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Third Grade Is In The Tank

  • A New Mexican jihadist paintball terror squad caused nine-hundred and eleven 9/11s on the Straight Talk Express. [Marc Ambinder]
  • Confused ironist Sarah Palin used the secret alias “Tina Fey” to check into a hotel. [Top of the Ticket]
  • Palin did this interview called “Question from a Third Grader,” in which she fielded technical, jargon-filled queries like “what does a Vice President do?” from journalistic heavyweight/eight-year-old Brandon Garcia, who’s interviewed every Vice President since Richard Nixon. It was classic Gotcha Journalism, and all Palin could do was talk about how her second husband Piper asks her that all the time and spit out some garbled, half-English nonsense about gettin’ in and helpin’. [Daily Kos]

    [WATCH THIS VIDEO, she will kill us all -- Ed.]

  • Her husband’s infinity affairs was just one too many for Mrs. Terry Mahoney, who filed for divorce today. [TPMMuckraker]
  • OPRAH, a radical voter fraud advocacy organization, is producing a teevee infomercial for Obama. [NRO The Corner]
  • Here are Obama’s and McCain’s videos that will be subliminally advertised in Wal-Marts, to “Wal-Mart Moms,” a nonexistent demographic. Obama talks about the economy, and McCain runs grainy black and white footage of himself being tortured seventysome years ago. [The Caucus]


3:06 PM on Tue October 21 2008
By Juli Weiner
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  1. If Oprah can get 200,000 house wives to read Faulkner, there is little doubt she can get 200,000 to vote for a Mussulman.

  2. BillyClubb says at 3:12 pm, October 21st, 2008

    “…journalistic heavyweight/eight-year-old Brandon Garcia, who’s interviewed every Vice President since Richard Nixon.”

    Wha?! Brandon’s been in the eighth grade since Nixon? No Child Left Behind has really been a failure.

  3. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 3:14 pm, October 21st, 2008

    OPRAH? As in “Our Pithy Rhymes As Humor”? That infomercial will be hilarious! And to the point!

  4. huffybike says at 3:14 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Oh, lady. Quit trying: http://tinyurl.com/6g8ttl

  5. GlennBecksTaint says at 3:16 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Secessionist Sarah wants to rule the Senate with her ironlady fist of freedom.

  6. yorktronic says at 3:17 pm, October 21st, 2008

    What about the Dollar Bin moms?

  7. BillyClubb says at 3:18 pm, October 21st, 2008

    BillyClubb: Urk, sorry, eight-year-old. Now I get it…

  8. About the Third-Grader interview: Well, we’d better be gettin’ in and sendin’ her ass back to Alaska, then.

  9. yorktronic:

    Dollar Bin? Well, la de dah. The Thrift Store isn’t good enough for you?

  10. friendlynerd says at 3:24 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Wal-Mart moms are far too busy beating and screaming at their numerous offspring to be bothered.

  11. SayItWithWookies says at 3:25 pm, October 21st, 2008

    So if McCain/Palin win, the evil overlord will be played by the president, and the idiot who can’t talk his/her way out of a paper bag will be the VP? No wonder they’re the candidates of change.

  12. BillyClubb says at 3:25 pm, October 21st, 2008

    “Palin… ordered copies of the New York Daily News, Post, Times and USA Today. “

    Sounds like Palin was afraid Katie Couric would drop by and again ask the question “What newspapers do you read?”. Then Palin could yell out “all of ‘em, just like I said!”

  13. That OPRAH. It scares me.

  14. Straight Talk Express under attack in New Mexico? Where was Bill Richardson at the time?

  15. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:33 pm, October 21st, 2008

    TGY: By the looks of Bill recently, I’d hazard a guess that he was EATING somewhere.

  16. Sarah must have holes in her brain. Maybe she got mad moose disease from all those delicious mooseburgers.

  17. WagTehGod says at 3:52 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Wal-Mart moms are too busy stocking up on Chinese tainted Enfamil to vote.

  18. Theo_Mobius says at 3:55 pm, October 21st, 2008

    In charge of the United States Senate? I shudder to think what she imagines that might mean.

  19. swarm of bees says at 3:56 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Holy shit! Is crazy wearing a red leather suit in that clip? What the hell? Does that strike anybody else as weird?

  20. superfecta says at 3:57 pm, October 21st, 2008

    BillyClubb: Do you think she chose those because they have pretty pictures and pointless articles with no meaning? Did The Economist use too many big, European words?

  21. Someone should let Brandon know that she is wrong, and the VP has almost no power whatsoever in the Senate to be helpin’ or votin’ or policy makin’ or anythin’

  22. Bob Hopeless says at 4:03 pm, October 21st, 2008

    As a parent I can tell you that at eight years old children go through what is commonly known as the “gotcha phase”.

