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After demonstrating her ability to flub an interview with literally anyone, including third graders, Sarah Palin made sure she had some backup in her talk with NBC’s Brian Williams. She took along her running mate, John McCain! But still, when Williams asked her, “What, in your mind, is a ‘precondition’?” as it pertained to meeting with dictators, she went all woogly about those who would seek to destroy America, blah blah blah. In other words, SHOCKER, she does not know what a precondition is.
Chris Matthews asks the very good question of what about that clip is newsworthy, given that Sarah Palin has done this exact thing on camera a million times already, and Brian Williams just sort of shrugs and goes, “Enh, we thought it was funny.”
Toward the end of this interminable 8-minute segment there’s the bit where Chuck Todd tattles on the McCain campaign and says that nobody likes or trusts anybody anymore, and he speculates that John McCain may be beginning to blame Sarah Palin for losing this election. That strikes us as exactly right: John McCain is precisely the sort of self-pitying, righteously aggrieved nutsack who would blame some harmless twit who he alone was responsible for elevating to the national stage for her subsequent, entirely predictable implosion. What a turd.
Also: Does Chuck Todd’s facial hair look more lush these days? Is he taking prenatal vitamins?
Chuck Todd On McCain-Palin: No Chemistry, No Trust, Possibly No Chance [Huffington Post]
I think Chuck Todd has beard weaves.
Brian Williams should not do comedy
He looks especially petulant when she lowballs his Secretary of State Endorsement score…
Chemistry, Chucky? This isn’t literally a romantic comedy, even though he will leave Cindy for her (only so that she can inherit the alimony Cindy pays), where they then live a happy life full of ignorance of current affairs (he becoming senile and thinking it’s 1942, she because she’s illiterate) and every night whispers of “Goodnight, my sweet cunt.”
Knowledge is so sexist.
What Palin didn’t mention are these other official duties of the Vice President of the United States:
1. He manages the White House Kitchen.
2. He manages the Office of White House Protocol.
3. He manages the secretive National Intelligence Agency (NIA), a division of the Executive Branch, that sends clandestine spy teams to rough spots to wipe out terrorists, rogues, operatives, insurgents, gangsters, spies, ruffians, arms traffickers, drug dealers, murderers, mobsters, villians, dictators, gunrunners, pirates and jewel thieves.
4. He manages the White House Gift Shoppe.
Without preconditions, maybe her haircut would’ve been about $1000 cheaper.
Hey, maybe it’s not McCain’s fault for being a gross unlikeable curmudgeon, or Palin’s fault for being a backwoods moron. Maybe that black feller is actually likeable, and he actually won the election by his own merits! Naw, nevermind. It’s probably Joe the Plumber’s fault.
Haha — Chuck Todd is like “They all hate each other and are losers.”
Oops, that’s not in this clip. Oh well, it’s later on in this same interview and it’s grumpilicious
That’s a green screen of a school behind Brian & The Beard, right? They don’t even look to be in the same city as the school. It looks as believable as the ones behind Daily Show Senior Correspondents.
Also, BRIAN WILLIAMS DRINKING GAME for when he says “uh” between words. A.K.A. LiverFuck 08.
How dare the liberul media ask follow up questions! This is just the kind of “gotcha journalism” that I’ve come to expect from these commies. Just let her state her talking points and move on. How hard is that?
Wow, they are just like Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in “Charade”, except in every concievable way, not.
dano: Have you been following the latest Doonesbury? With gotcha questions in college classrooms? Hysterical.
Name Pun Phenh: damn right.
Yeah, Palin should’ve pulled a Hillary.
The Hillary Approach is not do interviews with media outlets who would ask her tough
questions.
Anyway, only a few people saw the interview anyway…
She needs to leave daddy home next time. He sucks all of the fun out of her stupid.
wtf is up with her use of the word “even” in the wrong place? it makes me fucking crazy.
Poor Sarah, the zapped her with a gotcha question again. Just because she talks so much about preconditions, why on Earth should she be expected to know what one is?
