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Are we ready for hugs?

Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.

I’d have gone with fuck you, you cynical cunts, we’re not going anywhere, so you’d better get used to it, but I can understand how a Christian might go a different rhetorical direction.

62 Replies to “Are we ready for hugs?”

  1. Jim R says:

    That was a dang near perfect response. The lady’s not for turning.

  2. Squid says:

    I look forward to seeing all those who criticized Palin for her silence come out and applaud her for this reasoned and well-written response. I’m just certain that they’ll all be terribly impressed and take back their earlier criticism.

  3. happyfeet says:

    she’s so pretty

  4. Pablo says:

    Perfection. I can’t wait for the left to uncover her speechwriter. Maybe somebody will hack her email and get that for us.

  5. The Monster says:

    Yesterday it was “Palin on the Lam”. Now they question the timing

  6. ProfShade says:

    I don’t see teh stringz? Fast writer– only 4 days for a good speech, whoever it is. Didn’t mention national healing anywhere though. You gotta have national healing in these speeches…

  7. Squid says:

    Question the timing? No! They should be applauding!

    Sometimes, I can’t help but think that the guys in the media don’t much like Palin, and look for ways to put her down. I know it’s uncharitable of me, but I can’t help but draw such a conclusion sometimes.

  8. JHoward says:

    Perfection. I can’t wait for the left to uncover her speechwriter.

    Yup. A snowbunny hilljack breeder employs a (far, far) better speechwriter than the vaunted President of the (Socialist) United States; the Savior known as Teh Won. For what that’s worth.

    Which could be to send what’s left of the left around the bend.

  9. […] have come to the same conclusion. Sorry, I don’t buy it. Consider the following thought […]

  10. Old Texas Turkey says:

    She should quit putting the spotlight on herself, thus forcing the failshit Republicans to spend time defending her.

    Oh yes speaking of which, where are the Republicans on this?

    Pawlenty? Hmmm, hmmm?

  11. McGehee says:

    But does she consider it a good thing or a bad thing? I’m sure Trough didn’t hear her say.

  12. Patrick S says:

    Wouldn’t it be sweet if the MSM investigated and found out she wrote this speech – GASP! – herself? That would make her not a dopey backwoods Caribou Barbie dumbass unfit to hold office.

  13. sdferr says:

    Kate Smith is only a YouTube away.

  14. Old Texas Turkey says:

    Republican party’s nuts are found in Mme Palin’s handbag. Oh yes and in there along with them is the hurdle that bumblefuck needs to clear tonight.

  15. NukemHill says:

    I’d have gone with fuck you, you cynical cunts, we’re not going anywhere, so you’d better get used to it, but I can understand how a Christian might go a different rhetorical direction.

    Priceless.

  16. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    I’d have gone with fuck you, you cynical cunts, we’re not going anywhere, so you’d better get used to it, but I can understand how a Christian might go a different rhetorical direction.

    As a Christian, I have to say that’s the way I would go, too, Jeff. I might have added a “fucking” before the “cynical”, though.

  17. LBascom says:

    Last month we had the no labels people, now we have angry rhetoric condemning angry rhetoric.

    Does the collectivist mindset (Alert! Bad word!) kill the ability to recognize irony?

  18. Pablo says:

    As a Christian, I have to say that’s the way I would go, too, Jeff. I might have added a “fucking” before the “cynical”, though.

    I’d stick another one in front of “get used to it” too, but that’s just me.

  19. Bob Reed says:

    Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event.

    President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.

    No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults. [emphasis mine]

    The full transcript is available at NRO ( http://tiny.cc/o1jce ).

    I personally think Palin hit all the right notes here; concern, courage of conviction, understanding of the Constitutional Republic that our forefathers set up. Once again she sounded, dare I say, Reagan-esque. Amazing, considering what a know-nothing, chillbilly, rubish, white-trash, redneck, christer she is…

    That, and she didn’t go to the right schools, of course. ‘Cuz everyone knows Reagan attended Harvard Yale Princeton MIT Cornell Stanford Eureka College, and taught Constitutional law worked as a big time attorney was a community activist was a professional politician was an actor prior to entering public service.