  23. Itsjustme says at 4:05 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Then Brandon stumped the bitch by asking her “what qualifies you to be Vice President of the United States?”

  24. Democratica says at 4:05 pm, October 21st, 2008

    spencer: Well, let’s be honest, she got $200K of ‘em to BUY Faulkner… now they just need to press the button on their diebold machines (think of it like a giant iPhone!)

  25. President Beeblebrox says at 4:06 pm, October 21st, 2008

    WTF? Does Palin ever have any idea what she’s talking about? I guess this goes along with the concept of the unitary executive and that “flexible role” for the VP she described in the debate with Biden. ‘Cause, y’know, that crappy stuff in the Constitution is all outdated, like Article I, Section 3, Article II, Section 1, the 12th Amendment, the 20th Amendment, and the 25th Amendment.

    Unless “Amendment” is the name of her next kid…

  26. swarm of bees: dude, where’s her walkman, leg-warmers?

  27. Ahem…that interviewer didn’t sound like an 8 year old, it sounded like a producer. They did separate setups? With an 8-yr old? What the hell?

  28. Urbanachiever says at 4:15 pm, October 21st, 2008

    swarm of bees: Yes, that jacket is hideous. (no funny comments here, just agreement)

  29. Brandon replies, “Stop talking down to me, bitch.”

  30. AutomaticPilot says at 4:35 pm, October 21st, 2008

    yorktronic: What about the Dollar bin Laden moms?

  31. from now on we can substitute ‘palin’ for ‘blonde’ ‘polish’ in every joke

  32. from now on we can substitute ‘palin’ for ‘blonde’ or ‘polish’ in every joke

  33. Outstando says at 5:08 pm, October 21st, 2008

    swarm of bees: Dressing slutty is Republican feminism.

  34. KristaJulieva says at 5:13 pm, October 21st, 2008

    She’s wearing that Michael Jackson Thriller jacket. So she’s a child molester too, probably. And would stab Paul McCartney in the back in a second, if given the chance.

  35. longjohnson says at 5:13 pm, October 21st, 2008

    I all seriousness, I had no idea how literally ill informed Palin was until I watched her answer the question relating to the position of Vice President.

    She literally marks the trail for leaders that exude stupidity.

    McCain and his cohorts (selection committee) must have been deluded by the absence of pussy in their own lives. Perhaps, this elementary formula will help to assist those who were equally stunned as to how Republicans get or do not get laid. Eg. factor p = (-v * n) - v being lack of pussy and n, the number of years that there has been an absence of any pussy within a ten mile radius.

  36. Gurth LongEye says at 5:14 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Urbanachiever: swarm of bees:The Mord-Sith wear red leather to hide the blood of their victims.
    But really, in charge of the Senate?

  37. bitchincamaro says at 5:20 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Brandon shit his pants 7 seconds into her answer.

  38. run_said_ran says at 5:21 pm, October 21st, 2008

    What Sarah doesn’t know is that Brandon Garcia attends an elementary school in ‘Not Real’ Virginia and lurves both polar bears and teh Blacks. GOTCHA, SARAH!

  39. swarm of bees says at 5:28 pm, October 21st, 2008

    Outstando: You’re right– she must feel so liberated! She’s just asking to pay for her own rape kit.

  40. mamandesfilles says at 6:05 pm, October 21st, 2008

    So the GuvTard wants 3rd graders to know that they NEVER have to learn to talk like a grownup. YEAH!

  41. somelegalbitch says at 7:44 pm, October 21st, 2008

    I’m starting to think she might actually be retarded. Like Charlize Theron in Arrested Development.

  42. The photos that John McCain uses from his Walmart video are on istockphoto.com. I’ve used them for my own site. They also all happen to be the pictures of black families. Couldn’t he get pictures of genuine McCain supporters?

    You can see the istockphotos here:
    http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6142353/2/istockphoto_6142353-senior-couple-on-cycle-ride.jpg

    and here:
    http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4883490/2/istockphoto_4883490-mother-and-daughter.jpg

  43. rupert_pupkin says at 11:38 pm, October 21st, 2008

    “In charge of the Senate”?!?! Hasn’t this potential stand in for old man McCain ever hear of the Constitution? Separation of powers ring a bell? I think we learned that in the third grade…

  44. One Yield Regular says at 12:49 am, October 22nd, 2008

    The attention being paid to her description of the Vice President’s role is really misplaced here (I mean, of COURSE she believes the Vice-President’s role is to control the Senate - is this surprising to anyone?).

    The real attention here needs to be paid to her concluding her answer by saying, in pitch-perfect Mormonspeak: “‘ppreciate you.”

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