Feb
8
Talk About Jumping The Shark
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Sarah Palin wrote some crib notes on her hand (five words) and the left wing blogosphere and media who fete the President who can’t speak a coherent public statement without having every word spelt out for him by a teleprompter find it a compelling story. Andrea Mitchell calls it “different rules for different folks”. You can say that again.
And once again, a complete failure to understand Palin’s ordinariness. Scribbled notes versus a speech written by writers on a teleprompter.
I must get round to watching it. Andrew Sullivan calls it:
the most electrifying speech I have heard from a leader of the GOP since Reagan.
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Andrea Mitchell can mock Palin if she wants to…but look who she has to go home to each evening compared to Palin.
Really, I find people like Mitchell rather pathetic in their hypocrisy.
Rep. John Murtha has died.
He signed off on the Iraq war and then turned against it to the tune of accusing American Marines of cold-bloodedly murdering innocent Iraqis before their trials…trials that proved their innocence. As far as I know, Murtha never did apologize to those soldiers. Murtha was very good at getting hundreds of millions of dollars for specific military contractors who in turn, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to his election campaigns.
I can’t help but feel that the US House of Representatives will be much better off when it comes to future ethics investigations for the likes of crooked politicans like Murtha.
‘but look who she has to go home to each evening compared to Palin.’
What the hell has that got to do with anything?
I think most people are perfectly aware of Palin’s ordinariness and are becoming aware of how easy it seems to be to make money.
Ronnie,
Mitchell was childish…non-professional in the way she treated Palin’s hand notes…Mitchell’s a typical malicious, liberal bitch…
Andrea Mitchell is married to 81 year old Alan Greenspan who when he was young was still ugly as sin and is probably boring as hell.
Ronnie,
If by ordinariness, do you mean getting up in front of some 200 million people with your very first speech in the McCain campaign…and the teleprompter goes out…and unlike Obama not being able to cope with that…goes for a soccer mom joke until the teleprompter starts to work again…gives a wow speech without one single stumble…well, I guess that really is ordinary…I wish I could be that ordinary. I might really be able to get something done for my country.
‘who when he was young was still ugly as sin and is probably boring as hell’
If you could leave this irrelevant and rather disappointing shit out of your arguement, I could probably take the rest of what you say more seriously.
ronnie
i believe in the ordinary American and their ability to do great things by using common sense. i guess that makes me different from those who want to be led by elitists who think deep thoughts and have driven us off the cliff with their intellectual prowess.
i know something about theory. in science, theories are worthless until validated by empirical evidence that they are correct. good theories are simple and universally applicable. bad ones are complicated and either apply only to one niche or are flat out wrong. the present economic theories in play in the U.S. are totally without any evidence that they have ever worked anywhere, any time. i put them in the latter category.
give me common sense any time.
obama vs. palin??? it’s not even close and i am not that thrilled with palin.
Ronnie,
I didn’t want to bore you…
Ronnie….”If you could leave this irrelevant and rather disappointing shit out of your arguement, I could probably take the rest of what you say more seriously.”
Who are you to criticize AA when you supplement most of your commentaries with stuipd ‘and rather disappointing shit’ also?
O. Tony,
Also???
Wow.
To think it was only a week ago that the president went to the retreat of the republicans and had a hour and a half Q & A where he answered all questions without the need of a promptor or the need to have the talking points written on his hand as all the questions had been pre-screened (something you all here seem to want to ignore).
It was so bad a bitch slapping that faux “news” cut away from it with 20 minutes to go, yet here you all are, starting with f**kwits and friends on monday morning desperately trying to find a way to excuse the fact that the empty suit of preening platitudes couldn’t find a way to keep five basic mantra’s in her head without scribbling it on her hand.
Then again, she failed to handle even the softballs lobbed to her from Chris Wallace.
Israel
You know what. It really isn’t a good time to be an arse. If you don’t want to make positive contributions, why even bother? I am so fed up with this.
How am l being an arse?
You say that the left are over blowing what happened.
I’m pointing out the fact that the person you are defending is an unmittigated hypocrite.
Less than an hour after her red meat to the base speech when she reads from her notes slamming the president and claiming falsely that he can only rely on a telepromptor to look like he can give a speech, she has to glance on her hand for reminders to answers to pre-scripted questions!!
And that is just on this.
Yes, she is at this moment the Cathrine Wheel of hard right populism, but look how badly she fared in a friendly interview with Chris Wallace where her pathetic attempts at deflecting her partizan actions in going after Rham Emmanuel were called out by a semi reporter on faux, not to mention the fact that she couldn’t even do the job that faux have given her the airtime for and be a political analyst.
