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Class Warriors Blamed For Palin Failure

But she's so classy!Did you watch Sarah Palin’s hott new video with the porn king who once told Nate Silver to go fuck himself? Good for you! Some of your fellow Americans were not that brave, which is why it’s good that somebody took the time to type down a few of the best quotes, like where she compares herself to Caroline Kennedy and suspects that there “was a class issue here also.”

Also:

“I’ve been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled… and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope also,” Palin says. “Perhaps we will be able to prove that there was a class issue here also, that was such a factor in my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of her candidacy.”

Jesus Christ, Sarah Palin really doesn’t read the newspapers, or else she would see that Caroline Kennedy has definitely not been “handled with kid gloves.” And, as a point of fact, people disliked Sarah Palin not because she was hillbilly meth-capital trash — hell, so was Bill Clinton! — but because she was an idiot. Also.

Sarah Palin: ‘There’s a class issue here’ [The Swamp]


12:04 PM on Fri January 9 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. 4tehlulz says at 12:07 pm, January 9th, 2009

    There is a class issue. She has none.

  2. Gopherit says at 12:09 pm, January 9th, 2009

    4tehlulz: Damn….too slow on the draw

  3. It is a class issue. We expect our leaders to be at least semi-literate.

  4. golliwog says at 12:09 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I’m so tired of her fat tatooed lips.

  5. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool says at 12:09 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Can I haz new GILF?

  6. Poor Sarah Palin. Still the dumbest girl in the class.

  7. IceCreamEmpress says at 12:10 pm, January 9th, 2009

    There is nothing funnier than millionaires claiming to be the victims of class prejudice.

    Unless it’s arrant misogynists claiming to be the victims of sexism.

    OH SARAH PALIN NEVER CHANGE

  8. StephanieInCA says at 12:10 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Is there anything on the planet that is trashier than SPalin? Maybe a toothless meth-whore surrounded by crack babies and Trisha Yearwood CDs in a rundown doublewide conjugal trailer outside the state prison in the class-capital of America, Blythe, CA?

    Nah.

  9. AfghanVet says at 12:11 pm, January 9th, 2009

    The class issue is that she didn’t do very well in class.

    Just another Republican who mistakes fame and position for accomplishment.

  10. Good point on the Clinton thing. The difference between Palin and Clinton, other than that he’s smart? He KNOWS who and what he is and she’s got a whole herd of delusions.

  11. Serolf Divad says at 12:11 pm, January 9th, 2009

    She’s got half a point: the Kennedy’s are the closest thing America has to royalty.

    But that doesn’t change the fact that:

    a) Palin’s an idiot
    b) Palin was going to be VP for the oldest president in history who is slowly dying from face cancer of the skin.
    c) Palin’s an idiot.
    d) Kennedy is an appointee, and as such it’s the Governor’s discretion.
    e) Palin’s a lying idiot, taking credit for all sorts of shit that was just bullshit.
    f) Palin’s a vindictive idiot, using the power of her office to persecute her ex-brother in law.

  12. True, I bet no one asks Caroline about her meth-in-laws.

  13. Also there is another issue also. Our Caroline in the City is hoping to be a Senator, one of a 100, where it’s super-easy to hide out even if you are incompetent or deranged or both. I mean, Strom Thurmond was a senator until when? Maybe still? But Vice President to a 72-year-old broken down cancer victim? Yeah, it must be “class.”

  14. loudmouthredhead says at 12:12 pm, January 9th, 2009

    4tehlulz: Bravo.
    I loved how she said she still would have gone on SNL even after the teenage pregnancy jokes. She wanted fake Amur’ca to see how tough them Alaskans are, you betcha.

  15. Sassette says at 12:13 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Well hey, Caroline Kennedy gets to KEEP all her designer clothes. How is that fair?

  16. loudmouthredhead says at 12:13 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Hey now, let’s be fair. She had to give those fancy city clothes back…right?

  17. poptarts ' says at 12:14 pm, January 9th, 2009

    [re=214261]justlen: Or at least we expect our candidates to have passed some classes. Like maybe grammar.

    As for “hillbilly meth-capital trash” like Bill Clinton, I used to love when my beloved late aunt used to wax rhapsodic about Bill’s real daddy, Bill Blythe. According to her he was just the trashiest of the trash and the town drunk to boot.

