidays per year, thankyajesus.
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 11:24 AM in reply to SavannahGA
Who knew that when Sicilian-born Louis Prima recorded "Jump, Jive and Wail" in 1957 he was responsible for helping to Ebonicify the American language.
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WWBD
July 19, 2010 1:37 PM in reply to SavannahGA
To live in Savannah (I do) and attempt to purge one's life of black influence. The mind boggles, stumbles, and cries out before that level of stupid. Is there such a thing as heroic stupid? Sisyphean stupid?
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fla_kracker
July 19, 2010 2:26 PM in reply to SavannahGA
Got to live for moments like that!
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ejg3
July 19, 2010 10:10 AM
I wish she would play hockey and get the puck out of here.
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cindyperry2009
July 19, 2010 10:14 AM
Keith Olberman is righ that woman is an idiot.
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Ann Arbor
July 19, 2010 10:17 AM
At least she didn't call it a stab in the back.
But seriously, hopefully her efforts will backfire and galvanize support for the mosque.
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toomuchpr
July 19, 2010 10:18 AM
Take your heartland and shove it up your $*&^%$ Palin. Were it not for the East Coast Enlightenment Liberal Intellectuals - aka the fathers of our country - Palin, you would be a British Peasant.
There needs to be a new fairness doctrine on TV that requires a smart person to speak every time one of these halfwit Republicans makes news.
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Butch
July 19, 2010 10:37 AM
TPM, go read Glen Greenwald today on the trivialization of our political discourse and then ask yourself why Sarah Palin's nonsense is your lead story.
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 11:28 AM in reply to Butch
Look at the number of comments to this post and ask yourself why people care more about Sarah Palin's bullshit then they do about the truly terrifying, secret and unaccountable security apparatus that 9/11 brought into being, that is costing us trillions of dollars, and that is destroying any notion of privacy, and that is actually making us less safe.
We are truly a nation of retards. The media knows this (TPM included) and just shovels us what we want to read and hear about.
"Hey, did you hear what Snooki said last night?"
We are fucking doomed.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 12:13 PM in reply to commie atheist
Historians will call it your "Palinination." On plus side, they'll note you outlasted us Neanderthals. Har har har.
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kenga
July 19, 2010 1:27 PM in reply to commie atheist
Did she really say that?
;-)
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RedMolly
July 19, 2010 12:35 PM in reply to Butch
Thank you. My sentiments exactly. People will stop caring about the ex-half-governor of Alaska when the media stops reporting on every bit of drivel that emerges from her yapping maw.
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 4:56 PM in reply to Butch
Checking back several hours later: this post is up to 250 comments, and the front page post that TPM briefly had up on the Dana Priest "Top Secret America" story is gone. So you see what the priorities are, both for TPM and its readers.
In case anyone's interested, here's the link to the WAPO article:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
And here's Glenn Greenwald's take:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/19/secrecy/index.html
Remember though, you'll make Snooki cry if you stop reading about Sarah Palin and actually learn about something important.
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 5:11 PM in reply to commie atheist
250 comments, and 925 Facebook "Sharings." Awesome.
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Shoryland
July 19, 2010 10:49 AM
I also like her line about the site being "too real."
The whole world is too goshdarn real for Sarah Palin. Its realness looms like Putin's head over her peanut brain.
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ADad
July 19, 2010 10:50 AM
Drunk tweeting. Good-bye 2012.
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Noozprof
July 19, 2010 10:50 AM
Typical Republican. Don't like the words or facts you have to work with? No problem!! Make them up as you go along!!
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DocSportello
July 19, 2010 5:53 PM in reply to Noozprof
This is Amurica, where they have the freedomness to express themselves according to their own preferentiation.
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WWBD
July 19, 2010 10:51 AM
Sarah Palin is a professional victim who constantly plays off her identity as a member of the noble, right-thinking, True-American tribe. In the first tweet, there are the unstabbed hearts of "Ground Zero Mosque supporters" and there are "ours (stabbed hearts) throughout the heartland." Them and us. Mosque supporters are not in the heartland, but she is. Her heart is stabbed along with all hearts in the heartland. With Sarah, it's always them and us, and they are always belittling and oppressing us. They took our country away from us, and we have to take it back.
