Because we just can’t get enough of her, the farewell speech of (now former) Alaska Gov. and Head GOP Whacko Sarah Palin is on full display on the interwebs, first off with this link to stunning interpretation of the Republican grande dame’s verbiage, as performed on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien by “master thespian” William Shatner.
Full video after the jump:
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has a web-only ad out hitting Sarah Palin and Charlie Crist, among other Republicans, for “quitting” on their jobs.
Take a look.
Rumproast.com put together this compilation of all of soon-to-be-ex Gov. Sarah Palin’s sighs, heavy breathing and other respiratory gasps during her crazy-sounding resignation newser. None are repeated and they are in their original order:
If you have not yet found the time to catch all of Sarah Palin’s now-legendary press conference, the helpful folks at HuffPo have provided an abridged version which captures all of her rhetorical flourishes (and dead-fish references) in just a minute and a half.
By Dan Sullivan
PoHo Contributor
I confess: I’ve been having an affair with Sarah Palin. That’s why she’s stepping down as governor of Alaska.
Don’t get me wrong, this is not the kind of affair that ends a political career. Unlike certain other political affairs of late (Read: Mark Sanford, John Ensign) this affair is not one of the scandalous variety. Quite the contrary. My affair with Alaska’s sweetheart could be just the thing that propels her into the White House in 2012.
See, it isn’t just me who’s having an affair with Sexy Sarah. She’s the darling of many conservative Americans. She stole our hearts from the moment she first stepped onto the national stage back in August as John McCain’s running mate. And now, she’s dissolving her marriage to Alaska to become better acquainted with us — her secret lover — the rest of America.
For me, the affair has lasted long after I met her backstage at a campaign rally shortly before the ‘08 election (see photo above). Of course, I’m not naïve enough to fail to recognize that much of Sarah Palin’s popularity has to do with the fact that she’s an 11 on the hotness scale. If she were an old, fat, white guy, I doubt anyone would care. Read the rest of this entry »
By Mitch Perry
PoHo contributor
Mitch Perry is the anchor of the WMNF Evening News on 88.5 FM community radio.
Last Saturday in Brandon’s Clayton Park, approximately 200 citizens gathered for a TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) organized by conservative activist Terry Kemple, and featuring a rally-the-troops speech by State Senator Ronda Storms (right).
It was one of what was supposed to be over 1,000 such expressions of outrage at government spending under the Obama administration around the country on Independence Day, and followed a similar outburst of conservative sentiment at the first “Teabag” parties held on Tax Day, April 15th.
That day was also dedicated to federal largesse, though you may recall it more as a media battle between the seeming outright advocacy of the Fox News network, and the derision of it by more liberal commentators, including way too many allusions to what the phrase ‘teabagging’ meant. (This Keith Olbermann bit was just part of that onslaught.)
The growing federal deficit was on the minds of most of the citizenry. Despite the fact that a large part of the current deficit can be laid at the feet of former President George W. Bush (as my previous column, referring NY Times columnist David Leonhardt, can attest to), those in attendance on Saturday were of no mind to hear such specific facts. Read the rest of this entry »
Major has-been Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets another round with a national audience tonight, appearing on Sean Hannity’s unquestioning show to say “I told you so” about Barack Obama. She’s flogging the right-wing bullshit about how we are creeping toward socialism. (See the Political Whore post debunking that.)
From the interview, leaked (conveniently) to Drudge Report:
Given the GOP’s hail-mary strategy on the Obama stimulus plan, you just knew this was coming. But still it makes you shake your head.
The AP reports that as many as six Republican governors may turn their noses up at stimulus money for their states. That includes, of course, Sarah Palin 2012.
According to the AP report:
A half-dozen Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with foreclosures and unemployment.
Though none has outright rejected the money available for education, healthcare, and infrastructure, the governors of Alaska, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas have all questioned whether the $787 billion bill signed into law this week will help the economy.
“My concern is there’s going to be commitments attached to it that are a mile long,” said Governor Rick Perry of Texas. “We need the freedom to pick and choose. And we need the freedom to say ‘No thanks.’ ”
The RINOs who want the money? “Charlie Crist of Florida, Sonny Perdue of Georgia, and Bob Riley of Alabama favor the stimulus package.”
