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Nutty Palin spokeslady Meg Stapleton was in New York when Nutty Palin suddenly resigned as governor of Alaska, the state that elected her as governor two-and-a-half years ago. Listen to Meg make NO SENSE as a baffled Anderson Cooper asks her again and again, “Lady why are you talking about basketball, and how does quitting equal leadership, and I don’t know who the hoop is, and who the ball is.” Cooper’s expressions around 4:40 are priceless. [CNN/YouTube]
“Hey, I don’t come to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth.”
Meg, Honey, how about an example of a politician leading by quitting?
I think everyone agrees that it is best for Alaska that Palin is not governor. Go Sarah! Perhaps she will soon conclude that it is best for humanity if she hangs out in a cave for the next couple of decades smoking doobs and breeding.
The look on AC’s face, when Meg tortures that basketball analogy, is priceless. Because when a point guard passes to another teammate, and then jogs off the court, THAT’s a leader, dammit!
She is leading. She can lead any way she wants to, just not from behind the governor’s desk. She’s going to show us what a leader she is by leading in whatever way she chooses, whether it’s by resigning and doing television shows or by passing the ball or any other type of leadership that’s out there. She could progress the state by passing the ball or going around the block or putting her stamp on things because the world is her oyster, and that’s what leadership is, Anderson. Anyone who knows her knows this is the kind of leadership she has — she goes out there and inspires people and — oh, fuck it Anderson, I don’t have the slightest fucking idea what’s going on — the woman’s fucking crazy, but all I can say is — stay away from that monster, she’s got contagious logorrhea. Look what’s happened to me! (sobs)
Sarah P. was jealous of all the media attention Mark Sanford was soaking up.
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“The world is LITERALLY her oyster,” declares Meg. So I guess Sarah Palin is actually some kind of giant space otter?
Clancy_Pants: Nixon?
I think the most important question this interview raises is: Is Meg Stapleton actually Kathy Griffin?
She is leading by dropping one title “Governor” for one with a better Scrabble score, “Quitter.” I can’t wait to see all the book deals based on her work product as the chief executive of AK. All those staffers who thought they had jobs til the end of the term will need a little scratch from somewhere. Here’s my advice, form a team for your behind the scenes book.
This is one client ol’ Meg sure isn’t going to miss.
beezie687: AC’s WTF expression at 3:45 is hilarious. Especially because he then tries to cover it by putting on a straight face.
He just slaps that deflated metaphor away: “I don’t know who the hoop is, and who the ball is.” I would call that a steal, if I thought that it made any goddamn sense to use basketball comparisons to begin with.
I really have to agree that the MSM is mostly to blame for this, because frankly, you can’t listen to her or her closest advisors for more than 10 seconds without concluding that they are a fraud.
I Am Not Your Gary Busey: It is a different accent actually.
Clancy_Pants: Clancy_Pants? Sounds familiar, methinks.
Nigerian Business Executive: They were perfectly matched: advanced cases of logorrhea.
Also, AC doesn’t make any “unstudied” moves when he’s on the air. Him scratching the back of his head at about 4:20 is a signal to us that he has no idea what this woman is talking about. Meg Stapleton came in for a whole lotta criticism in that devastating VF piece and I can see why. If she’s the “spokesmodel” for Sarah Palin and talks in these loopy phrases, it’s no wonder no one can understand Caribou Barbie when she steps to the mic. I still believe something is up that we will learn about in the next five days.
I like how Meg’s response to what specific things Sarah will do to lead–TV show? Speeches? Other?–is essentially the same one Sarah gave as to what newspapers she reads. Any and all of them. She does everything and progresses in every way and you know her by now Anderson and stop asking all these questions already! Meg sounds like Sarah Palin’s understudy.
The “news” in recent days has been dominated by reports of the meaningless affairs of second-tier politicians, the passing away of a has-been celebrity and now the resignation of a one-time political figure. Those are definitely epiphenomena and what is really going on is that there are wars being fought, a deepening recession, multiple threats to the environment, a serious attempt at providing decent health care for all Americans, etc. Can we now get back to the plot?
