Throwing Palin Under the Bus

[Sibling Chatty]

Page 2 of this (and some of page one) along with upcoming stuff will show that Palin started out throwing HERSELF under the bus...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581

Start with

NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

and keep reading.

There's a new, more extensive Obama story out, but there've been troubles with the Repub version. Evidently Ms. Palin doesn't like the tone... Waahhh for her.

[pieces o nine]

I'm not even going to post a link to the video of SP posing in front of a turkey rendering machine while glibbing her way through a press conference, only to claim later that she had NO IDEA  what was happening after her dramatic Turkey Pardon photo op/press conference.

One of my best friends in the whole world is turning out to be a staunch SP supporter, despite proudly asserting that she knows little-to-nothing about political events and prefers it that way. She is convinced that the Evil Librul Media ambushed SP (and are pursuing her like the papparazzis stalked the private life of Princess Di) to "set her up" for this interview to make her look bad. Clearly, she had no idea of what was happening behind her, that isn't the way turkeys are slaughtered, and the "stupid" man doing his job was there on purpose to discredit her. Any mention of this event is just "cruelty" to SP.

...sigh...   

[Swatopluk]

Maybe you could feed that person the theory that the whole background was not there at all but tricked in for her embarassement 
[youtube=425,350]NCTeCkn5nbY[/youtube]
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTeCkn5nbY

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I thought I'd see all there was to see with regards to her gaffe...

[anthrobabe]

You know the out-takes version as posted by Swato is pretty close to the real deal.
Not for the faint of heart

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she says in part at one point
'I sarah palin.... friend to all creatures great and small....'

WTF-- itsn't this the same biotch who advoctes shooting wolves from helicopters?
And she was almost one heart beat away from the 'football'--
damn we dodged a big one

[pieces o nine]

What prompted my post was a bit Keith O did with comic "green screen" backgrounds, a la Stephen Colbert. I have given up watching Countdown here as it generates hostility in one or both of us.  (To be honest, I would be pretty hostile myself, if she was watching Faux News.)  Instead I wait for an hour and watch the on-line version in my room, laughing silently to myself and fervently  thanking all that is holy that those two clowns aren't going into the White House in January.

FWIW, I had turkey yesterday, and pardoned myself for eating it. 

[anthrobabe]

pieces--- The beef faction thanks your for your turkey patronage.
I cooked a turkey yesterday-- everyone said it tasted fine- there are leftovers I may yet get into them.

[pieces o nine]

Christmas Tragedy!

[Aphos]

Some of you saw this in the Last Post game.

I don't have proof, but am quite convinced this is a example of a Poe - (Poe's Law - It is impossible to tell the difference between a fundamentalist and someone lampooning a fundamentalist.)

http://paliban.org/

I really, REALLY can't see someone using the term "Paliban" in a serious way - but then Fundies Say the Darnest Things. 

http://www.fstdt.com/

So who knows for sure?

[Swatopluk]

I would look for connections to The Lord's Resistance Army in Africa. Those are even worse than the Taliban but Christian. Given not-the-other-Palin's palling around with for-real witchhunters from Africa that would not really surprise me.

[Pachyderm]

The LRA claim to be Christian, but to follow some tenets of the Koran as well. (operate in some mostly Muslim areas in Sudan, Congo and Uganda) But their major beef is that they are not in control of those countries. no political manifesto or policies,or significant religious beliefs. Joseph Kony is just pissed off that they ain't the bosses, with him top of the heap.

[Swatopluk]

In what way is that different to certain parts of the religious right in certain other countries I could name? 

[Pachyderm]

Maybe because their leaders aren't apparently dying of syphilis? 

Kony has seemingly been doing this for a while now, at least according to the scuttlebutt in Uganda. But apart from that, not terribly.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

The site is a POE.   

I was poking about, and I went to the "about us" section (usually a very good way to get the overall tone) http://paliban.org/about.html

This sentence convinces me it's POE:  (5th paragraph down from the top) (emphasis mine)

ALL of it means ALL, not just the bits we happen to like or find convenient! That means outlawing adultery, divorce, homosexuality, working on the Sabbath, wearing of blended fabrics, and polyculture, among other things!

This is a common argument by skeptics (like me) against fundies who claim to believe "the whole bible, and nothing but the bible".  I direct them to several of the many laws in the OT that they routinely ignore.  The blended fabrics comes with a death-penalty, as I recall (in that not wearing the correct clothes gets you stoned, and not in a good way).

To my knowledge, *no* modern christian group follows the OT rules; they see them as more of suggestions-of-convenience.