Words fail me, so we’ll go right to the video:
And the fireworks begin. As I wrote in the last post, John Ziegler is doing a hack-job on how Obama was elected and Palin was treated by the media. Here’s his contentious interview today with MSNBC:
There’s more waaaaaaahhhhhhh! coming from Anchorage and the woman who would be president in 2012. Sarah Palin was interviewed by filmmaker John Ziegler, for his promised documentary “Media Malpractice: How Obama got elected and Palin was smeared.” Palin is just a victim of the big-bad Liberal Media:
Here is Ziegler (whose last journalistic effort was built on his allegation that the Clintons got his “The Path to 9/11″ film suppressed by Disney) and his account of the Palin “get:”
If someone would have told me five months ago that in early January I would pay over $1,400 for an incredibly inconvenient plane ticket and $120 for a 3 am cab fare to get from sunny Los Angeles to Wasilla, Alaska, I would have told them there was a better chance that the Dow Jones would be below 9,000 and a gallon of gas would be less than two dollars.
Here’s Nos. 3 & 4 on our countdown. Tina Fey could have comprised an entire Top 10 list with her imitation of Sarah Palin, but this was our fave, with guest Will Ferrell. The best political video of 2008 will be on this blog tomorrow, New Year’s Eve.
4. Joe the Plumber
3. SNL: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Will Ferrell as an endorsing President Bush
The perfect gift for those on the right (who adore her) and those on the left (who will hate the turn of each and every month). It’s the 2009 Sarah Palin Calendar. Hurry! (It’s compliments of Judy Patrick Photography, which points out that each calendar comes “in cellophane packaging.”) It is apparently a big hit in the blogosphere and elsewhere.
Don’t need a paper calendar any more my little Interwebs friends? How about a life-size standup cutout of the Alaska Maverick? Just $34.45 will get you this:
I was originally going to go with the hilarious “nobody wants to shake Bush’s hand” video from a few days ago, but then I saw Sarah Palin soon to be infamous Turkey Interview. Warning! This gets kind of gross.
The poli sci minds at UVA have a good roundup of the presidential hopefuls four years out, and even before Obama is sworn in. Here’s the intro to the red list:
Here’s the worst kept secret in politics: Presidential campaigning never ends. For periods of time it becomes quieter–a little subtler–but it never stops. Every morning 100 senators, 50 governors, quite a few grandees in the House of Representatives, and an assortment of corporate titans all hear their Rice Krispies shouting “2012!” “FORM A PRESIDENTIAL EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE!” and “RUN … YOU’RE THE ONE!”
Democrats will shush Snap, Crackle, and Pop, pleading with them to instead say, “2016!” Republicans on the other hand, will pour another bowl, and ask the three sirens of Battle Creek, Michigan, to repeat what they just said.
Of course, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are already doing battle for the hearts and minds of the social conservatives for 2012. (Kee-rist, you can’t even turn on the TV without seeing Mitt comment on the auto bailout or anything he is asked.) And Sarah Palin, La. Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Tim Pawlenty from the 2008 Veep race are mentioned, of course. Newcomers to the GOP list include Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour and SC Gov. Mark Sanford. Bubbling under is Cong. Eric Cantor, a darling of the right. Others: Former Md. Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (also seeking the RNC chair), New Jersey’s Chris Christie, and Va.’s Bob McDonnell.
Not a very inspiring list, huh Republicans? Where’s the great white hope that will lead the GOP out of the woods and back into the hearts of centrist voters?
What would The Matrix have been like if the machines were Windows users? Click play to find out (and watch out for the paper clip!)
Thank God NBC finally got around to posting “Giraffes!”, the hilarious skit/mini-movie that ran on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. That was the same night as the “John McCain on QVC” skit. That was very funny. This is so bizarre it’s transcendent.
Barack Obama aired his half-hour “Obama Infomercial” as the candidate called it on last night’s Daily Show. (Time called it a “mini-convention six days before the election.”) The production leaned heavily on tug-at-the-heartstrings profiles of “real Americans” and some very specific policy proposals. In case you missed it:
It’s yet another Internet fake.