I was just thinking that what McShame needs is a choke collar for his pitbull. That way when that bitch gets out of line he can teach it some discipline…
You can almost see McCain thinking, “Thank Jesus I only have to listen to this moran’s voice for two more weeks. Any longer and I’d have to swallow all of Cindy’s Vicodin to make the pain go away.”
Damn the “gotcha media” with their questions, facts, and inability to ignore all the issues.
Why does she always have the dominant seat?
Thanks Chuck. You have just described not only the ‘chemistry’ between the candidates, but the title of the history for the first 8 years of the 21st century:
“Negative Intensity.”
I keep expecting Palin and/or McCain to get frustrating and start babbling about homos or welfare.
Yeah…issues get in the way of biased-media posturing for Obama.
MSNBC is the all-Obama-all-the-time outlet.
Has anyone seen MSNBC’s ratings?
Please….
The Bulworth moment, when it comes, will be terrific:
JSM: Bitch! You ruined my life!
SP: Keep yer fukkin hans offa me!
“So that — that’s — that’s some ill-preparedness right there.”
Sarah Palin.
Awright! Lissen up.
There’s entirely too much “grab-assin’” goin’ on here.
We got less than two weeks left and a lot of work to get done.
1. Somebody get ahold of the resident PhotoShop wizard. Here’s whatcha do:
Modify the following movie posters thusly:
- “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” = “John and Sarah’s Excellent, etc.”
- The Frazetta-Style National Lampoon Vacation poster (Chevy Chase, etc.) = John & Sarah…..
- Das Boot??? Whadya think?
Also, take a look at some stock scenes from Dr. Strangelove. Lotta good material there.
Any suggestions? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
Let’s see the drafts by noon tomorrow.
O.K.! Get humpin’!!
Anbody else here getting fundraising solicition emails from Juan and Juanita as a result of asking for their “I AM” lawnsign? Fuckin’ hilarious. So, I go to their unsubscribe page ['coz my inbox is already getting WAY too much shit from Hopey every five minutes] and here are my clicky options:
*I am a McCain Supporter but don’t wish to be contacted until closer to the election.
*I am a McCain Supporter but I am receiving too many emails. Please only send me newsletters and urgent alerts.
*I am a McCain Supporter but do not wish to receive email any longer.
*I am no longer a McCain Supporter and want to be taken off the email list.
So, I clicked the final option and in the ‘comments’ field, I left the following parting missive:
“Never WAS a supporter, retards. Don’t you READ the shit people send you? No wonder you’re losing. Textbook definition of EPIC FAIL! I called you retards and now you ask me for MONEY? Too fuckin’ funny for words. Retard/Braindead 08!”
Gotto go…. there’s a Gestapo-like pounding at my front door….
“Oh but them big ole titties! Who cares what she says?”
-Real American
Phoenix: You are beginning to bore me.
VP/Pres relationship has been hand in glove only a “finite number of times,” as opposed to an “infinite number of times.” In case anyone’s wondering.
“Is he taking prenatal vitamins?”
No, he is harvesting placentas for their nutritional value.
Perhaps the Ghost O’Russert is floating by: “…..Swear!”
Phoenix: Are you attempting to make a point here? I don’t get what you’re trying to say. Are you comparing MSNBC Obama bias to things like Fox News’ McCain bias, or…
I just don’t get it. What are you trying to say.
Obama and Biden seem to have a better chemistry/relationship/whatever than McCain and Palin according to Chuck Todd.
Maybe it is because Obama and Biden worked together in the Senate long before McCain knew Palin’s name.
She has contempt for him and his liberul ideas and he, as usual, doesn’t have a clue about anything.
Precondition? I guess that would be before the shampoo, right Brian? I leave all that stuff to my hair stylist…and her staff.
nurple: It’s like those driver’s ed cars: Palin seems like she has her hands on the wheel, but McCain is sitting on the passenger side tapping his Ferragamo on the brake. And Chuck Todd nailed it: because of the sleep deprivation and frustration they keep taking they’re eyes off the road.
30 seconds in Brian Williams tries to make a joke HOW EMBARRASSING
Phoenix: Bitter, please.
Sara K. Smith: God, yes, thank you. Phoenix is a tool.
