Here’s the promised new chapter of The World’s Most Painful Interview, in which CBS journalistic monster Katie Couric continues to look almost sad about how fucking dumb this Sarah Palin proves to be, again and again, whenever she is asked to speak.
Also, here’s a hilarious transcript of Biden being asked about Roe v. Wade (he recites the case from memory and calls Couric “a cute broad”) and the aforementioned Couric-Palin exchange, which is just as pathetic when it’s typed up.
Thursday night is going to make ALL OF US dumber.
Palin, Biden Trade Views On Abortion [CBS News]
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Please, no more, cruel overlords of comedy. It hurts. Must. Stop. Laughing.
Reading that transcript, it is mind-numbingly scary how much smarter JoeyB is than Bible Spice.
Pretty in Pink! Pretty Dumb. Wow!
duh, the answer is Lawrence v. Texas
I didn’t know Federalism played such a huge role with all your base and how they belong to us.
How can it feel so good and so bad, all at once?
QUICK! Somebody get this bitch a flute!
[re=117533]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Bible Spice–priceless!
Lord have mercy, what a frakking idiot.
At least she didn’t mention Brown v. Board of Education or Reynolds v. Sims. But she DID get to kick in her talking points about being a mayor and a governor…
CBS is just LOVING this. They’ve managed to keep Katie front and center for a whole week.
I bet if Thurgood Marshall’s little pro bono case had been names “White v Board of Education,” she woulda remembered it, fer shur!
(Pause now while some self-hating campaign flunky with a grad degree in public policy explains to Sarah Nothin’-Therra who or what is a “Thurgood Marshall.”)
PALIN:
She was not a particularly aggressive debater, and she rarely took an opportunity to challenge her opponents. But when pressed, she could be tough. In a roundtable discussion in October on the “Bob and Mark Show,” Mr. Halcro suggested that Ms. Palin had not attended enough debates.
“It’s been a year today that I’ve been on the campaign trail,” Ms. Palin responded, “attending many, many more forums, more debates, than either one of you, Tony and Andrew, because I had a primary opponent. You know, you got to have the balls to take it on in the early part of a campaign, and not just go right to the big show.” OPPPS
I would like to reiterate case law posted previously by someone else here at Wonk
Alien v Predator
If not knowing anything about Brown v. Board of Education was good enough for George Washington, by god it’s good enough for Sarah Palin!
I’ll have to listen to that again to see if I heard her right. She’s expecting to change Supreme Court decisions when she’s the Veeper? No. That can’t be. It can’t. It….EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I guess Brown vs. Board of Education is on the chopping block as well since it doesn’t get much more local than a board of education.
I know – I know – that’s what happens when you fall out of a boat roe v wade (did I get it right daddy!)
Since this is a day for Simpsons humor, this reminds of the episode where the brain-eating zombies surround Homer and inspect and probe his head and then walk away.
This whole thing is Couric inspecting Palin’s empty noggin.
OK, this sooo totally reminds me of college exams (in Italy we have mostly oral exams). Rule #1 always was: keep talking. If you are lucky, your professor is not even listening carefully, and nothing can be worse than silence. I still remember some pretty amazing soliloquies.
Of course, they didn’t tape our exams and put them on TV. And we weren’t being tested for VP.
Gee Sarah, maybe LEDBETTER V. FIRESTONE, you know, the decision that basically says we don’t have to pay you as much as Joe Biden if (God forbid) you become VP, you stupid, idiotic, moron.
Uncle, mommy, dear God in Heaven! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP !!!!!
[re=117540]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Of course CBS loves this. When they got this EPIC FAIL on camera they knew that they had to leak it out in little bits to give people time to digest WHAT A FUCKING MORON Caribou Barbie really is. They also knew that in doing so they could revive Couric’s appeal as a truth-teller by showing the “average American”, (that Palin claims to be) that they have a wonderful opportunity to vote for someone more ignorant than Bush.
“Lampshade Mayor gargoyle ludicrous fancy baseballs looming abortion pencil grass car duck McCain carpet bulb struck fences glass dark machine phone principles.
I can think of more examples later when my Tourette’s isn’t ruining my chances at a political career. Which will be never.”
Oh my God, she said she thinks there’s a constitutional right to privacy. Gay marital sex abortions for everyone!
Too bad none of those pesky cases were called Small States v Big Government. Why make things so hard for poor Sarah? Why does Supreme Court hate America?
[re=117533]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I know. I had the same thought.
The worst thing about this election is that it has left me feeling even more alienated from a good chunk of country. Who the FUCK would want this woman as President? The thought is horrific.
[re=117535]GleepGlop[/re]: Or its predicate, the landmark Johnson’s Nipple Creme vs Panola.
I thought for sure she’d bring up Julia Roberts fine work exposing the scandalous assassinations of Justices Rosenberg and Jenson as well as fixing that water problem thing.
She also says she’s a Federalist, in that she supports states’ rights. Fuck me running.
God, quick, someone ask her if people have a constitutional right to safe, decent housing and health care.
Her answer is actually worse than promised–which is hard to believe. My wife said something that really makes sense after watching her fail at the might “gotcha journalism” of Katie: She’s so afraid of saying the WRONG thing, that she won’t say ANYTHING at all.
She vamps. Which only digs her a worse grave than simply saying something stupid. C’mon! If people could deal with something like Brown v. Board of Education on a local level, you WOULDN’T NEED THE SUPREME COURT, dummy.