FYI: the world is not “literally her oyster” nor is the world literally anyone else’s oyster, except maybe some huge space alien who cracks open planets and eats their slimy insides like humans and otters eat oysters. also, fail.
Mel_David: damn, mel david, you nailed it.
poor my dead gay anderson…
is meg stapleton on fire and why not?
APPARENTLY, ANDERSON IS A SEXIST .
That must be one big fuckin’ oyster.
another thing, this palin crew seems to love the basketball, but don’t they know Barry fucking owns basketball? UNC hoops, nailing 3s for the troops while hangin’ in iraq > talking about a nickname given to an alaskan high school girl’s basketball player. Anger Bear’s biggest competition for starting point guard was an inuit girl who missed half the season for whale hunting, and yet SP still resorted to Tonya Harding tactics.
That is one heck of a big oyster. Makes you want to see what the pearl looks like.
Mahousu: Ha ha, it’s funny cuz it’s true. Just saw “Frost/Nixon” on a plane. Quite good. You wouldn’t imagine anything could make you feel admiration for or sympathy towards Nixon, but it kinda does. And I hate Nixon.
charlesdegoal: I don’t think American Media is *capable* of getting back to the plot.
When allegedly serious news organizations are running the SAME EXACT STORIES as Wonkette and David Letterman, there really are no serious news organizations left in the country.
Honestly, Andrew Sullivan is a far more serious news organization than, say, CNN.
About the only sensible statement repeatedly coming out of the Palin camp is that her quitting is the best thing for the state of Alaska.
pat robertsons personal trainer: Holy fuck, she’s Cthulhu the Starburst Beast. Spreading insanity and destruction through maddening audible onslaught, and is now poised to literally shuck and swallow the planet.
Ken Layne: When you get one of them fancy Noo York copy editors for your book, she’ll make you say “American media are capable…”
Palin’s Folly.
Won’t someone please think about the poor Alaskans? At least South Carolinians’ crazy-ass governor had a sort-of standard excuse for his irresponsible behavior. Palin offers no reason for quitting, not even a stupid one, as though her constituents don’t even deserve an explanation. She seems to think her cute l’il governor hat is like a leopard-skin pillbox or a black velvet cloche — a fashion accessory to be traded in on something more becoming when it strikes her fancy.
That spokesperson, to borrow a line from The Hangover, is a ruh-tard.
One of the ‘writers’ over at RedState is telling his pitchfork-bearing loyalists that, “Conservatives should be bigger than the cult of personality that inhabits the left.”
ON FUCKING REDSTATE!
My head hurts.
So she wants to support the troops.
A state’s governor is the commander-in-chief of that state’s National Guard, so by resigning, she is supporting them by abdicating her command.
Got it.
I think the real story here is Anderson Cooper comes out of the closet, clearly anyone that admits he doesn’t know anything about sports is a homo. You betcha.
Remember that Iraqi guy who insisted there was no invasion when there was and we all laughed like “hahahahahaha, look at that boob with the funny hat!” but he had a lot of conviction to go along with his private sense of despair and later he was probably hanged or something?
Meg Stapleton is exactly like that guy. But with moose antlers (horns?).
V572625694: Someone’s just asking to be shucked and eated. Literally.
Mel_David: “The world is LITERALLY her oyster.” She wants to “serve” america by “building us up”. Holy shit, IT”S A COOKBOOK!!!! Sara will have us all on the half-shell!!!
V572625694: Whatttt???
I hope old Meg gets paid buckets of money. She gave up a reasonable career in TV news for this crud.
“or ultimately in life either” wow, just wow…by saying nothing i say everything.
Clancy_Pants: Jean Claude Duvalier?
This is like when you ask my retarded uncle if he likes hamburgers or hot dogs better, and his answer is “both.”
Nixon and Bebe Doc Duvalier. So far so good. Any politicians you Wonketteers thinks our Wasilla Hillbilly wants to emulate?
that babble spice, she’s such a maverick, ain’t she? she’s running like she’s being chased by a hot-brand wielding cowpoke.
