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Sarah Palin went on the Today show wearing the same faux-bondage pink jacket she wore the day after the whole “Wasilla hillbillies raiding Neiman Marcus” scandal broke. (This is why there will never again be a woman candidate for public office, because women’s fashion choices are so mercilessly deconstructed by evil bloggers, etc.) She talks at length about the remarks she prepared to give before John McCain’s concession speech. She worked on these remarks for a week, with some top speechwriters! But then, inexplicably, she was told to just shut her yap and stand there like a normal VP candidate while McCain gave the first and only gracious speech of his campaign. This Palin is a real firecracker. Has she thought about running for president? [MSNBC]
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Sarah Palin Tells Matt Lauer Some More Lies
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on Tue November 11 2008
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Sara K. Smith
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She isn’t on QVC selling the “Sarah Palin Vice-President Collection” knockoffs of her RNC wardrobe yet? Their vetting process must be a lot tougher than the RNC’s….
I can’t watch.
The three-way BLOODFEST! between Mittens, Huckles, and Para Stalin is gonna be awesome.
She’s going to snap if this keeps up. This woman is a high E string right now.
can we cease and desit with the ugly dog stories already?
Sarah’s lying?!? I’ll try to look surprised.
Hey, where’s the Veterans Day thread?
How’s that marriage with Bristol and the redneck coming?
desist even
Tommy Says Soooo: Ahem. I think you meant “fucking redneck.”
Delicious: I know what you mean. My dingbat tolerance level has peaked.
“The Candidate to Nowhere”
I wasted decades of my life listening to a few minutes of that and got to the point where she says she and John McCain were so alike, it scared Todd.
Shit writes itself…
Tough choices this election year, like which is funnier: “Caribou Barbie” or “Bible Spice”?
She needs a real skinnning-send her to the View, let those bitchaz at her!
One of these days, Palin. One of these days - Bang! Zoom! To the moon! [Cue laugh track]
I can’t resist the desiterada of the Ugly Dog story.
Is she wearing TRUCKNUT earrings?
Startin’ sentences bein’ one thing she’s good at also.
ALSO she actually says at 3:15 (regarding her relationship with McCain)
“We touching base nearly everyday.”
She speaking funny.
psychedelicSludge: I’m partial to “chillbilly” myself.
I miss her already
Her hair appears to be a living organism. I don’t know how she holds her head up straight.
“New York Stylists” = code for homos.
Did she say skrumishes?
Well, we lost the Hispanic vote, and the Black vote, and the women vote, and the young vote, and the educated vote, and the union vote, and the environmental vote, and the gay vote, and the poor vote, and the people under 65 vote, and the Asian vote, and the moderate vote, and the independent vote, and the Catholic vote, and the Jewish vote, and the Atheist vote, and the sane vote, so really, Matt, we were just outspent.
Wow that Matt Lauer is quite the intrepid journalist. Almost as good as Greta van Sustern.
“How did it make you FEEL, Governor, when the mean people said mean things about you?” Now there’s a question that’s certain to make news.
Hey, the deal was we’d tolerate her until the election, but come Nov. 5th she’d be donzo-gono. Unfair Lauer!
I’ll watch the rest on my lunch break. Oh, Caribou! We hardly knew ye!
Palin/Romney 2012! It’s a gaffe a minute!
The NEW YORK STYLISTS ruined America and the Americans and the Asia and the South Africa.
I didn’t feel any sparkles up my leg, also. I think her 2012 campaign has peaked too soon.
PopeyesPipe:
Dried Moose Balls.
Damn Palin’s dumb.
Jesus Fucking ChristDoggone it, could you stop giving Sarah “She Who Must Not Be Named” Palin attention please?Has the Republican Party sued her yet? Mark my words, a lawsuit is coming. When they find out how much she grifted them, they will go after her with everything they’ve got (which isn’t much now-a-days… Expect to see her fleeing in a white bronco down that road she built to the bridge to no where…
I have nothing but honor and admiration and love for our great American Palin
I ham Juan de New York Stylist.
psychedelicSludge: Apocalypstick or Sarahcudda?