But, tomorrow, she’ll get up on that stage, only flail for 90 seconds, manage not to have her head explode a la Scanners, and SHE’LL WIN BE DEFAULT!
What’a country.
The saddest thing is that Palin is TERRIBLE at hiding her stupidity. You can SEE on her face that she doesn’t know the answer. Find a poker face and use it, and then maybe SOMEONE will be fooled by your babbling mouth vomit and astounding stupidity.
Come on! How does any American not know about Dredd Scott? I know zilch about Supreme Court case history, but even I know about Dredd Scott.
[re=117551]Delicious[/re]: Did those zombies take her brain? Just three months ago she went on TV in Alaska disagreeing with the Supreme Court’s decision reducing punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez litigation – Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker.
(Funny how conservatives are suddenly not against lawsuits and trial lawyers when it’s in their own financial interest…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34
She couldn’t even remember the one Supreme Court decision she HAS gone on record about!
EPIC FAIL.
Supreme Court decisions Sarah Palin would agree with, if she’d ever heard of them:
Dred Scott
Plessy v Ferguson
Internment of Japanese-Americans
Bush v Gore
Decisions she would not agree with:
One man, one vote
Brown v Board of Education
I’m not even a lawyer, and didn’t look these up. God damn it that woman is ignorant. First Dude’s right: secede, you welfare whores.
I’ll bet when Caribou Barbie watched it and heard Biden say “heterogeneous” she said to the teevee, “People are heterogeneous by choice.”
Ma’am, I answered your question. I answered the darned… I’m cooperatin’ here!
[re=117565]Outstando[/re]: That was my favoritist favorite part.
This woman can only answer a question where the answer if life, specifically the life of the fetus. The only thing rattling around her head is don’t kill fetuses. She can’t even name the case, Cruzan, where they ruled it was okay to take out the feeding tube probably because there are shades of grey about the end of life. Any question that may require nuance of any sort is quite beyond her. She has only perfected the one word answer.
Okay, to be fair, Sarah was ready with decisions she did favor.
Bush V. Gore
Plessy V. Ferguson
But librul Katie never asked.
Since she couldn’t come up with DC v Heller the NRA should pull their endorsement of the ticket.
Sorry, but when Biden starts spouting off like “And so that’s sort of reflected as close as anybody is ever going to get in this heterogeneous, this multicultural society of religious people as to some sort of, not consensus, but as close it gets.” everyone watching will start drowsing off and the only thing they’ll be thinking is “she’s spunky, I like her!”
[re=117559]Outstando[/re]: Gay marital sex abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
[re=117533]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: OMG. “Bible Spice.” You’re fucking killing me.
she didn’t even know about roe. v. brown, the famous matchup of famous supreme court winners?
[re=117567]NoWireHangers[/re]: It’s like playing poker against your mom or something, where you figure out by the second hand that her eyes get really wide when she has a good hand, and she frowns when she has a bad hand.
Honestly, I think the biggest proof of her sheer stupidity is that she said yes when McCain offered her the position. Did she really have no clue about the EPIC FAIL her candidacy would become?
Damb..I was totes looking for her to tell s her views on Marbury v. Madison (which actually most right wing ideologues can freely and thoughtfully discuss, along with anyone who took US history in high school).
Palin Debate Tip #14:
When asked something you know nothing about just ramble off some talking points and then say ‘again…’ then bullshit some more. By this time you should have run out the clock.
Debate Guarantee:
Tomorrow night everyone here is going to be totally frustrated by her unwillingness to give a straight answer. On the other side, the Wingnuts will claim she ‘hit a home run’ and ‘put to rest any doubts about her readiness to lead’.
I love me some Alaskans.
http://www.themudflats.net/wp-content/uploads/truth80.jpg
[re=117573]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: James Madison is looking down from heaven and trying to figure our how to give the shit back to the British.
[re=117572]Crow T. Robot[/re]: Perfect
Hamfeld v. Rumsfeld has been in like EVERY FUCKING PAPER EVER. Whatever, she reads ALL the newspapers. You know… ANY of them.
AHH! Hamden*
Don’t forget Ali v. Foreman folks. A classic!
i’m really torn. i want to watch the debate tomorrow night, but ‘Ow My Balls” is on the other channel …
Caribou Barbie v. Bible Spice — vote, please.
Holyfield v. Tyson; that was a decision she didn’t agree with.
“You know Mike Wallace, you look a lot different in person”
This election season has finally obliterated the distinction between reality and reality TV.
“You know Katie, as Vice President I have a vote that can break a tie in any Supreme Court decision”
Given her child, I would have expected Buck v. Bell. Still my favorite. Of course, it might spell trouble for her.
“Weeell, there again, Katie, I’m sure if you surveyed the history of this great nation – which I love so much – there have been Supreme Court decisions made that I, as Vice President – if I am so privileged as to be called to serve – if you were to poll all the Vice Presidents throughout the history of this great nation – which I love so much – you would likely find that those Vice Presidents didn’t agree with all the decisions made by the Supreme Court of this great nation – which I love so much.”
Q: Is there a single decision you disagree with.
“Weeeel, there again, Katie, right now I’m a-thinkin’ Brown vs. Board of Ed. No way I’d be running against Senator Uppity from Illinois without that one.”
[re=117568]jagorev[/re]: Jag, you dope. The gist of question was “What Supreme Court cases do you DISAGREE with.”
The GOP is in favor of Dredd Scott — which, by the way, has never been expressly overruled.
(Save by the Civil War, that is.)