This photo has been making the e-mail circuit, purporting to show Sarah Palin’s daughter, Piper, utilizing her middle finger in a way very familiar to us grown-ups:
Fake Piper Palin photo
The real photograph is from the state of Alaska’s website and shows lil’ Piper holding up two fingers in a V or victory symbol, or a threat that she is going to use her knowledge of Moe Howard’s signature move to poke her little brother’s eyes out. Either way, she is NOT flipping him off:
Real photo from state of Alaska official site
Here is a blow-up of the digits:
As if there weren’t enough reasons already to hate reality television shows, let’s consider the case of Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Shot to (what passes today for) stardom on Survivor: Australian Outback in 2001, she obviously was thrust into the public realm long before the important parts of her 
brain had a chance to fully develop (she does, nonetheless, have a degree from Boston College).
It was a short hop, skip and a jump from there to fame as one of the four yentas on The View, the sacrificial winger for Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell and others to use as a human punching bag. It was sort of cute and harmless entertainment.
But on Sunday, Hasselbeck took her shilling for the right-wing of the Republican Party to the next level, showing up in Tampa to introduce Sarah Palin to a crowd of like-minded wingbots:
Clearly cuing up the next phase of her evolution, errr God-directed intelligent design, Hasselbeck is riding the flag pin thing to the next level — it’s all linked in to sexism! — as shown in this transcript from her View co-host Barbara Walters’ radio show on Sirius satellite, a chat that included NY Post gossipeuse Cindy Adams:
Today’s installment bring us the political opinion of a longtime Bay area musician. Join us in giving your opinion in the survey after the jump:
Bob Noxious, longtime Tampa Bay musician and guitarist for the Dive Bar Stalkers
He’s voting for: Barack Obama
Bob Noxious of the Dive Bar Stalkers
Why? “I believe him to be the best candidate for change out of the 13 political parties listed on my Official Sample Ballot.”
What he would say to a McCain supporter: “I’m sure it is a broken record by now, but why would you vote for more of the same? John McCain has voted with George W. Bush over 90 percent of the time, yet he is now trying to frantically separate himself from that evil Republican from Texas. Besides, John McCain’s health has got to be taken as a factor. Already, he is the oldest presidential candidate in history. The man has already overcome skin cancer, yet when I last saw him at the last debate, his jaw looked unnaturally swollen, as if he were speaking through a mouthful of medical gauze. Face it — he’s basically living on borrowed time. Besides, do you want Sarah Palin as your next president? She is a bumbling idiot, as proven weekly on SNL.”
Local candidate that most interests him: “I’m still researching my local candidates, but I can only wonder why my county commissioner here in Pasco County, Ted Schrader, is running uncontested. One would think that a strong Democrat would give him a run for his donation money.”
Today’s installment brings us the youth vote. You can join in, too, by taking the completely unscientific but fun CL online survey about who you are voting for, after the jump:
Tara Mae Brown-Ogilvie, St. Petersburg College student
She’s voting for: Barack Obama
Why? “Because he is pro-choice, wants to make changes to help out the lower class like such as with assistance in regards to healthcare for those who cannot afford it, and I like his leadership style. When he visited Dunedin before his speech, he simply went into a restaurant and ordered a hamburger and sat with everyone else; he just seems like a very down-to-earth guy who does not put himself before others.”
What she would say to a McCain supporter: “In this election McCain is constantly being outshined by his vice president candidate Palin’s actions or scandals. Just looking at the paper or on any news station the topic more likely than not is always on Palin more so than McCain and if he cannot take control of his own campaign how can he govern a country? Also did you know that he is against gay marriage, concerned only for the higher tax bracket, and wishing to continue this war overseas, which would only further destroy our already falling economy? So if you believe that Bush was a great president than sure, vote for McCain to follow in his footsteps, but if you want change, vote for Obama.”
Local candidate who most interests her: “I honestly am not aware of a local candidate to discuss.”
Meet Vlad and his pal Boris. These gentlemen are from Russia (perhaps) and they have prepared a musical ode to Sarah Palin. Quote the musicians: “Hello Sarah Palin we wrote this song for you because we see you from Russia! Plz respond to our emails!! We like to hear from you!!”