The curious lies of Sarah Palin saga continues…..
Wow, thank god she has Rev. Muthie to cleanse her lying soul with voodoo chicken feet.
Can’t watch the video right now. Did she really say she worked on her concession speech for a week in advance?
I still have a stiffie for her because, let’s face it, libtard women just want to talk about their feelings. Mooselini is incapable of talking, so win-win.
She had hope because she believed that in the privacy of the voting booth, racism would finally kick in and they’d choose old and incompetent. The truth is most voters in this country don’t vote on policy. They do vote on personality. She showed hers in this interview by not acknowledging the great campaign that Obama ran; in the debate she showed her true self by ignoring Biden’s choking up about his sons; and in the campaign by blithely helping to ignite hatred and fear that could have led to tragedy. She is a force of destruction who fortunately managed to destroy the McCain candidacy.
Now, now, Sarah is a victim (snicker) she said so herself!
WadISay: Wait until she pisses on some Phish hippies.
I can’t decide whether I want Stevens to win his election or lose. Probably win. At least I won’t be living in DC when Palin’s 4,332 kids borrow the SUV with the “I can park anywhere” plates and do their best impression of embassy brats, minus the snooty Euro accent.
On the plus side, new source for meth in town!
ella: That’s how they say it up there in Alaska.
I hope Matt Lauer goes to Santa Claus’s house and does an interview. He is close to where it is.
She’s done interviews with Katie AND Matt now, so she’s done the gauntlet of political interviews necessary to be taken seriously. Definitely positioning herself for a 2012 run. Next she’ll appoint herself to Ted Steven’s seat and try to emulate Obama’s rise to power.
God, she needs her own perfume line: “Eau D’ Fuck No” or “Flabergast”
Too many conjuctions. Somebody get her a copy of “SchoolHouseRock!”
It’s really cute how when she’s about to tell a lie her eyes get all steely and marble-like and distant, as if she’s physically blocking out any slight doubt response that might trip her up. And then… she lies with that clever Alaskan samurai judo that she does there. It’s actually kinda scary. But cute, too.
If it makes any of you feel better (and I know it does)just imagine how much it’s killing Sarah to hear all the details about how Laura Bush is giving Michelle Obama tips on living in the White House. It burns.
…can someone euthanize this god-damn pitbull already?!
…and I planned to drop the towel accidentally at the concession speech and they said no at the last minute after we had practiced flashing three weeks and bought a $1,500 towel from Saks and hero, er, Hispanic vote outspent and incumbent party us so national Republican security values I can lead this nation to ever more betterer thingies, Matt, and his lovely wife.
Hopey has cured me! I no longer feel hate when I view clips of this tremendous dingbat, now I mostly feel the boredom and the “meh.”
Yuh’no I’ll jus go back ta keepin an aye on doze Rushins.
What were those remarks going to be? “I’m sorry I destroyed this campaign with my rube leanings, but really it’s McWalnuts fault for getting strongarmed into picking me. At least I got some swank threads. Jesus will never return with liberal socialists in the White House! Palin 2012! God bless the extra Jesusy parts of Realmerica!”
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
I love that early in the interview she talks about how she hoped people would go into the voting booth and… vote for the right guy. She totally didn’t mean to say “get scared of the BLACK guy.”
Bring it on 2012. This is going to be fun.
I don’t think Matt was glib enough.
She reminds me of my mother. And I hate my mother.
Itsjustme: That qualifies her for a Lifetime movie of the week.
Good God I hate Sarah Palin. I hope a grizzly bear eats her like Tim Treadwell.
Sara, if I were you — a girl can dream, no? — I would have put this article in the “Hellhounds” category like your other one here: http://wonkette.com/404297/heres-your-creepy-bald-dog-obama-girls
No Schadenstarbursts. She gives me nothing but a bored. The jacket should be euthanized, also.
robanybody: win.
