Video: Karzai encounters Barracuda
posted at 4:49 pm on September 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
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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SouthernGent on September 23, 2008 at 6:51 PM
By that logic, Washington, Adams and Jefferson should never have been elected.
Creationism rests along a spectrum, ranging from those who believe in a young earth to those who accept evolution but nevertheless believe that God created the universe. Gov. Palin has so far not expounded in any detail where she lies on this spectrum except to say that she does not believe in pushing the creationist agenda in public school classroms.
But then…you already knew that, didn’t you? Because if you didn’t, that would make you an idiot – in addition to being a troll.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 6:52 PM
It seems like Hot Air has been infested with trolls. What happened — did DailyKos tent their outhouse?
Terrie on September 23, 2008 at 6:54 PM
B26354 … tell us really.. your Matt Damon..right .. ya have to be as dimwitted to believe that internet rumor about dinosaurs..
theblacksheepwasright on September 23, 2008 at 6:54 PM
No. Neither may conduct foreign policy or negotiate treaties, either on behalf of the United States or on behalf of individual states. Governors, however, are empowered by their states to negotiate private sector trade agreements on behalf of their states.
Next question.
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Matt Damon, is that you??? So you did talk to your buddy Hollyweed type like Rosie, Streisand, Behar et. al. You are an example of how weak minds can easily be manipulated. :(
poxoma on September 23, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Some people are born idiots and others are self-made, I’m not quite sure where you fit in on the continuum yet. If you believe that rumor, then I’ve got some swampland I’m just dying to sell you.
Matt Helm on September 23, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Ummmm…that was kind of a rhetorical question…
Kind of trying to point out the ignorance of this:
Am I doing it wrong??
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Palin believes dinosaurs lived at the same time as man. That pretty much disqualifies her from holding any high office.
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM
dhunter on September 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM
I’m sure you said the same thing when Obama did it.
No she doesn’t.
Jim Treacher on September 23, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Read and learn:
Note especially rumors number 48, 49, and 81.
Now, you know.
Matt Helm on September 23, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Yes. Should have phrased it like this:
“My goodness, I wasn’t aware of all the foreign policy options made available by the Constitution to U.S. senators that are not available to state governors.”
See?
ManlyRash on September 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM
What is worse, the Obama believing communism can work or Palin believing in god?
jukin on September 23, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Alrighty then, I’ll go sit in the corner and take some more notes…
I thought my dinosaur thing was pretty good though…
*alas*
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 7:32 PM
Southern Gent (who no doubt is a “concerned conservative” who’s voted Republican all his life, etc., etc. and would never think of smearing anybody much less Sarah P.) alleges “Palin believes dinosaurs lived at the same time as man.”
Southern Gent, the NYT may have said that’s what she believes, the AP news ticker might have said the same, which in turn means all liberal outlets (you included) “run with the story” as though it’s fact.
Southern Gent, would you please give the rest of us a valid link to where Sarah Palin actually said this herself?
alwyr on September 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Ummm..probably barking up the wrong tree here….
mebbe look on the first page for the dinosaur origin…
BigWyo on September 23, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Hey trolls…
Did you know that Sarah Palin is the illegitimate daughter of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher?
It’s true…I read it somewhere on a blog…on the internet.
Gothguy on September 23, 2008 at 9:10 PM
alwyr on September 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Wrong person, this is who you are replying to.B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM. Southern Gent is exactly what his name implies.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Gothguy on September 23, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Bonus.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2008 at 9:12 PM
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Is this a joke or are people actually still spouting this
stupid liberal drivel as fact:
Matt Damon suckered by nutroots smear of Palin? Update: Dowd suckered too?
posted at 6:50 pm on September 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/11/matt-damon-suckered-by-nutroots-smear-of-palin/
Fake Governor Sarah Palin Quotes
http://unbearablebobness.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/governor-sarah-palin-quotes.html
Now if you really want to get into some big time investigative revelations about Palin,I hear that she….
…Keep this on the down low…..super..super..super secret,
I HEAR SHE BOUGHT A TANNING BED!!!!
Wooohhhhh wwwweeeeeeeeeee!!!,WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!!
MAN WE GOT HER NOW!!!!!!
Baxter Greene on September 23, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Baxter Greene on September 23, 2008 at 9:17 PM
We appear to be loaded with opposition tonight.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2008 at 9:26 PM
NewsBusters:
AP’s Palin Reporter Gave to Liberal 527 Group in 2004
Loxodonta on September 23, 2008 at 9:39 PM
They’re treating Palin like a small country’s dictator would treat a competitor.
Mojave Mark on September 23, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Sometimes the comments are more interesting than the original post.
The back and forth is better than an old stand up comic act with the Conservative(s) as the straight guy while Liberal Troll(s) are the brainless butt of most of the jokes.
MsDollie on September 23, 2008 at 10:50 PM
This is a non-sequitur; so what? How does this disqualify her? Do you have an answer to this? Probably not — you’re just repeating leftist nonsense from Hollywood snobs, who have their own set of peculiar beliefs, I’m sure.
Richard Romano on September 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Whaddaya mean, “like”?
Jim Treacher on September 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM
How does Palin believing in creationism disqualify her? It means she is an idiot incapable of critical thought. Do you really want someone like that in the White House? Don’t tell me she doesn’t believe in it; she attended a church for years where they believe in it, and she advocated teaching it in schools. I’d like to see McCain win but Palin is going to cost him the election.
B26354 on September 23, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Could it be that the accessability she has to foreign heads of state gives her a credibility that chaps your ass?