  18. user-of-owls says at 12:14 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Somehow I have the feeling that the Governor was not the inspiration for John Lennon’s ‘Working Class Hero.’

  19. magic titty says at 12:14 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Fuck you, you dim slag.

  20. Serolf Divad: Your comment appeared after I hit “submit.” So I should just say that I agree with Serolf Divad also.

  21. loudmouthredhead says at 12:14 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Better alt-text: “I’m eating for two! Nom nom nom”

  22. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool says at 12:15 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Eff you, you haterz!!!! She WINKED at me. Starburst. Moose kiss. Sticky bits. I need a smoke.

  23. This is flogging a dead dolphin, but . . . .

    “There is a class issue, because she sat in the back of hers.”

    “There is a class issue, because most Americans prefer a potential Chief Executive who didn’t ride the short yellow bus.”

    “There is a class issue. You’re an uneducated, unwashed, inbreeding peasant. We are Arthur, King of All the Britons, made so by the Lady of the Lake . . . .”

    “There is a class issue: Caroline Kennedy’s mom defined “Smoking Hot.” You define “Warmed Over Leftovers.”

    I could go on, but it’s like clubby a gay baby harp seal - fun, but pointless.

  24. freakishlystrong says at 12:16 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Oh, Mama Grizzley, go field dress a fukkin’ moose and leave us in the lower 48 the hell alone…

  25. Gorillionaire says at 12:17 pm, January 9th, 2009

    After she shot this footage with John Ulcer Zeigler she probably went home and burst through the door shouting “Hey yaw everbuddy I’mma gonna be in the movies! Also.”

  26. The only difference between the Palin and Kennedy classes is the latter all get elected whereas the former all get appointed. Oh yeah, and meth versus booze.

  27. loudmouthredhead says at 12:18 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool: “sticky bits”? That’s what they call boy parts and girl parts up there in that wholesome abstinence-only education, isn’t it?

  28. ManchuCandidate says at 12:18 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Awww poor pouty facey Sawah. Still gowing thoo the stawges of gwief.

    Most people go thru grief in seven steps:
    1 SHOCK
    2 GUILT
    3 FEAR
    4 DEPRESSION
    5 DENIAL
    6 ANGER
    7 ACCEPTANCE

    Seems that folks like Sarah deal with grief in five steps
    1 SHOCK
    2 FEAR
    3 DEPRESSION
    4 DENIAL
    5 ANGER

    Step 4 and 5 are Republican/PUMA Faves.

  29. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool says at 12:19 pm, January 9th, 2009

    loudmouthredhead: +1!!!11!!! Also.

  30. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool:

    I suggest Martin O’Malley of Maryland, but he may be the wrong gender for you. His gender suits ME just fine. Yes indeedy.

  31. Still a stupid bitch, also.

  32. Colander says at 12:21 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Hmm, this story is credited to The Swamp. Does her vagina have a blog I don’t know about?

  33. loudmouthredhead says at 12:21 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Relax, everyone…She’ll just go oversee some more turkey decapitations and be her old self in no time!

  34. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:21 pm, January 9th, 2009

    NOT FAIR YOU MOTHA FUCKIN’ LIBERAL MEDIA ELITISTS.
    In Palin’s own words she stated not ONCE, not TWICE, but THRICE that she reads either “any of them, all of them,” and in that wonderful documentary about how the MEDIA VOTED FOR BARRY, she reads the “local newspaper, U.S.A. Today (hahahaha), and the NYT.”
    BE FAIR.

  35. Dramatist says at 12:21 pm, January 9th, 2009

    There was also the difference in approach, Mama Grizzly. You reared up on your hind legs and decapitated all media comers (and nearby turkeys) with your powerful maverickpaws while Caroline Kennedy just stared at the media with New England cold-cunt disdain and the dead black eyes of a shark. So yes, it was a class issue.

    That being said, both of you are useless and shouldn’t run a school board in Arkansas.

  36. rambone:
    “True, I bet no one asks Caroline about her meth-in-laws.”

    That’s because we’re all heard every detail possible already. How we’ve gone without seeing x-rays of Teddy’s head pre and post surgery, I’ll never know.

