Defending Sarah Palin (really!)
November 7, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Can you name all the countries in North America? I’m the sort of geek who always chooses geography questions in Trivial Pursuit, but I’m not sure I could do it off the top of my head. Let’s see:
- Canada
- United States
- Mexico
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Belize
- Nicaragua
- Costa Rica
- Panama
How did I do? (Whoops — I just looked at a map, and I missed Guatemala.)
Since Carl Cameron reported on Sarah Palin’s ignorance, the media have been having a field day with this. Trouble is, we don’t know whether she committed the equivalent of missing Guatemala or if she told Steve Schmidt that Antarctica is the capital of Siberia.
I’m more interested to know who’s leaking this stuff, and why.
O-fish, you should worry more about your party — or what’s left of it — and less about what we teach our kids in the privacy of our home.
Oh wait, worrying about what we teach our kids in the privacy of our home is what the GOP does. (When it’s not writing legislation that the courts inevitably throw out, that is.)
Even out of power, the self-appointed Thought Police are never far away.
Dot Lane said: “Nancy Reagan used an astrologer to help determine her husband’s schedule. Her own husband (that would be Saint Ronald Reagan) wrote about it.”
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Dot, thank you for reminding me that Obama’s comment was not only crass, but wholly inaccurate as well. You are correct, Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer for scheduling purposes not for conducting seances or contacting the dead as Obama seemed to allege.
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I’ll quote the AP story on his error:
“It actually wasn’t Nancy Reagan who was linked to conversations with the dead; it was Obama’s top Democratic challenger for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.”
Oh, it was an astrologer. Well that makes it normal then.
This from the party that thinks “science” is just another “wacky liberal idea.”
Fish, the Paul Brown quote was spot on. This is the first election where I thought the truth no longer mattered. Wild partisanship from political advocates is to be expected, it’s the American way. However, for the post-Watergate journalists who purported to have elevated their profession, not so much. Their impending irrelevance is richly deserved.
“This is the first election where I thought the truth no longer mattered.”
There are welfare queens driving Cadillacs who would beg to differ with you.
Not sure that anyone pointed this out BUT the question wasn’t for her to name the countries in North America but to name the countries in NAFTA. That is a pretty big difference. The countries in NAFTA are only Mexico, the United States, and Canada. She only needed to know three countries. But I don’t fault her on that nearly as much as I do for the fact that she believed Africa was one single country. Where the hell did she think Ethiopia was? Algeria?
Additionally you did a TERRIBLE job naming the countries of N. America. Try using Wikipedia. For the record, I wouldn’t have been able to name a third of those countries as being part of N. America.
Apm: (1) According to Carl Cameron’s report, Palin was unable to name the countries in NAFTA and she was unable to name the countries in North America. Two separate statements. That has led to a number of pundits to make fun of Palin for the latter as well as the former. (2) My answer is correct (once you add Guatemala) with respect to the contintent of North America. Islands are not part of a continent.
Rick, you obviously slept through the press coverage of the 2000 election.
I don’t know why but I’m tending to believe Palin, on the clothing questions at least (silk pajamas?). And who cares about how she wears her bath towels?
This could make for a nice book deal. If Cheney’s daughter could get a $1 million advance (why?), Sarah should too. And she won’t have to write a word! How about uber-admirer Rich Lowry as a “with” author?
I hope she buries lying Nicole Wallace, among others!
(PROFILE) “Dot Lane is 25 and lives in Second Life with occasional forays into the real world.”…Enough said.
‘(PROFILE) “Dot Lane is 25 and lives in Second Life with occasional forays into the real world.”…Enough said.’
Wait….what?
I came up with the term ‘Vice President Reject’ for Sarah Palin within the last hour or so. A quick Google search shows that (not all that unsurprisingly) a few others have come up with the same pun in the past, notably with reference to Dan Quayle. But it seems that I am on the very cutting edge when it comes to applying that pun to current Vice President Reject Sarah Palin. ;-)
“Regardless of ones feelings toward Governor Palin, the fact that she is still big news in the midst of a historic Democrat victory confirms that she is an established force on the national scene.” – O-Fish
The only news that I’ve heard about Palin since the election has been all bad (nimwit, diva, etc). If that is the “established force” that you and the Republican party want to get all excited about, Democrats will be happy to step aside and keep her on the “national scene.”
She will be an absolute disaster for the Republicans if she decides to continue her political career outside of Alaska. As Dan said way back – The gift that keeps on giving!
‘(PROFILE) “Dot Lane is 25 and lives in Second Life with occasional forays into the real world.”…Enough said.’
You know what? I’ve had enough nasty emails and snide comments here. I’m gone.
Dot,
I’m not sure what’s going on, but I for one would miss your comments if you go. And it would bother me if the commenting community here wasn’t controlling itself adequately — it would be a disservice to Dan as well as to you.
Dot: I’m not sure what the problem is. So someone quoted from your own Blogger profile … big deal. I hope you’ll reconsider.
Dot, I don’t understand the confusion. That’s exactly what it says in your Blogger profile under About Me.
If you didn’t enter that, who did?
It’s the “enough said” that annoys me. More to the point, it is the steady stream of email I receive because I comment here that makes it not worth it anymore. But thanks everyone.
Palin still can’t get the facts right: “Just looking into the record. It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn’t even been written when I was the mayor.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/15474
She was mayor from 1992-2002. The first Harry Potter book was released in 1997.
Hey Sarah, what country is England in? hehehe
At least we now know they have books in Alaska. I wasn’t so sure.
Martin Eisenstadt comes forward as the Palin leakah…
Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak… and proud of it
And after 70 comments, now we know the rest of ths story… A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence