Video: Karzai encounters Barracuda
posted at 4:49 pm on September 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
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To think, we might have been denied this very illuminating video if Maverick hadn’t indulged the media its little tantrum.
Here’s a transcript of the tiny snippet of conversation overheard by that CNN pool reporter on the scene, although you’re better off with this AP piece featuring extra bits from her meetings with Alvaro and Kissinger. Exit quotation: “She knows the topic well.”
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Kissinger has a fevah and the only cure is more Palin.
lorien1973 on September 23, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Repeat after me, AllahP:
This is not news; this is not worth bothering with
This is not news; this is not worth bothering with
telling us that the media are dishonest, biased, juvenile and ignorant scum is not news………
Janos Hunyadi on September 23, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Kissinger the one man I would have wanted to change laws for so he could become POTUS way smarter than most people.
tee866 on September 23, 2008 at 4:53 PM
My God, how do you have a proper conversation with all those flashes? I’d feel like I was at some German techno rave with all that…
Pasalubong on September 23, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Careful now….the press will report “Palin a carrier.”
Patrick S on September 23, 2008 at 4:54 PM
I would love to have photos of those meetings, you know the kind campaigns send out to donors? So cool.
RushBaby on September 23, 2008 at 4:54 PM
I love how they get kicked out LOL!
upinak on September 23, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Where was her burqa/scarf? Hasn’t she seen how pee-low,si meets with middle eastern leaders?
/sarc
SavoirFaire on September 23, 2008 at 4:55 PM
That AP article is venomous
lodge on September 23, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Enough pictures taken? OMG..
Pictures taken at 1,000,000 flashes per second..
I can’t run for President because I have Epilepsy..
The camera flashes would throw me into a seizure.. :{
Chakra Hammer on September 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Children: the great equalizers.
AubieJon on September 23, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Why is the tape played twice in the 1:19 minute interval?
She is so awesome.
carbon_footprint on September 23, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Am I posting?
ThePrez on September 23, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Yes, that AP article is venomous, Lodge.
Those idiots.
carbon_footprint on September 23, 2008 at 5:01 PM
That second sentence in the AP mockpiece… AHHH! (punches random liberal in the face)
Cardiganfox on September 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Alright, I`m back in! By the way, has Karzai been re-elected or does he have another term to win. And when he`s gone, what happens next?
ThePrez on September 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM
This is obviously a lie. Matt Damon, Maureen Dowd, and others (even some pundits on the right) have proven that by imperiously saying the opposite.
This has been my take of her foreign policy activities as well.
Spirit of 1776 on September 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM
There’s Something About Sara.
I bet the world leaders are lining up and taking numbers just to have an opportunity to sit down with Sarah.
Do ya think the Arab leaders sit there picturing what she would look like all covered-up in a burka?
fogw on September 23, 2008 at 5:03 PM
another media unequal treatment. When Obama first met with forgein leaders he had the three TV anchors following him around like a puppy dog. when Gov. Palin meets they want to grill her
unseen on September 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.
txsurveyor on September 23, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Yes, all world leaders need to hear her sage advice. Not since Geroge W. has there been such a great statesman and genius on the political stage.
foreverright on September 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM
We’re better off with that AP piece???
Are you kidding me? Did you read it?
Let me spell it out for you Allah.
B I A S
Please don’t insult us by offering AP as a source of information.
Lynn2008 on September 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM
That seriously looks like it came out of Obama’s headquarters.
Dash on September 23, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Were you aware that Palin is actually a Muslim?
factoid on September 23, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Seriously. I couldn’t go on after that POS line.
NTWR on September 23, 2008 at 5:09 PM
I’m serious! I do have Epilepsy.. I hate Da flashes! >:{
Chakra Hammer on September 23, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Where’s the video and photos of Obama meeting all those world leaders on his world tour?
Oh, yeah…those meetings were secret. Never mind…
Asher on September 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Sorry dude. I didn’t know.
txsurveyor on September 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM
foreverright on September 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Your jealousy is very smelly. Why do trolls always smell like defeat?