Yes she taps into buzz words and yes there are plenty, including some here, who get the “little starbursts” whenever she waves her hand but the elephant in the room is the fact that most of her politicing is being done via facebook and twitter. She has no intention of sitting down to serious analysis of where she stands and what she believes because she knows that she will not look good doing so and she always ends up with the “deer in headlights” look when asked follow-ups.
Over a year in the political spotlight and she has done ONE SUNDAY SHOW and that is on the “news” network who are massaging her image to try and make her look like a serious heavyweight. She knows that those supporters of her in the media, and those like yourself on the blogs, will jump to her defence at any sign of criticism.
Do you think that her responses to both Limbaugh and Perry’s campaign manager over the use of the term retard were right, that Limbaugh’s use was “just satire” and her lack of guts in calling him out the same way that she did Rahm was pretty gutless, not the act of someone who is the mother of a disabled child and claims to be a staunch defender of them?
Of course i’m going to point out her negatives here, just like you day after day point out the negatives of president Obama and the democrats.
Lets look back at some of your own headlines for the last few days shall we?
“Talk About Jumping The Shark”
“Remind Me Again Which Party Has The Screw Loose.”
“Obama’s Mistakes”
“Correcting The Spin On Failed Health Care Reform”
“Kos Puts His Hand On The Scales”
You have to go back to Jan 30th for anything positive and that is this one:
“When Obama’s Good He’s Very Very Good”
And while you try to call it a tie the serious pundits saw it for what it was, the republicans got bitchslpped in their own backyard to the extend that republican pravda cut away from it with over twenty minutes to go.
Maybe those of us on the left have been away too long, it seems to have dulled your senses a bit, leading to this need for someone to waft some smelling salts under your nose at my incivility.
Sorry, incivility should be in quotes.
Also at the teabaggers ball former politician Tom Tancredo threw out some more red meat to the base with this:
A full whote hearted endorsement of Jim Crow, and what do you hear from establishment republicans?
The sound of crickets.
There was a response to it, obviously:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#35304909
But which young self proclaimed republican was so upset that they spoke out about it?
This one:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/look-out-below-meghan-mccain-disses
Please note, the headline isn’t mine so don’t jump down my throat about it.
She also pointed this out:
There is an ever increasing block of voters growing up in the US and they belong to the Hispanic community. If you look at their small “c” conservatism linked to their Catholicism you would say that they would be ripe for picking for the GOP but instead you have the son of an Italian immigrant bashing other immigrants.
What incentive do these young soon to be voters have for joining up with the GOP? Watching their parent get kicked out of the country? Sit watching crowds cheer the words of this bigot?
She also makes some references to the hypocrisy l pointed too above, but l will let you read it if you are bothered, it eill give you something to slam her about.
I wasn’t a fan of George Bush (understatement) but at least his dad set him up with some operatives with cognative braincells.
Bush achived 18% of the black vote in 2004 (ok, it was pre Katrina) mainly due to the outreaching by the likes of Log Cabin RNC head Ken Melmahn to bring minorities into the GOP big tent.
What actions are being done now to do the same, and l don’t mean just throwing out the mantra that black people are being duped by liberals, it doesn’t fly.
Republican bipartizanship and how it works in 2009/2010:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#35322522
I love these tiffs.
An American, you never bore me, never.
OT, ‘who are yoooooo…’. You are like an owl and what scares me is that your posts are seldom intentionally humorous.
Shockwaver, I’d be delighted to find any common sense in the noise coming from far-right US Conservatives. It would be a welcome respite from the endless hysteria.
Thought you might get a chuckle out of this.
http://www.irreverentview.com/wp-content/themes/default/uploads/aaCoakleyBridge-bw.jpg
ronnie
this is a start.
DON’T SPEND MORE THAN YOU TAKE IN.
shockwaver.
Agreed. Even in the face of strong lobbying from the defence industry?
ronnie
this is a start:
DON’T SPEND MORE THAN YOU TAKE IN.
i’ll give you a while for that to sink in. soon i will send you another one to ponder.
I can’t wait shockwaver although I can deal with more than one at a time.
Here’s one for you:
DON’T BUTTER YOUR TOAST ON BOTH SIDES.
ronnie
i don’t butter my toast so this advise is of no use to me. any other helpful hints?
here is another one for you:
IF THERE IS A PROVISION TO THE CONSTITUTION THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE, DO NOT IGNORE IT. USE THE AMENDMENT PROCESS TO CHANGE IT.
i will continue to give these one at a time as not all of your cohorts can digest these concepts very easily.
You should have told Bush about this one, the Constitution is just a piece of paper according to him and his Conservative friends.
As far as I’m aware a cohort was a unit of the Roman army, well before my time. Here’s a tip.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE TIPS TO YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR SIDE (OR COHORT) HAS OBSERVED THEM FIRST. OTHERWISE YOU LOOK A BIT SILLY.
ronnie
co⋅hort /ˈkoʊhɔrt/ –noun
1. a group or company:
2. a companion or associate.
