Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on November 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
“All in all, Ms. Palin emerges from ‘Going Rogue’ as an eager player in the blame game, thoroughly ungrateful toward the McCain campaign for putting her on the national stage. As for the McCain campaign, it often feels like a desperate and cynical operation, willing to make a risky Hail Mary pass in order to try to score a tactical win, instead of making a considered judgment as to who might be genuinely qualified to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office…
“Yet, Mr. McCain’s astonishing decision to pick someone with so little experience (less than two years as the governor of Alaska, and before that, two terms as mayor of Wasilla, a town with fewer than 7,000 residents) as his running mate and Ms. Palin’s own surprisingly nonchalant reaction to Mr. McCain’s initial phone call about the vice president’s slot (she writes that it felt “like a natural progression”) underscore just how alarmingly expertise is discounted — or equated with elitism — in our increasingly democratized era, and just how thoroughly colorful personal narratives overshadow policy arguments and actual knowledge.”
***
“The Palin problem, then, might be that she cynically incites a crowd that she has no real intention of pleasing. If she were ever to get herself to the nation’s capital, the teabaggers would be just as much on the outside as they are now, and would simply have been the instruments that helped get her elected. In my own not-all-that-humble opinion, duping the hicks is a degree or two worse than condescending to them. It’s also much more dangerous, because it meanwhile involves giving a sort of respectability to ideas that were discredited when William Jennings Bryan was last on the stump. The Weekly Standard (itself not exactly a prairie-based publication) might want to think twice before flirting with popular delusions and resentments that are as impossible to satisfy as the demand for a silver standard or a ban on the teaching of Darwin, and are for that very reason hard to tamp down. Many of Palin’s admirers seem to expect that, on receipt of the Republican Party nomination, she would immediately embark on a crusade against Wall Street and the banks. This notion is stupid to much the same degree that it is irresponsible…
“Once again, one is compelled to ask which would be worse: a Sarah Palin who really meant what she merely seemed to say, or a Sarah Palin who would say anything at all for a cheap burst of applause?”
Blowback
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What so-called “brilliant” minds would they be? It is hard to tell with all the quotes.
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Who says she doesn’t believe in evolution or that part of it limited to trying to explain how the characteristics of species change over time and can sprout a new species?
Her father was a science teacher afterall.
I don’t understand why Hitchens believes that when a person believes in God, that they also can’t possibly believe in truths that we see from science.
They are not contradictory.
He has been so abrasive and fanatical in his atheism he can’t seem to figure out how extreme he is.
Sapwolf on November 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM
If we are Teabaggers… Who are the Teabagged? Obama?
Holger on November 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM
NYT & Newsweek getting all wee-weed up ’cause they’re afraid Cousin Pookie won’t vote for Barack if Barack’s stash doesn’t come through.
TN Mom on November 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
My dear, you cannot be labelled a troll BY a troll.
katy the mean old lady on November 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM
katy the mean old lady:Now I`m perplexed!:)
Then WHO labelled me as zee troll!:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I remember when the media started using this term, Laura Ingraham had no clue what it meant either. During a break, one of her producers had to tell her, and she was horrified that members of the MSM were intentionally calling Americans this derogatory term.
Worse, my 76-year old mom asked me what it meant. I had to use props to show her; teabags and a wide-mouth cup.
yogi41 on November 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Yeah… I think you’re getting the point.
Open up the page and read “Blah, blah, blah… blah blah blah… Comments – where the real fun begins.”
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM
And his friends at MSNBC+CNN
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Seriously? Link plz? Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeety plz?
darii on November 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM
ONE MORE TIME…!!!