Funny how her nose keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger…
NoWireHangers: I’ll watch the rest on my lunch break.
You’re trying to lose weight, aren’t you?
He seemed to writhe and cringe like Uriah Heep when he asked about the “wardrobe.” So I guess a question like “Straight up now, where’s the medical records for the fuckin’ baby already?” was always out of of the question.
And then there’s her annoyance with Katie Couric, who asked silly questions about “what do you read up there in Alaska,” because golly gee, she reads “the same things you guy read there in New York and LA”–which apparently still don’t have any, you know, actual titles.
DoctorCulturae: she keeps plastering on that make-up like a trollop, too. Makes her cheekbones look even bigger so her nose seems proportional.
Now that she can’t hurt me, I kind of like her.
As long as the media doesn’t seem to be able to ask her a serious question, could they at least ask her whether she sees her “Sambo beat the bitch” remark as relevant to her current situation.
Tommy Says Soooo: It’s been moved from Anchorage to the suburbs, i.e. Minsk.
dear sara,
giving birth to your brother’s - or some random rapist douchebag’s - baby (among many other things) is not “the true change that will progress this nation”
Also, check the bit around 5 minutes into this one, where we see little Piper in an “I (heart) NY” t-shirt. Or maybe it’s “I (heart) NY Stylists.”
Schadenfried: I’ll never get tired of Sarah. I just can’t get enough.
Aw shucks, guys! The little cutie just wanted to introduce McCain to “brag him up!”
If it wasn’t for those NY stylists (gay, Jewish, non-REAL Americans?) and staffers gettin’ in her way…
Whew! Really dodged a bullet there, huh?
Is that spray tan, or has she been hitting her tanning booth a bit hard lately? A few more weeks, and she’s going to make Obama look pale (and make leatherface look smooth and supple).
Why does this woman want to rule over me? Why? Why? Why?
I’m sorry, but your 15 minutes are up. Pull the plu…….
psychedelicSludge: I’m partial to “Princess Mooseturd”.
Matt Lauer is IN THE FUCKING TANK! with Greta Van Tautface, Sean Manatee, (the Unrepentant Karl Rove Blow-up Doll) and anyone else who keeps mentioning this abomination’s name, giving her time and air to tell “her side.” Be gone, Devil Woman, back to the Frozen Hell from which you spawned.
The clothes? Well, they were just like the lighting and the stage props. And I, Sarah Palin, am like an actress, who gets costumes from the studio that buys them for me so because they are not mine and I never really took possession of them, I don’t have to pay any taxes on them, so my attorneys tell me. Also.
Is she going to reverse school to get dumbed down? Every time she opens her mouth, these weird things emerge that have no relation to reality or any known language. Had she been the President at Gettysburg, the speech she scribbled on the envelope might have been different:
Ya’ know a while ago our four fathers (wink) founded on the state of America a new continent, conceived in our fundamental anti-witchy religiosity and dedicated to the preposition that no men and women, too, are created equal, you betcha’. (second wink). Bring home some mayo.
psychedelicSludge: desiderata.
look at her body language - she is lying -
“Of course I new that Africa was a continent. It’s not called the Dark Continent for nuthin’. You betcha”
ella: A Skrumish is an Alaskan word for a cross between a Skirmish and a Scrummage. It’s how they ass fuck, you betcha’.
Lord God almighty, woman. How can we miss you if you won’t go the fuck AWAY?
I wrote a pretty funny song about Palin for my website, but when it came right down to uploading it, it dawned on me that “any publicity is good publicity.” So I demurred. She’ll probably hang around to see if she has a national future with the GOP, so we can sing about her “live” when called for. Palin is a dangerous combination of anti-intellectualism, reactionary politics, religious zealotry and old-fashioned ignorance presented in a package that some find physically attractive. Beneath the Needless Markup exterior is Huckabee without brains.
longjohnson: Yeah, her lips are moving!
graceless: She needs the “I’m Just a Bill” and “Three Circus/government“.
