The year in Sarah Palin faux pas

From Alaska Dispatch. Not sure if this is a serious newspaper or what, but they clearly don't like Sarah Palin and of course mockery is the order of the day, both for them and for Comedy Central.


Alaska Dispatch: The year in Sarah Palin faux pas

Did you know physicians have concluded that Sarah Palin's advice may cause cancer? That's just one of many nuggets of wisdom in 2012's "worst moments with Mama Grizzly." And even though she's got a few days left yet to make Alaska proud, Comedy Central was first out the gate to recognize Palin's contributions to America's civic discourse.
Here's a glimpse:

• In response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Palin delivers a "crappy joke" about the president.
• No comment from Mamma Grizzly after son Track files for divorce, leaving only Piper or Trigg to resurrect the "family values" in the Palin family.
• Alaska's Joan of Arc accuses President Obama of being addicted to "hope-ium"

Want more? Of course you do -- read the zingers until your eyes bleed at Comedy Central (or below)

If you thought Sarah Palin peaked in 2008, you haven't been paying attention to her in 2012 (not that we blame you). So we're pleased to present an exclusive analysis we're calling The Worst Sarah Palin Moments of 2012 (So Far).
8. Palin calls Time magazine irrelevant for naming President Obama its Person of the Year, when really it's irrelevant for still trying to be in the print media.
7. In response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Palin sums up this horrific tragedy with a Cee Lo song and a crappy joke about the president.
6. Palin's son Trog (or something) gets a divorce after 18 months of marriage, and his family-values-having mom has no comment, because… family values.

5. Palin apologizes after telling Republicans not to stop being "wusses" during fiscal cliff discussions. Yet she still hasn't apologized for her crimes against grammar and logic.
4. This terrible pun.
3. Palin mocks President Obama's Christmas card for featuring Bo, instead of baby Jesus coming down from heaven to give the Constitution to Paul Revere or whatever.
2. As the battle for Chick-Fil-A/America's greasy soul rages, Palin jumps into the fray to prove that a) she has no idea how the First Amendment works and b) she still hates the gays.
1. Despite raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through her Super PAC, Palin gives Mitt Romney nothing except a half-hearted endorsement wrapped in a long screed about Barack Obama.
So there you have it, the worst Sarah Palin moments of 2012. And to those of you wondering who cares about Sarah Palin any more, the answer is: not even Sarah Palin.

 

 

Sarah Palin Mocks Time Magazine, Self

this is from Dec 20

HuffPost Politics:  Sarah Palin Mocks Time Magazine, Self 

Fox News contributor and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Wednesday evening mocked Time magazine's decision to name President Barack Obama the person of the year. After all, this is the same magazine that once said Palin was important.
"Time magazine, I think there’s some irrelevancy there, to tell you the truth," Palin said on Fox News. "I mean, consider their list of the most influential people in the country and in the world, consider some who made that list: yours truly! That ought to tell you something right there regarding the credence we should give Time magazine and their list of people.”
Fox's Greta Van Susteren laughed. "That’s an interesting concept," she said.
Time named Palin one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.
The magazine's person-of-the-year story this year digs Palin for mocking Obama's 2008 campaign themes of hope and change:
"Ever since the campaign computers started raising the odds of victory from near even to something like surefire, Obama had been thinking a lot about what it meant to win without the lightning-in-a-bottle quality of that first national campaign," Time's Michael Scherer wrote. "The Obama effect was not ephemeral anymore, no longer reducible to what had once been mocked as 'that hopey-changey stuff.'

 

New posting schedule

Now that I've got this new full-time job, I'll be posting in this blog twice a week - on Monday's and Wednesdays.

So the next post for this blog will be on Monday.

Thanks for your patience.

Sarah Palin: 'Barack Obama Is A Socialist,' Communism Could Be Coming

From HuffPost:  Sarah Palin: 'Barack Obama Is A Socialist,' Communism Could Be Coming

"Barack Obama is a socialist," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), claimed on Fox News Monday night, speaking about her concerns regarding a fiscal cliff deal, growing American debt and a president who, she said, could even be leading the nation on a slow march toward communism.
Talking with Sean Hannity, Palin said that the opening offer Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner presented to Republicans last week to avert the fiscal cliff was a dangerous proposition.
“A very scary proposal was recently revealed by Geithner essentially saying, ‘Let the president have free rein on raising the debt ceiling to whatever level he wants it.' That’s a very scary thought," she said, pointing to Obama's supposedly "socialist" views.
"He believes in socialism, in redistributing, in confiscating hard-earned dollars of our small businessmen and women so that they cannot re-invest their dollars and hire more people and grow and expand," Palin continued. "Instead he believes in these failed socialist policies. And I say that not to personally condemn our president, but I say it because I face reality, and I see what's going on, and I see the path that we are on and the fact that Barack Obama has not had a budget in the four years that he's been in office and not been worried about it and continues to spend recklessly other people's money. And that is a sign of that idea of loving socialism."
Pressed by Hannity on her recent warning to Republican "wusses" who might agree to a fiscal cliff deal without massive spending cuts and sweeping entitlement reforms, Palin apologized for name-calling, but encouraged conservative lawmakers to combat a supposed tide of socialism, or perhaps worse, which she appeared to suggest would be brought forth by a fiscal cliff.
“So I say, Republicans, go back to what the planks in your platform represent,” Palin said. “It represents reining in government, putting back the power and the responsibility in the individual, not in the state, not in government. Again, that gets us towards socialism. What goes beyond socialism, Sean, is communism. I know I’m going to get slammed for speaking so bluntly about what’s going on here, but that is exactly what is going on.”
On Monday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) put forth a counteroffer to Obama's initial proposal, calling for $2.2 trillion in deficit reduction through deep spending cuts, entitlement reforms and $800 billion in new tax revenues. Conservative groups quickly attacked the plan for its new revenues, which they saw as a cave to Obama and Democrats on taxes.