Seven Percent Solution on November 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Scary , she may be selling out her nations security for a Nobel piss prize.
the_nile on November 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM
As the months and years go by, you will start seeing one, then two, then four candidates emerge from Tea Party efforts. They will be there, they will challenge the incumbents–local elections, city councils, county supervisors, state houses, state senates, congressional seats and it will come…it’ll hit the beach and the liberal guilds will show fissures, they already have. Those fissures will begin to fracture, be forced open, and those ideas will begin to be crushed–the liberal fantasies revealed, as the once silent majority regains its footing and starts stompin’ mud holes in governments across this land.
it’s happening right in front of you….
ted c on November 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Wooohoooo! I got my copy….Yippie!!!! Great pictures inside Palin’s new book too!!!!
dec5 on November 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM
It comes from slang for what happens to you when watching COUNTDOWN. :P
darii on November 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I actually have no interest in reading Palin’s book. I might buy it for a relative though.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 10:58 PM
And that is why, at its essence, my query to those of Mr. Hitchens/Stephanopolous/Cooper’s ilk is simply this: You tell me what the proper standard for discourse should be, and that is the one we will use.
Horatius on November 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM
“Sarah Palin bows to no one!”
Stick that in your book review and shove it up your a%s!!!
Seven Percent Solution on November 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Seven Percent Solution: I think you have found the
answer to,
FIRED UP/READY TO GO!!hehe:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM
You’re joking right?
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:03 PM
And I’m not saying that in a condescending manner. I just don’t want to post the link if you’re just playing with us ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Yes. :P
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM
NewsFlash: Hitchens admits that he’s not humble
If you look up ‘erratic’ in the dictionary, you see a photo of Hitchens: Brilliant on some areas, like the jihadist threat to Europe, but a obscurantist crank on others ( like populist conservatives and their message )
Hitchens is one of those quirky Limey quasi-intellectuals who looks down on nearly everyone. He’s good in small doses only……..
Janos Hunyadi on November 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Sorry, it’s just that I could see dear Cindy M. asking for a link or something ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Besides, I do know how to use Google. ;)
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM
And isn’t it amazing that Sarah Palin took on and defested corruption, as well as governed in a fiscally responsible way?
The contrast in experience and capability between SP and BHO blazes in neon.
onlineanalyst on November 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Oh no…we found it in NJ first.
It goes like this….FIRED
UP/READY TO GO!!hehe:)njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Colonel Mustard..in the parlor..fromnj?
katy the mean old lady on November 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Agreed. When not talking politics or religion, he’s much more enjoyable.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Well, that would make you more qualified that someone such as Anita Dunn …
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Seriously? Link plz? Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeety plz?
darii on November 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM
You’re joking right?
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:03 PM
MeatHeadinCA:
Me thinks,this thread needs theme music!!hehe:)
Head Games/Foreigner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mctBMLUQdsg
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM
+1
word
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Why thank you, @canopfor
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:10 PM
What a contrast that Newsweak cover photo reveals when set beside the photo WH First Beast emerging from Air Force One in her shorts.
onlineanalyst on November 14, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I didn’t know they put shorts on the dog.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM
OK, I already struck out on Hitchens supporting Shillary earlier, but doesn’t he normally write for Vanity Fair? And, yes, @darii I too can Gewgle ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I wonder if anybody actually read it.
Clyde5445 on November 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Oh no…we found it in NJ first.
It goes like this….FIRED UP/READY TO GO!!hehe:)
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM
njpat: I apologize if we got off on the wrong foot
so to speak!!:)hehe
Never mind fired,Hopey/Changey should be charged
for treason,then Impeached!!:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Hmmm…if you want to go musical…I’ve got one for Sarah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI_lQjf1eo
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I think it is interesting that within a few hours of each other, you have MSNBC with their fake photos, Newsweek with their hit piece, and the NY Times out with a hit piece and the Associated Press out with one.
Interesting how all of that is so coordinated.
crosspatch on November 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Why thank you, @canopfor
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:10 PM
MeatHeadinCA:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM
No doubt about it. She is a phenomenon not seen in the GOP since Ronald Reagan.
Norwegian on November 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM
omg…..THE ELITES IN THE MEDIA ARE SO TOTALLY CLUELESS AND THEY HAVE THE UNMITAGATED GALL TO SAY WE THE PEOPLE ARE HICKS THAT HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT POLITICS.
