Video: Palin confronts “worst governor ever” protester; Update: Palin rips media coverage of video
posted at 4:57 pm on August 9, 2010 by Allahpundit
Late afternoon traffic bait via Breitbart. I assume this was posted by a Sarah-hater, but I’m not sure why: She acquits herself well, as even certain lefties are fair enough to admit, and it’s fun to watch her confront a hostile protester given her rap for hiding inside the Fox News bubble. Even Bristol, newly liberated from 165 lbs. or so of fame-whore dead weight, gets in a shot. Faced with the fact that there’s nothing here that’s actually damning, the lefty spin du jour is that Palin seems to rolls her eyes when the woman tells her she’s a teacher. Which, I guess, is smoking-gun proof that Sarahcuda, the daughter of a science teacher … hates teachers? Or books, or something? Whatever.
Jack up the sound on your speakers as the exchange is tough to hear; Mediaite and Politico have snippets of the dialogue in case you can’t make it out. Exit question: Is this woman the world’s most polite Palin-hater? Aside from the giant banner, she’s downright subdued!
Update: I don’t know what I’d do for content without her.
The LSM has now decided to use this brief encounter for another one of their spin operations. They claim I – wait for it – “appear to roll my eyes” when the lady tells me she’s a teacher. Yes, it’s come to this: the media is now trying to turn my eyebrow movements into story lines. (Maybe that’s why Botox is all the rage – if you can’t move your eyebrows, your “eye rolling” can’t be misinterpreted!) If they had checked their facts first, they would have known that I come from a family of teachers; my grandparents were teachers, my father was a teacher, my brother is a teacher, my sister works in Special Needs classrooms, my aunt is a school nurse, my mom worked as a school secretary for much of her professional life, we all volunteer in classrooms, etc., etc., etc. Given that family history, how likely is it that I would “roll my eyes” at someone telling me that they too work in that honorable profession? Stay classy, LSM.
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Sorry, no.
And I say that as someone who supported Bush almost fully for 8 years.
He most certainly did not “look better for it” and he came off looking weak because it seemed he was afraid to face his critics head on.
Sarah’s getting a real grace and ease with all kinds of media and as a consequence looks stronger all the time.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Has she returned to Nevada for Angle who’s slipping on her own tongue? Being evangelical, perhaps she could help Angle with some phraseology that doesn’t stick in voters’ craw.
maverick muse on August 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Since Palin hasn’t endorsed Angle she is not considered her “candidate” however if asked by Angle and her team I’m sure Palin would drop everything and go to NV to help defeat Reid.
unseen on August 10, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I’m all for people being enthusiastic about a person because they feel they offer up realistic solutions, etc. Nothing wrong with that at all.
I do part ways with those fans who feel that they need a scorched earth policy in regards to everyday citizens (the ones Palin says she relates to the most).
I haven’t seen that sentiment from you – just voicing my opinion in general.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Hurry up all those straw men wont build themselves.
the_nile on August 10, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Go back to obsessing over what kind of boots she is wearing.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Sarah isn’t Bush (i.e. she’s a private citizen right now) and this “teacher” woman isn’t Cindy Sheehan who did have a son who died in Iraq.
Sarah would have been perfectly within her rights as a citizen to just ignore this awful “teacher.”
The way the Palin-hating trolls on Twitter were painting it, Sarah “violated Gustafson’s 1st Amendment Rights” by “tearing up her sign” or something.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Quite a few of us were enjoying this thread until you and a couple of others came along to try and pee in our Post Toasties.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Yes those “ordinary citizens” with a 30 foot banner..
the_nile on August 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM
???
What in the corn bread hell are you talking about?
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Still more substance in those posts than yours.
the_nile on August 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 9:44 AM
the tax cuts that will expire this year? The ones he refused to fight to make permenant? those were passed in 2001 and 2003 when bush still was making an effort to appear conservative to the base.
