• May 26, 2012

Sarah Palin Has No Idea What Iran, And Therefore Iraq, Is

by Juli Weiner  


Watch Sarah Palin go on and on about Iraq in response to the question of what the US should do about Ahmadinejad and a nuclear Iran. She says “Iraq” twice, which, according to reality, is different from Iran, the country the Iranian President is the president of. Andrew Sullivan this fact’s already been checked! [the invaluable TPMtv]

{ 79 comments }

Potater November 19, 2009 at 11:16 am

“Everywhere like such as, the Iraq, and South Africa, like such as.”

Red Zeppelin November 19, 2009 at 11:16 am

‘Cause like I been to, y’know, Paris, Beirut, y’know, I mean, uh, Iraq, Iran, Eurasia… y’know I speak very, very, um fluent Spanish — ‘Todo ‘sta bien, chévere’ — you got that? “

Scottie November 19, 2009 at 11:18 am

Like W before her, this “one” makes my head hurt with meaningless babble.

Decker November 19, 2009 at 11:19 am

When you put a giant pause before and after IRAQ (for gravitas? can’t read her cheat sheet?), it only makes you look like that much more of a beauty pageant contestant.

Also, isn’t Todd a holocaust denier as well? Maybe we should cut off his petroleum products.

ManchuCandidate November 19, 2009 at 11:22 am

Her “base” of undereducated botards would just shrug and say “Iran Iraq, what’s da defrance?”

I have a sneaking suspicion that Preznit Palin (shudder) would be the first leader ever to ever destroy a friendly nation because she can’t tell the difference between a Q and an N.

Doglessliberal November 19, 2009 at 11:22 am

I would like Sarah to explain in clear, articulate, sensible detail what “crack down” means. I’ll even give her that she misspoke and meant Iran. What, Sarah, do you mean by crack down in Iran? How would you do this? What do you think the effect on our relations with other Middle eastern countries would be if we “crack down”? Do you want to crack down on Iran as we did on Iraq and open another front in a generalized war against Middle Eastern countries?

Oh, sorry, I was having a fantasy that her interest in politics goes beyond her belief that it is one big beauty pageant and We Love Sarah pep rally. Hahahahahah, silly me.

freppish November 19, 2009 at 11:22 am

i wish someone would ask her about sunni and shia, i bet her answer will be even more fun

PrairiePossum November 19, 2009 at 11:22 am

All those damn muzlins look the same to Caribou Barbie.

rabblerouser42 November 19, 2009 at 11:23 am
TicChiracTac November 19, 2009 at 11:25 am

She wants US to get help from those socialist Frenchie commmies? Only if we use them as human shields, but then they’re too skinny to protect our brawny Americans.

Servo November 19, 2009 at 11:25 am

We can ill-afford another Klendathu, also.

Pithaughn November 19, 2009 at 11:26 am

If you are interested in a fairly serious piece about the Queen of the Far Right Super Pious movement:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/18/805704/-Dont-Get-Palins-Appeal-Try-a-Little-Harder
PS I am not Feldman or a cranky vet with a crazy Greek name, just saying.
PSS some of the comments are enlightening also there.

hunter.blatherer November 19, 2009 at 11:26 am

I like how Hammity doesn’t correct her. This is all nuance, since the goal is to blow up the whole region (yes, Israel included, since it will happen at the time of the Second Cumming).

kewlguy42069 November 19, 2009 at 11:27 am

persians > arabs

Canuck13652 November 19, 2009 at 11:27 am

It must be tough to have so many buzzwords memorized and to have to order them and put connecting words . . .

charlesdegoal November 19, 2009 at 11:29 am

OK. She’s stupid. More so than Dubya even. You want her as president, be my guest, but please, can we move on to some other topic?

teebob2000 November 19, 2009 at 11:30 am

Damn!! They cut off the video before Hannity goes off on her for not knowing what the fuck she’s talking about, and then throwing it to commercial. That was the best part!!

Lascauxcaveman November 19, 2009 at 11:30 am

Of course she uses ‘Iran’ and ‘Iraq’ interchangeably, they are both politically correct speaking-to-the-media terms meaning ‘Ragheads.’

CrunchyKnee November 19, 2009 at 11:30 am

“Bassakwards.” “Tellin’ it like it is.”

Yaaay, we get what we deserve.

JMP November 19, 2009 at 11:30 am

[re=462398]freppish[/re]: That would be an unfair “gotcha” question, like asking what newspapers she read!

Mustang November 19, 2009 at 11:31 am

I love it when Sarah starts talkin’ her “also” talk! Only a pointy head intellectual would know the difference between Iraq and Iran and who cares anyway? No time for that! She’s a real American. I don’t like that France talk, though. Did she really say we should talk to France?

queeraselvis v 2.0 November 19, 2009 at 11:31 am

Sarah’s not interested in any place that doesn’t have the huntin’ and the fishin’ and the hockey moms.

Mustang November 19, 2009 at 11:32 am

[re=462408]Canuck13652[/re]: Yeah! How come no one appreciates that?

Click November 19, 2009 at 11:35 am

Iran, therefore Iraq.