  37. Nigerian Business Executive says at 12:22 pm, January 9th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: That’s pretty good, but I think you left out a couple of steps:

    1 SHOCK
    2 FEAR
    3 DEPRESSION
    4 MOOSE
    6 DENIAL
    7 ANGER
    8 ALSO

  38. Cape Clod says at 12:23 pm, January 9th, 2009

    What the hell is that dipshit talking about? Caroline IS under a microscope. Last week, when she gave a blathering, incompetant answer to a question about what she stood for, the media all agreed that she remined everyone of Sarah Palin.

  39. loudmouthredhead says at 12:23 pm, January 9th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: You missed the “historical revisionist” and “MSM blaming” phases.

  40. freakishlystrong says at 12:24 pm, January 9th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: WIN!!1! And managed to slam the PUMA’s as well!

  41. loudmouthredhead says at 12:24 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Colander: CLASSIEST. WIN. EVAH.

  42. Yeah, a bias in favor of the reading class.

  43. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool says at 12:25 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I think loudmouthredhead’s “nom nom nom” is so utterly brilliant I am adapting it for everyday use.
    Like turning down the sound on Caribou Barbie and saying “nom nom nom”.

    Or translating PUMA posts here as so much “nom nom nom” of cheesecake.

    Or Blago’s Inaugural Address in Joliet as he is on his knees, “nom nom nom”.

    Hee.

  44. loudmouthredhead says at 12:25 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Colander: Actually, I think you’re referring to Twatter.

  45. Dramatist says at 12:26 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Nigerian Business Executive: I was stuck in Moose for almost three years last time I made myself a laughing stock in front of the whole country.

  46. Violenza says at 12:28 pm, January 9th, 2009

    This fucking idiot. The Republicans are all about “personal responsibility” as usual, right? She is the Queen of all Welfare Queens. I think someone’s a little jelly of Caroline Kennedy, eh?

  47. SwanSwanH says at 12:29 pm, January 9th, 2009

    blader: Why doesn’t she just say “handled with lace-curtain gloves” like she wants to.

    Why does Sarah Palin hate the Micks. Also.

  48. Uh, Caroline Kennedy is about to be appointed…she does not have a candidacy for anything.

  49. loudmouthredhead says at 12:30 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool: Alt-Text Alternative #2: “Damn…gotta look pregnant again. Nom nom nom”

  50. Another difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom, a pitbull would have done a halfway decent job of humping Katie Couric’s leg.

  51. The other photo that would work here is little willow with her LV handbag and a Big Gulp. Yeah, Britney Stylin’

  52. I don’t see how Sarah is able to read a teleprompter but not newspapers. Interesting!

  53. loudmouthredhead says at 12:33 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Bruno: You watch, my last alt-text may come true before you know it…

  54. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:33 pm, January 9th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: Nobody can deny her rants. When given a chance to speak these are her steps:
    1. TNT the hole.
    2. Dig lightly for a little bit.
    3. NOOK DAT HOLE.
    4. Place self in hole.
    5. Scream “ALLAH”
    6. Repeat Step 3.

  55. CorkPopper says at 12:38 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I love how there is often an inverse relationship between confidence and competence. In my biz (recruitment) I know that if a candidate says “no I have never worked with that technology but I’m sure it’s no problem” I know I am probably dealing with a loser.

    OTOH, painful as it is to say, I sympathized with Caribou Barbie’s class issue exactly once, when she said she didn’t have a passport because she didn’t come from a family where people went backpacking thru Europe after college because they had to get JOBS. Yeah, I’m still bitter about that too.

  56. loudmouthredhead says at 12:42 pm, January 9th, 2009

    CorkPopper: I bet your first entry under “Past Experience” on your resume is not “narcotic synthesis technician” though.

  57. Class? She has no class. She seriously needs some cheap cheese with her whine.

  58. BklynIlluminati says at 12:45 pm, January 9th, 2009

    White thrash is a class? I thought it was a state of being.

  59. Not_So_Much says at 12:49 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Someone needs to figure out a way to eliminate “therefore” and “also” from her vocab, then she will be silent….also.

  60. She may be arrogant, but at least she’s stupid.

  61. sarcasticusername says at 12:58 pm, January 9th, 2009

    god why won’t this dumb bitch just go away already?!? she should be thanking god that the media wasn’t flat out declaring her a mental midget every single day of the campaign; god knows the evil elitist media are the only folks still trying to convince everyone that she’s a viable candidate for the next go around. i hate that i live in a country where being dumb isn’t an automatic disqualifier from holding public office; i hate this anti-intellectualism/class warfare bullshit that constantly gets trotted out by the likes of sarah palin; if you’re a grade A dumbass you shouldn’t be given the power of public office to go about fucking things up for the rest of us. it’s not a class thing, it’s an intelligence thing; have people learned nothing from this whole W fiasco??