"Elites" may laugh at "refudiate" and call her stupid, but she didn't screw up, she coined a new word! Of course she knows what "refute" and "repudiate" mean! She reads all the words! Besides, her tribe knows exactly what she meant, and she will make it very clear to them that when the elites laugh at her, they are laughing at the tribe. They laughed at Ronald Reagan, they laughed at George Bush, they would have laughed at Shakespeare, they laugh at me, and they are laughing at you, because you know I am just like you. I am in the company of great, noble, right-thinking True-Americans (and Shakespeare), and I am one of you. And they are laughing at us, belittling us, oppressing us, and stealing our county!
Sometimes I think she intentionally creates opportunities for people to laugh at her, so she can exploit her victimhood. Sarah Palin is ignorant, but she's not stupid. She has what a friend of mine once called (in reference to someone else) "nasty redneck cunning."
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cindyperry2009
July 19, 2010 11:14 AM in reply to WWBD
You know I think you hit the nail on her head if you would about who she is and how she operates.
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July 19, 2010 4:49 PM in reply to WWBD
Absolutely, spot on. She is a "professional victim with nasty redneck cunning"
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July 19, 2010 10:52 AM
Sarah's talking Shakespeare? Now, what does that make me think of?
Oh yeah: "...a poor player that struts and frets her half term upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 11:31 AM in reply to Adam
Doubleplusgood.
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PSzymeczek
July 19, 2010 3:49 PM in reply to Adam
Perfect! Absolutely perfect!
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slb
July 19, 2010 7:48 PM in reply to Adam
Spot on!!
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JADAMS
July 19, 2010 11:01 AM
The woman is an IDIOT!!!
. . . but anyone supporting her still doesn't understand the "refudiate" uproar!
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AmericanDad
July 19, 2010 11:01 AM
Such hypocrisy: English is a "living language" only when these yahoos get caught in one of their countless mistakes -- otherwise it's a solid rock useful for pounding others into submission: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a/m/americandad/2009/06/wee-whant-enlich-ownlee.php
One of the definitions of twit: "Slang -- A foolishly annoying person." (Or, I'd add, an annoyingly foolish person.) Little wonder Bible Spice is the queen of twitter.
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cindyperry2009
July 19, 2010 11:10 AM in reply to AmericanDad
Bible spice hahahah
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Rick Jones
July 19, 2010 11:24 AM in reply to AmericanDad
English is a "living language" but the Constitution, which is written in English, is not a "living document."
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AmericanDad
July 19, 2010 11:59 AM in reply to Rick Jones
Yes. Another level of hypocrisy. Kinda like Dante's underworld. It appears the American radicals on the Reckless Right have reached basso loco 'l sol tase.
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ZeraLee
July 19, 2010 4:22 PM in reply to AmericanDad
I've also heard her called "Caribou Barbie". But during the last election I named her "Soapbox Sarah". And all things considered, I think I pegged 'er. With apologies to Peg.
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wial
July 19, 2010 11:01 AM
The US has elected worse.
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LadyBlahBlah
July 19, 2010 11:02 AM
This woman is an idiot! I am so afraid that people actually like this f00l.
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draftedin68
July 19, 2010 11:06 AM
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The method this idiot used to address this issue speaks volumes on her shallowness:
A tweet.
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Prefabfan
July 19, 2010 11:07 AM
She actually thinks she is pulling one over on Muslims, she is going to charm them with her call to "peaceful Muslims". Like when she winks on TV. Her world view is that of a sociopath.
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July 19, 2010 11:11 AM
Refudiate, repudiate, potato, patata, tomato, tamata, what's the difference? That lady is an idiot. The republican hopeful. I hope they pick her because it will show what idiots the whole party of "no" is and it will be soooo funny.