Chuck Todd is OBVIOUSLY drunk, look at how he rocks back and forth…
magic titty: fake titties. fake american?
Shot at Wolf: haha
Palin was so thrilled that she learned how to pronounce Ahmadinejad without stumbling that she used his name in every sentence during the first part of her non-answer.
Shot at Wolf: Right you are. This chick’s no dummy; she knows two OTHER meanings of the same word, too.
A] An existing ‘precondition’ is what disqualifies you for health care insurance.
B] A ‘precondition’ called pregnancy is what Alaska girls use to get themselves a husband. It worked for Sarah; now it’s workin’ for Bristle.
We just don’t give the poor thing, bless her heart, enough credit for mental acuity. ‘Coz we’re all sexist bozos on this bus.
dano: Damn the economic meltdown! I want to hear about issues like gay marriage and abortion.
One more.
1984 (Hurt, Burton) (the scene from the back of the auditorium)
Put a B&W pic of Hopey in place of Big Brother and change the ENGSOC logos on either
side of it to say AMSOC
Or
Change the legendary “Chick throwing the sledge hammer” Apple commercial.
Michele (Hammer thrower)vs. Barbie (on the screen)??
Liquid: There had to be some kind of chemical enhancement to that relaxed half-smile and semi-articulate glibness.
Re: Chuck Todd’s goatie
What a lot of folks don’t know that Chuck Todd is not only a commentator but a small business man. What is it he does? Well, when he’s not on MSNBC performing heroic acts of punditry he’s out in what I like to call “real America” giving what I like to call “goatie rides” for what I think is a very fair price. But sadly, the economy’s in the terrlit and business hasn’t been what it once was. As a tragic result, his goatie has gone largely unridden (is that a word?) Anyway, the current fullness is due to the lack of wear and tear.
In fact, the fullness of Chuck Todd’s beard itself is a lagging economic indicator.
…don’t ask me how I know this.
I have tried to watch the video three times. As soon as Palin starts answering Brian Williams’ first question, I compulsively close the window.
Looks like grown daughter from out-of-town to help dad at the Alzheimer’s counseling. How inconvenient? Will she have to wipe him?
I can’t help it. I want Chuck Todd. He’s dreamy.
McCain wants to kick Sara’s ass so hard.
Did she only spend enough time at each of her five schools to learn sentence fragments?
Yes, most find the truth boring.
Those usually discuss breast size and beards over boring differing opinions on substantive issues.
I’ll find your political “discussuions” and opinions a little more meaningful when you harpoon some of Joe Biden’s statements with the mix. He is a super-buffoon compared to Palin.
I didn’t realize that this site was just a blogosphere version of MSNBC, NBC, and CNN, except with biased anatomical, sexual, and “grab-assin’” comment instead of biased political comment.
Yes, I guess stating opinions about differing positions on the economy, immigration, health-care, and tax programs would be boring.
You know, I used to feel a little sorry for CaribouBarbie, but now I just despise her. She is as manipulative, greedy, and intellectually retarded as the majority of Republican leaders.
Phoenix: Hi there, Phoenix! First time out of the cave?
Sarah: “Brian, you look too wimpy for a moose gal like me, but I would jump Chuck’s bod without preconditions, whatever they are. He’ll have a SARAH tatt on his ring finger before the night’s over.”
Chuck: “Get away from me, you crazy bitch! John, pull her off. Brian. HELP!”
John: “Heh, heh, heh. FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.”
Brian: “She has him on the floor and is ripping off her new Saks clothes. We’ll be back after these words from our sponsors.”
Dr. Zoidberg:
No
First time in the Wonkette frathouse…
Phoenix: Away to HuffPost, bitter. They’ll hate you there, too, but you’ll better fit in with the windbags.
Ken, who let this snarkless bastard in here?
I came in with Bluto and Otter.
Snarkless….good word.
Isn’t the term “bastard” redundant?
donner_froh: But why does she say AWKmenijad?
messickc:
Probably wants to hate-fuck her more (as much as I hate that expression, it’s probably true in this case).