What is it about the incredible viral power of sticking McCain’s or Obama’s head on some dancers? One photo and one video are winging around the Internet, and one has a tie to Tampa Bay.
First, the photo. A few days ago, Tampa Bay musician, graphic designer and 2006 Best of the Bay winner Martin Rice sent over a Photoshopped shot showing Obama dancing with Sarah Palin (from a Dancing With the Stars photo) with the note, “Unfortunately, this is what the country wants.”
Dancing With the Candidates (credit: Martin Rice)
He sent it to three friends. Within days, the picture ended up all over the world, and on ABC News:
John Stewart continues his fine work this election season with this bit on candidates pandering to baseball fans in Florida and Pennsylvania. What looks like a clear win for McCain soon turns into a draw, and it’s all thanks to Sarah Palin.
Holy moosecrap, just the story I have been dying to read. The LA Times has dug up what little info is known about a young Sarah (Heath) Palin in college. Don’t expect wild sex tales and panty raids:
“Looking at this dynamic personality now, it mystifies me that I wouldn’t remember her,” said Jim Fisher, Palin’s journalism instructor at the University of Idaho, where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1987.
Palin, he said, took his public affairs reporting class, an upper-division course limited to 15 students. “It’s the funniest damn thing,” Fisher said. “No one can recall her.”
Photo from Los Angeles Times
Turns out that Palin wasn’t the life of the party, at the top of her class or an overachieving Type A-type — at least in college.
Read the whole story here.
For those who were away from their television sets Saturday night, here’s one of two appearances by Alaska Gov. and veep hopeful Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live this past weekend:
FLA is already drawing notice about its early voting as some screw-ups are reported. And Barack Obama flies to see his sick granny instead of campaigning. And say it ain’t so: UF’s Mr. Two Bits is calling it quits after this season?!? It’s Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. Now the headlines:
All of today’s top political and media headlines, plus some other crap I find online that makes me laugh, complemented nicely with updates in the box to the right:
I echo the sentiment here that this kind of political speech is not cool. From a recent Sarah Palin private fundraising event:
via Wake Up America
Wake Up America decries the lack of MSM coverage of such hate speech against McCain-Palin and offers the above photo, which it said was e-mailed to the blog. The shot is fuzzy and taken by a camera phone. As for a lack of MSM coverage, I found it confirmed on ABC’s political blog and reported in the Politico.
It turns out that the duds are being sold online at a blog called Crucial Brutal. Here’s the model shot from the online store:
For sale: gender hate speech
There were good-size protests for Palin’s private fundraiser that day at a Philly hotel. Here’s the raw video (nausea warning: don’t watch this if you are feeling queasy, as the amateur cameraperson can’t hold the shot still for 2 seconds at a time):
And finally, I know just where you people are going in the comments so let me head you off at the pass: Just because John McCain has used the word cunt in the past doesn’t make it OK for you to use it now in reference to a woman politician.
Blogonia is just starting to light up with chatter about the extreme close-up that Sarah Palin got on the latest Newsweek cover. Here it is:
(PRNewsFoto/Newsweek)
GOP spin-ster Andrea Tantaros complained to Fox News:
TANTAROS: This cover is a clear slap in the face to Sarah Palin. Why? Because it’s un-retouched. It highlights every imperfection that every human being has. But we’re talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles. This is a gross slap in the face after Newsweek has done so many favorable covers of Barack Obama that make him look presidential…and were clearly retouched, flawless..
So now we in the Liberal Media have attacked her children, asked her tough questions AND failed to retouch her photographs to meet the high GOP aesthetic standards?
Did I just see a tease with Gilbert Gottfried giving The Today Show’s Ann Curry tips on how to be a stand-up comedian?!? Strange days indeed. Plus all the political and media headlines, with updates throughout the day:
Today marks the first day of the Tampa Tribune’s new Mon-Fri one-news-section era. PIck one up and check it out and let me know what you think. In the meantime, here’s today’s top political and media news headlines, with updates daily (box, right, you know):
Here’s the quick returns on who won last night’s debate:
CNN/OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION POLL
DEBATE WATCHERSWho Did the Best Job In the Debate?
Biden 51%
Palin 36%QUESTION Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the best job in the debate – Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?
(source: Obama for American)