Me thinks thou protesteh too much.
csdeven on September 23, 2008 at 11:05 PM
This Associated Press story says that you are lying: “Palin has not pushed creation science as governor”
Edouard on September 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM
You soak up every left wing idiotic rumor and then come here and post it as fact and then think you have the credibility to denounce the McCain/Palin ticket as a joke.
What are you,12 yrs. old?
Can you even reach the keyboard or is your mommy having to type this drivel for you?
Your best bet is to go back to your Berkeley Bubble,flip on
some Bill Maher and toss this idiocy around with your friends at the Huffington Post because you are really embarrassing yourself here.
One place you probably would not be able to get to..well..
for starters,you would have to be old enough to drive,is here because it is to dam$ crowded with all these people who
think Palin is “finished”:
Palin draws crowd of 60,000 in The Villages
By Bill Cotterell • news-press.com capital bureau • September 21, 2008
http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921022
Baxter Greene on September 23, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Don’t you love how the AP always reports the news straight without editorializing?
Do I really need to add the /sarc?
theregoestheneighborhood on September 24, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Unless she believes the dinosaurs are still walking the earth, I don’t see where her beliefs about dinosaurs matter one way or the other.
In fact, I can’t imagine a sillier reason to reject a politician. But I have faith in the stupidity of reporters in general, so there may yet be a sillier reason thrown out.
theregoestheneighborhood on September 24, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Fact: Dinosaurs voluntarily went extinct the day Sarah Palin was born.
Mr. Wednesday Night on September 24, 2008 at 2:06 AM
Dude, that lie has already been proved false. Palin’s Dad teaches SCIENCE. Also, she left the AofG some years ago. Also, the lie about her wanting to teach creationism in the public school system is bogus too. That one was proven false almost two weeks ago. She was for allowing debate in a classroom setting but not as part of the curriculum. Duh.
Get with the program. I have yet to find even one LIE yet. There have been a few partials and close calls but no meat yet. You need to stop reading Andrew Sullivan.
Oh, and let’s not even start with the Hollow Man. We could go on ALL NIGHT with his lies.
Sapwolf on September 24, 2008 at 2:28 AM
You mean they didn’t? Bummer.
Benjamin9 on September 24, 2008 at 5:42 AM
Was it Obama who used to say that he would charm away the tyrants to drop their nukes? I think Sarah might.
promachus on September 24, 2008 at 7:49 AM
Funny B thinks someone who was falsely smeared on two websites about creationism and dinosaurs, is unqualified for the Vice Presidency, but thinks that someone who was accurately quoted as believing there are 59 states in the United States of America is more qualified to be President.
I think the substance B is on has been banned worldwide.
eaglewingz08 on September 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM
This indicates she believes in it. And allowing creationism anywhere near the classroom is just stupid. Case closed.
B26354 on September 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Not only is this position astounding in its ignorance, it is also much more in keeping with communist philosophy than it is what I believe to be American philosophy.
I can tell you that as a scientist, ideas and thought are supposed to be the Holy Grail of all disciplines. There is NOTHING to fear from ideas and discussion.
As a former member of what I have come to call the priesthood of humanism, I state without hesitation that the lack of interest in discussion is completely related to clinging to erroneous beliefs.
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM
No reputable scientist would even consider debating creationism. You might as well debate whether the moon is made of green cheese.
B26354 on September 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM
So Richard Dawkins isn’t reputable?
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Or Carl Sagan?
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Or J. Stephen Gould?
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Idiot.
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Oops typing too fast…Stephen J. Gould.
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM
The bottom line here is that these theories being bandied about as the sole item to be discussed in school all have significant issues.
Big Bang – Look into the role dark matter has played in breathing life into this dying theory.
Evolution – Biggest problem is the discussion of origins… Significantly the second law of thermodynamics problem in the early stages of life… Usually danced around but never addressed.
Plate Tectonics – “older” guyots being closer to center of pacific plate movements than the distal sections. (The exact opposite of what is supposed to be the case)
Just to highlight the big 3…
If you are afraid to discuss things in the classroom you doom future generations of americans to be dependant upon influx of inteligencia for growth related to research and development.
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 11:16 AM
I’m not afraid to discuss reasonable things in the classroom. That you buy the “second law of thermodynamics problem of evolution” shows you’re not really a scientist. Indeed, reputable scientists use that law to demonstrate the plausibility of evolution. If you were a scientist you would know that evolution says nothing about the origin of life.
B26354 on September 24, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Entropy arguments made by evolutionists supporting the growth of an abiotic cell to produce the complexity that is involved with even the most simple cells do not exist. From non life to organized life is in the opposite direction of the natural order. The statement that you make about evolution not addressing the origin of life is true only in the high school version. There are many components that are tied to various, and equally bizzarre, thoughts, such as the electrostatic charge on clay particles being the origin of original DNA synthesis, life originally begining with RNA, and more that I’ve forgotten, because as I progressed with further degrees, I’ve realized that it is all crap.
In reality, you’re too goofy to realize the strength of the argument before you. It takes a little searching among academia, but you can eventually find the intelectually honest evolutionist who will admit that the breakdown of the theory is in the origins. The last time I checked, when there is a long standing and significant deviation that defies explanation using the theory, by definition the theory is refuted. SIMPLE, CONCISE USE OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
As there is obviously not a functioning synapse in your head that can realize that if even a single component of the big 3 are screwed, all collapse, I simply encourage you to examine your beliefs, and bid you good day.
I’m certain we’ll cross swords again.
Marine_Bio on September 24, 2008 at 1:12 PM
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