I can just see McCain raging around one of his mansions yelling at Palin “How dare you decide to accept my poorly thought out VP gambit! I blame everyone but myself!” Then he has a weepy phone conversation with Lieberman where he sobs “I really wanted you baby. I still love you.” ending in his awkward suicide November 5th, with a note that simply says “No funeral”.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Phoenix: Snark aside for a moment: We can always use different points of view here, but be snarky about it. The rest of us are here as therapy. You will get no traction by being serious.
Shhh, you can hear the empty heads rattling.
Yay!!! She can say “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” I bet Davis and the followers celebrated that as a win! There ya go , ya aint gonna get me, Brian.
I wonder if she can say “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?”
Brian Williams is such a windbag.
I expect to see him wearing an ascot soon.
Chuck Todd eats fetuseses!
BarthexDeRosa: That was so funny when she said how many Secs of State supported McCain..”Four?” “No, five.” He looked pissed. Even I knew it was five because in every fucking interview he’s given since Saturday he’s named them all. Though Palin might be closer than McCain because after all, does Alexander “Don’t worry, I’m in charge” Haig actually count for a full Secretary of State?
HuskyMescan: I wonder if she can say “Chauncey Gardiner”.
Williams: “….[lame joke falls flat]….just kidding..” = EPIC FAIL.
Chuck Todd - the new (post Russert) white meat
Also, how much do I love it that Williams announced they are going to serialize the interview. This means one awesome (eg. horribly embarrassing) clip each night for the next week. Yay!
magic titty: And she got legs! I loves me some ZZ Top…
With all the talk of “hand in glove” and “top of the ticket” this is making me feel a deliciously perverse Morrissey moment coming on as well…
trondant: Probably not.
The resemblance is sort of accurate, but Gardiner character had more innocence to him. Palin is a self-serving fake trollop.
Phoenix: Phoenix, do you have aspirations of losing your virginity to the ever estimable Sarah (holy shit my life is one big bingo) Palin?
Dudes, I was totally singing that ZZ Top song in my head. But the chemistry is right there between McNuts eyeballs and P-bags legs. Also, I love me some B Wills. He has that whole, “i just don’t give a fuck anymore” attitude about him that is so AMERICAN
Phoenix, I totes know what you mean. Sarah Palin obvs more qualified than super-buffoon Joe Biden. If you want to criticize the sophomoric level at which we brave wonketeers operate, jump in baby, the water is warm. However, it is difficult to stomach your gibberish when you suggest that Sarah Palin is remotely comparable to Joe Biden in terms of bona fides. She is an embarrassment that even the most intellectually bankrupt conservatives have given up on (see Krauthhammer, Charles; Will, George; Brooks, David). If you want to be taken seriously, maybe you should get serious. P.S. I don’t find you boring, I find you (and anyone else who defends Governor Failin’) contemptible in every way. K. Now run along. Thx. Bye.
Phoenix: I didn’t realize that this site was just a blogosphere version of MSNBC, NBC, and CNN, except with biased anatomical, sexual, and “grab-assin’” comment instead of biased political comment.”
Well you were hopelessly wrong now, weren’t you…. (Just like McCain)
Well, in the end, I learned one thing from this election. I can be governor of Alaska.
LBOtomist: Well said. Although maybe that was Phoenix’s ill attempt at irony? Learning iz hard.
The McCain campaign is loaded with Bullworth moments.
As the good Gov of Alaska sits by her Grampa’s side in her latest purchase from Neiman Marcus, you get the feeling any moment old Johnny-boy would rip the fancy threads off the walking talking roadside bomb that he selected any moment now.
Would that be worth seeing?
You betcha!
Listening to that tundratwat “speak” gives me seizures worse than a Japanese anime cartoon.
Canuckledragger: That’s funny, cause I also used the word ‘Fail’ in the comments section when I unsubscribed.
Chuck Todd is *so dreamy*!!!
For serious. I just want to tousle his auburn locks.
I bet his beard is one of those soft curly ones that smells nice, and doesn’t give a girl thigh-burns.