  62. I’m dumbfounded. I don’t know what to say. She is STILL SO GROSS.

  63. PrairiePossum says at 12:58 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Palin is a governor for God frickin’ sake, hardly an economically disadvantaged class.
    Her defeat had to do with being stupid, not her economic class.
    We had 8 years of stupid.
    Stupid caused American servicemen and women to die in an unnecessary war.
    Stupid lead to economic disaster because stupid didn’t know how to monitor the financial markets.
    In November, people voted for the smart guy because they were fed up with stupid being in charge.
    Obama’s mother was on public assistance and Obama had to be raised by his grandparents.
    Biden comes from Scranton, PA raised in a working class family.
    They were the working class candidates in the election.

  64. Gopherit says at 1:00 pm, January 9th, 2009

    ella: She’s a velveeta girl. Is it cheese? Is it spackle? It’s cheese AND spackle!

  65. Fivetree says at 1:00 pm, January 9th, 2009

    It’s a pity party, chock full of whine and cheese. Why is she shooting beaver in that photo? Who does she think she is, Sharon Stone?

  66. checkonechecktwo says at 1:02 pm, January 9th, 2009

    God! Why doesn’t she realize how stupid she is? Oh yeah.

    Also.

  67. Scott-san says at 1:02 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I happened to be watching MSNBC at lunch and caught a testy (ZING!) exchange between Ziegler and David Schuster. The Z Man called Schuster a “joke.” Which, okay, is fine . . . but, hi, Pot.

  68. Not_So_Much says at 1:03 pm, January 9th, 2009

    The more she speaks, the more Mittens and 911iani cackle about taking her apart in the next primary. Which may not be such a great thing for the Dems.

  69. NoWireHangers says at 1:03 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Also.

  70. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:11 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Barry’s first executive order should be to send a well-aimed ICBM straight to Wasilla. No fuss, no muss.

  71. El Pinche says at 1:22 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Yeah, lets interview her again and again and maybe, just maybe, she won’t spew retardation for once. I think Ziegler thinks he has a chance to taste her salmon pouch.

    Maybe Palin ment to say “party affiliation” or “political ideology” instead of class? Who knows. Who cares.

    Democrat Bob Poe, the former Alaska State Commissioner of Administration, seems to be her first opponent. He’s a formidable opponent because he’s fluent in english and does not have any ties with illegal Methamphetamine trafficking. It’s very likely Poe can read as well.

  72. Not_So_Much says at 1:22 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Fivetree: She only shoots animals from a chopper. Wait…what?

  73. lumpenprole says at 1:23 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I love her redundant babble. It’s like Ikea assembly instructions done in a Dada collage style.

  74. Doglessliberal says at 1:24 pm, January 9th, 2009
  75. Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool says at 1:26 pm, January 9th, 2009

    If you watch this imagining her in a corset it blots out the wordie things. Darn tootin’.

  76. yellowdogdem says at 1:28 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Terry: And he and Hills did a good job raising Chelsea. Apparently, Palin didn’t bother to mention birth control to Bristol.

  77. S.Luggo says at 1:28 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Doglessliberal: Steroids.

  78. Vanity Smurf says at 1:30 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Klassy.

  79. Doglessliberal says at 1:30 pm, January 9th, 2009

    S.Luggo: Guiness.

  80. populucious says at 1:31 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I really hate this mythology in certain segments of the American populace that success only counts if you started out with absolutely nothing. (”Nothing” in Palin’s case would mean the daughter of a doctor…so hard.) It’s irritating. Also. It encourages people to exaggerate the nothingness from whence they sprang.

    Plenty of the Kennedy clan have managed to spin out into rehab centers or die tragically and/or ridiculously. So kudos to Caroline for withstanding the pressures of a rarified existance to succeed at life. I’m not saying she’ll make a good Senator. I’m just saying she’s made some choices to be productive in her life, well before this Senate gig came along.

    And finally, Sarah, yes, Caroline has more class than you. She is better educated than you, and she’s smarter than you. She has more money than you, which is not why she’s a better person than you. She’s a better person than you because of the class, the smarts and the education. Gnaw on that for a while why don’t you?