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ADad
July 19, 2010 2:36 PM in reply to Anna
She's a lady. That should be "idiette".
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Vincent F
July 19, 2010 11:14 AM
She reminds me of that "In Living Color" sketch with the guy in prison who makes up words -- like "breastessess." Can I get an Amen?
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LadyBlahBlah
July 19, 2010 11:24 AM in reply to Vincent F
Ha!!!!!
Amen!
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 11:32 AM in reply to Vincent F
Ugg Ameniate that. Har har har.
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Joekuh
July 20, 2010 9:13 AM in reply to Vincent F
CLASSIC episode!
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George TheShrubber
July 19, 2010 11:21 AM
Is Alaskuh in the "heartland"? I thought it was on one of Merca's fancy schmancy liberal elitists coasts of ours. Like Sarah, I too am sick of the Heartlanders being the only RealAmericansUSA who care about Merca! Come on you stinkin coast dwellers, start to care! I too refutify the elitist's heart-stabbing, anti-healing ways.
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Vincent F
July 19, 2010 2:29 PM in reply to George TheShrubber
You really, you know, said something such as that was totally in line with what real Americans would somehow consider in the heartland, in this great and exceptional nation and city on a shining hill, to be at the forefront of funny. Bravo!
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Dadzilla
July 19, 2010 11:31 AM
Actually this could be a win... just let the Muslims build a football stadium in the basement and a NASCAR track around the outside and it would confuse the tea baggers to distraction.
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sean
July 19, 2010 11:33 AM
LOL! Moosie never fails to entertain...Say what, you Clown from 'Twelfth Night':
Madwoman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness
but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
the Egyptians in their fog.
act4, scene 2
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tinmanic
July 19, 2010 11:38 AM
I'm sorry, but why is there an entire TPM post about what some random person says on Twitter?
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whataretheysmoking
July 19, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to tinmanic
'cos she's the de facto head of the GOP. along with limbaugh who is the de fatso head of the GOP.
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grimshizzle
July 19, 2010 11:38 AM
We should make it a law that Alaskans have to learn English before they immigrate to America.
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SOS ICEBERG
July 19, 2010 11:39 AM
Hey Sarah shut the fuck up on the subject of NYC. You have NOTHING to say about things here, much less anything related to 9/11. Amoeba-brained bitch.
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whataretheysmoking
July 19, 2010 11:40 AM
peaceful alaskans please ask the winking trollop to STFU.
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Rick Jones
July 19, 2010 12:10 PM in reply to whataretheysmoking
Peaceful Alaskans, is Sarah's idiocy and the pain it causes not too real, too raw for those of us in the heartland? Pls take her back, refudiate her, and take away all means of communication.
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glblank
July 19, 2010 12:30 PM in reply to whataretheysmoking
I say we locate the next Arctic or Greenland ice shelf that is about to break off, air drop her whole family on just before it goes and toss a few polar bears in the water about 100 yards from her position and see how mama grizzly surrounds herslf with her kindlings in self preservation. Then show it live on Fux with Wretched Carlson strapped to her chair, Clockwork Orange style two feet from a caged bear. And force John Woo to opine on how this was not torture. Damn, I should have worked for the CI of A
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Jon Lester
July 19, 2010 11:42 AM
Whether you're an urban Muslim trying to get a community center built with your own funds, or a songwriter struggling to protect your product, it's clear that your property rights are not safe from Republicans, all party tripe notwithstanding.
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Dorn76
July 19, 2010 11:44 AM
Sure, she's qualified to be President, uh huh.
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Dave5
July 19, 2010 11:51 AM
Everybody makes a mistake. I hear she reputed her original remark.
She makes me want to go out and buy a copy of the Koran.
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readytoblowagasket
July 19, 2010 11:53 AM
I think there's always been a mosque in that neighborhood. On Warren Street.
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JimmyBobby
July 19, 2010 11:57 AM
Careful. GWB's word-inventing endeared him to the unwashed masses.
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catbyte
July 19, 2010 12:14 PM
What a dolt. Yeah, she'd make an AWESOME president. Christ on a cracker, 8 years of ignorance and stupidity was enough.
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glblank
July 19, 2010 12:18 PM
Stephen Colbert she is not. The funniest part was when she attempted to use Bush as a model for validating the use of neologisms in language unknowing that she set herself up for a Gumpian, "Stupid is as Stupid does". And the unwashed are in terminal Lemming mode. All the whining about Obama's poll numbers hardly ever take notice of Republican/Tea Party polling. One would think Independents would score big this next cycle. The masses are going into knee jerk mode and it is really difficult to asses who they trust less. The masses are voting for the less favorable than for their optimum choice unless OFA and its GOTV efforts get a significant number of surge voters to the polls and my experience indicates that these voters are younger and mobile and harder to find but are engaged in the process when relocated. And alot of their parents are sheltering them from OFA as it is their contact numbers that these students used in the last cycle. On campus OFA organizations will be required to be re-energized and get cell numbers instead of parent's phones. But I digress.
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CajunModerate
July 19, 2010 12:19 PM
Hey, TPM: Please stop legitimizing this ass clown with huge headlines and top-story placement. You're undermining your own credibility.
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croaker
July 19, 2010 12:19 PM
Ah jeez, she makes my head hurt. Now I'm unsure of which word is the correct one to use. This ignoramusy stuff is contaigous.
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July 19, 2010 12:22 PM
When you libtards start calling Biden on his surreal separation from cognizance, then you can rip on Palin for ridiculous crap like this. Be sure to point out malleable words you're unfamiliar with (Shakespeare, anyone?) in hopes to deflect attention from the message. Here's a word you may be unfamiliar with: Dhimmitude. Its your word of the day, look it up.
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chameleon
July 19, 2010 12:29 PM in reply to Jeffery
"When you libtards start calling Biden on his surreal separation from cognizance, then you can rip on Palin for ridiculous crap like this."
There's a difference between gaffes and stupidity - of course' you're too stupid to know the difference.
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Zorro
July 19, 2010 12:35 PM in reply to Jeffery
Jeffery (shouldn't it be Jeffrey?), we don't need your permission to rip on Palin for ridiculous crap. We can do that anytime we want to.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 12:48 PM in reply to Jeffery
Har har har. Your word for day: Dhimmitudiate. Go look up. Har har har.
Hint: It mean same as Dumbasbagarockiate.
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Zorro
July 19, 2010 12:50 PM in reply to Jeffery
Jeffery (shouldn't it be Jeffrey?), we don't need your permission to rip on Palin for ridiculous crap. We can do that anytime we want to.
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Liberal Jesus
July 19, 2010 1:16 PM in reply to Jeffery
Libtards...LOL!
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a.hon
July 19, 2010 1:37 PM in reply to Jeffery
Word of the day, sweet! Which volume of "Sniglets" should I be looking in?
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 4:50 PM in reply to Jeffery
You know, your picture makes me think you're a douchebag. And your comment removes all doubt.
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Signalman
July 20, 2010 11:58 AM in reply to Jeffery
What, another BS neologism from the Freeper crowd?
I'm pretty sure we won't find "dhimmitude" in the OED. Conservapedia, maybe, but so what? A dogwhistle isn't the English language.
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Zorro
July 19, 2010 12:24 PM
I always thought that Palin was dumber than a sack of hammers. Now I am forced to modify that view. She's dumber than a very small sack of hammers.
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spankusmaximus
July 19, 2010 12:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTrthePKU0&feature=related
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kimbanyc
July 19, 2010 12:41 PM
Shakespeare also wrote her epitaph
She Speaks. Yet she says Nothing.
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libdevil
July 19, 2010 12:49 PM
Forget the mangled English. What's more striking is that she's calling on Muslims to voluntarily accept second-class citizenship, in order to not offend the Alaskan heartland. That's like saying, "Hey, I know the 13th Amendment ended slavery, but it really stabs at the heart of racist asshats to see blacks walking around like people, so would you please stay out of sight?"
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latichever
July 19, 2010 12:51 PM
I didn't realize there were any "peaceful Muslims," as she put it, but if their are, wouldn't she support their practice of religion wherever? That might be too logical for her to follow.
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July 19, 2010 12:58 PM
In response to Moloko+ :
... then that would make Palin a "pather."
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a.hon
July 19, 2010 1:10 PM
Sarah Palin stupidiates everything she touches.
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JustSayin'
July 19, 2010 1:15 PM
"Refudiate" the proposed mosque? How un-Christian. Why not turn the other cheek and indicate what the United States really stands for? On each of the four corners of Ground Zero build a Catholic church, a protestant church, an Ashram and a Mosque?
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cemgirl
July 19, 2010 1:20 PM
Come on now folks. Cut Sarah some slackiness. She's the new Norm Crosby of cutting edge politics. Except, without,also then,too, comedic intent. Or possibly pretent, but pretentiousness.
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cemgirl
July 19, 2010 1:21 PM
Come on now folks. Cut Sarah some slackiness. She's the new Norm Crosby of cutting edge politics. Except, without,also then,too, comedic intent. Or possibly pretent, but pretentiousness.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 1:38 PM in reply to cemgirl
Har har har. What difference between Sarah Palin and Norm Crosby?
Har har har. Lickstickiate.
p.s. Well, that and a sense of humor, courage, and a grazp of reality.
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eatbees
July 19, 2010 1:38 PM
Dear TPM,
Years ago, Josh Marshall was a superb investigative journalist who did excellent work dissecting the neoconservative worldview and exposing their plans for world domination. At the time, TPM was a place to read his off-the-cuff thoughts as he pursued valuable threads such as who was behind the Niger yellowcake forgery that played such a critical role in the "dodgy dossier" justifying the invasion of Iraq.
It's a shame to see that now that TPM can afford a stable of a dozen ambitious and talented young reporters, so much time is spent regurgitating the "he said-she said" kerfluffle du jour. I admit that I still come here daily, but merely to be titillated by the reigning snark masters of the progressive blogosphere. It may help to affirm my worldview, but can't say I actually learn anything new from TPM any more.
Those of you in charge of TPM should read Glenn Greenwald's latest article and consider carefully what he says here.
Does this sound to you like a fair description of how TPM spends its time these days? It does to me. He calls it Seinfeldesque "fights about nothing." An amusing way to spend our time, perhaps, but nevertheless sad.
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JohnW1141
July 19, 2010 2:11 PM in reply to eatbees
eatbees,
I think you're being bit too harsh in your opinion of TPM.
Glenn Greenwald is one of my favorites and more often than not his word is Gospel to me. I read TPM everyday and find much, much mor here than fluff about Palin, Bachmann and the rest of the circus performers. I don't think we should ignore the paper people when they make their outlandish comments, besides, its fun to ridicule the right when they deserve it.
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eatbees
July 19, 2010 3:07 PM in reply to JohnW1141
Fair enough. Like I said, I come here every day, myself. But I do miss the in-depth reporting Josh used to do.
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Ugg the Repug
July 19, 2010 3:26 PM in reply to eatbees
Ugg agree with JohnW. Ridiculing right keep Ugg from throwing rocks instead. Har har har. Also still some good reporting as well as smart walksupright people blogging, such as eatbees'.
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onecrappyusername
July 19, 2010 4:13 PM in reply to eatbees
I see where you're coming from, but I think the biggest political story right now is the ascendance of people who say crazy shit. Each individual palin/bachmannism isn't newsworthy, but the accumulation of insanity is worth following.
Just don't spend too much time reading comments, or you'll get the idea that everyone reads those articles just for the lulz.
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CajunModerate
July 19, 2010 4:26 PM in reply to eatbees
eat, for what it's worth, i don't think your original post went far enough. i agree 100%.
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castanea
July 20, 2010 12:03 PM in reply to eatbees
Yep. TPM ain't what it used to be, unfortunately.