Now I know how the french thought before their revolution.
unseen on November 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM
katy the mean old lady on November 14, 2009 at 11:15 PM
:)
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Gosh, I hope it’s not David Schuster…that little freak may like it too much.
StevefromMKE on November 14, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I am sorry but you are wrong Sarah may bow to the Pope (God’s represenitive.)
Clyde5445 on November 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Of course, I seem to remember the mainstream media making fun of Reagan, too, and using the Bonzo movies as a mechanism for ridicule.
crosspatch on November 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM
And so the beginnings of another epic Catholic/Protestant thread appear. If this goes that way, I’m sitting this one out.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
That or Bawney Fwank… smoking some leaves his bear o’luv found in the back yard while Bawney is completely neked on the 0rgy bed. Yes… me thinks Bawney would like some teabags…
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Hmmm…if you want to go musical…I’ve got one for Sarah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI_lQjf1eo
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM
njpat: Excellent tune,and band,and I saw Triumph,back
in 79,!:)
Perfect SarahCuda song,thank-you!:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Ok, just lost my supper! Thanks!
conservnut on November 14, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Oh, but those debates are the best… + it will bring out everyone’s favorite true Christian Paulnut, MaxCon!!! JetBoy the gay Catholic could get involved. Oh, the fun!!!
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:21 PM
You know, if I stepped off a time machine and didn’t know the various personalities, I would soon realize that a lot of folks are scared of someone…..
A lot.
Starlink on November 14, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I just don’t get where people get the idea that Palin is such an avid bible thumper. I don’t get that impression at all. She also isn’t Catholic as far as I know. She might have her own religious beliefs and hold them strongly, but I don’t get the impression that she wants to force them on other people the way a lot of “evangelicals” do. She might be religious, but she is no evangelist.
crosspatch on November 14, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Sorry… Bawney could make sure you get the munchies… He just wouldn’t be able to identify that leaf.
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Hard to tell if you are talking about Hitchens or Allah.
mwdiver on November 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Breaking News!
The FBI has been called in to investigate alleged Alaska state funds misdirected by State Senator Jay Ramras with a large no-bids contract to handle all lemonade service for the Senate to Piper Palin, daughter of notorious rogue Sarah Palin. An attempt was made by Machiavellian Miss Piper to kickback some obscene lemonade profits via a piggybank dropoff outside Ramras’s Senate office door.
The case blew up totally when the young Rezko wanna-be’s ethics crusader mother inadvertently discovered the piggybank of her daughter outside the Senator’s door and innocently (sure) turned it in to the Senate Ethics Committee who found in the piggy the perfect penmanship of Piper pushing profound profits with the words: “Thanks Mr. Ramras for helping me.”
UPDATE: Piper Palin’s defense attorney Thomas Flein is very close to getting a good plea-bargain after it was discovered that the Senate Ethics Committee broke the piggy bank with the gavel of the State Supreme Court Justice WITHOUT getting a court order. It appears that the little crony-capitalist gets off with only 10 days detention. Senator Ramras is taking the brunt of the investigation now, and he still can’t find a wife.
- Affiliated Press
Sapwolf on November 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
That’s a relief! I thought you had me all wrong, for a moment. :)
OldEnglish on November 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Best reply to Newsweek’s lame attempt to be clever with it’s cover.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Not from me its not. I was just making a point of her Faith is stronger than she is therefore she may bow to it.
Clyde5445 on November 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Ha, you crack me up sap.
conservnut on November 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM
That or Bawney Fwank… smoking some leaves his bear o’luv found in the back yard while Bawney is completely neked on the 0rgy bed. Yes… me thinks Bawney would like some teabags…
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
MeatHeadinCA: As an avid tea drinker,I never knew the term
teabagging,so you must know what kind of hor
ror I recieved when I found out!
