What’s that? Is Sarah Palin reading newspapers now? Haha, no, she’s just retweeting the Weekly Standard again. But hey, we actually agree with her! The Washington Post is terrible! But it’s not “through” yet; it makes a lot of money gouging the government with its Kaplan brand of fake colleges and gouging rich parents with its Kaplan brand of test prep crap.
The Weekly Standard points to a post on the Post‘s humor blog thing. We’ve always said it was a terrible idea for the Post to give Dana Milbank his own humor blog to edit, but if there’s one thing the Post is good at, it’s giving salaries to people who are terrible at their jobs.
Still, the post in question is just a caption contest featuring a photo of President Obama with former poet laureate Donald Hall, who looks awesome. It’s not something to get offended about. There are more offensive posts on that “humor blog” if you want to find something to get offended about.
But we think this is a good idea:
As it happens, the 89-year-old ex-editor of the Post, Benjamin Bradlee, occasionally walks past THE WEEKLY STANDARD building, which is between his home and the Post, where he maintains an office. Bradlee, once a dashing boulevardier type, now looks very much like a man approaching his ninetieth birthday, and shuffles painfully along the sidewalk with a slightly bewildered expression on his face. If I were to take a photograph of Bradlee the next time I see him, and offer it to Alexandra Petri and Dana Milbank at “ComPost,” do you suppose they would repeat the Photo Caption Contest, and invite readers to send in snarky comments?
That would be fun! Please do that, troll. [Twitter/Weekly Standard]
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That's actually a great idea for a dead pool: which becomes defunct first, Palin or Kaplan?
I'm putting my money on the heat-death of the universe happening before either.
Now, more than ever, I am glad that I didn't vote the '08 Curmudgeon/ Bludgeon ticket. Damn you, McCain!
"but if there’s one thing the Post is good at, it’s giving salaries to people who are terrible at their jobs."
Then why doesn't Palin work for them?
Doesn't she?
Because being that terrible at something is hard work.
Or at least harder work than she is capable of.
She could always quit being terrible.
Impossible.
A "salary" involves showing up to a job regularly. Palin gets speaking and appearance fees and checks from book publishers. She doesn't do so well with the commitment required for a salary.
Because Fox is even better, if you consider journalism a job.
"Have u no shame?"
Pot, meet kettle.
Maybe she was asking if they had some she could borrow.
"Have u no shame?"
"Have u no shame cause I ain't got none either!"
There, fixed.
I'm still not sure that she knows what the word means, but I'm amazed that she could even spell it correctly.
That's racist.
and sexist.
Isn't retweeting shit from the Weakly Standard long past jumped-shark?
Sarah's just afraid that if they make fun of an old person for being old, next they'll start making fun of her for being stupid.
No, I'm pretty sure that would require some degree of self awareness. She's just convinced people are making fun of her because they're jealous of how awesome she is.
We already make fun of her for being stupid.
Has Lou Sarah approved yet?
I would criticize the Post, but I have kids to get into college and I might need to be gouged. Alot.
Well, it's better than helping with their homework, soccer practice, and violin lessons.
Well you have me there. Good thing I haven't done any of those things…. or I might be really depressed.
Wait, Lou Sarah is defending an artsy-fartsy ivory tower librul elitist poetry-fag type? I thought they were fair game, especially for fellow travelers like the WaPo?
Is there anything Simple Sarah doesn't take offense to?
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/...
Oh right.
it's funny seeing 'sarah palin', 'shame' and a picture of jared loughner on the same page.
I'm conflicted. On one hand, we can rejoice that Palin's twatter has freed us from Richard Cohen's banality and Maureen Dowd's fanciful recollections of her time as D.C.'s premier femme fatale. On the other hand, it's Palin, so up hers.
Wait, didn't LouSarah make fun of a cancer survivor on a radio show before?
Yes, she did, Lyda green,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-la...
Lyda Green is people!!!!!!
How prescient is that article from August 2008?
"So what does the incident actually say about Palin? If nothing else, it plays into the developing perception that she has a ruthless streak when taking on her political opponents, whether they be opposing legislators or state/local employees."
Also, hasn't WaPo printed 2-3 of the Alaskunt's fake op-eds?
Palin's so dumb, she doesn't even realize the Washington Post is mostly on her side, particularly when it comes to killing the brown people.
WSJ is next….
She has already done that. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/palin-misqu...