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commie atheist
July 19, 2010 5:07 PM in reply to eatbees
I agree wholeheartedly. I love snark as much as anyone, but I expect more from TPM than just making fun of the latest wingnut headscratcher, or mockery of the conservative outrage du jour.
As Greenwald says, it's all just a distraction from the lack of direction being displayed by our "leaders" in Washington. In the end, it just keeps us amused, while the status quo stays intact, and we continue to drift towards third-world nation status:
Hey, it's all OK, as long as we can laugh at the funny wingnuts, right? Right?
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ibsteve2u
July 20, 2010 2:24 AM in reply to eatbees
You might have thrown in the fact that the media's dwelling on the trivialities is dangerous, too.
Bad things can sneak into existence to be only briefly mentioned and then lost in the flood of high school hi-jinks.
Most Americans, for instance, have forgotten that our Supreme Court has dictated that corporations are now held to be citizens entitled to the same protection of "free speech" that is afforded to our real, breathing citizens.
And who now remarks upon the fact that, since the SCOTUS simultaneously dictated that money is a form of "speech", the corporations are America's first super-citizens? Non-breathing Americans whose speech is limited only by the billions of dollars that make up their asset base?
And I don't think anybody ever got around to telling John and Jane Q. Public that corporations are not people, in reality, but are tools controlled by a relative handful of individuals who dictate what they will say...
But if they were told even that much, then the fact that those same individuals sit on the boards of other corporations - thereby giving those few the power of trillions of dollars in assets to use in swaying elections - surely didn't stay in the eye - or the mouths - of the press longer than Sarah Palin's latest demonstration of ineptness.
Sarah Palin is an inconsequentiality on the road of American history. But corporations as super-citizens?
That may spell the end of the road altogether...the dead end of a democracy is the concentration of power beyond the reach of its citizens.
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JohnW1141
July 19, 2010 2:01 PM
Good Lord, I just got over the Bushisms, now I have to read about Palinisms?
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Noncooperator
July 19, 2010 2:06 PM
We should celebrate her Zaniocrity. Remember, don't look a gift horse in the mouth that feeds you.
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jonez
July 19, 2010 2:25 PM
When I first heard her say "nucular" at the RNC, I knew we had another dumb Republican running for office. It was all downhill from there.
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AirBoss
July 19, 2010 3:31 PM
But, but, but... the "p" is so near the "f"...
Or maybe it's a case of "Blame it on my iPhone"?
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CityTrucker
July 19, 2010 3:58 PM
In the world of celebrity, any publicity is good publicity. Stop writing about Ms Palin and she's more likely to go away.
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714Day
July 19, 2010 5:04 PM
Such a flaming ninny this woman is!!! I am weary of the cretins that cannot manage to grasp that lunatics took out the WTC. They just happened to be Muslim lunatics. If we utilize Sarahthink, on the other hand, since Christians have done so much bloodletting across the globe (in direct contradiction to the teachings of Jesus, of course), one might just as well call for nary a church to be built on the planet again.
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Deo
July 19, 2010 5:34 PM
What do you mean...you know what she MEANT??? This nincompoop is on TV, getting millions of bucks to wax political.
$arah, you're a moron.
She used the same word on HANNITY...I GUESS SHE WROTE IT ON HER HAND!!!!!!
....and THEN there is the religious intolerance. There can be a mosque 2 blocks away! Who THE F*** is she to say there can't be? This is America, lots of religions, lots of people.....mainly nes who will not be votingt for the moronic $ister $arah.
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SOS ICEBERG
July 19, 2010 5:59 PM in reply to Deo
ahem...it's not America...it's NYC. She has even LESS right to say where a mosque should be located here.
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July 19, 2010 5:55 PM
Palin/Berra (Yogi) 2012!
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lyris
July 19, 2010 5:59 PM
My God, she's a female rendition of chimpy (2001-2008)
What scares the bejesus out of me is that the people who will vote for her are allowed to drive, vote and procreate.
Frightening! Americans are indeed dumbing down. But that's the way the teabagging/gop want them.