3. one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
4. any group of soldiers or warriors.
5. an accomplice; abettor: He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
6. a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic: the cohort of all children born in 1980.
7. Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.
please see definitions 1,2, probably 4, especially 5, 6 and maybe even 7 if some of the liberal aberrant behavior is genetic.
i have not been a bush supporter since 2006. nor have i been a republican supporter since then either. when i said this on cabbie’s blog circa september, cabbie asked if i would support a third party i said no. the only answer is for the conservatives to re-take the republican party and re-build it. throw the republican establishment out. this is the tea party movement.
the strategy is to support conservatives in the primaries and then vote for the most conservative candidate in the general election, even if we have to hold our collective noses.(viz, mccain)
bush ignoring the constitution is a baseless canard that left repeats. this is a symptom of mental illness as described by “robin of berkeley”. Robin is a psychotherapist and recovering liberal in Berkeley. i suggest you read it and see if anything looks familiar.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/paranoia_strikes_deep_in_obamas_america.html
she says:
i would challenge you to demonstrate how conservatives have ignored the constitution.
i can give hundreds of examples from the left. circumventions of the bill of rights are low hanging fruit for this exercise.
i could write a treatise on the abominations made into law in the name of the constitution by misusing the commerce clause.
even obama has declared that the constitution is flawed because it does not say what the government must do for the people. mighty ignorant for a constitutional “professor”.
C. Cabbie,
I sense that you are feeling kind of down lately…
Do you know how highly all of us who blog here think of you?
An American
Thankyou very much, that’s very kind. To be honest, the combination of my cold and having to work on top of it has meant that my motivation is at a very low ebb. I’ve thought about giving this up but have decided against that. However, I will take two weeks off to get myself back on track. I will be posting open posts and the occasional post if there’s something that really interests me but I want to take some time to think about what I want to achieve with this, re-organise it somewhat and try to get some new people. I hope you’ll bear with me.
I second An American!
i second ronnie
Well shockwaver, if you think any of these definitions are in some way aberrant then you border on being a sociopath, not uncommon among far left conservatives.
I’m afraid I have quite a lot of work to do so I won’t be taking up any of your ‘challenges’ however, don’t let that stop you drafting your thesis if you have the time.
I’m pretty sure that phone-tapping and other forms of surveillance visited on Americans by their conservative government are unconstitutional as is detention without trial, legal representation or limit of time. However, I’m sure that you support these measures and so you will contend that they are fair enough.
If that fails I’m sure you can continue to dis-own the previous Republican administration when it suits you and persist with your peculiar form of denial, in the interests of your ‘cohort’ and their objectives.
Let’s be clear. There is a constitution. I don’t care which ‘cohort’ breaks it, when they do so it is broken and I have a problem with that.
Your problem is that you deny that your cohort ever breaks it, which is a patent falsehood. Your mirror images on the left do exactly the same thing and I see no, and I mean no, difference between you.
You are partizan and do not represent any kind of objective view, end of story. I therefore evaluate what you post here entirely in that light and without any ill-feeling. You are a Conservative and you submit Conservative posts, I simply ignore your attempts to make your standpoint seem like some kind of truth rather than opinion.
ronnie
i never said these were aberrant. the dictionary definition was in response to your professed ignorance of the meaning.
maybe so. but until they are challenged in court we can’t know. in the U.S. when there is a dispute between the executive and whomever, the dispute is settled in the courts. the losing party has not “violated” the constitution is the sense you mean it. this has happened hundreds of times (thousands???) in the past. the violations of the constitution i am talking are those foisted on us by activist judges.
it suits me based on principle, not convenience.
You are partizan and do not represent any kind of objective view, end of story.
i am a conservative and all of my views are objective. (unless i use sarcasm to make a point).i have written numerous articles for this blog spelling out those principles. the difference between me any you is that i do not cut the socialist any slack because i am certain their ideology is destructive.
i have no malice toward you either. i am a conservative and you are a moderate. i know where i stand.
you asked for common sense among the noise coming from from conservatives. i have given you two examples.
DON’T SPEND MORE THAN YOU TAKE IN.
IF THERE IS A PROVISION TO THE CONSTITUTION THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE, DO NOT IGNORE IT. USE THE AMENDMENT PROCESS TO CHANGE IT.
here is one more
LET FAILING BUSINESSES FAIL.
ronnie
for clarity: i messed up the positioning of the blockquote. that is the only thing wrong with my post
No problem shockwaver, I got the gist
I think you need to check the dictionary definition of ‘objective’. Of course you are a Conservative, I’m perfectly happy with that. You are simply deluding yourself if you think you are objective.
Maybe you are confusing certainty with objectivity.