If bush would have confronted Cindy and embraced her instead of hiding from the women it would have been better PR irt to Iraq. by allowing the media theme that bush didn’t care about the soldiers which was a bold face lie to continue the view of the war changed.
And here is a newsflash for you tax cuts is not the only conservative policy whatever the GOP congress thought. Bush’s spending made LBJ look like a fiscal conservative. His homeland security department was a massive increase in big government. and he abdcated his role to protect and defend the borders of the USA because of his liberal views on immigration.
unseen on August 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Did you vote for him in 2004?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM
Whether or not we voted for Bush doesn’t make your narrative about his use of the MSM true.
I voted for Bush 4 times (twice as Governor, twice as President) and you’re just totally wrong about the effectiveness of his message and the way he avoided the MSM.
Even Karl Rove said it was a mistake.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Rove=advisor Bush=President
Big difference
But I challenge you to find once incident in which he confronted a critic who had no claim to fame other than regular joe or jane citizen.
And have you and Unseen become we? Your use of the collective is er charming.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Are you really naive enough to believe Bush could have done ANYTHING that would have prevented Cindy Sheehan from declaring him a war criminal? Or that the media would let go of the narrative if only he had met with her every time she demanded it?
darury on August 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM
As President, for security reasons, Bush could not leave the White House and deal 1-on-1 with his critics as Sarah Palin did here.
And again, I stress the fact that both she and this awful “woman” are private citizens.
You’re setting too high a standard for Palin and too low a bar for President Bush.
Bush could have addressed Ms. Sheehan’s complaints from the bully pulpit of the Oval Office had he so chosen.
How do you think that Professor Gates dude got a beer summit with Obama over his private arrest?
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 10:20 AM
IIRC, the weird part is that Cindy Sheehan had met personally with Bush when her son’s death was marked at the White House…and apparently, she was OK with him and our war policy at that time.
She turned into a Lefty anti-war loon later.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 10:23 AM
And I’m just as glad he didn’t address it from the “bully pulpit” as I am repelled that Obama handled the beer summit garbage.
A president should be far above that. And acting differently until one is president is not the way to go about it if Palin really has aspirations.
Feeding the bloodlust of the left or right hard core does not help any president or presidential contender.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM
I’m not Sarah Palin or George W. Bush and I don’t make that kind of judgment call nor can or should I.
Who knows what you or I would do as either a President or a private citizen in the same situation?
The point of this thread is that Sarah Palin did it with aplomb as herself.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Laughing. Laughing. Still laughing.
Choke. Gasp. Wheeze.
GrannyDee on August 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Hey, Sarah, no middle finger on the side of your face a la BHO?
snarky snark
GrannyDee on August 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Let’s face it–children, and society as a whole, need teachers. There are some excellent teachers, including in the public schools, and there are some lousy ones. I saw a teacher tie my classmate to his desk when I was in second grade. I have been wonderfully guided and inspired by some teachers, and disgusted by others. One of my Phys Ed teachers was also a Driver’s Ed instructor, and taught me more about defensive driving than most drivers will hear in a lifetime.
My mother was a high school English teacher, and most of her students admired her–she was politically liberal, but even she rebelled against some of the perversions the NEA was trying to introduce into public schools, and she was FOR merit pay for teachers. The current teachers’ union / tenure system is extremely corrupt, and promotes incompetence and political activism over a teacher’s real duty of giving children the facts and skills they will need to deal with reality. Some teachers stick to their principles and do their jobs, despite not being rewarded for it, while others “go along with the system” and are promoted into cushy jobs, and too bad if children are brainwashed.
I have recently worked as a math and science tutor for high school students, and have heard lots of “teacher horror stories” from the students and their parents. Two students with the same geometry teacher both asked my help, and their teacher failed to teach an entire chapter which was tested on the midterm exam. Their teacher took a leave of absence, and the substitute teacher was excellent–both students earned A’s and dropped my services as a tutor for two months. Then the original (tenured) teacher returned, and both students were confused and called me back to tutor them. I later met their guidance counselor, who told me that their tenured teacher was excellent.