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LucidPanther
July 19, 2010 6:03 PM
The difference bewteen the stupidity and ignorance of George Bush and Sarah Palin is that Bush was merely unashamed of his stupidity whereas Sarah Palin is very proud to be stupid and ignorant...she refers to her ignorance as "common sense"...a euphemism meaning she doesn't read anything or study anything...
Palin's motto is the Orwellian, "Ignorance is Strength"
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July 19, 2010 7:31 PM
it's wrong to conflate Palin's and Bush's penchant for neologisms with their wrongheadedness as politicians. as a defender of descriptive over prescriptive linguistics, i have to argue that neologisms can be a good thing for languages, especially neologisms that work (ie: instantly carry the intended message), which "refudiate" does.
i'll accept your neologisms open-armedly, never misunderestimating their contribution to american english ... but i refudiate your wars, your petroleum dependency, and your oversimplification of international realities.
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q188r
July 19, 2010 7:47 PM
whisky tango foxtrot..........
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LucidPanther
July 19, 2010 7:49 PM
The message it carries here is she that she is a poorly educated, inarticulate idiot.
I checked out how Fox News would report this , if at all and on the Breitbart show they simply changed her tweet...Instead of what she really tweeted "Pls refudidiate", Fox News rewrote it to read, "Please reject this".
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Hank
July 19, 2010 8:28 PM
Away, you three inch fool.
Sincerely, Bill
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Hank
July 19, 2010 8:29 PM
Dissembling harlot, thou are false in all.
Again, your Bill.
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Hank
July 19, 2010 8:31 PM
From the extremest upward of thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot, a most toad spotted traitor.
With love, Bill.
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alaric
July 19, 2010 8:44 PM
I was laughed so hard when I remembered she said "corpsemen" instead of corpsmen, oh wait, that was that idiot President.
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alaric
July 19, 2010 8:45 PM
I was laughed so hard when I remembered she said "corpsemen" instead of corpsmen, oh wait, that was that idiot President.
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johnnydoughey
July 20, 2010 2:26 AM
... and in retaliation, there should be no Christians or Christian chuches permmited within 5 miles of any bomb crater produced by this nation...
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JBL1955
July 20, 2010 3:52 PM
It's not often one sees "Palin" and "Shakespeare" in the same sentence.
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BigJim
July 21, 2010 8:29 PM
There is a chapel across the street from the Muir building in Oklahoma City, where a good Christian American boy killed 168 American men women and children.
Does that mean we will have to move that chapel to a another location?
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eM-i-zzaR-Y
July 22, 2010 12:38 PM
Rudy Giuliani says that the prospective Imam (cleric), Mr. F.A. Rauf, has a record of support for groups who sympathize with terrorists
-confer ACLJ.org or KKLA.com [=site of KKLA-FM, L.A., which carries "Jay Sekulow Live" at 9 a.m., P.T. & at 3 p.m. Jay's son Jordan said yesterday that Mr. Rauf has [or had?] "ties to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, in which Osama bin Laden's Lieutenant, Dr. Ayman Zawahiri, was a spokesman/ translator.
Today, Glenn Beck said that the M.B. is affiliated with Hamas.
Jay says, Mr. Rauf declines to state that Hamas is a terrorist organization (although the U.S. Gov't said that it is, contra N.S.A. advisor John Brennan -- confer IsraelNationalNews.com).
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prescient_1
July 24, 2010 1:04 PM
Amusing indeed but nothing compared to the threes years of gaffes by the shaved chimp in a suit and the his dumb-ass sidekick. Even with TOTUS poor 0 comes off as a dolt.
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July 26, 2010 1:07 PM
Perhaps the amalgamation is more accurate than she will ever realize.
Refudiate: deny truth and accuracy leading to rejection and condemnation of a motion. Refudiate.
Refudiation would suit her purpose quite well. Deny truth. Condemn the mosque.
Isn't inaccurate, extreme condemnation what led to the attacks to begin with? Methinks yes.
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