Them Uppity Darkies like that Obama buck better LOOK OUT whens Da Caribeau Barbie starts a-making dem appoint-a-ments to da bench — YASSIR!
She couldn’t even come up with Exxon vs Valdez? That’s about AK waters & oil (her professed area of expertise)–she could have BSed her way on either side of that case. (‘AK should have received more/less financial damages, whatever….’) Jiminy Cricket….
I especially marvelled at Judge Wapner’s ruling in the “The case of the Overdone Underthings” and the “The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carpenter”.
[re=117570]V572625694[/re]: “God damn it that woman is ignorant.”
And that’s the ways we likes’em. Yesiree
[re=117598]El Bombastico[/re]: Helloooo? Couldn’t come up with this one, governor? Really?
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), was the United States Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the mentally retarded “for the protection and health of the state.” It was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating “defectives” from the gene pool.
[re=117593]NoWireHangers[/re]: That should be one of the many new SNL paradies. Nicely done.
Painfull! Just fucking Painfull!
And in the next part of the interview, Katie will lean forward, stare straight into Sarah’s eyes, and with the faintest hint of a smile playing about her lips quietly mouth “Gotcha.”
The Tank:1
Honest, hard Workin’ Moose-Hunter:0
I bet she walked out of there going: Aced it!!!
Cannot WAIT until tomorrow night. What are the chances that Bristol will “miscarry” in the next 24 hours?
[re=117605]El Bombastico[/re]: If only we had heeded the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Hell, this should be Obama’s slogan:
Holmes concluded his argument with the infamous phrase:
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
The really sad thing is that the remaining swing voters probably can’t name any other Supreme Court cases, and are going to identify with Palin and think Couric is a big elitist gotcha monster/cougar.
BEING SMART DOES NOT PAY IN THE U.S. OF A, yo.
Palin told Couric she is still pissed that the Supreme Court sent Tom Robinson to prison:”He was just bustin’ up the chiffarobe! Damn that Mayella Ewell”
I am to tired to look it up and paste it, but this answer calls for that whole “we are all dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.” bit from Bill madison.
[re=117557]AmericanValues[/re]: Now that we’ve all seen it, albeit chopped up and spoon fed to us in dribs and drabs to keep Katie’s ratings up, I want to see the raw footage of the whole shooting match from start to finish with no cuts and make it mandatory viewing by showing it concurrently on every station the Thursday night before Election Day during primetime.
If that doesn’t finish the job, then I don’t know what will.
[re=117615]azw88[/re]: Or maybe the classic Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (old one) clip with “You fail, you get nothing, good day!”
Remember in the Bush/Kerry debates they asked Bush about a bad Supreme Court ruling, and he couldn’t think of anything so he reverted to 11th grade history class (probably reading off the writing on his hands he had since the topic was assigned) and brought up how he wouldn’t appoint someone who agreed with the Dred Scott case (which Kerry of course was too much of a pussy to make mock)? This is more embarrassing than that.
The silence is deafening, but not when your boss is too old to hear anyway.
I would have thought she’d be familiar with Brown v Board what with her starting her vast political career as president of her local PTA. It’s not news that she’s stoopid, but every commenter on here who says she’s going to be praised for continuing to draw breath tomorrow night is right on. “She went on against a top debater in the US Senate and came out unscathed…” The best news for Dems is that the economy is in such free fall thanks to eight years of Bush dereg schemes that there’s an actual chance of victory.
[re=117566]ColdCupofHope[/re]: It’s like you are psychic.
Well Katie, we would rather row versus wade… of course, most of the time we take the snow machine.
Did anyone else get the feeling that when Curic asked what other supreme court decisions to you disagree with that My Best Friends Mom wanted to answer “all of them.”
How in the name of all that is holy are we supposed to convince children to get good grades if a git like this has a chance to be Vice President?
[re=117613]Paco[/re]: Exactly. It’s also elitist to know all three branches of government without looking in the back of the book; to buy unboxed wine and to not simply be satisfied with simple rural pleasures like Wal Mart. Biden oughta show up in bib overalls and an Elmer Fudd hat.
what is her frigging problem with always using the single thing she can think of despite being asked “other than”?
I just imagine her at mcdonalds:
“I’m sorry ma’am, we’re out of diet coke, would you like anything else.”
“well i think that there are lots of other types of sodas out there, you know, numerous sodas that fall under the, um, under the umbrella of what you and I would call a soft drink. I think that, if i had to choose i think that, like you said, diet coke would be a good one to put in my tummy… with a straw.”
She did not agree with Coke Can v. Pubic Hair.
I am so very embarrassed to be judged as a person of the same gender as Nanookie of the north, I need a drink.
Any predictions on the stated excuse for Palin ducking out of the debate? Ifill is too black? Nude pictures of Bristol hit youtube? Any others?
[re=117622]Hedley Lamar[/re]: Raisinettes. Come on hurry up.
Palin really needs to show some skin tomorrow night. Those Star Trek jackets she’s wearing just aren’t working for me.
Jesus Fuck–I guess I could be sort of OK if she couldn’t give me the name. I mean, it wouldn’t be good, but hey, people forget details sometimes. But holy shit, she can’t even name a topic! Just one thing, please! Damn. Undergrads who have taken an intro to American Politics class know more than this lady does, and I wouldn’t want any of them to be the VP either.
The way Couric says, “Can you think of any?” is great. Interviewing the dim without coming off patronizing is not an easy job.
By the way, is this interview now a major TV series? Because I’m wondering if I should catch all the latest episodes as they air or just wait for the box set when it comes out.
