Last October when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was busily stoking the fires of racism and Islamophobia across Real America, she uttered this wonderful line about how Barack Obama liked to “pal around with terrorists.” And all the liberals got so mad at her! But really they should have gotten mad at master puppeteers Nicolle Wallace, Rick Davis, or Steve Schmidt, because one or some combination of them came up with those FATEFUL WORDS.
McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace sent an e-mail to Sarah Palin’s traveling party, a copy of which was later given to us. It read, “Goveror [sic] and Team: rick [Davis, the campaign manager], steve [Schmidt, McCain's senior adviser] and I suggest the following attack from the new york times. If you are comfortable, please deliver the attack as written. Please do not make any changes to the below with out approval from steve or myself because precision is crucial in our ability to introduce this.”
Included was a 164-word script that blasted Obama for his relationship with Ayers. The line that attracted the headlines said of Obama: “This is not a man who sees America as you and I do — as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.”
The governor was of course all over that shit, and very enthusiastically delivered the line over and over again.
We should have known that a phrase like “pal around with terrorists,” complete with a predicate and an object, and possessing all the coherence of normal spoken English, could not possibly have emanated from the brain of Sarah Palin.
(First person to end their comment with “Also.” will be banned, hunted down, decapitated, and fed to a grizzly bear.)
Report on Ayers Sped Up McCain Attack on Obama [Washington Post]
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Well, it figures that she couldn’t even come up with her own stupid ideas.
The original line “He likes to give terrorists like Bill Ayers a gentle tug to get money for his crack habit” was seen as too subtle.
But the words *didn’t* make sense. They just featured a verb, a preposition, and a noun in logical order.
REAL AMERICANS don’t say things like, “…is a professional associate of an individual who is responsible for the destruction of gov’t property 40 years ago.” They say things like, “HE”S A GOL-DURNED TEAR-WRIST CUZ HE’S FRIENDS WITH A TEAR-WRIST AND HE’S A MUSLIN!”
“Obama pals around with terrorists wink wink. Wait, I wasn’t supposed to say that last part.”
I wasn’t aware that Obama liked to pal around with Yoo, Addington, Feith, Bush, Cheney, Rove,…
In summary, then, the whole McCain campaign was full of whack-job divas.
Nicole Wallace is a fucking lying twat. I did SO make that quote up myself. Also. Also!
I suspected this. Cuz didn’t she als– I mean, in addition, didn’t she say “pallin’ around…” in her true Palinese? Because, hey, a mere 18 months ago many of us hardly knew then-Governor Palin, except maybe we just read “Palin” and assumed it was pronounced “pallin” and well, it really sounded like someone fed her that line as a joke.
[re=376514]magic titty[/re]: Well, at least it wasn’t a noun, a verb and 9/11. That was already taken.
Sara, why are you ignoring the real story — the discovery of Nobama’s real birth cerificate in Kenya?
“Is it ‘Pal around with lipstick?’ Nah, that doesn’t sound right. ‘Pitbull around the teabags?’ Still doesn’t sound right. Oh, golly-gee-willikers, I better get this right or that bitch Couric will grill me forevah.”
It was always clear Barry Soetero would continue acting at the behest of the Prince of Darkness, in the unlikely event he should be elected. Although conveying this point was beyond Palin’s skillset, it was also so obvious it really could have been left unsaid.
Speaking of terrorists, check out the great quote by B.Dohrn in this article – and Ayres’ excuse. It’s classic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/weekinreview/02decurtis.html?_r=1
[re=376521]sara_palin[/re]: If only it were that easy to ban her from the Earth…
When we think of the McCain-Palin campaign “precision” is one of the words that comes up first. Then we remember to thank our brave troops for keeping us free from a martinet like SKS who bans freedom-loving Wonketteers from using their favorite words. Likewise.
And the postscrpt said, ‘by the way, what are all these expenses to Nieman Marcus doing on the campaign charge account?’
I just always assumed that English is, in fact, Palin’s second language and that she’s reading well-written speeches directly from http://www.freetranslation.com.