Actually, leading by quitting is not a bad idea in Sarah Palin’s case. There are many politicians who would be doing a noble, patriotic thing by following her example.
Clancy_Pants: evita?
Basically, the Alaskans were expecting poor Sarah to actually work as governor as opposed to giving speeches and signing book deals.
I Am Not Your Gary Busey: I would SO LOVE to hear Ms. Griffin’s opinion of Sarah Palin…please please please.
Terry:
It’s becoming obvious that the real reson Palin is doing this is to make more money. She’s only getting 82K a year as Gov. No doubt Meg plans on riding this gravy train all the way to Kachingville. Allllllll aboard.
I’ll bet Hopey can come up with a basketball analogy that makes sense.
Anyway, good riddance to rubbish.
Now, is there any chance Joe the Plumber can resign from ..uh.. whatever?
Oh, if only she had literally fallen on her sword.
I kind of like her comment when asked what she was going to do; anything you can imagine was the answer. Well, how about prostitution, or being Minnie mouse at Disney land or going to Afghanistan in person negotiate with the Taliban/ Al Qaeda dudes for kidnappered people. Or armed robbery oh she may have done that already.
Ken Layne: So very true. I had CNN on for a few minutes during right about the time Palin had her press conference, and I swear,the lady anchor made a very brief comment about Palin resigning, and then said, “But getting back to Michael Jackson…”
OMG WHY WON’T THEY LET SAY-RUH BE SAY-RUH??? LEAVE SAY-RUH PALIN ALOOOOOONE!!!
So, as Meg reminded Anderson and us repeatedly, Sarah will work for energy independence and national security, both of which have been TOTALLY ignored by those for whom the world is not literally an oyster.
Damn it, Barry, are you listening? Energy sound familiar? National Security ring a bell?
God help us, it’s obvious now we made the wrong choice in November 2008. Had we voted right, McCain would be on his deathbed and energy independence would - finally! - be within our grasp!
Oh, how my oysters ache.
AC, stop being mean to Palin lady by asking her for specifics and clarification!
Clancy_Pants: Ferdinand Marcos, also.
I find in curiously refreshing to see a news reader stop in mid slurp and ask “What the fuck is this shit on my spoon?”
And yes, I played basketball and trust me, none of that shit Palin/Meg said makes any fucking sense whatsoever.
When the final scandal hits, Meg can always go back to the farm. Lots of shit to shovel there.
Mel_David: The world is, literally, her oyster, but alas, the world happened to be contaminated with Norovirus and gave her a severe case of diarrhea. Sorry about that.
pat robertsons personal trainer: Granted, my sports of choice are baseball and football (soccer to heathens.)
I am, however, somewhat familiar with basketball, having walked through the family room one day while the worthless menfolk were sitting on their asses, drinking beer and watching a b-ball game.
From my three minute glance at the teevee screen, I discerned the following about the sport of basketball: that when a player passes, they don’t run to the locker room, change into red leather, check their makeup and leave their four teammates remaining on the court on their own. I suppose that, like everyone else, the rules of B-ball in Sarahland are different.
Though the gay silver fox doesn’t know anything about basketball, he was able to discern that this Meg woman doesn’t know shit from Shinola. Being the pro he is (remember Katrina, people!) he refrained from saying it, instead letting the expression on his handsome face say it for him.
What does this have to do with ninja turtles? They are “heroes in a half-shell”.
Hoop? Ball? Am I the only one with smutty mind around here? Somehow I doubt it and I”m sure AC knows what I’m talkin’ ’bout…
Ken Layne: “Honestly, Andrew Sullivan is a far more serious news organization than, say, CNN.”
Hmm, wasn’t there an issue in that little African country Zimbabwe? Wait, that was so five news cycles ago. Who the fuck cares?
For my news, I read the CS Monitor online and the weekly. Additionally, I follow wonkette faithfully. I find the two pretty much bring me all the news I need, and more, with little or no mention of pop culture. Huffpo can’t say that.