And didn't WaPo publish two of her crappy cap-and-trade Op-Eds in 2009?
Please let this spawn an entire 'Palin's so dumb' joke preface–
"Sarah Palin's so dumb she thinks a thesaurus is what Jesus rode around on"..
"Sarah Palin's so dumb she tried to refudiate Richard Dawson"..
(I'm here all night, folks)
"Sarah Palin is so dumb, she thinks that preaching abstinence prevents teenagers from having unprotected sex"
"Sarah Palin is so dumb, she thinks that she's a match for Kathy Griffin"
Oh, wait… Upon closer inspection, I see that you said "joke", not "documentary". My bad.
Palin is so dumb when her handlers told her the veep only voted in the Senate in a tie she sent Todd down to Saks Mensware for one.
Hey Sarah, shorten 'through' to 'thru' and you have about 9 or 14 more characters for stupidity.
That woman sure has her finger on the pulse … no … um … Retweet Button! of America
That is not an expression of bewilderment, he just needs a change.
Hey! This is Wonkette where you expect that kind of shit. It is not the WaPoop.
This, this post was motivated by the fact that she just found out that "wapo" means Washington Post, someone just explained it to her, speaking very very slowly, I am sure, and she is so proud of her new "insider" knowledge, that she's been waiting for any pretense to Tweet "WaPo" and show off what a total in the know, knowledgeable person who knows stuff she is.
WaPo, as in "What newspapers do I read?, why the Wapo of course!"
Besides, 'wshngtn post'– or however the hell she used to refer to it– takes valuable character space.
She no longer just uses it to refer to the fella at the pizza place anymore. Progress!
"show off what a total in the know, knowledgeable person who knows stuff she is. "
also too.
Sarah calls somebody in the media out….yawn.
Well, if anyone knows anything about being through before the normal term has expired, it's certainly Sarah!
From the Weekly Standard:
"One of the embarrassments of the nation's capital is that the dominant newspaper in Washington is relentlessly philistine, and routinely second-rate in its cultural coverage. Its free-standing book section was discontinued last year, and its coverage of music, art, dance, theatre, and film is either nonexistent or seemingly aimed at the lowest common denominator in its readership."
Well, goddammit, as a daily reader of Kaplan's daily sheet (I need to for work), I just found something I can agree on with the folks at Kristol's rag.
Quoth the Weekly Standard:
Yeah, because when I think about what's wrong with Washington, sub-par opera reviews really tops the list. That doesn't even make my top ten list of things that are wrong with the Washington Post.
Well, as you can see above, I really wish the Post (esp. the Sunday edition) was something I felt like spending some time with, especially after being a reader of it for 24 years. Instead, I have to shell out $6 for the NYT.
Well, yeah, and I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic would have appreciated comfier deckchairs. It'd be nice, but I'd prefer they fix other things first, like maybe not publishing a bunch of articles about how we need to invade Bahrain because that's the brown-people country Richard Cohen drew out of the hat.
And with this post, Wonkette's "Fap Tuesday" celebrations officially draw to a close.
NOOO!!!
Just remember there was a day, or two, when we thought Sarah got implants. Implants=Boobies=Fap Fap Fap. QED, yay!
Speak for yourself, bub!
Don't despair, Extem, tomorrow is "Ass Wednesday."
Yeah, except you have to forgo it. (I almost wrote 'give it up!')
"Through"? Was she thinking about Todd's Eskimo Happy Ending incident when she twatted this?
In a follow-up Tweet, Sarah declared the Omaha World-Herald to be "soooo last week."
And don't get her started on the Peach Pages of the Des Moines Register. They had three or four typos just last week!
Thank god her local paper's name is Twitter-ready.
That Sarah loves her some Twattage! It was a Gawd-Send for her since it totally cloaks her grammar and spelling ignorance in utter cool trendy hip-ness, you betcha!
It's as if they devised a mechanism that could channel her "thoughts" directly. Since none of Alaskunt's thoughts exceed 140 characters.
It's also yet another way for her to be an attention whore.
We all have our calling; and calling her an attention whore is ours.
Why is the WaPo having a photo caption contest? I thought that was the legerdemain of Weekly Reader and Ranger Rick Magazine.
Sarah went on to say "Trig thinks this is retarded"
I thought Jason Robards was dead.
I think she was trying to spell "thorough". Or maybe this is how one twitter-breviates the word thorough. Through=Thru, Thorough=Through.