And thus begins the Education of Sarah, the junior senator from Alaska.
She’s ‘Zestfully’ dumb.
What I find funny is she told CNN that all this attention on her is silly as we should be celebrating Obama and yet here she is, going on every tv station to talk about herself. And also, she’s done more interviews in the past few days than she ever did when she was actually running for office.
She can overrun the corrupt political establishment of those ruthless Alaskan politicians, but she just can’t say no to Prada.
Geez I’m really disappointed that “somebody” didn’t give Palin a chance, you know, to bring unity to the nation with what would be her historic out of the box and unprecedented concession speech. Woe to those, *sigh* y’know, nameless and faceless people, who are, well, cowards.
I mean so what? Geez y’know?
Heywood Floyd: It’s not for nothing that the devil wears Prada. QED.
Hope there wasn’t anything too funny in there, because I got to 1:17 on that video before I realized I can’t stand to hear Sarah Palin’s voice for more than 30 seconds at a time and I hope I never have to do so ever again.
Ignore her, maybe she will go away.
Sarah/Bristol 2010 you betcha!
Why won’t these teevee jackasses just go ahead and ask the question everybody wants to know: When are the clothes going to be put on eBay, especially the panties?
Matt Lauer is wearing John McCain’s trademark sweater/collared shirt/jacket combo. Cooincidence?
Notice that she denies shopping sprees at “the convention” - not on the campaign trail, which is what she’s been criticized for (Lauer - you missed a good follow-up).
Hear what Bush is telling Obama about Sarah Palin in this exclusive from their conversation at the White House yesterday, plus more tidbits from the “Advicer”:
http://panderwatch.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/bush-and-obama-at-white-house-private-conversation-caught-on-tape/
The fact that we don’t have to listen to this horrible cretin lie to us with a smile on her face for the next 4-8 years is what gives me hope for this country. She has a bright future as dictator of Americanfundamentalistbase. Which sadly for Sarah, is not a country. It’s not even a whole party.
hey now! she did tell one truth about the history of v.p.’s giving concession speeches - “of course i never researched it matt……”
RE: the last few minutes of this interview, about her clothes — if the pink jacket she’s wearing is any example, all I can say is her clothing sure looks a lot spiffier post-campaign than she did before (there’s a widely-circulated picture from only a few months ago of her wearing Uggs boots and a frumpy pink low waist frock that looks like a nightgown, holding Trig — see http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h4mOtJEDlTk/SLlReDziz1I/AAAAAAAACIs/e5sSv29dTxs/s400/untitled.bmp ; also, one of her sitting at her gubernatorial desk wearing that awful aqua-blue jogging-suit top).
Hard to believe she’s had time to go out and buy, on her own dime, $200 knockoffs of the couture stuff she’d been wearing DURING the campaign. That pink jacket COULD cost $200, but it also could be the “real thing”, a holdover from the campaign costing $2000.
I hope the lawyer doing the “clothing audit” laughs at her when she claims the pink jacket is something she had from “before”…
Wait… didn’t Naomi Wolf go through Al Gore’s closet and get him to change to earth tones? Which made headlines. Women’s clothing makes more news because men dress in a boring dark suit uniform.
Custerwolf: That’s what I thought was Sarah Palin’s problem all along, during the campaign. She never seemed to grasp that she was the VICE-PRESIDENTIAL candidate, not the presidential candidate. She would only be visiting the White House to confer with McCain, had they been (ulp) successful. It seemed like she had to be forcibly reminded toward the end of the campaign that McCain was with her on the ticket, and that his name was supposed to lead hers.
But all this is her campaign staff’s fault, of course, not hers. Just like clearing that phone call from “President Sarkozy” was their fault. If she knew ANYTHING about ANY kind of protocol, domestic or foreign, she’d know what her place was, and act like she knew.