AubieJon on September 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Just think in one day she acquired as much foreign policy experience as UH-bama has.
Question of the day on the debate: Are there any pools going on how many time UH-bama will say UH.
I am betting on minimum of 50 times.
DVPTexFla on September 23, 2008 at 5:14 PM
My uncle Carl had epilepsy but flashes didn’t affect him. Perhaps it was a different kind. On a historical note, Julius Caesar was an epileptic. In those days the Romans called it the “falling down disease.”
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Kissinger? The guy who had illegal secret talks with PLO and AMAL while US marines were slaughtered?
People here actually admire this scumbag traitor?
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Where does the “exit quotation” come from? It’s in neither of those articles.
DaveS on September 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Not a fan of the lady, are ya, Trebek?
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:16 PM
As opposed to Barry and Uncle Joe, of course. I assume in your haste to snark, you forgot to read this?
<blockquote “So rather than make specific policy prescriptions, she was largely listening, having an exchange of views and also very interested in forming a relationship with people she met with today.”
a capella on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Amen. His reputation WAY exceeds his actual accomplishments. Kissinger is so overrated.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Kissinger knows women, he was the womanizer.
Someone once asked one of the famous women he was dating, who had dated many men herself.
She said something like when I am with the most powerful men in the world, I can tell and they let me know…when I am with Henry I am the most powerful women in the world and he let’s me know.
He knew the secret, honor the women you are with…
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
I don’t get why people who haven’t been elected to national office yet are meeting heads of state. Also Palin meeting with them and apparently discussing their children is only going to emphasize her inexperience. The Palin candidacy is a joke and there’s no way around it.
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
There ya go.
capitalist piglet on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Never heard of him. Can you link some info?
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 23, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Ok, off topic question real quick.
I’m trying to convince my cousin about the merits of Sarah Palin in an email debate we’re having, and she’s saying that Republicans requested that the response times be shortened during the debate because “Sarah was so new to it”. Has anyone heard anything like this? It doesn’t sound right to me.
macblanegirl on September 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM
It was like watching a short clip of a grandfather telling stories about the old days to his granddaughter.
vcferlita on September 23, 2008 at 5:21 PM
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Bwahahahaha… Loser. Don’t pretend to know what Karzai or any other world leader believes is important enough to discuss. He was the one sharing about his child.
AubieJon on September 23, 2008 at 5:22 PM
*channeling Iha Bin-Farteen*
Yeeeeees, you little arctic foxlady. Put it on…put it all on. That’s right…slink your body into that black cloth bag [gasp]…Allah be praised…soooooo unsexy. Now…look at me and give me that look…you know…like you have just been beaten up. OH yes..daddy likes very much. Quick…where is my goat?
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:22 PM
The reason is doesn’t sound right is because Lyndsay Graham did the negotiating. Allegedly.
I don’t get the decision. I mean, I understand what they said about giving her a chance to present platform stuff instead of wasting time defending long-winded Biden attacks on her record, but she’s very skilled. I say let her twist Biden in the wind.
Spirit of 1776 on September 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Imagine! Gov. Palin did not have to waste campaign contributions for a big O-plane nor have a freshman-senator week abroad in order to meet with these leaders.
onlineanalyst on September 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM
AP, when guys like this state these kind of things how about making them link.
Calling someone a murderer and traitor needs to have links…otherwise get rid of bums like this.
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Gov. Palin has more experienc the Sen. Obama. But somehow that seems to be lost on you and others. Is it to hard for you to understand that a woman can be cheerful, attractive and highly intelligent.
Your a moron
spypeach on September 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM
You are horrible, but I admit to laughing at that. : )
capitalist piglet on September 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Nothing to be sorry about!
