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Sarah Palin Supports Socialized Health Care

Alex Moore :: Monday, March 8th, 2010 1:45 pm

Speaking in Alberta, Canada, Sarah Palin announced Saturday night that she had once “zoomed over the border” for health care in Canada that her family was not able to receive in the States, a tacit endorsement of the kind of socialized health care system Palin and her Tea Party affiliates have been publicly eviscerating all year. MORE »

Sarah Palin Developing a Docu-drama for TV?

Johnny Sanford :: Thursday, March 4th, 2010 12:45 pm

According to Entertainment Weekly Insiders, celebrity right-winger Sarah Palin is going around to the top-brass at major media networks to get into reality television. According to one source, the pitch that Palin is providing concerns Alaska, while another source said the pitch was more concerned about Palin running for office in 2012, calling it ” a sequel to Commander in Chief,” the canceled drama on ABC that starred Gina Davis as the first female President. All quips aside, the pitch is gaining ground. Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor is also involved, which means that hopefully we get to vote Palin off America and onto a small island somewhere in the Pacific Rim at some point during the show.
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Sarah Palin’s Got Jokes… Cue “Applause” Sign

Matt Kiebus :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 2:30 pm

Sarah Palin is a jack-of-all-trades, a modern renaissance woman of sorts. What can’t she do? She is a governor, no wait she’s a vice-presidential candidate, a hip FOX News journalist, likely a presidential candidate in 2012, and a stand-up comedian? In an effort to sway the treasured “Jay Leno vote,” Palin did her best impression of a typical Leno monologue last night as a guest on The Tonight Show. It goes without saying she had the audience in stitches. MORE »

March 1, 2010

Stephen Blackwell :: Monday, March 1st, 2010 4:45 pm

A Republican you’ve never heard of has the best chance of beating Obama in 2012; The Consumer Financial Protection Agency — that thingy that saved the Canadian economy — will not be coming to the U.S.

Five $$$ Facts About Sarah Palin’s PAC

Andrew Belonsky :: Thursday, February 25th, 2010 1:15 pm

Sarah Palin’s spending habits have become a national obsession. From speculating about her wardrobe’s cost to revelations that her PAC helped boost her book sales, Palin’s lavish and at times bizarre economics provide endless entertainment. Here are five fun facts we learned looking over how Sarah’s political action committee spends its donors’ money. Look for special rock star guests, a glimpse at how Bush officials turn office supplies into gold and find out where Sarah PAC’s sending the most campaign money. It’s not Alaska! HERE’S THE SPENDING SLIDESHOW.

Family Guy Makes Fun of Down Syndrome

Matt Kiebus :: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 5:45 pm

Seth MacFarlane and the folks at Family Guy enjoy taking a shit on the “line” they aren’t supposed to cross. This weekend the target was Fox’s own Sarah Palin. I know what your thinking, easy target, but wait! MacFarlane didn’t make fun of Palin directly, he made fun of Palin’s son who has Down Syndrome.

The question being asked is did Family Guy finally go too far? The answer is no. It’s a television show that prides itself on its politically incorrect gag humor, this really shouldn’t surprise anyone. The Parent’s Television Council has rated Family Guy the “Worst TV Show of the Week” 22 times. The Fox cartoon has been surrounded by controversy since it premiered in 1999. It has joked about taboo topics like AIDS and religious bigotry. They do this to stir up a reaction, and they’re normally successful.

I personally didn’t find the segment of the show very funny, but I’m not particularly offended or surprised by it. This is the type of humor we have come to expect from Family Guy. It may be tasteless, but the show isn’t known for a having a classy palate.

Misplaced Anger, Prejudice and Casual Racism Brew at Tea Party

Colm McAuliffe :: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 2:00 pm

According to the American Conservative Values blog, “Sarah Heath Palin is the defacto Shadow President of the United States right now. We hope very much she runs for President in 2012. She could change the world. She can save this country. We listen to her and are awed.” Last weekend’s Nashville meeting of the Tea Party under the aura of Palin is a prime example of these poujadist, little man against big, nasty government which sully the reputation of the democratic story.