MzNicky: That’s a really clever analogy–the pillbox and the cloche. Thank you. I shall steal it.
In Meg’s insane response about Bible Spice’s “vast array” of opportunities, did anyone else hear echoes of Palin’s response to Katie Couric’s hardball question about what newspapers BibleS reads?
If Meg is channeling the boss, maybe Meg is the next female AK political phenom.
We seem to be forgetting the central question here: if she’s running away from her happy post as leader of Alaskaland, what the fuck did she DO?
Is Sarah the hoop? Also.
” If the world wants you to be a celebrity, why bother with the grinding details and all the frustrations of being governor of Alaska? Be a celebrity.”
From the above, (The Corner) I can’t discern whether of not Sarah’s latest move is giving him starbursts in his boxers or not.
Perhaps he’s saying that this is the world’s fault, that Sarah isn’t “allowed” to be a serious governor because the world wants her to be a celebrity. What would the right do without victimhood?
snott: Some folks don’t really see the point in watching grown men play childrens games. You’ll come to understand this about a week before you execute your television in an act of self defense. I don’t think it comes down to how you define sexytime, it’s more a question of how real you think “real” ought to be.
I’m Ron Burgundy?
Is “oyster” some kind of Alaska code for lesbian clit-tonguing? Because if so, there’s going to be a world of pissed-off lesbians when Sarah walks off of that when she’s only 2/3 of the way done.
Cleary, when Anderson says sports he’s not including watersports.
The strange cult members of Sarah Palin are like the followers of “Tommy” -
“Put on your eye shades….Put in your ear plugs…..You know where to put the cork….”
The problem is that Sarah doesn’t isn’t even “The Pinball Wizard”. She is just a (reasonably hot) middle aged, loony bitch, with a slacker for a husband, too many kids, and is inflicted with hot flashes and delusions of grandeur.
Hopey is a lock for reelection for 2012. Hell, he may even be able to abolish the Republican Party as a dangerous, seditionist organization after this fiasco!
I’m waiting for Meg’s explanation of the split-strike conversion.
Everything is different, but the same… things are more moderner than before… bigger, and yet smaller… it’s computers… Wasilla High School football RULEZ!
“Who’s the hoop?” I fucking love andy now. I love the bitch I make too much money to listen to your batshit ramblings and pretend they make any sense expressions on his face.
I think Meg had gotten into Rushbo’s stash. Props to AC for not bursting into peals of laughter at any time during Meg’s babbling insanity.
Clancy_Pants: Well, while he didn’t exactly quit first, there was an outsider politician who could really shake up the “real citizens” of his country with his personal charisma, who appealed to the troops all the time, and made odd claims about national security and claimed to know what the country really needed, who instead of getting elected was named leader of his country by Erich Von Hindenberg back a few years ago.
I get it! If Reagan had shown this kind of leadership and resigned in ‘82 and Herbie Walker Bush had continued the proud tradition by resigning in ‘83 then we could have had President Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. - a great leader except for the drug laws fuckup.
Great lines in politics
“I am their leader, I must follow them”
“I am the decider”
“I’m not taking the quitter’s way out, I must quit to lead”
Oh Sarah you really are the gift that keeps on giving. I’d say I’m sorry to see you go, but I have this sneaking feeling that we have a few more christmasses to come yet.
snott: I new he was full of shit when he claimed to “not know anything about balls”.
“Literally” her oyster? Someone’s trying to channel the person who really got the job that Sarah wanted.
But as much as I’m a Biden fangirl, that’s not something to emulate.
What I want to know is: Whose gonna pay for my broken bullshit-o-meter? These things aren’t cheap.
“She’s got oodles and oodles of neat offers for the future!”
Mel_David: that was my thought. knockin’ together a basketball and freedom to crack the mother fucker.
MzNicky: They voted for the crazy, and that’s exactly what they got. It’s not like she’s the lone loon in a string of otherwise rational, sensible people elected to statewide office in Alaska.
Anderson and his “I know nothing about sports” retort was adorably metro. He should have asked if the point guard is the one who kicks a touchdown.