What’s wrong with this picture??? Is there a “system” in the public schools which protects incompetent teachers and discourages good ones? Who can overhaul this system and make it serve its true clients–the children and their taxpaying parents?
Since public schools are mostly funded by LOCAL taxes, and sometimes receive STATE aid, it is MAYORS and GOVERNORS who can eventually overhaul the system to reward good teachers and weed out the incompetent ones. Federal money sometimes gets doled out with no real oversight of who gets what, or why. The NATIONAL Education Association wants to keep the Federal money spigot flowing, and use the failing students as an excuse for MORE MONEY…while they are CAUSING the problem. It will take some Governors with “cojones” to fix the system…like Chris Christie.
Steve Z on August 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Did you vote for him in 2004?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM
yes I did only because I had two choices. I did not vote for him not in 2000 nor did I vote for Clinton in 1996 nor bush 1 or clinton in 1992. and he got my vote because I thought Kerry would be worse. In 2008 I got to vote for someone instead of against someone for the first time when I cast my vote for Palin and I enjoyed the feeling.
If you want ot continue to vote for the lesser of two evils by all means vote for the next liberal Rino that the elites put up.
unseen on August 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Are you really naive enough to believe Bush could have done ANYTHING that would have prevented Cindy Sheehan from declaring him a war criminal? Or that the media would let go of the narrative if only he had met with her every time she demanded it?
darury on August 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM
yes bush could have done a lot to defuse the cindy sheehan’s of the world. Showiung up at their camp outside his house. talking to her etc. bush instead wrapped himself in the cloak of the office of the president and allowed the Cindy’s to appear like they cared more then he. In politics appearance is a long way to reality in many minds.
something bush and other RINO have never learned you can not win unless you fight and engage the enemy. Bush didn’t do it in the war and he didn’t do it on the homefront. Nixon made the same mistake. Bush 1 made the same mistake.
Obama for all his faults at least understands this on a certain level and it is the reason it makes him such a good politcian.. He takes it too far and believes spin will win over the truth and that makes him a bad leader. But if you have the truth on your side engagment will always work.
unseen on August 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM
LOL Perot in 92, Dole in 96, Gore in 2000, Bush 2004 and McCain 2008??
Batting about 20% aren’t you?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Sarah Palin is anything but a Liberal RINO.
Furthermore, I don’t think it’s right or proper to criticize someone’s vote in the past, which is why I tried to steer unseen away from telling you how he voted (to no avail).
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 12:28 PM
So no Palin nomination no GOP vote from you?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I’ve NEVER said that.
NEVER.
Search for it…in vain.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM
I was walking through the Chicago airport running to catch a flight, when CNN was presenting this with a sub-title of “Palin unscripted” showing the full exchange. This was obviously a set-up for the feckless media. This “teacher” looks like another Kagan, Soto Mayor or Janet Reno and sounds like one too! CNN is low life of media outlets.
wepeople on August 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM
They keep trying to set Palin up but always fail miserably.
darwin on August 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM
For Bradky: Bush met privately with Cindy Sheehan after her son died. It was after their private meeting that Cindy was co-opted by Code Pink and anti-war Lefties and started camping in Crawford demanding another meeting with Bush for political anti-war reasons.
Neo on August 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Those goalposts will need new tires soon, with all the miles you’re putting on them here.
Simple put-up or shut-up question:
Can you offer a single example of Palin, or anyone closely affiliated with her, “digging up all info on the person who made the criticism”?
Even one?
cs89 on August 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Since I never said Palin or anyone close to Palin did that your question is silly.
By the way do you know who dropped Paula Jones name into the media?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Yes as he did with hundreds if not thousands of family members of those who gave their lives.