[re=117591]capitol-hillbilly[/re]: Both an “Ow My Balls” rerun or a press conference by President Camacho would have a greater intellectual content that caribou barbie’s part of the debate.
Then again, she might full some as her hair is long enough.
Official campaign song!
Roe Roe Roe v. Wade
Going down the drain
Choose against your right to choose
With Palin and McCain
Roe Roe Roe v. Wade
If you can’t abstain
Send all your unwanted kids
To Palin and McCain!
OMGY!! (Y=Y’ALL) I was just over on Que Sera Sara and she was talking about the Google Translator and showed a funny translation from German and it got me to thinkin….anyway
So I found a foreign language site that had some news of the US and I tossed it into the GT and Here’s what it spit out:
If the rescue plan fails again in Congress, the current crisis turn to disaster, warned the Republican candidate, a few hours in a new vote in the Senate
See??
Sarah Palin learns how to talk from the Google Translator!!
Don’t you see??? We now know the method to the MADNESSSSSSSSSSS!
Do not fuck with Katie.
This piece-meal release of segments of her interview(s) is Couric’s “Operation Rolling Thunder.”
In the 5th segment of the interview, Gov. Palin renews calls to “free James Brown”.
[re=117607]stew[/re]: Wow — you just made me realize “Painful” is an anagram of “F. U., Palin.”
I hate be that guy, but, um, that just made me wet my pants. I didn’t even have to touch my self. That was so FUCKING hot. Her perfect fake orgasm [lost election] was amazing. She didn’t even blink (much).
John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his colistier will be on the benches of the Senate, Wednesday 1 October, to Washington to participate in a key vote on the adoption of the plan to rescue banks. The two candidates for the White House were again called to vote in favor of the bill, which spends $ 700 billion to reorganize the U.S. banking sector.
-GT aka Sarah Palin, ‘cept I don’t know if she’d use the word colistier – I don’t know that word, maybe it’s kinda like verbage
I for one applaud Sarah’s plucky ignorance. She’s so much like a cute beauty queen who has a stumble or two when she’s asked “how would you end world hunger?”
Shit, you left-wing whore-suck-dick-mongers, she’s only human.
[re=117633]stew[/re]: IFILL WROTE A BOOK WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH is the current frontrunner, I believe.
[re=117649]4tehlulz[/re]: Hey boy, don’t mess wif Gwen!
jeebusfuckingchrist she makes george w. bush look smart!!! how can this be????????
“If the rescue plan fails again in Congress, the current crisis turn to disaster,” warned John McCain from Missouri, where he held a meeting. The senator from Arizona has nevertheless held an optimistic speech, arguing that “there are enough people of good will in both parties to deliver America to the crisis.” His rival Democrat told his supporters that the crisis affected not only Wall Street but also the savings of workers and small businesses. “This plan is not perfect. (…) But it is clear that it takes to prevent the crisis from becoming a catastrophe,” he affirmed.
I like the part about where they’ll deliver us to the crisis… The GT NEVER LIES!!
she is intimidated by other attractive women in the room. if the debate was moderated by a man, she’d ace it.
I believe Palin is also against Alien vs Predator, as it should be left to the individual states.
2008 MT v Music Video Awards was an important trial. Britney Spears won that case.
Has McCranky’s campaign released their victory statement yet? Seems like it should be out by now.
After his surprise rejection by the House of Representatives, the relaunch plan led by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, has been amended. The new version includes raising the ceiling for insurance guarantee bank deposits, from $ 100 000 250 000 dollars for one year. Barack Obama, like John McCain, claimed authorship of the measure. Legislators are a concession to individuals and hope to those who thought the plan too expensive for taxpayers. Additional financial measures in favor of regularly hit by hurricanes, tax credits for the middle class and new accounting rules for asset valuations impaired companies affected.
See?? GT/SP threw in a hurricane in the midst of all the money talk, poof, just like that.
[re=117613]Paco[/re]: Unfortunately you speak the truth.
See, this is the real reason why Roe v. Wade works so well as a GOP platform. No abortions means lots and lots of dumb babies who grow up to be Roe v. Wade opposing, GOP-fanatic morons who have lots and lots of babies, etc., etc. It’s all about the numbers, something the Mormon and Catholic hierarchies also understand.
Can’t you just hear it now:
Who’s the tall dark strainger there
Maverick is is the name
Riding the trail to
who knows where
luck is his companion
gamblin is his game…………
Can we get some damn live blogging of the Senate vote? I want to see what other Wonketteers have to say when The Maverick™ votes against it.
…how many fucking times has Katie Couric interviewed this woman?
@Outstando:
Seriously! The worst part isn’t on the video, people! Right before she starts this wafflefest, there’s this exchange on the transcript:
Couric: Do you think there’s an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?
Palin: I do. Yeah, I do.
Couric: The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade.
Palin: I do.
News flash! Palin isn’t really “pro-life,” she just got the “pro-life” and the “pro-choice” mixed up with each other! It could happen to anyone! (And it explains all her speeches praising her daughter’s choice…)
Shit. She’s smart.
[re=117642]Delicious[/re]: Katie is totally having an “I told you Bitches/Bastards to take me seriously!” moment.
So, there will be no Office tomorrow night? No ER? What tha’? Man. That stinks. And this thing runs 90 minutes? What are they going to talk about? With our man Biden in the mix, I’d prefer it last only 9 minutes. Maybe Gwen will do this like Russert and put up Palin’s CBS interview on the screen, then ask them to comment. I see the famed podiums have been dragged out. I thought this was going to be a Cheney/Edwards sit down like last time? Ugh. If Wonkette will live blog this puppy, I might tune in.