(*I’m quoting A. Sullivan.)
Does everyone in Alaska speak in the same nonsensical run-on, fragmented thoughts? She talks like and speaks the same language as Sarah Palin; incomprehensible and unintelligible dishonesty.
Clancy_Pants: I guess one could go out on a limb here and say Hitler. And Goebbels, and everyone else in the bunker who shot/poisoned themselves all to hell. Also.
Quitters.
Poor Meg, what will she do now? I’m predicting spokespersoning Salad Spinner commercials
Voyou Charmant: “Does everyone in Alaska speak in the same nonsensical run-on fragmented thoughts?”
That’s the meth talkin’
“I’ll let it go because I don’t know anything about sports.”
LOLwhut? Who is this guy?
Sarah Palin is a giant moose turd of fail. Poor Meg had nothing to counter Anderson’s logic.
Mel_David: I don’t want her slurping me. Ewww!
Why didn’t Andy ask Meggers when Nailin Paylin: The Sequel comes out?
Her dead fish reference was a real corker! Right after she said it I was thinking “Don’t fish swim in schools? Dead fish just sink to the bottom and rot.”
I’m not all that keen on sports, either, but even I know that when you pass the ball, you still have to stay on the court, participate with your team, and continue until the game is actually over. You don’t just pass the ball and wander off to the showers to go do something else. Apparently she doesn’t know the difference between delegating and abdicating.
And this “she made her decision in a vacuum”. What? Surrounded by state legislators, reps and senators, advisors, counselors, and others, how could she make such a decision “in a vacuum” and still claim to be doing what is best for the state? Are not those advisers and elected representatives supposed to be consulted to help her know what the state needs?
She is not showing leadership, but self-centered quittership.
I’m pretty sure that under both state and federal laws, use of the word “progress” as a transitive verb is a capital crime. So, Meg, soon-to-be-ex-Governor, we’re going to need you to come with us.
Also, I love the idea that the woman who’s completely in denial about the fact that she tanked McCain’s campaign is whoring herself out as a campaign consultant. The motto on her business cards: “Don’t do as I do or as I say.”
The only thing Palin’s leading is the republicans into the toilet!
beezie687: No, silly, that’s a maverick!
d4g33z: Personally, I had a hard time keeping a straight face with all the oyster comments…
And it’s not like she’s a serious politician, so why listen to anything she has to say with a serious frame of mind? Did she do anything but breed and create kids, anyway? I think it’s rather appropriate…
Holy smokes!!!
Just when you thought palin was the most STUPID person on her team, up jumps stapelton to snatch that honor away!!
After listening to this mish-mash of moron that spilled from her mouth, I’ve come to understand how Caribou Barbie has been able to continue in her long campaign of stupid. Usually a politician will surround themselves with SMART people to make up for their personal lack of brain cells, NOT in this case. After all, palin is a self-confessed “Maverick”! And so, it’s obvious palin is so insecure that she only surrounds herself with people who are as dumb, or worse, more stupid than she.
Understanding this, I hope we will continue to watch this Wasilla Hillbilly destroy herself politically. There is NO WAY anything good could come from putting caribou barbie into a national office. Her stupidity runs so deep, a palin administration would be like the bush administration on “Stupid Steroids”.
I hope the nation understands the gift palin has given us. She has given us the gift of a nation devoid of palin stupidity, for this gift, the USA is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better off!!
Ya think?
Suds McKenzie: He knows all about *where* the balls are.
My fav Meghan Stapleton line: “She doesn’t have a next step decided yet,” Stapleton said. “We will just have to wait for history.” I hate having to wait for history…it takes so long to come, and then when it does, it’s so “yesterday’s news”! Hurry, Sarah, make history so we don’t have to wait for it one more second!
Throughout America, people are returning to their crappy jobs today and for once, even those that literally shovel manure and unclog sewer lines can say, “Hey, at least I don’t have Meg Stapleton’s crappy job!”
Dam, s’he makes me hot. I need a cigarette just after watching that.
Attention deficit disorder. She’s off her meds again.