Now when I make tea,I look at teabags a tad
different *as I shudder still,while typing*!
-ahem,hehe:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Sorry, just don’t see Sarah Palin bowing to anyone – not even the Pope. Seriously, why would she?
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Eh… I’ve heard me lady likes the teabags… unfortunately she doesn’t like my grapefruits ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
You’re welcome. I saw them too in a small club in Brooklyn in the 80′s..back in the day…when I had big hair. Appropriate song for Sarah…she’s about our age, betcha she knows it.
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Colonel Mustard..in the parlor..fromnj?
katy the mean old lady on November 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM
That’s a relief! I thought you had me all wrong, for a moment. :)
OldEnglish on November 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
OldEnglish:Relax,I didn`t mis-interupt you!!
I thought you meant thin skinned,and I was
thinking,may I do,but I don`t think so!!:)
Its all good,I`m still watching you katy!haha:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Respect. Thats all from me on the subject of bowing.
Clyde5445 on November 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM
For all those still not understanding what is meant by “teabag” here is a funny song.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
You’re welcome. I saw them too in a small club in Brooklyn in the 80’s..back in the day…when I had big hair. Appropriate song for Sarah…she’s about our age, betcha she knows it.
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:30 PM
njpat: Have you ever been to Castle Farms in Charlevoix
Michigan?:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
And anyone who attended her political rallies knows that her political focus is on political issues. Only the media and her detractors (but I repeat myself) have zeroed in on Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs.
Funny isn’t it, that Rev-rund Wright never was an issue for the Obama cheerleaders in the media?
onlineanalyst on November 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Only a pervert like Obama, Clinton, or Hitchens would describe ordinary Americans as teabaggers.
Jasper61 on November 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Then She or anyone should respect other world leaders, right?
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I dug up the Hitchens piece here.
ddrintn on November 14, 2009 at 11:35 PM
No, never been to Michigan. When I leave Jersey, I usually go south in the winter!
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM
In other related news – layoffs at Newsweak:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1109/Layoffs_at_Newsweek.html
Sad for the people who actually do some work there but NONE for the lying stenographers. I’ll never forget their lies about the koran down the toilet and the deaths that ensued.
Annie on November 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Eh… I’ve heard me lady likes the teabags… unfortunately she doesn’t like my grapefruits ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
MeatHeadinCA: Well,your jeans must be a tad tight!!hehe:)
(Kidding)!!!!:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:38 PM
I crouch without the ouch.
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Sarah Palin at her church getting protection from Witches
Holger on November 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Or how about Newsweak‘s overseas editions whose covers featured American flags in a wastebasket after W won the election in 2004?
onlineanalyst on November 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
None of the above. She was actually insulted the media would use that term towards fellow Americans.
yogi41 on November 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
No, never been to Michigan. When I leave Jersey, I usually go south in the winter!
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM
njpat:Like a Canadian Snowbird,cool!
Castle Farms hosted many bands over the years,it
was an awesome place to be!!
This was an article from our little newpaper!
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=42832
———————————————————–
And as it is today!
http://www.castlefarms.com/
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Oh my we’ve got
http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/troll.jpg
njpat on November 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
LOL…that old chestnut? Anyone who’s ever gone to an evangelical church regularly and has some foreign pastor come in knows that that’s not that unusual…and that it doesn’t denote a belief in “witch doctors”.
ddrintn on November 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM
But in fairness, many evangelical churches do believe in demonic spirits and often believe of the miracles and spiritual warfare going on around them – especially in Africa and South America.
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
I crouch without the ouch.
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM
MeatHeadinCA: Oh gawd that was funny,er wait that didn`t
sound right!!hehe:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:49 PM
MICHIKO KAKUTANI (Author of the article)
Hmm. His name, sounds like a typical American name. Someone who truly understands the ins and outs of this culture.
