Only by twisting her words does the left/media axis attempt to create the false impression that she lied.
“You know what I enjoyed the most, she took the luxury jet bought by her predecessor and sold it on eBay,” he said. “And made a profit.”
I wonder:
Does that mean McCain is a part of the left/media axis?
Filed under: Politics and Other Nonsense, The Conservative Soap Opera
Question: why does someone “put” something on eBay? For shits and giggles, or to sell it?
Better questions: Why would Palin bring up eBay in her speech if she really sold the jet through a broker? To sound more folksy? To make up for John McCain saying that he doesn’t use the internet? Was she assuming everyone knew the real story, or was she being disingenuous?
The best question is yours, B. Best case scenario, McCain didn’t know what happened to the jet. If that is true, then how can a blogger be expected to know more about Palin’s actions than the man who selected her as running mate? (Oh, I forgot. Google.)
If John McCain knew the facts, then he’s a liar.
All goes to show, well, you know.
She told that story a lot as a laugh line at various conference keynotes in 2007 and 2008. The use of it in her acceptance speech was just a recycle. She’s objectionable for ever so many more reasons than her ham-handed attempt to be “regular folks.” Considering the great quantity and variety of lies and misrepresentations she slung last Wednesday, this one ranks pretty low on my outrage-o-meter.
The “liberal media” is Hobbs talks about when he doesn’t have any ideas for a post. Top Gun isn’t exactly burning up the airwaves with his concrete proposals for effecting economic change, so Hobbs has to fall back on how unfairly his candidates are being treated when, you know, they are accurately quoted in the act of making shit up. The culture of victimhood has really arrived over at TNGOP, ain’t it?
Yeah, now Palin won’t talk to the media until they’ll treat her with “respect and deference.” Respect I get and agree with — but deference? Deference? We have a free press precisely in order not to be deferential, or at least we used to.
Respect is cool. Deference is what monarchs require from their subjects, not political candidates from citizens and journalists. That was a misstep.
Fortunately, information about her voting record and political life is not up to her whim to confer. She can either choose to counter an increasingly unflattering portrait of her political dealings that is emerging from that pesky public record or she can remain Queen of Alaska.
She is soooo under your all’s skin.
Snicker.
It’s only funny to you because she has no interest in getting under your skin and deciding for you what you can and can’t do with your vagina. When the day comes when all of society decides we get to get in on your prostate exams, we’ll talk.
It does get under my skin. But after eight years of an administration that tramples on the Constitution and spits in the faces of anyone who objects, I have may have become a little oversensitive to politicians who flat-out demand to be treated like royalty. Maybe you find that sort of thing petty, but I find it worrisome that you think it’s funny.
That’s contemporary conservatism for you: thousands of U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans are dead and dying; the treasury is deep in the hole; the price of gas keeps lurching up; and our constitution looks more like discarded toilet paper by the day. Their response to decent human beings’ outrage*?
Schoolyard taunts and snickering.
I say the GOP should scrap John McCain and run Sarah Palin for president. She’s the perfect candidate for today’s Republican base.
Sorry, second link didn’t work:
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/03/about-sarah-palin/
Actually, Lee, this is more where I’m coming from these days:
http://punditkitchen.com/2008/09/05/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this/
Snicker.
Didn’t we all know a few contemporary conservatives in high school? The GOP of 2008 has become the “cool” “in-crowd”. And the schoolyard taunts and snickers and whispers just keep coming.
Remember, this election is not about the issues….according to Rick Davis.
Did anyone see John Stewart the week of the RNC convention. He interviewed those contemporary conservatives. The cream of the crop.
Yeah, Palin does get under my skin. She’s a theocrat (believes the Iraq war is a “mission from God,” and the role of governor is to “implement God’s will”), she’s militantly anti-choice (even if a birth will definitely kill the mother, Palin thinks it should be done anyways), anti-environment and anti-solve the energy crisis (she thinks the solution is to “drill, drill, drill”), a proven liar (she’s queen of pork projects yet says she made efforts to curb government spending, and that’s just one of the demonstrably false claims she’s made), and the list goes on. Yeah, people like her do get under my skin, and even more so when they are trying to put themselves in a position to hurt even more people.
That of course doesn’t mean I’m terribly concerned about McCain and her winning. She energized the GOP base (who were all going to vote McCain anyhow), but all I’ve heard from the moderates (which are who will decide the election) is how she’s putting them off in a big way. Even with McCain’s convention bounce, all the state-by-state polls I’ve seen still show Obama with a comfortable EC lead, and let’s face it, McCain’s bounce ain’t going to carry him through til November.
I just want to keep on pointing out, so that everyone can be clear about it, that Palin’s anti-choice-even-at-risk-of-a-woman’s-life position is also an example of her theocratic tendencies. Because it attempts to prevent members of other religious groups (like, say, Jews) who might well not have an abortion in any other circumstances from following the dictates of their own religion and saving a woman’s life. Her position amounts to an attempt to create an established religion in this country and to strip rights from members of other religions,* and let’s not forget it.
*let alone those with no religion
I’m not especially knowledgeable about aviation, but I’ve been wondering about her brag regarding the state plane.
Seems like when you’re that cut off from the rest of the country having a state plan might be cost effective. Does everyone in Alaska that needs to go to the lower 48 on state business fly commercial now?
Besides, that’s a helluva big state without a lot of roads. A small plane is probably the cheapest and easiest way into a lot of the more remote parts of Alaska to keep an eye on all the oil drilling and etc. Even if the rates Campfield quotes for TN’s planes are right, it still seems cost effective to have the government owning a plane.
The whole plane thing reeks of a grand gesture to look good to the voters while actually costing the state more in the long run.
I want to take that last point of yours, nm, and start stapling it to people’s foreheads. It’s not just a religion vs. personal preference issue, it’s a specific-subset-of-one-religion vs. absolutely everything else, including other religions, other subsets of the same religion, those with no religion, and even those in the same subset of religion who disagree with the interpretation of the relevant bits.
May I repeat:
Snicker.