FAIL!
[re=117664]Dientes[/re]: Yeah, but her ratings still lag the Scrubs reruns and whatever Telemundo is running. I mean, they are down in single digits (behind the decimal point). Sad. I liked her on Today.
Senate passed bailout 74-25.
Those are some very soiled panties on bible Spice, but I’d send the cleaning bill to Walnuts.
[re=117602]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: ooops I meant Exxon vs. Baker. Watching too many videos of Bible Spice has the stupid rubbing off.
Dude. I kinda like Katie now. Even her frostry frosty lips. Is that fucked up?
[re=117661]Terry85[/re]: Once. But they doled it out in bits n pieces so America would not suffer a national heart attack. CBS loves us.
Oh Christing shit.
Genius! House may vote during VP debate.
[re=117592]johnbpt[/re]: Bible Spice. Definitely Bible Spice.
I’d call her dumb, but that would be an insult. To dumb people.
[re=117544]wavingnotdrowning[/re]: “I fundamentally disagree with the ruling in Spy vs. Spy”
Holy mother of gawd Walnuts said that “FDR never addressed the American people on television.” Holy shit mother of gawd kill us all. THERE WAS NO FUCKING TELEVISION. Has he lost his mind or does he just know that most Americans have?
This week, Katie Couric finally won her wings as a journalist and maybe saved CBS News in the process. She asked persistent, logical and totally fair questions that exposed the ignorance of Sarah Palin for all to see.
[re=117592]johnbpt[/re]: BS
Of course she doesn’t support the Miranda decision and since she’s state’s rights she probably loved the reversal in 2004 allowing stops and searches without arresting or reading rights to suspects.
[re=117608]ParallelComics[/re]: Damn… that gave me goose bumps!! I can’t wait to read Katie’s memoirs…
And if any of you are BORED OUT YOUR MINDS on a Wednesday night like myself, there’s always
http://wonkette.chatango.com/
[re=117680]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Ah, well, we actually have to eat that one – A few days ago Biden actually said FDR went on the teevee in 1929. (Oh, and apparently FDR wasn’t president in 1929 or something dumb like that…) Walnuts is still a dick though.
Hey guys guess what? The Senate passed the bailout, much to McCain’s disappointment; he thought they could get more for Bush and Co.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SesiK5CpcII
[re=117680]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Shorts, you know damn well that people used to “watch” the radio back then. That was virtual television. People were prescient. Get with the program.
Ahem.
[re=117607]stew[/re]: Palinful!
[re=117541]gradgrind[/re]: Palin: Well… Thurgood Marshall, and then ThurNot-So-Good Marshall….
I guess the Miss America organization’s not going to be pushing the scholarship aspect of the contest. Nope, not so much…
[re=117681]TeddyS[/re]: The irony is is that Sarah Palin was Katie’s core demographic on The Today Show.
For FIFTEEN AND A HALF YEARS, Alan.
Katie made Sarah and now she’s torn her down.
Who knew?
Who says revenge isn’t sweet? I imagine Katie is feeling mighty pretty good about herself right now…
stop mocking her, she will soon be stopping all choices in EVERYTHING.
We should let the Republicans win in November. Give them four more years to complete fucking up our country.
[re=117641]ihasasad[/re]: ohhhh. i has a sad, too. it came to me while relaxing at lolcat’s engrish site: yes, and more yes: multiple translators, plus engrish, plus the new palin speak generator, plus pig latin, plus ant talk, retranslated and mirror written. that could also mean some big buffy bud, and pre-migraine auras, too. so, she smiles all the time because of that but has the soul of alien. do you not wonder how long we two now have to live, you and i, who have deciphered the enigma of sa-ra?
[re=117569]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Oh God. You’re totally right. She had this thing in her brain. And she lost it. The McCain campaign makes everybody dumber.
Anybody know Nate Silver enough to ask if there is any way (barring any train wreck by McPoopy) for Obama’s numbers to get up to 10-15% ahead? As has been stated here, this could be the Anti-Diebold antidote.
Has any journalist ever had a greater impact on an election? Whatever they’re paying Couric, it’s less than 10% of her true value. She could do these interviews in sign language and her facial expressions would be worth $700 billion (rough estimate).
As I said once before – a verbal mobius strip.
[re=117692]bitchincamaro[/re]: I cannot even respond to that. It was too funny.
Barack Like Me: And McCrappyPants assumed that Katie was Palin’s demographic…
For you California people;
A bit off topic but incredibly entertaining:
http://blogout.justout.com/?p=2590
Couric/Walnuts!/Glasses! interview Wordle:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/222920/Katie_Couric_-_Sarah_Palin_Interview_Transcript
In other news, FiveThirtyEight.com now has the probability of a Hopey victory at 85.4%, whereas Walnuts!/Glasses! have only a 14.6% probability of mooseburgers being on the White House mess in January.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Nate Silver and Sully are =suggesting Gwen Ifill to pull out as moderator tomorrow (due to her broken ankle?), which is expected to throw Glasses! for a loop since she can barely string two sentences together under relatively friendly circumstances and has likely been prepping by watching Ifill in the ’04 VP debates.
[re=117680]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Unfortunately, he was just pointing out that he (or more likely his staff) caught Biden’s comment last week when he stated that FDR went on TV to give his weekly addresses. He was being an evil passive/aggressive asshole while mocking one of the dumb things biden said. And yes, he’s lost his mind, but that’s beside the point (neurosyphilis is a sad, sad way to go).