Palin is the perfect useful idiot. They could let her run around the country saying all kinds of stupid shit and any blowback could be deflected with a quick off-the-record “what do you want from us, she’s crazy.” I hope everyone involved with the McCain-Palin retardation will put country first, eat a bag of poison dicks, and die.
Subject/verb agreement. I should have known it was all a lie!
[re=376514]magic titty[/re]: STRUNK/WHITE 2012!
Fuck, I hate misuse of the reflexive as much as I hate saying “thank you” in response to to “thank you.”
You don’t talk to Steve or myself, Nicolle, your ignorant slut, you talk to Steve or me. Really, people, is it that fucking hard? ME is not a dirty word. Nor is him, her, or them.
Palin, Palin, Palin! All the time Palin! When are you going to pay attention to me too?
Michele Bachmann
[re=376522]Don Juanquete[/re]: Well noted. One story line is that McCain, at some point, expected to lose and she was his scapegoat-in-waiting. Senate Politics 101.
A mere three months after the original banhammer missive (and 12,984 without-repercussion ‘alsos’), we appear to have movement towards my Utopian goal. Next up: turning into slurry those who persist in using LOLcatspeak a mere five years after the practice elicited its last chuckle. Oh, and mercilessly mocking website that continue their grim, humorless Bataan death-march of coverage on this dead horse.
Does the ban hammer encompass foreign language equivalents of my favorite expression?
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I love you.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]:
I share your Nazi grammar rage.
[re=376542]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Tell her Sir Paul just wrote a song for her.
Actually, I’m almost positive Sean Hannity invented that term on his radio show.
[re=376526]Dreamer[/re]: Silly. Everyone knows terrorist-palling-arounder Muslin Barack Hussein X was born in the slums of Indonesia. Will ya just quit with makin’ stuff up already, ALSO. ?
While we’re at it, could we also dispense with the “Muslim/Muslin” joke and the superfluous/arbitrary use of commas? They’re just too easy and way too overused.
The lack of the usual and customary capital letters in “Goveror [sic] and Team: rick [Davis, the campaign manager], steve [Schmidt, McCain's senior adviser] and I” has a hidden and secret meaning. Something is being communicated to me. If only I was to to tired and lazy to figure out what.
[re=376546]AKAM80TheWolf[/re]: Nein, das ist gut. Auch.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I feel badly about mistakes like this.
She’s Back!!!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32265027/ns/politics-more_politics
The McCain campaign seems insistent on blaming their massive failure on Sarah, because she’s so, you know, STUPID.
Stupid, she is, but their guy picked this idiot out of frostbitten obscurity and put her in a position to possibly hold an office that might actually count for something, if the old fart croaked.
And pardon me for dwelling on something that has been bothering me since the first days after the RNC.
I heard no on comment on this, ever, but does anyone remember their first ad after he picked her as “running mate.” It was two beautiful horses, running full-out gallop, showing them closeup, glistening with sweat, while the dubbed narrative talked about “Two Mavericks,” running together, or something. It gave me a queasy feeling the few times I saw it. Since it lasted almost no time, perhaps it creeped out some others?
Sort of like if Huckabee had a family-values ad, picturing him and his cousins gettin’ just a little bit friendly, in that Ozark way, if you know what I mean.
[re=376540]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Awesome.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Nicolle sends you a message: “Fuck yourself.”
(I’m just the messenger.)
Wow. They are really fighting over a line of which Theodore Cleaver would’ve been proud. This sounds like something Nicole W came up with. She and Palin seem about equal in intelligence. Though Nicole is way hotter.
If we can’t say Trucknutz, Also, Buttsecks, Moran, Muslin, Win, LOL, LULZ or eat a bag of dicks, what the fuck can we say? Hennnnggghhh?
[re=376553]bureaucrap[/re]: How dare you suggest doing away with Muslin. I suppose moran isn’t up to your standards, either? Hell, why not do away with new favorite Wonkett while you’re at it? You probably don’t find the word pants amusing, either.
