I hope the Feds step in here with civil rights charges.  “Oh, so you testified that you were only trying to torture Mr. Grant, not kill him?  Yeah, about that…”

That politico article is pretty awful. “Its important to cut spending but not the spending on defense” and she gets lauded as some kind of genius.

Has anyone else found it increasingly difficult to read anything about Sarah Palin? I don’t mean in a nauseous “I’m so sick of her way”, I mean in a “every second sentence is a cliché or a quote of something stupid she said and you could see where it was going by the second word but you have to finish the sentence and the next one is just going to be the same again” way so you just end up skimming for a minute or two and then you aren’t sure if you actually read anything by the time you get to the end of it?

I really hope this woman runs for President, because she won’t get the Republican nomination—but she will lead a total path of divisive destruction through the Republican primaries with her antics and her fanatical supporter.

Just imagine how upset the Palin fanbois are going to be when she fails to win the nomination. It will make the fake, ginned-up “PUMA"and “Operation Chaos” stuff look like child’s play.

The general problem with the news media, especially the news media on television, is the attempt to make a profit doing the news. The news wasn’t meant to be profitable, it was meant to keep people informed of important events on the international, national, and local level even if the important event wasn’t particularly sexy and potentially rather boring. When you try to make money off of the news, you end up focusing on scandal and sensation rather than actual news. This has been a problem since at least the rise of the modern metropolitan newspaper in the late 19th century, all the problems with yellow journalism. 24 hour cable news makes it worse.

  Pharmakos at 2: Sarah Palin doesn’t make any sense because she is a moron, a really stupid person. Many morons believe that stringing together a bunch of cliches and folk wisdom counts as intelligent discourse.

Sarah Palin releases a web video in which she pays women to dress like bears ...

Sarah Palin’s a furry? Huh.

it’s hard to release a web ad, when you’re dead. unless you happen to be ronald reagan.

My God - that video.  It’s Know Nothing faux-feminism.

Laurie Anderson had it right.

“Cause when love is gone, there’s always justice.
And when justive is gone, there’s always force.
And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi Mom!”

Palin wants you to vote Mom, ‘cos there’s no love or justice left in Republican America, and they’ve reached the limits of force.

Sarah Palin’s a furry? Huh

If the add is the one they have on politico no she doesn’t. Its just jesse being funny about her mamma grizzly bear schtick. I was kind of hoping for that too.

Lee

I know she’s an idiot. I’m just puzzled by how dull she is and how dull every article about her is. Bush may have been an idiot but at least he was interesting in how all over the place he was. At least when you read an article about W you don’t feel like five minutes disappeared and you don’t know where they went.

Pharmakos at 8: Sarah Palin is an idiot in the modern and original sense of the word to. I guess that she’s dull because she is an idiot. She has no interests in people different than herself, except maybe as a target of hate, and therefore limits herself culturally. She is certainly anti-intellectual and displays a frightening lack of curiosity. This makes for a dull person, especially when combined with stupidity. Since Palin is boring, articles about her are boring.

thank you for the frighteningly obvious again when i was only making an observation about what its like to read an article about her

The western press, especially in the U.S., at least the main stream media, is propaganda driven, and the empire is striking at the heart of journalism as we have known it.

As a foreigner I have to say it is pretty amazing to me that someone so obviously incompetent as Sarah Palin is pandered to by the media, seriously just a casual look at what she has said, done, and talks about doing should be enough for her to be completely shredded by the press, so much so that she should have an uncomfortable time leaving the house let alone running for public office. The fact that this is not the case should be seen as a national disgrace