My favorite is Finders vs. Keepers a la Lionel Hutz.
[re=117707]Weeping Jesus[/re]: I’ve never really seen the Couric response (you know, the look on her face as Bible Spice is “answering”). I’m hoping Couric is being clever and kindly nodding “yes, yes, I hear ya’, keep spewing, you stupid twit, this is TV gold and money in my bank account.”
OT, CNN has Barry with 250 e votes to under 200 for Walnuts. VA has turned blue. And Anderson Cooper thinks Walnuts should go negative on Barry, now. WTF? Any more negative and McNeckface will be the first terrestrial black hole. Alert the CERN team.
[re=117716]ellie[/re]: Odd v. Even really pissed me off. Especially when EVEN won because he was all EVEN STEPHEN . Such bullshit. ODD TODD owed him millions of fractions.
[re=117700]greenbird[/re]: You speaka my language hubba hubba
[re=117712]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: YOU GOT THAT FROM ME IN THE OFFICIAL WONKETTE CHAT ROOM!
[re=117700]greenbird[/re]: I to believe in as much that we shall and should be spared as to the question of understanding what is being said and so forth by her because people will not choose to believe that we have in a way broke through the wall that is what she is talking about. Thank the no-no witch man for that one by golly
You know, if she had actually just shot back with ” Well, I can tell you one I don’t disagree with – Bush v. Gore” she probably could have turned it around. Because, you know, that would have be ironic, and kind of funny, and people would have at least given her the benefit of the doubt. But the rambling. Good God, the RAMBLING! Couldn’t she have mentioned one, even if she couldn’t remember the name of it? Even if she didn’t agree with it, or thought it was an issue left to the states, but she knew what it was about?
And to think that I thought this might have been an urban myth, like Michelle’s “Whitey” tape. I’m not sure if I feel better or worse, now. Who am I kidding – BETTER!
[re=117720]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Even should totally win because when you have a brother and have to do the dishes and get to choose even days or odd days you MUST choose the even because some months totally fuck you over if you choose the ODD whereby you have to do the dishes two days in a row which sucks when you finally figure that one out.
[re=117723]tunamelt[/re]: It’s called capitalism. The white guy always wins for some god awful reason.
As a Hockey Mom, you’d think she would know a lot more about Versus.
Is it sad that this, the day before the veep debate, feels like the day before Christmas? I find myself becoming increasingly more obsessed with the moronic statements that come out of this woman’s mouth. It’s funny that there are no media reports on her incorrect statement that her view on Roe v. Wade is a federalist view……she wants to leave the decision to the states….which is an ANTI-federalist view!!!!! She makes so many blunders, they can’t keep up!!
[re=117562]NoWireHangers[/re]: It’s kind of redundant to ask this, but how many of you saw Stewart last night, with Bill Maher on? I was just about keeled over with laughter, and you could tell that somehow, they had managed to book a largely Christian audience that was uncomfortable with the talk about Maher’s movie. It made me SO happy.
[re=117681]TeddyS[/re]: i keep saying this and everyone keeps getting all righteous in disagreement:
it’s not that she’s done anything brilliant. she hasn’t. she’s merely the right person at the right time — arguably the ONLY right person. and she may have profound impact on this election.
something the mccain could never have anticipated: media darling (hopey) trumped by media moment (Our Snowbilly) trumped by media creature (our katie). it’s like a hollywood moment w/out the happy ending.
After eight years of Bush incompetence, THIS is what McCain selects as his running mate? How can the election even be CLOSE? The world is laughing at us.
[re=117729]katesanzi[/re]: The fine points of Constitutional Law are lost on someone who can field-dress a moose but can’t name one Supreme Court decision other than that turr’ble one that those queer hommasekshul lib’rls on that them Soopreme Court pushed through to kill all uv our babies!
I mean, shees. I barely made it through Con Law in law school, but I forgot more than Bible Spice ever knew.
…still a month t’go… oktober kin be sech a surprisin month…
I mean, it’s so bad that it’s almost like…it’s a set-up. Like,we’re now convinced that she’s an idiot, so she’s going to go in there tomorrow and become this efficient uber-wonk all of a sudden, like that old SNL skit about Ronald Reagan.
Also, why so impossibly stupid to let Katie interview you over and over again when she’s made you look like a moron already? A couple of times, even? Was she like, “Damn it, I’m going to get it right this time!”
She’s so over her head she can’t even see daylight. If she hadn’t been suck a lying sack of shit the past few weeks, i would almost feel sorry for her. But not quite.
This just in: Governor Palin’s Head Explodes During Vice Presidential Debate.
McCain campaign states, “She didn’t have a brain anyway. Senator McCain sticks by her as his running mate, headless or not.”
[re=117728]ALIVE![/re]: WIN.
[re=117733]chili[/re]: It’s not really close, but more like Glenn Close. What I’m insinuating here is that Barry is a very attractive celebrity who is about to own 101 Delmations.
[re=117582]loganmo[/re]: right wingers can freely discuss Marbury v. Madison, but I’m not so sure that the can do so “thoughtfully”. That case makes their heads asplode, since, after all, it is a direct parent of Brown, Eisenstadt and Roe.
I seen dat innerview. Sarah was vackue-osity. I luvd her.
Jesus, all I can think of when I hear these clips is:
Alex Trebek: “What is the sound a doggie makes?”
Sean Connery: “MOO.”