    I like the way she called out the smear artists and those who would muzzle free speech in a civil manner, all while maintaining the necessary gravitas to be taken seriously.

    It’ll be a hard act for the won to follow. But the media will give him the advantage of not televising her speech.

    Well, maybe O’Reilly will. And regardless of how much you may despise Bill-O, one must admit he too called out the lefties for the reprehensible attempts to capitalize on this terrible episode-he called many of the right people liars on the air.

  20. Seth says:

    That was dang near pitch perfect, truth be told. Of course, those on the left will find something to criticize about it.

  21. motionview says:

    In a nearly eight-minute video, Sarah Palin says “journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite” hatred. Howard Kurtz on her un-presidential move and why “blood libel” offends Jewish people.

    Daily Beast – Palin Goes Nuclear

    With her defiant video, Palin continued—no, escalated—her war with the press

    Sure seems to be a lot of inflammatory eliminationist rhetoric in this article.

  22. Old Texas Turkey says:

    un-presidential? Really? The comments on that article are a nice encapsulation of the weight of the liberal argument. I am pretty much tired of the playground taunting by the lefties as they crave her attention. She set the tone for bumblebums tonight. Thats what big money is watching.

    All the ersatz, bush league pundits can do is scream louder. What an colorful collection of intellectual pygmies.

  23. The Monster says:

    Jews own “blood libel” and “holocaust”. Blacks own “nigger”, “slavery” and “lynching”. Gays own “queer” and “fag”.

    No one other than a member of the approved victim group can use these words.

    (I therefore denounce myself.)

  24. The Monster says:

    Palin has found a way to BECOME part of the story? She’s BEEN the story since Saturday, when the talking points went out that her Crosshairs graphics and “don’t retreat; reload” rhetoric were somehow responsible for the Climate of H8.

  25. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    and why “blood libel” offends Jewish people.

    Well, the Jewish people who are offended should probably be scorned, too. But, I think the Jewish people that are offended already are pretty much in the progtard tent anyhow, so they may be a lost cause.

  26. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Yep. The audacity of these mother fuckers to say that Palin made herself part of the story is breath taking. No, the media did.

  27. bh says:

    Isn’t blood libel the correct term? Doesn’t that matter even a little?

  28. sdferr says:

    Heh, it sure isn’t corruption of blood, is it?

  29. happyfeet says:

    Breaking: ADL condemns Sarah Palin’s “blood libel”*

  30. sdferr says:

    But condemnation from the ADL could be enough to throw Palin back on the defensive.

    This guy Sargent proves himself an idiot to the extent he believes this. What a moron.

  31. McGehee says:

    Isn’t blood libel the correct term? Doesn’t that matter even a little?

    It actually does, but that’s why they’re condemning her use of it.

    Conservatives speaking truth. That’s just evil.

  32. alppuccino says:

    Foxman: “While the term “blood-libel” has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history. ”

    But if you use the phrase “Alabama Hot Pocket” you’ll get complaints from the Skynnard crowd.

  33. happyfeet says:

    this speech has really rallied the fan boys

  34. Old Texas Turkey says:

    So Mme Palin should have the MSM or any so designated groups of fuckheads proofread her speeches first? Lest she offend the easily offended?

    This has really gone into the twilight zone.

    she turned me into a newt

  35. Old Texas Turkey says:

    Yup Happy. And given the douchbags the vapors.

  36. Jim R says:

    I liked life better five minutes ago when I didn’t know what an Alabama Hot Pocket was. And with all due respect hf, fuck you.

  37. happyfeet says:

    I’m ready for hugs

  38. bh says:

    I suppose so, McG.

    This last election might have seriously messed with their delicate little minds. They’ve become utterly transparent.

    So much so that I can’t help but think some new people might notice.

  39. sdferr says:

    The few blood libel huggy jews I’ve read (Jen Rubin’s another, but the link won’t stick) grousing about Palin’s misappropriation of the historical term are starting to make me feel douchily guilty about grousing on the misappropriation of the term tragedy. Fuckers.

  40. Bob Reed says:

    You know what’s funny? Alan Dershowitz, a Jew himself and certainly not a wingnut, doesn’t see anything wrong with Palin’s use of “blood libel” ( http://tiny.cc/adersh ). He explains it’s modern usage as a euphamism for being falsely accused.