F*cking elitist globalist pig. He’s lucky I don’t move to New York and give him a good old fashioned teabag myself.
total non-sequiter I know…
alohapundit on November 14, 2009 at 11:49 PM
OK, then. I’ll say it for you. That was funny and I want a pair now, just to show off ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Sarah Palin at her church getting protection from Witches
Holger on November 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Holger: Well the alternative is the Warlock Rev.Wright
and his flying little com`n home to roost
lil`demons,er chickens that is!!
Jus sayin!!
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Of course it doesn’t.
Just because the Pagan Student Union I was a part of at the University I attended invited a Muslim to talk Islam doesn’t mean that I converted to Islam. Nor the fact that I regularly attended Campus Crusade for Christ mean that I was a Christian.
She needs to publicly slay this meme.
Holger on November 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM
This is why I just started calling liberals D-bags.
JohnJ on November 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM
OK, then. I’ll say it for you. That was funny and I want a pair now, just to show off ;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM
MeatHeadinCA: Hehe,you`ll be popular on the dance floor
tho!!:)
canopfor on November 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Christopher Hitchens is one of five opinion columnists I read without fail because their opinions are always worth reading as (usually) well-informed and well-stated. The others are Charles Krauthammer, Mark Steyn, Camille Paglia and Fouad Ajami. I disagree with Hitch and Krauthammer and agree with Steyn and Paglia about Governor Palin.
Hitch is a somewhat endearing elitist snob whose rather large blind spot is the importance of faith to most of the voting population of these United States. I don’t begrudge him his lack of faith, but his contempt for believers gets old over time, especially since he never seems to appreciate that there are a goodly number who truly appreciate him or realize that, by slamming someone with whom they share their faith, in a manner that denigrates their faith, he truly bites the very hands that feed him.
Where would the oppressed people for whom he so often advocates be without the support of American evangelicals, fascist neanderthals all? In retrospect, who was more likely to have supported intervention on behalf of his beloved Kurds against Saddam, a President Obama or a President Palin? A President Palin, of course. Why? In large part because of a world view/moral compass shaped by her faith. By seeing only ignorance, Hitch misses completely the character, the forthrightness of Governor Palin. I’m pretty sure he thought the same of President Bush in 2000, but he came to begrudgingly appreciate the same characteristics.
Governor Palin embarks this week on an attempt to reintroduce herself to the American people on her own terms. It requires that she address or explain much of what occurred to the detriment of her image in the last campaign. Writers like the Times hack will characterize her explanations as whining or pay back, and completely ignore their substance or anything that portrays her in a favorable light. Fortunately, her book will stand or fall on its own. Her interviews will either dispel or reaffirm the Couric caricature. My bet is that the American people will view her more favorably with the coming of the new year, but will withhold judgment until they see her on the hustings again. By that time, this Administration and its allies in Congress will have turned most independents against the Democrats and they will be looking for a Republican who truly seems to understand their fears and frustrations. I think that Republican will be Sarah Palin.
Mongo Mere Pawn on November 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Let me paraphrase every MSM review:
“I hated Palin before the book, and I still hate her. I read the book for things to use against her and here’s what I found.”
Dark Eden on November 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Michiko Kakutani was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father is a math professor at Yale. She has a Pulitzer so she must write all the “correct” things.
Now, get back in your trailer.
crosspatch on November 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM
WAS Math professor at Yale. He died in 2004
crosspatch on November 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM
How much do you really disagree with Krauthammer? Or is that only re Palin? Cause that guy is on the ball.
darii on November 14, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Congrats, AP! Another Palin thread with a lot of traffic…
ladyingray on November 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Yeah, father is somewhat known in math circles…
MeatHeadinCA on November 14, 2009 at 11:59 PM
;)
MeatHeadinCA on November 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Made sure to turn off the adblock for AP’s benefit. Knew I’d be refreshing a lot.
darii on November 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Well,this was a blast,I’m off to make a cup of tea,
then to Sleepsville,
goodnite everyone,njpat,sorry I jumped the gun,you have a great evening!:)
canopfor on November 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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