Fox’s PAC, News America Holdings, Full of Surprises

Andrew Belonsky :: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 11:30 am

If people were perplexed by news of Sarah Palin’s decision to become a “news analyst,” they were hardly shocked by her choice of television real estate: Fox News. It seems like a perfect political fit, of course, and one that Palin highlighted on the O’Reilly Factor this week when she said she looked forward to presenting “fair and balanced” views while on the air, rather than buying into other network’s “biased journalism.” Cue the collective, all-too-familiar groan: “How can they even claim to be fair and balanced?” And that’s definitely true – on the surface. A deeper look at News Corp’s political action committee, News America Holdings, reveals a more complex network: one that exhibits surprising trends.
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Sarah Palin on Fox: Jersey Shore for the News Room

Stephen Blackwell :: Monday, January 11th, 2010 7:15 pm

Like it or not, Sarah Palin has a long and bright future ahead of her.

Of our society’s top three cultural ascendancies (Barack Obama, Adam Lambert, and Palin), I’d hazard to say hers has been the favored. Lambert quickly fizzled out on the charts, mostly because Bowie and Iggy Pop’s shock antics benefited from an exciting misfit appeal and some great songs while inspiring an expansive mindset, not wont of recklessness or lust, in impressionable teens. Lambert inspired people to send tweets. MORE »

Palin Drone

Stephen Blackwell :: Thursday, November 19th, 2009 12:00 pm

Sarah Palin is officially beating Twilight in the headline department. Politico described the media’s obsession with Palin as a bottom-line fueling co-dependency (They quote the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown: “Newsweek is using her to up the sales of the magazine, and she’s using Newsweek to up the sales of her book). How did we get here again? Oh right. Everybody wants to have sex with her. MORE »

No Sale on Palin-Signed Xbox

Stephen Blackwell :: Thursday, October 29th, 2009 9:00 am

Believe it or not, there is an Xbox on sale right now for $1.1 million, reports Politico. It does the same thing as most every other Xbox, except it doesn’t come with controllers, bringing your total expense to $1,100,100 after throwing down for two of them. So, what do you get for the additional million dollars you’re spending? Sarah Palin’s autograph. Unsurprisingly, the item has yielded no bids.

A Canadian named David Morill put the allegedly signed Xbox up on the block, which he says was autographed by Palin on July 24, two days before Palin resigned her post as governor of Alaska in what was absolutely the most unpoetic resignation speech in any nation’s history. She should have thrown in “You don’t have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore” for good measure.

I would value Sarah Palin’s autograph close to a drawing my nephew did yesterday, which I looked at for maybe 5 seconds before tossing into the trash. I do have an autographed photo of Captain Lou Albano kicking around somewhere, which I would be willing to trade for said Xbox, Mr. Morill. He’s dead, you know. There’s money in that.

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“Hope” Retired, “Dithering” Now Most Popular Word In English Language

Stephen Blackwell :: Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 5:30 pm

Barack Obama needs to send more troops to Afghanistan. Intelligence suggests he needed to do this yesterday if America doesn’t want to find itself back in Vietnam. He is dithering.

Joe Lieberman, once an avid supporter of universal health care, no longer sees the public option as politically viable. He has stated we’re trying to get too much done at once and refuses to caucus for the public option. He is dithering.

Everyone wants to see Levi Johnston naked as a surrogate for everyone wanting to see Sarah Palin naked. Johnston is still clothed. He is dithering.

1.14 million results pop up when google searching “dithering.” This is important: The sheer number of results that pop up in a Google search is absolutely the most accurate measurement of how important something is. Just search “Falcon Heene.”

Dithering, which is indecisive behavior, bothers people so much when they’re accused of it because it subconsciously symbolizes the death of American hegemony. Dick Cheney loves American hegemony, and, since the media has led me to believe his life is like one gigantic focus group, I think a lot of thought goes into his word choices when disparaging Obama.

Anyway, dithering is four or five weeks away from being as ubiquitous a statement as “I’m Rick James, bitch.” Start slowly, using it on colleagues. Then spread it around on interns, your parents, and the rest of your family, and your significant other. Then start using it on the baristas at Starbucks, those dithering assholes.

Dithering. I’m sick of it already.

Barack Obama: Man on Wire

Stephen Blackwell :: Monday, October 26th, 2009 6:30 pm

Over the past few months, it’s apparent the goal of the media — and I mean all media — is to make you feel bad about having voted for Barack Obama. The cover of the November 2 edition of Newsweek flaunts the cover line “A Liberal’s Survivor Guide.” The notion of survival just one year ago was totally incongruous to anything pertaining to liberalism, but today is a nagging indicator of where all that hopefulness landed us.

Is it that bad? Did the American people collectively succumb to a state of “mass delusion” to which Newsweek rationalizes the Obama presidency?

Probably. But not really. MORE »