    And maybe it’s not all fanboys happyfeet, just folks that like the lefties being told to pound sand in a Reagan-esque way; in a manner that I can’t recall any others doing recently.

  41. Old Texas Turkey says:

    The last of the adults left the democratic party in 2000 – 2004 timeframe. Alls left are poverty pimps and bratty children.

  42. sdferr says:

    Just curious, but what’s up with the pulled vimeo video access?

  43. bh says:

    I’ll try linking the Rubin post, sdferr.

    Yes, Rubin disappoints, while Podheretz doesn’t have the capacity to do so.

  44. bh says:

    Podhoretz, that is.

  45. Bob Reed says:

    sdferr,
    I’m sensitive as well to the misuse/overuse of tragedy, but in the wake of the Tuscon shooting I looked it up at Merriam-Webster ( http://tiny.cc/zm0g1 )

    1a : a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man

    1b : a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror c : the literary genre of tragic dramas

    2a : a disastrous event : calamity

    2b : misfortune

    3: tragic quality or element

    I don’t even see a hat tip to self-infliction! But it seems that most folks these days are leaning on the “disastrous event” usage instead of, you know, just saying it was a disasterous event!

  46. sdferr says:

    JP has long ago been hoist on his own petard.

  47. JHoward says:

    I think it’s hoist with or by one’s petard, sdferr. Given that a petard is a small explosive, one cannot so much be hoist on it as one can be hoist by its effect.

    Of course, I strongly denounce the use of violent imagery and demand I be shunned, if not have my entrails strewn about.

  48. JD says:

    Are we ready for hugs?

    No. I would not mind kicking some dishonest douchenozzle in the teeth though.

  49. sdferr says:

    exactly. Just that.

  50. JHoward says:

    1b : a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror c : the literary genre of tragic dramas

    You know, Bob Reed, if you keep inciting folks to tension and anxiety, all hell is likely to break loose.

    Surely you don’t want that on your conscience.

  51. Silver Whistle says:

    I’m always up for a hug.

    Well?

  52. JHoward says:

    Just curious, but what’s up with the pulled vimeo video access?

    Liberty and speech have a price, sdferr. Jeff simply hasn’t paid Teh Man, is my guess.

    Et tu, YouTube? We shall see.

  53. sdferr says:

    Change comes though: what was pulled for a short time is now available again as it was before it was pulled, so maybe it was an affair at the source of the video rather than at its distribution points.

  54. Bob Reed says:

    Well JHo,
    All that violence is integral to my nature I guess; despite my attempts at reconciliation…

    I suppose I should go sinker like most anonymous internet supermen, lest the FBI target me for inciting political violence; they know where I am anyway, it was a condition of the clearances I held.

    And cablevision would probably give me up in the proverbial New York second, this being New York and all, anyway.

  55. LBascom says:

    This seems to be an angle for the left.

    Associated Press
    Last update: January 12, 2011 – 2:05 PM

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

    Now it’s Palin that’s all accusey and shit. See how touchy the bitch is?

  56. bh says:

    Heh, go to the nearest dock on your western shore, SW.

    We should have someone there in around 5 weeks depending on the wind.

  57. Silver Whistle says:

    It’s been a while, bh. I’ll be waiting.

  58. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Will you have those ales ready, SW? I’ll do more than hug you for some good ale! What? Wait, er, I mean I’ll build you something. Twisted freaks! NTTAWWT, of course.

  59. Silver Whistle says:

    Hold the ales, OI. My brewbuddy has the notion of cooking up a pilsner like this one. What can I say – he’s bayrisch. Should be lagered in about 6 weeks, so start practicing the hugs.

  60. SmokeVanThorn says:

    Rubin and Podhoretz are two of the reasons I stopped reading Commentary Contentions months ago. Rubin in particular is a disgrace – she recently made a fool of herself on a Ricochet podcast by attributing remarks to Haley Barbour that he never made, for which she as soundly rebuked by Peter Robinson. She’s an ill informed, mouthy, less liberal version of Joy Behar – and fits right in at her new gig with the WaPo.

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