Oh. Sorry. Back to snark:
McCain’s chemistry with Sarah doesn’t seem any worse than his chemistry with Cindy. My theory? They both would love to see him die soon, albeit for different reasons. I’m still giggling at the way Sarah perked right up when an interviewer mentioned her possibly stepping up to the Number One spot … in a regrettable emergency, of course.
Of course.
So regrettable.
Mm-hmm.
You betcha.
“Pulling a Bullworth”: Ha ha, that’s hilarious, Chuck! Oh no, now I remember. I actually I never saw that movie so it’s not funny at all.
magic titty: The real Americans will just have to put lipstick on their Biden cardboard cutouts and “purtend.”
Another movie poster for the resident Photoshop wizard: Palin as Julia Roberts and McCain as Richard Gere in the Pretty Woman poster
nurple: She had that seat, IMO, so we could all see her legs. The legs probably account for a lot of her red-state grassroots support.
heronimule: Once again, I made the mistake of commenting before I read all previous comments. I have inadvertently bitten your style. In my defense, I have only used the word “dreamy” to describe males twice in the past forty years.
But we agree: it *is* the only word that describes Chuck Todd. Something about those baby-faced tousle-haired slightly rumpled “real journalist”-looking boys messes with all my wiring.
For one thing, he looks like he still drinks, and I *like* that in a person.
HuskyMescan: Yes, give Sarah credit. She can say “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”, with just one faint addition of an extra consonant.
That’s probably why McCain hates her. John McCain cannot say that name to save his life. You all remember the first debate. McCain tried, three or four times, and he just sounded like a cat trying to expel a hairball.
azw88: That person lives in Arizona. They deserve your pity, not your scorn.
iolanthe: Correct, methinks that was Ms. Spice’s passive-aggressive “eat it Gramps.” I suspect this is how she conducts teh biz in the Big North with da’ guys: get’em sexed up and step on ‘em. You betcha!
What’s a precondition? Well, y’know, I’d say he’d probably need to be rich and circumcised, Brian.
Sara K. Smith: I must be desperate today, because I really want you to mean that in a dirty sexy way. Only not for a bitter troll. Fuck, please don’t ban me.
JOHN…HELLOOOOOOOOO JOHN!!!! You slept through lots of classes at the Naval Academy, right? It is way to late, but let me try to help you anyway. There are many smart people in politics, some brilliant. You are neither. Remember that Cuban shrink you thought you were conning in Hanoi? He thinks you are stupid and self obsessed. Me, I know that you DON’T know anything but call on daddy, your decision process is kinda like going to a Thai restaurant for happy hour and staying until 11:00 pm, eating the entire authentic menu, thinking you are impressing someone. But, the next morning, you shit fire. Your staff can not find enough ice cream to force down your cake hole or up your ass hole to stop the holocaust. Classic non-visionary, or myopic, or “I love Sara Palin’s ASS and TITS”, selection of a VEEP. Have you tapped it yet?? What a FUCKED UP NO BRAIN NIPPLE LOOKING MORONIC CHOICE. Add can’t politic worth a shit to can’t fly worth ashit, or student worth a shit. One last thing, you are too short to be POTUS. EAT SHIT
Brian just dropped in to see what Palin’s conditions for preconditions were in.
iolanthe: Agreed. I get a distinct Irish Catholic vibe from him…perhaps he was even educated by the Jesuits…mmm. Something tells me he can drink 12 whiskeys and still remember his Latin declensions. That’s a guy I want to party/sleep with. Oops, I’ve revealed too much.
Less talking, more shopping! http://tinyurl.com/6kq8nq
John should rename the Straight Talk Express, the Clue Bus (or maybe THE CLUE BUS) and sideswipe Sarah, if he can’t get her stand still so he can run her over, then appoint the man who should be the GOP VP candidate, The Incredible Hulk Huckabee, to lose in her stead.
Wish they would let Palin do a network news interview on her own.
http://www.entertonement.com/tags/clips/5263?sort_by=date
Which one is supposed to be the responsible babysitter?
Is Phoenix Chief Whats-His-Nuts under an even lamer psuedonym, an attempt to suggest that the McFailin “campaign” will rise from the ashes?