When Sheehan went off the cliff he didn’t dignify her remarks with a reply, FB posting or press spokesman comment.
Which I think was the right approach.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 1:56 PM
A pig called. It wants its lipstick back.
How many of Obama’s glances or gestures have been parsed excessively by hotairheads?
Palin is so obvious; she responds just like bigots do when they’ve been caught in their own wordtrap. She’s trying to spin away from her obvious reaction. What a wuss!
Conservatives have been bashing teachers for a long time. Ed just posted a headline last week mocking the profession.
Professor Palin will invariably profess to love the profession she’s been caught mocking. She will launch some education initiative from Facebook. If she wants to make a convincing recovery she can make Bristol become a teacher.
The Race Card on August 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM
^^^ Needs therapy.
TRC stars in the new movie … “No sixth sense”
“I see bigot people”.
darwin on August 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM
You are the boy who cried wolf, except with you it is bigotry, bigotry at every turn. Tiresome.
Funny how the leftwinger’s arguments are always so convincing for you, but everyone at HotAir is a bigot.
Yet you keep returning to talk to yourself.
So, you believe Palin has been “caught” mocking teachers in general? Exactly as the lefties are trying to spin?
Funny how 3 generations of her own family, including her Father have been career teachers yet you believe this tripe.
Couldn’t be the individual in front of her that was the real subject here, could it? No, it has to be ALL teachers everywhere! The whole damn profession was targeted for scorn! How silly and gullible of you, yet again.
Brian1972 on August 10, 2010 at 2:25 PM
You’re a bigot
(Filling in for TRC until he responds)
darwin on August 10, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Her entire family are already teachers!
Didn’t you read her FB Note on this?!
She wasn’t making fun of teachers.
Besides, this woman isn’t a real teacher, she’s a theater tech–and Sarah could tell that almost instantly.
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 3:18 PM
So this woman lied? She isn’t a real teacher?
Oh … I almost forgot to add: Jenfidel, you’re a bigot.
I’m filling in for TRC until he gets back.
darwin on August 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Palin looks gorgeous in the video…..
dec5 on August 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM
What was that name a couple sentences back in your comment?
Silly question = “one Bradky has no good answer for.”
cs89 on August 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM
LOL!
Thanks–I wondered when that was coming…but I always figured I’d know from whom, as usual!
Jenfidel on August 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM
take a reading comprehension class my internet buddy. Palin responded to the incident – she didn’t “attack” the woman in writing or speaking.
However what her hard core fans have had to say about the woman are a different matter altogether.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 4:27 PM
She has such perceptive super powers she knew instantly that a person’s stated occupation might not be the one they said…
If you really believe that you are drinking koolaid through a firehose. What next? she makes the ocean rise and seals bark?
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Oh, I read just fine.
For example, generally when one prominent name (e.g., Palin, above) is followed a few sentences afterward by another prominent name (e.g., Clinton) without an intervening reference to another party, it’s generally safe to say the train of thought follows from one person to the other.
If your “mantra” sentence was intended to refer to “her hardcore fans,” an effective communicator would have referenced them in some obvious manner.
cs89 on August 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM
I’d recommend hooked on phonics as your first stop.
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM
My understanding is that Palin’s staff/bodyguards ripped the sign down after she walked away. Is there video of that?
hawksruleva on August 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Bradky on August 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM
You need to come up with better material.
Your current attempts at comebacks are even worse than your logic, if that’s possible.
cs89 on August 10, 2010 at 5:03 PM
David Brock.
ddrintn on August 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Palin showed something very different on how to handle the Left in this video: grace and direct action. She has learned her Alinsky well.
The Bush people were clueless in how to handle someone like Cindy Sheehan, an anti-Semite and a lefty who basically used her son’s death to paint Bush as a war criminal. Bush’s unwillingness to confront street theater allowed the Left to use Sheehan as a spokeswoman for “all war mothers”.