I liked this story when it happened because she presented it as though she read it herself in that morning’s New York Times, which she just happened to be reading. And yeah, @DustBowlBlues, the McCain campaign is obviously responsible for bringing Palin on board. Not to be trite, but I love that there are so many parallels b/t Palin and the Iraq war, including but not limited to the fact that Bill Kristol thought (thinks) both were (are) great ideas. And as soon as it was clear that it wasn’t a good idea, all those assholes run for cover and try to blame someone else for not telling them it was a stupid idea to begin with. Thankfully for us, this time it just ruined the GOP.
[re=376552]sara_palin[/re]: My African side would protest because Barry Obama’s birth was the first scam by Nigerian scammers. Look how well it’s working out. No one but few clever patriots – led by their brave leader, Oraly Taint are onto this particular scam.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Hurray a grammarian who shares my ire. Next up – The vast moronic conspiracy to do away with the use of adverbs because it is too difficult to determine when to add the -ly at the end.
Run quick to the nearest exit. Blarghhhhhh
[re=376575]ogradybt[/re]: And that Ms. Palin is now addicted to the cult of celebrity no matter what she says to the contrary. She is one of those semi-old-fashioned girls whose mouth says no while her body says yes. All of us love the continuing mixed messages and naively wonder why. It’s a quaint trait passed down to her daughter als-. Even dwelling in Unconsciousness-ville she plays everyone the same way: good ole booty-power.
[re=376562]Don Juanquete[/re]: ““Fuck yourself.”’
Nicolle: All is forgiven. You used the reflexive properly.
[re=376571]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Just “muslin”. I believe in Incrementalism.
banned, hunted down, decapitated, and fed to a grizzly bear.
No rape in there? Must be a sleepy Monday morning.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Pardon the further analysis, but failure to use the evil word ‘me’ has Puritanical influence. ‘I’ can do anything it wants to do, is free to be Merican. ‘Me’ sits stationary in a point in time, and has to be responsible for past actions. The buck stops at ‘me.’ ‘Me’ is grammatically correct, but scary to consider because it forces the speaker to objectify oneself.
Clearly I need to get out more or move up the hour for cocktails to begin.
[re=376591]Seek[/re]: Although it isn’t grammar, could we please add the massive overuse of “essentially” and “basically?”
This AM on CNN, someone said, “Essentially, the Cash for Clunkers program ran out of money.”
No, it “ran out of money.” She wasn’t summarizing or boiling down anything. She was simply stating a fact. David Shuster (sp?) does this constantly, but he’s smart-alecky, which I like, and says “You’re welcome” when he’s thanked, so I can forgive him.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: My very own pet peave. Even Frank Rich is guilty of this annoying sin.
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Him and I always complain about that together.
[re=376601]DoctorCulturae[/re]: What the fuck is the fear of “me.” Even Hopey (since the congressional Democrats have fucked all his plans, should be called him “Hopeyed,” to indicate the hope is over?). \
He gave it to him and I. Oh, god, it hurts my ears.
[re=376601]DoctorCulturae[/re]: I forgot to mention that I love your analysis. Who knew a potty-mouthed site like wonkette.com would be full of so many grammar beasts?
I don’t have time to comment on this story. Some piping on my rag top has frayed loose, and it looks like rain today.
But I found this jazzy little sewing gizmo that sailors use to mend sails, so I’ll be out in the driveway for a bit.
Who knew awls sew?
[re=376607]bitchincamaro[/re]: It’s “peeve.” This is one of my pet peeves. Tambien.
[re=376586]Dreamer[/re]: Wow, you’re just not the sharpest piece of cheese on the cracker, are ya? Everyone knows Indonesia is IN Africa. Are you a Muslin moran or something, Also.?
[re=376541]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Thank you. . . er, I mean your welcome, ooo you’re welcome, ummm your welcomed. Oh, I mean, oops me mean, ooh just fuck you.
[re=376607]bitchincamaro[/re]: My pet peeve? People who misspell words like “peeve.”
