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The right-wing kooks are bending over backwards to defend Sarah Palin’s crib note expose.  The three stooges on Fox and Friends had this lovely little dialogue.

CARLSON: I think she did it on purpose.

DOOCY: You do?

CARLSON: I think she did it on purpose. Yeah, because I think it’s an exact opposite of reading off the teleprompter. Reading off complete script written for you with every word in a sentence, and here she’s just taking crib notes on her hand. It makes it look as if she can just talk off the cuff and that she just jotted down a few couple notes before she went off to give a big, long speech.

KILMEADE: I am jealous.

DOOCY: I think she did — I think she did it because she probably does it a lot. I do that all the time.

KILMEADE: I personally am jealous, because I used to get in trouble if I wrote on my palms because my mom explained to me the ink would get through my pores and I would die. So I stopped doing that in the fifth grade.

DOOCY: Really?

KILMEADE: Why doesn’t she just — there’s nothing wrong with if she had a card. Just jot a card down — energy, taxes, hope, whatever it is. But — then no one has a problem. But to sit there and look at — do the interview and then look down at her hand, I think that is — it’s, like you said, Gretchen, before, folksy, absolutely. Down to earth. I can identify. But if you’re going to write it on your hand, why not just say, staffer, can you hand me a card? And then it would have been OK.

CARLSON: Like I say, I think it was on purpose. But anyway, we may never know.

While another Palin apologist notes…

“…like other busy moms, she sometimes writes notes on her hand.”

Really, how does anyone take these people seriously?

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SNL is on a bit of a roll lately.  Anyone who is aware of Rahm Emanuel’s style will appreciate this.
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I love this line to Palin.

“You come after me on Facebook?  What are you, 14?  Grow the f**k up!”

Too funny.

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This is hilarious. If you missed it, Sarah Palin wrote crib notes on her hand for her $100,000 Tea Party speech and the interview she gave after. Apparently, remembering her own deep held convictions talking points requires a little help.

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And here she is referring to her cheat sheet.

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Can Palin be any more pathetic? And remember, she has not ruled out a run at the presidency in 2012. How much fun would that be? I can’t wait!
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In predictable fashion, global warming deniers and political opportunists are making much of the snowstorms which have hit the country. In their puny minds, snow means cold and cold means there is no global warming. Simple…and stupid.

As I’ve written before, weather and climate are not the same thing.

Weather is “the conditions in the atmosphere in a certain place during a certain time. Weather is always changing.”

Climate is “what the weather is generally like over long periods of time, such as years or decades in a particular area. A place that has little rainfall has a dry climate, and a place that has high temperatures has a hot climate.”

They don’t want to understand because it destroys there little narrative.

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Yeah!!!

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SNL mocks Fox News’ DADT coverage.

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I’m finding it more difficult to watch these talking head sessions.  It’s all so predictable you can actually write the scripts yourself.  The biggest problem is that there is no on the spot fact-checking with these people.  One minute of liberal talking points followed by one minute of conservative talking points – unless you’re watching Fox where it’s 3 minutes of conservative talking points followed by 30 seconds of liberal talking points.  All so boring.

I’m going to start sleeping in Sunday mornings.

One of my favorite Kristofferson tunes. Played it for my mom just a short while before she passed away.  On that day I sat quietly and watched as the tears rolled down her beautiful face as the thoughts of a long lost brother came rushing in.  From that day on, this song became our song.

Mom, for you…

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“wishin’ Lord that I was stoned…’cause there is something in a Sunday, makes a body feel alone.”

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How sweet is this?

Without leaving home, Sarah Palin will be able to reach much of her political base, courtesy of a soon-to-be-built television studio in her living room paid for by her newest media patron, Fox News. From her house in Wasilla, Alaska, Ms. Palin also sends missives to 1.3 million Facebook “fans,” writes newspaper columns, Tweets and signs copies of her book for donors.

She reads daily e-mail briefings on domestic and foreign policy from a small group of advisers who remained loyal after her tumultuous vice presidential campaign in 2008. And though she has fashioned an image as an antiestablishment conservative, she also speaks regularly to a bipartisan nobility of Washington insiders who have helped enrich her financially and position her on the national political stage.

Say what you want about Palin – call her shallow, opportunistic, intellectually and truth-challenged, whatever – but no one can say that this woman does not know how to make a dollar.  She’s taken full advantage of the platform given her and is milking it for all she can.  While I am wary to compliment Palin on any level, one cannot deny that she has shown an amazing talent for taking a limited intellect and a pretty face and doing more with them than most could ever dream of accomplishing.

That much I’ll give her…except to note that people who lack an awareness of their own shortcomings are often capable of doing more with less.  If you don’t know you’re a shallow, self-serving, empty-headed ninny, you can do amazing things.

Update:

I just caught a snippet of Palin’s $100,000 tea party speech. This is how she referred to Obama.

“A charismatic guy with a teleprompter.”

Of course she said this as she read the words written for her off a teleprompter as hundreds cheered away at her charismatic personality.

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Felon Oliver North had this to say on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

“Stunning assault on the all-volunteer military, the very best in the world. Barack Obama now intents to treat them like lab rats in a radical social experiment, and it can be very, very detrimental.”

“In other words, this isn’t about rights. This isn’t about fairness. It’s all about national security. And apparently, Mr. Obama has forgotten it.”

“Now, here’s what’s next. NAMBLA members, same-sex marriages. Are chaplains in the U.S. military going to be required to perform those kinds of rituals? Do they get government housing?”

“In other words, all of this stuff that everybody says, “Oh, we can just take care of it because we’ve got the best military in the world,” and we do, adds to the burden of these youngsters who are now on their ninth year of a war, back-to-back deployments, and more combat time than my dad got in World War II. That is a very serious issue, and it affects readiness and recruiting and retention, and they’re ignoring it in this White House.”

So, according to North, repealing DADT would somehow convince pedophiles that joining the military is the thing to do. Don’t you just love homophobic logic?

Ok Ollie, you can climb back under your rock now.

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