What would one abbreviate and end up with "T" is still a mystery.
Now wait a freakin' minute….SARAH GODDAMN PALIN is taking umbrage at someone mildly mocking a POET (elitist) and PRESIDENT OBAMA (Kenyan Usurper / socialist / antichrist)?
Got it. So, I've unwittingly crossed into a parallel universe. Quick–does your Spock have a beard, or not?
Just the poet, pretty sure. Side bar has a jug-eared picture of Obama, advertising the "WS Obama Head" She's a sharp one alright:
"Go ahead. Give the Commander in Chief a big squeeze. With our soft, mushy Obama Stress Head, you can crush those half-baked liberal ideas before they do any more damage. Plus… you can build up an iron grip at the same time. Pin his ears back, turn that smile upside down. Come on… you know you want to."
Neither — he has muttonchops. You're THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, man.
Whoa. And President Buddy Knox knows kung fu.
Sarah Palin has tiger blood.
That's what happens when you don't have a qualified taxidermist prepare your trophies.
I'm sure she does. Is there an animal she has not yet murdered from a helicopter?
Oh, yeah: TIGER BLOOD LIBEL!
Watch out Warshington Post, for you have an illiterate community college dropout after your ass. To assuage the half-wit, why not have the Cohen lad write a column praising Jesus and illegitimate babies?
"What’s that? Is Sarah Palin reading newspapers now?"
She reads them all.
If by "read", you mean sees them in their little glass front vending machines and wonders where the hook and the toys are.
Whoah — Palin & the Weakly Standard vs. Milbank & Petri of the Post — this is one of those standoffs like Hannity vs. the craziest imam he can get on his show duking it out. I really can't see the point in taking sides, since I hope all that remains after the fur settles are a couple of teeth and some torn sphincter muscles. Alas, with Palin & WS's worldly tolerance vs. M &P's innate funniness, it's more likely both parties will leave the field totally unharmed.
In other words, it's just another slap fight between servants of the plutocracy.
Tomorrow, the Kochs, the Grahams, etc. will be richer, and the rest of us will be poorer.
Again.
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Sorry, what was that? I was distracted by the bread and circuses.
With the Republicans in my state bent on turning Tennessee into medieval fiefdom (with football; we will be a southern fiefdom, after all), I find it hard to muster any outrage about this one.
What have those fucking leprechauns done this time?
What haven't they done? The latest outrage is from Rep. Pat Marsh and Sen. Jamie Woodson, who have sponsored legislation that exempts brokers and insurance agents from the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Because God knows those poor brokers need protection from John and Jane Q. Citizen and their silly demands for fair dealing.
Well if it makes you feel any better ( i know it won't) Missouri is trying to abolish child labor laws.
Are Tennesseans still congratulating themselves that they are not Mississippi?
"Bradlee, once a dashing boulevardier type, now looks very much like a man approaching his ninetieth birthday, and shuffles painfully along the sidewalk with a slightly bewildered expression on his face."
Ben is actually only 50 but being married to Sally Quinn has aged him in dog years.
Oh so good…Post it again so I can re-fist you.
The Tundratwat twittered. I read that tweet and I sincerely believe my 9 year old neice has more mental acumen and texting skills than this half-brained, self-centered bitch. I'll bet having any real conversation with her is analagous to teaching a chimpanzee about String Theory.
I'm sure her next tweetard posting will be about NPR. Her stupidity has no boundaries.
That is an insult to your nine year old neice. Your Waring blender could do it.
Palin is the Asshole of the World.
Rectum Mundi
They finally found an opportunity to use the "Ben Bradley walks like an old" nugget they've been saving all these months. Oh boy, that was sweet!
So this makes Sister Sarah is a champion of the arts, right?
Of course. She owns like three velvet Elvises.
Does elk taxidermy and bear skin rugs qualify as art?
Correction – she's a champion of federally funded arts.
Disclaimer: joking about this subject does not diminish or trivialize art in any sense. Goddamn..
Gonna go kick some newly-revised 'You Don't Know Jack' ass..
Sarah thinks that championing the arts is liking reruns of Art Carney on the Honeymooners. The Tundratwat wouldn't know good art if it fell on her head. May WaPo and Sarah the Impaler just go away and leave us alone. Go! Get! Outa here!