Another blow to the cult of Say-ruh. It won’t be long before we see the hand going up her butt working her jaw up and down. Wish it were me. (I? Myself?)
[re=376605]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Break out the pitch forks and torches!
Basically, that is annoying as hell, and it is, essentially, unnecessary. Yes, I agree with the earlier comment about the overuse of commas, also.
I need to drink heavily, sorry, heavy.
[re=376633]sara_palin[/re]: I meant to do that. Hehe.
I’d rather have a misuse of a comma in a funny comment then a grammatically perfect complaint about the misuse of commas.
[re=376641]Seek[/re]: Spelling, grammar, and logic nazis all on one blogsite. Interwebs are the awesome.
Me wanna pal around with Palin. Pleeze. Never mind, I quit.
The real question is whether McCain invented the word “cunt.”
This is fucking English? “This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.”
Who fucking says this is English?
“this is someone.” OK, there is the subject, “This,” and the verb, “is.” “This is someone who,” thats interesting, we have now used three pronouns in the space of four words, all referring to the same person. This is English?
Someone who sees America as imperfect. OK, that would be fine, if it ended there. But wait, no, it goes on, “as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists.” Well, this makes sense, but not the sense she intends. She appears to be saying that Obama sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists. That would be America, that is imperfect enough that America would pal around with terrorists. Did I get anything wrong here?
By the way, whats the logic here, is “imperfection” a recognized prerequisite to pal-ing around with terrorists? Is there a presumed, well-known cause and effect relationship between BEING imperfect, and pal-ing around with terrorists, or is it a recognized cause and effect with SEEING AMERICA AS IMPERFECT, and pal-ing around with terrorists?
Is this recognized cause and effect relationship between either being or perceiving imperfection, and pal-ing around with terrorists, so well quantified, that there is any meaning at all to the use of “enough,” when she says “imperfect enough?” I mean, does this answer a question (how imperfect does This Someone view america (as being)?”) He views America as being imperfect enough (overcoming the well-known and recognized degree of imperfection below which one would not pal around with terrorists) to pal around with terrorists?
And what does it mean to add “terrorists who targeted their own country?” Do all these cause and effect relationships (viewing america as imperfect, when such viewing embodies an imperfection of sufficient (enough) severity, causes one to pal around, not just with any old garden variety terrorists, but only with that subgroup of terrorists which had (apparently in the past) “targeted their own country.”
One wonders what country this was. Nothing in the statement makes it clear that it is (was) America.
So I am still lost, Does This Someone view America as being so imperfect that America palled around with terrorists of the variety that used to target their own (presumably foreign) country in the past but no longer do so target their own country?
Or did This Someone view America as being so imperfect, that This Someone crossed over the boundary line marked by the degree of the state of imperfection one views america as being in, which separates those who will not pal around with terrorists of the type who targeted their own country in the past, and those who will pal around with terrorists of the type who targeted their own country in the past, but have ceased doing so? hey, “targeted” is a completed action, and it implies they no longer do, this must be taken note of, we need every clue.
Now, she could say, “This Someone is Someone Who views America as “so imperfect” that he pal-ed around with terrorists who had targeted America.”
But why this awkwardness, of “viewing america as so imperfect” or “imperfect enough?”
I mean, if what she means is “He hates America as much as the terrorists do,” there are ways to say that. I just said it, pretty plainly.
Orwell wrote about this kind of language, didn’t he?
[re=376601]DoctorCulturae[/re]: Free to be, you and myself.
[re=376659]Prommie[/re]: Yeah
[re=376635]Oldskool[/re]: It is I. (We had a nun in 8th grade who made us repeat “It is I” until it was ingrained in our brains.)
And now Obama pals around with racist cops.
This is a woman whose habitual sleazy lying hypocracy forces her as a means of presenting her vicious slanders in a manner which hides their real meaning to couch her statements in confusing and inherently obfuscatory passive constructions which allow her to purposely create the false impression on the part of a less-than-discriminating listener that her victim is allied with all manner of evil and criminal people and plans, while maintaining a plausible deniability which allows her, when called on it, to put on an insincere smile and deny any such intent at all, while sneering and winking to her supporters in the side. Also.