Joe Biden came across as a loyal trooper, with a lot of class, even though his job was the Democratic ticket’s version of the “pit bull”. Sarah Palin, not at all, especially during those speeches where she grinned at the hateful shouting from extremists at her rallies, instead of shutting them up (or even lamely protesting them, like McCain).
On election night, before it came out that Ms. Dunderhead had an actual written speech in her hand, I could have guessed it. To me it was totally obvious that she was looking for an opportune moment to grab the microphone and deliver one final disjointed patriotic parable to her adoring public. It’s subtle, but as she is leaving the stage she hovers momentarily by the mic - hoping to christ that the crowd would sponateously burst into their “Sarah! Sarah! Sarah” anthem giving her that “open door” to blow off her handlers and answer the call. “Oh gosh, oh shucks - REALLY? Well, okay…..” It never happened and even through my teevee, I could feel her utter disbelief - and also that she was not elected Queen of the Universe - at least not until 2012.
But shopping sprees is how to deal with the 911s. If she returns the clothes…
Custerwolf: Eeeesh. The whole scene you paint is so Evita-esque to be fucking terrifying. Hopefully the Mayans are right. The world will implode before she gets another shot at becoming (*shudder*) President Palin. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go take a nuclear shower to wash off the stench after writing those two words…
I’m amused by her subtly nuanced denial re: wardrobe - “[I never asked] anyone at the convention to go out and buy … .” But then again, she’s always answered the question she likes rather than the one asked, and she generally seemed to take a genuine and heartfelt pride in her ignorance.
Great recent line from Paul Begala on TDS -
JStewart - “The polls show 80% of the GOP wants Sarah Palin to be a party leader.”
PBegala - “And 100% of the Democrats.”
She really is unable to articulate.
Wow. She just denies everything for 10 minutes. Why do an interview at all?
marioninnyc: Couldn’t have said that better myself! She is one of the mean girls for sure.
And I pray if the door is left open just a little bit, it will be slammed in her fucking face.
Now Todd on the other hand…
First Dude for Alaska Senate!
Aren’t we done wit her yet?
http://www.entertonement.com/collections/7226/clips/date
We’ll never be done with her unless someone severs her vocal cords. Until then, we need to try to enjoy it. Did everyone here her describe bloggers as “someone wearing pajamas in their father’s basement?”
Hahahaha!
http://godammit.com
“Oh, Gee Golly Wizzers; I don’t know what we’ll be doin’ in 4 years. Also, the kids will be in kindergarten birthin’ some more family members, also. I’m just plain ‘ole Sarah from Alaska, bein’ a Maverick!”
Yeah, RIGHT. No designs on anything other than PTA president/Mayor/Governor my furry little butt. Go ahead, Evita. The only difference is Todd’s no Juan Peronne.
nurple: Win!
So many gems in this one. I liked, “I have been great admirers of them…” And how about (concerning the speech in her pocket on election night, “…one was a concession speech, which would introduce him…” She planned on conceding the election, then “introducing” McCain? “Progress this country”? Priceless! Uh oh… she said “JEEZ” - isn’t she supposed to be religulous?
She blinks every time she lies. For a non-blinker she blinks an awful lot.
She’s not even a very good liar which is surprising considering the practice she’s had.
Interviewer (talking about leaks from the campaign): “people giving a gut” - eww! Is this how you Americans talk now? How is donating intestines a metaphor for speaking intuitively?
micapam: well, Matt Lauer is … how do you say in your country…. A TOOL. There is a reason palin has only interviewed w/ Charlie, Katie, Matt, and a handful of rightwing radio jockeys. She needs a tool to make herself look smart.
Except for katie kind of threw her for a loop cause everyone thought katie was a dumb tool but she managed to thoroughly befuddle her, which doesn’t seem all that hard…
for example, ask her the name of a newspaper she reads.
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