Katydid November 19, 2009 at 11:37 am

Watch out, Juli, you’re gonna get put on Fox’s liberal bloggers list, and they’re gonna cut your access to their comedy clips.

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fox-shuts-liberal-bloggers/

Also, the better clip is the one where Sarah answered Hannity’s questions about what she reads:

“That I screwed up on, my bad. I did a horrible job with that and let my annoyance to show so brightly. It was very unprofessional of me, I shouldn’t have done that. She asked about what I read, and I read Newsmax, and The Frontiersman, and Wall Street Journal, and everything online, I absorb the news via many, many sources.”

(Is it just me, or does that sound a little bit dirty? The part about Newsmax, I mean.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rq8Jrl5lk8&feature=player_embedded

Click November 19, 2009 at 11:37 am

[re=462391]Red Zeppelin[/re]: Everybody’s got a thing, but some don’t know how to handle it.

stumpycuse November 19, 2009 at 11:45 am

[re=462429]Click[/re]: +1

Jim89048 November 19, 2009 at 11:46 am

[re=462391]Red Zeppelin[/re]: I always thought Stevie was sayin’ Chevrolet there.
Fuck.

WarAndG November 19, 2009 at 11:49 am

I want her Presidenting so bad.

What Fresh Hell is This? November 19, 2009 at 11:51 am

Cue Music: “You say Iraq. I say Iran./Let’s call the whole thing off.”

binarian November 19, 2009 at 11:55 am

And there’s a whole class of people who want her for president. We are truly a nation of stupid.

Servo November 19, 2009 at 11:56 am

Iran, Iraq, Irate. All the same. Nuke ‘em all for Jeebus!

Doglessliberal November 19, 2009 at 11:57 am

[re=462431]Katydid[/re]: Easy to be fair and balanced when you have an audience who watches to hear what they want to hear, and you tell them what they want to hear and cut everybody else off.

WhatTheHeck November 19, 2009 at 11:57 am

Iran Iraq
Slovenia Slovakia
Russia Prussia
Uruguay Paraguay

You say tomato, I say dipshit.

CycloneArmageddon November 19, 2009 at 11:57 am

Today we are all Miss South Carolina.

rachelv November 19, 2009 at 11:59 am

OK, let’s say she meant Iran, and knows that Iran does not equal Iran.

Why do all Republicans insist on calling it “Eye-rack”?

Airborne Toxic Event November 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Aside from the the Iran/Iraq aphasia, most of what she’s talking about is already being done. Sanctions? Only for the last thirty years. Talking to France and England? Duh. Also, sounds strangely like multilateralism. So she’s clearly behind Obama. If only she could get over his Africanicity.

El Pinche November 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm

ALL OF YOU LIBS ARE AFRIAD OF SARAH’S STUPIDITY AND MORANISM.

Tundra Grifter November 19, 2009 at 12:01 pm

[re=462458]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: You say Iraq; I say Iran.

You call me a quitter; I said I have a plan.

You want to win in America; I want to win in Afghanistan.

Let’s call the whole thing off…

ithasatilde November 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Has anyone mentioned this yet? Because I’m pretty sure this is where she goes for foreign policy insights.

Tundra Grifter November 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Sheer “Am I An Idiot?” InSannity couldn’t correct The Gov’Nor’s errors because, as ClusterFox gabag, he’s contractually barred from playing the dreaded Fact Card.

plugnpillai November 19, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Say it with me, numbnut conservatives – EErack, EErack, EEran, EEran.

One more time they take the name of those two countries like it is an Apple product, I am gonna shoot the m-fers.

Blue_in_VA November 19, 2009 at 12:19 pm

I think I’ve figured it out. When she starts droppin’ gs and gettin’ all fist jabby well, that’s the moment the cerebral train is startin’ to come of the track. She starts fallin’ back on the only thing she knows: goin’ folksy. If Regis were sittin’ there instead of Sean, she’d ask for a 50/50 or to phone a friend. No point, though, in askin’ for a poll of the Fox audience, because they’re just as vapid as she is. Also.

In what regard, Charlie?

OReillysVibrator November 19, 2009 at 12:20 pm

“Shakin’ things up!” Drink!

proudgrampa November 19, 2009 at 12:24 pm

[re=462482]Tundra Grifter[/re]: “Facts? I don’ got to show you no stinkin’ facts!”

Failed 2 Menace November 19, 2009 at 12:29 pm

When Alan Jackson sings “I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you/The difference in Iraq and Iran,” Sarah closes her eyes, raises her hand as if to offer testimony, and coos softly along, immersed in the profundity of her own experience as reflected in a country song.

binarian November 19, 2009 at 12:32 pm

[re=462405]Pithaughn[/re]: Excellent link and article. Thanks.

Stoned November 19, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I just clawed the flesh right off my face.

binarian November 19, 2009 at 12:34 pm

[re=462404]Servo[/re]: HEINLEIN!!! DEATH TO THE BUGS!!!

BlueStateLibtard November 19, 2009 at 12:34 pm

You libtards, always so picky, they’re full of browns, so what’s the difference?