It’s a blessing.. lot’s a great people have had epilepsy
Chakra Hammer on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Ditto >_>
I requested such, haven’t recieved ‘em yet.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Is it just me, or is this the snarkiest lede paragraph ever, and that’s saying a lot for AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/palin_leaders_12
jwehman on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
And that’s just the first question.
mrsmwp on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Henry Kissinger’s treason:
Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat’s PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1016861.html
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Uh, ummmm, er ….. You’re overlooking Teleprompterman aren’t you?
fogw on September 23, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Sort of like Obama meeting with Maliki in an end run around our own state department? Like that?
Or the fact that they are comfortable with her.
Okay, so what, exactly, has Sarah Palin accomplished?
Let’s see now…city councilwoman for 2 years; mayor for 6 years and president of Alaska Conference of Mayors; Chair of Alaska Conservation Commission; appointed Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from which she soon resigned in order to expose corruption among members of her own party; governor of a state that produces 20% of our national energy during which time she has replaced the entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation because of conflict of interest, passed a landmark ethics reform bill, used her veto power to cut budgetary spending; C-in-C of the Alaskan National Guard; negotiated a pipeline contract with a foreign power.
Clearly not qualified enough to be president. Oh wait…she’s running for the office of vice-president.
Gosh…how can this ever stack up against the impressive resume Obama has acquired over the years?
Let’s see now…Saul Alinsky-inspired “community organizer” who worked closely with the demonstrably corrupt ACORN group; questionable ties to the corrupt Daley political machine and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; 20 year-long membership in the church of an America-hating racist; shady real estate transaction with a convicted felon; got elected state senator in 1996 by using technicalities to clear the ballot of opponents; served in the part-time state senator job for 7 years, voting ‘present’ over 140 times; U.S. senator since 2004 after his opponent dropped out of the race; since 2006 has been actively campaigning for the presidency of the U.S.
And you say the PALIN candidacy is a joke? Obama isn’t qualified to be the vice-president…but he’s running for president. Yikes.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:27 PM
No, I do know that the main topic of the Pres campaign was changed from security to economy (before the big blow up) because Obama felt “uncomfortable” and McCain said fine, whatever he wants to talk about.
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:27 PM
There isn’t much back and forth between the candidates. It’s question-answer. Both sides agreed to it. If you are having this discussion, I’d just point to Biden’s recent statements and wonder who is more likely to make an idiot of themselves?
If Palin and Biden get into a heated discussion on the merits of FDR talking on TV in 1929 about the stock market crash, though, I’m gonna cry.
lorien1973 on September 23, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Karzai has that little something something, IYKWIMAITYD — that same little something something that Palin has in buckets. It’s that little something something that makes them able to make babies in middle age.
Then again, my sister and I always thought Cheney had that little something something. YMMV.
Good thing the room didn’t self-combust.
Terrie on September 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM
More of Kissinger’s treason:
Henry Kissinger to Iraq in 1975: “We Can Reduce Israel’s Size”
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Once again we meet a troll who has no clue about providing a link to an actual document, video, taped recording, etc. to back up a lame assertion. Just more regurgitations. Nice try though.
AubieJon on September 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM
How about, they don’t want loud mouth joe biden to be able to filibuster and hijack all the debate time?
If Both of them are allowed time to talk whats the problem?
Chakra Hammer on September 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM
McCain is being far too nice about this.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Explain the joke…do you mean because she is a woman who worked her way up the ranks to being a Governor? Or do you mean a joke because she has more experience then Obama? Or do you mean her favorabilty in Alaska is over 80%, while Obama can’t break 40%. Or do you mean it is so obvious that Obama has been taken down by a women that it is a joke…please explain.
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:31 PM
I agree, I think the longer answers favor Palin…why would they change that?
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:32 PM
I miss New York.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on September 23, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Ok, off topic question real quick.