  81. Fivetree says at 1:45 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Not_So_Much: Exactly - which is why only a virlie, burly, behemoth like Todd Palin has the stones to even go there.

  82. chascates says at 1:53 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I loved the setting of her interview; pretty classy digs. I guess she had Todd pick up all of his underwear from off the floor and made Willow pick up the soiled diapers. Other than that it’s pretty much like the Hyannisport compound.

  83. Dientes says at 1:55 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I’m totally in a class war with reptilia. I hate those lizard people.

  84. Woodwards Friend says at 2:02 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I hate William Jennings Bryan Republicans. Sarah Palin, you will not crucify civilization upon your cross of skank.

  85. Anyone who pays attention to the news would know that Caroline Kennedy is not being treated with kid glove…oh, wait. Never mind.

  86. whiteasasheet says at 2:15 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I was beginning to sense the quality of snark here was slipping post election…leave it to the “dim slag” (thank you, Titty!) to bring out the best in you!

  87. Neon Trotsky says at 2:25 pm, January 9th, 2009

    A good way to be vindicated by current events is to never take in more news than what can be absorbed on Fox News during soap opera commericals.

  88. lazynamepicker says at 2:42 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Once again, Sara Smith nails it.

  89. No moose is safe tonight.

  90. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:14 pm, January 9th, 2009

    This bitch has plenty of money - she’s what Roseanne would have referred to as “your worst nightmare - white trash with money”. She’s solidly upper middle class, but she’s also a fucktard. I think maybe it was a fucktard issue.

  91. Mr Blifil says at 3:18 pm, January 9th, 2009

    lazynamepicker: Sara Smith is Nailin’ Palin?

  92. sevenrepeat says at 3:29 pm, January 9th, 2009

    she puts the ass in class. but at least she finished high school, right?

  93. Whatupbitches says at 3:58 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Palin….the gift that keeps on giving!

  94. TexasCowGirl says at 4:01 pm, January 9th, 2009

    So she finally figured out that America thought she and her family were little more then trailer trash? Took her long enough. Maybe if she realized it during the campaign she wouldn’t have done or said half of the stuff she did and made a half assed attempt to look classy. Oh well, better late then never.

  95. King Rinzy of Rohan says at 4:02 pm, January 9th, 2009

    She’s already raising money for 2012. A family member has already gotten a bulk-rate mailing from her.

  96. ValleyDoll says at 4:15 pm, January 9th, 2009

    Not_So_Much: Please also add to that list “elite Media Establishment” and “echelon” (that one she overuses just to prove she knows fancy words and stuff). Also. kthxbai.

  97. Numbat Dundee says at 4:39 pm, January 9th, 2009

    So she’s a Marxist then - worried about being oppressed by the ruling class. A cunning plan to smuggle in a comrade disguised as a redneck bimbo foiled!

  98. assistant/atlas says at 5:59 pm, January 9th, 2009

    I desperately want to hear Peggy Nooningtonshire’s take on this, since she is the final arbiter of both class and taste….

  99. Also!

  100. Dammit. Kinda bummed she wont be VP. “Also” could have been the new “DESU!”

  101. NunnaTheSOBs says at 2:50 am, January 10th, 2009

    If McCain had just
    bent this wingnut
    over, and hit that
    stuff “doggie style”
    rather than offering
    her the vice presidency —
    we wouldn’t be stuck
    with these mutterings
    of the moose murdering
    MILF.
    How’s that for BOTH
    sexist and classist ?

  102. populucious: Spot on about the American obsession with trying to make pride out of their poorer-than-yours roots.

    I’m not sure if that is worse, or the people playing the ethnicity card: When my granpappy came to America he was discriminated against because he was German/Jewish/Arab/Polish/Irish/Italian/Greek/Chinese/Cuban/Mexican/Ewok [include any ehtnic group here]“

  103. villageatrois says at 12:51 am, January 11th, 2009

    Terry: Oh. Just Google “Ted Kennedy”+”x-ray”. It’s a pretty dismal world, all in all.

  104. villageatrois says at 1:04 am, January 11th, 2009

    Bruno: Ewok! High fours!

  105. AWOcoholic says at 2:17 pm, January 11th, 2009

    Sarah Palin = Human Jack-in-the-box

    http://yeahokthen.blogspot.com/

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