 

Bedbugs Blamed for Sarah Palin Stalker's Disappearance From Halfway House

Not a lot of news about Sarah Palin so I thought I'd share this...

From  Hispanic Business Daily:  Bedbugs Blamed for Sarah Palin Stalker's Disappearance From Halfway House

Bedbug bites helped drive a 21-year-old McAdoo man from a halfway house where he had been ordered to stay for harassing former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, his father said Thursday.

Shawn Christy walked out of the Scranton Catholic Charity Center on Nov. 20 because he received more than 300 bedbug bites, his father, Craig Christy, said when explaining the family's version of events that led U.S. Marshals to arrest their son Wednesday.

"They just blew the story out of proportion," Craig Christy said.

The U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement that Christy fled his home and possessed a knife when deputies ran him down Wednesday morning. Deputies found him after they received a lead from authorities in Alaska.

The warrant issued for Christy said he abused a worker verbally and damaged property at the halfway house.

His father agrees partly with the statement from the Marshal's Office and the description of events in the warrant: His son had a knife, which his father said was a "tool" he was allowed to have. He also threw a soda bottle during an argument with a worker at the halfway house.

Craig Christy, however, said his son was worn out from working at a bakery and the bedbug bites when the argument began. He notified probation officers in Pennsylvania and Alaska that his son was home, and said the judge who issued the warrant also knew where the young man was.

Asked about Craig Christy's remarks, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane said authorities knew where Shawn Christy was, but a probation officer outlined the reasons for his apprehension in an affidavit.

The affidavit says Christy became belligerent when a search uncovered contraband -- the soda and a cellphone -- in his backpack. He ran to his room, kicked a hole in the wall and left the premises without permission, the affidavit says.

When Shawn Christy appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Blewitt on Wednesday afternoon, he suffered a seizure triggered by Lyme disease, his father said. The judge ordered Shawn Christy to be detained until he can be sent to Alaska for further proceedings.

Craig Christy, who said marshals expelled him and his wife from the courtroom when he told them to roll his son off his back during the seizure, did not know whether his son was in a hospital Thursday.

Earlier this year, Shawn and Craig Christy pleaded guilty to making harassing telephone calls to Palin and were placed on probation. As a condition of probation, Shawn Christy was ordered in mid-July to spend six months in a halfway house. His father was allowed to live at home.

About a month ago, one of the Christys visited the Department of Licensing, Inspections and Permits in Scranton to report bedbugs in the halfway house, department Director Mark Seitzinger said.

The manager of the halfway house told the department that workers sprayed for bedbugs twice and would spray a third time to complete the extermination, Seitzinger said. Staff members at the halfway house also put pads between the box springs and mattresses as a precaution against bugs, he said.

While staying at the halfway house, Shawn Christy worked regularly, first through temporary agencies and later at a bakery, his father said.

He also obtained a high school equivalency degree and took an online psychology course because he wants to work as a counselor someday.

But the sentencing judge in Alaska never transferred Shawn Christy's probation to Pennsylvania, nor was Shawn Christy allowed early release from the halfway house or a pass to go home for Thanksgiving.

"Basically, he's been a political prisoner because of the high-profile person involved," Craig Christy said.

Since sentencing, neither he nor his son has contacted Palin, he said.

Sarah Palin: Susan Rice Attacks Aren't Racist, Sexist

From HuffPost:  Sarah Palin: Susan Rice Attacks Aren't Racist, Sexist

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) said the criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya has nothing to do with racism or sexism.
"What the heck does this have to do with gender, or skin color, or anything else? This has to do with competency, and Susan Rice's handling of Libya has been part and parcel of the Obama Administration's handling of Libya, which has been appalling," Palin said Friday on "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren. "It's been atrocious, and it's really indicative of a lack of competency and truthfulness, and certainly transparency, in the entire Obama Administration. It has nothing to do with her gender."
Rice, considered to be a top candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, has battled critics since the Benghazi attacks, especially Republican Senators John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) After meeting with Rice about the attack, Graham said he was even "more disturbed" about Rice's explanation of the incident.
"Bottom line, I'm more disturbed now than I was before that the 16th of September explanation about how Americans died in Benghazi, Libya, by Ambassador Rice I think does not do justice to the reality at the time and, in hindsight, clearly was completely wrong," Graham said.
Some Republicans are coming to Rice's defense, including former U.S. ambassador to China and former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman.
"When you're in a wartime setting and you have an attack like that -- let's face it. No one is prepared for an attack like that. There is, as Robert McNamara used to say, there is a fog of war. And it takes awhile to sort through the details," Huntsman told The Huffington Post's Sam Stein. "And it doesn't do a whole lot of good for the political class to point fingers before you even know what was behind it. And you're not going to know that [immediately]."