I’m trying to convince my cousin about the merits of Sarah Palin in an email debate we’re having, and she’s saying that Republicans requested that the response times be shortened during the debate because “Sarah was so new to it”. Has anyone heard anything like this? It doesn’t sound right to me.
macblanegirl on September 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM
actually it was the dems and reps that agreed to it. The dems hoping that biden would not shoot his mouth off and the reps hoping that Palin can use her quick wit to score political points. In the debates she did in Alsaka Palin had a great ability to get to the heart of the question and offer a short detailed answer. No uh’s and umms and no waxing romanticlly about forced down helicopters etc. So the reps wanted to play to Palins’ stregth and the dems wanted to limit Biden’s negatives. Of course the press played it up to her inexperience but then that is the press.
unseen on September 23, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Dear Aristotle,
Please refer to freshman english books regarding citing sources and stop citing what other people have written about something that someone said about something they read that someone else said about a paper they read in which Kissinger was quoted. It’s really not working for you.
AubieJon on September 23, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Not in the chick magnet department. That always seemed a bit out of kilter somehow. Power attracts and the crafty old buzzard was wise enough to take advantage.
a capella on September 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Shorter than what? The format for the debate is always brokered. With each campaign trying to get the format they feel their canidate is best at. So I’m sure there is horse trading going on between campaigns and someone decided to spin something negative out there.
You also could spin that shorter answers give Palin more of a chance to show off on more topics rather than discuss only a few topics. Or that they don’t feel Biden is good at making concise responses.
petunia on September 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Indeed so, if you are referring to yourself.
Now be a good boy and return to dKos/DU, where they praise people who help terrorists.
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM
This limits the Biden camp from knowing what she knows regarding foreign issues. You know there has got to be a Gotcha Group preparing all sorts of stump Sarah questions for the VP debate. There will be no footage for them to review in order to distort whatever would have been said between Palin and any of these foreign leaders. It could be that the foreign leaders requested no press due to what was being discussed. If the NYT cannot keep their traps shut over issues best kept quiet, then why would anyone want THIS media in on any discussions. THESE people cannot even report accurately the status of the Surge or the success of the Surge. The best day in this nation would be the day they all became unemployed!
THESE people wearing diapers cannot report accurately about THE MARIXTS LOVING JIHADIST SUPPORTING CANDIDATE FOR THE DNC! Give me a break! They all deserve to be put in a playpen until they can grow up and become real journalist! This whining is worst than a 3 year old! Do they need binkies until they get their way?
freeus on September 23, 2008 at 5:38 PM
How many times did that last AP story repeat the theme that she hasn’t traveled much? Who the hell cares? Other than the snotty media elites of course.
At least she had the judgment to travel to Landstuhl, Germany and visit soldiers, unlike Barry who chose to go shopping when he was abroad, babbling in Berlin.
Buy Danish on September 23, 2008 at 5:38 PM
SF Chronicle – Fair and balanced.
Hening on September 23, 2008 at 5:38 PM
That’s why we like links, so we can see this is from the most liberal Jewish newspaper.
This is from a stupid Arab website, see the problem. These are highly volatile news sources. Both of them
It is best to get a view not from a heavily slanted new organization.
Don’t be so easily duped…it is embarrassing.
right2bright on September 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM
What you did not hear Karzai say to Palin:
“Please don’t send that idiot with the big ears over to ask us to put the war on hold until after the election again!!”
pherrman on September 23, 2008 at 5:43 PM
I bet it just kills all those folks out there who hate Palin to see her hobnobbing with the VIPs.
Terrye on September 23, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Nothing says “Taking Back Our Country from the Special Interests” quite like America’s Mom.
VastRightWingConspirator on September 23, 2008 at 5:45 PM
I bet it just kills all those folks out there who hate Palin to see her
hobnobbing with the VIPs.FIFY
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I suppose that being the junior Senator from a single state is considered a higher office than THE Governer of a state?
Let me see–elected to be one of more than the many many people in congress or even one of 100 senators versus the one and only, very highest, the buck stops here, Cheif Executive of a most important energy rich state?
Hmmmm– yeah a lowly senator is much more important. That’s why they always win those Presidential races… oh yeah they don’t!
petunia on September 23, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I recall Kissinger once saying that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Perhaps I’m just jealous…
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 5:48 PM
That’s pretty much was the Mc Camp said. But the change, apparently, was at their behest.