Yes. She's just positioning herself as an art lover so she her future comments on that shitty artist from Pratt will carry some weight.
She probably should have waited until she found out what Donald Hall's opinion of her is. I'm just guessing if he ever says what it is, she'll not be coming to his defense so quickly. Besides, what good are poets anyway if you're not making fun of them?
My caption submission:
Wait, Sarah Palin is shocked about WHAT this time? No, I don't think she reads poetry. She thinks "The Waste Land" is where we should drill for oil.
Sarah's tweets remind me of the talking dog in Up! "I just now heard of that old man but conservatives are offended so I will defend him now. WaPo you are my prisoner now, please be my prisoner. Have you no —- SQUIRREL!"
Speaking of being distracted how much you wanna bet while TundraTwat was mashing keys on her blackberry Wallow was upstairs playing "just the tip" with the local cool kid.
Before Slate snuffed its useful "Today's Papers" features, I used it to gloss the Post, LA Times, NYT and WSJ every morning to give myself the illusion I knew what was going on. With the demise of that feature I had to actually dig into the Post's terminally ugly Web site every morning to see if they had any big stories worth reading. It's been so long since they did that I'm just about to quit.
So, Sarah: you're right about one thing. And the earth isn't quaking and the sun's still shining. Maybe God doesn't read Twats, so let's not tell Him.
Looks like the downfisting Troll didn't get his dose of Santorum last night…
"WaPo made fun of an old guy? But that's my job."
N*gger good. Retard bad.
(When this ceases to sum up all things Palin, I'll stop repeating it.)
P.P.S: I should just stop clicking on the Palin posts. Wait, a minute . . . I thought there was going to be a hiatus. A Palincation, if you will. What happened to that?
That's so last month. What, you don't read Dana Milbank in the Post?…Good for you. Ignore both these media circuses.
I forgot that in Sarah's World, Suffering Tragedy = Immunity from all criticism ever.
See Trig, Bristol, Walnuts, et al.
Unless, of course, it's a cancer survivor who said something mean about Sarah Palin. Or, for that matter, a heart disease survivor who said something mean about Sarah Palin.
Or Rush Limbaugh calling Democrats retarded; a Dem using that word is a personal attack of Trig though.
Sarah had a run-in with Paulie Walnuts?
Stupid shamelss bitch cunt…..sorry that's all I got.
Looks fine to me.
Works for me, as I am into the whole brevity thing, man.
Happy International Womens Day, y'all!
Stuff her face with Cedar Cheese™ and she just might STFU.
The Washington Post is a good newspaper. You can wrap fish up in it, and, later on, if you want to, you can read it.
And if you leave the fish wrapped in it long enough, it will eventually understand why we really do need to invade another middle eastern country.
My budgies enjoy reading the op-ed page, then covering it with birdshit.
Same here – only the seat goes up.
Oooookay…
One wonders if the Half-Governor would leap to the defense of America's 14th Poet Laureate had she known he was a graduate of Phillips Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford (ELITIST!) and a pacifist (TROOP-HATER!) dating back to the 1960s when he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. But now that Sister Sarah has expressed her support, perhaps we could enjoin this master of revision to teach her that writing is a craft, not merely an outlet for hysterical expression in 40 characters or less.
Hey, can I copy and paste that to the comments thread over at WaPo?
Be my guest!
Our Snowbilly Grifter supports Donald Hall because she thinks the 140 character limit makes her a poet.
Lol wait til she finds out that the Christian Science Monitor isn't an organization that checks to see if Creationism is being taught in High Schools.
ha ha
WaPo just got bitched out by that illiterate half-term bigot.
SUCKS TO BE YOU
All I can say is Thank God The Half-Term-Quitting Governor of Alaska continues to keep abreast of the important stories in this world…,
Or at least she continues to read the shortest bits in the Weekly Standard.
The National Arts Medal is one big-ass piece of bling. Hall must still be in good shape if he can stand up with that dinner plate around his neck.
With a quick shake or two to complete the thought.
Any more than three I count as fapping.
See, now I would have guessed her thoughts require seat-down-comfortable-slippers-and-a-good-book amount of time. So glad I'm not the one channeling her.
You are the lucky one, my pecker burns with the stupid, big-time!
Next up: Willow learns how to make mac & cheese and Trigg is 'through'.
The WaPo is through? Finally there is something I can agree with Sarah Palin on. And I thought this day would never come.