Alex: “No, I’m sorry, that is incorrect”
Sean Connery: “That’s the sound your mother made last night.”
Alex: “We would have accepted ‘BOWOW’ or ‘RUFF.’
Sean Connery: “Rough. Just the way your mother likes it.”
Sarah’s Song
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the french I took
Don’t know much about nothing at all
Sorry Sam.
barbie spice has an angry mouth… jess zoom in onto it, if y’dare, while she’s babblin to katie… doan it look like a real angry mouth? a mad mouth, y’might say…
[re=117712]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I saw that ad this morning and it reminded me why I hate the word “tolerance”–the mouth breathers use it as a synonym for “put up with.” If Prop 8 passes, it’ll be hard for me to come to terms with the fact that a majority of the state is flat out prejudiced. Not in California; take that ish to West Virginia.
[re=117731]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: I actually didn’t see it. I’ll have to check it out.
Ken: We aren’t sleeping why are you?
“Someday this election’s gonna end”
head nod, turn away…
you can sleep then.
[re=117750]slappypaddy[/re]: …and that mouth is not getting happier. It’s gonna get angrier, like Pappy McBlink.
[re=117532]Special Agent Jack Mehoff[/re]: A script from “Roseanne” sounds like a summary of Goedel’s disproof of logical positivism compared to Palin-speak. Heh.
the really sad part is that if I had anything to say, ALL of Obama’s ads forever would be, “I’m a Federalist — I like State’s Rights” (or whatever the fuck she actually mumbled).
But… no one would get it or care. I am now returning to my elitist tree-house to watch the Constitution get chipped away perp by perp on SVU.
Also — drinking bourbon.
[re=117751]NoWireHangers[/re]: Doubtful that pile of turd will pass, but it’s still great to see the crazies chase it with a vengeance. On a side note, the fact that the teen pregnancy abortion notification plan has been on the ballot THREE TIMES now since 2004 can tell us that even we, as libgrool Californians, are about to eat shit. It finally has a majority. There’s a book about his popular vote bullshit somewhere… should we burn it?
[re=117711]OzoneTom[/re]: The McCain campaign was completely blind-sided by this.
Palin was a dead serious, no Siree Bob, I ain’t fooling, calculated,and engineered pick,for a lot of very good reasons, past that she plays well to a scripted camera,(see: VP Acceptance Speech, RNC, 2008).
She’s a highly skilled media technician that has been training herself for this for at least the last 15 years, or else they wouldna picked her with so much at stake;the events of the last week have taken the very smart, dedicated, and evil people that are running McCain’s campaign by complete and utter surprise.
But no worries, The Disaster From Alaska is simply vers.0.1a.
The Republican Party is just like Microsoft, they never get it right the first time when they co-opt somebody like Apple’s shit, but they’re relentless and eventually they get something that dominates the market.
The bad news is is whoever follows in the Wicked Witch of West Wassila’s footsteps is gonna be a whole, whole,whole lot worse.
Think things are bad now?
Stick around, pardner, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
The good news is is that hopefully she’ll look like Lara Logan or Mélissa Theuriau:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0
One can only hope.
We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Snark-A-Riffic Telethon.
“Governor Palin, can you tell me what the ‘v.’ in Roe v. Wade stands for?”
[re=117592]johnbpt[/re]: Mooselini.
Palin: As a woman, I’ll never forget the historical impact of shirts v. skins.
Well, Katie, I disagreed, such like, with Kramer in Kramer v Kramer.
Wait a sec, Syrah Plain does know about at least one other Supremes performance, known as Seward’s folly, Seward’s icebox, and Andrew Johnson’s polar bear garden.
You see, there was a young Naval officer, a maverick, who instead of sailing west to open Japan to American markets, sailed north – he insisted that the way west led through the north. But when he reached land, it was Russia, only young McNuts! insisted he had discovered Japan and offered the natives $16 in American currency for the whole place.
Later, Congress would insist that McCranky had paid too much and the case ended up before the Supremes. This story is told in all Alaska public school history classes; the governor ought to have known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alaska_Purchase.jpg
If I were advising the McCain campaign I’d tell them it was time for a pair of October surprises.
That’s right: Palin’s two major assets, loving urged up and out with a strapless wonderbra. Tank tops and deep v-neck sweaters from here on out. And lose the glasses.
If anyone even turns on the volume during one of her trainwrecks…er…interviews, they will only do so because they are a low-testosterone dude who thinks issues matter. Time to shake up DC and every other town in America where lusting “swing” voters still wait to be guided.
Gotta hand it to her, she attempts a good B.S. ‘work-around’ the question. Her former pageant contestant background’s coming in handy!
When I read exactly what she said, I wonder if she is cleverly communicating the fact that the other one on her list is Lawrence v. Texas. Wasn’t states rights the last round’s hot-button code talk for Don’t Make Us Let There Be Gay? She’s so cunning!
But if you listen & watch it seems more like she had a couple decisions written out and bless them they were on a sheet at the bottom of a pretty big pile, but of course she remembers why she’s not supposed to like those ones either, and wasn’t most of this expected to be in the Judicial Philosophy section of the interrogation??
She’ll be deadly once she picks up more experience, I think. As a pro she’ll know that you don’t bluff your way through difficult or missing answers — you just launch into an unrelated attack on your opponent. And she’s totally effective with that kind of material already.
[re=117616]Barack Like Me[/re]: Won’t work. She doesn’t say “God damn America” even once.
My god, it’s like Katie’s a neurosurgeon who is testing the brain activity of a person who has suffered major head trauma and is concluding that the first results are pretty negative.