Eventually, once Sheehan lost her utility to the Left (during the Obama Administration), she was cast aside, but during the Bush years she was very useful.
Palin is aware of this. She is very aware of how the left uses cameras and set up situation like the phony “teacher” to attack conservatives. Michael Moore perfected this kind of thing.
Expect Palin to use “reverse” street theater on Lefty attempts to ambush her. It’s what the Left doesn’t expect from Palin that will surprise them. The Bushies always played by the rules and didn’t deign to lower themselves to attack their enemies. So the Left expected Republicans to play by the rules and allow the Left to use media as their own instruments of terror and intimidation.
The great thing with Palin? She knows that there are no rules. So attack, attack, attack, and fire a bullet in the enemy’s kneecap when you are done attacking.
That’s what I like about Palin. She uses the Left’s rules to beat them. No other Republican does this but her. That’s why she’s lethal to them.
victor82 on August 10, 2010 at 6:11 PM
There’s actually no proof that that happened other than assertions by Shannyn Moore and other lefties.
You’ll notice that no one has filed any charges.
victor82 on August 10, 2010 at 6:14 PM
RC, the “teacher” in this story is not a “teacher”.
NOTHING in Palin’s response to this fool is related to “teachers”.
RC, Professor Palin is Sarah’s father. Do you really think she would be mocking her father?
Kathleen Gustafson “I’m a teacher” is a lie!
Ever notice that a lot of these frauds start out with some sort of “resume” to make their point?
I’m a teacher
I’m a Republican
I’m an Iraq war vet
I’m a doctor (or just put on the white coats and stand by the Prez!).
Kathleen Gustafson “job” is a morning show RADIO host in Homer. Is it possible that Palin recognized the voice but not the face (radio, remember) combined with the “I’m a teacher” BS tag line, popped a few red flags?
The meme, Palin disses teacher.
The fact, Palin disses lying fake, fraud, poser who falsely claimed to be a school teacher.
As a staged political attack this one is backfiring all over the left!
Colossal fail!
DSchoen on August 10, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Ah the BEAUTY of this incessant whine-o-lo-gy from the left…………..every single character, syllable, word, phrase, and sentence typed in Uber-Palin-hate mode serves only to make her all the more influential.
Keep WHINING yall haters! It’s quite fun to observe!
Katfish on August 10, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Its hard to imagine the Cindy Sheehan thing going worse than it did. Bush’s advisors just exacerbated the lefty freak show down there by ignoring their pity party.
Speedwagon82 on August 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM
FINALLY got to see this video after read only on my BB.
Sarah – you just rock. From convention style speeches to facebook to up close encounters with “protestors.” Her world is her media and she sure knows how to use it!! Just a breath of common sense…
And yes, even the boots are fab!! :)
outwestdownsouth on August 10, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Hmmmm, the “teacher” wasn’t REALLY a teacher teacher…
http://clancop.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/im-not-a-teacher-but-i-play-one-for-protests-palin-protester-not-what-she-appears-to-be/
lovingmyUSA on August 11, 2010 at 12:43 AM
This “teacher” also sings in a Drag Queen band…I would say with her looks, thats the only band that would take her, but that’s just mean…
lovingmyUSA on August 11, 2010 at 12:46 AM
And we know they had cell phones with cameras cuz that’s what they shot this seen with!
DSchoen on August 11, 2010 at 6:00 AM
The Race Card has become a caricature of himself–a difficult task to accomplish, but he’s managed it. “Everywhere I go, I see bigots!” Hilarious. And pathetic.
Also, I would roll my eyes at this teacher. And I am a teacher.
Grace_is_sufficient on August 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM
But you said it anyway. Guess only the beautiful people have a right to speak.
That sounds so er … elitist coming from the right… /sarc
Bradky on August 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM
Time to get money out of education.
Inanemergencydial on August 11, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Agreed!
wi farmgirl on August 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM
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