Break out the tuning forks and porches! It is essentially real important, that myself do this. Basically, too.
[re=376659]Prommie[/re]: Such, such were joys.
[re=376697]facehead[/re]: He thinks America is imperfect enough to dare criticize our brave men in blue, out there protectin’ us and our sacred second amendment personal rights to defend ourself from home-invasions with a gun, also.
[re=376688]AutomaticPilot[/re]: “Wish it were I?” That doesn’t sound right at all. Let’s go with whatever sounds right or we’ll be here all day. Come to think of it, we are here all day.
Is ‘hypocracy’ a government of needles?
[re=376605]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Basically, the essential problem is that you are literally tired of our overuse of these literally essential basics? Bah! It’s time to think different! Ow, my brain hurts after typing that. Literally.
Don’t cut her head off and feed her to a bear! What an awful thing to suggest!
Lock her in a room with a dozen starving timber wolves, the kind she used to like shooting from her helicopter. You can even give her a rifle, if you think it will help.
Grammar breasts? Luckily, I’ve never seen them. I bet they would be unflattering, considering that she is rather old.
What? Oh…nevermind, Oslo.
[re=376540]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Why is whitey always second? White/Strunk ’12!
[re=376717]dm[/re]: Sgt. Crowley, that you?
Also, APA/MLA, 2012!
[re=376545]norbizness[/re]: An old joke says something to the effect of a patient complaining to his doctor that his shoulder hurts when he makes a certain move with his arm. The doctor advises him, “well, stop doing that!”
I give the same advice to people who are tired of the Palin thread.
As a terrorist, I will not tolerate such a libel! She will hear from my barrister, who will serve her in her cold living room where her husband sleeps on the couch unloved.
[re=376698]Prommie[/re]: Wow. Is this the analysis of a librarian who has gone off her meds? Sarah doesn’t deserve the kind of articulate criticism you’re lobbing her way.
[re=376641]Seek[/re]: Don’t forget the flaming crosses.
[re=376659]Prommie[/re]: Flying Chainsaw! We missed ya!
After Clinton, my brother suggested an hundred years ban on a President arising from Arkansas. I do believe, after Goldwater & Mc Cain, that the GOP should consider a likewise ban on Arizonans even running for the Presidency.
I mean, Fife Symington’s not even eligible to vote for himself, anyway. & he’s seen a UFO. Coo-coo. Coo-coo.
[re=376605]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I love Shuster’s “You’re welcomes!
[re=376719]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Chicago Style Politics, always (D.C.: Wonkette, 2009).
I and I, for one (maybe two) never wish to see her rearing her head over my (our) airspace brandishing her new, sweet, sweet .50 cal AR-15.
[re=376657]AutomaticPilot[/re]: The real question is whether McCain invented the word “cunt.”
The Oxford English Dictionary states that John Sidney McCain III first used the word “cunt” in print in 1732 in a widely distributed pamphlet entitled “Mye Mother Thee Trollop.”
[re=376838]Jim89048[/re]: Those kinds of photo ops: they are a’comin. Sarah’s been wronged!
(just ’cause I like dancing close to the fire)
Sarah Palin, also-ran.
Are the producers of the 2009 re-make of Westworld missing one of their robots?
“Goveror” – that’s an excellent slip, so close to their real thoughts at the time: “Gov, error”.
Sarah needed to have that line suggested to her. After all, before Nicole W. emailed (is that a verb now?) her those lines she had written into her speech some mash of idiocy multiplied by lunacy and squared with her accent along the lines of “I’m a point guard!” and “I quit!”. Amazing what the ole’ snowbilly comes up with on her own. Words haven’t come out of a Palin’s mouth so wrongly since Bristol in the throes of passion accidently called Levi “Toddster”. Plus may I suggest using the ban-hammer on anyone who uses the tired cliches “it is what it is” or “synergy” or “on the same page”. Not that I’ve seen such cliches on a classy librul muslin site like this. That’s for morans.
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