Spirit of 1776 on September 23, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Enough with the silly trutherism. I find it puzzling that whenever a so called “Republican” who is a well known FP leftie gets exposed, we always get the same knee jerk reaction from partisan idiots.
It applies to Pat Buchanan (when he was in the tank for The Party – not now), James “f*ck the Jews” Baker and Henry Kissinger. You should be ashamed, really.
Aristotle on September 23, 2008 at 5:50 PM
I’m not getting my hopes up but… McCain has run a better race than I gave him credit for so they must know what they are doing.
petunia on September 23, 2008 at 5:51 PM
You’re missing the point. Every time there’s a discussion of Palin’s inexperience, the conversation shortly turns to Obama’s inexperience. One’s wants to be VP, whose official duties are to break ties in the Senate and go to state funerals while the other wants to be the Leader of the Free World. McCain, you magnificent bastard!
Kafir on September 23, 2008 at 5:53 PM
macblanegirl on September 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Actually, I thought it had to do with keeping Biden’s leash tight because he has a tendency to prattle on and on and on…
tru2tx on September 23, 2008 at 5:54 PM
I speak from experience when I ask, what did she think of the smell?
srhoades on September 23, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Repeating myself here, but does NO ONE realize that there has never been a President elected with prior experience in the job (save a successful incumbent)—so what on earth does making a huge noise about the VP’s presidential experience accomplish?
irongrampa on September 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Operation Slingblade S.O.B (Save Our Biden) is in effect. We must do everything we can to keep Biden on the ticket.
Remember: No Joe…No Justice.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Yep, that’s exactly what I just wrote about to her, after she tried to jump on Sarah about the I can see Alaska from my house thing.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
macblanegirl on September 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM
A hypocritical excuse to attack Sarah, IG. Nothing more.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Send her the unedited transcript (newsbusters has it i think). She had a great answer and then capped it with that at the end. So of course, they make that the answer via edit.
Spirit of 1776 on September 23, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Wait…I thought these were supposed to start with ‘As a concerned Christian’??
Or is the ‘foreverrright’ moniker alluding to a premise that you’re always right as opposed always on the right side of the isle in the political sense?
FAIL!!!
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Does AP stand for AllahPundit? ;]
Calm Before the Storm on September 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM
The only thing I read about Palin having a preference is that she prefers seated debates because she felt more comfortable with those when she was running for Governor. The Dems wanted a debate at a lecturn though and the Reps said o.k.
Limiting the open-ended debate section of the VP debate benefits both sides, but, it benefits the Dems the most. Most libs are claiming that Palin is unknown and we wanted to limit her ability to say something stupid. However, Biden is well known and it’s almost guaranteed that the longer he talks the more stupid stuff he’ll say. Additionally, the Dems know that Biden has a temper and is likely to come across as a bully if he goes after Palin.
Limiting the open-ended part is a win-win for everyone, but, it’s definitely a greater boost for the Dems than the Reps.
JadeNYU on September 23, 2008 at 6:38 PM
He’s looking at her legs and thinking,
“Burqua or no burqua…SHE SMOKES!”
LIPSTICK DIPLOMACY….
I’ll take it.
seejanemom on September 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Palin believes dinosaurs lived at the same time as man. That pretty much disqualifies her from holding any high office.
You mistake me for someone who is here to defend Obama. I’m not. But I’m not going to defend the indefensible (Palin) either.
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM
I have a question. Does a Senator have the same powers as a Governor as far as Foreign Policy?? Why do you always hears stories about State Governors going to foreign countries to help with trade agreements??? Why is a junior Senator meeting with heads of state??? Better yet, why is a junior Senator running for President of the United States take his campaign on a tour of Europe???
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM
You are so naive ….did it ever occur to you that everybody knew that war was coming…
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer so you just might hear a tidbit here and there…
Your supposition is weak at best.
jerrytbg on September 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Jesus!!! Dowd and Damon…you have company.
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 6:50 PM
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