Atlas Spanked November 19, 2009 at 12:36 pm

All you Outsider metrosexuals have no idea how much Alaskans hate Sarah Palin. She’s the Perez Hilton of wingerdom.

Suds McKenzie November 19, 2009 at 12:40 pm

At least she didn’t Bow to Hannity.

chascates November 19, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Meanwhile, in Grand Rapids:

“Alaska and Michigan have so much in common, with the huntin’ and the fishin’ and the hockey moms, and just the hardworking, patriotic Americans who are here,” Palin said.

She actually said that. Those words.

GeneralLerong November 19, 2009 at 12:45 pm

[re=462405]Pithaughn[/re]: Tnx! I needed that.

And you’re right, lots of gristly comments to gnaw on.

slappypaddy November 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm

she needs to put the crack down

PickneyPinchback November 19, 2009 at 12:57 pm

[re=462398]freppish[/re]: Whether the Muslins are sushi or chia, it don’t matter. They all hate good decent white Murkins.

Hooray For Anything November 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm

She always gets those two mixed up because she can see Iraq from her house

[re=462396]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I’ve always suspected that the reason we invaded Iraq (a country that had nothing to do with terrorism) instead of Iran (a country that pretty much takes the Gold in it at every Olympics) was because W got the “n” and the “q” all mixed up

Mr Blifil November 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Notice she has copious notes on the desk before her judging by the wanderings of her eyes. That was sweet of Sean to offer her a little help like that. You’d think by now she’d have had a little time to bone up on these issues, but this way her quicksilver style shines through without the pauses and flopsweat to slow her down.

drpangloss November 19, 2009 at 1:07 pm

God she can’t even get a hannity interview right.

ella November 19, 2009 at 1:16 pm

[re=462542]drpangloss[/re]: Hell, she can’t even pronounce Iraq without sounding like someone who just fell off a turnip truck.

BlueStateLibtard November 19, 2009 at 1:17 pm

I can only cringe thinking about what must have went through her mind last summer when she found out the Russians were going into Georgia.

Paul Tardy November 19, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Muslims need better brand name and trademark enforcement. How many unrelated Hizballahs are there, granted The Party of God is a real good brand name.

snideinplainsight November 19, 2009 at 1:21 pm

[re=462512]binarian[/re]: COME ON, YOU APES! YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER?

Come here a minute November 19, 2009 at 1:21 pm

I want to find out more about these “international monetary dills that eye-rack benefits from”. Mmmmm….dills.

dave666 November 19, 2009 at 1:23 pm

The things Sara Palin doesn’t know could fill a book……………..and has.

Servo November 19, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Her God-God nav system is on the fritz again. Bang her on the side of the head.

Extemporanus November 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm

Hannity, Haqqity, who?!

Lilybart November 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm

I think she meant that Iraq buys oil from Iran, because of course Iraq is too f-ed up to process their own oil for gasoline.

she is an idiot

cut off Iraq’s oil, there’s the solution!!

foulmouthed mrscreant November 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm

She puts a lot of faith in France considering how the president of France routinely calls dumbass vp candidates while drunk.

BrianSF November 19, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Iran is to Iraq as Sarah Palin’s ass is to a hole in the ground.

Lilybart November 19, 2009 at 2:03 pm

No no, saying EYE-rack endears her to her fans who can’t pronounce it either.

She is REAL, didn’t you get the memo?

Of course, REAL, apparently means ignorant.

Lilybart November 19, 2009 at 2:16 pm

This could be her last big blowout. And I am not talking about the bump-it.

The media loves a story but hers has been done and because she is no longer Governor, she will have no NEW story for 2012. Hocky mom! Yawn.

So when this book tour, Driving Miss Crazy, is over, she will only be doing some teabagging for bad candidates.

sati demise November 19, 2009 at 2:30 pm

[re=462467]CycloneArmageddon[/re]: but Ms. South Carolina has turned out to be a nice person who can make fun of herself.

Cariboo Barbie, not so much

[re=462676]Lilybart[/re]: haha driving miss crazy is driving us crazy….but Sarah will always have a ‘new story’,
even if she has to make one up. This soap opera will go on and on into oblivion.
Just hope it does not go on in any political office of any sort.

hoosiermama November 19, 2009 at 3:24 pm

[re=462396]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Is “botard” short for “botox retard?” Or “beauregard retard?” or “Bo-the-dog retard?” I should probably just look it up on Urban Dictionary. Never mind.

Darkness November 19, 2009 at 3:28 pm

[re=462407]kewlguy42069[/re]: don’t you mean Persians == Aryans != Arabs?

pk November 19, 2009 at 3:50 pm

The sad part is that the people who like her and support her (*shudder*) don’t know the difference either. Note this clip from yesterday:

c-freak November 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm

monetary dills? i had no idea the currency in iraq or iran (whatevs) was cucumbers. you learn sumpin new every day.

Click November 19, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Her hair’s gone AWOL.

problemwithcaring November 19, 2009 at 8:12 pm

[re=462414]CrunchyKnee[/re]: Yes, it’s “Bass-ackwards.” Dumb bitch said “back-asswards” on Babara Walters. “You have a way with words.” I was rolling.

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