Are their really people that ignorant in the US who can’t see through this shit? Wait, I’ve been there, I know the answer…
their=there. More coffee please!
I’ve given up on her knowing anything about Dredd Scott, or anything with a “V.” in it, but I still don’t understand how she doesn’t know the Scopes Monkey Trial. It’s her bread and butter, it’s got a catchy name, and there are a few movies about it. What about the People Vs. Larry Flynt? Does she only watch Veggie Tales?
Ha ha. Retard retard retard retard.
Her eyes. They’re like the X-Box’s Red Ring of Death, indicating a catastrophic failure.
Is it just me, or is Sarah Palin the best thing to hit teevee since Doris Day? My prediction: She’ll soon be a Fox Noise contributor, paired with Mickey Huckabee or launch a Cooking Channel Show with her crazy kids making a mess of things…again! America needs Sarah Palin!
“bible spice” gets nearly 7000 hits on google already. i think that’s a nickname that’s gonna stick.
[re=117827]BobLoblawLawBlog[/re]: Actually, the Scopes Monkey trial never made it to the USSC. The verdict against Scopes was overturned on a technicality, and the issue was let die. She should have known about Edwards v Aguillard, though – the 1987 ruling that “creation science” is not science but religion, and should not be taught in schools because it violates the “endorsement” clause. Scalia’s still mad about that one!
[re=117860]highway234[/re]: Bible Spice! That’s brilliant! Can I steal that?
What about the infamous King James v. Standard witch was decided with a unique exorcise.
Or maybe Coors v. Keystone, with Coors winning out because of the awful smell associated with cigarette butts melting the plasic liner in Keystone. Surely she knows that one.
Or Tequila v. Mockingbird Goes to Washington where a young white girl and her batshit father figure bravely face the onslaught of racism to protect a colored fella headed to the White House.
Now I really want to hear her take on Plessy v. Ferguson and how it might apply to Obama.
[re=117855]MISTAHCOUGHDROP[/re]: LOL. You know what would be great? Some sort of reality show with cameras following around the Palins. Watch Sarah kill and field dress a moose! Listen to Bristol doing it with Levi in her room, while her mom is downstairs catching up with the soap episodes she tivoed!
Or even better: a “wife swap” episode with the Osbournes!
You know what’s really sad is that if she was ignorant but skilled she could’ve dodged the whole question and just railed on about Roe v. Wade OR about how important she thinks the appointment of judges is (which is supposedly a major plank for McCain — that he’d choose some good ones). Where she gets herself into trouble is when she starts reeling off the obvious filler B.S. that’s meant to buy her time until she can think of something to say. Pure silence would be better (and more likely to end up on the cutting room floor).
[re=117816]Weeping Jesus[/re]: That’s right…skin to win!
OK, so she believes in a federal-/US Constitutionally-protected right to privacy but thinks that is a state issue. OK, got it.
I hope Biden just lets her damn herself tonight and keeps his mouth shut.
[re=117729]katesanzi[/re]: Totally. The amazing thing about Palin and all practiced bullshitters is they can make you question your basic assumptions about words and their meaning.
“I’m, in that sense, a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas.”
I actually think that is the most atrocious thing I have heard her say yet.
$50 bucks says the end result of all this is that Couric demands, in writing, an apology from the American people for doubting her journalism cred.
I can come up with several good ones that she probably disagrees with (but won’t admit to disagreeing with): Griswold v. Connecticut is the prime one. I believe that the end target of the “Prolife” movement and their “life begins at conception” stance is Griswold.
Schecter Poultry, perhaps? I’d pay good money to hear her say the words “Schecter Poultry.”
Bring the debates! It’s gonna be battle of the foot suckers!
This is from the comments on the Palin-Couric interview, on CBS’ website, and the author identifies themselves as “gnat007″:
“I recently interviewed Sarah Palin. Here’s how it went.
Me: What day is it today?
Sarah Palin: There are 7 days in a week. There are many days. We could choose from many different days.
Me: Yes, but what day is today?
Sarah Palin: Today could be one of 7 days. And I have a great appreciation for how beautifully the week is set up. I mean, our question might even be rephrased to ask if we haven’t lost sight of the bigger picture, where the day is just a small part of what constitutes a week, which would be yet another part of what is known as the month.
Me: I just want to know what day it is, specifically.
Sarah Palin: Any and all of them that have come and gone. I have always been comfortable with any and all of them. My point, however, is that it all comes back to the year. I am someone who believes that the voiceless can count on me to represent the calendar in an unbiased way, from within one of the highest offices of government. After all, I have always made myself clear, and I am not apologetic about who I am. There are 30 days in a month and 52 weeks in a year. I was born in the 20th century, and this might already be the 21st , who knows? Here, our sense of the space-time continuum has come to be challenged by those who insist they must know what day of the week we are presently at. And I think it needs to be addressed in concrete terms for the good of the American people. Thank you.”
Here’s the thing. She will be involved in (or could be responsible for) nominating new Supreme Court justices if elected. Shouldn’t we ask for someone that knows SOMETHING about the law?
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/31715/Katie-Couric/Sarah-Palin/CBS-Evening-News/What-Other-Supreme-Court-Decisions-Do-You-Disagree-With
[re=117680]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Actually, he was making fun of Old Handsome Joe, who had an uncharacteristically Un-Smart answer where he said that in 1929, President Roosevelt went on TV and addressed the nation about the crash. I love Old Handsome Joe anyway.
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