Wasn't Palin a cheerleader for the Kaplan U. Fightin' Kangaroos?
yeah, but charlie sheen was fired. does no one care about charlie and his addictions?
Hey, any time Sarah Palin says anything about any intellectual other than they should be shipped off in railroad cars, we should be grateful.
Hmmmm, It's been a while since Trol or whatever was born. I'm surprised honkey Jesus has not commanded her drop another prop.
Sarah, have the lambs stopped screaming? ??
I'm mostly offended that Alison Petri still has a job as a "comedy" writer.
She really brings out the sharp comedic knives for the elderly poets and ghetto muralists.
I can't wait to see what powerful interest group she dares to take on next!
I'm guessing Donald Hall – a poet! – had health care coverage for the treatment of his cancer. Next thing you know those socialists in Washington will be wanting to provide health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, you know, like cancer.
LOL. Sarah Palin asking someone else "have you no shame?" I'm glad I got the Snowbilly upgrade on my irony meter, else it would be a pile of molten goo right now.
She's been on a roll lately. Do you think she's jellus that Charlie Sheen is getting all the attention and is escalating to try to bring it back to herself?
I think Lynn Vincent is still writing Grisly Mama's tweets & Facetwats. Sarah's too busy looking at herself in the mirror and surfing the interwebz for slights to her or her brood. Not a sparrow falls without her being offended, any public humor is directed at her personally, and the lamestream media exist solely to torment her, godless parasites that they are.
Twisted combination of school marm and celebrity scold, nothing slips by her jaundiced eyes. Any political news cries out for her opinion, any cultural meme requires her judgment. The most unwelcome cyber guest at any gathering will never be President; that's too much work. Even a public speech follows the same script (plus no media allowed). Perennially offended, she'll eventually fall into crank status, though a rich one to be sure.
She needs to have an Alaskan race named after her. How about, the 'I-did-her,Todd'?
Jaysus Ken ya fuckin broke me. I got no mere.
Oh, before I forget, fuck Sarah Palin with a diesel-driven tungsten carbide fucksaw.
Thank you.
Christ, am I agreeing with Lou Sarah? I doubt it, since an intern is probably doing the actual twits. However, how is this a good photo for a funny caption contest? That peerless Dana Milbank funny bone at work again!
I think that the reason Palin said "All of them" to Katie Couric when asked what magazines and newspapers she reads wasn't because she couldn't think of any, but she couldn't name any that weren't hard-right propaganda or tabloids and didn't wants to deal with the fall-out from THAT.
Translation: Keep.looking.at. me, ME, MEEE!!!
This just goes to show that she'll make any argument for attention. She'll go against whatever code she claimed to have, yesterday, if it means getting attention, today. So, how much did the Weekly Standard pay her for this tweet?
Sarah's self-destruction is a slow-burn, and while kind of fun to watch, at first, is now just rather pitiful.
Vacuous Caribou Barbie opines WaPo MT?
plz o plz
I've been cultivating this 29-yr-old out-of-town hottie (obviously with daddy issues, but hey) over the last year and have had to learn how to communicate by text, as that's how it seems the youth of American primarily stay in touch these days. The txtng shorthand used is sometimes confusing to me, but even I can figure out that "ur thru" uses a whole hell of a lot of less characters than "You're through."
Obviously, she made a typo.
Of COURSE your o-o-t hottie made a typo, bro. In well-founded awe at your prowess dans le boudoir, she meant to txt "ur thoro."
Sarah Palin is a typo.
Hearing the words "Are you through?" is almost as bad as hearing "Is it in yet?"
Yes, but…. Alexandra Petri-dish reveals her clueless existence every time she puts a finger to keyboard. If she has ever had a genuine experience in her life I would be stunned.
I get all the information I need from the Wasilla Meth-Examiner. You should check out the personals.
I actually agree with Lou Sarah here: there is nothing as shameful as mocking cancer survivers, and anyone who did so could simply be considered "through", as far as public life goes.
's the big deal? That's just Lou's way of spelling "thorough."
"(Bradlee) shuffles painfully along the sidewalk with a slightly bewildered expression on his face
He's bewildered because he still wonders what in the fuck happened to the newspaper he used to run and how it turned into such a turdfart so quickly…
It is sad that so many supposedly enlightened readers have responded to Ms. Petri's allegedly racist remarks with such virulent misogyny. Pot, meet kettle.
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